Thursday, 10/1 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

This is a peculiar time, as we are seeing both a renationalizing of immigration politics and more foundationally, membership. Yet at the same time, citizens are losing rights as a result of neoliberal policies. Sassen distinguishes between the loss of these rights, which is part of the evolution of the liberal state, and loss of rights due to the state of exception (the War on Terror), which are meant to be exceptional. She explores seeing the emergence of informal citizenship among immigrants and the idea that stable meanings are becoming destabilized. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and the most recent ones are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (2007). She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Huffington.com, among others.

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Friday–Saturday, 10/2–10/3 12:30 AM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Marie de Gournay. Margaret Cavendish. Elizabeth of Bohemia. Their names, to say nothing of the substantial contributions they (and women like them) made to early modern philosophy, may have been lost to history were it not for the pioneering scholarship of Eileen O'Neill. O'Neill brought the texts and ideas of previously unknown thinkers to light, challenging today's philosophers to reconsider the methodological assumptions that kept them in the dark in the first place. Eminent international scholars come together to discuss the far-reaching implications of O'Neill's work in this two-day conference.

Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women

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Monday, 10/05 6 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

What do foreigners really think of Americans? Dana Lindaman, co-author (with Kyle Ward) of the highly praised History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History, provides sometimes hilarious, often sobering answers to that question by looking at what the world's history textbooks say about America. By juxtaposing contrasting versions of the historical events that we take for granted, Lindaman offers nothing less than a map of emotional responses to American political power.

Information: pusher@barnard.edu or 212-854-5321

Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation as part of the Translation Across the Disciplines lecture series.

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Monday, 10/05 6:30 PM
802 IAB, 420 W. 118th Street
Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University

In 2005, author and human rights activist Lydia Cacho published Los Demonios del Edén (Demons of Eden), a troubling look into the organized sexual abuse of minors in Mexico. Immediately, Cacho became caught in a crossfire of competing interest: on one side stood the police, eager to cover up a public-relations nightmare, while on the other, a movement sprung up to fight for greater freedom of the press. With this documentary, Cacho continues to draw awareness both to the obstacles facing independent journalists working in Mexico and to the plight of victims of sexual abuse. Cacho will be on hand after the screening to answer questions from the audience.

Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Research on Women

Thursday, 10/08 12 PM
101 Barnard Hall

Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Associate Professor of Art History at Barnard, delves into forms of "contemporary" art and spectatorship that have emerged over the past two decades.

The BCRW Lunchtime Lecture Series allows Barnard faculty to share their most up-to-date research in a relaxed and informal setting. So brown-bag your lunch and join us in 101 Barnard Hall!

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Tuesday, 10/13 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

Gretchen Mattox is the author of two books of poetry, Goodnight Architecture—"candid, agile, and beautiful," as Cyrus Cassells has noted—and Buddha Box, winner of the Green Rose Prize. One of the leading Irish poets of her generation, Paula Meehan (below) is the author of more than seven books of poetry, including two short-listed for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize for Poetry, The Man Who Was Marked by Winter and Pillow Talk, as well as the recent Painting Rain. Alicia Ostriker (left) has published 11 volumes of poetry, including The Imaginary Lover, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award, No Heaven, and The Book of Seventy. Ostriker's critical work includes Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America.

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Wednesday, 10/14 7 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

The eponymous hero of Junot Díaz's award-winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, moves, like many Dominicans, back and forth between the U.S., where his family made their new home, and the island nation they left behind. Maja Horn examines the implications of Oscar's untimely death during one of these return trips and suggests how the incident speaks to changes brought about by migration in Dominican society as well as to the perpetuation of certain troublesome political and social patterns on the island. Maja Horn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College.

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Thursday, 10/15 6:30 PM
The James Room
4th Floor Barnard Hall

Long, short, sleek, bold, kinky, natural, covered or shaved—no matter how you cut it, women’s hair is a frequent topic of conversation. But why all the fuss? How far-reaching are the supposedly simple decisions women make about style, dye, and hair products? And what do our preferences reveal about our deepest desires and fears? Janet Jakobsen, director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, will guide us as we untangle the meanings of hair and beauty. Panelists include Ayana Byrd ‘95, articles editor at Glamour and author of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America; Anne Kreamer, author of Going Gray: How to Embrace Your Authentic Self with Grace and Style; and Atoosa Rubenstein ’93, former editor-in-chief of Seventeen magazine, and founding editor of CosmoGIRL!.

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Thursday–Saturday, 10/15–10/17 8 PM
Minor Latham Playhouse
118 Milbank Hall

Seduction. Blackmail. Extortion. It's all in a day's work for one of theatre's most unforgettable scoundrels. Since its debut in 1664, Molière's scathing exposition of religious hypocrisy has never failed to spark controversy. Reviled by the Church, the play was swiftly banned, while its performers, audiences and even readers were threatened with excommunication. Molière responded with a years-long campaign to rehabilitate Tartuffe's reputation, and eventually succeeded by winning over King Louis XIV, which may explain the shrewd introduction of a king who restores order and harmony in the play's final act. The Theatre Department welcomes Columbia School of the Arts alumnus Will MacAdams, who directs an all-women ensemble of Molière's brilliant comedy.

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Wednesday, 10/21 6:30 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

An experimental particle physicist who studies hadron collisions produced by the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics at Harvard University, works in collaboration with over 600 international physicists who discovered the top quark, the most massive of known elementary particles. Professor Franklin will discuss her research and its potential to answer questions about how these elementary constituents of matter come together to create more complex forces, including those forces that may have created the universe. She will also discuss the challenges of navigating the university and the international laboratory systems in order to make a contribution to this effort, and the critical importance of having "a lab of one's own."

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Thursday, 10/29 6 PM
Sulzberger Parlor
3rd Floor Barnard Hall

From Gujarat, India, in 2001 to San Francisco, California, in 1906, scholars of modern seismology and earthquake response track some of the most fearsome quakes across North and South America, Europe, China and Japan in order to gain a historical and cross-cultural perspective on natural disaster investigation and management. Dr. Leonardo Seeber of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will provide the keynote address, reflecting on his career of socially engaged seismological field research across three continents and vastly different cultures. Andrew Revkin, The New York Times science journalist and author of the Dot-Earth blog, leads a question-and-answer session with Dr. Seeber.

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