Friday, January 26th, 2018, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. Join the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics (INCITE), home to the Columbia Center for Oral History Research Office, for an Experimental Design Workshop. The workshop will feature two presentations: Kate Khanna on “The Intersectional Nature of Masculinity: Social Class Threat and the Dynamic Nature of Gender Attitudes” […]
Increasing visibility of the Muslim world
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), recently awarded Columbia University and its peer institutions — The Free Library of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, and Bryn Mawr College — $500,000 to digitize Islamic manuscripts and paintings dating from 1000 to 1900. “Arising from an extraordinary confluence of collecting foresight, scholarly curiosity, and shared expertise, […]
Experience the 1968 student protests in real time on Twitter
To commemorate the student-led protests at Columbia in 1968, University Archives is re-telling the events, 50 years on, by harnessing the fast pace and vast reach of modern journalism: what if campus media, like the Columbia Spectator, had Twitter to report on the protests and rallies of 1968? Follow @1968CU on Twitter this spring as the […]
Event | The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
Jan. 23, 6pm, Butler Library, Room 203 A talk by John McMillian on the role of the underground press in the 1960s, with a focus on coverage of the Columbia student protests of 1968. McMillian is an Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, and the author of Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press […]
Marking the 50th anniversary of 1968’s youthquake
From January through June 2018, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University will be sponsoring a range of programs to commemorate and discuss the fiftieth anniversary of the global revolutions, uprisings, and repressions, of 1968. This spring RBML’s Dr. Thai Jones, Curator for American history, has scheduled a number of events designed for […]