If only I lived in New York! Participants in this exciting half-day conference include two historians scheduled to speak on one of our plenaries at the upcoming USIH conference--Casey Nelson Blake and Rochelle Gurstein.
From the Columbia University website:
Columbia University to Host Conference on the Journalism of Opinion
The Friends of Columbia Libraries are pleased to co-sponsor a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The half-day conference, entitled “The Journalism of Opinion,” will take place on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Lecture Hall on the 3rd floor of Columbia University’s Journalism School. The event is free and open to the public.
The keynote will be delivered by Victor Navasky, Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. Panel participants include Casey Nelson Blake, Eric Alterman, Howard Brick, Rochelle Gurstein, Michael Kazin, Stanley Crouch, Andi Zeisler, and Mark Lotto. Dean Nicholas Lemann, Henry R. Luce Professor, Columbia Journalism School, will make the opening remarks.
The journalism of opinion has played a significant role in twentieth-century American intellectual history. From its beginnings in a paper-only format to today’s purely digital spaces, the influence of opinion journalism has remained strong, although the message has outlasted its original medium. This conference will offer thoughts on the journalism of opinion—past, present, and future—by scholars and writers.
The impetus for the conference is the presence at Columbia University of The New Leader magazine and archives. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Columbia Libraries and by Columbia University’s American Studies Program; Journalism School; Rare Book & Manuscript Library; and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History.
To register for this event visit www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu and click on “News and Events” or send an email to cul-events@columbia.edu. For further information about the event, contact Eric Wakin (etw2@columbia.edu), Lehman Curator for American History, at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Selasa, 27 April 2010
Conference: The Role of Opinion Journalism in American Intellectual History
If only I lived in New York! Participants in this exciting half-day conference include two historians scheduled to speak on one of our plenaries at the upcoming USIH conference--Casey Nelson Blake and Rochelle Gurstein.
From the Columbia University website:
Columbia University to Host Conference on the Journalism of Opinion
The Friends of Columbia Libraries are pleased to co-sponsor a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The half-day conference, entitled “The Journalism of Opinion,” will take place on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Lecture Hall on the 3rd floor of Columbia University’s Journalism School. The event is free and open to the public.
The keynote will be delivered by Victor Navasky, Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. Panel participants include Casey Nelson Blake, Eric Alterman, Howard Brick, Rochelle Gurstein, Michael Kazin, Stanley Crouch, Andi Zeisler, and Mark Lotto. Dean Nicholas Lemann, Henry R. Luce Professor, Columbia Journalism School, will make the opening remarks.
The journalism of opinion has played a significant role in twentieth-century American intellectual history. From its beginnings in a paper-only format to today’s purely digital spaces, the influence of opinion journalism has remained strong, although the message has outlasted its original medium. This conference will offer thoughts on the journalism of opinion—past, present, and future—by scholars and writers.
The impetus for the conference is the presence at Columbia University of The New Leader magazine and archives. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Columbia Libraries and by Columbia University’s American Studies Program; Journalism School; Rare Book & Manuscript Library; and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History.
To register for this event visit www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu and click on “News and Events” or send an email to cul-events@columbia.edu. For further information about the event, contact Eric Wakin (etw2@columbia.edu), Lehman Curator for American History, at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library
From the Columbia University website:
Columbia University to Host Conference on the Journalism of Opinion
The Friends of Columbia Libraries are pleased to co-sponsor a conference on opinion journalism in American intellectual history. The half-day conference, entitled “The Journalism of Opinion,” will take place on Friday, April 30, 2010, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm at the Lecture Hall on the 3rd floor of Columbia University’s Journalism School. The event is free and open to the public.
The keynote will be delivered by Victor Navasky, Delacorte Professor of Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review. Panel participants include Casey Nelson Blake, Eric Alterman, Howard Brick, Rochelle Gurstein, Michael Kazin, Stanley Crouch, Andi Zeisler, and Mark Lotto. Dean Nicholas Lemann, Henry R. Luce Professor, Columbia Journalism School, will make the opening remarks.
The journalism of opinion has played a significant role in twentieth-century American intellectual history. From its beginnings in a paper-only format to today’s purely digital spaces, the influence of opinion journalism has remained strong, although the message has outlasted its original medium. This conference will offer thoughts on the journalism of opinion—past, present, and future—by scholars and writers.
The impetus for the conference is the presence at Columbia University of The New Leader magazine and archives. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of Columbia Libraries and by Columbia University’s American Studies Program; Journalism School; Rare Book & Manuscript Library; and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History.
To register for this event visit www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu and click on “News and Events” or send an email to cul-events@columbia.edu. For further information about the event, contact Eric Wakin (etw2@columbia.edu), Lehman Curator for American History, at Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Sabtu, 24 April 2010
Lauren's Light Listening
I heard in today's NY Times Book Review podcast an interesting interview of Alan Brinkley about his new biography of Henry Luce. I used James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for a Historical Methods course once--it was a great book to discuss the difficulties of truth seeking. Agee wrote it will working on the Fortune staff.
The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller reviewed the book in this weekend's Times. A snippet:
The podcast also contains a story about a biography of Muriel Spark, a novelist I hadn't heard of, but who sounds like someone I'd like to check out. She at first gave the biographer complete access to all her stuff and said "treat me as if I were dead." But then she hated the book and held up it's publication for years.
The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller reviewed the book in this weekend's Times. A snippet:
His Luce is a complicated figure, more tragic than malign. That is not to say this is a particularly flattering profile. The book does full justice to Luce’s outsider insecurity, his blind affinity for men of power and his defects as a family man. But it is a humanizing portrayal, and it credits the role his magazines, Time and Life especially, played in a country growing uneasily into the dominant geopolitical force in the world. Luce’s publications served as a kind of cultural adhesive that bound the middle class to a shared understanding of the world and ushered it through periods of war and economic hardship. It’s hard to imagine any outlet playing such a role in today’s disaggregated media environment.
The podcast also contains a story about a biography of Muriel Spark, a novelist I hadn't heard of, but who sounds like someone I'd like to check out. She at first gave the biographer complete access to all her stuff and said "treat me as if I were dead." But then she hated the book and held up it's publication for years.
Lauren's Light Listening
I heard in today's NY Times Book Review podcast an interesting interview of Alan Brinkley about his new biography of Henry Luce. I used James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for a Historical Methods course once--it was a great book to discuss the difficulties of truth seeking. Agee wrote it will working on the Fortune staff.
The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller reviewed the book in this weekend's Times. A snippet:
The podcast also contains a story about a biography of Muriel Spark, a novelist I hadn't heard of, but who sounds like someone I'd like to check out. She at first gave the biographer complete access to all her stuff and said "treat me as if I were dead." But then she hated the book and held up it's publication for years.
The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller reviewed the book in this weekend's Times. A snippet:
His Luce is a complicated figure, more tragic than malign. That is not to say this is a particularly flattering profile. The book does full justice to Luce’s outsider insecurity, his blind affinity for men of power and his defects as a family man. But it is a humanizing portrayal, and it credits the role his magazines, Time and Life especially, played in a country growing uneasily into the dominant geopolitical force in the world. Luce’s publications served as a kind of cultural adhesive that bound the middle class to a shared understanding of the world and ushered it through periods of war and economic hardship. It’s hard to imagine any outlet playing such a role in today’s disaggregated media environment.
The podcast also contains a story about a biography of Muriel Spark, a novelist I hadn't heard of, but who sounds like someone I'd like to check out. She at first gave the biographer complete access to all her stuff and said "treat me as if I were dead." But then she hated the book and held up it's publication for years.
Kamis, 22 April 2010
Rachel Carson Docudrama
Do you use film in intellectual history courses?
I hadn't thought about it before, though I did see a fairly interesting film on Gertrude Stein. However, I just flipped to PBS and there is this stunning docudrama about Rachel Carson on. It is an actress portraying Rachel Carson in the last year of her life, delivering all of her ideas. Might make interesting watching in a class (though it might be slow for undergrads. I love films with careful characterization and interesting dialogue, but not all undergrads do).
I hadn't thought about it before, though I did see a fairly interesting film on Gertrude Stein. However, I just flipped to PBS and there is this stunning docudrama about Rachel Carson on. It is an actress portraying Rachel Carson in the last year of her life, delivering all of her ideas. Might make interesting watching in a class (though it might be slow for undergrads. I love films with careful characterization and interesting dialogue, but not all undergrads do).
Rachel Carson Docudrama
Do you use film in intellectual history courses?
I hadn't thought about it before, though I did see a fairly interesting film on Gertrude Stein. However, I just flipped to PBS and there is this stunning docudrama about Rachel Carson on. It is an actress portraying Rachel Carson in the last year of her life, delivering all of her ideas. Might make interesting watching in a class (though it might be slow for undergrads. I love films with careful characterization and interesting dialogue, but not all undergrads do).
I hadn't thought about it before, though I did see a fairly interesting film on Gertrude Stein. However, I just flipped to PBS and there is this stunning docudrama about Rachel Carson on. It is an actress portraying Rachel Carson in the last year of her life, delivering all of her ideas. Might make interesting watching in a class (though it might be slow for undergrads. I love films with careful characterization and interesting dialogue, but not all undergrads do).
Fulbright Lectureship in U.S. Intellectual History in Rome
An exciting opportunity: Fulbright Lectureship in U.S. intellectual history in the American Studies Department at the University in Rome for spring 2012. You can find information at this link (scroll to the bottom of the page). Casey Nelson Blake, Alex Bloom, George Cotkin, and Greg Sumner have held this lectureship in the past.
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