The New York Area Group in European Intellectual and Cultural History
This working group, active since 2001, meets monthly during the academic year.
Please e-mail Jerrold Seigel for copies of papers listed below.
Unless otherwise noted, meetings take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 5th Ave and 34th St., at 5:30 p.m.
Other venues for work in intellectual history in the New York area include the University Seminar on Early Modern France.
Spring 2012
January 26
Knox Peden (University of Queensland)
March 22
Matthias Bormuth (University of Oldenburg and Columbia)
April 5
Janek Wasserman (University of Alabama)
Fall 2011
September 15
Benjamin Wurgaft (New School),
"Leo Strauss and the Problem of the Intellectual"
October 20
John Torpey (CUNY),
“Inventing the Axial Age: The Origins and Uses of an Historical Concept”
December 8
Karuna Mantena (Yale),
"Another Realism: the Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence"
Spring 2011
February 10
Matthew Specter (Central Connecticut State),
"Jürgen Habermas: An Intellectual Biography"
March 31
Andrew Sartori (NYU)
"Genealogy, Theory, History"
April 14
James Chappel (Columbia University)
"European Catholic Thought and the Making of Postwar Europe"
Fall 2010
September 16
J.B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins),
"Autonomy after Kant"
October 7
Bernard Flynn (New School),
"Political Theology and Its Vicissitudes"
December 2
Gary Wilder (Graduate Center)
Spring 2010
January 28
Edward Baring (Princeton),
"Reading Lévi-Strauss at the ENS; or, How to be a Good Structuralist"
February 18
Giuseppe Blanco (Jan Van Eyck Akademie--Maastricht),
"Georges Canguilhem: From Passions to Norms"
March 11
Christina Gerhardt (independent),
"From the Social Movements to Armed Struggle: The Historical Context of the Red Army Faction"
April 22
Camille Robcis (Cornell),
"Kinship and the Structuralist Social Contract"
Fall 2009
September 10
Pierre Force (Columbia University),
"Voltaire and the Necessity of Modern History"
October 15
Stefanos Geroulanos (New York University),
"Alexandre Kojeve's Negative Anthropology, 1931-39,"
November 19
Warren Breckman (Penn),
“Of Empty Places: Zizek and Laclau, or the End of the Affair.”
Spring 2009
February 19
Emily Levine (Yale University),
"Cassirer, Hamburg, and German Liberalism"
March 26
John Abromeit (Buffalo State University),
"Divergence, Estrangement, and Gradual Rapprochement: Adorno and Horkheimer in the 1930s"
April 30
Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University),
"Moderation and the Group of Coppet"
Fall 2008
September 11
Charity Scribner (MIT/LaGuardia),
"Politics and Terror: The RAF and the German Autumn Revisited"
October 16
A. Dirk Moses (University of Sydney),
"Arendt on Imperialism and Genocide: A Reconsideration"
November 20
Michael Saler (University of California-Davis),
"Geographies of the Imagination: Literary Prehistories of Virtual Reality"
Fall 2007
October 11
Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Study),
"Radical Enlightenment and the Turn to Representative Democracy (1750-1789)"
November 8
Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University, Rotterdam),
“Beyond ‘Modern Equality': Can We Write a World History of Cross-Cultural Equality"
December 11
Philippe Raynaud (University of Paris II and EHESS),
"The French Far Left since the 1960s"
Spring 2008
January 24 (12:30 pm)
Lynn Hunt (UCLA),
"The Problem of Modernity"
March 13
Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan University),
"Haunting History: Deconstruction and the Spirit of Revision"
April 17
Olivier Remaud (EHESS, Paris),
"Is Memory a Private Affair?"
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