JAMES BEARD: THE QUINTESSENTIAL AMERICAN EPICURE
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James Beard, called “the quintessential American cook” by Julia Child, laid the groundwork for the gastronomical revolution that surged in the second half of the 20th century. Beard trained as an actor but found his life’s work in food: he was the author of 27 cookbooks, founded his own cooking school, and made history in 1946 by hosting the first cooking show on television. Anointed the “dean of American cookery” by the New York Times, Beard is now associated with the best in American restaurants and cooking. His most important legacy is his celebration of American food and food traditions.
On Thursday, February 12, at 6:00 p.m., the third Culinary Luminaries series will consider the life and work of this culinary hero, following the programs celebrations of Julia Child last summer and M.F.K. Fisher last fall. With Andrew F. Smith, editor of the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink and member of The New School faculty moderating, speakers will include: Mitchell Davis, vice president of the James Beard Foundation; writers Betty Fussell, Barbara Kafka, and Judith Jones; and Dana Polan, professor of Cinema Studies at New York University.
This event sponsored by the Food Studies program, will be held in Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor. Admission is $5; and free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ CELEBRATES
BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH TRIBUTE TO CHARLES MINGUS
The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music celebrates Black History Month with two performances honoring the legacy of American jazz legend Charles Mingus directed by faculty members Diane Moser (February 11) and Andy McKee (March 26), and featuring alumni Becca Stevens and Lenart Krecic, as well as special guests Marcelino Feliciano, Vic Juris, Idris Muhammad and Ivan Renta. Both performances will take place at The New School Jazz Performance Space, 5 West 13th Street, 5th Floor. General Admission is $10; and it is free for seniors and students with valid ID.
Wednesday, February 11, 8:00 p.m., IN THE SPIRIT OF MINGUS
In the first of two concerts in tribute to Charles Mingus, faculty member Diane Moser directs the New School Jazz Composers Big Band, with Diane Moser on piano, guest vocalist Marcelino Feliciano, and guest composer and New School alumnus Lenart Krecic. The Composers Big Band also features New School Jazz faculty member Andy Eulau, bass; Scott Neumann, drums; Larry Maltz, guitar; Ed Xiques, Tom Colao, Rob Middleton, Marty Fogel, Barbara Cifelli, saxophones; Erick Storckman, Ben Williams, Matt Haviland, Dennis Argul, trombones; Mike Spengler, Jim Cifelli, Steve Jankowski, Rob Henke, trumpets; and Schiller Desgrottes, video.
For more information, contact 212.229.5488 or visit www.jazz.newschool.edu. This series is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts; drum kits provided by Yamaha.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES OPEN HOUSE INFORMATION SESSION
On Wednesday, February 11, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., the Tishman Environment and Design Center will be hosting an Environmental Studies open house information session. Come learn about the Environmental Studies Bachelor’s Degree Programs; meet faculty and students from Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Studies and Parsons The New School for Design, and find out if this exciting major is right for you.
The open house will be held at 72 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor. Food and refreshments will be served.
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to environmentalstudies@newschool.edu
LEARN ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY:
SEMINAR ON THE NEW SCHOOL
The Seminar on the University is a series of discussions designed to inform The New School community of university policies and initiatives. The speakers’ papers are meant as springboards for further discussion.
The second paper for this academic year, entitled “Online Learning at The New School” will be presented by Shelley Reed, senior vice president for Information Technology and Linda Dunne, dean, The New School for General Studies. Reflecting the university’s commitment to expanding online course offerings, seminar participants will describe the wide range of online classes and programs—currently offered throughout The New School, and they will discuss the support available to faculty who develop and teach online. Speakers will include Timothy Quigley, associate professor and director of the NSGS Bachelor's Program; Sean Conley, chair, English Language Studies; Carol Wilder, Media Studies; Alice Demirjian, Parsons AAS Director of Fashion Marketing; and Eleni Litt, director of Faculty Development and Academic Support and director of the University Writing Center, in the Office of the Provost. Participants from the New School Online Learning staff will include Jim O’Connor, academic director; James Acevedo, associate director; and Shira Richman, instructional designer.
The seminar will take place on Thursday, February 12, 2009 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Discussion Papers are available in the Dean's offices and on the university website one week before the Seminar.
The remaining seminars scheduled for the 2008-2009 academic year are: Developing the 2009-2010 University Operating Budget, presented by Steven Stabile assistant vice president of budget, on Thursday, March 26, 2009; and The University Annual Report, presented by James Murtha, executive vice president and chief operating officer, Nancy Donner, vice president for Communications and External Affairs; and Doris Suarez, vice president and secretary of the Corporation, on Thursday, April 23, 2009.
PARSONS ANNOUNCES DIVISIONAL COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES
Parsons has just announced their divisional commencement ceremonies preceding the universities 73rd Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
The following ceremonies will take place on:
Wednesday, May 20
—2:00-4:00 p.m., School of Fashion / BFA
Midtown Auditorium, David Schwartz Fashion Education Center
560 Seventh Avenue
—3:00-5:00 p.m., School of Constructed Environments / All Programs
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street—6:00-8:00 p.m., School of Design Strategies / Integrated Design Curriculum
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
2 West 13th StreetThursday, May 21
—9:30-11:30 a.m., School of Art, Media and Technology / Communication, Design and Technology
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street—12:30-2:00 p.m., School of Design Strategies / Design and Management
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J.M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street—2:00-4:00 p.m., School of Art, Media and Technology / Photography
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th Street, 5th floor—4:00-6:00 p.m., School of Art, Media and Technology / Illustration
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor—6:00-8:00 p.m., School of Art and Design History and Theory / MA History Decorative Arts and Design
Cooper-Hewitt Garden
2 East 91st Street
THE TISHMAN ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN CENTER HAS MOVED
Please note the Tishman Environment and Design Center has moved to 72 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor. The telephone number is 212.229.5321. The email address is environmentalstudies@newschool.edu
DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITY TEACHING AWARDS FOR 2009
Students and faculty are invited to nominate outstanding faculty for this year's teaching excellence awards. Awardees will be notified in late spring, and will receive their awards formally at convocation in September 2009.
Eligibility: Faculty members who have taught at The New School for at least four semesters and who are available to receive the award at the fall 2009 convocation.
How to Nominate: See detailed information about the criteria and submit your nominations at www.newschool.edu/duta. All nominations must be submitted online.
Nominations must include the following information:
- Name of faculty member being nominated.
- Nominator's name, school, and contact information.
- Description of the nominee's relevant merits, giving specific examples using criteria related to the nominee's impact on and involvement with, students and colleagues (maximum of 500 words).
Deadline for all nominations is Friday, February 27, 2009. If you have questions or need further information please email FordD@newschool.edu.
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
CRIME, JUSTICE, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
On Tuesday, February 10, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., the Center for New York City Affairs and the Correctional Association of New York will convene a forum to discuss the future of criminal justice in New York and beyond. New York led the way in prison system expansion more than 25 years ago. Nationwide, states now pour $50 billion a year into incarceration. But most states, New York included, are slashing education and human services as a result of budget gaps. Should New York lead the way in decreasing the size of state prison systems? Will the Obama administration take a new approach to criminal justice? And with at least 25,000 ex-offenders returning home each year from New York state prisons, what kind of support can communities expect?
These issues will be looked at and discussed by a panel moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor, The Nation and featuring; Robert Gangi, executive director, Correctional Association of New York; Glenn Martin, vice president of development and public affairs, the Fortune Society; Marc Mauer, executive director, the Sentencing Project; Denise O’Donnell, commissioner, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services; and Anne Swern, First Assistant District Attorney, Kings County.
The event Supported by the Sirus Fund and the Milano Foundation will be held in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor. Admission is Free; but seating is limited, and reservations are required by calling 212.229.5418 or emailing centernyc@newschool.edu.
NEWS FROM THE INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE
INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE FELLOWS PRESENTATION
India China Institute Student Fellows will be presenting the results of their research on India and China on February 13, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. The ICI Student Fellows represent many different departments at The New School, including the Graduate Program in International Affairs, Media and Film Studies, and students from throughout NSSR.
- Adriana Yoto, who conducted research in India, will deliver a presentation titled, "Be Part of It: Malls, Gated Communities, and New Tourisms."
- Mary Mainil will present on "Development Projects, Human Displacement, and the UN Global Compact: A Visit with Diverse Sectors of Indian Society."
- Chris Eberhardt will discuss "China as an Environmentalist State."
- Cornelia Staritz and Nathan Fisher will present the results of their Fellowship research.
The presentations will be held in the Klein Conference Room, 66 West 12th Street, room 510. Come support your colleagues and learn about different aspects of their experiences with India and China. Refreshments will be served.
INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE STUDENT FELLOWS 2009
The India China Institute, now in its fifth year, is proud to announce its third round of Student Fellows. ICI received applications from both graduate and undergraduate students representing a wide array of The New School’s diverse divisions, including The New School for Social Research, The New School for General Studies, Eugene Lang College, and Parsons School of Design. Through a rigorous selection and interview process our selection committee chose five excellent candidates to be awarded the Fellowship.
The recipients of ICI’s 2009 Student Fellowship will receive a modest study and research grant to conduct fieldwork in India or China. The research of ICI’s Student Fellows taps into the ICI mission of establishing new dialogs and adding new perspectives to international discourse across the borders of India, China, and the United States. Each student fellow will present the findings of their research done with the ICI grant to The New School community during the Fall 2009 Semester.
The recipients of the India China Institute 2009 Student Fellowship are:
Kelly Jo Cigman is an MA student in Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research. Her work with ICI will focus on the highly concentrated Muslim population in the “Old City” of Hyderabad. Kelly Jo aims to address questions surrounding the effects of rapid global investment in Hyderabad on the Muslim minority, primarily, how social and economic mobility are affected, and how the dynamics of Hyderabad might serve to explain power relations throughout larger India and other cities with tenuous inter-ethnic relations.
Mitchell Cook is an MA student in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. Through his travel and research, Mitch will explore the development of India’s Northeastern Region. His work focuses on revealing factors that can explain how the eight states of the Northeastern Region have been unable to capture part of India’s rapid economic growth, and an analysis of the government’s large-scale, multi-tiered planning apparatus designed to catalyze regional development. This research will address questions regarding coordination of development decision-making, shifting of social relations as development takes off, and how investment in this region can be retained.
Li Kefu is an MA student in Media Studies at The New School. He will put the ICI travel grant to use in order to gain first-hand perspective on economic development in India, but more specifically, to also capture how China views India’s development, and vice versa. Li hopes to capture varying perspectives and impressions on how these two countries perceive each other, how their future might possibly be intertwined, and how it may diverge.
Ana Maria Ulloa is an Anthropology student at The New School for Social Research. With the ICI Student Fellowship award, she plans to study public restrooms in Beijing. Amid the proliferation of skyscrapers, rapid expansion, and large investments in infrastructure a curious wrinkle emerges: the place and function of public restrooms in this modern metropolis. Through comparison of public restrooms in Beijing’s historical center and tourist attraction sites, Ana Maria will show how access to public toilets touches upon greater issues of inequality and gender, and address tensions between modernization and preservation and their link to the debate on hygiene, disease, and inequality. Her project will add new perspective and analysis on how urban reforms can be understood.
Lily Wong is an undergraduate student at Parsons and Lang studying Philosophy and Architectural Design. With the ICI grant she will travel to Beijing and study the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people that has occurred as a result of China’s thirst for rapid development and modernization. Lily will focus specifically on those displaced during preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics, and how they are reconfiguring themselves in new satellite neighborhoods. She hopes to address questions concerning how the residents perceive themselves in relation to China’s rapid development and modernization, and whether they see themselves as victims of modernization or a sacrifice to fulfill a national dream.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE JOHN TURTURRO MEETS WITH DRAMA STUDENTS
This past month, award-winning actor, director and artist-in-residence John Turturro met with The New School for Drama’s student body in a Town Hall meeting for an informal Q&A about his career and experiences in the industry.
This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity gave students the chance to informally discuss various subjects, from how he got started as an actor to his training, and from how he approaches a role to how he made the transition into directing.
“It was a thrilling experience,” noted first-year directing student Paul Takacs. “It was truly unique in the sense that we had this intimate opportunity to get to know more about this successful artist and how he approaches his work. And he shared more than he would have in a ‘public interview,’ since he was among fellow artists and he knew we could learn from this experience.”
Third-year actor Nate Faust concurred and added, “It was really interesting to hear how he learned from his directors, fellow actors, and his mistakes—how he learned not to repeat them— throughout his career. He related to us as colleagues, giving us practical advice based on his experiences, and he spoke to us in a language we understand because of the training we’re getting here at Drama; it was all about the craft.”
DRAMA’S RANDOM ACTS ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL KICKS OFF NEXT WEEK
The New School for Drama’s RANDOM ACTS One-Act Play Festival begins its six-weekend run on Thursday, February 19. Audiences are invited to experience work by some of the best of the school’s up-and-coming actors, directors, and playwrights. Free and open to the public, the plays are presented every other week and include both classic and contemporary works, ranging from Thorton Wilder’s A Ringing of Doorbells to Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Den of Thieves. The festival will also feature six new works by Drama’s third-year playwrights, to be presented in the final two weeks.
The opening weekend runs February 19-21 and will feature these plays:
In the Shadow of the Glen by John M. Synge, directed by Kathy MacGowan; with David Bly, Connor Carew, Brynne Kraynak, and Aidan O’Shea
Games by James Saunders, directed by Web Begole; with Nate Faust, Marco Formosa, Tara Herweg, and Valerie Lonigro
Den of Thieves by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Ira Kip; with Brittany Bellizeare, David Marshall, Dana Mazzenga, Jason R. Stroud, Kirill Vaal, and Patrick Williams
The festival will run through April 26, with performances Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday matinees at 3:00 p.m. Admission is free, and seating is first come, first served. Reservations are recommended; call Ticket Central at 212.279.4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com. Performances will take place at The New School for Drama Theater, 151 Bank Street, 3rd floor, New York City.
Visit www.drama.newschool.edu for the complete schedule and more information.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
STUDENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO HELP HOMELESS YOUTHS
On February 14, photographers and videographers from across the country will embark on a nationwide quest to raise awareness of teen homelessness by capturing the faces and stories of homeless young people. The project, called Do One Thing, is the brainchild of Parsons Design + Technology student Najlah Feanny Hicks. Developed as her thesis project, Hicks’ co-founded the organization Do 1 Thing on the premise that many people doing a single act of kindness can create great change.
For a 24-hour period, participants will shoot and upload work to the Do 1 Thing website, where it will be available to web visitors. The project organizers are hoping that this body of work will in turn encourage ordinary citizens to confront the problem of teen homelessness by doing their own “one thing” to help. Web visitors who choose to participate are encouraged to upload their own images to the Do 1 Thing site.
Over 100 professional photographers, including Diane Fitzmaurice, David Leeson, and 23 other Pulitzer Prize winners, will be participating on Valentine’s Day. For more information, or to get involved in the movement, please visit the Do 1 Thing website.
PARSONS CELEBRATES PUBLICATION OF LEVEN BETTS: PATTERN RECOGNITION
On February 11, Parsons will celebrate the publication of Leven Betts: Pattern Recognition. The book features 18 projects by the critically acclaimed design firm Leven Betts Studio, whose principals are graduate architecture program director David Leven and architecture faculty member Stella Betts. The reception will take place from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the School for Constructed Environments, 25 East 13th Street, second floor, and is free and open to the public.
The diverse portfolio of projects featured in the book runs the gamut in scale from furniture and exhibition design to townhouse and city plans. The book features photos, drawings, and diagrams highlighting the firm’s work in its first 10 years. Leven Betts’ collaborative design process is marked by keen observation of organizational systems and patterning.
For more information on Leven Betts Studio, please visit the website.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
THE IRENE & BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ LECTURE: ROBERT SHILLER
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The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) will host a discussion with renowned economist Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, to discuss his upcoming book, titled Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism.
In the book, Robert Shiller and his co-author, Nobel prize-winning economist George A. Akerlof, challenge the economic wisdom that led to the current global economic crisis and call for an active government role in economic policymaking. By recovering the term “animal spirits,” a Keynesian term to describe the despondence that led to the Great Depression, Akerlof and Shiller show how Reaganomics, Thatcherism, and the rational expectations revolution failed to account for the human psychology of confidence, fear, bad faith, corruption, a concern for fairness, and the stories we tell ourselves about our economic fortunes.
A panel discussion and Q&A will follow the lecture. Panelists include Professor Brad DeLong from the Department of Economics at U.C. Berkeley, chair of the Berkeley International and Area Studies, Political Economy major, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow at SCEPA; and Teresa Ghilarducci, SCEPA Director and Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Analysis at The New School for Social Research.
Robert J. Shiller is the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics at Yale University. He is also professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance at Yale School of Management. He has written about financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, and statistical methods, as well as on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets.
The panel will be held on Wednesday, February 18, at 6:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Please RSVP to cepa@newschool.edu or 212.229.5901 x4911.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
NEW SCHOOL JAZZ FACULTY MEMBER FEATURED IN
GREAT FILM SCORES OF 1939 AT SYMPHONY SPACE
Jazz Faculty Member Kirk Nurock, a pianist, composer, and arranger will join vocalist Miles Griffith in “Great Film Scores of 1939” on Friday, February 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Space. Nurock and Griffiths will discuss classic 1939 film scores that have become part of our national conscience, including The Wizard of Oz and Babes in Toyland.
Nurock has performed with Phil Woods, Sonny Stitt, and Chet Baker. Nurock’s jazz and new music compositions and arrangements have been performed and/or recorded by such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Brecker, Jane Ira Bloom, Marty Ehrlich, Jay Clayton, and Theo Bleckmann. Nurock has just returned from Berlin where he served for five years as jazz professor at the Hochschule der Künste.
For more information about Great Film Scores of 1939 visit the Symphony Space website.
STUDENT SERVICES AT THE NEW SCHOOL CELEBRATES V-DAY 2009
Join us as we celebrate V-Day 2009 with The New School’s production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, award-winning author, feminist activist, and founder / artistic director of VDay. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global nonprofit organization, which raised over $50 million for women’s anti-violence groups through performances of The Vagina Monologues.
The New School performances of The Vagina Monologues will take place on Thursday, February 12, Friday, February 13, and Saturday, February 14, in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J. M. Kaplan Hall at 66 West 12th Street. All performances begin at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $7 with New School ID and $10 for the general public.
Any One of Us: Words from Prison is a play conceived by Eve Ensler, which reveals the connections between women’s incarceration and their history of abuse. Any One of Us: Words from Prison will be performed at The New School on Thursday April 2, Friday, April 3, and Saturday, April 4, starting at 8:00 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson / J. M. Kaplan Hall at 66 West 12th Street. Tickets are $5 with New School ID and $7 for the general public.
A special discount is available: tickets to both The Vagina Monologues and Any One of Us are $10 with New School ID.
Proceeds from these performances will benefit Day One (www.dayoneny.org), a non-profit organization that partners with NYC youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through community education, legal advocacy, support services, and leadership development. For more information about V-Day at The New School, email vday@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.
*Special Note: Eve Ensler will be receiving an honorary degree at the 2009 University commencement ceremony on May 22.
TROUBLE THE WATER: FREE SCREENING
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and 2009 Oscar Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful documentary, which will be shown on Thursday, February 26, at 7:00 p.m., takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Incorporating remarkable home video footage shot by Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist trapped with her husband in the 9th Ward, producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal (Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine) weave this insider’s view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane’s aftermath. Trouble the Water is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes—two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.
This event is co-sponsored by Student Services and the Documentary Media Studies Program at The New School. The film will be shown in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. For more information, please call 212.229.5687 or email ois@newschool.edu.
DEMOCRACY & DIVERSITY
GRADUATE SUMMER INSTITUTE,WROCLAW, POLAND
JULY 9-26, 2009
The eighteenth Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, organized by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of The New School for Social Research, will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, from July 9-26, 2009. TCDS will welcome 40 junior scholars from the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world for this intensive three-week program of study in society, culture and politics.
Building on the achievements of our Krakow Institute (1991-2008), our new transatlantic laboratory in Wroclaw will offer a full semester’s worth of studies under the working title: “The New World Meets the New Europe.” The program is designed to facilitate intellectual and experiential insights into a momentous experiment now under way: the peaceful construction of transnational Europe. In an increasingly interdependent world fraught with violent conflicts, wars, and ethnic and religious tensions, it’s vital to understand the past and present lessons involved in this extraordinary experiment in transborder institution building.
Known as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the Institute brings an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural challenges facing today’s world. Core faculty from New School for Social Research will be joined by other distinguished American and international scholars and guest speakers. Upon completion of the Institute, U.S. graduate students receive full course credits and non-U.S. participants receive Institute certificates.
Located between Berlin, Prague and Warsaw, and saturated with the history and memory of these three distinct cultures, Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) is a beautiful and booming city that uniquely conveys both the challenges and the promise of a united Europe. Drawing on Wroclaw’s culture of the borderland, TCDS’s network of distinguished and dedicated collaborators and alumni, and the New School’s reputation stemming from our long-term engagement in the region, this new Institute promises a strong and innovative program on the New Europe that will reflect our ongoing commitment to critical inquiry and dialogue as paths to improvement of the human condition.
Please watch for the full program announcement, including institute faculty, courses, program fees, and application instructions and deadlines, in mid-February 2009.
USE YOUR FREE ADMISSION TO DROP IN ON MOMA’S AFTER HOUR MONDAY NIGHTS
Monday, December 8, 2008, marks the first of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s) Monday Nights, a series of Monday evenings over the next six months when the Museum will remain open until 8:45 p.m. We encourage New School students and employees to drop in after work and enjoy access to the entire Museum. 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.
There will be live entertainment as well as drinks and cocktails available for purchase. MoMA is located at 11 West 53rd Street, New York City. Enjoy!
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.
THE BEST DEAL FOR AFFORDABLE THEATER, Dance, and concert TICKETS:
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND
An exciting spring theater, music and dance season is under way: Why pay $100 or more, when you can pay $20-$36 for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows, dance performances and concerts? 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 $27.50, and you can join online.
A small sampling of performances recently available to TDF Members for $20-36 per ticket include: 13-A New Musical, The 39 Steps, Absinthe at the Spiegeltent, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Boeing Boeing, The Fantasticks, Flamingo Court, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hairspray, Irena's Vow, Legally Blonde, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Marvelous Wonderettes, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening, The Seagull, To Be Or Not To Be and Xanadu.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
The New York Times is offering a 60 percent discount ($.40/per day Monday-Saturday, $2.50 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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