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The second in a series of annual
seminars sponsored by the Columbia University Department of
Art History and Archaeology will be held on Friday, November
21, 2003.
Cultural Heritage in War: Moral and Military Choices will explore issues that have been in the news frequently during
recent years and, indeed, have been a vital part of world affairs
throughout modern history. The Seminar aims to make these crucial
issues a more prominent part of the public debate on war and
current events.
This year’s Seminar takes the form of a symposium. The
Keynote speakers are:
Edward N. Luttwak, military historian,
expert on strategic issues, and author of Strategy: The
Logic of War and Peace;
David Rieff, writer and reporter;
author of A Bed for
the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis and Slaughterhouse:
Bosnia
and the
Failure of War;
Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Associate
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art History and Archaeology,
Columbia University.
The seminar will be moderated by:
Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian
and South Asian Art and director of the South Asian Institute,
Columbia University.
Admission to the Seminar is $10; $7 for seniors, New-York Historical
Society members, and students with valid IDs; free for Columbia
University students. For tickets to the 2003 Seminar, the public
should call The New-York Historical Society, 212-485-9269.
Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis
and reservations are required.
The 2003 Columbia Seminar on Art in Society follows last
year’s
successful inaugural program on “Monument and Memory.”
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Monument
and Memory, the first Columbia Seminar on Art in Society, featuring
Daniel Libeskind, Leon Wieseltier, Sherwin Nuland and Richard
Brilliant. The cost of the journal is $5.00, plus $1.50 (U.S.
dollars) for shipping and handling. Checks should should
be made out to Columbia University—Department of Art
History and Archaeology and sent to:
Columbia University
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Attention: Journal Sales
1190 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
On the occasion of the first anniversary
of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on September 11,
2001, Monument and Memory answers
the call for inspired thinking about a fitting memorial
at Ground
Zero in Lower Manhattan. The keynote speaker for the event
is Daniel Libeskind, internationally acclaimed architect
of the
Jewish Museum, Berlin. The respondents are Leon Wieseltier,
literary editor of the New Republic and author
of Kaddish,
and Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die and professor
of surgery at Yale. The program will be convened by our
own Richard Brilliant, A. S. Garbedian Professor of Humanities,
Columbia University.
The program will take place on Friday, 27 September 2002
from 6:00–8:00PM at the New-York Historical Society, 2 West
77th Street at Central Park West. Admission is free for Columbia
students and faculty and members of the NYHS. It is recommended
that you reserve a seat by calling (212) 873-3400; press "0“ when
prompted.
Monument and Memory inaugurates
the Columbia Seminar on Art in Society, an annual
program designed to bring distinguished scholarship to bear
on broad
public issues and to highlight the significant role of art
in our society.
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Now Available in the Department, the Columbia University Bookstore,
Labyrinth Bookstore, and Urban Center Books
