The Columbia University Archive’s spookiest (and only) documented ghost story begins on a dark and dusty evening in 1945, when Professor Jeffery related to Columbiana curator Milton Halsey Thomas a harrowing tale that he had heard nearly a decade earlier from John D. Prince, a professor of East European Languages. Thomas took notes on the […]
Talk | Philology and Authenticity: Lorenzo Valla, Constantine, and Styles of Renaissance Reading
November 1, 4:30 pm Bulter 203 (with a post-talk reception in the RBML’s Kempner Gallery) Dean of Georgetown College and Professor of Classics and History at Georgetown University, Christopher Celenza will deliver the sixth Paul O. Kristeller lecture. He is the author of The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search […]
Talk | Re-embracing the Lachrymose Theory of Jewish History: Dialogue with a Columbia Tradition
October 30, 2018 @ 6PM Faculty House Garden Room 2 Norman E. Alexander Lecture in Jewish Studies In his multi-volume social and religious history of the Jews, Salo Baron, one of the most influential Jewish historians of the 20th century, decried how Jewish history had been told and retold as an endless tale of woe. […]
New exhibition | Persian Bookbinding
Following the introduction of lacquer-painting in the 15th century, bookbindings became a rejuvenated site for creative expression in Iran. ‘In the School of Wisdom’ presents over thirty examples, representing the diversity of the art as it developed from the late Safavid to Qajar eras and contextualizing it within a changing landscape of libraries and book […]
Discussion | The Art and Craft of Stage Design
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM 203 Butler Library In conjunction with the exhibition “Florenz Ziegeld & Joseph Urban: Transforming Broadway,” Professor Arnold Aronson (School of the Arts) will discuss the legacy and contemporary relevance of Joseph Urban with Tony Award Winning Stage Designer Christine Jones (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child). Christine […]