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Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac U), Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica (2017) Deirdre Cooper Owens (CUNY, Queens College), Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (2017) Respondents: Christopher Florio (SoF/Heyman) & Cristobal Silva (English and Comparative Literature) Chair: Arden Hegele (SoF/Heyman)​

Rob Boddice (Freie Universität Berlin / McGill University), “Representing Experiment: Medical Science and the Art of Public Relations, 1908-14” Respondent: Thomas Dodman (French) Chair: Warren Kluber (SoF/Heyman Graduate Fellow)

Roanne Kantor (Stanford, Comparative Literature) Nicole Wallack (University Writing Program) Rishi Goyal (ICLS-Medicine, Literature and Society) Chair: Lan Li (CSS/PSSN)

Beyond Physicians: Health and Individual Responsibility in History

Steven Marcus (1928–2018) was instrumental in the conception and realization of the National Humanities Center, and his intellectual leadership and continuous devotion helped nurture and guide the Center for most of the past 40+ years.

In this book, Judith Friedlander reconstructs the history of the New School in the context of ongoing debates over academic freedom, intellectual dissidents, and democratic education. Against the backdrop of World War I and the first Red Scare, the Hitler years and McCarthyism, the student uprisings during the Vietnam War and the downfall of communism in Eastern Europe, Friedlander tells a dramatic story of academic, political, and financial struggle through brief sketches of New School administrators, faculty members, trustees, and students, among them Alvin Johnson and the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. As this unique educational institution prepares to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary, A Light in Dark Times offers a timely reflection on the New School's legacy, which can serve as an inspiration for the academic community today.

The Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African writer of a short story published in English. The prize was launched in 2000 to encourage and highlight the richness and diversity of African writing by bringing it to a wider audience internationally. The focus on the short story reflects the contemporary development of the African story-telling tradition. Columbia University hosted the 2018 Caine Prize winner Makena Onjerika, who was awarded the prize for her short story ‘Fanta Blackcurrant’ published in Wasafiri (2017).

New Books in the Society of Fellows: Murad Idris, Jordanna Bailkin and Ilana Feldman