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Book Launch for Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis

Participants: 
Rebecca Jordan-Young (Author, Barnard College)
Katrina Karkazis (Author, Brooklyn College/Yale University)
Evelynn Hammonds (Respondent, Harvard University)
Paisley Currah (Respondent, Brooklyn College)
Arden Hegele (Chair, Columbia University)

New Books in the Arts & Sciences:
Celebrating Recent Work by Eliza Zingesser

Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
By: Eliza Zingesser

Stolen Song documents the act of cultural appropriation that created a founding moment for French literary history: the rescripting and domestication of troubadour song, a prestige corpus in the European sphere, as French. This book also documents the simultaneous creation of an alternative point of origin for French literary history—a body of faux-archaic Occitanizing songs.

Most scholars would find the claim that troubadour poetry is the origin of French literature uncomplicated and uncontroversial. However, Stolen Song shows that the “Frenchness” of this tradition was invented, constructed, and confected by francophone medieval poets and compilers keen to devise their own literary history.

Stolen Song makes a major contribution to medieval studies both by exposing this act of cultural appropriation as the origin of the French canon and by elaborating a new approach to questions of political and cultural identity. Eliza Zingesser shows that these questions, usually addressed on the level of narrative and theme, can also be fruitfully approached through formal, linguistic, and manuscript-oriented tools.

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About the Author:

Eliza Zingesser is Assistant Professor of French at Columbia University. She is the author of Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French, among other publications.

About the Speakers:

Judith Peraino is Professor in the Department of Music at Cornell University. She is the author of Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig and Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut, among other published works.

Joanna Stalnaker is Professor of French at Columbia University. She is the author of The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia, among other published works.

Eleanor Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her published works include Dramatizing Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama; and Practicing Literary Theory in the Late Middle Ages: Ethics and the Mixed Form in Chaucer, Gower, Usk, and Hoccleve.

Madeleine Dobie is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture and Foreign Bodies: Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism, among other publications.

Creative Pedagogies: DIY Learning Tools and Other Tech Hacks for Teaching Gender and Feminist Studies with Dario Valles

Presented by Dr. Dario Valles, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow

This interactive tutorial will provide an introduction to selected user-friendly and open-source websites, apps, and software that complement the available Columbia-provided online learning tools (i.e. Zoom, Panopto, etc.). We will exchange ideas, tips and feedback on how these tools and resources facilitate engaged, interactive and generative online distance learning for students and instructors during these uncertain times. This event will place special emphasis on do-it-yourself (DIY) learning tools and technology hacks for gender and feminist studies.

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Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color with Andrea Ritchie (attorney, author, activist, and Researcher-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women)

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Invisible No More examines issues of racial profiling, police violence, criminalization, and mass incarceration through the lens of women’s experiences. How do women, trans, and gender nonconforming people experience policing in ways that are similar to other members of communities of color, and how are their experiences unique? What do their experiences teach us about the shape and scope of police violence, and how do they expand our framing of the issues and our demands for justice? How do they call on us to radically reimagine our visions of safety and the means we devote to achieving it? A unique perspective on one of the central issues of our time, rooted in over two decades of experience on the front lines of movements to end police violence.

Organizer:

Lehman Center for American History, “Policing America” series

Cosponsors:

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Institute for Research in African American Studies
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Center for Gender and Sexuality Law
Institute for the Study of Human Rights