Today is Constitution Day, the commemoration of the signing of the Constitution by the members of the Constitutional Convention, in Philadelphia, on 17 September 1787. But that was just the beginning. A long struggle, filled with passionate debate, followed before the Constitution was finally ratified by the United States and a new government was formed. […]
One-Dimensional Man at 50: Herbert Marcuse & the Legacy of the Book that Inspired a Generation
An all-day conference, Sept. 29th, 9am – 5pm Butler Library, Room 523 Free and open to the public. No reservations required. “A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization…” Thus begins the opening chapter of Herbert Marcuse’s landmark study of modern ideology, One-Dimensional Man, first published in 1964. On Sept. 29th, the […]
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books
Diverse Characters: An Exhibition of Letterforms and Books by Russell Maret […]
Book Traces comes to the Butler Stacks on October 8th
On Wednesday, October 8, Butler Library’s open stacks will become both hunting grounds and laboratory. That day we are pleased to welcome Andrew Stauffer, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and the Book Traces project to Columbia. The Book Traces project is a crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- […]
Sept. 8th, 6pm — A Panel Discussion with Former Gov. David Paterson and Leading Scholars and Community Organizers
A conversation on libraries, government, and activism, with: Former-Governor David Paterson. Jim Neal, Columbia University Librarian. Dr. Khalil Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, SIPA. Peggy Shepard, founder director of West Harlem Environmental Action. Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, 6pm. The Kellogg Center 1501 […]