the columbia
university seminar on
TWENTIETH
CENTURY POLITICS AND SOCIETY
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2013-14
Sept.
26
FREE
MEN, HYGIENIC HOMES, AND MODERN MIGRATION: THE RACIAL REVERBERATIONS OF
PUERTO RICAN POPULISM, 1935-1950
Eileen
Suarez Findlay (American University)
Oct.
23
"THE
WHIP HAND": SOVEREIGNTY, ANTI-COLONIALISM, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW, 1950-1971
Christopher
Dietrich (Fordham University)
Dec.
4
SECRECY
AND THE SOVIET STATE: TOWARD A SOCIAL MAP OF KNOWLEDGE
Asif
Siddiqi (Fordham University)
Feb.
6
FINDING
THEIR VOICE: MOBILIZING IMMIGRANT VOTERS IN THE 2012 ELECTION
Heath Brown (Seton Hall)
Mar.
11
THE
POLITICAL ORIGINS OF GLOBAL JUSTICE
Samuel Moyn (Columbia University)
Apr.
24
THE
EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW: LIEBER TO GUANTANAMO
David
Crowe (Elon University)
2012-13
Sept.
13
WHEN
EMPIRE STOPPED WORKING: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE SEARCH FOR A NEW
COLONIAL SETTLEMENT IN THE 1930S
Susan
Pedersen (Columbia University)
A
20TH (AND 21ST) CENTURY PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL: NOAM CHOMSKY ON AMERICA AND THE
WORLD
Tony
Greco (Columbia University)
Nov.
15
HOW
EXCEPTIONAL IS NEW YORK AS AN IMMIGRANT CITY?
Nancy
Foner (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY)
Feb.
7
GEOPOLITICAL
PERSPECTIVES ON WARTIME JAPAN: THE TRIPARTITE PACT AND THE “GREATER EAST ASIA
CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE”
Janis
Mimura (Stony Brook, SUNY)
Mar.
28
CLOCKS,
CALENDARS, AND CONVERSION CHARTS: THE MANY WORLDS OF UNIFIED TIME, 1880-1930
Vanessa
Ogle (University of Pennsylvania)
Apr.
17
THE
UNITED STATES AS A DISHONEST BROKER OVER PALESTINE
Rashid
Khalidi (Columbia University)
2011-12
Sept.
22
RONALD REAGAN IN IRELAND, 1984: A DIFFERENT COLD WAR?
Van
Gosse (Franklin and Marshall College)
Oct.
27
JUSTIFYING THE POLICE STATE: PROSECUTING NAZIS AND LEGITIMATING INFORMERS IN SOVIET-OCCUPIED GERMANY
Devin
Pendas (Boston College)
Nov.
16
FACING LEONID BREZHNEV AND EACH OTHER DURING THE HIGH ERA OF DETENTE: NIXON, BRANDT, AND MEIR, 1969-1974
Carole
Fink (The Ohio State University)
Dec.
8
HENRY KISSINGER, AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL AND COLD WARRIOR
Mario
Del Pero (University of Bologna)
Jan.
25
THE PIVOT OF THE WORLD: U.S. POWER AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1940S
Daniel
Immerwahr (Northwestern University)
Feb.
9
'VICTOR'S JUSTICE' AS 'JEWISH REVENGE': THE MALMEDY MASSACRE TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH
Stephen
Remy (Brooklyn College)
Mar.
1
POLITICS OF SURVIVAL: NORTH KOREA AND THE 'COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM'
Charles
Armstrong (Columbia University)
Apr.
5
ACADEMIC INTELLECT AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE: THE CASE OF HISTORIANS IN PUBLIC
Thomas
Bender (New York University)
2010-11
Sept.
21
REFLECTIONS ON FRENCH DECOLONIZATION, 1945-1962
Irwin
Wall (University
of California Riverside, New York University)
Nov.
4
OPPORTUNISTIC KILLINGS AND PLUNDER OF JEWS BY THEIR NEIGHBORS: A NORM OR AN EXCEPTION IN GERMAN-OCCUPIED EUROPE?
Jan
Gross (Princeton
University)
Feb.
3
BETWEEN ANTIFASCISM AND ANTITOTALITARIANISM: EUROPEAN INTELLECTUALS ON NATIONAL SOCIALISM
Samuel
Moyn (Columbia
University)
Mar.
9
'TOO MANY BALINESE': CONTROLLING POPULATION, RICE, AND MIGRATION DURING SUHARTO'S NEW ORDER
Brad
Simpson
(Princeton University)
Mar.
31
NECESSARY WARS OF CHOICE
Marilyn
Young (New York University)
Apr. 21
THE IDEA OF AN AMERICAN CENTURY
Alan
Brinkley
(Columbia University)
2009-10
Oct. 15
ALIEN NEIGHBORS, FOREIGN FRIENDS: ASIAN AMERICANS, HOUSING,
AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF URBAN CALIFORNIA
Charlotte
Brooks
(Baruch College, CUNY)
Nov. 17
FEAR ITSELF: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY FROM NEW DEAL TO COLD WAR
Ira
Katznelson (Columbia University)
Dec. 3
DEMOCRATIC RENEWAL AND THE RULE OF EXPERTS IN FRANCE AFTER WORLD WAR II
Herrick
Chapmann
(New York University)
Feb. 25
COMMUNISM'S COLLAPSE: GEOPOLITICS, INTERNAL INSTITUTIONS, HISTORY
Stephen
Kotkin
(Princeton University)
Mar. 11
FACTORIES V. FINANCE: JIMMY CARTER, PAUL VOLCKER AND THE 1970S INFLATION
Judith
Stein (City
College/The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Apr. 22
DEBATING THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS DURING THE COLD WAR, 1945-1965
Volker
Berghahn
(Columbia University)
2007-08
Sept.
26
THE FUEHRER’S PREVENTIVE MEASURES?
THE GERMAN INVASION OF SOVIET UNION, PREVENTIVE WAR PROPAGANDA, AND THE
POLITICS OF HISTORY
Thomas
Heinrich (
Oct.
22
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY: POLITICAL
RESISTANCE AND THE ETHIC OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Diana
Judd (
Dec.
10
AUSTRIAN NEUTRALITY AND EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION, 1955-2007
Siegfried
Beer (
Jan.
31
WARRIORS OF THE NEW AGE
Bonnie
Smith (
2006-07
Sept. 18
PARIS: CAPITAL OF ANTIFASCISM
Anson Rabinbach
(
Nov. 28
THE BIRTH OF NEOLIBERALISM IN THE
UNITED STATES IN THE 1970S
Judith Stein
(City College/The
Graduate Center, CUNY)
Dec. 13
MURDER, BOTCHED ABORTIONS AND
MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Douglas Morris (Federal Defenders of New York, Inc.)
Feb. 6
POLICING PARIS: THE ORIGINS OF
MODERN IMMIGRATION CONTROL BETWEEN THE WARS
Clifford Rosenberg
(City College, CUNY)
Mar. 26
SO WHAT WAS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY
AUTHORITY?
Sarah Phillips
(
Apr. 24
THE ECLIPSE OF THE ECONOMIC
EGALITARIAN TRADITION IN AMERICA
Michael Thompson
(
2005-06
Sept. 27
REFUGEES WHO RETURNED TO EAST
GERMANY FROM WEST GERMANY
Mario Kessler (Yeshiva
University)
Oct. 25
TIMES SQUARE: 100 YEARS OF SPECTACLE
Marshall Berman (CUNY)
Nov. 29
THE THIRD SHOT: ENDING THE FIRST
NUCLEAR WAR, AUGUST 1945
Michael Gordin (Princeton
University)
Feb. 23
THE EMPIRE’S TWO CAPITALS: MUSLIM
SPACE AND THE SECULAR STATE IN PARIS AND ALGIERS, 1905-1940
James McDougall (Princeton
University)
Mar. 27
ZIONISM IN THE EARLY BOLSHEVIK
STATE: BETWEEN LEGALITY AND PERSECUTION
Ziva Galili (
May 1
BRITISH WAR FACTORIES: WHAT THEY
TELL US ABOUT CLASS, GENDER, AND LEISURE IN 1940S BRITAIN
Geoffrey Field (Purchase, SUNY)
2004-05
Nov. 22
LAW AND MESSIANIC COUNTERWAR FROM
FDR TO GEORGE W. BUSH
Anders
Stephanson (
Dec. 9
WHY DID THEY TRASH MCDONALD’S: FRENCH RESISTANCE TO NEO-LIBERAL
GLOBALIZATION
Herman
Lebovics (Stony
Brook, SUNY)
Feb. 16
FIORELLO LA GUARDIA AND THE LEFT
Gerald Meyer (Hostos
Mar. 2
THE UNITED STATES AND TWO
OSTPOLITIKS: DE GAULLE AND WILLY BRANDT
Irwin
Wall (University
of
Apr. 11
GERMANS FROM RUSSIA: THE POLITICAL
NETWORK OF A DOUBLE DIASPORA
Renate Bridenthal
(Brooklyn
College and The Graduate Center, CUNY)