A Tribute to John Berger

March 30, 2017–March 31, 2017
All Day
Columbia University
116th Street and Broadway
New York, New York
A Tribute to John Berger

Join Public Books for a two-day symposium celebrating the life of John Berger.

 

Schedule of Events

 

THURSDAY MARCH 30th

Location: Brown Institute, Pulitzer Hall, Journalism School, ground floor

 

6:15PM Keynote Lecture: Teju Cole

Introduction: Sharon Marcus, Dean of the Humanities, Columbia University, and Co-Editor, Public Books

 

FRIDAY MARCH 31st

Location: Pupin 428 (one floor down from campus level)

 

9:15 Opening Remarks

Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

 

9:30 Panel: A Thinker of Our Time

Moderator: Anne Higonnet, Art History and Public Books

 

Jonathan Crary, Art History

Jane Gaines, School of the Arts

Siddhartha Deb, The New School

 

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Roundtable: New Ways of Seeing

Moderator: Bruce Robbins

 

Johanna Gosse, post-doc, Art History

Ratik Asokan, MA student, English, and The Baffler

Annie Wyman, Writer

Barnaby Raine, PhD student, History

 

12:30 Lunch

 

2:00 Film Screening

Screening of The Seasons at Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, dir. Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Bartek Dziadosz, and Christopher Roth (2016)

Discussant: Laura Kipnis

 

4:00 Coffee Break

 

4:30 Final Keynote: Geoff Dyer

Introduction: Matthew Hart, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

 

6:00 Public House

Join us for drinks and conversation at Arts and Crafts Beer Parlor SoHa (1135 Amsterdam Ave)!

 

Sponsored by Public Books and Columbia University’s Office of the President; Office of the Dean of Humanities, Arts & Sciences; School of the Arts; Department of Art History and Archaeology; and the 20/21 Colloquium in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.