Works-in-Progress Series 1998/99

Spring Semester - 1999

  Thursday, March 18, 1999
Machinist Room   1:00 - 2:15 pm

Being or Belonging: The Dynamics of the Private and the Public in the Theory of Julia Kristeva
  Presenter: Tomasz Kitlinski, University of Lublin, Poland, Visiting Scholar
  Commentator: Prof. David Plotke, Political Science Dep., New School

2:15 - 3:30 pm
Estonia: Singing Revolution and Citizenship
Presenter: Priscilla Holcomb, Liberal Studies, New School
Commentator: Prof. David Plotke, Political Science Dep., New School
 

Thursday, April 8, 1999
Machinist Room  3:00 - 4:30 pm

Sexism and War: The Construction of Gender and the Origins of War Violence in Former Yugoslavia
Presenter: Vesna Kesic, MacArthur Fellow, Liberal Studies, New School
Commentator: Prof. Roma Chatterji, Anthropology Dep., New School
 

Thursday, April 29, 1999,
Wolff Conference Room (audiovisual presentation)  2:00 - 3:30 pm

Topography of Tyranny
Presenter: Jean Hoenninger, Anthropology Dep., New School
Commentator: Prof. Judith Friedlander, Dean, Graduate Faculty
 

Thursday, May 13, 1999
Wolff Conference Room  1:00 - 2:15 pm

The March of Memory
Presenter: Amalia Rosenblum, Anthropology Dep., New School
Commentator: Prof. Bill Roseberry, Anthropology Dep., New School

2:15 - 3:30 pm
Can International Feminist Organizations Survive US Not-for-Profit Regulations?
A Case Study of the Network of East-West Women
Presenter: Donna Axel, Network of East-West Women
Commentator: Prof. Ann Snitow, Gender Studies, New School
 

Fall Semester - 1998

Thursday, November 5, 1998, 12:00 pm

Postcommunism and Post/Modernity

Presenter: Tibor Dessewffy, Assistant Professor of Sociology, ELTE, Budapest, Visiting Scholar at the New School
Commentator: Prof. Monroe Price, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
 

Monday, December 7, 1998, 2:00 pm

Truth and Transitional Justice in Germany after 1989
Presenter: Felix Elwert, Sociology student
Commentator: Jose Casanova, Sociology Department, New School
 

Thursday, December 18, 1998, 12:00 pm

Death Camps and Other Tourist Attractions: The March of the Living and the Production of Historical Learning (Not Memory)
Presenter: Amalia Rosenblum, Anthropology student
 

For more information, please call Hana Cervinkova at 229-5580. Copies of all the papers will be available at TCDS, 65 Fifth Avenue, Room 423 one week in advance of the presentation.