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NYU Lectures in the Humanities, Great New Books in the Humanities Series by NYU Faculty, Panel Discussions, and Workshops Go to 2010 - 2011 2010 – 2011: May 7, 2011, all day – "Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry", symposium (part of the annual festival with NYIH). April 29, 2011, all day – “Who & What are Universities For?”, a series of three panel discussions, with speakers Simon Head (NYU; Oxford), Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva), Andrew Hacker (Queens College), Andrew Delbanco (Columbia), Jane Tylus (NYU), Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Peter Brooks (Princeton), Nicholas Lemann (Columbia), and Diane Ravitch (NYU), and moderators Bill Bradley (Princeton), Robert Silvers (The New York Review of Books), and Alan Ryan (Oxford; Princeton). April 22, all day – “Theorizing Sound Writing”, a symposium, with speakers Anne Rasmussen (William & Mary), Martin Scherzinger (NYU), David Henderson (St. Lawrence), Tomie Hahn (Rensselaer Polytechnic), and Deborah Wong (UC-Riverdale). April 20, 2011, 5 pm – A book launch symposium for Jhootha Sach/This Is Not that Dawn, translated by Anand, with Toral Gajarawala (NYU), Bilal Hashmi (NYU), Christi Merrill (U of Michigan), and Daisy Rockwell (Dartmouth). April 14, 2011, 4 pm – “Covering the Civil Rights Movement: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia - 1961”, a talk by Calvin Trillin (The New Yorker). April 7, 6 pm – “Scholarly Communications and the Digital Humanities”, a panel with Alexander Provan (editor, Triple Canopy), Dan Cohen (George Mason University), and Anna McCarthy (NYU). April 6, 2011, 6:30 pm – “Comments on the Critical Edition of Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Conquistata”, by Claudio Gigante (Université Libre de Bruxelles). April 5, 2011, 6 pm – “The Political Origins of the History Play”, a lecture by Peter Lake (Vanderbilt). April 1, 2011, 2 pm – “What You Can Do with a Ph.D. in the Humanities?”, a panel discussion with Lisa Duffy-Zeballos (International Foundation for Art Research), Claire Fowler (Princeton), Deborah Gaines (Editorial Consultant), Michael Shae (The New York Review of Books), David Speedle (Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs), and Lisa Waller (The Dalton School). March 30, 2011, 6 pm – “Descartes the Medical Philosopher”, a lecture by Gideon Manning (Cal Tech). March 23, 2011, 5:30 pm – A lecture to celebrate the publication of Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, by Clare Cavanagh (Northwestern). March 22, 2011, 5 pm – A lecture celebrating the book launch for Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City, by Carla Peterson (U Maryland, College Park). February 24, 2011, 5 pm – A panel to celebrate the book launch for Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological-Political Thought, by Michah Gottlieb (NYU), with speakers Don Garrett (NYU), Alfred Ivry (NYU), and Samuel Moyn (Columbia). February 22, 2011, 5 pm – “The Atlantic World Medical Complex: The Circulation of Knowledge”, an Anson G. Phelps lecture by Londa Schiebinger (Stanford). February 17, 2011, 12:30 pm – “Why Digital Humanities?”, panel discussion with Kathleen Fitzpatrick (NYU Visiting Scholar & Humanities Initiative Honorary Faculty Research Fellow), Deena Engel (NYU), Michael Stoller (NYU), and Diana Taylor (NYU). February 16, 2011, 5 pm – “Writing Fashion, From Books to Blogs”, a panel to celebrate the publication of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (NYU), with participants Minh-Ha T. Pham (founder, Threadbare) and Eugenia Paulicelli (CUNY Grad Center). February 15, 2011, 6 pm – Book launch for Complete Poems of Gaspara Stampa, translated and edited by Jane Tylus (NYU) and Troy Tower (Johns Hopkins), with participants Virginia Cox (NYU) and Martha Feldman (U Chicago), and readings and performances of Stampa’s poems. December 2, 5 pm – Book launch for The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence, by Susie Linfield (NYU). November 22, 6:30 pm – “The Fate of ‘Trans-‘”, a panel with François Noudelmann (Université de Paris VIII), Emily Apter (NYU), Manthia Diawara (NYU), Denis Hollier (NYU), Shireen Patell (NYU), Avital Ronell (NYU), and Jane Tylus (NYU). November 19-20, 2010 – “How America Invented the Humanities”, a lecture by Geoffrey Harpham (National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC), with discussant John Guillory (NYU). “Ambiance in the Humanities: Translating New Surroundings into New Poetics”, organized by Humanities Initiative Graduate Student Fellows Elena Bellina and John Melillo. November 18, 5 pm – A lecture celebrating the book launch for Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present, by W.J.T. Mitchell (U Chicago). October 28, 2010, 4:30- 7:00 pm – Book launch for Climate Ethics: Essential Readings, co-edited by Dale Jamieson (NYU), Stephen Gardiner (U of Washington), Simon Caney (Oxford), and Henry Shue (Oxford); moderated by Richard Stewart (NYU). October 20, 2010, 5-7 pm – Book launch for Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic, by Jacques Lezra (NYU), with participant Etienne Balibar (Paris – Nanterre). October 12, 2010, 5-7 pm – A roundtable celebrating the book launch for Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, edited by Jordana Mendelson (NYU) and David Prochaska (Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Folk Photography: the American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-1930, by Luc Sante (Bard). October 5, 2010, 6 pm – “Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo’s Cave: Vasari’s Lives of the Artists and the Erotics of Obscene Connoisseurship”, a lecture by Harry Berger, Jr. (UC-Santa Cruz), with participant Patricia Rubin (IFA). September 28, 2010, 5-7 pm – “Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea”, a lecture by Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, U London). Organized by Alex Galloway (NYU). September 23-25, 2010 – The Politics and Poetics of Refugees: An Interdisciplinary Symposium at New York University, organized by Crystal Parikh (NYU Departments of Social and Cultural Analysis and English & Humanities Initiative Faculty Research Fellow). September 22, 2010, 5-7 pm – Book launch for Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety, by Marion Nestle (NYU). September 16, 2010, 5 pm – Book launch for Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick (NYU Visiting Professor and Humanities Initiative Honorary Faculty Research Fellow).
2009 – 2010: May 10, 2010, 6pm – Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference – A book launch for Jane Burbank (NYU) and Fred Cooper (NYU) April 26, 2010, 6pm – The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education – Diane Ravitch, formerly of the US Department of Education, will discuss her new book April 20, 2010, 6pm – “Poetry, Violence, and War: An Interdisciplinary Conversation” – Organized by Humanities Initiative Fellows April 13, 2010, 6pm – “Drawing and Dissection: Ways of Understanding the Human Body” – A conversation with Laura Ferguson (artist-in-residence at NYU School of Medicine) and Bill Hayes (author of The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy) March 27, 2010, 12pm – “…for example,” Poetics & Theory Workshop on Exemplarity – A workshop sponsored by the Certificate in Poetics and Theory with support from the Humanities Initiative March 24, 2010, 5:30pm – “A Discipline of Tolerance: Literature, Spirituality, and Contemporary Cosmopolitics” – A lecture by Rey Chow, co-sponsored by Gallatin March 22, 2010, 6pm – Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion – A book launch for Penny Johnson (NYU) March 9, 2010, 6pm – “The Language of Medicine: Doctors and Patients” – A joint book launch for Danielle Ofri (NYU School of Medicine), author of Medicine in Translation: Journeys with My Patients, and Charles Bardes (Weill Cornell Medical College), author of Pale Faces: Masks of Anemia March 4, 2010, 6pm – “Using Civility in a Fractured Society” – A lecture by Jim Leach, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities March 4, 2010, 12pm – “Grants in the Humanities” – A workshop co-sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence and GSAS February 25, 2010, 5pm – The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America – A book launch for Kathleen Gerson (NYU). Co-sponsored by the Humanities Initiative and CAS. February 18, 2010, 6pm – Sacred Violence: The European Crusades to the Middle East 1095-1396 – A book launch for Jill Claster (NYU). Co-sponsored by the Humanities Initiative and CAS. February 16, 2010, 6pm – Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy and the Integrity of Social Life – A book launch for Helen Nissenbaum (NYU) February 9, 2010, 6pm – “Thinking Through Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation” – A roundtable discussion organized by Humanities Initiative Fellows December 15, 2009, 6pm – A book launch and discussion in honor of the publication of About Face: Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts, edited by Lindsay Eufusia (NYU), Elena Bellina (Humanities Initiative Graduate Student Fellow), and Paola Ugolini (NYU) December 1, 2009, 6pm– An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent US Literatures and Cultures – A book launch for Crystal Parikh (NYU) November 17, 2009, 6pm – The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance and Democracy’s Future – A book launch for Carol Gilligan (NYU School of Law) and David A.J. Richards (NYU School of Law) October 29, 2009, 5:30pm – “Wayward Lives and the Motion of History” – A lecture by Saidiya Hartman (Columbia) October 27, 2009, 5:30pm - Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits – A book launch for Linda Gordon (NYU) October 19, 2009, 6pm – “Free Speech? Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics” – A lecture by Anthony Cascardi (UC Berkeley) September 23, 2009, 5:30pm – Grant Writing for Graduate Students in the Humanities – A panel discussion co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Science September 17, 2009, 6pm – “Anti-Democratic Voices in Ancient Greece and Rome (and their Legacies)” – A lecture by Janet Coleman (London School of Economics) September 15, 2009, 6pm – "The Modern Language Initiative: A Panel" – A presentation of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s new program in linguistic cultural productions 2008 – 2009: April 21, 2009, 6pm - We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU, 2009) - a book launch for Hasia R. Diner, Professor, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Department of History, FAS; 2008-09 Humanities Initiative Faculty Research Fellow April 20, 2009, 6pm - Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others (Chicago 2009) - a book launch for Jane Tylus, Professor, Department of Italian Studies (NYU); Humanities Initiative Faculty Director March 10, 2009, 4pm – “The Challenge of the Humanities in the Post-Soviet Era in the U.S. and Abroad” with Nancy Condee Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh; Co-sponsored by the Liberal Studies Program March 3, 2009, 6pm - The Sopranos (Duke University Press, 2009) - a book launch for Dana Polan, Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts February 19, 2009, 6 pm – “Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo: The Perfection of Form” (In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Vertigo) with Richard Allen Professor and Chair, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch; Co-sponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch February 5, 2009, 5pm - Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W. W. Norton, 2009) - a book launch for Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study; 2008-09 Humanities Initiative Faculty Fellow January 28, 2009, 4pm – “The Personal and the Global: W.E.B. DuBois and the Transnational Politics of Whiteness” – with Marilyn Lake, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at La Trobe University; Co-sponsored by the Department of History, FAS November 17, 2008, 4:30pm – “Word and Image in the Philosophy of Hobbes” – Quentin Skinner, with Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary College, University of London; Co-sponsored by the Department of History, FAS November 5, 2008, 5pm – “Belonging to Britain” – Hazel Carby, with Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley, Professor of African American Studies, Yale University; Co-sponsored by the Gallatin School of Individualized Study October 29, 2008, 6pm – “Is Film a Modern Art” with Francesco Casetti, Professor of Film in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Università Cattolica, Visiting Professor, Yale University; Co-sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, FAS, and the Department of Cinema Studies, TSOA
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