Workshops & Conferences
October 21, 2011
TRANSLATION AND THE SCIENCES
Benjamin Elman (Princeton), Marwa Elshakry (Columbia), Michael Gordin (Princeton),
Shruti Kapila (Cambridge), Lydia Liu (Columbia), Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia),
Grace Shen (Fordham)
Co-sponsored with the Barnard Center for Translation Studies
Time: 9:30 AM to 5 PM
Location: Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities
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December 2, 2011
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY WORKSHOP WITH PETER PERDUE
Peter Perdue (Yale)
Time: 10:00 AM to 12 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall
"Famines, Environmental History, and International History"
Peter Perdue is professor of history at Yale and the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D.(1987)
and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005). He will discuss issues such as the roles ofclimate, food
availability, and entitlements in causing famine, the effectiveness of famine relief policies, and the positive or negative role of
imperial and national states in addressing famine and poverty.
Readings to be discussed:
Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts : El Niņo Famines and the Making of the Third World. New York: Verso, 2001, pp. 1-115, 239-375.
Edgerton-Tarpley, Kathryn. Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China. Berkeley: U. Cal, 2008, pp. 1-42, 67-155.
Sen, Amartya K. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981, pp. 39-83.
Please RSVP to sc2591 at columbia dot edu by Monday, November 28th.
December 9-10, 2011
GOLDEN AGES: UNIVERSAL HISTORIES AND THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE
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April 20, 2012
HISTORICIZING HAZARD
Karl Appuhn (NYU), Kim Fortun (RPI), Peter Galison (Harvard), Michelle Murphy (U. Toronto),
Linda Nash (U.Wash.), Abigail Schade (Columbia), Christopher Sellers (SUNY), Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia)
Time: 9:15 AM to 5:45 PM
Location: Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College
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