Category: Events

June 21, 2020

Q&A: Thomas Borstelmann on the American Struggle to Understanding Foreigners

“This is one of those books that sticks with you. Borstelmann asks a big question—about U.S. attitudes toward foreigners—and has an important argument to make. What is more, Just Like Us sparkles with telling details and unexpected connections. It is, plainly put,...

June 21, 2020

Our Parents’ Things—A Father’s Day Reflection

By David Ekerdt

“Downsizing is a must-read; chock-full of wisdom gleaned from interviews with hundreds of older adults who have gifted, donated, or sold their “stuff” before relocating to a smaller home. Ekerdt’s masterful writing poignantly reveals why parting with cherished possessions is...

June 20, 2020

Q&A: Victor McFarland on the History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance

“The extraordinary relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia has influenced both countries, often for the worse. There is no better guide to the origins of this complex alliance than Victor McFarland’s new book. Anyone with an interest in...

June 20, 2020

Join Stephen Wesley on a Tour of Our SHAFR 2020 Virtual Booth

Hello there, I’m Stephen Wesley, the American history editor at Columbia University Press. Since the coronavirus pandemic has canceled most of the spring conferences—the Society for the History for American Foreign Relations annual program included—we are mounting virtual book exhibits...

June 18, 2020

What is Race-Based Traumatic Stress Injury? In a Time of Racial Unrest

By Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse

“Carter and Pieterse increase our understanding of and the treatability of traumatic stress that results from racism. The proposals proffered in Measuring the Effects of Racism will lead to better treatment methods of race-based trauma and increase the evidence base...

June 10, 2020

Book Launch! David Lawler and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Globalization, Pandemics, Mass Protests, and Environmental Crisis

 Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In The Ages of Globalization:...

June 1, 2020

Author Event! Join Jeffrey D. Sachs in Conversation with David Lawler

https://cupblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Conversation-With-Globe-Book.mp4 Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term...

May 19, 2020

Shennette Garrett-Scott Featured on ABWH-TV

“Garrett-Scott reclaims the stories of black women who—as bank founders and clerks, investors, aspiring home owners, loan seekers, and, yes, as those denied loans—asserted their own economic ethos. A compelling account of black women’s ideas about money, savings, lending, obligation,...

May 13, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema

“The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under...

April 5, 2020

Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia

by Sarah Keller

“Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in...

April 5, 2020

New Books in Film and Media Studies from Auteur, transcript publishing, and the Austrian Film Museum

No visit to the CUP tables at SCMS would be complete without a look through the exciting new titles we’ve brought from our distribution partners.  New from Auteur First up is the Auteur table, where you’ll find numerous new titles...

April 5, 2020

Ten Masterpieces of Experimental Cinema

The following list by Justin Remes, author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis and the forthcoming Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing, considers ten canonical experimental films. You can also watch the films below. •  •  • ...