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2 Report from the Chair

4 Governing Board

5 Fellows-in-Residence 2008–2009

15 Thirty-Fourth Annual Fellowship Competition

17 Programs 2008–2009

16 Alumni Fellows News

45 Alumni Fellows

60 Contact Information

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In 2008-2009 the Society of Fellows contin-ued to build on its longstanding record ofexcellence in attracting and nurturing out-standing postdoctoral Fellows.

The Society received 728 applications for itsFellowships to begin in July 2009, a numberthat once again sets a new record. After aninitial round of vetting by potential hostdepartments and a second round of readingsby Fellows and Board members, theGoverning Board selected fifteen candidatesfor interview. From this pool of finalists fourwere invited to join the Society in 2009, allfour of whom will be in residence at theSociety in 2009-2010. Our perfect yield in2009 continues a trend that has become well-established over the past four years, when sev-enteen of our nineteen offers were accepted.Moreover, most of the incoming Fellows dur-ing that period either declined or postponedcompeting offers in order join the Society. Inshort, our applicant pool is large and strong:we have culled the very strongest candidatesfrom that pool to appear as finalists in thecompetition, and our Fellowship offers areaccepted at a very high rate.

The record of intellectual events and accom-plishments for 2008-2009 is also strong. Allthe resident Fellows presented papers duringthe Thursday lunchtime series, drawing animpressive array of specialists in their respec-tive fields and stimulating exchanges at a highlevel. In the spring semester a series of invitedspeakers focused on a set of issues related tointellectual property. This series, too, gener-ated some of the most productive conversa-

tions on the Columbia campus and attractedan array of scholars from a variety of academ-ic departments and institutions around thecity. In continuation of last year’s initiative tointegrate the Fellows more fully into theirhost departments, the Society funded fiveconferences or workshops this year, whichwere organized by at least one Fellow and onefaculty member and are described elsewherein this report. In addition, the Society spon-sored or co-sponsored several additional aca-demic events.

Four of the resident Fellows will have left theSociety by the time you read this report.Sarah Jacoby is joining the ReligionDepartment at Northwestern University as anassistant professor, and Andrey Shcherbenokhas accepted a multi-year research fellowshipat the University of Sheffield in England.Will Slauter moves to the History faculty atFlorida State University, and Michael Allanjoins the Comparative Literature faculty atthe University of Oregon. We will welcomefour new Fellows: Jennifer Nash (HarvardPh.D., 2009), Hagar Kotef (Tel Aviv Ph.D.,2009), Adam Smith (UCLA Ph.D., 2008), andJohn Lombardini (Princeton Ph.D., 2009).Altogether, the Society will be host to threeFellows in their third year, one in his secondyear, and four in their first year.

The Society remains in good financial healthdespite the economic crisis and the sharpdownturn in the value of its endowment thatoccurred in 2008-2009. While the payoutfrom the endowment will decline by 8 percentin 2009-2010 and is likely to decline by a sim-

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ilar percentage in each of the next two years,we will have more than ample funds to main-tain the Society at eight postdoctoralFellowships each year together with adequatefunds for the lunchtime lecture series, confer-ences, and other events. Indeed, with supportfrom the Vice President for Arts and Scienceswe have initiated a process that we hope willlead to the raising of funds for at least one andpossibly more than one Senior Fellowshipthat would be filled each year by a scholar ofnote, an arrangement that would greatlyenrich the intellectual life of the Society andits postdoctoral Fellows.

In the summer of 2008, the Society completedfurnishing a new lounge, which now serves asa common room for the Fellows as well as aspace for meetings and conference receptions.The Society will fund further improvementsto the physical plant of the Heyman Center inthe summer of 2009, with plans to replace car-peting and repaint the Fellows’ offices and thepublic walls throughout much of the building.

Eileen Gillooly, the Associate Director of theSociety of Fellows and the Heyman Center,will be on leave for most of 2009-2010. Shewas one of thirty-three scholars awarded aresidential fellowship by the NationalHumanities Center (located in ResearchTriangle, NC). While there, she will work oncompleting her book project, “AnxiousAffection: Parental Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Britain.” Although sheplans to visit us a few times during the year,she will not return to her full duties asAssociate Director until the summer of 2010.

We congratulate her on her award, wish her aproductive leave year, and look forward to herreturn.

I, too, will be on leave for the academic year2009-2010, with the expectation that I willreturn to serve one more year after my leaveis concluded. For the period of my leave,Patricia Grieve of the Department of Spanishand Portuguese has graciously agreed to serveas Director of the Society of Fellows andChair of its Governing Board. I expect thatunder her leadership the Society will enjoyanother outstanding year of intellectual activi-ty and productivity. I encourage you to takean interest in the Society during the comingyear, to attend its Thursday lunchtime talks asoften as you are able, and to offer Pat yourfull support whenever an opportunity for thatoccurs.

David JohnstonChair and Director

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SOF Chair and Director David Johnston andAssociate Director Eileen Gillooly

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Zainab BahraniArt History and Archaeology

Akeel Bilgrami (ex-officio)Philosophy

Christopher BrownHistory

Jenny DavidsonEnglish

Patricia Grieve (ex-officio)Spanish and Portuguese

David C. Johnston, Chair/DirectorPolitical Science

Adam KostoHistory

Elisabeth LadensonFrench

Claudio LomnitzAnthropology

Molly MurrayEnglish and Comparative Literature

Sheldon PollockMiddle East and Asian Languages andCultures

Melissa SchwartzbergPolitical Science

Elaine SismanMusic

Michael Stanislawski (ex-officio)History

Mark TaylorReligion

Gareth Williams (ex-officio)Classics

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Michael Allan, 2008-2009 University of California, Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature,Ph.D., 2008The Limits of Secular Criticism: WorldLiterature at the Crossroads of Empire

Michael Allan’s research focuses on film andliterature in the Middle East and Africa (inArabic, French, and Kiswahili), and drawsfrom postcolonial studies, literary theory,anthropology, and religious studies. As afirst year Fellow, he worked extensively onhis book manuscript, “Inventing WorldLiterature,” which addresses the formationof modern reading practices and the gover-nance of literacy in colonial Egypt. He sig-nificantly revised a chapter on the receptionof Darwin in the Arabic novel and draftednew chapters on the literary public in thework of Taha Husayn, and on enchantmentin Naguib Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley[Awlad Haratina].

During the summer of 2008, Dr. Allan pub-lished “Deserted Histories: The LumièreBrothers in Egypt,” as part of a special issueof Early Popular Visual Culture. His articleanalyzes a fifty-second film shot in 1896 atthe pyramids in Egypt and considers the filmalongside a lithograph by David Roberts,André Bazin’s “The Ontology of thePhotographic Image,” and Alfred NorthWhitehead’s theory of the event. In the sameissue and in collaboration with MohamedTalaat, Dr. Allan translated“TheCimenatograph [sic],” an article on early cin-ema that initially appeared in July 1903 inthe Arabic journal al-Muqtataf. This sum-mer, he will be returning to Cairo forresearch on literary curricula at Dar al-Ulum

and the Egyptian University (now CairoUniversity). In mid-June, he will deliver apaper on the close-up in Palestinian cinema,at a conference in Oslo, Norway, entitled “15Years After Oslo: What Now for the MiddleEast?”

Dr. Allan gave several presentations based onhis current research during the academicyear. In December, he delivered a talk on“The Secular Bonds of World Literature:André Gide, Taha Husayn, and the LiteraryImagination of Religious Difference” at theModern Language Association meeting inSan Francisco. In March, he presented“Provincial Cosmopolitanism: Literary

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Bonds in Taha Husayn’s A Man of Letters[Adib]” at the American ComparativeLiterature Association meeting at HarvardUniversity.

He also enjoyed collaborations and opportu-nities made possible by his year at Columbia.During the fall semester, he was a guestspeaker in a course on Middle East andNorth African literature taught by ProfessorIrene Siegel at Hofstra University. In thespring semester, he participated in a facultyseminar on Secular Space/Religious Spaceorganized by Reinhold Martin through theBuell Center and the Institute for Religion,Culture, and Public Life. He also taughtLiterature Humanities in the fall and a semi-nar, “Secularism and Its Critics,” cross-listedbetween Comparative Literature andMEALAC, in the spring.

Dr. Allan is delighted to be joining the facul-ty in Comparative Literature at theUniversity of Oregon this upcoming year.

Joshua Dubler, 2008-2011Princeton University, Department ofReligion, Ph.D., 2008Seven Days of Penitentiary Life: anEthnographic Study of the Chapel atPennsylvania’s Graterford Prison

As a first year Fellow, Joshua Dubler taughttwo semesters of Contemporary Civilization,which he enjoyed tremendously. He alsodelivered papers at the University ofPennsylvania, Georgia State University, andthe University of Maryland, as well as twopapers at Columbia University’s Departmentof Religion. Dr. Dubler spoke on a variety of

topics ranging from the changing landscapeof religious practice in prison in the era ofcarceral control to the question of individualagency in history.

Dr. Dubler—whose first book, Bang! Thud:World History from a Texas School BookDepository, was based on his dissertationresearch and co-authored with Andrea Sun-Mee Jones—has recently completed two arti-cles for publication. The first, co-authoredwith Andrea Sun-Mee Jones, is about theassassin as the paradigmatic agent of historyand will appear in Cabinet Magazine. Thesecond, “The Secular Bad Faith of Dr. HarryTheriault, a.k.a. the Bishop of Tellus,”explores the Church of the New Song, a reli-gion that began in the federal prison systemin the 1970s, and will appear in a collectionof essays entitled Secular Faith to be pub-lished by Cascade Books in the fall.

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This summer, Dr. Dubler will complete asecond book manuscript drawn from his dis-sertation research. Tentatively entitled“Seven Days of Penitentiary Life,” the man-uscript is a narrative account of the quotidianand momentous events that took place dur-ing a single week’s time in the chapel atPennsylvania’s maximum-security prison atGraterford.

In the fall semester Dr. Dubler is slated toteach two new courses. In Columbia’sReligion Department he will teach a courseentitled “Alterities of Religion in AmericanCulture.” He will also be teaching “Freud,Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky” in VillanovaUniversity’s program at Graterford Prisonon a pro bono basis.

Sarah Jacoby, 2006-2009 University of Virginia, Department ofReligious Studies, Ph.D., 2007Consorts and Revelation in Eastern Tibet:The Auto/biographical Writings of theTreasure Revealer Sera Khandro (1892-1940)

Sarah Jacoby’s research interests includeSouth and East Asian religious traditions,Indo-Tibetan Buddhist doctrine and ritualpractice, gender studies, Tantric literature,autobiography studies, Buddhist revelation,Buddhism in contemporary Tibet, andEastern Tibetan area studies.

Dr. Jacoby spent the year working on herbook manuscript, “Love Revelations: TheAutobiography of a Tibetan Dakini,” which

is under contract from Columbia UniversityPress. She also completed editing a book(with Antonio Terrone) entitled BuddhismBeyond the Monastery: Tantric Practices andtheir Performers in Tibet and the Himalayas,to be published this summer with Brill. Herarticle in Buddhism Beyond the Monastery is“To Be or Not To Be Celibate: Morality andConsort Practices in Early Twentieth-centu-ry Eastern Tibet.”

Dr. Jacoby was invited to give multiple lec-tures this year, including one at theUniversity of Toronto’s Numata BuddhistStudies lecture series, where she spoke on thenature of love in Sera Khandro’s biographical

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writings, the subject of the fifth chapter of“Love Revelations.” She also lectured atBerkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studiesand presented a paper on her currentresearch at Columbia’s Society of Fellows inthe Humanities spring lecture series. A high-light of her year was organizing a two-partworkshop, sponsored by the Society ofFellows, with Andrew Quintman, fromPrinceton University’s Society of Fellows,entitled “New Directions in Tibetan LiteraryStudies: A Workshop on Perspectives andProspects Emerging in the Field ofAuto/Biography.” The fall workshop, spon-sored by the Society of Fellows, was held atColumbia University, and the spring work-shop was held at Princeton, where Dr. Jacobygave a talk titled “Reading Sentiments inTibetan Auto/biography.”

As a third-year Fellow, Dr. Jacoby enjoyedteaching a seminar course in the ReligionDepartment titled “BuddhistAuto/biography.”

In September, she will join the Departmentof Religion faculty at NorthwesternUniversity in Evanston, Illinois.

Kevin Lamb, 2007-2010Cornell University, Department of English,Ph.D., 2007Impersonality and the Modernist Art ofCritique

Kevin Lamb’s research centers on therelation between modernist literature andphilosophy. As a second-year Fellow, he

continued work on a book manuscript thattraces the emergence and legacy of analternative understanding and practice ofaesthetic criticism rooted in the concept ofimpersonality, understood as a deliberateform of work on the self whose aim is notself-expression but self-transformation. Aspart of this ongoing project, he revised anarticle entitled “‘Undoing…the One WhoDoes It’: Modernist Criticism and Cavell’sIllustrious Style” for a collection of essaysdealing with the work of the Americanphilosopher Stanley Cavell.

In 2008-2009, Dr. Lamb gave threepresentations of his work in progress. Inaddition to his talk at the Society inDecember, he delivered a paper on“Historical Method, Philosophical Style” atColumbia as part of an October conferenceon “Historical Epistemology,” sponsored by

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the Society of Fellows, which he co-organized with Patrick Singy and MatthewJones. In March he presented a paper entitled“Aestheticism and Moral Perfectionism inDialogue” at the annual conference of theAmerican Comparative LiteratureAssociation. During the fall, he also offered aseminar on “Aestheticism: Theory andPractice” in the Department of English andComparative Literature.

Dr. Lamb is happy to be remaining atColumbia to complete the final year of hispostdoctoral fellowship.

David Novak, 2007-2010Columbia University Department of Music,Ph.D., 2006Japan Noise: Global Media Circulation andExperimental Music

David Novak’s work focuses on the circula-tion of popular media, sound technology,and social practices of listening as critical dis-courses of global modernity. His long-termresearch project is an ethnography of Noise,an underground electronic genre emergent inUS-Japan networks of musicians and listen-ers. As a 2008-2009 Fellow, Dr. Novak con-tinued revisions of a forthcoming book basedon this work, entitled “Japanoise: MediaCirculation and the Cultural Feedback ofExperimental Music,” to be published byDuke University Press (2010). Also in 2008-2009, his paper “Playing Off Site: TheUntranslation of Onkyô” was accepted for

publication by the journal Asian Music. Infall 2008, he taught Asian Music Humanitiesin the Music Department.

Dr. Novak presented several papers in 2008-2009. In October 2008, he chaired the“Appropriation and Remediation” panel atthe Seminar for Ethnomusicology meeting,and presented “The Transcultural GhostWorld of Bollywood.” In November, hedelivered “Of Tents and Trains: PublicSoundscapes and Urban Displacement inSouth Osaka” at the meeting of theAmerican Anthropological Association, andinitiated the AAA Music and Sound InterestGroup. In January and February 2009, hegave three invited papers: “Media Circulationand Cultural Politics” at the University of

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Oklahoma; “Overwhelming Techne” at theUniversity of Pittsburgh; and “DistortingMusic: The Cultural Feedback of Japanoise”at the Global East Asia Humanities ProjectSymposium at the University of Rochester.He also programmed and moderated panelpresentations for 1986 Mixtape: HowAmerican music played out at the end of the1980s, as part of an exhibition by artist MattKeegan at the Anna Helwing Gallery in LosAngeles. On 13-14 February 2009, Dr.Novak co-organized a major interdiscipli-nary conference on issues of sound, listening,and musical circulation with Ana MariaOchoa. The conference, entitled “ListeningIn, Feeding Back,” was sponsored by theSociety of Fellows in the Humanities withmajor funding from the Center forEthnomusicology, the Music Department,and the Donald Keene Center. It broughttogether an international group of scholarsand composers from Brazil, Japan, England,Canada, and the Netherlands. The confer-ence also featured a concert of experimentalmusic at Columbia’s Miller Theater that wasfavorably reviewed in The New York Timesand other publications.

Finally, he and his partner Jen Gherardi weredelighted to welcome their son AugustBenjamin on 5 March 2009. Thanks to all fortheir best wishes.

Andrey Shcherbenok, 2006-2009University of California, Berkeley,Department of Rhetoric, Ph.D., 2006Trauma and Ideology in the Soviet Film

of 1929–1945.St. Petersburg State University (Russia),Department of Russian Literature, Kandidat of Science Degree, 2002Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, Nabokov: Rhetoric and History

Andrey Shcherbenok’s research interestsinclude Russian and Soviet film, trauma the-ory, ideology, and cinematic sexuality, as wellas Russian literature. In his research, Dr.Shcherbenok brings together close psychoan-alytic readings of films and their larger his-torical and political context. In the 2008-09academic year he completed his book proj-ect, “Trauma and Ideology in the Soviet Filmof 1929–1945,” and sent a book proposal to

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several academic publishers. In fall 2008 heorganized a two-day international confer-ence, “Screened Sexuality: Desire in Russian,Soviet, and Post-Soviet Cinema” atColumbia, co-sponsored by the Society ofFellows and the Harriman Institute. He edit-ed a special edition of the journal Studies inRussian and Soviet Cinema, which includesseveral of the “Screened Sexuality” confer-ence papers, and wrote an introduction tothe collection. Dr. Shcherbenok also pub-lished a review of the collected volumeTarkovksy (ed. Nathan Dunne, London:Black Dog Publishing) and a film review, andhe submitted an article entitled “Vicissitudesof Heterosexual Desire in Pre-Revolutionaryand Early Soviet Cinema” to the SRSC.

In 2008-2009 Dr. Shcherbenok gave severalpresentations, which included: “Trauma andIdeology in the Soviet Cinema of the 1930s,”given as a lecture at the Society of Fellowslunchtime lecture series and as a conferencetalk at the American Association for theAdvancement of Slavic Studies national con-vention; “Sublime Gaze and SufferingWoman in Soviet World War II Cinema,”presented at the American Association of theTeachers of Slavic and East EuropeanLanguages conference; and “ConceptualDisturbance of the Great Terror and ItsCinematic Resolution in Fridrikh Ermler’sThe Great Citizen,” presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference. He also organ-ized and participated in a roundtable entitled“What is Soviet About Post-Stalinist SovietCinema?” at the AAASS national conventionand gave an invited lecture entitled

“Transcendental Desire and FemaleCinematic Gaze in Zoya (1944) and TheCranes Are Flying (1957)” at TokyoUniversity.

In spring 2009 he taught LiteratureHumanities. Throughout the academic yearhe introduced films in the Russian MovieNights series, organized by the RussianInternational Association at Columbia.

In fall 2008 Dr. Shcherbenok was awarded atwo-year Newton International Fellowshipby The British Academy, The RoyalAcademy of Engineering, and the RoyalSociety to do a joint research project withprofessor Evgenii Dobrenko on the Sovietpast as the traumatic object of contemporaryRussian culture. To undertake this projecthe will move in fall 2009 to the University ofSheffield (UK), where he will also be teach-ing nineteenth century Russian literature.

Patrick Singy. 2007-2010University of Chicago, Committee onConceptual and Historical Studies of Science,Ph.D., 2004Experiencing Medicine: An EpistemologicalHistory of Medical Practice and Sex inFrench-Speaking Europe, 1700-1850

Patrick Singy’s research interests include thehistory of medicine and sexuality, the histori-ography of science, and the history and phi-losophy of psychology and psychiatry. As asecond-year Fellow he taught ContemporaryCivilization in the spring semester.

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In October 2008 Dr. Singy organized a two-day international conference on “HistoricalEpistemology.” The Franco-American tradi-tion of historical epistemology is far fromhomogeneous, and the speakers at the con-ference engaged in lively and sophisticateddebates on topics ranging from the lexicalappropriateness of the expression “historicalepistemology,” to thorny historiographicalissues related to causality, ethics, and theplace of case-studies. With the help of con-ference co-organizer Matthew Jones, Dr.Singy is preparing some of the papers forpublication.

Dr. Singy also submitted three articles forpublication this year. An essay review ofLorraine Daston and Peter Galison’sObjectivity is forthcoming in Iris: EuropeanJournal of Philosophy and Public Debate.“The Popularization of Medicine in theEighteenth Century: Writing, Reading andRewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot’s Avis aupeuple sur sa santé,” conditionally acceptedfor publication in The Journal of ModernHistory, focuses on the gradual transforma-tion, through successive editions, of Tissot’sfamous medical self-help book. The thirdarticle, submitted to Modern LanguageNotes, is a literary essay on the first volumeof Michel Foucault’s Histoire de la sexualité.It argues that Foucault encapsulated thepolitical stakes of his history of sexuality inthe crucially ambiguous comma of the titleof the book’s first part, “Nous autres, victo-riens.”

Dr. Singy also co-edited (with PhilippeHuneman) a special issue of the Bulletind’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences de lavie (vol.15, no.2), which focuses on experi-ment and observation in the eighteenth-cen-tury life sciences and includes a translation inFrench of one of his papers, previously pub-lished in English in Representations.

Dr. Singy continued to work on his book,tentatively entitled “Sadism at the Limits:Sex, Violence, and the Historical Boundariesof Sexuality.” Through a historical and con-ceptual analysis of the psychiatric perversionof “sadism,” this monograph argues that sex-uality is a specifically modern experience, witha beginning in the middle of the nineteenth

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century and a gradual dissolution at the endof the twentieth century

Dr. Singy also presented several papers atdiverse venues this year: the HistoricalEpistemology Conference, The Society ofFellows lecture series, and the Book HistoryColloquium—all at Columbia, the AmericanHistorical Association; and the InternationalColloquium in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century-French and Francophone Studies atthe University of Minnesota.

After a short trip, Dr. Singy looks forward toreturning to the Society in 2009-2010.

Will Slauter, 2007-2009Princeton University, Department ofHistory, Ph.D., 2007News is a Collaborative Textual Process

Will Slauter studies the history of communi-cation in early modern Europe and theAtlantic World. Drawing inspiration frombibliography and history of the book, he isinterested in how texts of all kinds come totake the forms that they do, and how thoseforms ultimately matter to the way peopleunderstand events. Consider a manuscriptnewsletter from the seventeenth century or ablog posting from last week: where did thewords come from and how did they get ontothe page or the screen? Why does the textlook one way rather than another and towhat effect? In the case of both the manu-script newsletter and the blog, Dr. Slauterargues that news is a collaborative textualprocess: the version that we ultimately read

depends upon the collective (though not nec-essarily coordinated) efforts of the manypeople who copy, translate, excerpt, andrewrite the news as they relay it from oneplace to another. His current project, build-ing on a dissertation supervised by RobertDarnton at Princeton, explores these ques-tions by focusing on the creation of interna-tional news in the Eighteenth-centuryAtlantic World.

As a Fellow, Dr. Slauter began a second proj-ect that considers some of the same questions

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in a very different context: the LondonPlague of 1665. Research in London archivesduring the summer of 2008 led to a paperabout the Bills of Mortality, a peculiar genreof publication that shaped the way peopleunderstood and reacted to the epidemic of1665. After giving a talk on that subject tothe Society of Fellows in October, he pre-sented related material to the “Interactingwith Print” group in Montréal, the “Formsof Early Modern Writing” conference atColumbia, and the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University.

Dr. Slauter taught ContemporaryCivilization in the fall and had the springfree for research (though he did enjoy beinga guest at François Furstenberg’s seminar atthe Université de Montréal in February). Herevised an article on the relationship betweenfinancial speculation and political predictionin eighteenth-century journalism that shouldsee print sometime next year and begananother on the history of the paragraph as aunit of textual transmission, focusing on theemergence of the paragraph as a genre ofnews reporting in the eighteenth century.Taking off from the Society’s spring lectureseries on intellectual property, and in prepa-ration for a conference on public opinion tobe held at Université Paris 7 next fall, Dr.Slauter will spend the summer studyingchanging attitudes toward the ownership(and copyright) of news reports. In August2009 he will join the history department atFlorida State University, where he will bepart of a new interdisciplinary program inthe “History of Text Technologies.”

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The applicants for the thirty-fourth annu-al fellowship competition numbered 728,up more than thirteen percent from therecord-breaking total of 642 of the previ-ous year.

The first round of readings took place inthe fall, shortly after the close of the com-petition on 6 October 2008, with twenty-two departments, institutes, and centersparticipating in the vetting process.Ninety-four applications were recom-mended for advancement to the next levelof competition, where each applicationwas read by one current Fellow and twomembers of the Society of FellowsGoverning Board. The candidates werethen ranked, and the rankings reviewed bythe selection committee, a sub-committeeof the Governing Board. In mid-December, fifteen candidates were offeredinterviews, which were held on 23 January2008 at the Heyman Center.

Four fellowships were available for 2009-2010. In February 2009, offers were madeto Hagar Kotef, School of Philosophy, TelAviv University (Ph.D., 2009); JohnLombardini, Department of Politics,Princeton University (Ph.D., 2009);Jennifer Nash, African and AfricanAmerican Studies, Harvard University(Ph.D., 2009); and Adam Smith,Department of Archaeology, Universityof California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., 2008).

The four new Fellows, whose appoint-ments began 1 July 2009, joined fourreturning Fellows: Joshua Dubler,Department of Religion, PrincetonUniversity (Ph.D., 2008), Kevin Lamb,Department of English, CornellUniversity (Ph.D., 2007); David Novak,Department of Music, ColumbiaUniversity (Ph.D., 2006); and PatrickSingy, Committee on Conceptual andHistorical Studies of Science, Universityof Chicago (Ph.D., 2004).

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Sorted by Department and FieldNumber of %of

Department Applicants Total

Sorted by CountryNumber of %of

Country Applicants Total

African American Studies 14 1.92%

American Studies 54 7.42% Anthropology 50 6.87% Art History and

Archaeology 59 8.10%Classics 23 3.16%Center for the Study of

Ethnicity and Race 15 2.06%East Asian Languages

and Cultures 29 3.98%English and

Comparative Literature 86 11.81%Film 16 2.21%French 29 3.98%German 17 2.34%History 73 10.03%Institute for Research on Women

and Gender 21 2.88%Italian 4 0.55%Middle East and Asian Languages

and Cultures 29 3.98%Music 33 4.53%Philosophy 31 4.26%Political Science 48 6.59%Religion 45 6.18%Slavic Languages 14 1.92%Sociology 22 3.02%Spanish and Portuguese 16 2.21%

Total Applicants 728

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Australia 5 0.69%Austria 1 0.14%Belgium 2 0.27%Brazil 2 0.27%Canada 29 3.98%China 3 0.41%Czech Republic 1 0.14%France 17 2.34%Germany 6 0.82%Greece 5 0.69%Hungary 1 0.14%India 3 0.41%Ireland 8 1.10%Israel 8 1.10%Italy 8 1.10%Latvia 1 0.14%Netherlands 3 0.41%New Zealand 1 0.14%Portugal 1 0.14%Nigeria 1 0.14%Singapore 1 0.14%South Korea 1 0.14%Sweden 1 0.14%Taiwan 1 0.14%Turkey 3 0.41%United Kingdom 56 7.68%Ukraine 3 0.41%United States 556 76.37%

Total Applicants 728

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Lunchtime Lecture SeriesEvery year the Fellows organize a seriesof weekly talks open to members of theColumbia community and by invitation.Each Fellow gives one lecture in everyyear of residency and is responsible forinviting one or more of the distinguishedscholars who fill out the series program.In 2008-2009, a total of fourteen lec-tures were presented.

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October 9, 2008The Ghost World of BollywoodDavid Novak, Society of Fellows,Columbia University

This paper considered changing modes ofappropriation in the transcultural circula-tion of South Asian popular culture, asviewed through two North American re-mediations of the song-and-dance

sequence Jaan Pehechaan Hofrom the 1964 Hindi film clas-sic Gumnaam. The clip, anover-the-top rock-and-rollnumber, was recently restoredand used in the openingsequence of the 2001 US inde-pendent film Ghost World,where it eagerly offers itself asa kitschy, familiar-but-strangeobject of bewilderment andfantasy for distant media con-sumption. Dr. Novak discussedhow this particular Bollywoodfilm song, itself a kitschy send-up of American popular cul-ture, constitutes an exemplaryinstance of the ways in whichremediation transforms ideasabout cultural property and itsglobal circulation.

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October 16, 2008Theorizing Religion in PrisonJoshua Dubler, Society of Fellows,Columbia University

Drawing on the work of his studentsfrom a course he taught at Pennsylvania’sGraterford Prison entitled “Religion inthe Tradition of Social Theory,” Dr.Dubler reflected on the relationshipbetween ethnography and pedagogy. Inpresenting his students’ critical reflec-tions on Marx and Foucault, he arguedimplicitly for leveling the barrier betweenthose who write and those who are writ-ten about.

October 23, 2008Trauma and Ideology in the SovietCinema of the 1930sAndrey Shcherbenok, Society of Fellows, Columbia University

In his lecture Andrey Shcherbenok con-centrated on the most enigmatic and dis-turbing event of Stalinist politics, theGreat Purges of 1937-1939. He arguedthat the traumatic impact of the purgesresults primarily from the inability of theSoviet subjects, up to the very top of thepolitical hierarchy, to make sense of thePurges in general and the particularcharges they faced personally. Analyzingthe Politburo records on the trial ofNikolai Bukharin and Fridrikh Ermler’s

film The Great Citizen (1937, 1939), Dr.Shcherbenok showed that these contra-dictions largely depend on the problem-atic status of psychological analysis as abasis for establishing one’s true politicalposition. Ermler’s film articulates thisproblem by conflating the psychologicalrealism of the portrayal of its characterswith an explicit denial of the relevance ofpsychology. The film, however, offers apurely cinematic resolution of this antin-omy that works to interpellate the spec-tator into ideology despite—or ratherowing to—its manifest contradictions.

October 30, 2008Reading and Writing the Plague Will Slauter, Society of Fellows,Columbia University

Long before they became sources forsocial and demographic history, theLondon Bills of Mortality circulatedamong the public, shaping the way peo-ple understood the geography of the city,the spread of disease, and the passage oftime. Focusing on the “Great Plague” of1665, Dr. Slauter’s paper reconstructedthe work of the various people involvedin the production, distribution, andreception of the Bills of Mortality. Doingso revealed how the reporting of the epi-demic depended upon the collective (butnot necessarily coordinated) efforts ofcompassionate searchers, overworked

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gravediggers, fastidious clerks, contractprinters, and rogue street vendors. Theunpredictable labor of hundreds ofanonymous people ultimately becameobscured behind an official-looking tableof numbers that gave elite Londoners asense of control over the city. The plaguewas refracted through the bills, which inturn fed back into the collective behaviorof the community. For better and forworse, the publication of the bills influ-enced the course of the epidemic itself.

November 6, 2008Debating Darwin: The Crisis of 1882 andNaguib Mahfouz’s Palace of Desire [Qasr al-shawq]Michael Allan, Society of Fellows, Columbia University

In 1882, when Dr. Edwin Lewis men-tioned Charles Darwin during a com-mencement address at the SyrianProtestant College (now the AmericanUniversity in Beirut), he ignited a scandalthat led to his eventual resignation and thenear dissolution of the university. Yearslater, when the Egyptian novelist NaguibMahfouz published the second volume ofhis Cairo Trilogy, he also invoked thereception of Darwin by staging a debatewithin the family at the center of thenovel. Dr. Allan’s talk discussed the his-torical and literary permutations of thisstory within the world of modern Arabic

letters. Thanks to the writings of promi-nent Arabic-speaking intellectuals such asYa’qub Sarruf, Faris Namir and JurjiZaydan, the Crisis of 1882 has commonlybeen understood as the conflict betweenmodern science and religious traditions.Against this conventional story, Dr. Allanconsidered what we might learn by hear-ing discussions of Darwin differently—that is, by refusing the oppositionbetween the secular and religious that is socommonly invoked. Drawing fromarchival letters and Mahfouz’s novel, histalk analyzed the formal relationshipbetween literary narration and historicalknowledge and questioned how modernreading practices limit the sensible rela-tionship to the past.

November 20, 2009The Popularization of Medicine in theEighteenth Century: Writing, Reading,and Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot’sAvis au peuple sur sa santéPatrick Singy, Society of Fellows,Columbia University

Samuel Auguste Tissot’s Avis au peuplesur sa santé, first published in 1761, wasone of the biggest medical bestsellers ofthe eighteenth century. Because of thissuccess, historians have seen in this bookthe quintessential example of the popu-larization of medicine. Dr. Singy’s paperargued that this assertion needs to be

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qualified: by studying the successive edi-tions of Avis au peuple and the vast cor-respondence between Tissot and hispatients, he showed that it is only gradu-ally that Avis au peuple came to popular-ize medicine. At first, Tissot purposefullylimited his ambition to offering simplemedical truths, never simplified ones.Because the first editions of Avis au peu-ple did not make complex professionalknowledge available to lay people, theydid not popularize medicine. However,when readers of Avis au peuple wrote toTissot to complain about the lack ofinformation related to complex diseases,he modified his book, and later editionsof Avis au peuple increasingly dealt withsuch diseases. In the case of Avis au peu-ple the popularization of medicine wastherefore a process that involved bothauthor and readers, took shape throughsuccessive editions, and was the effectrather than the cause of editorial success.

December 4, 2008Toward a Historical Poetics of Critique:Impersonality and the Cursed CriticsKevin Lamb, Society of Fellows, Columbia University

Kevin Lamb’s talk explored the relationbetween the modernist fascination withimpersonality—that is, styles of self-presentation that obscure or displace theexpressive “I” of the author—and the

emergence of an alternative ethos of criti-cism. Scholars have for some time associ-ated poetic impersonality with mysticismor negative theology, seeing the insistenceby T. S. Eliot, among others, on thepoet’s renunciation of self in poetry as anesoteric invocation. As a result, scholarshave generally overlooked the extent towhich the late-Victorian aesthetes werethe early architects not only of this con-cept of art but also of a transformedpractice of criticism based on it. In areading of three examples that crossbetween art and criticism (Pater’s“Diaphaneitè,” Mallarmé’s “Crise devers,” and Verlaine’s “Il pleure dans moncœur…”), Dr. Lamb argued that the con-cern with aesthetic impersonality ariseshistorically at the same time that manyaesthetes began to reflect on the condi-tions and possibilities of criticism as botha literary genre and an ongoing task ofself-critique, in which one poses andpushes the limits of one’s own thinking.

SPRING 2009: Intellectual Propertyand Its Discontents

February 12, 2009The Author as Vegetable: Images ofNature in the Discourse of the CommonsMario Biagioli, Professor of History andScience, Harvard University

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cultural environmentalists in theirattempt to cast the public domain assomething that needs to be defendedfrom the increasingly intensive andextensive use of intellectual property. We are told that, like green pastures orother natural resources, the knowledgecommons is at risk of being fenced offand turned into private property by theso-called “second enclosure” move-ment. While Professor Biagioli sup-ported the political goals of the cul-tural environmentalists, he alsoexpressed concern about the inad-vertent reification of the logic of IPlaw implicit in the celebration of thenaturalness of the commons and/orof the public domain. The unin-tended consequence of such a cele-bration has been to reinforce thenature/society dichotomy structur-ing the legal doctrine that culturalenvironmentalists believe themselvesto be critiquing.

February 26, 2009Fashion, Comedy, Cuisine andOther Stories of Innovation withoutIntellectual PropertyChristopher Sprigman, AssociateProfessor of Law, University of Virginia

In many domains, such as fashion,cuisine, and stand-up comedy, inno-

vation thrives outside the bounds ofintellectual property law. How is thispossible, when copyright is supposedlyessential to creativity? ChristopherSprigman explored this question by pre-senting material from a forthcomingbook, co-authored with Kal Raustiala,called “The Piracy Paradox.” Beginningwith the example of fashion, Professor

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Society of FellowsFall Lunchtime LectureSeries 2008

All talks at 12:15 in the Heyman Center Common Room, East Campushttp://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows/

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David Novak“The Ghost World of Bollywood”

Joshua Dubler “Theorizing Religion in Prison”

Andrey Shcherbenok “Trauma and Ideology in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s”

Will Slauter“Reading and Writing the Plague”

Michael Allan“The Limits of Secular Criticism: Disciplining Literature in Colonial Egypt”

George Levine Senior Scholar, Columbia University/Kenneth Burke Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University“On Darwin and the Joys of Science”

Patrick Singy “Cutting the Past Open: History and Medicine, 1750-1850”

Kevin Lamb “Toward a Historical Poetics of Critique”

Sprigman argued that piracy, far fromdeterring innovation, actually propels itforward. By copying—and tweaking—adesirable design, competing firms help tocreate and then cement a trend. But oncea design becomes ubiquitous it loses itsappeal for the fashion’s early adopters,who move on to the next new design,thereby re-starting the cycle of trend-making. Piracy, in short, paradoxicallyspurs more—and faster—creativity, andmore consumption of fashion goods.Drawing further examples from stand-upcomedy and cuisine, Professor Sprigmanconcluded that piracy does not necessari-ly stifle creativity, but that it does trans-form the process of innovation itself. Wetherefore have much to learn by lookingmore closely at how certain industriesthrive in the face of piracy.

March 26, 2009Analog Copyright: Interpretation, FairUse, and the Aesthetics of AccessLucas Hilderbrand, Assistant Professor,Film and Media Studies, Visual Studies,University of California, Irvine

Many of the anxieties—technological,economic, and legal—of the digital mediaera were previously worked through dur-ing the first decade of analog home videoand its defense through the legal codifica-tion of fair use. The interdependence ofvideotape and statutory fair use exemp-

tions may have started out as a historicalcoincidence when both appeared in the1970s, but through the 1984 SupremeCourt ruling on the Betamax case, theybecame mutually constitutive as a matterof public policy. Professor Hilderbrandsuggested that fair use remains contestedand ambiguous in the age of digital tech-nologies and regulations (in part, becauseit is analog in its logic), yet it remainsessential in understanding the flexibilityof the law. By recognizing the ways inwhich the Betamax case demonstratesthat the law can be interpreted ratherthan merely followed or applied, we mayjust have a precedent for thinking abouthow copyright can still protect the rightsof audiences.

April 2, 2009Your Right to What’s Mine: On PersonalIntellectual PropertyPaul Saint-Amour, Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

Building on Margaret Jane Radin’s theoryof personal property, Paul Saint-Amourexplored the benefits and limits of a per-sonal intellectual property right con-ceived by analogy with tenants’ rightsand domestic rent control regulations.Fair use doctrine typically mitigates arightsholder’s property claims accordingto First Amendment rationales. By con-trast, a personal intellectual property

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right would legally acknowledge the factthat in a digital world we increasinglyproduce our personhood through an inti-mate engagement with other people’sintellectual property.

April 9, 2009Branding the Mahatma: The UntimelyProvocation of Gandhian PublicityWilliam T.S. Mazzarella, AssociateProfessor of Anthropology and SocialSciences, University of Chicago

Professor Mazzarella explored the rela-tionship between Mahatma Gandhi, as acontested figure in present-day Indianpublic culture, and Gandhi the man, asan innovative technician of mass publici-ty. He began with an analysis of a scandalin early 2002 that followed an attempt tolicense the Mahatma for use in advertis-ing and proceeded to explore the com-plex connections between Gandhi’siconization and his demonization in con-temporary India. The second half of histalk addressed Gandhi as a master techni-cian of mass publicity. Although theMahatma’s thinking on communicativeefficacy is frequently appropriated by acommercial brand logic, ProfessorMazzarella argued that Gandhian public-ity remains resistant to such appropria-tions because of Gandhi’s insistence ontaking constant personal responsibilityfor the potential ideological complicities

of our bodily practices.

April 16, 2009Love Revelations in the Autobiographyof a Tibetan DakiniSarah Jacoby, Society of Fellows,Columbia University

Romantic love as we think of it today is aproduct of a particular set of socio-his-torical influences exclusive to European-American cultures, or so many scholarscontend. The Tibetan Buddhist contextwould seem to prove this point, as lovebetween a man and a woman is moreoften associated with the Buddhist neme-ses of attachment, desire, and cravingthan with the path to enlightenment.Despite the ubiquity of iconographic andliterary depictions of male-female (yab-yum) deities, sexual union in TibetanBuddhism is usually understood less as asacralization of the love act than as ameans to the end of spiritual realization.That said, the rare autobiography of theTibetan visionary Sera Khandro (1892-1940) and the biography she wrote of herroot teacher and partner Drimé Özer(1881-1924) offer a different perspectiveon consort practices far more akin to“Western” notions of love than herTibetan Buddhist context would seem toallow. In this talk, Dr. Jacoby suggestedthat as one of the few Tibetan women tohave written her autobiography or to

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have her writings become accepted asauthentic Buddhist revelation, SeraKhandro drew on the Tantric paradigmof wholeness as the union of malemethod and female wisdom to write her-self into the male-dominated religioushierarchy of her early twentieth-centuryEastern Tibetan world.

April 23, 2009Piracy: Early Modern Rhetorics andRealitiesMartha Woodmansee, Professor ofEnglish and Law, Case Western Reserve University

The news media regularly carry reportsabout the piracy that is besetting U.S.software and entertainment industries—shrill complaints from the industriesthemselves about the way they are beingripped off by Asian pirates, and equallyemphatic, if more diplomatic, objectionsfrom the U.S. government. MarthaWoodmansee examined an early moderninstance of this phenomenon: the chargeof piracy that eighteenth-century book-sellers in the developed north ofGermany leveled against their counter-parts in the developing south. Her focuswas the program of unauthorizedreprinting by the Viennese booksellerJohann Thomas Trattner. In literary his-tories Trattner figures as the scourge ofGermany’s nascent national literature on

account of his piracy, but a closer look athis publishing career shows otherwise.The substantial contribution that Trattnermade, especially but not only to culturaland economic development in the south,suggests that there is a pressing need toput thorough reevaluation of “piracy,”both historical and contemporary, at thetop of research agendas

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SOCIETY OF FELLOWS2008-2009

CONFERENCE SERIESThis year, in support of our goal of fully integrating the Fellows into their host depart-ments, the Society funded five two-day conferences organized by Fellows and facultymembers working in concert. All five conferences proved enormously successful,attracting a large and distinguished group of international scholars while showcasingthe high caliber and collective enterprise of the Fellows-in-residence.

Screened Sexuality:Desire in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Cinema

October 10-11, 2008

501 Schermerhorn Hall

Organizer: Andrey Shcherbenok, Society of Fellows in the Humanities,Columbia University

Speakers: Anthony Anemone, The New School; Oksana Bulgakowa,Internationale Filmschule Köln; Gregory Carleton, Tufts University; Julia

Cassiday, Williams College; Katerina Clark, Yale University; Nancy Condee,University of Pittsburgh; Dan Healey, Swansea University; Volha Isakava,

University of Alberta; Lilya Kaganovsky, University of Illinois; Yulia Ladygina,University of California, San Diego; Kristi McKim, Hendrix College; Louise

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McReynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Anne Eakin Moss, theJohns Hopkins University; Cathy Nepomnyashchy, Columbia University; Joan

Neuberger, University of Texas; Irina Novikova, University of Latvia; SergueiOushakine, Princeton University; Richard Pena, Columbia University; MashaSalazkina, Colgate University; Dawn Seckler, University of Pittsburgh; Andrey

Shcherbenok, Columbia University; Greta Slobin, Wesleyan University;Rebecca Stanton, Columbia University; James Steffen, Emory University;

Anna Toropova, University College, London

Screening: Factory of Gestures (DVD), written, edited, and directed byOksana Bulgakowa

The close association between cinema and sexual desire has been estab-lished since the inception of cinematography. Set at the juncture of secrecyand exhibitionism, cinema provides a powerful medium for the orchestrationof spectatorial desire and reflection on human sexuality, both of which havebecome a subject of sustained scholarly analysis. Studies of individual filmgenres have shed light on the staging of sexual desire in topoi ranging fromthriller plots to melodramatic mise-en-scene, while, starting with the works ofLinda Williams, the study of the cinematic representation of the sexual acthas also become firmly entrenched in cinema studies.

At the same time, studies of sexual desire in a given cinematic tradition cut-ting across the boundaries of genres and theories remain scarce, and thefield of Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet cinema is not an exception. Althoughthere are a number of works on the representation of femininity, masculinity,and gender politics in this cinematic tradition, few scholars of the subjectaddress sexual desire per se. Even when desire is addressed, existing studiestend to put the stress upon the ways (apparently “natural”) sexuality isrepressed, “perverted,” or appropriated, mainly for political purposes, ratherthan upon the cinematic mechanisms that create a sexual dynamicbetween diegetic characters or the spectator and the screen.

The Conference explored the medium-specific and theoretically sophisticat-ed ways in which sexual desire is articulated and constituted by cinemawithin the Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet space.

Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the HarrimanInstitute

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Historical Epistemology

October 10-11, 2008

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Organizers: Patrick Singy, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University;Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University; Kevin Lamb, Society of Fellows in theHumanities, Columbia University

Speakers: Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago; Vincent Debaene, ColumbiaUniversity; François Delaporte, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne; Claude-OlivierDoron, Université Denis Diderot-REHSEIS; Peter Galison, Harvard University; YvesGingras, Université du Québec à Montréal; Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University;Kevin Lamb, Columbia University; David Plunkett, University of Michigan; MaryPoovey, New York University; Paolo Savoia, University of Pisa; Patrick Singy,Columbia University; Tuomo Tiisala, University of Chicago

At the intersection of philosophy and history, historical epistemology has become inrecent years a powerful alternative to traditional approaches to the history of sci-ence and philosophy. Focused upon conditions of possibility that transcend socialcauses and biographical idiosyncrasies, historical epistemology uncovers the funda-mental concepts that organize the knowledge of different historical periods. Itmight be defined as the discipline that introduces historical contingency into waysof understanding the world. Kant was wrong, historical epistemology argues, tothink that human beings can only understand the world as, say, Euclidean or ruledby causality. He was right, historical epistemology contends, to work to understandthe conditions of possibility underlying knowledge and practice: such careful philo-sophical work needs to be historically specific.

Historical epistemology is also a distinctive Franco-American approach to the histo-ry of philosophy and science. Building upon an earlier tradition of French history andphilosophy of science culminating in the work of Georges Canguilhem, the work ofMichel Foucault pointed toward historical epistemology as a viable approach forstudying the past by uncovering and reconstructing the underlying historical a prioriof different periods. Yet even while three of the most prominent contemporary his-torical epistemologists—Lorraine Daston, Arnold Davidson, and Ian Hacking—drewon different aspects of Anglo-American philosophy and history in developingCanguilhem’s and Foucault’s approaches, the precise contours of historical episte-mology nevertheless remain blurry. This conference brought together scholars whohave rarely had the opportunity to discuss publicly their ideas on historical episte-mology.

Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, the Sterling Currier fundand Maison Francaise.

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New Directions in Tibetan Literary Studies:A Two-Part Workshop on Perspectives and Prospects

in Auto/Biography

November 14-15, 2008

Second Floor Common Room,Heyman Center for the Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Jacoby, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia Universityand Andrew Quintman, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University

Speakers: Suzanne Bessenger, University of Virginia; Ben Bogin, GeorgetownUniversity; Janet Gyatso, Harvard University; Sarah Jacoby, Columbia University;Annabella Pitkin, Columbia University; Andrew Quintman, Princeton University; KurtisSchaeffer, University of Virginia; Gene Smith, Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center; CarlYamamoto, University of Virginia

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Biography and autobiography have recently emerged as two of the most promis-ing avenues for the study of religious and literary cultures across the HimalayanBuddhist world. Panels at numerous academic conferences in the past year (theAmerican Academy of Religion, the Association of Asian Studies, and theInternational Association of Buddhist Studies) have opened up an exciting and fruit-ful conversation about new directions in the study of Tibetan literature. In an effortto seize upon this watershed moment and to more rigorously focus that conversa-tion, a two-day workshop was held November 14-15 to discuss the future directionof Tibetan literary studies and broadly address questions of sources and genres inTibetan auto/biographical literature. How do we understand, translate, and analyzetraditional classifications of texts and literary genres? How are these categoriesmaintained or blurred, both in traditional literature and in our own work? Whatsources and resources are we drawing on and how can we better make use ofthem?

Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, the East Asian Languagesand Cultures Department, and the Modern Tibetan Studies Program.

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Listening In, Feeding BackAn Interdisciplinary Conference on Sound with

Special Concert Performance

All talks in 301 Philosophy HallConcert in Miller Theater

February 13-14, 2009

Organizers: David Novak, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia Universityand Ana Maria Ochoa, Columbia University

Speakers: Karin Bijsterveld , Maastricht University; Steven Connor, Birckbeck College;Steven Feld, University of New Mexico; James Fei, Mills College; Charles Hirschkind,UC Berkeley; Brian Kane, Yale University; Louise Meintjes, Duke University; DavidNovak, Columbia University; Otomo Yoshihide, Independent Composer/Performer,Tokyo; Mark Smith, University of South Carolina; Jonathan Sterne, McGill University;Elizabeth Travassos, University of Rio de Janeiro; Amanda Weidman, Bryn MawrCollege. Moderators included Fellow Will Slauter, as well as Ellen Gray and JohnSzwed of Columbia University, Jairo Moreno of NYU and Thomas Porcello of VassarCollege.

Performers: Alvin Lucier, Otomo Yoshihide, James Fei, Kato Hideki, and ToshimaruNakamura

In recent years, several North American academic disciplines, including history,anthropology, ethnomusicology, and media studies, have devoted significantattention to practices of listening. The act of listening is an underexplored dimensionof modern sensory experience—and of modernity itself, which is too often charac-terized by an over-determined regime of visuality. What can listening offer toemerging interdisciplinary work on perception, performance, aesthetics, social life,and the circulation of sound media? Listening is more than a given function of musi-cal interpretation, which might attend to sound only in its deliberately aesthetic oropenly communicative forms. Rather, it is a culturally-situated practice that shapesthe particular spatial and material conditions of our perception. Listening influencesthe social distinctions of daily life and is inextricably bound to aesthetic and bodilyexperiences with music and noise. Increasingly, characterizations of listening recog-nize its diverse practices as productive transcultural relationships, which in them-

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selves constitute the globalization of media. Our experiences with sound are key tobroad projects of self-making that rewrite logics of authorship and cultural originthrough circulation and new modes of appropriation.

Adding the metaphor of feedback to contemporary inquires into listening encour-ages us to reconsider the creative social relations that develop within the distinctspaces and circulations of sound media. Feedback touches on the cyclical natureof people’s experiences with recordings, the recurrent relationships between differ-ent sites of listenership, the connections between production and consumption,and the many circuits of authenticity and transformation through which sound trav-els. Re-situating feedback from cybernetics and network theory into mediatedsocial practices of listening helps to reveal logics of interconnection, emplacement,attention and subjectivity that have become crucial to cultural politics. Feedbackloops challenge linear histories of music; the isolation of hearing as a sense (and oflistening publics from each other); and the maintenance of distinctions betweengenres and categories of musical style and experience. Feedback instead offerslinks, circulations, and connections: not as closed tautological arguments, but cross-wired circuitries that recognize constant change, and also stress their own coinci-dental and unpredictable infrastructure.In conjunction with the conference, a con-cert was arranged at Miller Theatre on February 13, with performances by OtomoYoshihide, Alvin Lucier and the trio of James Fei, Kato Hideki, and NakamuraToshimaru. The concert was a “Voice Choice” in the Village Voice and reviewed byBen Ratliff for The New York Times, who said that the music “fully inhabited theroom…you understood exactly what was happening, and there was still room forthe mystery of sound.”

Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, the Center forEthnomusicology, the Department of Music, the Department of Anthropology, andthe Donald Keene Center.

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REPUBLIC AND EMPIRERETHINKING THE CATEGORIES

April 3-4, 2009

Second Floor Common Room,Heyman Center for the Humanities

Organizer: Jean L. Cohen, Columbia University

Speakers Arnold I. Davidson, University of Chicago; Vincent Debaene, ColumbiaUniversity; François Delaporte, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne; Claude-OlivierDoron, Université Denis Diderot-REHSEIS; Peter Galison, Harvard University; YvesGingras, Université du Québec à Montréal; Matthew L. Jones, ColumbiaUniversity; Kevin Lamb, Columbia University; David Plunkett, University ofMichigan; Mary Poovey, New York University; Paolo Savoia, University of Pisa; PatrickSingy, Columbia University; and Tuomo Tiisala, University of Chicago.

This conference focused on the concepts of the republic and republicanism as wellas on the historical/systematic relation between republics in a system of states (orcity states) and on imperial expansion. Among the issues discussed were the effectsof imperialism and colonial possessions on republican institutions at home andwhether there is an internal dynamic or an elective affinity between republicanstates and imperial expansion. The two-day conference was composed of fivepanels: “Republican Thought and Empire,” “The State System and Empire: HistoricalPerspectives,” “U.S. Republicanism and the Imperial Example,” “French and TurkishRepublicanism and Imperial Logics,” “Israel: A Late Republic and Internal Empire,”and “Beyond Sovereign Equality?: Global Constitutionalism and/or Empire.” A ple-nary session took place on the first evening of the conference, featuring BruceAkerman on “Republic and Empire: The U.S.A. Today.”

Co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, the Center for Law andPhilosophy, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, UniversitySeminars, the Department of Political Science, and the European Institute.

Heyman Center for theHumanities(www.heymancenter.org) The Society of Fellows provides majorfunding for the extensive series of confer-ences and lectures presented by theHeyman Center for the Humanities, whichbrings together the interests of the uni-versity’s various departments in thehumanities and the broad conceptual,methodological, and ethical issues thatare of interest to the natural sciences andto the professional schools of law, medi-cine, journalism, arts, and internationalaffairs. The series includes the LionelTrilling Seminar (given once each semes-ter) and the Edward Said MemorialLecture (once each year.) A complete listof 2008-2009 programming follows.

FALL 2008

September 22What Was Democracy in America?

Following Josiah Ober’s talk on Atheniandemocracy in Spring 2008, Joyce Appleby,Professor Emerita of History at UCLA anda celebrated scholar of American history,spoke on the evolution of democracy inAmerica. Her talk was the second in theHeyman Center’s series “What WasDemocracy?,” which explores the evolutionof democratic ideas and culture. Eric Foner,the Dewitt Clinton Professor of History atColumbia University, chaired the discus-sion.

September 29The Fourth Annual Edward Said

Memorial Lecture: A Reading and Concert

In remembrance of Edward Said on the fifthanniversary of his death, the Arabic poetAdonis read selected poems, which werethen read in English by the American poetC. K. Williams. Alternating with the read-ings were piano pieces by Bach, Brahms,and Chopin, as played by the pianist SaleemAbboud Ashkar, a protégé of DanielBarenboim, who, along with Edward Said,founded the youth orchestra known as theWest-Eastern Divan. The clarinetist andcomposer Kinan Azmeh played a piece spe-cially composed for the occasion.

October 1Peculiar, Bracing Cosmopolitanisms amongthe Colonized in the Twilight of Empire

Benedict Anderson, the Aaron L.Binenkorb Professor Emeritus ofInternational Studies, Government, andAsian Studies at Cornell University,addressed the ways in which Indonesiancommunities assumed more cosmopolitansensibilities as a result of colonization. Thistalk was co-sponsored by the Committee onGlobal Thought.

October 2Screening and Discussion of Terlena: TheBreaking of a Nation

This screening was held in conjunction withBenedict Anderson’s talk of the previousday. Writer, journalist, political analyst,playwright, and filmmaker Andre Vltchekwrote and produced Terlena: The Breakingof a Nation, a documentary about the

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destruction of Indonesian intellectuals afterthe 1965 US-backed military coup inIndonesia. After the screening, Mr. Vltchekraised discussion along with BenedictAnderson. This talk was co-sponsored bythe Committee on Global Thought.

October 3Lionel Trilling and His Legacy—a day-longconference

This conference explored the legacy ofLionel Trilling, one of Columbia’s mostfamous literary scholars, and coincided withthe publication of Trilling’s unfinished novel,The Journey Abandoned, recently discoveredby Professor Geraldine Murphy of CityCollege, CUNY. Speakers includedJonathan Arac, Louis Menand, GeraldineMurphy, John Rosenberg, George Stade,Fritz Stern, and Michael Wood. Fundingwas provided by Columbia University Press,the University Libraries, the Lionel TrillingSeminars at the Heyman Center for theHumanities, the Department of English andComparative Literature, and the Simon H.Rifkin Center for the Humanities and theArts, City College, CUNY.

October 7Reasons for Justice

Harvard University’s Amartya Sen, winnerof the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics,returned to the Heyman Center to discusshis recent work on reasons for justice in aglobal economic climate of increasinginequity. This lecture was co-sponsored bythe Committee on Global Thought and thePhilosophy Department.

October 8Who Do You Think You Are?: FeministMemoirs

Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor ofPsychology & Gender Studies at Birkbeck,University of London, discussed the topicof feminist memoirs and the evolution offeminism over the past century. This talkwas co-sponsored by the Institute forResearch on Women and Gender and theColumbia University English Department.

October 15-16Two Lectures by Keith Thomas

The Heyman Center welcomed the eminentEnglish historian Sir Keith Thomas as itsDistinguished Visiting Scholar for the 2008-2009 academic year. In addition to a num-ber of private workshops, ProfessorThomas delivered two public lectures:“From Barbarism to Civil Society,” on theevening of October 15, 1

October 20The Lionel Trilling Seminar: The Virtuesof Mendacity: On Lying in Politics

Martin Jay, the Sidney Hellman EhrmanProfessor of History at The University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and an eminent figurein modern European intellectual history,inquired into the ethics and long history oflying in politics. Acting as respondents werethe influential political philosopher GeorgeKateb of Princeton University and CoreyRobin of Brooklyn College, a provocativenew voice in political thought.

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October 24 and 25The Function and Fate of Teleology in theEnlightenment—a two-day conference

This conference explored the eighteenth-century critique of teleology in the study ofnature, aesthetics, political philosophy,anthropology, psychology, and history.Organized by Columbia professorDorothea von Mücke, the conference fea-tured Stefan Andriopoulos, David Bates,Akeel Bilgrami, Jenny Davidson, MartinJay, Matthew Jones, Thomas McCarthy,Uday Mehta, Dorothea von Mücke, FredNeuhouser, Jonathan Sheehan, JoannaStalnaker, Jörn Steigerwald, JamesSteintrager, and Fernando Vidal. This con-ference was co-sponsored by theDepartment of Germanic Languages andLiteratures and by University Seminars.

October 27Spinoza in His Time and Ours

Susan James, Professor of Philosophy atBirkbeck, University of London, andJonathan Israel, Modern European HistoryProfessor at the Institute for AdvancedStudy, assessed the continuing relevance ofSpinoza and his political thought. ProfessorJames’s talk was titled “Spinoza andNarrative,” and Professor Israel spoke on“Spinoza, Radical Enlightenment, and theMaking of Democracy in the RevolutionaryEra (1770-1800).”

November 5An Election PostmortemWith Provost Alan Brinkley moderating,

Hendrik Hertzberg, senior editor and staffwriter for The New Yorker magazine, andKatha Pollitt, poet and columnist for TheNation, shared their thoughts on the 2008presidential campaign, the election ofBarack Obama, and the legacy of the BushAdministration. This event was co-spon-sored by the Committee on GlobalThought.

November 11Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk in conversa-tion with Andreas Huyssen

Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 NobelPrize in literature and recently-appointedRobert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in theHumanities at Columbia, spoke with col-league Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor

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of German and Comparative Literature.The conversation about Pamuk’s writingwas followed by an audience question andanswer period. This event was co-spon-sored by the Provost’s Office.

November 17 and 19Two lectures featuring Charles Taylor

The philosopher Charles Taylor, winner ofboth the Templeton Prize and the KyotoPrize, spoke about his new and controver-sial book, A Secular Age, over the course oftwo evenings. His first lecture addressedthe question “What is Enchantment?,” andthe second discussed “The Secular Age in aGlobal Context.” These talks were co-sponsored by the Committee on GlobalThought, the Institute for Religion, Culture,

and Public Life, and the Center for theStudy of Democracy, Toleration andReligion.

November 18A Genealogy of Liberty

Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor ofModern History at Cambridge University,explored changing notions of “liberty” inthe history of politics, starting withEnlightenment notions of the term and trac-ing permutations of its meaning and conno-tation to the present day. ProfessorSkinner’s talk was the third in a series pre-sented by members of the “CambridgeSchool” of political theory in recent years,following those by J. G. A. Pocock andJohn Dunn in 2007.

December 1%@#$**?!: From a Ten-Cent Plague to aNinth Art

Art Spiegelman,the cartoonist and PulitzerPrize-winning author of the graphic novelMaus, returned to the Heyman Center todiscuss the history of American comicbooks—from their origins as cartoon stripsin yellow journalist newspapers at the turnof the century, to the opposition and cen-sorship they faced in 1950s America, totheir current place as a marginal, thoughever more widely accepted, “literary” form.David Hajdu, the author of the recentmuch-praised book on comics, The Ten-Cent Plague, and Professor of Journalism atColumbia University, joined Mr.Spiegelman in discussion. This event wasco-sponsored by the University Libraries.

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SPRING 2009

February 5Globalization: Which Globe, WhichPolitics?

Renowned anthropologist and philosopherBruno Latour returned to the HeymanCenter to discuss various notions of global-ization and the ways in which socio-politi-cal and economic factors influence varyingdefinitions of the term. This event was co-sponsored by the Alliance Program,Columbia University.

February 9Poetry Reading

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon,Howard G.B. Clark ‘21 UniversityProfessor in the Humanities at Princeton,read early and recent selected poems beforeengaging in a discussion of his poetry withhis compatriot Cóilín Parsons, Lecturer inEnglish at Columbia. A question andanswer session followed.

February 19You Must Change Your Life

The renowned philosopher Peter Sloterdijk,author of the bestselling Critique of CynicalReason (English translation, 1988) and pro-fessor of philosophy and media theory atthe Karlsruhe School of Design, Germany,spoke on his most recent book, entitled DuMusst Dei Leben Ändern (You MustChange Your Life). His advice for copingin a time of global crisis: if you cannot

change the world, you must change your-self to adapt better to adverse circum-stances.

March 2How to Think about the Financial Crisis

Distinguished economist and political com-mentator Prabhat Patnaik and NobelPrize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitzdiscussed the underlying causes of the cur-rent financial crisis. They offered analysisof the U.S. and global governmentalresponses to the crisis and posited theirviews on the necessary steps to recovery.Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN AssistantSecretary General for Economic Affairs,chaired the event, which was co-sponsoredby the Committee on Global Thought.

March 5The Letter Kills: On Some Implications of2 Corinthians 3:6

Carlo Ginzburg, noted historian and pio-neer of microhistory, returned to theHeyman Center to discuss “The LetterKills: On Some Implications of 2Corinthians 3:6.” Matthew Jones,Columbia Professor of History, chaired thediscussion following the talk, which wasco-sponsored by the Consortium forIntellectual and Cultural History andserved as its annual “History and Theory”Lecture.

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March 11Is Marxism Relevant Today?

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor ofAnthropology at the Graduate Center ofthe City University of New York, andDuncan Foley, Professor of Economics atthe New School for Social Research, joinedPrabhat Patnaik (see How to Think aboutthe Financial Crisis, March 2) to discuss therelevance of Marxism as it pertains to thecurrent financial crisis and beyond. This

event was co-sponsored by the Committeeon Global Thought.

March 24Barack Obama and the New RacialPolitics

Manning Marable, Professor of Historyand Political Science and Director of theCenter for Contemporary Black History atColumbia, discussed the genealogy ofracial politics and the ways in whichBarack Obama has both embraced anddiverged from the politics of his African-American political forebears. FarahGriffin, Professor of English andComparative Literature and Director of theInstitute for Research in African-AmericanStudies, served as discussant.

March 25The Wm. Theodore de Bary Lecture:Classics of Japanese Diaries

Donald Keene, Shincho Professor Emeritusof Japanese Literature at ColumbiaUniversity and recipient of Japan’s 2008Order of Culture, spoke about the diariesof Japanese soldiers recovered byAmericans during the Second World War.Author Shirley Hazzard, recipient of theNational Book Award and the NationalBook Critics Circle Award, served as chair.

April 3-4Wisdom in Ancient Thought—a two-day

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Papers exploring the concept of on wisdomin ancient thought included “Wisdom andPoetry in Early Stoic Thought,” “Aesopand the Tradition of Pre-PhilosophicSophia,” and “Divination and Wisdom inIamblichus’s De mysterii.” Speakers includ-ed Rachel Barney, Jonathan Beere, JohnCooper, Leslie Kurke, Wolfgang Mann,Steven Strange, Peter Struck, Hakan Tell,Iakovos Vasiliou, Katja Vogt, and NancyWorman. This conference was co-spon-sored by the Center for the AncientMediterranean and the University Seminaron Classical Civilization.

April 6The Politics of Recognition

In the last of his three Heyman Center lec-tures this year, philosopher Charles Taylorspoke about his experience on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission—a commission appoint-ed by the Quebec government to investigate,through a series of public hearings, the prob-lems and challenges of recognizing and nego-tiating religious and cultural differences inthe collective life and identity of Quebec.This event was co-sponsored by theCommittee on Global Thought, the Centerfor the Study of Democracy, Toleration, andReligion, and the Institute for Religion,Culture, and Public Life.

April 7Mumbai, Terror, and Islamism

Journalist Basharat Peer, novelist and jour-

nalist Hari Kunzru, Professor Akeel Bilgramiof Columbia University (and Director of theHeyman Center) and Professor FawziaAfzal-Khan of Montclair State Universitydiscussed the connections between the recentattacks in India and radical Islamist ideology,as well as the historic struggle over Kashmir,and the prospects for future relationsbetween India and Pakistan. This event wasco-sponsored by the New York PublicLibrary and the Asia Society, and was held inthe South Court Auditorium of the NewYork Public Library.

April 8Poetry Reading and Conversation

Mark Strand, Professor of English atColumbia University and former U.S. PoetLaureate, read a selection of his poems anddiscussed his poetic career with his longtimefriend Richard Howard, Professor of Writingat Columbia’s School of the Arts and winnerof the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

April 10The Cold War and the Social Sciences:Approaches and Arguments—a day-longworkshop

Among the eight papers presented duringthis workshop were “Deconstructing ColdWar Anthropology,” “Theorist at Work:Talcott Parsons and the Carnegie Project,”and “The Rise of the Chicago School ofEconomics and the Birth of Neoliberalism.”Speakers included Jamie Cohen-Cole,Nicholas Dirks, Nils Gilman, NicolasGuilhot, Joel Isaac, Peter Mandler, MarkMazower, Philip Mirowski, BradleySimpson, Anders Stephanson, Yanis

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Varoufakis, and Carl Wennerlind. This wasco-organized by the Center for InternationalHistory, and was funded by a grant from theMellon Foundation.

April 21The Lionel Trilling Seminar: Plato’sCunning: Philosophy as Political Strategy

Danielle Allen, Professor of Classics at theInstitute for Advanced Study and a recipientof the Macarthur “Genius” Grant, discussedPlato as a knowing political strategist.Columbia professors Nadia Urbinati andKatja Vogt served as respondents.

April 22Baroque ProseNovelist, short story writer, essayist, critic,and former philosophy professor WilliamGass explored the characteristics of baroqueprose as evinced in John Donne’s sermonsand other, more contemporary works.Nicholas Dames, Theodore Kahan AssociateProfessor in the Humanities at Columbia,chaired the discussion.

April 15-29First Light: Satyajit Ray from the ApuTrilogy to the Calcutta Trilogy—a film festi-val and conference

Beginning on April 15, twenty-two films bySatyajit Ray, including the Apu and CalcuttaTrilogies, were screened at Walter ReadeTheater, Lincoln Center. On April 29, thefinal day of the “First Light” festival, film-makers and professors from various univer-sities met to discuss the work of Satyajit Rayduring a day-long conference. Speakers

included Robert Young, Marcia Landy, MiraNair, Ashish Rajyadhyaksha, ShyamBenegal, Mihir Bhattacharya, SamikBandyopadhyay, Michael Wood, MoinakBiswas, and Richard Terdiman. This festivalwas co-sponsored by the Film Society ofLincoln Center, the Humanities Division ofthe University of California, Santa Cruz,Columbia University’s Institute forComparative Literature and Society, and theDepartment of Middle East and AsianLanguages and Cultures.

April 28Poetry, Prose, and the Art of the Political

For the first time anywhere, Adrienne Richand Antjie Krog—two of the most accom-plished and celebrated of contemporarypoets and longtime admirers of one another’swork—shared the stage to read selectedpoems. The reading was co-sponsored by the

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Institute for Comparative Literature andSociety, the Institute for Research on Womenand Gender, the Center for Research onWomen at Barnard, and Barnard WomenPoets.

April 29Islam, Islamisms, and the West in a GlobalContext

Marxist literary theorist and political com-mentator Aijaz Ahmad discussed the socio-political genealogy of Islamism as an emer-gent phenomenon in world history. AkeelBilgrami, the Director of the HeymanCenter, served as chair for this event, whichwas co-sponsored by the Committee onGlobal Thought, the Center for the Study ofDemocracy, Toleration, and Religion, and theInstitute for Religion, Culture, and PublicLife.

Links to selected websites mentioned inProgram listings:

Heyman Center for the Humanities:http://www.heymancenter.orgWest-Eastern Divan: http://west-easterndi-van.artists.warner.de/

Committee on Global Thought:http://cgt.columbia.edu/

Columbia University Press:http://cup.columbia.edu/

The University Libraries:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

Institute for Research on Women andGender:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/irwag/index.html

University Seminars:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/seminars/

Institute for Religion, Culture, and PublicLife: http://www.ircpl.org/

Center for the Study of Democracy,Toleration and Religion:http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cdtr/

Alliance Program:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alliance/

Consortium for Intellectual and CulturalHistory: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cich/

Center for the Ancient Mediterranean:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cam/

New York Public Library:http://www.nypl.org/

Asia Society: http://www.asiasociety.org/

Center for International History:http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cih/

Institute for Comparative Literature andSociety: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/icls/

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Jeffrey Andrew Barash (1983-1985) is profes-sor of philosophy at the Université dePicardie, Amiens. He will be a Gadamer visit-ing professor in the philosophy department ofBoston College in Spring 2010. In 2009 anItalian translation of his book Politiques del’histoire: L’historicisme comme promesse etcomme mythe was published. He also recentlyedited The Symbolic Construction of Reality:The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer (U of Chicago P,2008) and Paul Ricœur: Interprétation etreconnaissance (Presses Universitaires deFrance, 2008).

Sandrine Bertaux(2002-2004) is cur-rently Lecturer inthe Department ofPolitical Scienceand InternationalRelations atMarmaraUniversity,Istanbul, and non-residential Fellow(2009-2012) at theAmsterdam Schoolfor Social ScienceResearch,Universityof Amsterdam, inthe program“Culturalization ofCitizenship.” Hercurrent researchproject concerns“The Guests WhoReturned: RetiredMemories of‘Europe’ inTurkey” (withMurat Akan). In2008, she co-directed (with

Murat Akan) a workshop entitled“Secularism, Secularization, Secular: ReligiousMinorities and Democracy” at the ninthMediterranean Research Meeting (EUI). Herrecent papers include “Recasting ‘ThirdWorld’ in the First World: Alfred Sauvy,Fascist Legacies, Colonial Domination andthe Rise of American Social Demography,”delivered at the German Historical Institute,Washington, May 2009 and “ProtectingTurkish Women? Gender Equality, MigrantWomen and Prostitution in Turkish 2003Citizenship Law” (with Firat Bozcali) at theECPR conference entitled “Practices of

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Citizenship and the Politics of (In)-Security,”in Lisbon, April 2009.

Giorgio Biancorosso (2001-2003) teachesMusic and Film Studies at The University ofHong Kong. His essay on sound appeared inThe Routledge Companion to Film andPhilosophy (2008), and his chapter “Ludwig’sWagner and Visconti’s ‘Ludwig’” was pub-lished in Wagner and Cinema (Indiana UP,2009). Other publications include “TheHarpist in the Closet: Film Music asEpistemological Joke,” which appeared in thejournal Music and the Moving Image and thebook Musical Aesthetics through Cinema(Oxford UP, forthcoming). ProfessorBiancorosso has been lecturing on sound inChinese cinema, opera, and musical aestheticsin Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Stanford,Berkeley, and New York. He is also active inHong Kong as a writer on music and as aconcert programmer. In the spring of 2010, hewill take up a Visiting Professorship in Musicat National Taiwan University (Taipei).

Akeel Bilgrami (1983-1985) was this yearnamed a fellow to the Dorothy and LewisCullman Center for Scholars and Writers atthe New York Public Library, where he iswriting a book on Gandhi’s thought. He haspublished papers over the year on “WhyMeaning Intentions Are Degenerate” and“Freedom, Truth, and Balance in theAcademy,”, and is at present writing respons-es to critical commentaries for a publishedsymposium on his recently published bookSelf-Knowledge and Resentment (HarvardUP, 2006).

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (1981-1983)spent the fall, supported by an ACLS grant, asa visiting fellow at Princeton University. Inthe spring she returned to the University ofPittsburgh as acting chair of the Department

of French and Italian. The main focus of herresearch is still Philippe de Mézières, a fasci-nating figure from the late fourteenth century.She co-organized an international colloquiumon de Mézières at the University of Cyprus inNicosia in June 2009 with grants from theFlorence Gould and Delmas Foundations.Two of her articles on Philippe de Mézières’swork have appeared in Viator and Romaniathis year.

George Bournoutian (1978-1980) is Professorof History at Iona College. In 2009, MazdaPublishers released two of his books: A BriefHistory of the Aghuank` Region and Jambr,which was favorably reviewed by the TimesLiterary Supplement (March 2009). DuringSpring 2009, he was a Kazan Fellow atCalifornia State University, Fresno, and pre-sented lectures in Tehran (Iran), Isfahan(Iran), and at the University of California,Berkeley and California State University,Fresno.

Betsy Connor Bowen (1976-1977) producedThe People Nobody Believed in, a 48-minutedocumentary on an innovative program called“church with beds.” Designed to meet theneeds of Maine people returning to societyfrom prison, the program has been successful-ly reducing recidivism. Her novella SpringBear will be available on Amazon in summer2009 via www.betsyconnorbowen.com. She iswriting a memoir, Before Tobruk, AfterTobruk on her writer father’s life, his WorldWar II experience, and its impact on her fami-ly. Her collection of Maine regional fiction(short stories) is about half done. She is cur-rently writing a video blog for the local paper,restoring a one-room schoolhouse, and work-ing to pass legislation in Maine to help reduceeutrophication of Maine’s beautiful lakes, oneof which she looks at as she writes this.

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Peter A. Coclanis (1983-1984) recently com-pleted his twenty-fifth year at UNC-ChapelHill, where he is Associate Provost forInternational Affairs and Albert R. NewsomeProfessor of History and Economics. He con-tinues to work and write in the areas of inter-national, Southeast Asian, and American eco-nomic and business history.

Wiebke Denecke (2004-2006) spent 2008-2009 as a Member at the Institute forAdvanced Study at Princeton working on abook project, which explores how younger

cultures such as Japan and Rome wrote theirown literature through and against the literaryprecedents of their older reference cultures,China and Greece respectively. Her bookmanuscript “Chinese Philosophy: TheDynamics of pre-Qin ‘Masters Literature’”was accepted for publication by HarvardUniversity Press. She hosted a conference on“Commonality and Regionality in theCultural Heritage of East Asia” with WangYong (ACLS visiting scholar, Barnard), whichbrought together scholars from Asia, Europe,and North America to discuss how a common

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Chinese cultural heritage developed outside ofChina in the East Asian cultural sphere.

Naomi Diamant (1992-1994) was recentlyappointed Assistant Vice Provost forAcademic Initiatives at New York University.

Constantin Fasolt (1981-1983) is a recoveringadministrator. Having stepped down from athree-year term as Associate/Deputy Dean ofSocial Sciences at the University of Chicago,he spent 2008-2009 reacquainting himself withstudents, teaching, and research. He evenmanaged to write a new paper—the first since2005 that’s actually new and hasn’t merelybeen moving forward through “the pipeline”while he was administering. The paper is titled“Respect for the Word: What Calvin andWittgenstein Had Against Images,” and itmarks, he hopes, a new intellectual beginning.

Joshua Fogel (1980-1981) teaches Chineseand East Asian history at York University inToronto. In 2009 he published Articulatingthe Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations inSpace and Time (Harvard UP), a revised ver-sion of his Reischauer Lectures from 2007. Healso re-started publication of Sino-JapaneseStudies, a journal he edited from 1989-2004,this time entirely online and completely free(www.chinajapan.org). He continues to workon a comprehensive history of Sino-Japaneserelations, a historiographical study of the“gold seal” of 57 C.E., and the Japanese com-munity of Shanghai in the 19th century.

Michèle Hannoosh (1982-1985) was againChair of the Department of RomanceLanguages and Literatures at the Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor. She wrote an essayon Romanticism for the Cambridge Historyof French Literature, and an article onDelacroix’s “Still Life with Lobsters.” Herlong-awaited edition of Delacroix’s Journal is

due to appear in late summer (José Corti,2009, 2 volumes).

James Higginbotham (1977–1978, 1979–1980)was on leave for 2008-2009. In the fall helived in Venice, Italy, and was back and forthto Pisa as Visiting Professor at the ScuolaNormale. He spent the spring in Oxford asVisiting Professor of Philosophy and as VeraBrittain Visiting Fellow, Somerville College.He finally managed to get a collection ofpapers out (to appear in July) and is workingon two more. Next year he continues asChairman of Linguistics at the University ofSouthern California. He will be teaching agraduate Philosophy seminar on Self-Knowledge in the fall, and Advanced Logic inthe spring. He wishes he had used more ofboth subjects in a practical way as a youngman.

Janet Johnson (1985-1987) is currently ascholar-in-residence at the Newberry Libraryin Chicago, where she is working on a bookproject entitled “Shakespeare’s Romeo andDante’s Giulietta: The Story of a Myth inMusic.” This fall she will be a Snyder Fellowat the Folger Shakespeare Library inWashington, D.C.

Vinay Lal (1992-1994) was in Delhi for eight-een months as Director of the University ofCalifornia Education Abroad Program(India), and delivered nearly thirty-five talksin Hyderabad, Delhi, Patna, Udaipur,Mumbai, and Kolkata. His The OtherIndians: A Political and Cultural History ofSouth Asians in America was published in2008 by the University of California in theU.S. and by HarperCollins in India. TheFuture of Knowledge and Culture: ADictionary for the 21st Century (VikingPenguin, 2005), which he co-edited withAshis Nandy, has been translated into

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Kannada, and Empire of Knowledge (Pluto,2002) has recently been re-published in Urdu.His book Introducing Hinduism (Icon, 2005)has appeared in Spanish, Korean, and Finnishtranslations.

Susan Layton (1981-1983) remains a visitingscholar in the Russian department at theUniversity of Edinburgh and an associate ofCentre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien,et centre-européen (Paris). Her recent articlesinclude “The Divisive Modern RussianTourist Abroad: Representations of Self andOther in the Early Reform Era,” forthcomingin Slavic Review, and “The MaudeTranslations of the Sevastopol Stories,” in thelatest issue of the Tolstoy Studies Journal.

Andrew Lear (2004-2006) will start a new jobin the Classics Department at PomonaCollege in Fall 2009. His recent book, Imagesof Ancient Greek Pederasty (Routledge, 2008),has received a number of favorable reviews,including one by Craig Williams in the BrynMawr Classical Review (which can beaccessed athttp://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-04-65.html). Williams was, among other things,the respondent to Professor Lear’s talk at theSociety of Fellows in 2006. A paperback edi-tion of the book is to be released in the latefall.

Robin Lewis (1978-1981) is now living andworking in Beijing, where he heads his ownhigher education and public policy firm,Worldview Global Consulting, LLC(www.worldviewglobal.com). He is alsoProfessor and Director of the GlobalPartnership Network at the School of SocialDevelopment and Public Policy (SSDPP) atBeijing Normal University—China’s leadinggraduate teaching, research, and policy advi-sory institution in the field of social policy.

Suzanne Lodato (1998-2000) recently joinedIndiana University’s Office of the ViceProvost for Research as Academic Specialistfor Research Development. Previously, sheserved as a consultant to the Library ServicesDivision of the Library of Congress, asDirector of the Division of Preservation andAccess at the National Endowment for theHumanities, and as Associate Program Officerin the Scholarly Communications Program atthe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She hasfunded a wide range of grants spanninglibrary technology, cataloging, electronic pub -lishing, scholarly electronic resources, andresearch concerning current trends and issuesin scholarly communication. Dr. Lodato is afounding member of the InternationalAssociation for Word and Music Studies(WMA), of which she is Vice-President. Shehas edited two WMA proceed ings volumes,published a number of articles on song andsong cycle analysis, and authored entries forThe New Grove History of Music andMusicians (2d edition), the Reader’s Guide toMusic: History, Theory, and Criticism(Rutledge), and Europe since 1914:Encyclopedia of the Age of War andReconstruction (Scribner).

Deborah Epstein Nord (1980-1982) spent theFall semester as a Senior Fellow at theNational Humanities Center in NorthCarolina. Together with her colleague MariaDiBattista, she is currently at work on a bookabout women writers, 1800 to the present,and their engagement with public and politicallife. Her essay “The Making of DickensCriticism” appeared in Contemporary Dickens(eds. Eileen Gillooly and Deirdre David,Ohio State UP, 2008). A second essay onDickens, “Dicken’s ‘Jewish Question’: PariahCapitalism and the Way Out” will appear inVictorian Literature and Culture.

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In 2008, David L. Pike (1993-1995) publishedthe essays “Hiding in Plain Sight: CinematicUndergrounds” (in Strange Spaces:Explorations into Mediated Obscurity) and“The Passing of Celluloid, the Endurance ofthe Image: Egoyan, ‘Steenbeckett’ and Krapp’sLast Tape” (in Image + Territory: Essays onAtom Egoyan). He participated in the round-table “Underground” (Working Papers 2:2),presented a plenary talk on “Cinema and theVertical City” at McGill University, and apaper on Walter Benjamin, Doctor Dolittle,and the nineteenth-century child at theInterdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century StudiesConference (INCS). A World of Writing:Poems, Stories, Plays, Essays, co-authoredwith Ana Acosta, will be published in January2010 by Longman and a book on recentCanadian cinema later the same year byWallflower Press.

In 2006-2007, Hillary Poriss (2001-2003) was aFellow at the American Academy in Rome,and in Fall 2007 she began a new job atNortheastern University in Boston, veryhappy to be back on the east coast. Hermonograph, Changing the Score: Arias, PrimaDonnas, and the Authority of Performance(Oxford UP), and a co-edited volume,Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-CenturyItalian Opera (with Roberta Marvin,Cambridge UP) will appear late this year. Bestof all, her son Lucas Dylan Bailey was bornon March 10, 2009.

Mark Rollins (1985-1987) is Chair andProfessor of Philosophy and of Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology at WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis. He also holds a cour-tesy appointment as Professor in the Sam FoxSchool of Art and Visual Design and isAssociate Dean for the Curriculum in theCollege of Arts and Sciences. His recentresearch concerns issues at the intersection of

cognitive science and aesthetics, such as therecognition of intentions in art, the brain basisfor pictorial style, and neural plasticity andthe history of art. He is currently completinga new book, The Strategic Eye: PerceptualStrategies and Pictorial Art.

Scott A. Sandage (1995-1996) is AssociateProfessor and Director of UndergraduateStudies in the Department of History atCarnegie Mellon University. He is the authorof Born Losers: A History of Failure inAmerica (Harvard UP, 2005) and an annotatedabridgement of Tocqueville’s Democracy inAmerica (HarperCollins, 2007). In 2007-2008,he held an NEH Senior Faculty Fellowship towork on his next book, a study of mixed-racefamilies entitled Half-Breed Creek: A TallTale of Race on the Frontier, 1804-1941. Thegerm of this book began in chats with KarlKroeber at the Heyman Center and in subse-quent conversations with Claudio Saunt (SOF,1996-1998).

In 2008 Claudio Saunt (1996-1998) published“Go West: Mapping Early AmericanHistoriography” in The William and MaryQuarterly. He currently holds a sabbaticalfellowship from the American PhilosophicalSociety and is working on a book-lengthmanuscript, America in 1776, which exploreseight American places, ranging from theAleutian Islands to the Black Hills to TampaBay. In April 2009, he delivered the biennialLittlefield Lectures at the University of Texas,Austin.

Martha Ann Selby (1987-1988) is AssociateProfessor of South Asian Studies at theUniversity of Texas at Austin. She wasappointed Directeur d’Études, École desHautes Études en Sciences Sociales andInstitut d’Études Avancées de Paris Ile de

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France during the months of May and June2008. She co-edited a book of essays withIndira Viswanathan Peterson titled TamilGeographies: Cultural Constructions of Spaceand Place in South India (SUNY Press, 2008).Her translation of Ainkurunooru, a fourth-century anthology of classical Tamil lovepoems, is forthcoming (Columbia UP, 2010).She is the grandmother of two splendid tod-dlers and plans to swim the English Channelbefore she turns 60.

William Sharpe (1981-1983) continues asProfessor of English at Barnard College. Hisbook New York Nocturne: The City AfterDark in Literature, Painting, andPhotography was published in Fall 2008 byPrinceton University Press.

Samer Shehata (1999-2000) published ShopFloor Culture and Politics in Egypt (SUNYPress 2009). Professor Shehata was named aCarnegie Scholar for the 2009-2010 academicyear, during which he will work on a projectentitled “Islamist Electoral and ParliamentaryParticipation in Egypt, Morocco, andKuwait.”

Ginger Strand (1993-1995) is a 2009 NewYork Foundation for the Arts Fellow inNonfiction. Her book Inventing Niagara:Beauty, Power and Lies (Simon & Schuster,

2008) was a finalist for the Orion BookAward. In 2008-2009 she received a PushcartPrize and grants from the Hartman Center atDuke University, the Eisenhower Foundation,and the Center for Land Use Interpretation towork on a new book about the interstatehighway system.

Mark Swislocki (2001-2003) publishedCulinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Cultureand the Urban Experience in Shanghai(Stanford UP, 2009). He is currently working

on a new book entitled “Human-AnimalRelations as Cultural Frontiers in China.”

Jean Terrier (2004-2006) joined the CentreMarc Bloch, the Franco-German Center forResearch in the Social Sciences in Berlin,Germany, in 2006. He received researchgrants from the Alexander von HumboldtFoundation (Humboldt University, Berlin,2007-2008) and from the Institute for CulturalInquiry (Berlin, 2008-2009). Starting inSeptember 2009 he will be a Research Fellowin Political Science at the WestfälischeWilhelms-Universität Münster. He is current-ly working on a book entitled Visions of theSocial: Politics and the Human Sciences inFrance around 1900, which is under contractwith Brill Publishers and is scheduled toappear in 2010.

John Tresch (2000-2002) is currently finishinghis book, The Romantic Machine:Metamorphosis and Technology in France,1820-1851. In 2009-2010, he will be in NewYork City on fellowship at the Dorothy andLewis Cullman Center of the New YorkPublic Library, doing research on Edgar AllanPoe and American science.

Kate van Orden (1996-1997) is Full Professorin the Music Department at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. This year, in addition toher responsibilities as editor-in-chief of theJournal of the American Musicological Society,she gave invited lectures at the AmericanPhilosophical Society, the Catholic Universityof America, and keynoted the Thirty-FourthAnnual International Conference on Medievaland Renaissance Music in Utrecht, TheNetherlands. Her concert performances onbaroque and classical bassoon included venuesin Houston and the Bay Area.

Franciscus Verellen (1987-1989), Director of

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the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, waselected Academician in the Académie desInscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut deFrance, in 2008. He has been named aMember of the Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton, for 2009-2010.

Miriam Ticktin (2002-2004) moved this pastacademic year from her position as AssistantProfessor at the University of Michigan totake a job as Assistant Professor inAnthropology and International Affairs at theNew School. She wanted to get back toNYC!

Joanna Waley-Cohen (1988-1990) isCollegiate Professor and Professor of Historyat New York University. She is writing anaccount of daily life in China around 1800 foruse in college teaching and at the same timeworking on a study of early modern Chineseculinary history. In the past year she has par-ticipated in conferences in Cambridge (cor-ruption in nineteenth-century China), Paris(urban life in Ming-Qing China), and NewYork (transnational history of food in EastAsia).

Nicholas Xenos (1980-1982) presented paperson the concept of patriotism in John StuartMill’s interpretation of the story of JuniusBrutus at a meeting of the InternationalSociety for Utilitarian Studies held at theUniversity of California, Berkeley and at theDepartment of Political Science at theUniversity of Connecticut in Fall 2008. Healso completed a chapter entitled“Everybody’s Got the Fever: Scarcity and theUS National Energy Policy” for a forthcom-ing volume on the concept of scarcity.Professor Xenos taught a graduate seminar inFall 2008 on Critical Theory, with particularattention to the works of Walter Benjaminand T.W. Adorno.

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Molly Aitken (‘00-‘02)Art HistoryIndependent [email protected]

April Alliston (‘88-‘89)Comparative LiteraturePrinceton [email protected]

Michael Anderson (‘94-‘96)ClassicsTrinity [email protected]

Richard Andrews (‘85-‘88)Deceased

Karl Appuhn (‘99-‘01)HistoryNew York [email protected]

Andrew Apter (‘87-‘89)ChairM.A. Program in African StudiesUniversity of California, Los [email protected]

Jordanna Bailkin (‘99-‘01)HistoryUniversity of [email protected]

Jeffrey M. Bale (‘94-‘96)DirectorTerrorism Research & Education ProgramMonterey Institute of International [email protected]

Hilary Ballon (‘85-‘86)Art HistoryColumbia [email protected]

Jeffrey Andrew Barash (‘83-‘85)PhilosophyUniversity of PicardieAmiens, [email protected] Bard (‘02-‘04)African & Asian Languages & LiteraturesUniversity of [email protected]

Robert Bauslaugh (‘79-‘81)Art HistoryBrevard [email protected]

Sandrine Bertaux (‘02-‘04)Political Science & International RelationsMarmara UniversityIstanbul, [email protected]

Giorgio Biancorosso (‘01-‘03)MusicUniversity of Hong KongPok Fu Lam, Hong [email protected]

Akeel Bilgrami (‘83-‘85)PhilosophyColumbia [email protected]

Beth Bjorklund (‘82-‘84)Germanic Languages & LiteraturesUniversity of [email protected]

Irene Bloom (‘76-‘78)Professor EmeritaAsian & Middle Eastern CulturesBarnard [email protected]

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (‘81-‘83)French University of [email protected]

Peter Bol (‘80-‘82)East Asian Languages & CivilizationsHarvard [email protected]

George Bournoutian (‘78-‘80)HistoryIona [email protected]

Betsy C. Bowen (‘76-‘77)Writer, Independent Producer [email protected]

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John Bugg (‘07-‘08)EnglishFordham [email protected]

D. Graham Burnett (‘97-‘99)HistoryPrinceton [email protected]

Glenn R. Butterton (‘86-‘89)

Mary Baine Campbell (‘85-‘87)English & American LiteratureBrandeis [email protected]

David Castriota (‘82-‘84)Art HistorySarah Lawrence [email protected]

William Clark (‘89-‘91)

Peter A. Coclanis (‘83-‘84)HistoryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel [email protected]

Ada Cohen (‘90-‘91)Art HistoryDartmouth [email protected]

James B. Collins (‘80-‘81)HistoryGeorgetown [email protected]

Julie Cooper (‘03-‘05)Political ScienceUniversity of [email protected]

Jonathan Crary (‘87-‘89)Art History & ArchaeologyColumbia [email protected]

Brian A. Curran (‘96-‘98)Assistant Head, Graduate OfficerArt HistoryPennsylvania State University

[email protected]

James R. Currie (‘00-‘02)MusicThe State University of New York, [email protected]

Lorraine Daston (‘79–‘80)Executive DirectorMax Planck Institute for the History of ScienceBerlin, [email protected]

Elizabeth Davis (’05-‘07)AnthropologyDuke [email protected]

Mary Dearborn (‘86-‘88)New York City ScholarHeyman Center for the HumanitiesColumbia [email protected]

Mark Debellis (‘88-‘90)

Vidya Dehejia (‘84-‘86)Art History & ArchaeologyColumbia [email protected]

Wiebke Denecke (‘04-‘06)Asian and Middle Eastern CulturesBarnard [email protected]

Naomi Diamant (‘92-‘94)Assistant Vice ProvostAcademic InitiativesNew York [email protected]

Deborah Diamond (‘94-‘96)Director of ResearchGreater Philadelphia Tourism [email protected]

Mary DillardHistorySarah Lawrence [email protected]

Adrienne Donald (‘92-‘93)

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Greg Downey (‘98-‘00)AnthropologyMacquarie UniversitySydney, [email protected]

Laura Lee Downs (‘87-‘88)Director of StudiesHistorical Research CenterParis, [email protected]

Lauren Dreyfus (’79-’81)Magdalen CollegeUniversity of [email protected]

Heather Ecker (‘00-‘02)Curator of Islamic ArtDetroit Institute of [email protected]

Maria Farland (‘98-‘00)EnglishFordham [email protected]

Constantin Fasolt (‘81-‘83)Social SciencesUniversity of [email protected]

Ilana Feldman (‘02-‘04)Director, Graduate StudiesKevorkian Center for Near Eastern StudiesNew York [email protected]

Ruben Cesar Fernandes (‘78-‘79)

Joshua Fogel (‘80-‘81)Canada Research ChairChinese HistoryYork UniversityToronto, [email protected]

Douglas Frame (‘80-‘82)Associate DirectorCenter for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.Harvard [email protected]

Anne Frydman (‘77-‘79)Writing SeminarsJohns Hopkins University(410) 516-6287

Jonathan Gilmore (‘99-‘01)PhilosophyYale [email protected]

Jennifer Greeson (‘01-‘03)English University of [email protected]

James Hankins (‘83-‘85)HistoryHarvard [email protected]

Michele Hannoosh (‘82-‘85)Romance Languages & LiteraturesUniversity of [email protected]

Daniel Harkett (’04-‘06)Art History and ArchaeologyRhode Island School of [email protected]

Gary Hausman (‘96-‘97)School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel [email protected]

Wendy B. Heller (‘97-‘98)MusicPrinceton [email protected]

James Higginbotham (‘76-‘78, ‘79-‘80)Philosophy & LinguisticsUniversity of Southern [email protected]

Anne T. Higgins (‘90-‘92)Simon Fraser [email protected]

Victoria Holbrook (‘85-‘87)IndependentIstanbul, [email protected]

Alumni Fellows

Robert Holzer (‘90-‘92)MusicYale [email protected]

Norbert Hornstein (‘80-‘83)LinguisticsUniversity of [email protected]

Alan Houston (‘88-‘89)Political ScienceUniversity of California, San [email protected]

Don Howard (‘80-‘81)PhilosophyUniversity of Notre [email protected]

David Hoy (‘81-‘82)Director, Graduate StudiesPhilosophyUniversity of California, Santa [email protected]

Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (‘82-‘84)HistoryPennsylvania State [email protected]

Trinity Jackman (‘05-‘07)[email protected]

E. H. Rick Jarow (‘91-‘93)Religion, Asian StudiesVassar [email protected]

Anning Jing (‘94-‘96)Asian ArtMichigan State [email protected]

Amy E. Johnson (‘78-‘80)[email protected]

David Johnson (‘79-‘81)HistoryUniversity of California, [email protected]

Janet Johnson (‘85-‘87)NEH Residential FellowNew Berry Library, [email protected]

Judith L. Johnston (‘77-‘79)EnglishRider [email protected]

Dalia Judovitz (‘81-‘82)French & ItalianEmory [email protected]

Jonathon Kahn (‘03-‘05)ReligionVassar [email protected]

Paize Keulemans (‘05-‘06)East Asian Languages and LiteraturesYale [email protected]

Muhammad Ali Khalidi (‘91-‘93)PhilosophyYork UniversityToronto, [email protected]

Dilwyn Knox (‘85-‘87)ItalianUniversity College LondonLondon, United [email protected]

David Kurnick (‘06-‘07)EnglishRutgers [email protected]

Guolong Lai (‘02-‘04)Art HistoryUniversity of [email protected]

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Vinay Lal (‘92-‘93)HistoryUniversity of California, Los [email protected]

Robert Lamberton (‘84-‘86)ChairClassicsWashington University in St. [email protected]

Richard Landes (‘84-‘86)DirectorCenter for Millennial StudiesHistoryBoston [email protected]

Charles Larmore (‘78-‘80)PhilosophyBrown [email protected]

Susan Layton (‘81-‘83)Slavonic StudiesUniversity of StrathclydeGlasgow, [email protected]

Andrew Lear (‘04-‘06)ClassicsFlorida State [email protected]

Rebecca M. Lesses (‘96–‘98) Jewish StudiesIthaca [email protected]

Theodore Levin (‘79–‘81) MusicDartmouth [email protected]

Robin Lewis (‘78–‘81) Fairfield Greenwich GroupBeijing, [email protected]

Conrad Leyser (‘92–‘94) HistoryUniversity of Manchester, [email protected]

Suzanne Lodato (‘98–‘00) Indiana [email protected]

Marie-Rose Logan (‘76-‘78)European & Comparative LiteratureSoka University of [email protected]

Paul D. Lyon (‘80-‘81)PhilosophyUniversity of Texas at [email protected]

David A.J. Macey (‘76-‘78)History & Russian StudiesMiddlebury [email protected]

Myron Magnet (‘77-‘79)EditorCity JournalManhattan Institutecommunications@manhattan-insti tute.org

Susan Manning (‘87-‘88)EnglishNorthwestern [email protected]

Joseph Masheck (‘76-‘78)Fine ArtsHofstra [email protected]

Richard McCoy (‘77-‘79)EnglishQueens CollegeCity University of New [email protected]

Darrin M. McMahon (‘97-‘99)HistoryFlorida State [email protected]

Cecilia Miller (‘89-‘91)HistoryWesleyan [email protected]

Larry Miller (‘84-‘86)

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Nancy Miller (76-78)Comparative LiteratureGraduate CenterCity University of New [email protected]

Amira Mittermaier (‘06-‘07)ReligionUniversity of TorontoToronto, [email protected]

Scott Morrison (‘04-‘06)Fulbright [email protected] Munsterberg (‘84-‘86)

Christian Murck (‘78-‘80)Chief Executive OfficerAPCO Worldwide, [email protected]

Liam Murphy (‘90-‘92)Law & PhilosophyNew York [email protected]

Suzanne Nalbantian (‘76-‘78)English & Comparative LiteratureLong Island [email protected]

John Nassivera (‘77-‘79)Theater DepartmentGreen Mountain [email protected]

Gulru Necipoglu (‘86-‘87)History of Art & ArchitectureHarvard [email protected]

Deborah Epstein Nord (‘80-‘82)EnglishPrinceton [email protected]

Calvin Normore (‘83-‘84)PhilosophyUniversity of California, Los [email protected]

Irina Oryshkevich (‘03-‘05)Italian Academy for Advanced StudiesColumbia [email protected]

Jesse Ann Owens (‘77-’79) DeanDivision of Humanities, Arts & Cultural StudiesUniversity of California, [email protected]

Esther Pasztory (‘80-‘82)Art History & ArchaeologyColumbia [email protected]

David Pike (‘93-‘95)LiteratureAmerican [email protected]

Hilary Poriss (‘01-‘03)MusicNortheastern [email protected]

Linda Przybyszewski (‘95-‘97)HistoryUniversity of Notre [email protected]

Eloise Quiñones-Keber (‘84-‘86)Art HistoryGraduate Center City University of New [email protected]

Ann Ramsey (‘91-‘92)

John Rogers (‘89-‘90)EnglishYale [email protected]

Mark Rollins (‘85-‘87)PhilosophyWashington University in St. [email protected]

Peter Sahlins (‘87–‘88)HistoryUniversity of California, [email protected]

Alumni Fellows

Scott A. Sandage (‘95–‘96)HistoryCarnegie Mellon [email protected]

Claudio M. Saunt (‘96-‘98)HistoryUniversity of [email protected]

Martha Porter Saxton (‘88-‘90)History Women’s & Gender StudiesAmherst [email protected]

Kirsten Schultz (’98-‘99) Department of HistorySeton Hall [email protected]

Micah J. Schwartzman (‘06-‘07)LawUniversity of [email protected]

Martha Ann Selby (‘87–‘88) South Asian StudiesUniversity of Texas, [email protected]

Richard Serrano (‘96–‘98) French & Comparative LiteratureRutgers [email protected]

Pavlos Sfyroeras (‘92–‘94)ClassicsMiddlebury [email protected]

William Sharpe (‘81–‘83)EnglishBarnard [email protected]

Samer S. Shehata (‘99–‘00) Center for Contemporary Arab StudiesGeorgetown [email protected]

April Shelford (‘97–‘99) HistoryAmerican [email protected]

Leo K. Shin (‘95-‘97)Asian StudiesUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver, [email protected]

Susan Sidlauskas (‘90-‘92)Art HistoryRutgers [email protected]

Paul Silverman (‘86-‘88)

Laura M. Slatkin (‘81–‘83) Gallatin School of Individualized StudyNew York [email protected]

Robert Stillman (‘80–‘82) EnglishUniversity of Tennessee [email protected]

Ginger Strand (‘93-‘95)New York, New [email protected]

Mark Swislocki (‘01-‘03)HistoryBrown [email protected]

Jean Terrier (‘04-‘06)Social and Political ScienceCentre Marc-BlochBerlin, [email protected]

Miriam Ticktin (‘02-‘04)Anthropology, International AffairsNew School for Social [email protected]

Barbara Tischler (‘83-‘85)Arts & HumanitiesTeachers CollegeColumbia [email protected]

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John Tresch (‘00-‘02)History & Sociology of ScienceUniversity of [email protected]

Joanne van der Woude (‘07-‘08)EnglishHarvard [email protected]

Kate Van Orden (‘96-‘97)MusicUniversity of California, [email protected]

Carl Franciscus Verellen (‘87-‘89)DirectorEcole francaise d’ [email protected]

Gauri Viswanathan (‘86–‘88) English & Comparative LiteratureColumbia [email protected]

Joanna Waley-Cohen (‘88-‘90)HistoryNew York [email protected]

Leonard Wallock (‘82-‘84)Associate DirectorWalter H. Capps Center for the Study of Religion &Public [email protected]

Alicyn Warren (‘93-‘95)School of MusicUniversity of [email protected]

Anne Waters (‘95-‘97)[email protected]

Steven I. Wilkinson (‘98-‘99)Political ScienceUniversity of [email protected]

Nicholas Xenos (‘80-‘82)Political ScienceUniversity of Massachusetts, [email protected]

Andrew Zimmerman (‘98–‘00)History, International AffairsGeorge Washington [email protected]

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