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Antoine Compagnon (French)
Compagnon was elected as an honorary member of the Japan Academy at the 1133rd General Meeting held on November 12th, 2019.
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Matt Hart (English)
Hart has become President of the Modernist Studies Association His term runs until October 2020, when he will preside over the annual meeting in Brooklyn (for which the Division of Humanities, GSAS, and English and Comparative Literature are sponsors) and then become Past President for 2020-21. Hart served as First Vice President in 2018-19 and Second Vice President in 2017-18.
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 Harou Shirane (EALAC)
Shirane has been selected as the first recipient of the NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies. The prize recognizes outstanding achievement in Japanese studies and for major contribution to the development of Japanese scholarship overseas. NIHU consists of the National Museum of Japanese History, National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, and National Museum of Ethnology.
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Alexander Alberro (AHAR)
Alberro commented on the effect that Elizabeth Warren's selfies with the public will have on the normalization of a woman in a position of political leadership, in The Washington Post.
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Mark Andryczyk (Harriman)
Andryczyk commented for Foreign Policy on Americans' tendency to forget to drop the word "the" when speaking about Ukrainian, and what it means to Ukrainians.
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Akeel Bilgrami (Philosophy)
Bilgrami and Gloria Steinem co-wrote an article for The Guardian, speaking out against the awarding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Goalkeeper award to India’s controversial Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi.
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Jo Ann Cavallo (Italian)
Cavallo wrote "The Substance of Sicilian Puppet Theater: Past and Present" for Athanaem Review. The essay first outlines the principal chivalric narratives that found their way into traditional Sicilian puppet theater, then turns to the way today’s puppeteers are refashioning the stories for contemporary audiences.
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Sharon Marcus (English)
Marcus's newest book, The Drama of Celebrity, has been reviewed in a number of outlets, including The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Jewish Chronicle.
Marcus was interviewed about The Drama of Celebrity at Jezebel, Columbia Magazine, and on radio shows and podcasts such as WBUR’s "On Point," (an NPR show), BYU Radio's "Constant Wonder," and TV Guidance Counselor.
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Khatchig Mouradian (MESAAS)
Mouradian wrote in The Washington Post about the House's resolution to affirm as US policy the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
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Debashree Mukherjee (MESAAS)
Mukherjee wrote about the disconnect between the image of Kashmir seen in mainstream media, created by people who are not Kashmiris, and the reality of Kashmir as it is, in The Wire.
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Camille Robcis (French, History)
Robcis wrote in The Washington Post about the outcry in France against the recent vote to legalize access to reproductive technologies such as IVF for single women and lesbian couples. She was also interviewed on the topic by The Atlantic.
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 Yuri Shevchuk (Slavic) and Irina Reyfman (Slavic)
Shevchuk and Reyfman spoke with The New York Times about linguistic issues which arose from the impeachment inquiry testimony: the various pronunciations of "Kiev," and the inclusion of the word "the" before "Ukraine."
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Named Lectures & Symposia
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 Ellie Hisama (Music)
Hisama delivered the lecture "Getting to Count" at the plenary panel "Reframing Music Theory" at the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory in Columbus, Ohio. The lecture addressed the paucity of women, trans, and non-binary gender scholars in the SMT, the relationship between demographic diversity and intellectual diversity, and the importance of rethinking what gets to count as music theory.
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 New Books in the Arts & Sciences
Celebrating Recent Work by Sarah Cole:
Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 | 6:15pm
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
In Inventing Tomorrow, Sarah Cole provides a definitive account of Wells’s work and ideas. She contends that Wells casts new light on modernism and its values: on topics from warfare to science to time, his work resonates both thematically and aesthetically with some of the most ambitious modernists. At the same time, unlike many modernists, Wells believed that literature had a pressing place in public life, and his works reached a wide range of readers. While recognizing Wells’s limitations, Cole offers a new account of his distinctive style as well as his interventions into social and political thought. She illuminates how Wells embodies twentieth-century literature at its most expansive and engaged. An ambitious rethinking of Wells as both writer and thinker, Inventing Tomorrow suggests that he offers a timely model for literature’s moral responsibility to imagine a better global future.
A discussion of Sarah Cole's new book, Inventing Tomorrow: H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, featuring:
- Sarah Cole, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities
- Jed Etsy, Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
- Victor LaValle, Associate Professor of Writing, Columbia University School of the Arts
- Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- Alan Stewart, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature
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 Panel Discussion:
A CELEBRATION OF SOFT POWER
Tuesday, December 3. 4-6pm at 403
Kent Hall, Columbia University
This panel will celebrate the importance of Soft Power (David Henry Hwang,Jeanine Tesori, Sam Pinkleton, Leigh Silverman at the Public Theater) as a cultural and theatrical event. Scholars of theater history, gender and sexuality studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, and race and performance studies will offer commentary on the play, followed by comments from David Henry Hwang and audience Q&A.
Panel Participants:
- David Henry Hwang, Tony Award winning playwright, and Head of Playwriting at Columbia University School of the Arts.
- Jean Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
- Denise Cruz, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
- Ana Paulina Lee, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures.
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Fellowships, Grants, & CFPs
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 Summer 2020 Internship Program at the Institute Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro
The internship program is in collaboration with Columbia University and Barnard professors Ana Paulina Lee and Anupama Rao, project directors of Geographies of Injustice, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Center for Spatial Research.
The project seeks 2-3 interns from Columbia and Barnard College with advanced language skills in Portuguese to work with the team at the Institute Moreira Salles to assist in the creation of a geographical history of the favelas. Interns will assist with interviews, field research, and geo-referencing records and work primarily in the Rocinha and Complexo da Maré favelas. The internship lasts 1 month and is slated to begin in May 2020, with the possibility of extension if both parties agree to the terms.
More information and application instructions available here.
DEADLINE: December 1, 2019
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 The 2020-2021 Italian Academy Fellowships
The Italian Academy invites applications for projects in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences for their 2020-2021 Fellowships. Additional consideration is given to proposals relevant to the Academy’s ongoing initiatives, especially the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage and the Humanities and Neuroscience Project.
The Academy also offers four Weinberg Fellowships on architectural history and preservation; one Bodini Fellowship on transitions from globalism to nationalism and populism; one Bodini Fellowship on developmental and adolescent psychiatry; and one Burke Fellowship on common challenges faced by Italy and Japan in the conservation and preservation of cultural heritage.
The Academy welcomes candidates from all countries, at the post-doctoral or faculty level. Fellows receive a stipend, travel allowance, health benefits, and an office in the Academy on the Columbia campus.
DEADLINE: December 2, 2019
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 The National Humanities Center Call for Fellowship Applications
The National Humanities Center will offer up to 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities for the period September 2020 through May 2021. Applicants must have a doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Mid-career and senior scholars are encouraged to apply. Emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work may also apply. The Center does not support the revision of doctoral dissertations.
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Mason bought potato chips.
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