April 17 , 2014
Sixth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Ian Hacking
April 4-5, 2014
History and Psychoanalysis during the Postwar Period
Organized by Michal Shapira
March 13, 2013
Reconsidering "Opposition": Historical, Activist, Literary and Theoretical Perspectives
October 25, 2012
Fifth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Martin Jay
April 10, 2012
Fourth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Rosalind O'Hanlon
March 29, 2012
The Origins of Deconstruction: A New History
March 2, 2012
Operative Catastrophes: A Workshop
Organized by Andreas Killen and Nitzan Lebovic
February 10, 2012
The Decline of the Arts?
April 4, 2011
Third Annual History & Theory Lecture by Joan Wallach Scott
March 2 , 2011
Liberalism without Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Free-Market Creed
January 24, 2011
The Conservative Enlightenment: Political Thought before the Triumph of Democracy
December 10, 2010
European Conceptions of "Life": Biology, Psychology, Philosophy
Organized by Stefanos Geroulanos
December 7, 2010
Witnesses for the Future and the Study of Modern Jewish Thought
April 12, 2010
Second Annual History & Theory Lecture by Dominick LaCapra
April 9-10, 2010
Global Intellectual History: An International Workshop
March 5, 2010
Brainwashing, Mind Control, and the Inner History of the Cold War
Organized by Stefan Andriopoulos and Andreas Killen
Friday, April 3, 2009
Historicizing Humanitarianism: A Workshop
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Inaugural History & Theory Lecture by Carlo Ginzburg
Friday and Saturday, November 7-8, 2008
Varieties of Majority Rule: Intellectual History and Political Theory
Friday, March 28, 2008
Historicizing the Human: A Workshop
Friday, November 30, 2007
From the Old Regime to the New:
Interpreting the French Revolution with Isser Woloch
Sixth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Ian Hacking
Thursday, April 17, 2014, 6:15 p.m., Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall, Columbia University
History and Psychoanalysis during the Postwar Period
Organized by Michal Shapira, Tel Aviv University
Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, 2014
Heyman Center for the Humanities Common Room, Columbia University
Confirmed speakers for the 2014 conference include: Lewis Aron (NYU), John Forrester (University of Cambridge), Matt Ffytche (University of Essex), Dagmar Herzog (Graduate Center, CUNY), Ben Kafka (New York University), Robert Jay Lifton (Columbia University), Erik Linstrum (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Lunbeck (Vanderbilt University), George Makari (Director of The Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College), Peter Mandler (University of Cambridge), Daniel Pick (University of London), Camille Robcis (Cornell University), Elisabeth Roudinesco (University of Paris VII – Denis Diderot), David Russell (King's College London), Ingrid Scholz-Strasser (former director of the Freud Museum, Vienna) and Carol Seigel (director of the Freud Museum, London), Michal Shapira (Tel Aviv University), Simon Taylor (Columbia University), Nellie L. Thompson (New York Psychoanalytical Society), and others.
For full details as the event approaches, see the conference website.
Reconsidering "Opposition": Historical, Activist, Literary and Philosophical Perspectives
Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room
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Fifth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Martin Jay
Thursday, October 25, 2012, at 6:15 p.m., Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall, Columbia University
Fourth Annual History & Theory Lecture by Rosalind O'Hanlon
Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at 6:30 p.m., Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall, Columbia University
The Origins of Deconstruction: A New History
Thursday, March 29, 2012, at 5 p.m, Maison Française, Columbia University
Please join CICH to mark the publication of Edward Baring's new book new bookThe Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945-1968 (Cambridge University Press)
The event features the author in conversation with Warren Breckman (Penn), Taylor Carman (Columbia), Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan), and Gayatri Spivak (Columbia)
Operative Catastrophes: A Workshop
Friday, March 2, 2012
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
Organized by Andreas Killen and Nitzan Lebovic
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945 Intro
10 Panel 1 (Deborah Coen, Andreas Killen, and Dagmar Herzog; Greg Eghigian, moderator)
1210 Lunch
1 Panel 2 (Nitzan Lebovic and David Bates; Anson Rabinbach, moderator)
245 Panel 3 (Eva Horn and Matthias Dörries; Andreas Huyssen, moderator)
Friday, February 10, 2012, 3 p.m., Location TBD
Jennifer Homans, Andrew Moravcsik, and Jed Perl in discussion
Third Annual History & Theory Lecture by Joan Wallach Scott
Monday, April 4, 2011, 6:15 p.m., Location TBD
"Psychoanalysis and History"
Michael Behrent, "Liberalism without Humanism: Michel Foucault and the Free-Market Creed"
March 2, 2011, 4 p.m., Fayerweather 411
Annelien de Dijn, "Conservative Enlightenment: Political Thought before the Triumph of Democracy"
January 24, 2011, 4 p.m., Fayerweather 411
European Conceptions of "Life": Biology, Psychology, Philosophy
December 10, 2010, Remarque Institute, NYU
9:45 a.m.-10 a.m.
Introduction (Stefanos Geroulanos, NYU History)
10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University)
Jan Goldstein (Chicago, History): The Tocqueville-Gobineau Correspondence: Political Affiliations of the Flesh, circa 1850
Knox Peden (Ecole Normale Supérieure, CIEPFC): The Alkaline of Recapitulation: Haeckel and History
Ben Kafka (NYU, Media, Culture, Communication): The Destiny of Anatomy (On Marie Bonaparte)
2 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Moderator: Andreas Killen (City College, History)
Camille Robcis (Cornell, History): Child Psychoanalysis in France and the Oedipalization of Life
Todd Meyers (Wayne State, Anthropology) and Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU, History): Kurt Goldstein and the 1930s Revision of Physiology
4:15 p.m.-6 p.m.
Moderator: Bruno Strasser (Yale, History of Science)
Ruth Leys (Johns Hopkins, Humanities Center): Vital Affects: Historical and Theoretical Reflections
Benjamin Lazier (Reed, History): Biospherics: Globalizing Life in the Twentieth Century
Witnesses for the Future and the Study of Modern Jewish Thought
Sponsored by the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 7 p.m., 403 IAB
Pierre Bouretz (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), author of Witnesses for the Future (Johns Hopkins Press, 2010), in conversation with Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University), Peter Eli Gordon (Harvard University), and Benjamin Lazier (Reed College)
Second Annual History & Theory Lecture by Dominick LaCapra
Monday, April 12, 8 p.m., 501 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
"Historical and Literary Representations of the Final Solution: Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell"
Commentary by Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan University)
Global Intellectual History: An International Workshop
Friday-Saturday, April 9-10, New York University
Glucksman Ireland House, Room 501
1 Washington Mews
Friday, 10-12:30
Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): The Anthropological Turn as a Metaconcept of Global Intellectual History
Andrew Sartori (NYU): Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy
Christopher L. Hill (Yale): Conceptual Universality in the Transnational Nineteenth Century
Coments: Jerrold Seigel (NYU)
2:20-4
Janaki Bahkle (Columbia): Are We Asking the Right Question? Toward an Anti-Global Intellectual History
Federico Finchelstein (New School): Fascism, the Holocaust, and Transnational History
Comments: Manu Bhagavan (Hunter College and Grad Center, CUNY)
Saturday, 9-10:40
Cemil Aydin (George Mason): "The Muslim World" as a Site of Global Intellectual History, 1839-1924
Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais (Columbia): How Is Africa Relevant to Global Intellectual History?
Comments: Frederick Cooper (NYU)
11-12:40
Suzanne Marchand (LSU): Appreciating the Art of Others: Josef Stzygowski and the Archaeology of Revenge
Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University): Is Hungary in the East or in the West? Lajos Kossuth and the Making of Early American Orientalism
Comment: Thomas Bender (NYU)
2:20-4
Samuel Moyn (Columbia): On the Non-Globalization of Ideas
Gary Wilder (Grad Center, CUNY): African Socialism as Political Theology: Léopold Sédar Senghor's Redemptive Vision of Decolonization
Comment: Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia)
Brainwashing, Mind Control, and the Inner History of the Cold War
March 5, 2010
Organized by Stefan Andriopoulos and Andreas Killen
Deutsches Haus, Columbia University
10 am to 12 pm: First Panel
Timothy Melley (University of Ohio): Terrorism, Mind Control and the Cultural Legacy of the Cold War
Andreas Killen (CUNY): Homo Pavlovius: Conditioning, Cinema, and the Cold War Subject
Respondent and Moderator: Andreas Huyssen (Columbia)
2 pm to 4 pm: Second Panel
Alison Winter (Chicago): Manchurian Candidates: Forensic Hypnosis in the Cold War
Stefan Andriopoulos (Columbia): The Sleeper: Hypnotism, Mind Control, Terrorism
Respondent and Moderator: Stefanos Geroulanos (NYU)
Historicizing Humanitarianism: Ideas, Culture, and Politics
Organized by the Columbia Center for International History
Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Buell Hall (Maison Française), East Gallery
9 Coffee
9:15 Welcome
Inventing Humanitarianism in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Chair: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
9:30 Lynn Festa (Rutgers): Humanity without Feathers
10 Discussion
10:15 Thomas Laqueur (Berkeley): Revisiting the Humanitarian Narrative
10:45 Discussion
11 Coffee
11:15 Christopher Leslie Brown (Columbia): Reflections on Humanitarianism and Antislavery
11:45 Discussion
12 Lunch
The Practice of Humanitarianism in the 20th Century
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
2 Jeanne Morefield (Whitman): The League of Nations and Humanitarian Advocacy
2:30 Keith Watenpaugh (UC-Davis): "A Pious Wish Devoid of All Practicability": The League of Nations' Eastern Mediterranean Rescue Movement and the Paradox of Interwar Humanitarianism
3 Discussion
3:15 Miriam Ticktin (New School): Humanitarianism and Sexual Violence: The Logic of Moral Emergency
3:45 Gregory Mann (Columbia): Non-Governmentality in the Post-colonial Sahel (West Africa)
4:15 Discussion
4:30 Coffee
Humanitarianism after 9/11
Chair: Mark Mazower (Columbia)
4:45 Thomas Haskell (Rice): Humanitarianism and the Demands of National Security
5:15 Comment by Mark Mazower and concluding discussion
5:45 Adjourn
Inaugural History & Theory Lecture by Carlo Ginzburg
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6:15 pm, Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
"The Letter Kills: On Some Implications of 2 Corinthians 3:6"
Comments by Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Department of History, and the European Institute
Varieties of Majority Rule: Intellectual History and Political Theory
Friday-Saturday, November 7-8, 2008
Maison Française, Columbia University
Organized by Bernard Manin (EHESS/New York University) and Melissa Schwartzberg (Columbia)
Sponsored by the Sterling-Currier Fund, the Maison Française, the Columbia University Department of Political Science, and the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Friday, November 7
1 pm: Opening Remarks
1:15-3:15 pm: The History of Majority Rule
Chair: Jean L. Cohen (Columbia)
Iain MacLean (Oxford): Jefferson in Paris and Madison in Philadelphia
Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS/New York University): Varieties of Majority Rule(s) in Constitutional Democracies
Discussant: Karuna Mantena (Yale)
3:45-5:45 pm: The Justification of Majority Rule
Chair: Bryan Garsten (Yale)
Matthias Risse (Harvard): Arguing for Majority Rule
Philippe Urfalino (EHESS): The Justification of Majority Rule and the Nature of Individual Wills (Predetermined or Not)
Discussant: Bernard Manin
Saturday, November 8
10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Alternatives to Majority Rule
Chair: Melissa Schwartzberg
Jon Elster (Collège de France/Columbia): Voting by Order: Unanimity or Majority?
Adam Przeworski (NYU): TBD
Discussant: Roberto Gargarella (Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Lunch
1:15-3:15 p.m.: The Epistemic Significance of Majority Rule
Chair: Bernard Manin
David Estlund (Brown): On Sunstein's Infotopia
Henry Farrell (GWU) [with Melissa Schwartzberg]: Institutions and Majority Rule in Online Communities
Discussant: Dimitri Landa (NYU)
3:45-5:45 p.m.: The Implications of Majority Rule
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
John Ferejohn (NYU): Why the People: A Reflection on Democratic Constitutionalism
Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law): The Force of Majority Rule
Discussant: Melissa Schwartzberg
Reception
Organized by the Columbia Center for International History
Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
Friday, March 28, 2008
Morning: Constructing Humanity
9 a.m.: Coffee
9:15 a.m.: Welcome, Mark Mazower, Columbia University
9:30 a.m.: John Jeffries Martin, Duke University, “Breaking the Body: Suffering, Exorcism, and Torture in the Renaissance"
10 a.m.: Joan-Pau Rubiés, London School of Economics, “Ethnography, Philosophy and the Rise of Natural Man, 1500-1750”
10:30 a.m.: Discussion
10:45 a.m.: Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University, "Animals, Machines and the Distinction of Being Human in the Early Enlightenment"
11:15 a.m: Aaron Garrett, Boston University, “The Virgin Unmasked: Bernard Mandeville on Human Nature”
11:45 a.m.: Discussion
12-2 p.m.: Lunch
Afternoon: Invoking Humanity
2 p.m.: Samera Esmeir, University of California-Berkeley, “Juridical Inscriptions: Becoming Human in Colonial Egypt (1882–1936)”
2:30 p.m.: Samuel Moyn, Columbia University, “The Search for the True Humanism ”
3 p.m.: Discussion
3:15 p.m.: Anne Kornhauser, Columbia University, "Human and Citizen: The American Dream of World Government"
3:45 p.m.: David Scott, Columbia University, "Decolonization and the Rights of the Human”
4:15 p.m.: Discussion
From the Old Regime to the New: Interpreting the French Revolution with Isser Woloch
Friday, November 30, 2007
Maison Française (Buell Hall, East Gallery)
Columbia University, New York City
9:00 a.m. Coffee
9:20 a.m. Welcome
9:30 a.m. Session 1: Institutions from the Old Regime to the New
Chair, Alan Forrest, University of York
“From Slaves to Citizens and Back Again: The Colonies and the New Regime 1789-1805,” Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona
“Beaumarchais and the Bastille: An Inadvertent Aristocrat in Revolutionary Paris,” Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
“Women and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France,” Robert Allen, Stephen F. Austin State University
“A Civilizing Institution: The Rural Press in the French Revolution,” Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University
“Institutions and Ideas: Why Welfare State Reform is So Difficult in France,” Timothy B. Smith, Queen’s University, Ontario
11:10 a.m. Coffee
11:20 a.m. Session 2: Warfare: State-building and Political Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Chair, David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University
“The Conquest of the Periphery: Citizenship and Conscription under the Consulate and the Empire,” Michael Broers, Oxford University
“War, Citizenship and the State in Revolutionary France,” Alan Forrest, University of York
“Woloch, War, and Women,” John Lynn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2 p.m. Welcome, Alan Brinkley, Provost, Columbia University
2:10 p.m. Session 3: Political Economy: Civil Society and Revolutionary Transformations
Chair, Jerrold E. Seigel, New York University
“Antoine Barnave, l'affaire des colonies and the Constitutional Monarchy,” Paul B. Cheney, University of Chicago
“The ‘Who Lost the Americas’ Debate of the Consular Corps in the 1790s,” Allan Potofsky, Université de Paris 8
“What Makes a Republic Modern?: The Democratization of Consumption and the Facility of Association in the Leçons on Political Economy at the Ecole Normale of the Year III,” Charles Sullivan, University of Dallas
“Bourgeois Baby, Marxist Bathwater,” Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London
3:30 p.m. Coffee
3:40 p.m. Session 4: Interpreting the French Revolution
Chair, Colin Jones, Queen Mary, University of London
“Interpréter l'histoire de la capitale en révolution,” Raymonde Monnier, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyons
"Integrating the Villages -- Violence, territoire, citoyenneté: Les enjeux de la responsabilité collective des communes," Bernard Gainot, Université de Paris 1 (Sorbonne)
“The Origins of a Revolutionary Mentality in 1786-89: The Old Regime Correspondence of Five Revolutionaries-To-Be,” Timothy Tackett, University of California-Irvine
“The Center-Periphery Problem during the Terror: The Perspective of the Robespierre Brothers During the Year II,” Sergio Luzzatto, Università di Torino
“Neither Marx Nor Furet: The Reaffirmation of the Revolution’s Democratic Legacy,” Melvin Edelstein, William Paterson University
With a Reply by Isser Woloch, Columbia University
5:45 p.m. Reception
Sponsors: Sterling-Currier Fund; Department of History, Columbia University; Vice President for Arts and Sciences, Columbia University; Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, New York City; Department of History, Barnard College; Maison Française, Columbia University
Image credits: Metropolitan Museum of Art