{"id":1244,"date":"2012-03-22T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=1244"},"modified":"2012-03-23T11:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T15:23:28","slug":"student-life-during-wartime-world-war-ii-at-barnard-college","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/student-life-during-wartime-world-war-ii-at-barnard-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Life During Wartime: World War II at Barnard College"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before the outbreak of World War II, Barnard\u2019s Committee on Instruction met monthly to discuss practical academic concerns, and to debate the essential components of an undergraduate liberal arts education. But in the early 1940s the Committee\u2019s conversations underwent a marked shift, as the Second World War increasingly intruded on the requirements and routines of college life. This talk by Karen Seeley, Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University, will examine Barnard College\u2019s response to this \u201ctotal war.\u201d Based on her research in the College archives and elsewhere, Dr. Seeley will discuss the Barnard\u2019s attempts to mobilize students to contribute to the war effort, as well as the war\u2019s implications for a sheltered women\u2019s college.<\/p>\n

Karen Seeley\u2019s interests lie at the intersections of psychology and anthropology, and her interdisciplinary training informs her approach to research and teaching. She is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University, where she teaches courses such as \u201cTrauma,\u201d \u201cPsychoanalysis, Colonialism and Race,\u201d and \u201cThe Bomb\u201d; she also teaches \u201cCultural Psychology\u201d at Barnard College. Dr. Seeley is the author of Cultural Psychotherapy: Working with Culture in the Clinical Encounter<\/em>, which critically examines Western psychotherapies and proposes new modes of practice for intercultural treatments. Her recent book, Therapy after Terror<\/em>, explores New York City psychotherapists\u2019 clinical work after 9\/11. She currently is conducting research on women\u2019s friendships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before the outbreak of World War II, Barnard\u2019s Committee on Instruction met monthly to discuss practical academic concerns, and to debate the essential components of an undergraduate liberal arts education. But in the early 1940s the Committee\u2019s conversations underwent a marked shift, as the Second World War increasingly intruded on the requirements and routines of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1245,"template":"","tags":[19,205,36,95],"class_list":["post-1244","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academy","tag-barnard","tag-history","tag-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}