New Humanities Faculty Salon
January 31, 2019 | 5:00pm
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 Please join Division of Humanities Dean Sarah Cole in welcoming our newest colleagues from across the division. Hosted by the Division of Humanities in the Arts and Sciences and co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the New Humanities Faculty Salons are an opportunity to meet the twelve new faculty members joining Columbia during the 2018-19 school year and discuss their work and research over drinks and snacks.
On Thursday, January 31, all interested faculty and graduate students are invited to the Heyman Center for the Humanities for the second New Humanities Faculty Salon of 2018-19.
Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 5:00pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor Common Room
The final Salon of the year will be on April 4, 2019. More details, including the full list of speakers, are available at fas.columbia.edu/salons.
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Claudio  Lomnitz (LAIC)
On October 2, 1968, a student movement that shook Mexico was violently repressed by the State. This event is a milestone that marks the beginning of a long road to democracy in Mexico. Half a century after the '68 Student Movement, fifty Mexican authors have embarked on a collective literary work to reflect on the reality of Mexico. Each of them was assigned a year and tasked to write an essay about a significant or paradigmatic event that took place in that year. The result: a collective history of Mexico that begins in 1968 and that continues to be built today.
Lomnitz's edited collection, 1968-2018: historia colectiva de medio siglo, is available through Libros: UNAM.
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 Avinoam Shalem (AHAR)
Shalem has been named a Getty Guest Scholar at the Getty Research Institute during the Spring 2019 semester. Every year since 1985 the Research Institute has invited scholars, artists, and other cultural figures from around the world to work in residence at the Institute on projects that bear upon its annual research theme; the 2018-19 academic year will be devoted to "monumentality." Shalem's project as a Guest Scholar will be on "When Nature Becomes Ideology: Monuments, Landscape and the Sight of Memory."
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Jo Ann Cavallo (Italian)
Cavallo will serve on the Editorial Board of the new international peer-reviewed journal Letteratura Cavalleresca Italiana. LCI responds to the desire to establish a cultural and academic arena in which to examine Italian chivalric literature, whether in poetry or in prose and including Franco-Italian literature, composed in the centuries ranging from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century. The journal's inaugural issue features an essay by Cavallo, "Staging the Liberata’s Female Protagonists in an Apenninic Folk Tradition: Clorinda, Erminia, and Armida in the Tuscan-Emilian Epic Maggio."
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne (French)
"It’s not a matter of restituting these objects to the particular ethnic group they belong to, in order to replace them in the rituals they were part of. That’s impossible. Malraux famously said that art starts when the gods have departed. And it’s true, for African art and for Western art. Yet these objects still have an aesthetic intensity - these objects are energized. And what is asked in this report is the freedom to create a new energy there."
Diagne, along with other experts in various fields, was interviewed in The New York Times on a report calling for the return of West African artwork from the French museums in which they currently are kept.
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Thomas Dodman (French)
Dodman's Une Histoire de la guerre, du XIXe siècle à nos jours (Editions du Seuil), co-edited with Bruno Cabanes, Hervé Mazurel, and Gene Tempest, was selected by Le Point as one of the 25 most important books of 2018.
Dodman also presented Sensibilitiés #5: Controverses sur l'émotion. Neurosciences et sciences humaines (Anamosa), the issue of Sensibilitiés that he co-edited with Quentin Deluermoz and Hervé Mazurel. for Le Journal de la Philosophie on France Culture.
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Katherine Franke (IRWGS)
"The First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech as well as fundamental principles of academic freedom are violated when governments that profess to be democratic declare certain topics off-limits. The capacity to critically evaluate the way in which state power is exercised - in the US, in Israel, and in other places around the world where human rights are under threat - is vital to responsible citizenship and is central to our mission as educators. The American and Israeli governments alike should stand up for, rather than stand in the way of, open and vibrant academic debate on Israel–Palestine, just as they should for debate about any contentious subject essential to democracy."
Franke wrote about threats to the academic freedom of faculty members teaching Israeli government policy in The New York Review of Books.
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Jennifer Hirsch (CSSD)
"The furor over adjudication and evidentiary standards misses the point that we should be talking about prevention - a word that does not appear even once in the main text of the DOE’s proposed changes. Now is the moment, with the election (mostly) in our rear view mirror, to talk about the legislative agenda for sexual assault prevention. Research we published recently provides new evidence that comprehensive sexuality education should figure prominently in that agenda."
Hirsch wrote about the role of sex education in the future of the #MeToo movement, in The Hill.
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Shamus Khan (IRCPL)
"Most furloughed workers will likely eventually receive backpay for the time they were forced not to work. But backpay can’t make up for certain damages, such as ruined credit, increased interest rates on mortgages because of late-payments, or eviction for not paying rent. Black people with less wealth and concentrated in majority-Black communities, will endure these hardships more than other Americans."
Khan, co-writing with Angela Simms, wrote about the extra impact the government shutdown will have on Black Americans at huffingtonpost.com.
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Mahmood Mamdani (MESAAS)
"Abiy Ahmed, the 42-year-old prime minister of Ethiopia, has dazzled Africa with a volley of political reforms since his appointment in April. ... [He] has been celebrated as a reformer, but his transformative politics has come up against ethnic federalism enshrined in Ethiopia’s Constitution. The resulting clash threatens to exacerbate competitive ethnic politics further and push the country toward an interethnic conflict."
Mamdani wrote about Ethiopia's new prime minister in The New York Times.
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Frances Negrón-Muntaner (English)
"Negrón-Muntaner...says progress over the past nearly 80 years has been sporadic at best, with gains made in fits and starts. 'I found that Latino representation has gone up only at certain moments in time because of different pressures applied. ... There’s pressure applied, it spikes a little bit, but then it drops again.'"
Negrón-Muntaner talked about the representation of Latinx actors in US media in Variety.
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Ross Posnock (English)
Listen to Posnock deliver the lecture "Sophistication and American Culture: The Example of James Baldwin" for the Boston University World of Ideas, a podcast featuring discussions and lectures from thinkers visiting Boston University.
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Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (Music)
Stern-Baczewska gave a performance at the Opera House of Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music, celebrating the DVD release of Tan Dun's Martial Arts Cycle for Piano, Violin, and Violoncello. Stern-Baczewska recorded the album earlier last year with violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing and cellist Zhao Jing, in Shanghai’s 'Water Heaven.' Martial Arts Cycle was described by The Washington Post as "An epic, multimedia production, full of big-screen emotions and unabashed melodrama." The New York Times called it "A mix of Hollywood grandeur and primal, percussive vitality."
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Karen Van Dyck (Classics)
Van Dyck will be speaking on "Migration, Translingualism, Translation" at the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research on February 1, with the translation theorist Kate Briggs responding. She will also speak at Columbia's Global Center | Paris in March, with political theorist and policy maker Dimitris Christopoulos responding.
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Elizabeth Wishnick (WEAI)
"China is playing a long game in the Arctic and is deftly building partnerships with a wide range of partners in the region to make sure that China will have a voice on Arctic affairs in the future."
Wishnick is the author of a report outlining China's strategies in developing a shipping route through the Arctic Ocean, covered recently in NTD News.
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 Please join Division of Humanities Dean Sarah Cole in welcoming our newest colleagues from across the division. Hosted by the Division of Humanities in the Arts and Sciences and co-sponsored by the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, the New Humanities Faculty Salons are an opportunity to meet the twelve new faculty members joining Columbia during the 2018-19 school year and discuss their work and research over drinks and snacks.
On Thursday, January 31, all interested faculty and graduate students are invited to the Heyman Center for the Humanities for the second New Humanities Faculty Salon of 2018-19.
Featuring:
Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 5:00pm
Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2nd Floor Common Room
The final Salon of the year will be on April 4, 2019. More details, including the full list of speakers, are available at fas.columbia.edu/salons.
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 Reframing Transgender Violence
January 24, 4:15 - 6:00pm
January 25, 10:00am - 3:45pm
Jerome Greene Annex
410 West 117th Street
Free registration (requested but not required) here
Please join CSSD working group Reframing Gendered Violence for the final public workshop in this project, organized by Professor Kendall Thomas.
Speakers include:
- Catherine Clune-Taylor
- Chinyere Ezie
- Che Gossett
- Joss Taylor Greene
- Christina B. Hanhardt
- C. Riley Snorton
- Sergio Suiama
- Asli Zengin
Thank you to our co-sponsors:
Queer Theory working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Just Societies Initiative Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Society of Fellows & Heyman Center for the Humanities
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 Celebrating Recent Work by Hamid Dabashi
New Books in the Arts & Sciences
The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature
Tuesday, February 12
6:15pm
Heyman Center 2nd Floor Common Room
Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. In this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the Persian epic for a new generation of readers.
Featuring:
- Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University
- Brian Edwards, Dean, School of Liberal Arts, and Professor of English, Tulane University
- Ahmad Sadri, Gorter Professor of Islamic World Studies and Professor of Sociology, Lake Forest College
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Fellowships, Grants, & CFPs
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The Humanities War and Peace Initiative (HWPI) is a new 3-year project which aims to foster the study of war and peace from the perspective of scholars in the Humanities, in conversation with colleagues from around Columbia and the world. The HWPI will support a broad range of activities, including individual scholarship, new scholarly collaborations, projects and events within existing interdisciplinary structures, teaching, community outreach and programming, performance and exhibition, and ongoing dialogue in other forms. Our understanding of war and its meanings is broad, accounting for war’s effects across the full spectrum of human experience.
The first call for proposals will be announced soon. Updates will be available at fas.columbia.edu/hwpi.
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The Center for Spatial Research is pleased to invite interested Columbia University faculty, research scholars and doctoral candidates to participate in Mapping for the Urban Humanities: A Summer Institute, a six day course held between May 28, 2019 - June 6, 2019. During the six day skills-building workshop in critical cartography participants will be introduced to open-source mapping software, QGIS, to methods of data collection and creation, and to approaches and concepts in critical spatial analysis that they can incorporate into their research and teaching. Participation is free. Space is limited. Interested faculty and doctoral candidates are encouraged to apply by January 31, 2019. The workshop is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For further information and to apply visit the CSR website.
Deadline: January 31, 2019
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Columbia's annual Presidential Awards for Outstanding Teaching recognize teaching excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and honor those who have had a lasting influence on the intellectual development of our students. Each year the University bestows these awards on five faculty members and three graduate student instructors to honor individual excellence and celebrate the important contributions they make. All full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty may be nominated (except prior winners). Details are available here. Nominations for Faculty may be submitted here.
Deadline: February 1, 2019
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IRCPL, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Social Difference, will fund an interdisciplinary faculty working group to investigate problems of social, economic, and cultural inequality. Funding is in the amount of $35,000 over two years with the possibility of $15,000 for a third year, contingent on working group interest and the availability of Center funds.
IRCPL and CSSD seek one project that aligns with the mission of "Women Creating Change" or "Imagining Justice" and that focuses in some significant way on issues connected to religion, belief and/or secularism. The director(s) of such a working group will also have the opportunity to discuss publication of any project results in the IRCPL’s book series with Columbia University Press.
Deadline: February 4, 2019
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The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than forty research fellowships for the academic year 2019-2020.
For those studying the U.S. Civil War, its causes, or its memory, the Boston Athenaeum and the MHS offer the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins, and Consequences. Fellows spend at least four weeks at each institution. This fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000.
For more information, visit masshist.org/research/fellowships, email fellowships@masshist.org, or phone 617-646-0577.
Deadline: February 15, 2019
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The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than forty research fellowships for the academic year 2019-2020.
Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $2,000 to support four or more weeks of research in the Society’s collections. One application automatically puts you into consideration for any applicable short-term fellowships. Graduate students, faculty, and independent researchers are welcome to apply. More than twenty short-term fellowships will be available in the coming year.
For more information, visit masshist.org/research/fellowships, email fellowships@masshist.org, or phone 617-646-0577.
Deadline: March 1, 2019
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The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life seeks proposals from Columbia University faculty for Joint Projects that aim to understand the role of religion in the contemporary world and its historical roots. Joint Projects are an opportunity for Columbia faculty to engage directly with IRCPL and work with the Institute in managing projects and research. Strong Joint Projects will include an interdisciplinary group of faculty members. IRCPL Joint Projects will fund projects up to $15,000 for travel, materials, and other expenses related to the design/implementation of the project.
More information can be found here.
Deadline: February 4, 2019
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The Global Scholars Program (GSP), a grant program designed to provide support for faculty to work with the Columbia Global Centers, is a model for curricular innovation that supports programs of intellectual rigor, cultural immersion, and opportunities for personal, academic, and professional growth at the undergraduate level.
Faculty are invited to present proposals for a two-part curriculum: first, an on-campus three- or four-point course held in Spring 2020 that introduces students to course themes, followed by a five-point Summer 2020 course taught overseas. GSP applications will be funded up to $100,000 each.
The GSP RFP can be downloaded here.
Deadline: February 5, 2019
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The 2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellowship at the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, offered in partnership with Humanities New York, aims to strengthen the public humanities community in New York State by supporting the community-engaged work of emerging scholars. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in events sponsored by Humanities New York and to apply for project funds from HNY to implement public programs they develop during the course of their Fellowship.
Duration of the Fellowship is August 2019 to June 2020. The Fellowship is supported by grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. More information available here.
Deadline: February 15, 2019
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The Anthem World Epic and Romance series publishes rigorous, innovative scholarly studies dealing with epics and chivalric romances from across the globe, both written and oral, in poetry and prose, as well as adaptations in theater and cinema. The series seeks to foster new comparative and cultural understandings of heroic narratives, focusing on literary and geopolitical context, ranging from antiquity through the medieval and early modern period to contemporary society.
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in print and e-book editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a monograph (mid-length and full-length), edited collection, handbook or companion, reference or course book, please contact us at: proposal@anthempress.com.
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The Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University (CSSD) welcomes proposals for projects that would begin in Fall 2019 or Fall 2020. Funding is in the amount of $35,000 over two years with the possibility of $15,000 for a third year. CSSD seeks projects that align with the mission of “Women Creating Change” or “Imagining Justice” and favors proposals from an interdisciplinary core working group (usually 5-8 people, not all of whom need be affiliated with Columbia or Barnard). The Center encourages and facilitates international collaborations. Complete proposals should be directed to CSSD Associate Director Catherine LaSota.
Deadline: February 4, 2019
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The President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) provides support for faculty who want to utilize the facilities and resources of one or more of the Columbia's Global Centers for teaching, research, and service activities cutting across a broad range of disciplines. Information on the program and the previous rounds of funded projects can be found on the Columbia Global Centers website.
Two types of proposals for PGIF awards are being sought: planning grants, which award up to $20,000 for a period of one year; and project grants, which award up to $30,000 per year for a period of two years, and are capped at $50,000 for the entire project.
The PGIF RFP can be downloaded here.
Deadline: February 5, 2019
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The NWSA 2019 Call for Proposals is now open.
All proposals to the general conference must be submitted to one of the following seven subthemes:
- Politics of Labor and Class
- Politics of the State
- Human + Nonhuman Worlds
- Transformative Justice
- Trans*/Trans- Feminist Futures
- Spatial Politics / Transgressing Borders
- Art, Performance, Literary and Visual Culture
- Politics of Knowledge
- Body Politics
Download the Full CFP. See the FAQ for more details.
Deadline: February 20, 2019
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The goal of the Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) seed grant program is to help faculty lay the groundwork for intellectually innovative research projects in population, health, and society to the point where they can attract external funding. The CPRC is interested in proposals that address one or more of our research priorities. Applications should 1) focus on the CPRC’s four primary research areas; 2) link cutting-edge research in neuroscience with the social, behavioral, or health sciences; 3) propose globally focused research; 4) develop research methodology; and/or propose policy-related research oriented toward pressing social issues in the domestic or international arena.
Seed grant applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please submit your application to cprc@columbia.edu. Applicants will typically be notified within one month of submission.
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