Workshops & Conferences
April 3, 2009
HISTORIES OF HUMANITARIANISM: A CONFERENCE
Organized by Samuel Moyn (Columbia) and Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History
9 Coffee
9:15 Welcome
Morning: Inventing Humanitarianism in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
Session One: Origins and Narratives
9:30 Lynn Festa (Rutgers)
10 Thomas Laqueur (Berkeley)
10:30 Discussion
Session Two: Antislavery and Moral Capital
10:45 Thomas Haskell (Rice)
11:15 Christopher Leslie Brown (Columbia)
11:45 Discussion
12 Lunch
Afternoon: The Practice of Humanitarianism in the 20th Century
Chair: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
Session Three: Humanitarianism and the International Order/
2 Jeanne Morefield (Whitman)
2:30 Mark Mazower (Columbia)
3 Discussion
Session Four: Contemporary Humanitarianism: Metropole and Postcolony
3:15 Miriam Ticktin (New School)
3:45 Gregory Mann (Columbia)
4:15 Discussion
All events start on Friday mornings at 10am in 513 Fayerweather Hall, unless otherwise stated.