Professor Emeritus Wallace Broecker, a noted climate scientist with Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, died 18 February 2019 at the age of 87. His scientific contributions are being touted in major news sources, notably his landmark paper on increased carbon dioxide levels as a predictor of rises in global temperatures, which gave us “global warming” as a […]
New and Updated Collections | January/February 2019
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML archivists. Now available Al Jaffee Papers Al Jaffee (born March 13, 1921) is a comic artist best known for creating MAD magazine’s iconic Fold-In feature. The collection contains extensive original artwork, including sketches, tracings, and proofs documenting Jaffee’s creative process. Publishing and commission […]
Talk | Iliazd as transnational artist
7 March 2019 | 4pm | Room 523 Butler Library We’re marking the opening of the exhibition “Ilia Zdanevich: The Tbilisi Years” with a symposium considering Zdanevich as a transnational artist. In her keynote lecture, “Zdanevich in Paris, 1923: Zaum, Ledentu, and the Eclipse of the Early Avant-Garde,” Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Information Studies at UCLA, […]
Talks & Workshops | Oral History and the Future: Archives and Embodied Memory
The Oral History Master of Arts Program is pleased to announce the spring portion of its 2018-2019 workshop series: Oral History and the Future: Archives and Embodied Memory Oral history is a conversation about the past that takes place in the present and is oriented towards the future. How is this future orientation made real? Oral history as […]
Summer Institute in Oral History announced
The Columbia Center for Oral History Research’s 2019 Summer Institute in Oral History will focus on the challenges we face in documenting the political present when secrecy and distortions of truth threaten the most vulnerable in open societies. What role does public memory and the search for meaning play in rescuing and preserving the stories […]