A Reading by Howard Markel and Amanda Smith
Date: February 1, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Howard Markel and Amanda Smith, the authors of An Anatomy of Addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the Miracle Drug, and Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson will read from their works.Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. His books include Quarantine! and When Germs Travel. His articles have appeared i...
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New Location - Looking Forward From Ground Zero: The Future of Lower Manhattan
Date: February 1, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Please note this event has been relocated to Wollman Hall, enter at 66 West 12th Street.On the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this past fall, much of the discussion of Ground Zero looked backward, assessing decisions on redeveloping the site, the design of the 9/11 Memorial, and architectural plans for the surrounding buildings. But there is also a need to look forward and address the future of Ground Zero. How will the redesign of the site and the struggles over its making affect the future of urban...
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Ties That Bind: Reimagining juvenile justice and child welfare for teens, families and communities
Date: February 2, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
A Child Welfare Watch forum presented by the Center for New York City AffairsThe Bloomberg administration is seeking major changes in how the city works with teens in juvenile justice, child protection and foster care. The city would create a complete juvenile justice system in the five boroughs, no longer sending teens to state-run correctional facilities. At the same time, nonprofits would create more intensive, family-centered and community-rooted services for teens in child welfare. Can the ...
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Thingness of Energy: Jamie Kruse
Date: February 2, 2012 - April 24, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition reception: Thursday, February 2, 2012, 6:30–9:00 p.m.Exhibition: February 2 through April 24, 2012Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.Saturday and Sunday, 12:00–6:00 p.m.Thingness of Energy is a mixed-media installation by Jamie Kruse, presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. The installation is being displayed in the lobby of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, a glass-enclosed gallery that opens onto Fifth Avenue. It is intended to serve as a...
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts: Session 1 - Mandala as Integrative Healing Symbolism
Date: February 2, 2012 6:30 p.m.
The field of creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential component of health care in our society. By tapping into the deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role playing, and movement, the therapist facilitates self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this lecture/demonstration series.Session 1: Mandala as Integrative Healin...
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Riggio Forum: Truth or Consequences - Getting it Right in Long-Form Narrative
Date: February 2, 2012 6:30 p.m.
A discussion with contributors to Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (CJR/Columbia University Press), moderated by James Marcus, deputy editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author of The Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut includes: Nicholson Baker, author of 13 books, including his most recent novel, House of Holes, and Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization.Gal Beckerman,a reporter at The Forward and the author of When They Come for Us, We...
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Fridays @ One - Florence Howe, The Politics of Women's Studies
Date: February 3, 2012 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Florence Howe became involved with the women’s movement in the 1960s after participating in the civil rights and antiwar movements. She co-founded the Feminist Press in 1970. As a professor of English, first at Goucher College and then at SUNY’s College at Old Westbury, she was a leader in creating and nurturing the women's studies movement in North American universities. Howe tells the story of the tribulations and triumphs of women’s studies from the inside. The Institute for Retired Professio...
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RUFF CUTS 1 - Spring 2012
Date: February 3, 2012 7:00 p.m.
RUFF CUTS sessions are opportunities for New School students to exhibit and discuss their media works in progress. RUFF CUTS is produced by graduate students in Media Studies. The sessions are open to all Media Studies and Documentary Media Studies students as well as graduate and undergraduate students throughout the university who would like to receive constructive feedback on their film, video, multimedia, and other works in progress or simply to participate in the viewings and discussions. M...
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Faculty Research Brownbag Series: Arboreal Values
Date: February 6, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Laura Auricchio, Chair of Humanities at The New School for Public Engagement and associate professor of Art History at Parsons The New School for Design, will deliver a talk entitled, Arboreal Values.Auricchio received an award from the 2010-2011 Faculty Research Fund to support the forthcoming volume, Arboreal Values: Trees, Forest and Wood in Europe and North America, 1660-1830, which she co-edited. This project seeks to encourage conversation among various fields of inquiry towards an emergi...
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Social Innovation Speaker Series: Filmmaking as Social Innovation
Date: February 6, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Join us for "Filmmaking as Social Innovation: A panel discussion" with three award-winning activists and changemakers who leverage the power of film and media to influence positive social change.Featuring:David France, producer, director and writer of How To Survive A Plague; contributing editor, GQ and New York MagazineLinda Goode Bryant, co-producer, director and writer of Flag Wars; founder, Active Citizen Project & Project EATSRobin Hayes, producer and director of Beautiful Me(s):Finding our...
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Fiction Forum: Ghita Schwarz
Date: February 6, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Ghita Schwarz’s first novel Displaced Persons was published in 2010. She grew up in a family of postwar Jewish refugees and attended Harvard College and Columbia Law School. A former mental health worker and legal services attorney, she is now a civil rights litigator specializing in immigrants' rights. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Ploughshares, The Believer and The San Francisco Bay Guardian. Moderated by Jackson Taylor, associate director of the School of Writing. ...
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Public Elementary School: How to Apply
Date: February 7, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Join Clara Hemphill, the staff of Insideschools, and other experts with answers to questions about: What to look for in an elementary school How and when to register Programs for gifted and talented students Special educationEnglish as a second languageCharter schools This event is presented by The Center for New York City Affairs and Insideschools.org and co-sponsored by The New York City Council. Insideschools.org is a project of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.Insidesc...
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The Invasion of the NGOs: Nature, Territory and Identity in Tanzania
Date: February 7, 2012 6:00 p.m.
This talk by political ecologist Jennifer Jones will reflect on the role of foreign policy and its influence on nature conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Among the questions to be addressed are:Who benefits from conservation and development schemes?What role do international nongovernmental organizations play in promoting conservation?What role does foreign direct investment, the World Bank, and the United Nations play in local decision-making?
Jones will also discuss the parks vs. people deba...
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Writing for Children Forum: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Date: February 7, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of 30 books for children and young adults. As Vice President, and Executive Editor for Scholastic, Andrea has acquired and edited a robust mix of titles, including Newbery and Coretta Scott King Award winners. One of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business,” she was also named one of the “25 Most Influential People in Our Children’s Lives” by Children’s Health Magazine. Moderated by Deborah Brodie, who after...
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Public Art Fund Talks at The New School: Roger Hiorns
Date: February 8, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Talks take place February 8, March 28, and April 11.Using nontraditional materials—from jet engines to animal parts to nitrates— Roger Hiorns’ sculptures, performances, and installations investigate the possibility of transformation in objects, social encounters, and urban settings. In his 2009 installation Seizure, he pumped 75,000 liters of copper sulfate solution into an abandoned South London council apartment, creating a crystalline growth on the walls, floor, and ceiling. In his February 8...
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New Location - Nonfiction Forum: George Scialabba
Date: February 9, 2012 6:30 p.m.
George Scialabba is a book critic whose reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, Dissent, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, and The American Prospect. His most recent book is the collection of essays The Modern Predicament. His other books are Divided Mind and What Are Intellectuals Good For? Scialabba received the first Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award from the 2010 National Book Critics Circle. Moderated by James Miller, professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies,...
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts: Session 2 - Treat Your Voice Holistically
Date: February 9, 2012 6:30 p.m.
The field of creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential component of health care in our society. By tapping into the deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role playing, and movement, the therapist facilitates self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this lecture/demonstration series. This session: Treat Your Voice Holist...
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Being the Media: Designing a New Rrradical Media Two Day Conference (Day One)
Date: February 10, 2012 6:30 p.m.
What is radical media? What has it been in the past? What will it be in the future? For 30 years, the Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) video collective has inspired media-savvy community producers and activists around the world with shows that deliver critical analysis of the media, educate about the communications industry, and highlight issues ignored by mainstream information sources. The collective, a group of artists, activists, and scholars, pioneered its radical public access show, which cha...
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Being the Media: Designing a New Rrradical Media (Day Two)
Date: February 11, 2012 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
What is radical media? What has it been in the past? What will it be in the future? For 30 years, the Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) video collective has inspired media-savvy community producers and activists around the world with shows that deliver critical analysis of the media, educate about the communications industry, and highlight issues ignored by mainstream information sources. The collective, a group of artists, activists, and scholars, pioneered its radical public access show, which cha...
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The Winter of Our Discontent: Stepping Back, Taking Stock, and Gazing Forward in the Wake of Occupy Wall Street
Date: February 11, 2012 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
A public conversation with prominent activists, organizers, and political/cultural thinkers about the current state of the Left in America, and where it should be headed, given the game-changing forces unleashed by Occupy Wall Street.Participants include: James Miller, professor of Politics and chair of Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, SDS veteran, author of Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, and a co-convener (with Lawrence Weschler) of ...
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Chat n' Chai: India China Institute Informational Session
Date: February 13, 2012 5:00 p.m.
Come join for an informational session about the India China Institute...
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CANCELLED: Riggio Forum: Cathy N. Davidson
Date: February 13, 2012 6:30 p.m.
This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.Cathy N. Davidson is the author, most recently, of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. Her other books include Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Reading in America: Literature and Social History, The Book of Love: Writers and Their Love Letters, and 36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan. Davidson also collaborated with photographe...
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New Date - Fiction Forum: Marlon James
Date: February 14, 2012 6:30 p.m.
This event has been rescheduled from February 8 to February 14.Marlon James’ first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, was published in 2009. He is a professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Macalester College, St. Paul. Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, faculty member of the School of Writing. ...
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Cave Canem Presents: Toi Derricotte
Date: February 15, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Toi Derricotte has written many books of poems, including, most recently, The Undertaker’s Daughter. She is also the author of Tender, The Black Notebook, and Captivity. Derricotte has received the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, and the Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry from Poets House. In 1996, she and Cornelius Eady founded Cave Canem Foundation, North America’s premier “home for black poetry.” Derricotte is a professor of Engl...
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Works In Progress: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani
Date: February 16, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
City Studio/Layered SPURA: Visual Urbanism and Civic Engagement...
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts: Session 3 - Language, Shame, and the Body with Adolescents in Acute Psychiatry
Date: February 16, 2012 6:30 p.m.
The field of creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential component of health care in our society. By tapping into the deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role playing, and movement, the therapist facilitates self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this lecture/demonstration series.This Session: F*?#! This: Language, Sham...
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BETA 1 - Spring 2012
Date: February 17, 2012 6:00 p.m.
BETA sessions are opportunities for Media Studies students to discuss their media works in progress and receive feedback on their installations, web-based, gaming, locative and sound projects. (BETA is not meant for screening of Film/video works.)...
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First Features 1, Spring 2012
Date: February 17, 2012 7:00 p.m.
The debut feature from the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of one boy’s war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of WWII and the serene moments of family life before the conflict began, Tarkovsky’s film remains one of the most jarring and unforgettable depictions of the impact of violence on children in wartime.First Features is a student-run screening series dedicated to the many exemplary and a...
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The 11th Annual Oscar Sternbach Awards and Lecture: Judith Butler on Ideologies of the Superego
Date: February 17, 2012 8:00 p.m.
One of the leading feminist theorists, scholar Judith Butler will receive the 11th Annual Oscar Sternbach award, given by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis for the important contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. She will also deliver a lecture entitled Ideologies of the Superego. Other recipients include Roy Schafer, Martin Bergmann, Mark Solms, Jaak Panksepp, Leo Rangell, Beatrice Beebe, and Otto F. Kernberg. Formerly a professor in the Rhetoric and Comparative...
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Poetry Forum: Martha Rhodes
Date: February 21, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Martha Rhodes is the author of four collections of poetry: The Beds, At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance (winner of the Green Rose Prize), and Mother Quiet. In 1993, Rhodes co-founded Four Way Books, where she continues to serve as director. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Moderated by Mark Bibbins, faculty member of the School of Writing. ...
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CPS: Public Voices lecture, Russ Feingold
Date: February 22, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold discusses new book and post-9/11 America...
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Using Corpora in the Language Classroom: A Lecture by Randi Reppen
Date: February 22, 2012 6:00 p.m.
Many teachers are eager to use corpora in their classrooms but lack the training and resources to accomplish this task. In this interactive workshop, the presenter will help to demystify corpus linguistics with clear explanations, examples and hands-on activities.Participants will gain the knowledge and skills for creating classroom materials and activities, including how to create corpora to address specific class needs.Speaker: Randi Reppen is professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizo...
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An Evening with William H. Gass
Date: February 22, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Wiliam H. Gass, the distinguished American novelist, short story writer, and essayist will read from his new book of essays Life Sentences just out by Knopf. “No essayist alive makes one hungrier to read than will William H. Gass.” - John Freeman, editor, GrantaModerated by Robert Polito, director, the School of Writing. ...
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The Detention Dilemma: Families, Security and Immigrant Rights
Date: February 23, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Media reports document the continuing expansion and privatization of immigrant detention centers and the violation of immigrants’ rights throughout the process of detention and deportation. How does long-term detention affect individuals and their families? Can the immigration system do a better job of balancing the nation’s professed commitment to human rights with concerns about law enforcement and border security?With:Maria Hinojosa, of the FRONTLINE documentary Lost in Detention; President &...
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Mind-Body Healing Through the Arts: Session 4 - Contemplative Mind in Higher Education
Date: February 23, 2012 6:30 p.m.
The field of creative arts therapy is rapidly gaining recognition as an essential component of health care in our society. By tapping into the deeply expressive aspects of body, mind, and spirit through such modalities as music, sound, imagery, role playing, and movement, the therapist facilitates self-actualization and healing within the therapeutic relationship. Prominent practitioners discuss principles and practice in this lecture/demonstration series.Session 4: Contemplative Mind in Higher ...
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Argentinian Psychoanalyst Fabian Naparstek on The Comedy of the Sexes
Date: February 24, 2012 8:00 p.m.
This lecture opens the Clinical Study Days 6: The Psychoanalytic Act in the 21 Century conference to be held between February 24 – 26, 2012, under the auspices of the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysis and the Lacanian Compass in association with The New School. French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and philosopher Jacques Marie Émile Lacan preferred to think about the relationship between the sexes through the model of comedy. At the end of the ball, when the masks are down, “...
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A Reading by Robert Antoni
Date: February 27, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Robert Antoni is the author of Carnival: A Novel, My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales, Blessed is the Fruit, and Divina Trace. He is the recipient of many awards, including an NEA, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and James Michener and Orowitz Fellowships. He is a contributing editor at the Paris Review and senior editor at Conjunctions. He is a faculty member at The New School Graduate Writing Program. Moderated by Tiphanie Yanique, associate professor of the School of Writing. ...
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Coming Out in the Developing World: (Re)Articulations of Queer Citizenship
Date: February 28, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Sexual minorities have often been excluded from access to rights that should be afforded them by virtue of their legal citizenship. In recent decades, however, sexual rights groups in many countries have achieved new articulations of citizenship by organizing around collective political identities during processes of democratization. This has been evidenced in the cases of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, for instance, where LGBT activists engaged directly with the state during political transforma...
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Poetry Forum: Jason Schneiderman
Date: February 28, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of Striking Surface, winner of the Richard Snyder prize from Ashland Poetry Press, and Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, The Best American Poetry, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2...
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