the columbia
university seminar on
TWENTIETH
CENTURY POLITICS AND SOCIETY
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Events
take place Tuesdays or Wednesdays in the Columbia University Faculty
House from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, followed by an optional dinner.
Oct.
7
THE
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, 1919-1950: SOME BASIC
ARGUMENTS
Mark
Lewis (College of Staten Island, CUNY)
Oct.
21
UMPIRE
OR EMPIRE? AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS IN WORLD
HISTORY
Elizabeth
Cobbs Hoffman (San Diego State University)
Nov.
11
CONSCRIPTION
AGAINST COMMUNISM: THE COLD WAR DRAFT AND THE ENDS OF BIG GOVERNMENT
Jeremy
K. Kessler (Columbia Law School)
Dec.
2
GLOBAL
THERMIDOR: THE RECESSION OF 1920-1921 AND THE MAKING OF THE INTERWAR ORDER
Adam
Tooze (Yale University)
Feb.
10
STALIN:
TERROR AND FOREIGN POLICY
Stephen
Kotkin (Princeton University)
Feb.
24
JIMMY
CARTER, THE PALESTINIANS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Craig
Daigle (City College of New York)
Mar.
10
DIVERGING
PATHS: MODERNITY, CAPITALISM AND THE FUTURE OF LIBERAL AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES
Wallace
Katz (Stony Brook University)
Mar.
31
THE
FACULTY’S SIXTIES: PROFESSORS AND POLITICS, 1960-1975
Ellen
Schrecker (Yeshiva University)
Apr.
21
THE
INTELLIGENCE OF DESIRE: COLD WAR AND REVOLUTION IN THE INTERROGATION ROOMS OF
THE KOREAN WAR
Monica
Kim (New York University)