NYIH Fellows Forums 2013-2022

9/13/2013: Ian Buruma Year Zero: A History of 1945

9/20/2013: Peter Maass State of Surveillance

9/27/2013: James McCourt, with Wayne Koestenbaum On a memoir of New York in the 1950s

10/4/2013: Molly Haskell On a memoir of sibling’s gender transition

10/11/2013: Eric Klinenberg Hurricane Sandy, Climate Change, and the Future of New York

10/18/2013: Jenny Davidson Reading Style: A Life of Reading in Sentences

11/1/2013: Elizabeth Rubin Love and Scotch Tape: The Hunt for Joseph Kony and the Consequences of Altruism

11/8/2013: Nicolai Ourossoff Grappling with Modernity: Writing the History of Twentieth-Century Architecture

11/14/2013: T.J. Clark A Room of One’s Own: Reflections on Picasso in 1932

11/15/2013: Larrissa MacFarquhar Saintly People and Why Novelists Can’t Stand Them

11/22/2013: Graham Robb Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

12/6/2013: Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA

12/13/2013: David Runciman The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis since World War I

1/31/2014: Damion Searls Who Is Uwe Johnson (And Why Should We Read Him Today?)

2/7/2014: Greg Grandin "Who Ain't a Slave": Slavery in Fact and Herman Melville's Fiction

2/14/2014: Masha Gessen and David Remnick Putin's Russia--Pussy Riot and Sochi

2/28/2014: Nicholas Leman The Transaction Society

3/7/2014: Betty Medsger The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

3/14/2014: Eric Bogosian Operation Nemesis, the Armenian Underground. and Avenging the Genocide

3/28/2014: Ulrich Baer The Rilke Alphabet

1/11/2014: David Bromwich The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke

4/21/2014: Kathy Halbreich Alibis: The Art of Sigmar Polke (with onsite tour of the Polke retrospective at MoMA)

4/25/2014: James Shapiro Shakespeare in America

5/2/2014: Lynne Cooke Outside In: The Ongoing Dynamic between Outlier Artists and the American Mainstream Art World

9/12/2014: Ta-Nehisi Coates The Case for Reparations

9/19/2014: Ruth Franklin Beyond the Lottery: Writing the Life of Shirley Jackson

9/26/2014: Peter Unger Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

10/10/2014: Dana Goldstein The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession

10/17/2014: Maya Jasanoff The Worlds of Joseph Conrad

10/24/2014: Greil Marcus The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 10 Songs

10/30/2014: Donna De Salvo How to Build a Museum in 2014 [with onsite tour of the new Whitney Museum

10/31/2014: Josiah McElheny Paul Scheerbart and Glass! Love!! And Perpetual Motion!!!

11/7/2014: Fred Kaplan Obama or History? ISIS and U.S. Foreign Policy

11/14/2014: Kieran Long Rapid Response Curating at the V&A

11/21/2014: Sarah Thornton 33 Artists in 3 Acts

12/5/2014: Mark Greif Age of the ‘Crisis of Man’ in Fiction and Thought

1/29/2015: Michael Benson Cosmographics: Picturing Space Through Time

2/6/2015: Peter Filkins Against the Wall: H.G. Adler’s Shoah Trilogy

2/13/2015: Mitchell Cohen, Alexander Stille, Philippe Boulet-Gercourt France After Charlie Hebdo”

2/20/2015: Graciela Mochkofsky The Prophet of the Andes and the Rise of a New Judaism in Latin America

2/26/2015: Martha Hodes Mourning Lincoln

3/6/2015: Morris Dickstein Living the Life, Writing the Memoir

3/13/2015: Rebecca Falkoff Who Is Elena Ferrante. Really.

4/10/2015: Susan Brind Morrow The Dawning Moon of the Mind: Unlocking the Pyramid Texts

4/17/2015: Michael Massing Erasmus, Luther, and the Rupture of Europe

4/24/2015: David Oshinsky Bellevue, Public Health, and the Medical Humanities

5/1/2015: Mona Elhawaty Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution

9/11/2015: Terry Castle Not- A-Woman--A Romance

9/18/2015: Peter Lunenfeld Who’s Afraid of the Digital Humanities?

9/25/2015: Paul Reitter Anti-Education: Nietzsche’s Lectures on Education

10/2/2015: Jenny Livingston, A.O. Scott Paris Is Burning at 25

10/9/2015: Dale Jamieson, Bonnie Nadzam Love in the Anthropocene

10/16/2015: Mark Padmore Song as Craft

10/23/2015: Jim Livingston F**k Work

11/ 6/2015: David Hare The Blue Touch: On Bewilderment and Creativity

11/ 9/2015: Mary Beard Not Built in a Day: Writing the History of Ancient Rome

11/13/2015: Leo Treitler On Mimesis

11/20/2015: Michelle Goldberg, Jelani Cobb, Rebecca Traister Roundtable on Politics Today

12/4/2015: Michelle Dean, Laura Miller Sharp: Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

1/29/2016: Robert Boynton The Invitation Only Zone: North Korea’s Abduction Project

2/5/2016: Rebecca Solnit, Garnette Cadogan, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

2/12/2016: Scott Shapiro Hugo Grotius and the Worst Crime of All: War and the Origins of International Law

2/26/2016: Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry

3/4/2016: Rebecca Traister All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

3/11/2016: Laura Secor Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran

4/1/2016: Laura Poitras Tour of “Astro Noise,” Whitney Museum of American Art

4/8/2016: David Mikics Bellow’s People

4/29/2016: Judith Weschler Screening of Aby Warburg: Metamorphosis and Memory

5/6/2016: Mark Lilla The Shipwrecked Mind: Political Reactionaries Past and Present

9/16/2016: Yasmine El Rashidi Chronicle of a Last Summer: Cairo Before and After the Arab Spring

9/23/2016: Shimon Dotan The Settlers: A Screening and Discussion

9/30/2016: James O’Higgins The Difficulties of Hegel

10/7/2016: Robert Kanigel Eyes on the Street: Revisiting Jane Jacobs

10/14/2016: Jelani Cobb, Michelle Goldberg, Katha Pollitt Roundtable on Politics Today

10/21/2016: Vivian Gornick On Re-Reading

10/28/2016: Hayden Herrera, Wendy Lesser, Arthur Lubow The Lives of the Artists

11/11/2016: Daniel Markovits Meritocracy and Its Discontents

11/18/2016: Jan-Werner Müller What Is Populism?

12/2/2016: Kate Orff Toward an Urban Ecology

12/9/2016: Anthony Gottlieb, Carlin Romano Whither the Philosophical Canon?

1/27/2017: Megan Marshall The Size of Our Abidance: Elizabeth Bishop

2/3/2017: Lawrence Weschler, Walter Murch Waves Passing in the Dark: On Astrophysics

2/10/2017: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Island People: The Caribbean and the World

2/17/2017: Susie Linfield What’s the Matter with Uncle Noam?

2/24/2017: Phillip Lopate Mother and Son, a Memoir

3/3/2017: Brendan Nyhan Fact-Checking and Fake News, Election 2016

3/17/2017: Frances Wilson Thomas De Quincey, Murder, and the Fine Art of Biography

3/24/2017: Kim Phillips-Fein Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

3/31/2017: Laura Kipnis Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus

4/7/2017: Frances Fitzgerald Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

4/21/2017: James Forman, Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in America

4/28/2017: Rochelle Gurstein What Is... Or What Was... Or Is There Such a Thing as a Classic?

5/5/2017: Brent Hayes Edwards Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination

9/15/2017: Helen Epstein Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror

9/29/2017: Rhonda Garelick Blow-Up: Fashion in the “Age of Terrorism”

10/6/2017: Michael Harris Mathematics Unapologetic but not Unethical

10/13/2017: Mark Greif How to Look at Porn: An Aesthetics of the Present

10/27/2017: Kevin Young Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

11/03/2017: Hisham Matar On Memoir and Libya

11/10/2017: Claus Leggewie, with Ian Buruma Germany in Europe: A “Reflective” Hegemon at the Crossroads

11/17/2017: Joan Scott Sex and Secularism

12/1/2017: Patrick Radden Keefe Whatever You Say, Say Nothing: A Story of Murder and Memory in Belfast

12/8/2017: Yuri Slezkine The House of Government: The Life and Death of the Old Bolsheviks

2/2/2018: Brittney Cooper, Michelle Goldberg, and Rebecca Traister Roundtable on Politics Today

2/9/2018: Dana Polan Ring-a-Ding-Ding!: Styles of Presentation in the Film and Music Performances of Frank Sinatra

2/16/2018: Michael Strevens The Strategic Irrationality of Science

2/23/2018: Wendy Steiner The Loathly Lady: The Opera

3/2/2018: Samuel Moyn Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

3/23/2018: Tracy Heather Strain Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart: A Documentary about Lorraine Hansberry

3/30/2018: Gregory Pardlo Debriefing Air Traffic: A Reading and Discussion

4/4/2018: D. Graham Burnett Interdisciplinarity and Antidisciplinarity: A Discussion of KEYWORDS; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life, &c.

4/13/2018: Bruce Robbins On The Beneficiary

4/20/2018: Uli Baer Disentangling the Free Speech Debate in the Age of Trump, the Alt-Right, and Campus Protests

4/27/2018: Jim Holt Living: Philosophy vs. Science

9/7/2018: Eric Klinenberg Palaces for the People: Why Libraries Matter

9/21/2018: Rebecca Traister Good and Mad: On Rage and Feminism

9/27/2018: Nuar Alsadir, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Clifford Thompson, Brian Dillon Conversations on the Essay

10/5/2018: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Claus Leggewie Resistance in Europe (moderated by Ian Buruma)

10/19/2018: Robyn Creswell Beirut: Modernism and Its Afterlives

11/9/2018: Siva Vaidyanathan Antisocial Media: Facebook and Democracy

11/16/2018: Catherine Stimpson On Memoir

12/7/2018: Jonathan Lethem West Coast/East Coast

2/1/2019: Elizabeth Holtzman How To Impeach a President

2/15/2019: Scott Shapiro, Sam Moyn, Ross Douthat Does American Conservatism Have a Future?

3/1/2019: Peter Filkins On Biography and History

3/15/2019: Brenda Wineapple The Return of the Repressed, Profiles in Courage, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

3/29/2019: David Rothenberg Nightingales in Berlin

4/12/2019: Sarah Schulman Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT-UP

4/26/2019: Sharon Marcus The Drama of Celebrity

9/13/2019: Alexandra Horowitz Our Dog, Ourselves

9/20/2019: Ben Moser Susan Sontag, a Biography

9/27/2019: J. Hoberman Reagan, Trump, and the Movies (+ TV)

10/4/2019: Corey Robin The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

10/11/2019: Sally Connolly The Life and Work of Thom Gunn

10/18/2019: Larry Shainberg Beckett, a Memoir

10/25/2019: Caitlin Zaloom Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

11/1/2019: John Keene Counternarratives

11/8/2019: Katrina Forrester Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

11/15/2019: Anne Nelson The Birth and Growth of Right-Wing Media

11/22/2019: David Mikics Stanley Kubrick

12/6/2019: Claus Leggewie The Arts and Resistance: Refugees, Racism, and Rebellion

2/7/2020: Deirdre Bair Beckett, de Beauvoir, and a Biographer’s Memoirs

2/14/2020: Gabe Winslow-Yost and Emily Greenhouse The New York Review of Books Today

2/21/2020: Said Sayrafiezadeh A Political Childhood

3/6/2020: Honor Moore Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury

9/11/2020: Errin Haines, Rebecca Traister, and Michael Tomasky Roundtable on Political Reporting

9/18/2020: Ava Chin, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Ben Lerner, Meghan O’Rourke, and Ta- Nehisi Coates Writing in Uncertain Times: A Roundtable

9/25/2020: Svetlana Alpers Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch

10/2/2020: Alex Ross Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

10/16/2020: Ian Buruma The Churchill Complex

10/30/2020: Martin Puchner The Language of Thieves

11/13/2020: Adam Tooze Covid and Crash: The Global Economic Outlook

11/20/2020: Adam Reuben and James Lasdun Adapting “Trumpet Voluntary”

2/12/2021: Mitzi Angel, Lisa Lucas, John Freeman, and Zoe Pagnamenta The State of Publishing, a Roundtable

2/19/2021: Noah Isenberg and Shelley Frisch Billy Wilder in Vienna and Berlin

2/26/2021: Jason Farago The Art Economy after the Pandemic

3/12/2021: Jed S. Rakoff Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free

3/19/2021: Hermione Lee with Michael Wood Tom Stoppard: A Biography

3/26/2021: Edwin Frank The Novel in the Twentieth Century

4/9/2021: Uli Baer, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Ross Posnock Literary Firsts and the Canon Revisited

4/16/2021: Blake Bailey Writing Philip Roth

4/23/2021: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Place Names of New York

4/30/2021: Louis Menand The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

5/7/2021: Susan Bernofsky Robert Walser, a Biography

10/1/2021: Amia Srinivasan The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century

10/8/2021: Eyal Press and Eliza Griswold Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Toll of Inequality in America

10/15/2021: Mark McGurl, Sharon Marcus, and Christine Smallwood Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

10/23/2021: Amitav Ghosh The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

10/31/2021: Victoria Newhouse New Parks of the 21st Century

11/12/2021: Cathy Curtis The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

11/19/2021: Samuel Moyn Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

12/3/2021: Richard Sennett Stage and Street

12/10/2021: Thomas Sugrue, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Caitlin Zaloom 2020: The Long Year

12/17/2021: Yusef Komunyakaa, Floyd Tunson, and Tomas Doncker Endangered: A Collaboration of Art and Music

1/21/2022: Lewis Gordon Why Fearing Black Consciousness Is a Form of Bad Faith

1/28/2022: Lydia Goehr Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread

2/4/2022: Laura Kipnis Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

2/18/2022: Meghan O’Rourke The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

3/4/2022: Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keene, Vijay Seshadri, Camille Rankine and Robert Polito Recent Poetry: A Reading and Roundtable with NYIH Fellows

3/11/2022: Ato Quayson Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

3/18/2022: David Henkin with Leah Price The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are

3/25/2022: Michael Kazin What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party

4/1/2022: Leonard Barkan with Ben Kafka Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

4/15/2022: Kate Masur Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

4/ 22/2022: Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb, with Paul Elie The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

5/6/2022: Maya Jasanoff Ancestors: Where Do They Come From, and Why Do We Care?

5/13/2022: Daniel Birnbaum Dr. B

5/20/2022: Masha Gessen and Anand Giridharadas On Russia, Ukraine, and Journalism