Two Upcoming Events Organised by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.

A) "The Letter Kills: On Some Implications of 2 Corinthians 3:6," Inaugural History & Theory Lecture by Carlo Ginzburg, Thursday, March 5, 2009, 6:15 pm, Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center; Comments by Matthew L. Jones, Columbia University. (Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities, Department of History, and the European Institute)

B) "Historicizing Humanitarianism: Ideas, Culture, and Politics," Organized by the Columbia Center for International History and Co-sponsored by the Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History, Friday, April 3, 2009

9 Coffee

9:15 Welcome: Mark Mazower (Columbia)

Morning: Inventing Humanitarianism in the 18th and 19th Centuries Chair: Samuel Moyn (Columbia)

Session One: Origins and Narratives 9:30 Lynn Festa (Rutgers) 10 Thomas Laqueur (Berkeley) 10:30 Discussion

Session Two: Antislavery and Moral Capital 10:45 Thomas Haskell (Rice) 11:15 Christopher Leslie Brown (Columbia) 11:45 Discussion

12 Lunch

Afternoon: The Practice of Humanitarianism in the 20th Century Chair: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago)

Session Three: Humanitarianism and the International Order 2 Jeanne Morefield (Whitman) 2:30 Mark Mazower (Columbia) 3 Discussion

Session Four: Contemporary Humanitarianism: Metropole and Postcolony 3:15 Miriam Ticktin (New School) 3:45 Gregory Mann (Columbia) 4:15 Discussion

For further information, visit: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cich/index.html.