{"id":983,"date":"2023-04-21T23:13:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T06:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/?page_id=983"},"modified":"2025-02-27T11:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:21:42","slug":"gary-b-cohen-distinguished-lectureship-in-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/graduate-studies\/gary-b-cohen-distinguished-lectureship-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1032 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/Gary_Stacking-Card_900x1125-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/Gary_Stacking-Card_900x1125-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/Gary_Stacking-Card_900x1125.png 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About<\/h2>\n<p>The Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund was generously established in 2018 and continues to be a yearly highlight for our graduate program.\u00a0 This event is organized completely by the History Graduate Student Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \"><strong>Gary B. Cohen<\/strong> was educated at the University of Southern California (B.A., 1970) and Princeton University (M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1975).\u00a0 He was a member of the University of Oklahoma history faculty from 1976 to 2001, where he taught a range of courses on modern European social and political history and East-Central Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.\u00a0 In August 2001, after twenty-five years of service at the University of Oklahoma, he joined the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, as director of the Center for Austrian Studies, executive editor of <\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The Austrian History Yearbook<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">, and professor of history.\u00a0 In summer 2010, he completed his service at the Center for Austrian Studies and began a three-year term as chair of the Department of History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.\u00a0 In 2014-2015 he served as interim director of the Center for Austrian Studies, and in January 2017 he retired from the University of Minnesota faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Professor Cohen&#8217;s research has focused on social development, ethnic group relations, and education in modern Austria and the Czech lands. His publications include two monographs, <\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 1981; second edition, revised, Purdue University Press, 2006) and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Education and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">\u00a0(Purdue University Press, 1996); five co-edited volumes of essays; articles in\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The Journal of Modern History<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Central European History<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The Austrian History Yearbook<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">\u010cesk\u00fd \u010dasopis historick\u00fd<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The East European Quarterly<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Jewish History<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">, and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">The Social Science Quarterly<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">; and numerous book chapters. \u00a0 In 2000, Karolinum \u2013 The Charles University Press published a Czech translation of his study on the German minority of Prague under the title,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">N\u011bmci v Praze, 1861-1914<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">; in early 2006, Purdue University Press published in paperback a revised second edition in English. In late 2022, Academia, the press of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, published a Czech translation of his book on education and society in late imperial Austria under the title,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Vzd\u011bl\u00e1n\u00ed a st\u0159edn\u00ed t\u0159\u00edda v c\u00edsa\u0159sk\u00e9m Rakousku 1848\u20131918.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke \" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Professor Cohen&#8217;s scholarship has earned national and international recognition. Grants from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the United States Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Humanities have supported his research. He served on the national selection committee for East European exchange fellowships of the International Research and Exchanges Board in 1984-86, and during the late 1980s was the only participant from the United States in the European Science Foundation&#8217;s project on &#8220;Governments and Non-Dominant Ethnic Groups in Europe, 1850-1940.&#8221; Prof. Cohen served as the executive secretary of the Society for Austrian and Habsburg History in 2000 and 2001 and as president of the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association in 2010. The Collegium Carolinum in Munich elected him a full member in 2003, and the Republic of Austria awarded him its Ehrenkreuz (cross of honor) for Science and Arts, first class, in November 2009.\u00a0 On April 15, 2011, members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Cohen a Corresponding Member of the Academy&#8217;s humanities and social science section.\u00a0 On May 22, 2018, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic awarded him the Franti\u0161ek Palack\u00fd Honorary Medal for Merit in Historical Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n  \n\n                            \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          All Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/8th-annual-gary-b-cohen-distinguished-lecture-with-professor-vincent-brown-harvard\" \n                        class=\"\" \n      >2025 | Vincent Brown<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;Black History&#8217;s Warning to the World&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The USC Dornsife Van Hunnick History Department, through the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History fund, presents the Eighth Annual Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lecture with Harvard <strong>Professor Vincent Brown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Brown<\/b>\u00a0is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He teaches courses in Atlantic history, African diaspora studies, and the history of slavery in the Americas. Brown is the author of\u00a0<i>The Reaper&#8217;s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery<\/i>\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2008) and\u00a0<i>Tacky&#8217;s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War<\/i>\u00a0(Belknap Press, 2020), and he is producer of\u00a0<i>Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness<\/i>\u00a0(2009), an audiovisual documentary broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens, and the short video series\u00a0<i>The Bigger Picture<\/i>\u00a0(2022) for PBS Digital Studios.<\/p>\n<p>His book,\u00a0<i>Tacky&#8217;s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War<\/i>, has won the Fredrick Douglass Book Prize, James A. Rawley Prize, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.<\/p>\n<p>This esteemed event is made possible by the generous support of the\u00a0<b>Gary B. Cohen<\/b>\u00a0Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund and the\u00a0<b>USC Dornsife Van Hunnick History Department<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>To view this lecture, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1lVIw53jj4LrZ8rbBeQzlxy7-2DSrLnv2ro_view-3Fusp-3Dsharing&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&amp;r=zV1wJeV61lhBv56PIbTMFVvbC_P3KHbV6BsxdE0MruM&amp;m=ZdN5o-etW8Xj8ouHOTGE98KrgaOIj1vNzsmLI0-ruE_evx_YyGZasa0Zmm4OFCHa&amp;s=VRTt0q8hOZbPx-5PL6XOaU3jNW3c4TIN0LsnT7bx5WQ&amp;e=\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/8th-annual-gary-b-cohen-distinguished-lecture-with-professor-vincent-brown-harvard\"  aria-label=\"Read more about 2025 | Vincent Brown\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2025\/02\/Tackys-Revolt_2-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2025\/02\/Tackys-Revolt_2-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2024 | Mae M. Ngai\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The USC Dornsife Van Hunnick History Department, through the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History fund, presents the Seventh Annual Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lecture with Columbia Professor <strong>Mae M. Ngai<\/strong>, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies, Professor of History, and 2022 Bancroft Prize Award Winner for <em>The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics<\/em> (2021).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mae M. Ngai<\/strong>\u00a0is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. \u00a0She is author of the award winning\u00a0<em>Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America<\/em>\u00a0(2004);\u00a0<em>The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America<\/em>\u00a0(2010); and\u00a0<em>The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics<\/em>\u00a0(2021). \u00a0Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the Nation, and Dissent. Before becoming a historian she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2024\/03\/Cohen-Lecture-Mae-Ngai-Poster-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2024\/03\/Cohen-Lecture-Mae-Ngai-Poster-1280x1707.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2024\/03\/Cohen-Lecture-Mae-Ngai-Poster-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2023 | Provost Ben Vinson III\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;A Journey Through Afro-Mexico: Reflections on a Career in Studying Blackness in Mexico&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The USC Dornsife Van Hunnick History Department, through the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History fund, presents the Sixth Annual Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lecture with <strong>Provost Ben Vinson III<\/strong>, Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Vinson III was appointed Provost and Executive Vice President at Case Western Reserve University on July 2, 2018, and is responsible for all facets of the academic programs and research of the university.<\/p>\n<p>During his time at CWRU, Dr. Vinson has spearheaded the university\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/case.edu\/thinkbig\">Think Big<\/a>\u00a0strategic planning initiative\u2014which has received national attention for its innovative and inclusive planning process. He has also worked to increase collaboration and entrepreneurship on campus by naming an associate provost to the post of interprofessional education, research and collaborative practice; and by appointing a founding director for the Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship. \u00a0He is Co-PI of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thedaily.case.edu\/case-western-reserve-university-awarded-2-million-mellon-foundation-grant-to-promote-leadership-development-and-diversity-in-humanities-ranks\/\">Humanities in Leadership Learning Series (HILLS)<\/a>\u00a0program, funded by a $2 million\u00a0grant from the Mellon Foundation to promote leadership development and diversity in the humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Vinson is an accomplished historian of Latin America, and the recipient of the 2019 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History for his book, \u201cBefore Mestizaje: The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2023_Stacking_900x1125-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2023_Stacking_900x1125-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2022 | Dr. Elizabeth Hinton\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;The Fire this Time: Police Violence and Urban Uprisings from the 1960s to Breonna Taylor&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Elizabeth Hinton<\/strong> is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Department of African American Studies at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of Law at the Law School. Dr. Hinton&#8217;s research focuses on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the 20th century United States. She is considered one of the nation&#8217;s leading experts on criminalizing and policing.<\/p>\n<p>This event is made possible by the generous support of the Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund and the USC Department of History.<\/p>\n<p><em>Poster created by Sayantani Jana.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2022_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2022_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2021 | Dagmar Herzog\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;Moral Reasoning in the Wake of Mass Murder: Disability and Reproductive Rights in 1980s-1990s Germany&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History with Dagmar Herzog, distinguished professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Herzog explores how reproductive rights and disability rights, both latecomers to the postwar human rights canon, came to be seen as competing \u2013 with unexpected consequences. Homing in on a controversy erupting over philosopher Peter Singer\u2019s right to speak in Germany in summer 1989 \u2013 amid conservative backlash against the partial liberalization of abortion access achieved by feminists in the 1970s, but intersecting with a long-delayed reconsideration of the Nazi disability murder project that had claimed nearly 300,000 lives between 1939 and 1945 \u2013 Herzog analyzes the effects of historical ricochet.<\/p>\n<p>Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Among her books are Sex after Fascism (Princeton, 2005), Sexuality in Europe (Cambridge, 2011), Cold War Freud (Cambridge, 2017) and Unlearning Eugenics (Wisconsin, 2018). The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism, coedited with Chelsea Schields, is forthcoming 2021. She is currently writing on the theology of disability in Germany, 1900-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2021_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2021_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2020 | David W. Blight\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;Composite Nation: Frederick Douglass and the Hope of Democracy in These Authoritarian Times&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1869 Douglass delivered a speech, \u201cComposite Nation,\u201d in which he imagined a new America forged in the Civil War and emancipation, as well as the three Reconstruction Constitutional Amendments. \u00a0That new America in that heady moment, he hoped, would become a true multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-ethnic country, living under the rule of law and equality before the law. \u00a0How are we doing with that vision now? What kind of rebirth might we imagine for that vision?<\/p>\n<p><b>David W. Blight<\/b>\u00a0is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University.\u00a0 His book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History.<\/p>\n<p>Made possible by the generous support of the\u00a0<b>Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History Fund<\/b>\u00a0and the\u00a0<b>USC Dornsife Department of History<\/b>. Many thanks to the History Graduate Student Association for organizing this event.<\/p>\n<p><em>Artwork, \u201cFingerprints and Landscape,\u201d created in and with community at the PCB-AHA 2017, and poster design by Yesenia Navarrete Hunter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2020_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2023\/04\/2020_Stacking-Card_900x1125-768x1024.png 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 50vw, (min-width:768px) 100vw, 100vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          2018-2019 | Ayesha Jalal\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>&#8220;Muslims and Liberalism: Insights from Colonial India&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do Islamic imperatives prevent Muslims from embracing liberal values? Or is Western liberalism designed to exclude Muslims?\u00a0 This lecture addresses these questions by assessing Indian Muslim responses to the liberal ideals propagated by the British in India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u00a0 It will question the Orientalist privileging of \u201creligion\u201d, narrowly and imprecisely defined, to the point of reifying Islam in everything Muslims think, say or do. The aim is to offer an alternative and historically nuanced interpretation of \u201cliberalism\u201d or, more aptly \u201croshan khayali\u2019 (enlightened thought) as understood by Muslims, who not only engaged with but also exposed the contradictions in the articulations and practices of Western liberalism in the age of empire.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dr. Ayesha Jalal<\/b>\u00a0studies South Asian history and the history of Muslim identity.\u00a0 She is the Mary Richardson Professor of History and the Director of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies at Tufts University.\u00a0 Jalal\u2019s work explores the creation of Muslim identities across South Asia.\u00a0 She is the author of more than ten works on the history of India and Pakistan, including\u00a0<i>The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and<\/i>\u00a0<i>the Demand for Pakistan<\/i>\u00a0(1985) and\u00a0<i>The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics<\/i>\u00a0(2014). 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