A Turning Point in Social Policies in Argentina
Date: 11/24/2008
On Tuesday, November 25, a special forum on social policies in Argentina titled, “Towards an Integrated and Inclusive Development in Latin America” will take place.
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Media Studies Faculty Publishes New Book
Date: 11/24/2008
Kit Laybourne, an associate professor in the MA Program in Media Studies and Film, has published a new book, Mediapedia. The publisher is Knack Books, an imprint of the Globe Pequot Press.
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An Emergent Second Life?
Date: 11/24/2008
Former and current Media Studies students Bianca Ahmadi and Juan Rubio and faculty member Jason Pine have produced a television show in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV.
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Boris Groys Delivers John Mcdonald Moore Memorial Lecture
Date: 11/17/2008
Professor Boris Groys delivered the fourth John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture on Monday, November 17, at which he discussed how art is one of the most democratic forms of expression.
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Bachelor's Program Student Produces Plays to Benefit North Shore Animal League
Date: 11/17/2008
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Food, Energy, and Social Justice in Latin America
Date: 11/3/2008
In the context of the program "Latin America on the Move", the Graduate Program in International Affairs will present a policy and research conference titled, “Food, Energy, and Social Justice in Latin America.”
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Doc Studies Alum Takes Top Prize At CMJ Film Festival
Date: 11/3/2008
Last week, Doc Studies alum Sarah Frank (‘08) was awarded Best Documentary Short at the CMJ’s inaugural CineMini Short Film Festival in Manhattan.
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Poetry Society of America: Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop
Date: 10/27/2008
On Thursday, October 30, at 7:00 p.m. the Poetry Society of America and The New School Writing Program will honor the work of Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), in celebration of the Library of America’s new publication Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters.
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Media Utopia: The Art and Advocacy of Paul Ryan
Date: 10/27/2008
Paul Ryan, an associate professor in Media Studies at The New School, currently has an exhibit running through December 31, at the Archives of American Art, New York Research Center, 1285 Avenue of the Americas
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The Graduate Program in International Affairs Hosts: “Bosnia And Herzegovina—Moving Forward”
Date: 10/13/2008
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Documentary Studies Program Named Top-Ten Program in North America
Date: 10/13/2008
The New School's Documentary Studies program was recognized as one of the top ten in North America in the September issue of Independent magazine.
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Films by Two Faculty Members Screen at Festivals
Date: 10/13/2008
Films by Communication Design & Technology faculty member Pablo Medina and Media Studies faculty member Vladan Nikolic were recently selected to screen at film festivals.
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Faculty Member Annie Howell Grand Prize Winner at IFP Film Week
Date: 10/6/2008
Last week at Independent Feature Project’s (IFP) Independent Film Week in New York, Media Studies Faculty member Annie J. Howell won the Panasonic Digital Filmmaker Grand Prize Award for her feature-length film script, Black Kid.
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The New School Collaborates: Ajkem’a Loy’a and Care
Date: 9/29/2008
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The Barbara Jordan Lecture: Ronald W. Walters on The Social Contract
Date: 9/29/2008
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Alumni Featured in Film Festival
Date: 9/29/2008
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Faculty and Alumni Films Screen at New York Film Festival
Date: 9/22/2008
Two films by members of The New School community were selected to screen at the New York Film Festival, which takes place September 29 through October 12.
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The Courts and Constitutional Issues
Date: 9/15/2008
Are these truly perilous times for democracy filled with uncertainty and instability? What role does the Supreme Court play in this transitional moment in American politics?
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New School Documentary Studies Alumni Have Films Broadcast
Date: 9/15/2008
This month, the Documentary Channel broadcast five short films by alumni of the Documentary Studies graduate certificate program as part of the channel's DOC U programming, which promotes the work of student filmmakers across the country.
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Food Writing Forum: Gastronomica
Date: 9/2/2008
Food Writing Forum: Gastronomica
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Discussion on Inequality and American Democracy
Date: 9/2/2008
Discussion on Inequality and American Democracy
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Bringing Down The Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on The Eve of the Olympics
Date: 7/28/2008
On August 7, at 6: 30 p.m., on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, PEN American Center and The New School Graduate Writing Program are co-sponsoring, “Bringing Down the Great Firewall of China: Silenced Writers Speak on the Eve of the Olympics,” an event where PEN members will give voice to the more than 40 writers and journalists currently in prison in China for exercising their right to freedom of expression.
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David Lehman Receives the US State Department’s Speaker and Specialist Grant Award
Date: 6/23/2008
David Lehman, faculty member and poetry coordinator of The New School’s MFA Writing Program, is a recipient of a Speaker and Specialist Grant Award from the US State Department
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Gay Rights and the Politics of 2008
Date: 6/9/2008
What do the politics of statewide elections and the presidential race of 2008 tell us about efforts to remedy the effects of discrimination on gays, lesbians, and transgendered individuals?
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Truth Be Told: Documentary Film Festival
Date: 5/20/2008
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12th Street Literary Magazine Relaunched After 58 Years
Date: 5/5/2008
On April 24, the New School Writing Program relaunched the undergraduate literary magazine 12th Street, last published in 1950. The magazine consists of new work by students currently enrolled in the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy; a work of art from the Spring 1949 issue appears on the inside cover.
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Media Studies Student Wins Advanced Media Emmy
Date: 5/5/2008
Jason Kichline, a Media Studies student at The New School for General Studies, has won the 2008 New York Emmy Award in the category of Advanced Media: Public/Current/Community Affairs for Youth & AIDS: Hope’s Voice.
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2008 Pen World Voices Festival
Date: 4/28/2008
The PEN World Voices Festival is an annual event showcasing writers from all over the world in a series of public panels, literary conversations, readings, and tributes over several days. The theme of the 2008 festival is “Public Lives/Private Lives.”
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Documentary Studies/Media Studies Faculty Member Wins Peabody Award
Date: 4/21/2008
Peter Schnall, who teaches cinematography at The New School, served as executive producer and cinematographer for Silence of the Bees, the recipient of a 2008 Peabody Award.
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Michelle Materre Curates Series of Independent Films and Videos By and About People of Color
Date: 4/21/2008
Michelle Materre, assistant professor of Media Studies and Film, will curate this year’s Creatively Speaking series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Gina Luria Walker Co-Edits Anthology on Women and Scholarship
Date: 4/21/2008
Broadview Press has released Rational Passions: Women and Scholarship in Britain, 1702-1870, co-edited by associate professor of women’s studies Gina Luria Walker.
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Poetry Forum: John Ashbery
Date: 4/14/2008
On Tuesday, April 15, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the Writing Program at The New School presents a reading and discussion with renowned poet John Ashbery. This event to be held at Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street), will be moderated by David Lehman, poetry coordinator of the Writing Program.
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Documentary Studies Students Finalists in Documentary Film Festival
Date: 4/7/2008
Class of 2007 Documentary Studies alumni Dana Bartle, Ted Fisher, Linda Goldman, Maya Mumma, Laura Van Schendel, and Anthony Weeks were accepted as finalists in the 2008 International Documentary Challenge.
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Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest: Concepts, Policies and Politics
Date: 3/31/2008
On Friday, April 4, the graduate program in International Affairs’ lecture series Leading Edge in Policy Choices for Human Development presents the New York launch of Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest: Concepts, Policies and Politics, a book edited by David Hulme and Armando Barrientos.
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David Lehman to Receive Honorary Degree
Date: 3/31/2008
David Lehman, associate professor and coordinator of poetry in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School for General Studies, has been invited to deliver a commencement speech and receive an honorary degree from Lakeland College, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin of nearly 4,000 students.
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Writing Faculty Member Publishes New Book
Date: 3/31/2008
Brett Berk, a part-time faculty member in the Writing Program at The New School, published a humorous nonfiction book, The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting, this month. In writing his book, Berk drew on his 20 years of experience working with young kids and families to provide a unique outsider’s perspective on raising children.
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Media Studies Faculty Member Receives Digital Media Award from Macarthur Foundation
Date: 3/24/2008
New School graduate and part-time Media Studies faculty member Josephine Dorado, along with her colleagues Benjamin Robison and Hugo Berkeley, received a $72,000 fellowship grant after winning the first-ever Digital Media and Learning Competition.
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Premiere of The Invention of Minus One, Multimedia Dance Work by New School Student Jonah Bokaer
Date: 3/24/2008
The Invention of Minus One, a multimedia dance work by award-winning media artist and choreographer Jonah Bokaer, premiered this month at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City. The piece is the result of a year of motion-capture research on the moving bodies of four dancers. The Dance Insider calls Bokaer’s work “well-crafted, cutting-edge choreography that moves dance into the new century.”
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Faculty Member Co-Edits Literature Anthology
Date: 3/24/2008
Nicholas Birns, who teaches literature at both Eugene Lang College and The New School for General Studies, has co-edited an anthology on Australian literature, A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, with Rebecca McNeer, associate dean at Ohio Southern University.
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The Press and International Organizations: The Case of the Khmer Rouge and Southeast Asia
Date: 3/10/2008
On Tuesday, March 25, the journalist Barbara Crossette will deliver a talk entitled “The Press and International Organizations: The Case of the Khmer Rouge and Southeast Asia.”
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Noah Isenberg Awarded Research Fellowship by Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation
Date: 3/10/2008
Noah Isenberg, associate professor of University Humanities and co-chair of Literature and Writing at Lang College, has been awarded a ten-month research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Cynthia Wade speaks to former students about winning an Oscar.
Date: 3/5/2008
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On Wednesday, March 5, Wade visited The New School.
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Riggo Visiting Professor Honored by French Government
Date: 3/3/2008
Greil Marcus, the acclaimed Berkeley-based rock critic, cultural historian, and New School visiting professor, was named a Chevalier des Artes et Lettres by the French government. Pierre-Francois Mourier, consul general of France in San Francisco, presented the award to Marcus at a private ceremony on February 11, 2008.
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Documentary Studies Faculty Member Cynthia Wade Wins Academy Award
Date: 2/25/2008
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Cynthia Wade, a Documentary Studies faculty member, won the Academy Award in the Short Documentary category last night for her film Freeheld.
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Media Studies and Film Faculty Member Receives Award at Film Festival
Date: 2/25/2008
Jeanne Liotta, Media Studies and Film faculty member, recently received the Tiger Award for Short Film from the International Film Festival Rotterdam, held January 23 through February 3.
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The Conservative Ascendancy
Date: 2/19/2008
Despite significant losses in the 2006 midterm elections, the Republican Right remains a powerful force in American politics. In his book The Conservative Ascendancy, Donald Critchlow shows that time and again the GOP Right has suffered defeats only to reemerge with new vigor.
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The New School Dedicates Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Date: 2/19/2008
On Wednesday, The New School will celebrate the dedication of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. The 32,800-square-foot center for Parsons The New School for Design was made possible in part by a $7 million gift from New School trustee and Parsons Board of Governors Chair Sheila C. Johnson.
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Faculty Member Nina L. Khrushcheva Publishes New Book
Date: 2/11/2008
Nina L. Khrushcheva, associate professor in the graduate program in International Affairs at The New School, has published a new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.
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Poetry Society of America Celebrates Alice Quinn’s 20 Years at The New Yorker
Date: 2/11/2008
An evening celebrating the poet Alice Quinn and her two decades as poetry editor of the New Yorker will be held on Thursday, February 21, at 7:00 p.m.
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Documentary Studies Faculty Member Nominated for Academy Award
Date: 2/11/2008
Freeheld, a film by faculty member Cynthia Wade, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Short Documentary category.
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Race and National Politics in America: A Historical Perspective
Date: 2/4/2008
On Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30 p.m., Greggory Keith Spence, Professor in Professional Practice at The New School, delivers a lecture on race and national politics in the United States. Race has played a major role in national politics since the founding of the United States.
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Exhibitions Feature Vera List Fellow in New York and New Orleans
Date: 1/28/2008
The latest work of acclaimed Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica Potrc, created through her fellowship at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in the 2007–08 academic year, is on display in galleries in New York and New Orleans. Potrc’s work explores sustainability with a focus on the world’s most essential resource—water—in relation to major urban centers such as New Orleans and New York City.
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The Environment and the Politics of ’08
Date: 1/28/2008
The environmental movement has received a major boost from Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which has dramatically widened the debate about climate change and global warming. Do citizens have a right to a safe environment? Does the government have an obligation to protect the environment?
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Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America
Date: 1/28/2008
On January 31, at 10:00 a.m., faculty and students from The New School’s eight divisions will participate in a nationwide all-day teach-in on global warming. Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America is an unprecedented educational initiative involving more than a thousand colleges, universities, and schools.
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David Lehman Publishes Anthology of Erotic Poetry
Date: 1/21/2008
David Lehman, poetry coordinator of The New School’s MFA in Creative Writing program, associate professor of writing, and editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has edited a new anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present, slated for release on February 14.
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Alumna Receives a Fulbright Scholarship
Date: 1/21/2008
Farrah Qidwai, a New School for General Studies alum, will travel to India this month as a Fulbright Scholar.
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A Tribute to Grace Paley
Date: 12/10/2007
On Wednesday, December 12, at 7:00 p.m., the literary community gathers to honor the life and work of Grace Paley, the revered short story writer, poet, and model of “combative pacifism.” Participants include Allan Gurganus, Wesley Brown, Amy Hempel, A.M. Homes, Galway Kinnell, Naomi Replansky, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Gerald Stern, and Jean Valentine.
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Long-Time Faculty Member Helga Tilton Passes Away
Date: 12/3/2007
Dr. Helga Tilton, a faculty member in the foreign language department of The New School for 33 years passed away on Wednesday, November 14.
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Good Food Now! Just Food’s Regional Summit On Food, Farms and Community Health at The New School
Date: 11/19/2007
Just Food, a nonprofit organization working to develop a more just and sustainable food supply network in the New York City region, is holding its 2007 meeting on food, farms, and community health in partnership with The New School on Saturday, December 1.
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AICA Distinguished Critics Lecture at The New School Michael Brenson: The View from Here
Date: 11/12/2007
Each year, the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art (AICA, the International Association of Art Critics) and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School present a lecture addressing current issues in the world of art criticism. This year's distinguished critic, Michael Brenson, will give a talk on Monday, November 12, at 6:30 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, Johnson/Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
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People. Passion. Perspective: 20 Years of Documentary Film
Date: 11/5/2007
The New School Media Studies and Documentary Media Certificate Programs in association with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics are pleased to sponsor a two-day conference celebrating the 20th Anniversary of P.O.V., PBS’ award-winning independent documentary film series, on Thursday, November 8, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Friday, November 9, 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
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NEW SCHOOL FACULTY MEMBER’S FILM PREMIERES AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL
Date: 10/6/2007
Observando el Cielo, a film by faculty member Jeanne Liotta, will premiere in Views from the Avant-Garde, a series that is part of the New York Film Festival.
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DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ALUMNA HIRED TO SHOOT PROJECT IN BRAZIL
Date: 10/4/2007
The Colorado-based Brazilian music band Sambadendê has hired Documentary Studies alumna Dana Bartle (’07) to document a two-week bus journey this January through Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to Salvador da Bahia and beyond.
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FILM BY DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ALUMNA ACCEPTED FOR FESTIVAL
Date: 10/4/2007
A film by Meghna Damani (’07) was accepted for the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) Film Festival, to be held in New York November 7–11.
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DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ALUMNUS NOMINATED FOR ONLINE MEDIA AWARD
Date: 10/4/2007
In summer 2007, Ted Fisher (’07) edited 12 episodes of Frugal Traveler: American Road Trip, a video series tracing writer Matt Gross' season-long, budget-conscious trek across the United States.
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