Fall 2011 Lectures and Seminars

September 2011

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
September, 21 - Lehman Center, 12:00 noon
Edward L. Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
September, 27 - Lehman Center, 12:00 noon
Carla L. Peterson, Professor of English, University of Maryland

October 2011

Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars
October, 12 - Lehman Center, 12:00 noon
Stephen Robertson, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney

Panel conversation: American History Now,
edited by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr
October, 20 - Butler Library, Room 523 (535 West 114th Street), 6:00PM
Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University
Lisa McGirr, Professor of History, Harvard University
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Moderated by Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor in History and the Social Sciences, Columbia University

November 2011

Bob Dylan in America
November, 10 - Lehman Center, 12:00 noon
Sean Wilentz, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, Princeton University

December 2011

Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men
December, 7 - Lehman Center, 12:00 noon
Carlos Decena, Assistant Professor of Women's & Gender Studies; Assistant Professor of Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies, Rutgers University

Lunch is served at noon events.
Wine and cheese are served at afternoon events.
Events are free and open to the public but RSVPs are required:
email lehmancenter@columbia.edu

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