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SPRING 2007 EVENTS:
BORDERLANDS & THE PERTINENCE OF "ORIENTALISM":
Borderlands & the Pertinence of "Orientalism":
Tuesday, 02/06
7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
In the 1880s and 1890s, the U.S.-Mexican border region underwent a metamorphosis, that has famously been characterized as a shift from “frontier” to “border.” The consolidation of the border society had deep implications for the circulation of printed matter, and indeed for the ways in which public opinion on national and international affairs was shaped. On Tuesday, February 6, Claudio Lomnitz explores the relative constriction of “Orientalist” representations of Mexico as a result of early forms of transnationalism by focusing on key texts in the history of the Mexican Revolution.
Claudio Lomnitz has written several groundbreaking books on the history and public culture of Mexico, among them Death and the Idea of Mexico (2005); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (2001); and Exits From the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (1992). He has been a professor of history and anthropology at the University of Chicago, the New School, and, since 2006, Columbia University, where he also directs the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM OR IN BUENOS AIRES?
ON HISTORY & IDENTITY AMONG JEWISH ARGENTINES AND
ARGENTINE-ISRAELIS
Monday, 03/19
7:00 PM
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
During the late nineteenth early twentieth centuries, Ashkenazi emigration from Eastern Europe, as well as a smaller Sephardic flow, gave Buenos Aires one of the world’s largest Jewish communities, a quarter of a million strong at one point. Since the birth of the state of Israel in 1948, more than 66,000 Argentine Jews have emigrated there. Raanan Rein, professor of History and Vice-Rector at Tel Aviv University, where he also directs the Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, explores these movements and connections, and the ensuing “search for home.” Raanan Rein has written six books on Spanish, Argentine, and Israeli history, which have appeared in Hebrew, English, and Spanish, and has edited a dozen, including the forthcoming Latin American Jews or Jewish Latin Americans? and Jewish Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism.
FOOD TRAVELS: SPAIN, THE AMERICAS, & ITALIAN FOOD
A lecture with Donna Gabaccia
Tuesday, 04/10
7:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Peppers and tomatoes traveled through Spanish circuits to the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century. Yet the long-term impact of the foods of the Americas seems most obvious in the making of the Italian national cuisine. Author Donna Gabaccia discusses how migrations—of plants and of people—have made Italian food an Atlantic fusion that is now transported around the world by U.S. food industries.
Donna R. Gabaccia holds the Rudolph Vecoli Chair in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota, where she also directs the Immigration History Research Center. She has authored or edited over a dozen books, among them: Immigration and American Diversity; We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans; and From the Other Side: Women, Gender and Immigrant Life in the United States, 1820–1990.
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