Eric Hobsbawm’s Legacy: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
Monday 29 October, 2012
6:15pm, $0
Columbia University, The Heyman Center, 2960 Broadway — Second Floor Common Room
A collection of Columbia professors will convene to remember the life and scholarship of Eric Hobsbawm.
The Guardian said Hobsbawm that he was "...arguably Britain's most respected historian of any kind, recognised if not endorsed on the right as well as the left, and one of a tiny handful of historians of any era to enjoy genuine national and world renown."
Participants
Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History,
Columbia University
Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History, Columbia University
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History
Jean Franco, Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology,
Columbia University
The Guardian said Hobsbawm that he was "...arguably Britain's most respected historian of any kind, recognised if not endorsed on the right as well as the left, and one of a tiny handful of historians of any era to enjoy genuine national and world renown."
Participants
Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History,
Columbia University
Barbara J. Fields, Professor of History, Columbia University
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History
Jean Franco, Professor Emerita, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology,
Columbia University