PAST PROJECTS

• The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age (2004-2007)
  In September 2004 ICAS began a three-year project on "The Authority of Knowledge in a Global Age." The project sought to better understand the production, circulation, and legitimation of social knowledge on a global scale. The Project's weekly Friday mornings seminars, occasional symposia and conferences were open to interested people in the NYU community and the New York region. The project was directed by Timothy Mitchell. For the names of the Fellows and Project Advisory Committee click on the previous links.
  

• Cold War as a Global Conflict (2001-2004)
  The purpose of the project was to question and rethink the dominant paradigms of the Cold War as an episode in national and international history, and in the process to create an international network of scholars whose work relates to the Cold War. During the academic year it held weekly seminars on Friday mornings that were open to the public and listed on the ICAS Events page. The Cold War as Global Conflict Project was directed by Marilyn Young and co-directed by Allen Hunter. For the names of the Fellows, Project Advisory Committee and Funders click on the previous links.
  

• Cities and Urban Knowledges (1997-2001)
  Over four years, it brought together more than 60 residential fellows from NYU, other parts of the United States, and abroad. The annual themes were: Divided Cities, Cities and Nations, Urban Citizenship and Political Obligation, and Metropolitan Culture and Contemporary Life. Besides weekly seminars, the Project organized special seminars, exhibits, lectures, and symposia. These activities are briefly described in the annual newsletter of the Center. The Project closed with a conference that brought together a number of former fellows who will addressed the questions of urban spatiality, politics, culture, and representation. Held in Antalya, Turkey, it was organized jointly by ICAS, the Center for the Study of Transitional Societies at Bilkent University in Ankara, and the Urban Studies Center at Illinois Institute of Technology. The Cities and Urban Knowledges Project and the Internationalizing of American History Project was directed by Thomas Bender. For the names of the Fellows, Project Advisory Committee and Funders click on the previous links.
  

• Internationalizing of the Study of American History (1997-2000)
  Jointly undertaken with the Organization of American Historians, it brought together 78 historians from the United States and abroad for a series of summer meetings in Florence, Italy, to explores ways of opening the narrative of American history to provide a richer transnational and even global context for writing a national history. The Project produced a report to the profession, the La Pietra Report, addressing history education and research. With essays by a number of seminars participants,Rethinking American History in a Global Age (University of California Press, 2002), edited by Thomas Bender, is another result of the project.
  

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