Spring 2011
Political Theology: A CICH-Harvard Collaborative Workshop
Fall 2010
Knowledge of Life: A Historical Workshop
Organized by Stefanos Geroulanos
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
Spring 2011
Political Theology: A CICH-Harvard Collaborative Workshop
Fall 2010
Knowledge of Life: A Historical Workshop
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"
Global Intellectual History: An International Workshop
Friday-Saturday, April 9-10, New York University
Friday, 9-10:40
Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Andrew Sartori (NYU)
Comment: Harry Harootunian (NYU)
11-12:40
Christopher L. Hill (Yale)
Alexander C. Cook (UC-Berkeley)
Comment: Gary Wilder (CUNY Graduate Center)
Lunch
2:20-4
Federico Finchelstein (New School)
Manu Goswami (NYU)
Comment: Carol Gluck (Columbia)
Saturday, 9-10:40
Mamadou Diouf and Jinny Prais (Columbia)
Cemil Aydin (George Mason)
Comment: Frederick Cooper (NYU)
11-12:40
Suzanne Marchand (LSU)
Timothy Roberts (Western Illinois University)
Comment: Thomas Bender (NYU)
2:20-4
Janaki Bakhle (Columbia)
Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
Comment: Jerrold Seigel (NYU)
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