Meetings
Spring 2011 Meetings
The Columbia University Seminar on Cultural Memory is very excited to announce the upcoming event:
Jennifer Wenzel will present "Past's Futures" (abstract forthcoming).
Rosalind Morris will respond.
Monday, April 11, 6-8pm
IRWAG Seminar Room 754 Schermerhorn Extension
Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Chicago Press and University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2009).
Brent Hayes Edwards
, Columbia University Department of English and Comparative Literature, "The Alchemy of Tin: The Cultures of Jazz in Downtown New York in the 1970s."
Monday, January 31st from 6 - 8 PM, Location: IRWAG Seminar Room 754 Schermerhorn Extension
Abstract: In jazz history, the 1970s have habitually been overlooked or dismissed as a period when the music went into severe decline. But in fact there was a remarkable ferment of activity in the decade, especially in New York -- much of it underground, in small clubs, musician-run "lofts," and independent theaters -- and jazz played a central role in the arts scene that developed in NoHo, SoHo, and the East Village. This lecture considers the social and musical space that developed around the Tin Palace, a nightclub that provided from its perch on the Bowery a crucial hub for cross-fertilization among the arts.
Also upcoming:
A Roundtable with Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman, "Concentrationary Memories and the Politics of Representation."
March 2, 6-8:30pm, Location TBA
Past Meetings Fall 2010
Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz, with respondents Daniel Levy, Jenny James, and Marita Sturken.
A discussion of Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates (Fordham)
October 18, 2010 6 - 8 PM
Location: Faculty House, Seminar Room #1
Maurice Stevens
"Trauma and the Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Time/Space"
November 18th, 2010 6 - 8 PM
754 Schermerhorn Ext. (IRWAG seminar room), Columbia University
Spring 2010
All meetings are from 6:30 - 8PM and take place at IRWAG Seminar Room (754 Schermerhorn Extension)
Tuesday, Feb 2nd
Nancy K. Miller, CUNY Graduate Center
Works-In-Progress on "Rites of Return,"" I Found My Family in a Drawer,"
and the contribution to the volume,
"Kishinev Redux: Pogrom, Purim, Patrimony"
Also Marianne Hirsch and Nancy K. Miller
Draft Introduction to their co-edited volume
Rites of Return (forthcoming, Columbia University
Press, Gender and Culture Series)
Tuesday, March 9th, 7:45pm
"Postcolonial Witnessing: The Trauma of Empire,
the Empire of Trauma"
Stef Craps, Visiting scholar
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
Ghent University
758 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
Thursday, April 15th, 4pm
A presentation and discussion with
Ann Cvetkovich on Depression and Public Feelings
IRWAG Seminar Room, 754 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
Fall 2009
Leda Martins
Performances of Spiral Time
Monday, November 23rd, 2009, 7:30 PM
Location: 754 Schermerhorn Extension
Reading: "Performances of Spiral Time"
Michael Rothberg
Mapping Multidirectional Memory: Politics Between Past and Present
Monday, September 14, 8:00 PM
Deutsches Haus at Columbia University, 420 West 116th Street
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