Next Tuesday, March 29, the Gotham Center New York City History Seminar will meet at the NYPL for the first of this spring’s Gotham Center New York City History seminars. Our presenter will be archaeologist Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, visiting assistant professor in the Liberal Studies and Classics programs at the Graduate Center. We will be discussing a paper of dr. Lewis’, “Ziggurats in Manhattan: The reception of the architecture of the Ancient Near East in New York.” For more details about the seminar and for the precirculated text, please contact us at martin.lund@lnu.se

Dear all,

The spring semester is getting well underway, and we are happy to announce what promises to be an exciting series of New York City History Seminars. As we did during the fall, we will be meeting up at the NYPL by Bryant Park.

• On March 29, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis will present a work in progress from her project about the reception of ancient architecture in the “private” sphere.
• On April 19, Jon-Christian Suggs will present a draft of part of his upcoming book, tentatively titled “Metropolitan: Hannah Elias and the Murder of the Man Who Invented New York.”
• And finally, on May 17, Aaron Gurwitz will present a part of his current project, an economic history of New York City, which deals with “catastrophic agglomeration” in the 1840s.

Please save the dates, and more information about each respective seminar will come as it draws nearer, both in our mailing list (email me at martin.lund@lnu.se if you want to sign up) and on this site.

Until next time,

Martin