Workshops & Conferences
March 27, 2009
CLAIMING THE WORLD: UNIVERSALISMS AS DOCTRINE AND IN ACTION
A GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
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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
915 Welcome
Inventing Humanitarianism in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Chair: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)
930 Lynn Festa (Rutgers): Humanity without Feathers
10 Discussion
1015 Thomas Laqueur (Berkeley): Revisiting the Humanitarian Narrative
1045 Discussion
11 Coffee
1115 Christopher Leslie Brown (Columbia): Reflections on Humanitarianism and Antislavery
1145 Discussion
12 Lunch
The Practice of Humanitarianism in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)
2 Jeanne Morefield (Whitman): The League of Nations and Humanitarian Advocacy
230 Keith David Watenpaugh (UC-Davis and the U.S. Institute of Peace): The League of Nations’ Eastern Mediterranean Rescue Movement and the Paradox of Interwar Humanitarianism
3 Discussion
315 Miriam Ticktin (New School): Humanitarianism and Sexual Violence: The Logic of Moral Emergency
345 Gregory Mann (Columbia): Non-Governmentality in the Postcolonial Sahel (West Africa)
415 Discussion
430 Coffee
Humanitarianism after 9/11
Chair: Mark Mazower (Columbia)
445 Thomas Haskell (Rice): Humanitarianism and the Demands of National Security
515 Comment by Mark Mazower and Concluding Discussion
545 Adjourn
Venue: Maison Française (Buell Hall), East Gallery
April 10, 2009
THE COLD WAR AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: APPROACHES AND ARGUMENTS
Organized by the Center for International History and the Heyman Center for Humanities
Sponsored by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation
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9.45 Coffee
10.00-11.30 Morning Session A
Peter Mandler [Cambridge U]: Deconstructing Cold War Anthropology
Joel Isaac [QML]: Theorist at Work: Talcott Parsons and the Carnegie Project on Theory, 1949-1951
Commentator: Nicholas Dirks
11.30-12.00 Break
12.00-1.30 Morning Session B
Jamie Cohen-Cole [Yale]: Cold War Salons: A Model for America and the Answer to Big Science
Nicolas Guilhot [SSRC]: American Katechon: When Political Theology Becomes IR Theory
Commentator: Anders Stephanson
1.30-2.30 LUNCH
2.30-4.00 Afternoon Session A
Philip Mirowski [Notre Dame]: The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Yanis Varoufakis [Athens]: Pristine Equations, Tainted Economics and the Postwar Order
Commentator: Carl Wennerlind
4.00-4.30 Break
4.30-6.00 Afternoon Session B
Nils Gilman [Independent scholar]: Five Interpretive Topographies: Mapping the Contexts of Postwar Social Science.
Bradley Simpson [Princeton]: Soldiers, States and Social Scientists: Military Modernization Theory and the Cold War, 1960-1972
Commentator: Mark Mazower
Venue: The Heyman Center, Institute for the Humanities
Please note: Those wishing to attend should register with Erin Jeanette by emailing at eaj2115 at columbia dot edu and access to the papers will then be made available in advance to them.