DOC STUDIES ALUMNI AT THE WEBBIES, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL,
AND ON NPR
Alumni from the Graduate Certificate in Documentary Media Studies continue to win awards and garner attention for projects created both in and out of the program.
Ted Fisher (‘07) was recently awarded his second Webby Award for The Frugal Traveler: Budget Europe, the New York Times online series he produces and edits.
Meghna Damani (‘07) was a recent guest on WBUR's Here and Now to discuss her film Hearts Suspended, produced in the Documentary Studies program and recent winner of the special jury award at the Jeevika Film Festival.
Carlos Barbot's (‘08) student film Rattus was recently acquired by OUAT Media in Toronto, Canada for worldwide distribution.
The winner of this year's Tribeca Film Festival's Best Documentary Feature Award was Marshall Curry's Racing Dreams. Tina Grapenthin (‘07) was an assistant editor on the project and Bill Gallagher (‘08) worked as post-production manager. Former Documentary Media Studies Professor Xan Parker served as supervising producer.
OFFICE OF RECREATION AND INTRAMURAL SPORTS A SUCCESS IN ITS FIRST SEMESTER
Since its launch in January 2009, the Office of Recreation and Intramural Sports has attracted over 300 students 
who have participated in at least one weekly program, either on- or off-campus. Past events have included: an indoor soccer tournament; recreation classes such as yoga, capoeira, and salsa; hiking near Bear Mountain and the Delaware Water Gap; snowboarding and skiing at Butternut Mountain; catching a Mets game at CitiField; bike riding through Central Park; and Friday nights at nearby Chelsea Piers for bowling, rock climbing, batting cages, and driving range.
“Relaxing with friends and colleagues has been a great way for some of us to have a community-building experience at a school without a centralized campus,” said NSSR student Eric Eingold. He believes that students can “easily get overwhelmed and tend to forget that part of being a healthy student is striking a balance between academics and less stressful activities.” He also added that “the recreation office has been great help with that.”
Michael McQuarrie, the office’s director, said that this semester was a good start and hopes to expand his office’s activities and offer a wider variety of programs in the future. If you would like to learn about upcoming events or suggest ideas for future programming, please email mcquarrm@newschool.edu or call 212-229-5900 ext. 3801.
THE NEW SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT TO BE HELD ON MAY 22
Dean of 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 Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. President Bob Kerrey will address the graduates and confer honorary degrees on Koh, philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah; playwright, performer, and activist Eve Ensler; legendary opera singer Regina Resnik; and statesman and philanthropist John C. Whitehead.
DESIGN AND SOCIAL FELLOWSHIP FUND WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The New School's Design and Social Science Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's Design and Social Fellowship Fund. The Fellowship fund, which is supported through the generosity of the Deans' offices of The New School for Social Research and Parsons, aims to stimulate innovative faculty initiatives that explore potential interactive relationships between the social sciences and design theory and practice. The fund is intended to support exploratory projects that both open new perspectives on interactions between these fields and explore innovative research methodologies within the parameters of both. This year, the call for proposals also specified that applications address themselves specifically to the theme of the Committee's planned 2009-10 Seminar, "Infrastructure: Complexity, Risk and Design."
The recipients for this year are:
- Routes & Homes: Prototyping Socio-Spatial Micro-Structures in Conditions of Migration and Multiple Belonging, by Jilly Traganou, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons; Lydia Matthews, associate dean of Parsons/ Professor, Parsons; and Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Urban Studies, Eugene Lang College
Routes & Homes is a research-based design project that aims to investigate the notion of inhabitation in relation to identity-formation and social networking, concerning immigrant populations whose lives are characterized by conditions of multiple belonging, part-time nationality and/or statelessness.
- Infrastructure as Civic Pedagogy, by Elizabeth Ellsworth, Department of Media Studies and Film, Eugene Lang College
Infrastructure as Civic Pedagogy is a practice-led research project that proposes to carry out in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Its goal is to inform directly the design, production, and dissemination of the next iteration of ExtremeMediaStudies.org as an exploratory pedagogical design.
- Nettime: The Silver Age of Social Media by McKenzie Wark, Culture & Media, Eugene Lang College; and Ted Byfield, School of Art, Media, and Technology, Parsons
Before there were blogs, tweets, Facebook, or YouTube, there was the listserv. Listservs afforded the formation of intentional communities via the Internet via email. This project focuses on the "nettime family of listservs"—nettime, spectre, fibreculture, rhizome, and faces—many of whom went on to become prominent practitioners of social network theory, art, design, policy formation, and above all in hybrid fields. It asks: To what extent did these listservs develop an emergent theory of their own form and practice? How does that theory stand up to scrutiny and development in light of subsequent developments? How can it inform or contextualize later, more ramified activities and tendencies?
The Committee would like to thank Michael Schober and Tim Marshall. Special recognition also goes to the members of the review committee—Jinsook Cho, James Dodd, Orit Halpern, and Susan Yelavich—who gave much time and energy to the selection process.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL LIBRARIES
GOOGLE SCHOLAR AVAILABLE IN MY NEW SCHOOL
You can now search Google Scholar via your My.NewSchool.edu account and link directly to the full text of journal articles available in New School Library databases.
Just log into your MyNewSchool account, click on the Library tab and select Google Scholar from the Electronic Resources box.
Full text electronic journal articles from New School Library databases will be indicated in Google Scholar by a link that reads “New School—Find Full Text.” If the journal is not available electronically at The New School Libraries, but is available in print at another consortium library, a link will appear which says “Check NS Library Catalog.”
Any questions or comments about this exciting new service are welcome—please contact us at Ask-A-Librarian. For more information about Google Scholar visit their website.
NEWS FROM MILANO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND URBAN POLICY
MILANO HOSTS FINAL SELECTION WEEKEND FOR ECHOING GREEN COMPETITION
Each spring Echoing Green, a global social venture fund that encourages rising social entrepreneurs to “be bold,” awards two-year fellowships to social entrepreneurs whose project innovations give rise to social change. The finalists gathered in New York at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy for the 2009 selection weekend on May 1-2.
The Echoing Green finalists each displayed a physical object around which a 90-second pitch was delivered. Ideas included a smart-phone application that creates ‘micro-volunteering’ (“The Extraordinaries”), the dissemination of development data to inform the electorate in India (“IndiaGoverns”), video and social networking tools that give visceral voice to advancing the legal interests of the global poor (“New Media Advocacy Project”), and a St. Louis corner store model that combines fresh food, exercise programs, and art projects to promote health in underserved neighborhoods (“The J.U.I.C.E. Project”).
Fellows receive up to $90,000 in seed funding and technical support to turn their innovative ideas into sustainable social change organizations. Winners will be announced in June.
Professor Mary Watson, chair of the Milano Management programs and one of the judges, noted that Milano and Echoing Green both support those who grow and lead organizations that create sustainable change. Milano Dean Lisa Servon, in her opening comments, showcased initiatives created in Milano-Parsons social entrepreneurship courses, including CleanUp, a landmine shaped soap that supports landmine removal.
Milano alumna Maritza Martinez (MS, nonprofit management, ‘05), now a senior associate at Echoing Green, organized the coordination effort for the two-day selection event. Milano faculty Dennis Derryck and Charles Allison, Community Development Finance Lab Director Blaise Rastello, Associate Dean John Green, and a dozen student volunteers met with finalists and supported the activities.
MILANO ALUM PUBLISHES BOOK ON COACHING
A new book by Milano alumna Sophie Oberstein (’95) will be available in June 2009. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching is the 10th title in the ASTD (American Society for Training & Development) 10 Steps series and is the first to be co-published with Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
The book is an entry-point for managers who want to initiate a formal coaching process with their employees, and for anyone who wants to infuse his or her daily interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill—development through coaching. Employees at all levels, with varying degrees of experience, can benefit from the activities and exercises included here.
Oberstein is also the author of Beyond Free Coffee & Donuts: Marketing Training and Development published by ASTD Press.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
AAS STUDENTS DEBUT THEIR WORK AT LORD & TAYLOR
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| Fern Mallis and Betsey Johnson |
On Thursday, May 14, the AAS Fashion Studies program presented standout looks by graduating students at the AAS Line Debut, the annual celebration of student collections. Held this year at the Lord & Taylor Rooftop Terrace in midtown, the show included 40 looks pre-selected by a jury of industry professionals.
At the event, fashion designer Betsey Johnson presented the first AAS Icon Award to Fern Mallis, vice president of IMG Fashion. The AAS Icon Award recognizes Mallis’s groundbreaking achievements in the fashion industry, including creating and organizing New York Fashion Week, her work with charities such as Fashion Targets Breast Cancer and 7th on Sale, and her support of emerging fashion designers. Parsons also presented the Stacey Nipps Alumni Award to AAS alumna Jen Kao, who received a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from New York University prior to her post-graduate work at Parsons, and launched her high-end womenswear line in 2007. For more information, please visit www.jenkao.com.
At the event, Sarah Creagh was awarded the CRYSTALLIZED Swarovski Elements Award, which includes a $2,500 prize. The award was the culmination of a semester-long project in the course Accessories Studio in which students submitted sketches and received crystals to complete their design. Nicole Neeb and Maria Santos were selected as runners up, and received $1,000 prizes. Bloomingdales will showcase the designs from this studio in the fall.
Each year, the Line Debut celebrates the collections of graduates from the AAS Fashion Studies program, an intensive course of study for motivated students who want to launch new careers, advance in their fields, or start their own businesses. For more information, please visit Parsons AAS website.
PARSONS STUDENT DESIGNS NEW WALLPAPER FOR JOHNSON CENTER
Parsons recently unveiled a new wallpaper in the critique area of the Shiela C. Johnson Design Center, occupying the corner space at 13th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center. Created by Integrated Design Curriculum student Michael DiPietro, the design was selected from a number of submissions for installation.
Titled Cartes de Viste, the design explores how text functions in the public arena through a description of 16 events that appear historically accurate, but are actually fictitious. The design was originally created as a set of index-card sized prints distributed anonymously in the city, as part of the fall 2007 course Media and Representation, taught by assistant professor Cynthia Lawson.
Three elevator banks in the Johnson Center are decorated with wallpaper that highlights work by Parsons students. To begin the process of selecting a new wallpaper for the corner critique space, a committee of faculty, staff, and students placed a school-wide call to Parsons students to submit coursework that they felt best represented the Parsons mission of critical thinking and social engagement. From a broad range of submissions, the committee chose three finalists to submit more detailed proposals, and DiPietro’s design was selected as the winner.
The wallpaper installation has been overseen by Parsons’ recently formed Exhibitions & Public Programs Committee. The committee intends to continue calls for submissions for future wallpapers in the Johnson Center.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR GENERAL STUDIES
IRP STUDENT MIREYA PEREZ WINS WRITING AWARD
An Institute for Retired Learning (IRP) student Mireya Perez received recognition for her writing, when she was awarded a writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont for this coming June. She will use the residency to work on a novel-in-progress, Home Leave, about a latina girl, Reyna, who grows up both in her native Colombia and in the United States.
Mireya became a student in New School's IRP program in 2008 upon her retirement from the College of New Rochelle.
TRUTH BE TOLD DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2009
On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 26-27, at 7:00 p.m., short films made by this year's students in The New School's graduate certificate program in Documentary Media Studies will be screened for the public.These films are the product of a year of intensive work in documentary production, history, and theory.
There will be an overall theme each night of the screenings. On May 26, the theme will be “Home Away From Home,” which will explore how foreigners make New York City their home. Students represented will include: India Bourke, Matt Reynolds, Hee Jin Shim, Zach Fox, and David Gutierrez Camps. A public reception with the filmmakers and faculty followstheTuesday screening and will be held in Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor.
On May 27, the theme will be “The Passion of Art and Politics,” which will explore stories that are both personal and political. Student represented include: Christina Hibbs, Hind Al-Awadi, Rodger Holst, Francisco Vargas, Veronica Medina, and Ivana Todorovic.
Media Studies faculty members Annie Howell, Deirdre Boyle, and Elizabeth Ellsworth willconduct Q&A sessions with the filmmakers following the screenings each night. All screenings are free and will take place in Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street.
The Documentary Media Studies certificate is awarded for successful completion of a one-year, full-time, graduate-level program of study, a unique opportunity to study documentary filmmaking in a small, intensive program in New York City, the world's documentary capital.
For more information on the program and its students, faculty and events, visit www.newschool.edu/doc.
NEWS FROM PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN AND
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
PARSONS AND JAZZ STUDENTS CREATE VISUAL MUSIC
On Friday, May 15, students from Jazz and Parsons presented a screening of eight original scored animations, the results of their semester-long collaboration Visual Music Studio.
In the course, co-taught by Parsons Professor Nora Krug and Jazz Professor Ernesto Klar, animators, illustrators, and musicians teamed up to create audio-visual pieces that seamlessly blend animation and music. The final pieces, which range in length from three to five minutes, explore the complex relationship between image and sound.
Over the course of the semester, the students worked together to formulate, produce, design, and edit their final pieces. Because the project focused on the interplay between the image and the music, students from both Jazz and Parsons were asked to move outside their respective roles in order to see the commonalities between different forms of artistic creation.
Now in its second year, Visual Music Studio is one of a number of courses at the university that allows students to work across divisions and learn how to adapt their skills for other industries.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
NSSR ANNOUNCES JOEL WHITEBOOK AS RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS AWARD
Dr. Joel Whitebook (’78) has been chosen to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award at The New School for Social Research’s 2009 graduation ceremony on May 22.
Joel Whitebook’s career has been marked by an attempt to integrate his dual training as a philosopher and as a psychoanalyst. He received his BA in philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, where he was a prominent member of the Student Movement. He pursued his graduate work in Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and earned his PhD in 1978, writing a dissertation on the economy and the polity in Aristotle and Hegel. In that year he also joined the editorial board of Telos, a journal that played a major role in introducing the Western Marxian tradition in the United States.
Dr. Whitebook received a second doctorate in Clinical Psychology from CUNY in 1984, entered private practice in 1986, and completed his psychoanalytic training at the New York Freudian Society in 1990. Since 2002, he has been an assistant clinical professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Dr. Whitebook’s area of research is psychoanalysis and critical theory. In this first book, Perversion and Utopia: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, he sought to continue the Frankfurt School’s attempt to integrate the latest findings in psychoanalysis with social theory. In his wide-ranging articles for psychoanalytic, cultural, and philosophical journals, he has used psychoanalysis to elucidate problems in contemporary philosophy and philosophy to elucidate current topics in psychoanalytic theory. His most recent book, Der gefesselte Odysseus: Studien zur Kritischen Theorie und Psychoanalyse, was published in February. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of Freud for Cambridge University Press.
SCEPA CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC RECOVERY
IS IT TIME FOR A MID-COURSE CORRECTION?
On Tuesday, May 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) will hold a half-day conference to discuss the economic recovery plan and the need for a mid-course correction in stimulus strategy and policy. The conference will cover active labor market policies and the next steps policy makers can take to lessen the impact of the recession when it comes to joblessness, the undue focus on GDP and bank health as a market for a healthy economy.
Speakers include William Black, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Alexander Field, Santa Clara University; Duncan Foley, The New School; Richard Freeman, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research; Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School; Leo Hindery, Jr., InterMedia Partners; Jeff Madrick, The New School; William Rodgers, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University; Peter Temin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Allen Sinai, Chief Global Economist, Strategist, and President of Decision Economics, Inc.
This free event will be held in 66 West 12th Street, room 510. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 212.229.5901 x4911, or emailing scepa@newschool.edu.
The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis is the economic policy research arm of The New School for Social Research’s Department of Economics. Each year the center hosts economic policy workshops, publishes topical policy notes, and sponsors newsworthy lectures by top economists and financial leaders. SCEPA’s work is supported in part by a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz.
NEWS FROM THE NEW SCHOOL FOR JAZZ AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
On Sunday, May 31, New School Jazz faculty member, drummer Andrew Cyrille will perform a 15-minute concert with bassist Harry Grimes in the Bang on a Can marathon at the World Financial Center, Winter Garden, West Street between Vesey & Liberty Streets.
The marathon will run noon-midnight and is free and open to the public, featuring many players all doing what they do in short sets of 15 minutes. Cyrille will perform within the 4:00-6:00 p.m. time slot
Andrew Cyrille attended the Juilliard and Hartnett Schools of Music and has worked with renowned jazz artists including Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, and Babatunde Olatunji. From the mid-sixties to the seventies, Cyrille collaborated with pianist Cecil Taylor and was a member of the choral theater group Voices Inc. He has organized percussion groups featuring, at various times, notable drummers such as Kenny Clarke, Milford Graves, Famoudou Don Moye, Rashied Ali, Daniel Ponce, and Michael Carvin. In addition, he has toured and performed throughout the globe and is currently a member of TRIO3, featuring Oliver Lake and fellow faculty member, Reggie Workman. Cyrille has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for composition, NEA grants for performance and composition, Meet the Composer/ AT&T- Rockefeller Foundation grants, and an Arts International award to perform with his quintet in Accra, Ghana and West Africa. This past winter, his career was highlighted on Jazz Profile on WKCR FM, followed by a 24-hour "Andrew Cyrille Birthday Broadcast."
For more information about the Bang on the Can Marathon, call 718-852-7755, 212-945-0505, or visit their website.
THE 6TH ANNUAL SPRING EXTRAVAGANZA
The 6th annual Spring Extravaganza, sponsored by the Student Activities Board, kicked off at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 7 with a crowd of students lining up for raffle tickets, massages, henna treatments, caricature drawings, tarot readings, and GIANT chess games with boards as large as area rugs and two-foot high pieces.
Students from each division took a break from writing term papers, finishing final projects, and studying for exams to share good food, have some fun, and socialize. With over 200 students attending the festivities, the Spring Extravaganza proved to be a great success.
After the Spring Extravaganza, the fun continued with over 150 students gathering in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at 10:00 p.m. for midnight breakfast. Staff members from the Office of Student Development and Activities served pancakes, turkey sausages, potatoes, yogurt, bacon, eggs, and much more. Students were very appreciative and pleased with the two events, and OSDA looks forward to facilitating many more.
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: 33 Variations, The 39 Steps, Altar Boyz, American Ballet Theatre, The American Plan, August: Osage County, Avenue Q, Ballet NY, Beast, Big Apple Circus, Blithe Spirit, Christopher Cross at B.B. King's, Distracted, Enter Laughing, Exit the King, The Fantasticks, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab, Fueerzabruta, Gypsy, Hedda Gabler, Impressionism, Irena's Vow, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, London Philharmonic at Lincoln Center; The Marvelous Wonderettes, Mourning Becomes Electra, New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, Next to Normal, Pal Joey, Patti Austin at Brooklyn Center; Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Phantom of the Opera, Reasons to be Pretty, Rock of Ages, Ruined, Shrek: The Musical; Speed the Plow, Spring Awakening and Uncle Vanya.
So don't miss this great opportunity to see great theater at great prices.
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