Peter Galison is Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of History at Harvard University. He is editor (along with Gerald Holton and Silvan S. Schweberauthor) of Einstein for the 21st Century (Princeton University Press, 2008).

Professor Galison's talk on the Ethical-Political Economy of Nuclear Waste is part of the ongoing series "Bringing Back Political Economy: Europe, Ground Zero" co-sponsored by the Blinken European Institute and the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Deborah Coen, Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College will serve as commentator and Michele Alacevich, Associate Research Scholar at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, will chair.

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Schedule

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Coffee, 10:00


Morning session, 10:15-12:30

• Introduction
Michele Alacevich, Columbia University

• Economic Development, Theory and Practice, in South Asia in the 1950s and 1960s”
George Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago

• “Networking the Three Worlds of the Cold War: Flows of International Economic Expertise and the Rise of Indian Economics”
David Engerman, Brandeis University

• “The Consensus School of Development History”
Daniel Immerwahr, Columbia University

Discussant: Michael E. Latham, Fordham University


Lunch break, 12:30-2:00


Afternoon session, 2:00-4:00

• “Sir E. John Russell, Rothamsted and International Agriculture”
Joseph Hodge, West Virginia University

• “Cold War Anti-Poverty Programs and Economic Thought in Colombia and the US”
Amy Offner, Columbia University

• “The Fracturing of Development Theory and the Rise of Human Rights in the 1970s”
Bradley Simpson, Princeton University

Discussant: TBA


Conference Organizer: Michele Alacevich, Columbia University

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Jelle Visser is Chair of Sociology of Labour and Organization at the University of Amsterdam. Professor Visser's talk on "European Labor Relations, the Euro, and State Intervention: The Decentralization Paradox" is part of the ongoing series "Bringing Back Political Economy: Europe, Ground Zero" co-sponsored by the Blinken European Institute and the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Michele Alacevich, Associate Research Scholar at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, will chair.

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This conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students working on literature, culture, politics, geography, history, media and film, art, philosophy, and history of intellectualism in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.

Please visit the conference website for more details.

This event on debt is a part of the Heyman Center's ongoing "Money Series." The panel will include David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Greta Kippner, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, and Louis Hyman, Assistant Professor of History at Cornell University. Moderating will be Peter Goodman, Business Editor at the Huffington Post and Daniel Immerwahr, Post-doctoral Research Scholar at the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought.

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This panel discussion will feature Frederick Cooper, Professor of History at New York University, David Engerman, Professor of History at Brandeis University, and Julian Go, Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Daniel Immerwahr, Post-doctoral Research Scholar at the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, will moderate.

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought.

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Philippe Fargues is Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration at the European University Institute. Professor Fargues's talk on "High Immigration, Demographic Decline and Identity: Tensions in the EU's Vision of its Future" is part of the ongoing series "Bringing Back Political Economy: Europe, Ground Zero" co-sponsored by the Blinken European Institute and the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Emmanuelle Saada, Associate Professor of French and Romance Philology, will serve as commentator. Michele Alacevich, Associate Research Scholar at the Heyman Center for the Humanities, will chair.

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Please note new date and location.

This installment of the Heyman Center's "Money Series," features Gillian Tett, US managing editor and an assistant editor of the Financial Times.

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Novelist Benjamin Markovits, author, most recently, of Childish Loves (2011), the culmination of his acclaimed cycle of Lord Byron novels, will speak as part of the Heyman Center's Writing Lives series. Critic and author Julie Salamon will serve as discussant.

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The annual History and Theory Lecture will feature Rosalind O'Hanlon, Professor in Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford. Professor O'Hanlon will speak on "Personal Histories, Professional Lives: Scribal Cultures in Early Modern India."

Co-sponsored by Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History

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This conference on "OSS, Intelligence, and Knowledge of the World" will feature Peter Mander, University of Cambridge; Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania; Osamah Khalil, Syracuse University; David Engerman, Harvard University; David Price, St. Martin's University; Priya Satia, Stanford University; Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania; and Mark Mazower, Columbia University.

More details to follow.

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More details forthcoming.

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Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

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Details on conference speakers and schedule forthcoming.

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This workshop will feature Anthony Cascardi, University of California, Berkeley; Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge; James Chandler, University of Chicago; Elizabeth Sawyer, University of Oxford; Andrew Jewett, Harvard University; Robert Thomas, Columbia University; Daniel Immerwahr, Columbia University; and Donald Levine, University of Chicago.

Additional details and schedule forthcoming.

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In an era of emerging social protests and revolutions the world over, the conference will reflect the late professor’s emphasis on history and social analysis as ways of illuminating national and global socio-economic crises and their underlying causes. Dr. Marable’s work emphasized the union of scholarly analysis and grassroots activism as a central project of progressive social transformation. The conference seeks to bring together scholars, students, activists, teachers, artists, social workers, community residents and others for a series of democratic conversations about the task of creating a more equitable and just world.

The political spirit of the conference reflects Dr. Marable’s materialist critique of racism (past and present), imperialism, war, and capitalist exploitation, as well as his commitment to the black radical tradition; transnational liberation movements; human rights; environmental justice; radical democracy; solidarity and common cause among—and comparative analysis of—the struggles of oppressed and colonized people around the world; workers; women; the poor; people of color; gays and lesbians; immigrants; and prisoners. The conference seeks to generate new energy, analysis, ideas and initiatives that creatively address and engage the social problems that Dr. Marable’s work addressed, especially the ongoing crisis of structural racism in national and global political economies.

For more information, visit the conference page.

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Co-sponsored by:
The Schomburg Center
The Institute for Research on African American Studies
the Heyman Center
The Department of History

The Spring 2012 Lionel Trilling Seminar will feature Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, and author, most recently, of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009). He will speak on "Changing Places: From the Reign of the Novel to the Rise of Film Culture in Post-War America." Responding will be Mark Greif, Assistant professor of Literary Studies at the New School, and Maria DiBattista, Professor of English at Princeton University.

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