History Department Events

Spring 2012

Mock Job Talks
Monday, January 23, 1:00-3:00 pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Kristopher Burrell:"Where from Here? Ideological Perspectives on the Future of the Civil Rights Movement"
Tracy E. Robey:"Damnatio memoriae: Destroying documents, covering paintings, and cannibalizing traitors in the Italian Renaissance, 1250-1600"

"Spying at the Dry Cleaners: Economic Crisis and Cold War Politics in 1970s Mexico"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Louise Walker, New School University
February 3, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

"'Victor's Justice' as 'Jewish Revenge': The Malmedy Massacre Trial and its Aftermath"
Steven Remy, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Columbia Seminar on Twentieth-Century Politics and Society
Thursday, February 9, 7:30-9:30 pm
Free and open to the public
Columbia Faculty House, Second Floor
(directions: http://tiny.cc/q8uhz)

Schedule of Candidates' Talks for Admission to GC Faculty
Room 5114, Graduate Center

Tuesday February 14
3:00 p.m.- Robert Maryks (Early Modern): "Like worms that infect an apple": Jesuits of Jewish Ancestry in the Early Society of Jesus

4:00 p.m. - Sarah Covington (Early Modern): "The Devil Come to Ireland": Historical, Folkloric, and Literary Afterlives of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland

Wednesday February 22
2:00 p.m. - Michael Pfeifer (American): The History of American Lynching in Transregional and Transnational Context

3:00 p.m. - Barbara Naddeo (Early Modern): Birth of a Metropolis: The Open City and the Social Sciences in Naples, 1650--1800

Thursday February 23
2:30 p.m. - Sandra Gambetti (Ancient): Causes and Consequences of Letting Oneself Be Surprised (or How and Why One Ends Up Working on Alexandria)

Monday February 27
3:00 p.m. - Michael Rawson (American): City, Nature, Utopia: Environmental Thought in Historical Perspective

4:00 p.m. - Gregory Downs (American): The Ends of the War: Rethinking the Post-Civil War United States

5:00 p.m. - John Torpey (American): Thinking Historically about Politics and Society

"A New Antiquity. Literatures of Art and Iberian Expansion in Early Modernity"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Alessandra Russo, Columbia University
March 9, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

"Peruvians in High Places: Aerial Modernity's Surprise Landing in the Andes, 1910-11"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Willie Hiatt, Long Island University, Campus of C.W. Post
April 20, 11am-1pm
Room TBA, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

Previous Department Events:

Fall 2011

New Student Welcome
Thursday, September 1, 11:00 am
Room 5114, Graduate Center

Revolutionizing American Studies
Friday, September 9, 12-2 pm
Room 8201.01, Graduate Center
http://revolutionizingamericanstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Romanticists Group First Meeting
Wednesday, September 14, 4:15pm
English Department Thesis Room, Graduate Center

Medieval Studies Meet & Greet
Thursday, September 15, 6:15pm
Room 5104, Graduate Center

Amy Chazkel's Book Launch
"Laws of Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Modern Public Life in Brazil"
Thursday, September 15, 6-8pm
International Affairs Building, rm 802
Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street

"The Count Stanislas de Clermont-Tonnerre's 'To the Jews as a Nation ....' The Career of a Quotation"
David Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of History and Jack F. Skirball Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center
Friday, September 16, 10:00am
Skylight Room, Graduate Center

Slave Insurgents and the Political Impact of Free Blacks in a Revolutionary Age: The Revolt of 1795 in Coro, Venezuela
Herman Bennett, History, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Friday, September 23, 2:00pm
Room C415A, Graduate Center

"Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution"
Caroline Weber, Associate Professor of French, Barnard College
Tuesday, September 27, 4:15pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center

"The Informational Structure of the Chilean State. The Bureaucratic Foundation (1860-1895)"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Andrés Estefane, Stony Brook University
October 14, 11am-1pm
Room 8400, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

A Discussion About the History Job Market
October 14, 12:00-1:30pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
RSVP to tracy.e.robey@gmail.com

Roundtable: "Religious Exile and Migration in the Renaissance and Early Modern World"
Friday, October 14, 2011, 4:00-6:00 PM
CUNY, The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 9100, New York, NY 10016
Featuring:
Nicholas Terpstra (History, University of Toronto)
Megan Armstrong (History, McMaster University)
Francesca Bregoli (History, Queens College, CUNY)
Leslie Peirce (History, New York University)
Introduction by Provost Chase Robinson (Professor, History)
Reception to follow: 6:00-7:00 PM, Room 5114, History Department Lounge
Sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America

"Digital Harlem: Race and Place in the 1920s"
Stephen Robertson, University of Sydney
October 17, 7pm
Skylight Room, Graduate Center

"Freedom and Abolition in Latin America"
Thursday October 20th, 4:00 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, Graduate Center
Panelists:
Emily Berquist (History, California State)
Chris Schmidt-Nowara (History. Tufts)
Celso Castilho (History, Vanderbilt)
Jason McGraw (History & American Studies, Indiana)
Marcela Echeverri (History, College of Staten Island, and Resident Mellon Fellow at The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Amy Chazkel (History, Queens College)

"Religion, Race and the Founders"
Professor Jonathan Sassi, CUNY Graduate Center and CSI
Friday, October 21 at 3 pm
Room 5114, History Department Lounge
Early Americanists Unite will be hosting this seminar. Advance reading of Professor Sassi's paper is required. If interested, please contact Dave Houpt (david.houpt@gmail.com) or Cambridge Ridley Lynch (cambridge.ridley@post.harvard.edu) to RSVP and to receive the advance copy of the paper.

"Churchill's Secret War"
Madhusree Mukerjee, former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship
in conversation with Prof. Manu Bhagavan, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College
Wednesday, October 26, 1:00-2:30pm
Hunter College Human Rights Program
Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, 49 East 65th Street

"The Identity Trap: The Search for Belonging as a Challenge to European Integration"
Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, History and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 5:30pm
Room C204, Graduate Center

"Is There Anything More to See? Civil War Photography and History"
"Still Hazy After All These Years"
A Series Marking the Sesquicentennial of the Start of the U.S. Civil War
Thursday, November 3, 2011, 6pm
Martin Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center
Anthony Lee, Mount Holyoke College
Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans
Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University
Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Flyer
For more information
Sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and
Learning and Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center, City University
of New York.
This program is supported by a grant from the New York Council for the
Humanities.

"Humanitarianism and Decolonization: The International Committee of the Red Cross in Algeria, 1955-1962"
Jennifer Johnson Onyedum (Lehman College)
Friday, November 4, 1:00-3:00pm
Room 7314, Graduate Center
Professor Clifford Rosenberg (City College) will serve as discussant

Early Americans Unite
Professor Brian Murphy, Baruch
Monday, November 7 at 3 pm
Room 5114, History Department Lounge
If interested, please contact Dave Houpt (david.houpt@gmail.com) or Cambridge Ridley Lynch (cambridge.ridley@post.harvard.edu) to RSVP and to receive the advance copy of the paper.

Tea Party
for the New York Chapter of the National Society of Colonial Dames
Wednesday, November 9, 4 pm
Room 5114, History Department Lounge

"The Failure and Success of the American Left"
Michael Kazin, Professor of History, University of Georgetown
Wednesday, November 9, 5:30 pm
Segal Theatre, Graduate Center
Kazin will speak with Richard Wolin (History and Political Science, Graduate Center CUNY) about the history of the American Left

U.S. Intellectual History Conference
"Narratives"
Thursday to Friday, November 17th to 18th
Thirty-one panels over two days
Keynote speakers and panelists include:
Beth Bailey (History, Temple)
Eric Foner (History, Columbia)
Michael Kazin (Dissent and History, Georgetown)
Louise K. Knight (Communication Studies, Northwestern)
Pauline Maier (American History, MIT)
Rogers Smith (Political Science, University of Penn)
Full program
Co-sponsored by PhD Program in History, and the U.S. Society of Intellectual History

"Exiles within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
James N. Green, Brown University
November 18, 11am-1pm
Room 9204, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

New Directions in Medieval Studies Roundtable
Friday, November 18, 2:00pm
Room 5409, Graduate Center
This roundtable focuses on new scholarship in medieval studies in the CUNY system
Jay Gates, English, John Jay College
Warren Woodfin, Art History, Queens College
Christina Christoforatou, English, Baruch College
Oscar Martin, Languages & Literatures (Spanish), Lehman College
Francesca Sautman, French, Hunter & GC, moderator

"Reviving Enlightenment in the 'Age of Nationalism': Hans Kohn in America"
Columbia University Law & Politics Seminar, co-sponsored by the Hunter Jewish Studies Program
Brian Smollett, CUNY Graduate Center
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011, 7:15 PM
Columbia University Faculty House
R.S.V.P. by Monday, November 21st to Alice Salvage, the rapporteur of the seminar: ataes2258@columbia.edu or (917)751-5335

"Spaniards in the Nahua City of Xochimilco: Colonial Society and Cultural Exchange in Central Mexico, 1600-1725"
New York City Latin American History Workshop
Richard Conway, Montclair State University
December 9, 11am-1pm
Room 8400, Graduate Center
The discussion is based on a pre-circulated paper; to receive the papers, please contact Julia del Palacio at ajd2128@columbia.edu

"How to Construct a Dynasty from Heaven Down to Earth: The Case of the First Ptolemies"
Sandra Gambetti, College of Staten Island
December 9, 2011, 5 PM
Room 5114, History Department Lounge

"Jeffersonian Parties, Politics, and Participation: The Tortuous Trajectory of American Democracy"
Professor Andrew Robertson, CUNY Graduate Center
Monday, December 12 at 3 pm
Room 5114, History Department Lounge
Early American Republic Seminar (formerly Early Americanists Unite) will be hosting this seminar. Advance reading of Professor Robertson's paper is required. If interested, please contact Dave Houpt (david.houpt@gmail.com) or Cambridge Ridley Lynch (cambridge.ridley@post.harvard.edu) to RSVP and to receive the advance copy of the paper.

End of the Semester Metting & Party
Wednesday, December 14, 4:30pm
Room 5114, History Department Lounge
Department party will immediately follow the student & faculty meeting

Spring 2011

"Ghosts of a Tortured Past: Europe's Right Turn"
Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 6:30 pm
Skylight Room, Graduate Center

"Did the Real War Ever Get in the Books? New Scholarship on the Civil War"
"Still Hazy After All These Years"
A Series Marking the Sesquicentennial of the Start of the U.S. Civil War
Flyer
For more information
Thursday, February 3, 2011, at 6 pm
Martin Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center
Gregory Downs, City College of New York, CUNY
Bruce Levine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
James Oakes, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference
"Cultural Frontiers in the East and West"
Friday, March 4, 2011, 9:30-4:45 p.m.
Room 9204/5, Graduate Center

"The Political Unconsciousness of Postcolonial Theory"
Friday, March 4, 4:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Martin Wiener, Mary Jones Gibbs Professor of History, Rice University

"Drawing the Color Line and the National Line: Germany and Genocide in Africa and Anatolia"
Monday, March 7, 4:15 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Eric Weitz, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota

"Putting the Public History in Ph.D: A Roundtable Discussion and Workshop"
Friday, March 11, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Dr. Daniel Walkowitz, NYU
Dr. Philip Napoli, Brooklyn College
Dr. Richard Rabinowitz, President, American History Workshop

Second Annual History Graduate Student Conference
Friday, March 18, 2011, 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

"The German Foreign Office and the Nazi Past"
Friday, March 18, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Professor Norbert Frei, Heuss Professor of History, New School for Social Research

"Dress and Status in Medieval Byzantium"
Medieval Studies Certificate Program Colloquium
Thursday, March 24, 2001, 5:00 p.m.
Room C419, Graduate Center
Jennifer Ball (Art History), Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Eric Ivison (History), College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Thomas Head (History), Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

"The Great Divide? Civil War Myths and Misinformation"
"Still Hazy After All These Years"
A Series Marking the Sesquicentennial of the Start of the U.S. Civil War
Flyer
For more information
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 6 pm
Martin Segal Theatre at the Graduate Center
Jim Cullen, The Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Stan Deaton, Georgia Historical Society
Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia
Scott Reynolds Nelson, College of William and Mary

"Three Revolutions of Liberty: England, America, and France"
Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 4:00 pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center

"Greater America: The Latin American Origins of Social Democracy, Human Rights, and Liberal Multilateralism"
Eisenstadt Lecture
Friday, April 15, 2011, 12:00 noon
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Greg Grandin, History, NYU

"Sex and the EU"
Thursday, April 28, 2011, 5:30 pm
Skylight Room, Graduate Center
Dagmar Herzog, History, GC

"Between Representation and Legitimation: The Political Ethic of (Western) Liberalism"
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Professor John R. Wallach, Professor of Political Science at Hunter College & The Graduate Center, and Director of the new Hunter Human Rights Program

"Interpreting the Body: An Impotent Husband in Nineteenth Italy"
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 pm
Room 9206, Graduate Center
Professor Domenico Rizzo, Professor History, University of Naples "L'Orientale"

End of the Semester Meetings & Party
May 19
Room 5114, Graduate Center
2:30 Executive Committee Meeting
3:40 Faculty meeting
4:30 Student/faculty meeting
5:00 Department party

Previous Department Events:

Fall 2010

New Student Orientation
(coffee and donuts will be served)
Thursday, September 2, 11:00am
Room 5114, Graduate Center

The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960's
Professor Richard Wolin
Monday, September 20, 6:30pm
Room 9100, Graduate Center

Religion and political liberty in Italian republics (XIII-XV centuries)
Professor Maurizio Viroli, Princeton University
Wednesday, September 22, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Faculty Seminar in the Humanities
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/seminars
Email abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu for a copy of the paper

To Market, To Market: Hunting For History Jobs Roundtable Discussion
Friday, September 24, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Event Flyer

The Flight of the Century
Professor Thomas Kessner
Monday, October 6, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

Job Application Workshop
Friday, October 8, 11:00am-1:00pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Event Flyer

U.S. Intellectual History Conference
October 21 & 22
Graduate Center, CUNY
http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-annual-us-intellectual-history.html

Discussion of NRC rankings
Friday, October 22 at 2 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

'Civilized Americans': German-Jews in the U.S. Army in World War II
Steven P. Remy, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Author of The Heidelberg Myth
Tuesday, October 26, 6:30pm
Room 9204, Graduate Center

Lecture by David Sorken
David Sorkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Religious Enightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna"
Friday, October 29 at 11 a.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

CUNY Renaissance Colloquium
At the Threshold of the Public and the Private in the Italian Renaissance
Friday, November 5, 4-5:30 p.m.
Room C197, Graduate Center
Stephen Campbell, Art History, Johns Hopkins
"The Threshold between Public and Private: Mantegna's Camera Picta and the Gonzaga Court"
William J. Kennedy, Comparative Literature, Cornell
"Public Statements, Private Goods: Petrarch as Homo Economicus"

Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer¹s Long-Lost Painting of an
Enslaved Black Woman
Peter H. Wood, Duke University
Monday, November 8, 4:00pm
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Co-sponsored with the American Social History Project/Center for Media and
Learning and Ph.D. Program in Art History

The Battle of Chile
Screening and Discussion
Thursday, November 11, 6:30pm
Room 5414, Graduate Center

New Directions in Medieval Studies Roundtable
Friday, November 12, 2:00pm-5:00pm
Graduate Center

Tea Party
with the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York
Thursday, November 18, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

Conference on the work of J.G.A. Pocock
Friday, November 19, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Pierre Force (Columbia), J.G.A Pocock, and Marty Burke, Helena Rosenblatt and Richard Wolin (G.C.)

The "Absolutely Concrete" and "the Fountain which Always Gushes Forth", or How to Read Gershom Scholem
Monday, November 22, 3:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Abraham Socher (Oberlin College)

France Workers & Students Revolt
Discussion of 1968 revolt
Video and eyewitness account by Jan Norden, editor of The Internationalist
Tuesday, November 23, 6:00 p.m.
Room 5409, Graduate Center

Easing the Pain of Grading
Workshop & discussion
Friday, December 3, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

The Last Utopia
Professor Samuel Moyn of Columbia University
December 8, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center
Faculty Seminar in the Humanities
http://centerforthehumanitiesgc.org/seminars

Party for Alumni of the Ph.D. Program in History
December 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Room 5114, Graduate Center

End of the Semester Meetings & Party
December 14
Room 5114, Graduate Center
2:00 Executive Committee Meeting
3:00 Faculty meeting
4:30 Student/faculty meeting
5:30 Department party

Spring 2010

Workshop: Preparing For and Passing the Written Exam
May 7

Conference: Middle Passages: Histories & Poetics
May 6-7
Flyer

Faculty Talks:
Premilla Nadasen (Queens College): "Women, the Politics of Protest and the Black Freedom Movement"
Gunja Sengupta (Brooklyn College): "Mapping the Local and the Global in Nineteenth-Century U.S. History"
April 30

Andreas Kalyvas (New School for Social Research)
"On Liberal Beginnings" with response by Helena Rosenblatt
April 28

Chase F. Robinson (The Graduate Center)
"The Politics of Islamic History: Some Reflections on Method and Perspective"
April 27

C.V. Workshop with Steven Remy
April 23

Philippe Raynaud (University of Paris II-Pantheon)
"Montesquieu on Politeness and Honesty: A New Vision on the Relations Between France and England"
April 22

Wendy Wall (Queens University, Canada): '"The Greatest Safeguard of Democracy": Religion and American Nationalism During and After World War II"
April 16

Faculty Talks:
Prof. Cliff Rosenberg (City College): "Immigration, the Administrative State, and the Politics of Public
Health in France and Algeria"
Mary Roldan (Hunter College): "Media and the Public in 20th Century Colombia"
April 9

History Graduate Student Conference
March 19
Call for Papers
Schedule

Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference
March 12
Call for Papers

Roundtable Discussion on Conferences with Helena Rosenblatt and Martin Burke
March 5

John Davis (University of California—Davis)
"The Jews of San Nicandro"
March 4

Tracy E. Robey, doctoral candidate, History
“Damnation of Memory in Renaissance Italy”
February 5

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