Seminar Acceptance Lists Posted

The seminar acceptance and waiting lists are now posted on the History Department website here. If you wish to decline your place in a class or on a waiting list, please email Eleanor ASAP so that she can give your spot to another student. Classes that are listed as OPEN will be accepting late applications. Please contact the professor directly. If you gain admission to a seminar after the fact, please contact Eleanor ASAP so that she can register you. Students cannot register themselves for seminars. If your name is on an acceptance list, Eleanor will handle your registration automatically. Please let her know if you are planning on dropping a class.

Otherwise, enjoy your classes!

Asia Redux: Conceptualizing the Region for Our Times

Columbia University, Department of History
The Dr. S.T. Lee Lecture in History

Asia Redux: Conceptualizing the Region for Our Times

Professor Prasenjit Duara
Raffles Professor of Humanities, National University of Singapore

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2009
6:00-7:30 PM

Kellogg Center, 1501 International Affairs Building

Former Chair of History at the University of Chicago and author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China, Duara will speak on the idea of Asia as a geopolitical unity from the 19th to the 21st centuries and the uses and limits of the idea of regionalism in our global times.

Capitalism, Crisis and Politics

Come Tuesday, March 31st, at 7:30 to 109 Havemeyer and join Columbia professors, Eric Foner, Alan Brinkley, Joseph Stiglitz, Carl Wennerlind as well as Robin Blackburn of the New School for a discussion of the current economic crisis in a historical perspective.

Information Session on New Masters Program in Regional Studies; Latin America and the Caribbean

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 19th, 2:30 pm- 4:00pm

Location: International Affairs Room 802

Information on an interdisciplinary M.A. degree program that provides a broad social-science based approach to modern and contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Application Deadline: April 1st, 2009 for the fall semester

for more information contact marslac@columbia.edu or visit http://ilas.columbia.edu/marslac 

Genocide, Refugees and the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Messages for the 21st Century

Speakers include Francis Deng, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General on Genocide Prevention; Brian Hook, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs for the US State Department; Sally Frishberg of the Museum of Jewish Heritage; Brian Gorlick, Senior Policy Adviser for the Office of the UN High Commission on Refugees; and Olivia Bueno, Associative Director of the International Refugee Rights Initiative.

6:30- 8:30 pm, Center for Jewish History, 15th West 16th Street

Free Admission but RSVP required- rebecca.tobin@touro.edu 

The Secular Age on a Global Context

Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus at McGill University and author of "A Secular Age," will speak.

8:00 pm, Nov. 19th, Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center

A Genealogy of Liberty

Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge will speak

6:15 pm, Nov. 18th, Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center