Visiting Speakers

Jamie Pietruska's scholarly interests are in the cultural history of the nineteenth-century United States and the history of science and technology. Her research focuses on knowledge production and information networks in the late nineteenth century.  Pietruska's current project, Looking Forward: A Cultural History of Prediction in the Gilded Age, examines the economic and epistemological implications of forecasting as well as the interrelationship between forecasting practices and ideas about predictability and uncertainty.

Antoni Pizà has taught music history at Hofstra University (Long Island, N.Y.), The City College, John Jay College of the City University of New York, and the Conservatori Superior de Música i Dança de les Illes Balears. He is currently the Director of the Foundation for Iberian Music at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation of The Graduate Center (CUNY). A member of the editorial board of Music in Art, Catalan Review, Papeles de música de Cádiz, and Itamar, his interests include Spanish and Latin American music as well as biographical studies and criticism.

Silvio Pons is the author of Stalin and the Inevitable War 1936-41 (Frank Cass, London 2002) and of Berlinguer e la fine del comunismo (Einaudi Editore, Torino, 2006). He is editor of the following volumes: The Cominform: Minutes of the Three Conferences 1947/1948/1949, Fondazione Feltrinelli, Annali, XXX (Milan, 1994); The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943-53 (Macmillan, London 1996); Russia in the Age of Wars 1914-1945 (Feltrinelli, Milan 2000); Reinterpreting the End of the Cold War (Frank Cass, London 2005); Dizionario del comunismo nel XX secolo, 2 vols. (Einaudi Editore, Turin 2006-2007) published in the United States as A Dictionary of 20th-Century Communism (Princeton University Press, 2010)

Eva Prag co-founded the 1949 Human Rights Exhibition Project in August 2013 at Columbia's Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

Professor Quattrone is Chair in Accounting Governance & Social Innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Prior to this posting, he was Professor of Accounting and Management Control at IE Business School, Madrid. He recieved his PhD in Business Economics and Management from the University of Palermo in 1996.

Don Michael Randel is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Chicago, a prominent American musicologist, and the fifth, now retiring, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. He has previously served as the twelfth president of the University of Chicago and during that time as faculty member in the Department of Music. While on the faculty at Cornell University, he chaired the Department of Music there, and served as Provost and as Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. He is a triple alumnus of Princeton University, having earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in musicology there.

Tobias Rees is Assistant Professor of Anthropology with a dual appointment in the Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and Anthropology. Prior to joining the McGill Faculty he held positions at the Universities of Freiburg (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland).  

Dwight Reynolds is an Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His book include Arab Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood Press, 2007); Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (University of California Press, 2001); Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (Cornell University Press, 1995)