The Gotham Center For New York City History 2007 marks the 100th anniversary of the first gas-powered, taxi-metered cabs; today more than 12,000 licensed yellow cabs operate in Manhattan alone. Graham Russell Gao Hodges, a former New York City cabdriver, and currently the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History at Colgate University, will show film clips and speak about his recent book, Taxi! A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver (Johns Hopkins University Press). Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they compose. Hodges tells the tale through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, social science research, and the words of the cabbies themselves.
The Gotham Center For New York City History In 1657, 350 years ago, the citizens of Flushing, Queens wrote to Peter Stuyvesant protesting a decree prohibiting Quakers from worshipping in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. Known as the Flushing Remonstrance, Stuyvesant was unmoved. Seven years later, John Bowne's forceful argument for religious tolerance prompted the Dutch West India Company to order Stuyvesant to allow all colonists, regardless of faith, to worship freely. This forum examines the struggle of colonists to win religious tolerance in New Netherland. Legal scholars believe that the Flushing Remonstrance influenced the principles codified in 1791 in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Eighteenth-Century Reading Room
Jewish Biblical Interpretation in the Wake of the Enlightenment:
Moses Mendelssohn, Judah Ben-Se'ev and the Rhetoric of Religion
Dr. David Richter (CUNY Graduate Center & Queens College)
The Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies and the CUNY Graduate Center Ph.D. Program in History
Laird W. Bergad
Come and meet fellow students and professors of the CUNY Graduate Center who are working on Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. Additionally, we will be celebrating the publication of The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2007) by Professor Laird W. Bergad of the CUNY Graduate CenterÍs Ph.D. Program in History and Director of CLACLS.
The Gotham Center For New York City History In 1657, 350 years ago, the citizens of The Garment District is one of the most famous neighborhoods of New York City. This is an area well known to labor historians, but virtually unknown to historians of the city's built environment. Andrew Dolkart, the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and author of the award-winning Morningside Heights: A History of its Architecture and Development, will give an illustrated lecture on the vernacular architecture of the Garment District, examining the forces that resulted in the extraordinary rapidity of development of showrooms, factories, and lofts.
October 15 , Monday, 6:00 - 8:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium
The Center For Humanities Speakers will include Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History and Provost, Columbia University; Blanche Weisen Cook, Distinguished Professor of History, John Jay College; Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University; David Levering Lewis, biographer; David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Chair in American History, the Graduate Center, CUNY; Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University; Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; and Sean Wilentz, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History; Director of American Studies, Princeton University..
October 15, Monday, 6:00-8:00pm, Proshansky Auditorium
The Gotham Center For New York City History The Center For Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center Joshua Zeitz, Professor of History at Pembroke, Cambridge University, will talk about his new book, White, Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (University of North Carolina Press). Historians of postwar America often identify race as the driving force behind the dynamically shifting political culture. Zeitz instead places ethnicity at the forefront, arguing that ideological conflict among Irish Catholics, Italian Catholics, and Jews in New York City had an important impact on the shape of liberal politics.
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Acclaimed historian Marshall Berman and journalist Brian Berger gather a stellar group of contributors from the forthcoming New York Calling (University of Chicago Press), including John Strausbaugh and Joe Anastasio.
New York City in the 1970s was the setting for Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever; the nightmare playground for Son of Sam; and the proving grounds for graffiti, punk, and hip-hop. Musicians, artists, and writers were reinventing the city in their own image. Others, fed up with crime, filth, and frustration, simply split. Fast-forward three decades. Is this fresh-scrubbed, affluent city really an improvement on its grittier predecessor? New York Calling reminds us of what has changed - and what has been lost - along the way.
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"Brother Can You Spare a Dime," the "Anthem of the Great Depression," was written in New York City in 1932 and remains a timeless song of protest for millions around the world. With music by Jay Gorney and words by Yip Harburg (CCNY class of '17), the great American lyricist known as "Broadway's social conscience," the song's title came from New Yorkers suddenly jobless-part of the unemployed "one third of the nation"-forced to stand on street corners and ask passersby for change to buy food.
The Yip Harburg Foundation will present a multi-media event, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?: New York City Songs for Social Justice," featuring remarks by Yip Harburg himself (on video), period footage, songs of the '30s, and the participation of Harburg's son and grandson, as well as special guest singers and songwriters.
The Center For Jewish Studies at the Graduate Center The Holocaust Education Center of Miyuki and Hana's Suitcase: An Odyssey of Hope
Rosenthal Speaker Series event
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The SDS Comic Show, a traveling exhibit drawing upon the book Students for a Democratic Society: a Graphic History, will be open at the CUNY Graduate Center in December. Come see the exhibit and join us for a book signing and panel discussion for Students for a Democratic Society: a Graphic History, scripted by Harvey Pekar and others and edited by Paul Buhle, editor of the 1960s SDS magazine Radical America. Harvey Pekar, real-life star of the award-winning film and the book series American Splendor (and sometime Letterman Show guest), will deliver a talk on comics and politics, followed by a panel including Buhle, former SDS-NY regional officer, Weatherman Jeff Jones, and members of the New SDS.
The Center For Humanities Keynote at 4pm: Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court
A founding father of modern liberalism, Benjamin Constant's thoughtful distinction between ancient and modern liberty has taken on new meaning nearly two centuries later for many prominent intellectuals. This half-day conference will be open to the public and unite world-renowned jurists, historians, political philosophers, and legal academics for a discussion about the contemporary meaning of liberty and the ways in which Benjamin Constant's work still structures our ideas of liberty and democracy. Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation. Participants will include Charles Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and author of Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government;Philippe Raynaud, Professor of Political Science at the Universite de Paris II (Panthenon-Assas), and author of "Constant" in New French Thought; Patrice Higonnet, Goelet Professor of French History, Harvard University; and Jeremy Jennings, Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary, College of London, and the editor of Republicanism in Theory and Practice. Sponsored by the Florence Gould Foundation.
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