Securing the U.S.-Mexico border is a contentious issue in the 2008 presidential race. On Wednesday, February 6, from 5:30–7:00 p.m., a panel of experts will discuss the challenges of securing the world’s most frequently crossed border and the immigration policy agendas heating up the campaign trail.
Panelists include Jorge Bustamante, founder andpresident of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Emilio Gonzalez, director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Bob Kerrey, president of The New School, former governor and U.S. senator from Nebraska; Heather Mac Donald, contributing editor, City Journal, and co-author of The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan than Today’s; and Aristide R. Zolberg, University in Exile Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The New School for Social Research, and author of A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America.
The event takes place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Admission is free but seating is limited. Reservations are required by calling 212.229.5488 or emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu.
ENDANGERED SCHOLARS WORLDWIDE: A SOCIAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE
On Thursday, February 7, an evening panel discussion on the plight of endangered scholars around the world will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center. A reception will follow. The event commemorates the 75th anniversary of the University in Exile at The New School and inaugurates Endangered Scholars Worldwide, a new feature in Social Research.
The panel will be made up of scholars who have faced imprisonment or have been forced into exile to escape persecution. This event provides a forum for these scholars to share their stories and place them in the broader context of global challenges to academic and intellectual freedom.
The event will take place from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are required; call 212.229.5776 x3121 or email socres@newschool.edu. For more information on Endangered Scholars Worldwide, visit www.socres.org/endangeredscholars.
On Monday, December 10, The New School announced the launch of New School Alerts, a notification system designed to provide quick and reliable mass communication to the university community regarding potential and actual emergencies.
Using contact information provided by students, faculty and staff, the New School Alerts system will send messages to cell phones (text and voice), landlines, and/or email addresses during a crisis affecting The New School. The system might be used, for example, to alert the New School community about a situation that could affect safety on campus or to announce weather-related school closings.
For the safety of the New School community, all matriculated students, faculty, and staff are required to register their contact information. Continuing education students are strongly encouraged to opt into the system.
All personal information will be kept absolutely confidential within The New School and the New School Alerts system and will never be sold to a third party or used for any purpose other than New School Alerts.
To find out more and to register your contact information, sign on to MyNewSchool and click on the New School Alerts tab. If you have any questions or experience any issues when registering, please email nsalerts@newschool.edu.
THE NEW SCHOOL CELEBRATES THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF V-DAY AND THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES WITH EVE ENSLER
On Monday, February 4, writer and feminist activist Eve Ensler will be on campus to celebrate the tenth anniversary of V-Day and discuss its mission of ending violence against women and girls worldwide. The event will take place at 7:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
Ensler is the founder and artistic director of V-Day, an organization that has raised more than $50 million and educated millions of people; launched Karama, a partnership with nine Middle Eastern and North African countries; and funded more than 5,000 community-based antiviolence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt, and Iraq. The V in V-Day stands for victory, valentine, and vagina.
Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 45 languages and performed in over 119 countries; in 1996, it received an Obie Award for Best New Play.
Following the presentation, Ensler will sign copies of The Vagina Monologues: The 10th Anniversary Edition and her recent book Insecure at Last: A Political Memoir, both of which will be available for purchase.
Admission is $5 for the public and free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. Seating is limited, and tickets must be purchased in advance. In-person purchases can be made beginning January 22 at the New School Box Office. For more ticket information, email boxoffice@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5488.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
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.
Potrc’s exhibition Future Talk Now: The Great Republic of New Orleans is on display at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York from January 12 to February 9. The show features a large-scale case study sculpture based on a New Orleans shotgun house (a long narrow residence common in the South) and a video that examines the city’s relationship to water, along with drawings and prints. The gallery is located at 511 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.
Potrc is also featured in an exhibition at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center (CAC) called Something from Nothing, which is on view through March 23. Curated by Dan Cameron, CAC’s director of visual arts, the exhibition brought 21 artists to New Orleans to explore the use of art as a means of communication. Potrc and her fellow artists met with community members to create work from materials borrowed, given, found, bartered, or otherwise obtained at no cost from the people of New Orleans.
Potrc will return to The New School this spring to discuss these projects and other research she conducted during her fellowship, and the implications of this work in New Orleans for other cities such as New York.
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? If so, where does that responsibility reside—at the national or the state level? Where is the environmental movement today, and what role will it play in the presidential election of 2008?
On Wednesday, January 30, a group of individuals who have struggled with these questions will discuss the state of the environmental movement and the impact it will have on the election of 2008. Anthony Pereira, president of AltPower, will moderate a panel including Steve Fleischli, president of the Waterkeeper Alliance; the Reverend Patricia Ackerman, special projects and media liaison for the Fellowship of Reconciliation and member of the steering committee of Code Pink and of the advisory board of the Occupation Watch Center in Iraq; and Richard Perez, senior research associate, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY-Albany.
The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is $8 for the public and free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs.
Hazel Morley, a senior in the BFA Fashion Design Program at Parsons, recently received the prestigious Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship Award from the Young Menswear Association (YMA). The winners of this $25,000 scholarship were announced at the annual YMA Geoffrey Beene Fashion Scholarship Dinner on January 9. Morley became eligible for the award in her junior year at Parsons, when she won a $5,000 scholarship from the YMA based on a review of a portfolio of her work.
This was the first year the YMA presented the Geoffrey Beene Scholarship, which is underwritten by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation. The scholarship is highly competitive; the winners are chosen from hundreds of students majoring in fashion and related disciplines across the country. The three other recipients are Davia Rabinoff-Goldman of RISD, Nicole Baum of the University of Colorado, and Casey Saccomanno of Philadelphia University.
The YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the fashion industry through scholarships and mentoring and internship programs for emerging leaders. The fund grants dozens of $5,000 scholarships each year to students from all over the country deemed to have the potential to succeed in the apparel business.
NEWS FROM EUGENE LANG COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR LIBERAL ARTS AND THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
FOCUS THE NATION: GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA
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. The purpose of the teach-in is to educate Americans on the challenges of addressing climate change as the nation moves toward the 2008 presidential elections.
The teach-in will conclude with a roundtable on environmental justice and climate change from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. featuring speakers Peggy Shepherd, West Harlem Environmental Action; Elizabeth Yeampierre, UPROSE; and Philip Silva (a Lang alumnus), Sustainable South Bronx.
The event is cosponsored by Eugene Lang College, Lang’s Office of Civic Engagement, the Tishman Environment and Design Center, and the graduate program in International Affairs. It will take place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Admission is free. For more information, contact Bhawani Venkataraman at venkatab@newschool.edu or Nevin Cohen at cohenn@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
MANNES TRIO PERFORMS IN JANUARY
On Monday, January 28, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Trio will perform at the Mannes Concert Hall at 150 West 85th Street. One of this country’s oldest chamber music ensembles, the trio was founded in the 1920s by David Mannes, who established the Mannes College of Music in 1916. After a period of inactivity in midcentury, the trio was re-formed in 1982 and went on to win the Walter W. Naumburg International Chamber Music Award in 1986.
The Mannes Trio, featuring violinist Hiroko Yajima, cellist Wilhelmina Smith, and pianist Tom Sauer, serves as ensemble-in-residence at Mannes, presenting three concerts each year and performing nationwide to critical acclaim. Admission to the concert is free; no tickets or reservations are required. Seating is first come, first served. For more information, call 212.580.0210 x4817.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
This fall, acting students from The New School for Drama had the opportunity to work on films with foreign students through a partnership with France’s renowned film school Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA). In September, ESRA brought 60 students from its graduate program in filmmaking to New York to spend a year learning about the American film industry. Students took courses while writing, shooting, and editing a 20-minute English-language film, to be screened in New York this winter.
The collaboration went far beyond casting. Students from ESRA had the opportunity to audit New School for Drama acting and directing classes as well as attending their own courses taught by faculty from other New York institutions. Following the screening, ESRA students will learn about the business side of the industry by working as interns with production companies and other media outlets throughout the city.
The New School for Drama and ESRA plan to offer this educational experience to students in the future. “The film industry has become increasingly global,” said Bob Lupone, director of Drama. “The benefit for our students of this kind of hands-on experience with international filmmaking is really invaluable.”
The student films will premiere on February 5, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at Lycée Francais de New York, 505 East 75th Street. The screening is free and open to the public. For more information about this event, contact Lycée Francais de New York at 212.369.1400.
For more information about The New School for Drama, visit www.drama.newschool.edu. For more information about ESRA, visit www.esra.edu.
New School Jazz musicians take the stage every Monday night at Sweet Rhythm, an historic Greenwich Village jazz club. February is Student Ensemble month.
This exciting series of performances features:
Sweet Rhythm is located at 88 Seventh Avenue (between Bleecker and Grove Streets). General admission is $10 cover with a $10 food and drink minimu. There is no cover and a $5 food and drink minimum for New School students with ID. For reservations and more information, contact Sweet Rhythm at 212.255.3626.
TIME OUT NEW YORK DISCOUNT OFFER
Start your year off being in the know about things free or fancy. Time Out New York is offering all students, faculty, and staff at The New School a full year's subscription for just $20! That's 51 issues for the entire year and only 39c an issue. Steal this deal for yourself or a gift to another.
An exciting fall theater season is about to get under way: Why pay $100, when you can pay $28-$32 for Broadway shows and $22-$24 for Off-Broadway shows? An inexpensive way to enjoy the best of New York culture is to join Theatre Development Fund (TDF).
To be eligible, you must be a full-time student or teacher, senior citizen (62+), civil servant, union member, staff member of a not-for-profit organization, performing arts professional, or member of the clergy or armed forces. Annual membership fee is $25, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for less than $32 per ticket include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Martin Short, The Wedding Singer, 42nd Street, Aida, American Ballet Theatre, Anna in the Tropics, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Barbara Cook's Broadway, Beauty & the Beast, Beckett/Albee, Big Apple Circus, Cabaret, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fiddler on the Roof, Golda's Balcony, Gypsy, Hamburg Ballet , I Am My Own Wife, Intimate Apparel, Jazz in July, Johnny Guitar, Lincoln Center Summer Festival, Little Shop of Horrors, London Symphony Orchestra, Lypsinka!, Match, Matt and Ben, Menopause: The Musical, Mostly Mozart, NYC Ballet, NYC Opera, Our Lady of 121st Street, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Sexaholix, Take Me Out, Talking Heads, Tea and Five, The Retreat From Moscow, Twentieth Century, and Wonderful Town. So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.40/per day Monday-Saturday, $2.00 on Sunday) for home or office subscriptions to all faculty, staff, and students.
Here's how it works. Unlike traditional subscriptions, the education rate can be set up by semester or in a combination that best reflects your schedules for both delivery and billing. New School faculty, staff, and students can have a subscription Monday-Friday, Sunday only, weekends only, or any combination.
To take advantage of the special discount to the Times or to change a current subscription, students, faculty (full-time and part-time), and staff should contact the customer service center at 888.NYT.COLL, to order a single subscription or a classroom subscription of up to eight copies for required reading in the classroom.
To order a classroom subscription of eight or more copies for required reading in the classroom, contact the education program's customer service center at 800.631.1222.
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Did you know that you could get into this exciting museum for free? In order to receive your free admission, go to the lobby information desk and show them your valid New School ID. Students, faculty, and staff receive one free admission for themselves. Faculty and staff may also obtain an additional two tickets for their guests. Enjoy!
TICKETS: In person purchases can be made at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday–Friday 1:00–7:00 p.m. The box office opens the first day of classes and closes after the last paid event of each semester.
FICTION FORUM: STEVE ERICKSON
Monday, January 28, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The Writing Program presents Steve Erickson, author of Zeroville, in a discussion moderated by Writing Program Director Robert Polito.
CHANGING HEALTH CARE 2008: INFORMATION LEADING TO ACTION
PROBLEMS WITH THE AMERICAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Monday, January 28, 8:30–11:45 a.m.
McNally Amphitheatre, Fordham University School of Law, 140 West 62nd Street
Admission: $20 per session; $50 for all three sessions. To register, go to www.wccny.org/Events/registration.pdf.
How should our health care system be reformed? Is now the right time? Do we all need to be involved? What will happen to employment-based and Medicare coverage in the absence of fundamental change? In the first of a three-part series presented by the Women’s City Club of New York, a panel of speakers discuss problems with health care in the United States today: the lack of guaranteed or uniform benefits, unpredictable costs, and unreliable coverage. They examine prospects for and political barriers to health care reform and the role of government in changing the system. They also review the findings of the Commonwealth Fund’s recent report Roadmap for Health Reform and talk about the effect of health care reform on Medicare.
Speakers include Jo Ivey Boufford, president of the New York Academy of Medicine; Bob Kerrey, former U.S. senator and president of The New School; Sara Collins, assistant vice president and director of the Commonwealth Fund’s Program on the Future of Health Insurance; and Robert M. Hayes, president of the Medicare Rights Center.
The series continues with Lessons from Abroad on Wednesday, March 12, 8:30–11:45 a.m., and Building a Better System for All in April (date and time to be announced).
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ AT SWEET RHYTHM: CARLOS ABADIE QUINTET
Monday, January 28, 8:00 p.m.
Sweet Rhythm, 88 Seventh Avenue (south of Christopher Street)
Admission: [Sweet Rhythm]$10 cover + $10 food and drink minimum, no cover + $5 food and drink minimum for students with ID
The Carlos Abadie Quintet performs jazz originals past and present at Sweet Rhythm. The group features Carlos Abadie on trumpet, Dion Tucker on trombone, Clovis Nicolas on bass, Luca Santaniello on drums, and Jeb Patton on piano.
For reservations call the Sweet Rhythm box office at 212.255.3626
BAD SAMARITANS—THE MYTH OF FREE TRADE AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF CAPITALISM A CONVERSATION WITH HA-JOON CHANG
Tuesday, January 29 - Tuesday, January 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Most developing countries have experienced a slowdown in growth, rising inequality, and increased economic instability because of the neo-liberal policies imposed upon them by the rich countries and the international organizations under their control. In a conversation moderated by William Milberg, professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, Professor Chang will discuss how he supports this theory by stating that the policies the “Bad Samaritan” rich countries who have been imposing on developing countries differ from those they implemented during their own development and from those implemented by more recent development success stories, from Korea and Taiwan in the 1960s to China and India in the 1980s. Anwar Shaikh, Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research will also particpate.
Refreshments will be served. Cosponsored with the Economics Department, the graduate program in International Affairs, and the Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE SPRING TUESDAY COLLOQUIUM: DAVIDE PANAGIA
Tuesday, January 29, 6:00-7:45 p.m.
Wolff Conference Room, Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Professor Panagia, Trent University, talk is enititled"From Nomos to Nomad: A Theory of Sensation." The talk will lastabout 40 minutes followed by a questions and discussion.
shealy@newschool.edu
WRITING FOR CHILDREN FORUM: DEBORAH HEILIGMAN
Tuesday, January 29, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The Writing Program presents a reading and discussion with Deborah Heiligman, author of Fun Dog, Sun Dog and the National Geographic Holidays Around the World series. Moderated by Deborah Brodie, executive editor of Roaring Brook Press and visiting faculty member of the Writing Program.
HIV/AIDS: A PHOTOJOURNALIST PERSPECTIVE OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC
Wednesday, January 30, 6:00 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: Free; seating is limited; reservations required by emailing. Email Nick Barber, Events Coordinator: gpiaevents@newschool.edu.
Andrew Petkun is a photojournalist whose most recent work has focused on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Petkun’s photos tell the story of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in a unique and moving way. At this event, Petkun speaks about his work as well as the broader issues surrounding photography and human rights.
FASHION LECTURE: JUST SAY NOise: ROCK STYLE IN THE 1980S
Wednesday, January 30, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Midtown Auditorium, Parsons Fashion, 560 Seventh Avenue, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
For more information, please call 212.229.5391 or email maligi@newschool.edu.
In the 1980s, the contemporary music genres of hardcore and heavy metal each exerted considerable influence over popular graphic design, product design, and fashion. The varying philosophies of each genre engendered wholly differing aesthetics. Hardcore music was characterized by a DIY style: roughly collaged, hand-lettered posters copied at the local Kinko’s, homemade record packaging glued together in basements, and ripped and distressed t-shirts markered with professions of allegiance to a favorite band. Heavy metal was an unapologetically corporate enterprise and the culmination of two decades of rock-and-roll fantasies transformed into mass-marketed signifiers of rebellion: slickly produced logos created by professional graphic designers, success-minded musicians willingly made over as glam gods by Hollywood make-up artists, and multicolored silk-screened t-shirt available for a considerable price at stadium concerts. Somehow in the early 2000s, both styles have beaten a path to the malls of America.
Guest speaker Steven Blush will examine the creation, distribution and overall influence of hardcore and heavy metal in the 1980s and in the present. Blush has been a participant and historian of punk and rock since the early 1980s, when he promoted hardcore shows in Washington, D,C. He is the author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History and American Hair Metal, a senior editor at Paper magazine, and a rock DJ in New York City.
Sponsored by Parsons Core Studies, Curated by Jessica Glasscock.
PAN-AFRICAN LITERARY FORUM READING
Wednesday, January 30, 6:30 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
The New School Writing Program presents the
Pan-African Literary Forum Reading
with Chimamanda Nogozi Adichie, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, Quincy Troupe, author of The Architecture of Language: Poems, and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of The River is Rising. Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, faculty member in the Writing Program and director of the Pan African Literary Forum, a writers’ conference being held in Accra, Ghana in the summer of 2008.
A FACULTY BOOK PARTY, READING AND SIGNING FOR MARK STATMAN & PABLO MEDINA
Thursday, January 31, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: Free; seating is limited; reservations required by emailing ELCDEAN@newschool.edu.
Called a “definitive version of Lorca’s masterpiece, in language that is as alive and molten today as was the original in 1930,” by poet laurete John Ashbury, Mark Statman and Pablo Medina, associate professors of writing at Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts have collaborated on a new translation of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s masterpiece, Poet in New York.
AN EVENING WITH MAC WELLMAN
Thursday, January 31, 7:00 p.m.
The New School for Drama Theater, Drama Building, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
The Eugene Lang College Arts program, in association with The New School for Drama, presents an evening of discussion with Mac Wellman, moderated by arts faculty member Bonnie Marranca. Wellman is one of the innovative artists featured in Art Work, a series of talks sponsored by Lang exploring the artistic process.
A novelist and poet as well as a playwright, Wellman has written more than 50 plays, several novels and volumes of poetry, and numerous essays, including “Theatre of Good Intentions.” He has edited several play anthologies, most recently New Downtown Now. Wellman’s latest work, Doctor Ravenello, featuring Paul Lazar (Big Dance Theatre) and directed by Stephen Mellor, will be presented at NYU's hotINK Series at 721 Broadway on February 3. Celebrated for his playful dramatic language and satiric wit, Wellman has received several Obie Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award. His plays, which include Cellophane, Sincerity Forever, The Hyacinth Macaw, and Jennie Richee, have been produced in theaters and universities nationwide.
Wellman is the Donald Fine Professor of Playwriting and chair of the English Department of Brooklyn College.
FRIDAYS@ONE/BRIDGING THE WORLDS OF THEATER, OPERA AND ART SONG WITH RICKY IAN GORDON
Friday, February 1, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; seating is limited; reservations required by calling or emailing. Phone 212-229-5682. or email irp@newschool.edu.
Ricky Ian Gordon has emerged as a leading writer of vocal music in a range of genres including art song, chorale works, cabaret, opera, and musical theater. Gordon’s songs have been performed and recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Frederica von Stade, Andrea Marcovicci, and Betty Buckley. Often described as an heir to the musical legacy of Stephen Sondheim, Gordon has been praised for the lyrical quality of his music in works including Stonewall/Night Variations (1994); The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1996), an opera with a libretto by Jean Claude van Itallie; Autumn Valentine (1992), a two-character operetta based on the works of Dorothy Parker; and “Night Flight to San Francisco” (2000), an operatic monologue from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.
This year, Gordon will be working on a production of The Grapes of Wrath with the Long Beach Opera. Future productions are scheduled at the Pittsburgh Opera (2008) and Opera Pacific (2009), and a suite from the opera will have its premiere at Disney Hall in spring 2008. Gordon is currently working on commissions for the New York Metropolitan Opera and for theMinnesota Opera, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Gordon is also writing new musicals for Playwrights Horizons and the Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia. Among the honors he has received are the Stephen Sondheim Award, an Obie Award, the Richard Rogers Award, and the Jonathan Larson Foundation Award as well as many awards from ASCAP and the National Endowment of the Arts.
SCHNEIDER CONCERTS - VERTIGO STRING QUARTET
Sunday, February 3, 2:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street
Admission: $17.50 - General Admission $15.00 - Senior Admission $5.00 - Stand-by tickets for high school and college students with ID
For more information call: 212.229.5600 x3414
Vertigo String Quartet will be making their New York Debut. Performers include Jose-Maria Blumenschein on Violin; Johannes Dickbauer on Violin; Lily Francis on Viola; and Nicholas Canellakis on Cello.
The program will consist of: Schubert String Quartet, Op. 26 D.797 “Rosamunde”; Walton No. 2 in A Minor; and Mendelssohn String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2.
The Vertigo String Quartet was formed at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005. In June 2006, the quartet won First Prize at the International European Competition of the Duchi D'Acquaviva, in Atri, Italy. They were also invited to Ischia, Italy to give a series of six concerts at Lady Suzanna Walton's estate, La Mortella. They recently received the Barrymore Award by the Theater Alliance of Philadelphia for unusual collaboration with the Arden Theatre Company. The quartet recorded the music for the performances of Michael Hollinger's critically acclaimed play "Opus", and worked closely with the actors, director and writer to help create a rich collaboration of music and theater. They also recorded the music for the Temple Theater's production of "Hamlet." The talents of these diverse artists include scoring and arranging, improvising, and film-making. They have written, directed, produced and acted in two films.
This past summer, the quartet was the recipient of a generous grant from the Georg Solti Foundation to embark on series of several concerts in Italy and Austria. From April 2007 until April 2008, The Vertigo String Quartet is in residence at Bargemusic in New York City, where they will perform several different programs in a series of eighteen concerts throughout the season.
SPICES, DRUGS AND APHRODISIACS: WRITING FORUM WITH MICHAEL KRONDL
Monday, February 4, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
During the Renaissance, ginger and cinnamon weren’t regarded merely as flavorings to sprinkle on your blackbird pie or stir into your gingerbread. They were considered powerful nutraceuticals, deemed effective for curing pneumonia and treating melancholy and able to “augment miraculously the force of Venus,” as one medical practitioner of the time put it. Today, scientists are making similar claims. Cinnamon is being used to treat diabetes; turmeric is being investigated as a treatment for a range of diseases, from breast cancer to malaria. Michael Krondl, the author of The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice, discusses how spices came to occupy a central place in European medicine and food in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, how they lost their privileged position, and how the ideas of medieval doctors are making a comeback today. For more information on Krondl’s book, visit www.spicehistory.net.
AN EVENING WITH KATHA POLLITT
Tuesday, February 5, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Katha Pollitt, poet and columnist for The Nation, will read from her book Learning to Drive and Other Life Stories. David Lehman, moderator
FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES: HOLLAND COTTER
Wednesday, February 6, 3:15-5:00 p.m.
Swayduck Auditorium, Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Holland Cotter is a New York-based writer and art critic at The New York Times and a contributing editor of Art in America.
SMALL PRESS PUBLISHING: JOURNALS AND PRESSES I
Wednesday, February 6, 6:30 p.m.
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Small Press Publishing: Journals and Presses I brings together Brigid Hughes, founder and editor of A Public Space; Richard Nash, publisher of Soft Skull Press; and Craig Teicher, editor and book reviewer for Publisher's Weekly, Pleiades, Bookforum, and Time Out New York. The discussion will be moderated by Patricia Carlin, coeditor and publisher of Barrow Street Press.
AN EVENING WITH MARTHA ROSLER
Thursday, February 7, 6:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street)
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
The Arts Program at Eugene Lang College presentsthe Visiting Artist for Spring 2008, Martha Rosler. Ms. Rosler, who has been active as an artist since the early 1970s, will give a presentation of her work including photography, performance, writing, and video.
Rosler is an artist who works primarily with images and texts. Most of her work concerns social issues, manifested at various sites such as the kitchen, the television set, and the streets and transportation systems. Describing her work, Rosler says, "The subject is the commonplace—I am trying to use video to question the mythical explanations of everyday life. We accept the clash of public and private as natural, yet their separation is historical. The antagonism of the two spheres, which have in fact developed in tandem, is an ideological fiction—a potent one. I want to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and culture under capitalism." Rosler's career retrospective, Positions in the Life World, was exhibited in Europe and New York City. Rosler lives in Brooklyn.
IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD OF MEMORY STUDIES POSSIBLE?
Thursday, February 7 - Saturday, February 9, 8:00 p.m.
Wolff Conference Room, Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor
Admission: Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
For more information email: nssrmemoryconference@gmail.com
Leading scholars and graduate students interested in the field of memory will come together for “Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Possible?”—a conference, in the tradition of The New School for Social Research, devoted to developing a critical debate among the social sciences and humanities. A rapidly growing interest in memory studies is shared today by scholars from different academic disciplines—including neurobiologists, psychologists, sociologists, and historians—yet only rarely do they join together to discuss the topic. The conference aims to facilitate this discussion and explore the need for new paradigms and analyses that bridge and support the diverse field of memory studies.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies and the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Memory & Memorials Program. It is supported by The New School for Social Research, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Studies, and the Provost’s Office. Participants scheduled to appear include advanced graduate students and Bill Hirst, Jeffrey Olick, Eviatar Zerubavel, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Daniel Levy, Barbie Zelizer, Jonathan Veitch, Louis Bickford, Atina Grossman, and Rich McNally.
STUDENT SERVICES
ADMINISTRATIVE REMINDERS FOR STUDENTS
DEGREE STUDENTS: WEB REGISTER NOW FOR YOUR SPRING CLASSES OR MAKE SCHEDULE CHANGES ONLINE!
Web registration and web add/drop will be open for all programs through Monday, January 28. Consult your academic advisor as needed to get your alternate/registration pin. Course offerings are available on MyNewSchool (click the Student tab, then click Class Finder). No need to stand in line at the Registrar's Office! Continuing degree students who have not yet registered will be charged a $150 late fee.
REMINDER FOR STUDENTS COMPLETING STUDY THIS SEMESTER
Students expecting to complete their studies in May 2008 must file a Graduation Petition with the Registrar’s Office at the Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, ground floor. The university cannot confer degrees or certificates for students who have not filed a petition. Filing should be done as soon as possible. No fee will be charged to students who file by February 15. Forms are available at the Registrar’s Office and online at MyNewSchool (select the Student tab and download the Graduation Petition, which is listed under the forms section).
STUDENT ACCOUNTS INFORMATION
To ensure that you receive correspondence from The New School in a timely manner, please review your official address in MyNewSchool to make sure that it is current. If it is not, you can change your address online. This is especially important for students who are expecting to receive a refund.
FEDERAL WORK-STUDY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Student Employment Office has partnered with New York City Public Service Corps to provide students with off-campus Federal Work-Study opportunities in the public sector. NYC Public Service Corps is an internship program of the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services committed to providing students with meaningful experiences to enhance their academic and career objectives. Law, graphic arts, education, journalism, research, and office administration are just a few of the areas available to interns. If you are eligible for Federal Work-Study and are interested in developing professional skills in a meaningful community service experience, stop by the Student Employment Office at the Albert List Academic Center, 65 Fifth Avenue, room 105M.
STUDENTS: HOW TO PROVIDE VERIFICATION OF YOUR SPRING ENROLLMENT
Health insurance agencies, housing authorities, banks, or other third parties may ask you to provide verification that you are enrolled at The New School. If you registered for the
spring term prior to January 10, you can print an Official Enrollment Verification Certificate at MyNewSchool. To do this, log in to MyNewSchool and click the Student tab; then in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information. The certificate, produced by the National Student Clearinghouse on behalf of the university, serves as official evidence of enrollment at The New School.
STUDENTS: ACCESS GRADES AND REGISTRATION FEES THROUGH MYNEWSCHOOL
The New School does not automatically mail copies of semester grades. If you need a printed copy of your grades, you can request a copy through MyNewSchool (click the Student tab; then, in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information). Your semester grades will be mailed within two weeks. You can also access registration fees through MyNewSchool.
STUDENTS: REQUEST YOUR OFFICIAL ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPT ONLINE
Students can request an official transcript through MyNewSchool. Click the Student tab; then, in the Self Service channel, click Student Academic Information). Transcript requests are processed five business days after they are submitted. There is no fee for regular five-business-day service. Next-day transcript service is available only to students who submit requests in person. Transcripts of students with library or financial holds of any kind will not be released.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM STUDENT HOUSING
Student Housing and Residence Life seeks applicants for Resident Advisors (RA) for the 2008–09 academic year. Interested undergraduate and graduate students should visit www.newschool.edu/studentservices/housing. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Michael Corbett, or Lenny Zeiger.
ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES
STUDENT HEALTH INSURANCE FEES AND WAIVER INFORMATION FOR SPRING
All students—degree, diploma, online only, visiting, mobility (study abroad), Lang and Parsons consortium, graduate certificate program, and non-matriculating graduate and undergraduate degree-program students—are automatically charged a Student Health Services Fee and a Student Health Insurance Fee. The Milano branch campuses and the Parsons Decorative Arts program in Washington, DC are excluded. Depending on course load and status, students may be eligible to decline these services by submitting a completed Online Waiver Form by February 19, 2008. Students may access the Online Waiver Form starting January 2, 2008, by going to www.chickering.com (click on “Find Your School” and enter 812804 as your Policy Number).
You MUST submit a new Online Waiver Form each fall semester. Those who do not register in the fall must submit the form in the spring, and then again each fall semester. If you submitted an Online Waiver Form in the fall, you will be automatically waived for the spring—no action is necessary. Students who missed the fall semester deadline are responsible for the payment of the fall semester health fees. If the plan has not been used, the student may waive Student Health Insurance in the spring semester. If the student uses the plan, he/she is obligated to pay the full yearly premium. Students who miss the spring waiver deadline are responsible for the payment of the spring semester health fees.
If a student waives the insurance, he/she can NOT choose to re-enroll in the Student Health Insurance Plan for the remainder of the academic year without providing documentation supporting the recent loss (30 days) of his/her personal health insurance coverage.
To verify whether you have been charged the fees, or to verify if the Online Waiver Form has been processed and the fees removed, you MUST access your student account using https://my.newschool.edu (click on the Student Tab, then Student Financial Services, then View Your Account Summary only). Health care is expensive so before waiving, students are encouraged to review the Student Health Insurance Plan at www.chickering.com (click on “Find Your School” and enter 812804 as your policy number).
IMMUNIZATION AND MENINGITIS REGISTRATION HOLDS
Please check your student account at MyNewSchool for holds.
You may have an immunization (IM) or meningitis (MM) hold on your account either because we have not received your immunization information or because the information you have submitted is incomplete.
Please bear in mind that you will not be able to register for spring 2008 classes until your immunization or meningitis documentation is completed and submitted for processing. Download and complete the immunization form and either mail, fax, or deliver it to our office as soon as possible. Please note that documentation sent by mail may take up to two weeks to reach our office. If time is an issue, either drop off your documentation in person at Loeb Residence, 135 East 12th Street, 2nd floor, between 3rd and 4th Avenues, or fax it to 212.614.7484.
If you need another Measles, Mumps, or Rubella vaccination, call Student Health Services at 212.229.1671 (option 2) to schedule an appointment.
The fee for the MMR vaccination is $25, which will be charged to you student account
If you have any questions, please call Student Health Services at 212.229.1671 x2820.
FLU SHOTS
The single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year.
Student Health Services will be providing flu shots while supplies last. Call 212.229.1671 (option 2) to make an appointment.
A $25 fee for the flu shot will be charged to your student account.
A FEW MINUTES FOR YOUR LIFE: TAKE THE HIV TEST FOR FREE—SPRING 2008 HOURS
Hispanic AIDS Forum, in collaboration with New School Student Health Services and the Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA), will be offering FREE confidential HIV testing every week on Mondays 4:00-6:30 p.m. and Tuesdays 3:00-5:30 p.m. The testing site will be at Loeb Residence, 135 East 12th Street, 2nd floor. For further information, please contact Student Health Services at 212.229.1671, option 1 or 2.
ANNOUCEMENTS FROM THE OFFICE OF STUDENT DEVELOPMENT AND ACTIVITIES (OSDA)
WEEKLY STUDENT ORGANIZATION MEETINGS
Rehearsals for the New Tunes A Capella Group
Mondays, 7:15–8:45 p.m.
Student Activity Space, Multi-Purpose Room, Arnhold Hall, 55 East 13th Street, ground floor
Manhattan Cornerstone Artists’ Fellowship Meetings
Wednesdays, 7:00–9:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. in Korean, 8:30 p.m. in English)
Student Activity Space, Conference Room, Arnhold Hall, 55 East 13th Street, ground floor
SAVE THE DATE: CARNIVAL 2008
Join the International Club for a Mardi Gras celebration with free snacks and refreshments on February 1, 7:30–9:30 p.m., Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street).From New Orleans to Rio, enjoy how Carnival is celebrated all over the world,.
SPRING REGISTRATION CLASSES
Salsa: Mondays, 5:45–7:00 p.m.
Yoga: Tuesdays, 1:00–2:15 p.m.
Capoeira: Wednesdays, 4:00–5:15 p.m.
Sign-up begins Monday, January 28 after 10:00 a.m. in the Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA), Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, ground floor. New School ID and health insurance information is required at time of sign-up. Recreation classes begin the week of February 11.
INTRAMURAL SOCCER
Do you miss playing sports? Start or join an intramural soccer team. Each participant receives a free t-shirt. Team registration begins at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, January 28 and ends at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 15. Games are played on Wednesdays from 7:30–9:00 p.m. beginning on March 12. Each participant must attend an orientation session on Tuesday, February 26, 4:00–5:00 p.m. or Wednesday, February 27, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Sign-up in the Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA), Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, ground floor.
DISCOUNTED KNICKS TICKETS
The Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA) will sell discounted Knicks tickets for the following games:
Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 p.m.: New York Knicks vs. Charlotte Bobcats
Sunday, April 6, 7:00 p.m.: New York Knicks vs. Orlando Magic
Tickets are available one week before the games. Tickets are $20 each, with a maximum of two per student with New School ID. OSDA is located at Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, ground floor.
MOVIE TICKETS AVAILABLE
AMC and Regal Movie tickets are available for $7 each. Students can purchase 2 tickets every 3 weeks with a New School ID. The Office of Student Development and Activities (OSDA), Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, ground floor.
WOULD YOU LIKE INFO ABOUT PROGRAMS, ACTIVITES, AND FREE EVENTS EMAILED TO YOU EVERY FRIDAY?
If so, then email studev@newschool.edu and write "Add me, please" in the subject line and we'll add your email address to our listserv. You'll get weekly info on workshops, leadership opportunities, as well as meeting times and locations for student organizations. Even better, you'll receive a listing of FREE events in New York City such as film screenings, readings, gallery openings, and book signings.
THE STUDENT ACTIVITIES BOARD WANTS YOU
The Student Activities Board (SAB) wants you to help plan programs and events for your peers and the New School community. If you are interested in helping to plan the Spring Extravaganza, a carnival event planned for early May, e-mail SAB at: studentactivitiesboard@newschool.edu.
ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE OFFICE OF INTERCULTURAL SUPPORT (OIS)
BASICALLY FOR WOMEN: MEDITATION 101
Friday, February 1, 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Student Activity Space, Arnhold Hall, 55 East 13th Street, ground floor
The Meditation workshop is presented by Sharon Salzberg co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, Massachusetts. Sharon is one of America's leading meditation teachers and authors. She has been a student of Buddhism since 1971 and has led retreats since 1974. Lunch will be served and all are welcome. For more information, call 212.229.8996.
RECOVER FROM THOSE TGIF'S WITH ALL HEALTH BREAKS LOOSE!
Are you a student or employee who would benefit from a weekly tip to improve your health? Maybe your TGIF activities have led you to seek recovery on Monday?
Contact Eric Garrison, one of our health educators, and ask to be put on the All Health Breaks Loose email list.
very Monday, you will get a brief email with a weekly suggestion to boost your mental, physical, environmental, spiritual, social, and occupational health.
DROP-IN ADVISING
Drop-in advising takes place every Monday and Wednesday from 2:00 to 4:45 p.m. at the ISS office. ISS advisors are available to see students for basic questions during drop-in advising. For more complicated issues, please call the ISS office to schedule an appointment. ISS is located at 79 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor (between 15th and 16th streets.) If you need assistance, call the ISS office at 212.229.5592 to schedule an appointment.
CHANGE OF MAJOR OR EDUCATIONAL LEVEL REQUIRES NEW I-20
Please note that if you change your major (e.g., from a BA in Fashion Design to a BA in Product Design) or your educational level (e.g., MA to PhD) you MUST request an update to your I-20 to reflect your correct degree and program information.
ONLINE ORIENTATION
New international students are required to complete the online orientation during their first semester.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MENTOR PROGRAM
The mentor program is designed to assist new international students adjust academically, culturally, and socially to the United States and The New School. Mentors are available to answer questions new students may have upon arrival in the United States and during their first semester at The New School. Email IEW@newschool.edu to request an application to become a mentor.
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