Join the Lehman Center for American History and the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 5pm for a book talk and discussion with Matt Garcia about his new work, Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations. […]
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Research at the RBML | Tomoko Akami on the Institute of Pacific Relations papers
Professor Tomoko Akami, from the School of Culture, History and Language at ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, is examining the Institute of Pacific Relations papers at the RBML. Below Professor Akami discusses how the IPR helped shape Asian Studies in their project, “Towards a globalized history of international relations.” What brings you to Columbia’s Rare […]
Research at the RBML | Nadav Millman investigates the Chris Claremont papers
Nadav Millman recently visited the RBML to dive into the papers of comic book writers and novelist Chris Claremont, which include works in progress, discarded story ideas, and unpublished manuscripts. Nadav describes finding correspondence with editors discussing some of Claremont’s best-known plots. What brings you to Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library? When I heard that […]
Two Operatic Controversies (and what they tell us about the relationship between the arts and the media in the United States)
This post is by Callum Blackmore, a GSAS student and intern in the RBML’s Graduate Student Internship in Primary Sources. In October 1975, a controversy erupted around the American opera singer, Beverly Sills. At the heart of this controversy was a feature article by the opera critic, Peter G. Davis (1948-2021), whose papers are now […]
Research at the RBML | Nathan Gorelick on Otto Rank
Nathan Gorelick, currently an Assistant Professor of English at Barnard, recently visited the RBML to explore the Otto Rank papers. Rank’s theories of the doppelgänger, leadership in the International Psychoanalytic Association, and long association (and then falling out) with Freud place him as both an important– and controversial– figure in the history of psychoanalysis. Below, […]