MFA FACULTY FINALIST FOR MAJOR WRITING AWARD
Benjamin Taylor, a faculty member in the Graduate Program in Writing at The New School, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Barnes & Noble 2008 Discover Great New Writers Awards. He was picked in the fiction category for his book, The Book of Getting Even (Steerforth Press).
The winners in each category—fiction and nonfiction—receive a $10,000 prize and a full year of additional promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists receive $5,000, and third-place finalists $2,500. The winners will be announced on Wednesday, March 4, at a private awards ceremony. At 7:00 p.m. that evening, all six finalists are invited to read from their work at Barnes & Noble's Tribeca store in New York City, located at 97 Warren Street (at Greenwich Street).
The Discover Awards honor the best works featured the previous calendar year in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program
OLA HOLDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LATIN AMERICAN BICENTENNIAL COMMEMORATIONS
The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) will present an international conference titled, “Building Latin American Bicentennials,” at The New School on February 26-27, 2009. The conference, which is part of an ongoing OLA program of the same name directed by Associate Professor Margarita Gutman, will reflect on the present and past of the commemorations of national independence in Latin America countries.
The conference will use this unique moment in Latin America, where Argentina, Chile, and Mexico will commemorate the bicentennial anniversary of their independence in 2010, followed by seven other countries in Latin America over the next 15 years, as an opportunity for comparative and multidisciplinary study. Specifically, participants will focus on how governments and civil society in these countries construct their commemorations and how they use this historical moment to address urgent issues of social inclusion and institutional reform.
The conference will also include presentations by the five winners of an International Call for Papers on the topic of "Building Latin American Bicentennials in the Age of Globalization." A panel of ambassadors to the United Nations from Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico will conclude the conference with a discussion of the global and national meanings of the bicentennial commemorations.
Well-known scholars from five Latin America countries and the United States will participate in the conference, including Professor Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize winning historian at the CUNY Graduate Center; Thomas Reese, director of the Latin American Center at Tulane University and Professor Carol McMichael Reese of Tulane University; Fernando Carrion, director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Ecuador. The New School faculty includes representatives from Parsons (Colleen Mclean and Brian McGrath) and The New School for General Studies (Adriana Abdenur, Michael Cohen, Peter Lucas, and Alberto Minujin).
The conference will be held from 9:30 a.m.—5:00 p.m. at The New School. On Thursday, February 26, the conference will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at 55 West 13th Street on the 2nd floor. On Friday, February 27, the conference will be held in Wollman Hall at 65 West 11th Street on the Fifth Floor.
HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS FOR THE NEW SCHOOL 2009 COMMENCEMENT ANNOUNCED
Dean at Yale Law School, expert on international law, and advocate for human and civil rights Harold Hongju Koh will deliver the address at the university’s commencement ceremony on Friday, May 22, 2009, at 2:30 p.m. at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. President Bob Kerrey will address the graduates and confer honorary degrees on Koh; professor of African American Studies, and philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler; legendary opera singer Regina Resnik; and statesman and philanthropist John C. Whitehead.
For more information about the 2009 commencement, visit the university website.
Service beyond the call of duty... Outstanding performance... Always great... The best! Do these phrases remind you of a New School staff member? If so, then nominate him or her for the Service Excellence Award, a $1,000 prize.
Presented each year to recognize the contribution of a member of the administrative, clerical, facilities, or security staff of The New School community, nominations may be submitted by students, faculty, and staff members and should include:
- Nominee’s name, position, division/department, and length of service
- Reason(s) for which the nominee deserves the award
- Professional and interpersonal qualities that distinguish the nominee
- Examples of the nominee's outstanding performance/contribution
- Nominator’s name and division/department
The Deadline for submission is Friday, March 20, and should be sent to: Service Excellence Award, Human Resources, 79 Fifth Avenue, 18th floor, or email to SlaughtS@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 THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
THE SECOND ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY MEMORY GROUP CONFERENCE TO BE HELD
On Thursday and Friday, February 26 -27, the second annual conference of The New School for Social Research Interdisciplinary Memory Group will be held.
This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars and practitioners of memory to examine the relationship that past has to the present and future. The conference addresses pressing concerns about the relationship of memory to democratic politics. Important themes include: the internationalization of memory; denial, imposture and historical events; memory and revenge; narrative and visual memory; and memory (studies) and the future.
Among the many panels taking place during the conference there will be two keynote addresses. On the first day of the conference Professor Dori Laub, clinical professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, and deputy director of Trauma Studies, Genocide Studies will give a talk titled, “Holocaust Testimonies: Between Abyss and Creativity: The evolving struggle for mental representation and remembrance.” On the second day Dr. Jerome Bruner, research professor of Psychology, New York University, and senior research fellow in Law, New York University School of Law will give a talk titled, “And just what do we mean by memory?”
The conference which is supported and made possible by The New School for Social Research Dean’s Office and the New Sociological Imagination series by the Sociology Department will be held in the New Wolff Conference, 6 East 16th Street, room 906 and 913.
For more information go to the conference website or to email, NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com.
The New School for Social Research and its flagship journal, Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, will host the conference “The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case” from March 5-6 in the Tishman Auditorium at The New School. The conference will explore the historical tension between religion and secularity in the United States and investigate current trends, both public and personal, in the reemergence of faith-based decision-making.
Prominent scholars, experts, and professionals with backgrounds ranging from religious studies, legal studies, political science, sociology, to philosophy will address contemporary social issues, such as increasingly organized movements to include evolution and intelligent design in public education curriculums, the increased prominence of religious priorities in political decision-making, in governmental reliance on spiritual or faith-based philanthropy, and on the role of faith-based communities in lobbying for legislation and/or mobilizing voters to elect candidates.
Panelists include Noah Feldman, professor of Law at Harvard Law School widely known for his work in Iraq as an advisor in the early days of the Coalition Provisional Authority and for his book, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State; and Mark Lilla, professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West. The conference’s keynote address will be presented by Templeton Award winner and distinguished political philosopher Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University. Taylor will discuss the inevitable confusion resulting from an analysis of “secular” through its many historical meanings.
To view the conference agenda and speakers, visit the conference website.
The conference is the 20th in a series organized by The New School for Social Research’s award-winning journal, Social Research. This conference is made possible with generous support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts.
THE HANNAH ARENDT / REINER SCHÜRMANN MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
On Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7, from 11:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., the Hannah Arendt / Reiner Schürmann Memorial Symposium in Political Philosophy will take place in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
On the first day of the symposium speakers and topics will include John Richardson, New York University on “Nietzsche on Life’s Ends”; Leonard Lawlor, Pennsylvania State University on “Becoming and Auto-Affection: Who Are We?” and Philip Kitcher, Columbia University on “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy.”
The second day’s speakers and topics will include Christoph Menke, Universität Potsdam on “Force”; Eckart Förster, Johns Hopkins University on “Can Philosophy Comprehend Life?”; and Evan Thompson, University of Toronto on “Autonomy in Life.”
The symposium, which is free and open to the public, was started in 1980 by Reiner Schürmann, the chair of the philosophy department at the time. The purpose was to look at contemporary issues in political philosophy of importance to Hannah Arendt’s thinking. After Reiner Schürmann’s passing, in 1993, the symposium was renamed to include both its founder and its inspiration. The symposia are organized twice yearly and held on two consecutive days, with the participation of American and foreign scholars.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
JAZZ ALUMNI RECEIVE 2009 ASCAP YOUNG JAZZ COMPOSER AWARDS
New School Jazz alumni Travis Reuter, guitar, and Albert Rivera, saxophone, will receive the 2009 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards. They will receive cash awards and will be recognized at the annual ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame ceremony on June 16, which will be held in the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall at Lincoln Center.
The ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards, established 2002, were created to encourage gifted young composers from throughout the United States. The recipients, who range in age from 15 through 29, are selected through a juried national competition.
JAZZ FACULTY MEMBER CHARLES TOLLIVER TO RECREATE HISTORIC THELONIOUS MONK
TOWN HALL CONCERT ON ITS 50th ANNIVERSARY
New School Jazz faculty member, Grammy-nominee, and trumpeter Charles Tolliver will lead an all-star quartet to recreate Monk’s groundbreaking Town Hall concert. The concert will take place on Thursday, February 26, at 8:00 p.m.
A self-taught trumpet wizard and virtuoso arranger, Charles Tolliver attended Monk’s 1959 Town Hall show as a teenager and has kept faith with the African American rhythms, large sounds, and group dynamics of Monk’s orchestral form. Tolliver, who played with Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, and Max Roach, revisits Monk’s monumental collaboration with Hall Overton with an entirely new set of transcriptions, which Tolliver made from exclusive access to Smith’s loft tapes of the original rehearsals. Tolliver’s update on the original concert attempts to restage the tensions that made the first performance so electric: pianist and orchestra, individual and group. In this spectacular show, Tolliver builds from the little-known quartet performances that opened Monk’s 1959 Town Hall concert, and then he leads his critically acclaimed orchestra through the famous tentet arrangements. Luminary and Monk aficionado Stanley Cowell is on piano.
This concert is presented by Duke university and produced by Duke Performances and the Center for Documentary Studies. To purchase tickets visit www.ticketmaster.com or call 212.307.4100. For more information visit www.monkattownhall.com. Town Hall is located at 123 West 43rd street between 6th Avenue and Broadway.
NEWS FROM
INDIA CHINA INSTITUTE AND
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
INDIA, CHINA, BRAZIL, AND SOUTH AFRICA WITH DEEPAK NAYYAR
On Monday, March 2, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., Deepak Nayyar, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, The New School, will deliver a lecture on his research regarding China, India, Brazil, and South Africa as engines of economic growth in the world.
Professor Nayyar has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; University of Oxford; the University of Sussex; the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Delhi from 2000 to 2005. His recent books include Governing Globalization: Issues and Institutions, and as co-author with Joseph Stiglitz and Jose Antonio Ocampo et. al. Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development.
This free event is co-sponsored by India China Institute and the Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, at the Theresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DRAMA
DRAMA ALUMS SELECTED TO JOIN PUBLIC THEATER’S 2009 EMERGING WRITERS GROUP
New School for Drama alums Deen (Playwriting ’06) and J. Julian Christopher (Acting ’05) both received 2009 Emerging Writer’s Fellowship awards from the Public Theater in New York City. The honor includes a $3,000 stipend, participation in the Public’s writers’ group, readings of their work at the Public, and master classes led by established playwrights. The Emerging Writers Group seeks to target playwrights at the earliest stages of their careers, and to create an artistic home for a diverse and exceptionally talented group of up-and-coming playwrights.
“Upon hearing that I was awarded the Public's 2009 Emerging Writers Fellowship, I was so happy I jumped up and down—repeatedly,” says Deen. “If there is any theater in New York City that I want to be affiliated with, it's the Public. It champions the kind of politically and culturally relevant theater that I want to make.”
Christopher is just as enthusiastic: “I am still beside myself since I heard that I was awarded the Fellowship. It's such a great opportunity, since I am just beginning my playwriting career. I am honored that I was given this chance and hope to become a staple in the Public Theater's community of artists.”
DRAMA’S RANDOM ACTS ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL OFF TO A GREAT START
The New School for Drama’s RANDOM ACTS One-Act Play Festival began its six-weekend run last week and continues with its second week of new productions Thursday, March 5. 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 Horton Foote’s Blind Date. The festival will also feature six new works by Drama’s third-year playwrights, to be presented in the final two weeks.
The second weekend runs March 5-7 and will feature these plays:
Lovers by Brian Friel
Part One—Winners, directed by Mary Beth Smith; with Marco Formosa, Jennifer McVey, Adrienne C. Moore, and Jason R. Stroud
Part Two—Losers, directed by Jennifer Hart; with Connor Carew, Alison Bridget Chambers, Tara Herweg, and Amanda Rhines
Komachi by Romulus Linney, directed by Tamara Ruppart; with Ji-Hye Kwon, and Aidan O’Shea
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.
Visi twww.drama.newschool.edu for the complete schedule and more information.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
PIIM RECEIVES UNITED NATIONS FUNDING
The Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) recently received United Nations funding for a project supporting the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals. PIIM’s work will lay the foundation for a revamped Millennium Development Goal Monitor—an online tool helping the world’s citizens understand, interact with, and contribute to the success of the U.N.’s objectives.
With the support of the United Nations Development Programme and a collaboration with researchers from the World Health Organization, PIIM’s work will prototype a new way to visualize and understand the interplay of complex trends in economic, health, and policy issues across the UN system and participating countries.
PIIM is a one-of-a-kind research, development, and professional services facility that uses concepts of knowledge visualization to solve real-world problems. For more information, please visit the PIIM website.
CONFOUNDING EXPECTATIONS: THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT
On February 25, The New School and the Aperture Foundation present “Confounding Expectations: The Obsolescence of the Photographic Object,” a panel discussion on how photography has evolved and shaped our relationship with images. This event will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, Ground Floor and is free and open to the public.
Photographer Mark Wyse and artist Leslie Hewitt will discuss the evolution of the photographic form with Mia Fineman, photographer curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This event is one of a series of lectures that explores issues in photography, which is co-sponsored by the Aperture Foundation, the photography program at Parsons, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.
NEWS FROM MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC
THE MANNES ORCHESTRA AT LINCOLN CENTER
On Monday, February 23, at 8:00 p.m., the Mannes Orchestra led by David Hayes, conductor and director of orchestral and conducting studies, and pianist Di Wang will perform at Avery Fisher Hall. Wang will be making his orchestural soloist debut in a performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18. The orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, op. 36.
Wang began his piano studies at age five in his native China. At age nine, after competing against thousands of young musicians in the demanding entrance examinations for the Beijing Central Music Conservatory Junior School, he began his studies with Professor Ling Yuan. On graduating from Beijing Central Music Conservatory, he came to New York to attend Mannes College, where he is currently a Bachelor of Music degree candidate, studying with Jerome Rose. He has performed in numerous concerts and recitals in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to great acclaim.
Admission to the concert is free and tickets can be picked up at the Avery Fisher Box office, or by calling 212.875.5030.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
NEW SCHOOL ALUMNI CURATES EVENING CELEBRATING JAMAICAN AND AMERICAN JAZZ CULTURE
The New School Bachelor's Program alumni and renowned Caribbean cultural historian Herbie Miller, who is also the director/curator designate of Jamaica's National Music Museum curates a once-in-a-lifetime evening celebrating the interconnection between Jamaican and American jazz culture, "In Search of Lost Riddim: Jamaican Jazz Fusion," on Thursday, February 26.
Several generations of internationally renowned Jamaican musicians come together for this landmark event that celebrates the many influences of world music on jazz. The spectacular evening features guitarist Ernest Ranglin, acclaimed for helping to give birth to ska and for his magnificent ability to blend jazz and reggae. Joining Ranglin are Douglas Ewart, the multi-instrumentalist and visual artist, whose superb playing weaves together jazz with contemporary classical music and Caribbean folkloric music; saxophonist Cedric "Im" Brooks, whose artful jazz combines such musical forms as calypso, funk, rhumba, junkunoo, ska, and disco; and trumpeter Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw, a former president of the Jamaican Federation of Musicians and a pioneer in popularizing ska and other Jamaican indigenous music. The evening also features Orville Hammond (piano), Wayne Batchelor (string bass), Desmond Jones (drums), and Larry McDonald (conga).
The event is presented through the Columbia / Harlem Jazz Project, Harlem Stage's Harlem Stride series, and the Harlem Stage Partners Program and will take place at Harlem Stage at Aaron Davis Hall, W. 135th St and Convent Ave. Admission is $15. For tickets please call the box office at 212-281-9240 ext. 19 or visit the Harlem Stage website.
ENCORE BROADCASTS OF MISS GULAG ON THE DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
Miss GULAG, a film directed by New School Bachelor's Program alumni Maria Yatskova, will air on the documentary channel Monday, March 16, at 6:00 p.m.. and Friday, March 27 at 9:45 p.m. The film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and has been shown at the International Human Rights Film Festival in Albania and the Salem Film Festival in Massachusetts. Miss GULAG was also chosen by the actress Christina Ricci and Glamour magazine to be a part of their online film festival celebrating women directors.
Yatskova was born in Moscow and immigrated to the United States with her mother and grandmother at the age of five. She is a journalist and filmmaker. Her article about prison camp UF 91/9 in Siberia titled, “Crime and Beauty,” appeared in the September 2006 issue of Marie-Claire magazine, and provided part of the vision behind Miss GULAG. For more information, visit the film’s website.
NEWS FROM STUDENT SERVICES
THE RISE OF HIV IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY WEDNESDAY
On February 25, from 8:30-10:00 p.m., panelists from the New City Department of Health, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and other activist HIV prevention organizations will discuss why the African-American community is experiencing the highest rate of new HIV infections of any population in the United States and the efforts to combat the spread of this deadly disease.
They will be considering the following:
- Of newly diagnosed cases, 50 percent were black.
- If you are a black man in New York City, you are six times more likely to die of AIDS than a white man.
- If you are a black woman in New York City, you are nine times more likely to die of AIDS than a white woman.
The event will be held in the Ann-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue. For more information, please email mcalliss@newschool.edu or call 212.229.5687.
This event is sponsored by Student Health Services.
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), who will be at the screening for a Q & A, 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.
THE NEW SCHOOL TEAMS UP WITH LOCAL COLLEGES TO FIGHT HUNGER IN NEW YORK CITY
Did you know that in New York City, one of the richest cities in the world, approximately 1.3 million people, mainly women, children, the elderly, the disabled, and the working poor, rely on soup kitchens and food pantries? A recent survey shows that 48 percent (or half) of all New Yorkers are struggling to put food on the table. The economic downturn has severely impacted many more thousands of New York families who never before experienced such poverty.
Did you also know that the Food Bank for New York City provides 300,000 meals daily at 1,000 programs throughout the five boroughs to help feed the hungry? However, in recent weeks, food kitchens and pantries are running out of sufficient resources to feed the ever-growing lines of the city’s hungry.
In response to this crisis, Students Team Up to Fight Hunger, a nonprofit organization committed to ending hunger, and local university students from Fordham, Columbia, NYU, Marymount Manhattan, and The New School are teaming up to help fight hunger during the week of February 23 to
March 1.
A virtual food drive can be accessed, where students will find an easy path to "Click for Hunger." Every dollar provides five meals, so whether a student gives one dollar or five, each donation will make a real difference for hungry New Yorkers. New School faculty and staff are also encouraged to make a contribution to the Click for Hunger campaign.
Careers with a Conscience: A Career Exploration Panel Discussion and Networking Event
On Wednesday, February 25, from 5:00-8:00 p.m., in the Theresa Lang Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New School students and alumni are invited to attend a panel discussion with employers from socially responsible organizations in the food/agriculture, health/human rights, design, urban planning, media, and mental health sectors.
Participating companies include: ABC Carpet & Home, City Parks Foundation, City Year, DEMOS, Doe Fund, Engender Health, Envirolution, Farm Sanctuary, Green Map System, Groundswell Community Mural Project, Landmark West!, Lower East Side Ecology Center, Loyale, MDRC, Open Space Institute, Organic, Peace Corps, Seedco, West Elm, and many more!
There will be a keynote speech by John Patrick, finalist for the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) / Vogue Fashion Fund Award, followed by a discussion and networking sessions for employers and attendees. This is a great chance for students and alumni to meet and learn from individuals working with a mission of social and/or environmental responsibility. This event goes beyond a traditional career fair to truly facilitate relationships between students, alumni, and professionals.
Attendees should be sure to bring lots of resumes! There will be a raffle with great prizes from Aveda, Lush, St. Mark’s Bookshop, Harper Collins Publishers, and Lifethyme Natural Market!
This event is co-sponsored by career development offices of The New School, Lang, Jazz, Mannes, Milano, New School for Social Research, and Parsons. Please contact parsonscareers@newschool.edu or 212.229.8940 for more information. This event is free and open to all New School students and alumni with ID. No reservations are required.
THE NEW SCHOOL FREE PRESS PRESENTS:
“IN THE BATTLEFIELD: REPORTING ON THE WAR IN IRAQ”
On Tuesday, February 24, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., in the Theresa Lang Student Center at 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor, New School Free Press in its continuing series of speaker events presents “In the Battlefield: Reporting on the War in Iraq.”
In a discussion moderated by Kate Hanselman, junior at Lang College; Michael Massing, writer and critic for New York Review of Books; Peter Maass, writer and contributing reporter to the New York Times Magazine; Matt O'Neill, filmmaker of Baghdad ER; and Chris Hondros, photographer with work appearing in the New York Times and the Washington Post will talk about their experiences in reporting, photographing, and filming the Iraq War. The talk will be followed by a Q & A with the audience.
Admission is free to The New School Community with ID, and $10 for the general public.
Tickets can be purchase at The New School Box Office at 66 West 12th Street, main floor, Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m., or at the door. For any inquiries please call 212-229-5100 x 2212.
PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT VOLUNTERS NEEDED
Psychological testing volunteers are needed for an ongoing experiment in visual perception being conducted in the visual perception lab at the New School for Social Research Psychology Department. In just 5 minutes volunteers can earn $2.00 or credit for those who are required to participate in psychology research for their degree.
If you would like to participate, go to 80 Fifth Avenue, room 720, on Tuesdays 12:00-5:00 p.m., Wednesdays. 12:00-3:00 p.m., and Thursdays 12:00-5:00 p.m. For more information email Clarissa at slesc399@newschool.edu; or call 212.229.5727 x3176.
Walk-ins are welcome.
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.
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO SAVE TIME AND MONEY ON ENTERTAINMENT?
As a member of The New School, you have access to exclusive entertainment benefits through Plum Benefits! From theater and dance to sports and comedy, you can use this benefit to save time and money when ordering tickets for great seats to the hottest events in town! Log on 24/7 to enjoy:
Exclusive offers for premiere entertainment
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