VISIBLY MUSLIM

September 20, Monday, 6:30pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
Co-sponsored by the Concentration in Fashion Studies, MEMEAC, and the Women’s Studies Certificate Program

While Muslim dress has been at the center of much  international debate, western media almost always fails to consider it on its own terms, from the perspective of the people who design and wear this clothing. Join Emma Tarlo (pictured) for a discussion of her new book on British Muslim fashion, as she explores the impact Islamic fashion has had on the development of transnational cultural formations and multicultural urban spaces. Emma Tarlo is a Reader in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. Christa Salamandra, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, CUNY, will serve as respondent. Introduced and moderated by Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and co-director of the Fashion Studies Concentration at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

THE WIND FROM THE EAST

September 20, Monday, 6:30pm
The Skylight Room (9100)

Inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution and motivated by utopian hopes, French students and intellectuals incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life in the 1960’s. But what did democracy have to do with Mao? Join Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY as he discusses his recent book, The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s. Richard Wolin’s books include Heidegger’s Children and The Seduction of Unreason. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dissent, The Nation, and The New Republic.

FORD MADOX FORD AND AMERICA

September 23-24
Co-sponsored by the PhD Program in English

This international conference on Ford Madox Ford will feature leading scholars exploring Ford’s relationship to the United States. This conference aims to focus attention on Ford’s lesser-known texts, and to consider his complex and evolving relation to America as a way of broadening, and deepening, our critical picture of Ford and his cultural relations. The Annual Ford Madox Ford Lecture will be given by novelist Mary Gordon. For a full schedule, venues and registration information, check back soon.

THE GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: ITS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

September 24, Friday, 12:30pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Co-sponsored by the Higher Education Seminar,  CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences

Over the past 60 years, the United States has come to dominate the ranks of the world’s best universities. Join Jonathan R. Cole, author of The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, and Why It Must Be Protected, as he explores how these universities have become the engines of innovation and economic and social growth in the nation and why and how they are threatened. Jonathan R. Cole is the John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and was Provost and Dean of Faculties of Columbia University from 1989 to 2003.

RON CHERNOW

The 2010 Leon Levy Biography Lecture

September 28, Tuesday, 7:00pm, Harold M. Proshansky Auditorium

Co-sponsered by the Leon Levy Center for Biography

Each year, the Leon Levy Center for Biography selects a distinguished biographer to give the Inaugural Lecture. In 2010, the prize-winning author Ron Chernow will appear to discuss the art and craft of biography. To date, Mr. Chernow has written The House of Morgan, which won a National Book Award, The Warburgs, which was cited by the American Library Association as one of the year’s ten best books in 1993, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and praised by The Times of London as “one of the great American biographies,” and Alexander Hamilton, which won a George Washington Book Prize for the year’s best book about the founding era. This fall, his Washington: A Life, a rare single volume, full-length portrait of George Washington, will be released by Penguin Press. Reservations required. For further information, please call 212-817-8215 or visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/index.htm and click the e-VENT icon.