The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with the Roberta S. Matthews Center for Teaching and the Department of Education, presents a talk with Professor Peter Taubman on his new book, Disavowed Knowledge.
Peter Taubman is professor of education in the Department of Secondary Education at Brooklyn College. His 2009 book, Teaching by Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education, received the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from AERA’s Division B, the 2010 Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association, and the OL Davis, Jr Outstanding Book Award from AATC. His most recent book Disavowed Knowledge: Psychoanalysis, Teaching and Education was published this past October by Routledge Press. He is currently working on a sequel to Teaching by Numbers.
The talk will be held Wednesday, May 9 from 1:30pm to 3:30 pm in the International Room, at the Brooklyn College Student Center. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music and the American Studies Program at Brooklyn College, presents a talk and book signing with Kevin Fellezs on Fusion before Bitches Brew.
Kevin Fellezs is an assistant professor of music at Columbia University. The talk will be focused on the early formative years of fusion, outlining the rationals and aesthetics of young “fusioneers,” who were criticized by jazz writers and fans for merging jazz with rock and funk. After the discussion, Professor Fellezs will be signing copies of his book, Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion, which was published by Duke University Press.
The talk and book signing will be held Wednesday, May 2 from 11:00am to 12:15 pm in the Alumni Lounge, at the Brooklyn College Student Center. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
The Department of Judaic Studies, in cooperation with the Wolfe Institute, the Department of History, and the Department of Sociology, presents the Annual Frances Haidt Lecture on Jewish Philanthropy in an Age of Assimilation with Jonathan Helfand.
Jonathan Helfand has been a member of the faculty of Brooklyn College for 40 years. He is the professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Judaic Studies and served as director of the CUNY program for study in Israel. A specialist in modern Jewish history and an ordained rabbi, Dr. Helfand has written extensively on the social and religious history of French Jewry in the nineteenth century as well as religious responses to the Holocaust. He has contributed to numerous academic journals in the United States, France, and Israel, and is currently working on a book entitled, Paris and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in Nineteenth Century France.
The lecture will be held Tuesday, May 1 from 12:30pm to 2 pm in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
One of the most interesting clarifications of Robin’s thesis was the centrality of the romantic impulse in conservatism. Indeed, it seemed, after our discussions, that the romantic impulse is perhaps even more central than the reactionary, counter-revolutionary component of conservatism; it certainly explains conservative fascination with war, the attraction it presents to ‘outsiders,’ its glorification of strength and individual striving.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation the Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities presents Teaching and Research. Featuring the work of Louis Fishman, Tanya Pollard, and Marie Rutkoski.
Louis Fishman, assistant professor of history, will discuss “From Dissertation to Book: The Second Round Sifting through Documents in Israel and Turkey.” His new book is on the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict during the end of the Ottoman Empire. In his book, he questions the mainstream Zionist narrative, which places the Palestinians in the history of Palestine, and reassesses the Ottomans’ role in the emergence of the conflict.
Tanya Pollard, professor of English, will speak about “What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?, or, how Hamlet read his Euripides.” Professor Pollard is writing a book on the influence of Greek plays and genre theory on the development of popular commercial stage genres in early modern England.
Marie Rutkowski, professor of English, will talk about her young adult novel, The Winner’s Curse, which will be published by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux in 2013. Her first novel, The Cabinet of Wonders, was shortlisted for a number of state awards and has been translated into eight languages.
The discussion will be held Thursday, March 22 from 12:15 to 2:15 p.m in the State Lounge, at the Brooklyn College Student Center, Campus Road and East 27th Street. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with Veterans Affairs and Counseling Center, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Veteran Students Organization, Office of Diversity and Equity Programs, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of History presents: Race, Civil Rights, and Military Service featuring Kimberley Phillips and Colonel Stephanie Smith.
Kimberley Phillips is the founding Dean of Brooklyn College’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Phillips earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Phillips has a distinguished record of scholarship as a historian of the African American experience. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military From World War II to Iraq is her most recent book. She comes to Brooklyn College from the College of William & Mary, where she was the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History and American Studies, and where she served as the as the director of the American Studies program and Dean for Educational Policy in Arts and Sciences.
Colonel Stephanie Smith is Special Projects Officer for the Director of the Marine Corps Staff. She is working on anchoring the history and traditions of the Marine Corps, the legacy of the Montford Point Marines, the first African American Marines. They trained in segregated facilities at Montford Point from 1942 to 1949. From July 2009 to July 2011, Colonel Smith served as the Commanding Officer of Headquarters and Service Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot. She is a veteran of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Operation Joint Guardian in Kosovo, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. Colonel Smith’s personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal (2nd Award), the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (2nd Medal), and the Army Achievement Medal.
The discussion will be held Tuesday, March 20 from 12:15 to 2:00 p.m in the Gold Room in the Brooklyn College Student Center, Campus Road and East 27th Street. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with the English Department and the MFA Integenre Reading Series presents Cyrus Console and Erin Courtney.
Cyrus Console is the author of The Odicy (Omnidawn, 2011) and Brief Under Water (Burning Deck, 2008). He teaches at Kansas City Art Institute.
Erin Courtney earned her MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, a member of the Obie Award-winning playwright collective 13P, and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writers Space. Her new play, Honey Drop, was part of the Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons Superlab, and was given a mini-workshop at New Georges. She is at work on a new play called Service Road, which has been commissioned by the Adhesive Theater Company. She currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College.
The reading will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m in the Barker Room, 2315 Boylan Hall at Brooklyn College. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
We’ll be reading Cory Robin’s Reactionary Mind.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Black Male Initiative presents a Black History Month Lecture with Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Jim Crow Justice.
Dr. Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, will discuss his new book Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2010). In the book, Dr. Muhammad wrote that a hundred years ago New York City police were accused of engaging in a “pattern of discriminatory crime fighting,” with blacks arrested for crimes that whites committed with impunity. Dr. Muhammad will reflect on a question: Is New York City’s Stop-and-Frisk policy a continuation of these “Jim Crow” practices associated with the post-Civil War South?
Journalism Professor Ron Howell, Department of English, will welcome Dr. Muhammad. Dr. Kimberley Phillips, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, whose award-winning book Alabama North (University of Illinois Press) addresses themes similar to ones found in Dr. Muhammad’s book, will offer some introductory remarks.
The talk will be held Wednesday, Feb. 8 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m in the Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
The Wolfe Institute in cooperation with the Department of Africana Studies and the Black History Month Committee presents a film screening and discussion of Sankofa.
Written and directed by Ethiopian-born filmmaker and Howard University professor Haile Gerima, Sankofa is the psycho-spiritual journey of Mona, a self-possessed African American woman who faces an identity crisis. From the African continent through the Middle Passage and the Americas, Mona relives her past and is transformed. This film is about the still present legacy of slavery as told from the perspective of its victims. Filmed in West Africa, Jamaica, and Louisiana, it offers a rich view of the psycho-spiritual baggage of the slave past.
The screening will be held Thursday, Feb. 2 from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m in the Maroon Room in the Brooklyn College Student Center on Campus Road and East 27th Street. For more information follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Plus.
