| Conferences in the Humanities |
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Our conferences are organized in collaboration with other Graduate Center departments and research centers, as well as outside organizations. The Center’s interdisciplinary agenda is reflected in the unique panels, which bring together speakers from a variety of fields. |
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.
IN AMERIKA THEY CALL US DYKES: LESBIAN LIVES IN THE 1970S
October 8-10
Co-sponsored by The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS)
We are proud to announce a three-day conference commemorating, celebrating, and analyzing lesbian experiences in the 1970s, that crucial decade. The event will call upon experience, memory, and scholarship to represent as fully as possible the broad and wide experience of lesbians during the 1970s, embracing a variety of topics and formats, from intimate conversations to more formal presentations of original research, from roundtables to workshops to reminiscences. For a full schedule, venues and registration information, visit www.70slesbians.org.
THE THIRD ANNUAL U.S. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY CONFERENCE
October 21-22
This two-day conference returns to The Graduate Center, bringing together internationally recognized scholars to reflect upon the theme “Intellectuals and Their Publics.” Thursday’s program is highlighted by an evening plenary session, “Renewing Black Intellectual History,” featuring Adolph Reed, Jr., Kenneth Warren, Dean Robinson, and Touré Reed. The Friday evening plenary “Intellectual History for What?” features Casey Nelson Blake, George Cotkin, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Rochelle Gurstein, David Steigerwald, and Wilfred McClay. James Kloppenberg (pictured) will be giving the keynote address on Friday afternoon, based on his forthcoming book, Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition. For a full schedule, venues and registration information, visit the U.S. Intellectual History Blog: http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-annual-us-intellectual-history.html.
J.G.A. POCOCK’S BARBARISM & RELIGION
November 19
This half-day conference will honor the work of the acclaimed scholar of British political discourse, J.G.A. Pocock, who will offer responses to presentations by noted historians such as Jonathan Israel (Princeton Institute for Advanced Study) and Pierre Force (Columbia), as well as Helena Rosenblatt, Richard Wolin and Marty Burke of The Graduate Center, CUNY. J.G.A. Pocock is the Henry C. Black Professor Emeritus of History at Johns Hopkins University, the author of the four-volume Barbarism and Religion (Cambridge University Press) and, most recently, The Discovery of Islands: Essays in British History (Cambridge University Press). For a full schedule, venues and registration information, visit check back soon.
