( The Speakers Series committee hopes to host a number of additional events, and will provide information as soon as available.)

Friday, February 23rd
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Ian Baruma (Bard College) and Richard Wolin (GC)
“Europe and the Challenge of Islam: a Conversation”
Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities

Monday, March 5th
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Pierre Birnbaum (Columbia University and the Sorbonne)
“Is there a New European Anti-Semitism”
Room 9206-07
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities

Thursday, March 8th
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Carol Smith-Rosenberg (University of Michigan)
“From Racial Other to White Mother: Embodying America, Shifting and Conflicting Meanings”
Skylight Room 9100
Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Humanities and the Women’s Studies Certificate Program

Friday, March 9th
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Seth Lerer (Stanford University)
“From Medieval to Early Modern: Books and Readers of the 1550s”
Skylight Room 9100
Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in English and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Certificate Programs

Thursday, March 15th
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Antõnio Manuel Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
“Ancien Régime in the Tropics? A Debate concerning the Political Model of
the Portuguese Colonial Empire”
Room C202
Co-sponsored by the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages Ph.D. Program
DOWNLOAD PROF. HESPANHA'S PAPER

Friday, March 16th
1:00-3:00 p.m.
Susan Ferber (Oxford University Press), David McBride (Oxford University Press), Robert Tempio (Princeton University Press), Martin Burke (Journal of the History of Ideas), Brendan O’Malley (GC)
“Navigating the Publishing Process: a Workshop”
History Program Lounge

Monday, March 19th
Lara Deeb (University of California, Irvine)
“Hizbullah: History, Popularity, Society”
Co-sponsored with the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
Room 9204/05

Wednesday, March 21st
6:15-8:15 p.m.
Suzanne Brown-Fleming (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
“The Holocaust and the New Catholic Conscience”
Sponsored by the Center for Holocaust Studies
Elebash Recital Hall

Thursday, April 12th
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Stefano Carboni (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World”
Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program and the Center for the Humanities
Skylight Room 9100

Friday, April 13th
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Loyola University, Chicago)
“A Pickpocket’s Tale: the Underworld of 19th-Century New York”
Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored with the American Studies Certificate Program

Tuesday, April 17th
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Joshua Freeman (GC)
“Gutman’s Legacy: Writing the History of Postwar America”
The Herbert Gutman Memorial Lecture
Co-Sponsored with the Center for the Humanities and the American Social History Project
Skylight Room 9100

Thursday, April 19th
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Jan Gross (Princeton)
“Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz”
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Humanities
Room 9206/07

Friday, April 20th
6:30-9:00 p.m.
“Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War” [a film by Julia Newman]
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women and Society
Elebash Recital Hall

Monday, April 23rd
7:15 p.m.
Elizabeth Wood (MIT)
“Performance and the Undermining of Legal Conscience: Soviet Show Trials and the Corruption of the Self”
A Center for the Humanities “Aftermaths” Event
Segal Theatre

Tuesday, April 24th
6:00 p.m.
Catherine Merridale (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1941-45
Room 9204/05
Co-sponsored with the New York Region of The Historical Society and the New York Military Affairs Symposium

Wednesday, April 25th
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Bettina Aptheker (University of California Santa Cruz)
Speaking on her memoir Intimate Politics
Co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Certificate Program
History Program Lounge

Friday, May 11th
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
“Going on the Job Market” A workshop with recently hired GC graduates and others involved in academic job searches.
History Program Lounge

Monday, May 14th
6:30 p.m.
Anthony Wood (New York Preservation Archive Program) and Anthony M. Tung (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission)
“Does New York’s Past have a Future? A Report on the Preservation Movement’s History”
Gotham Center History Forum