The New School NewsBlog

As part of a university-wide emphasis on social innovation, The New School is partnering with Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. The university has joined the Ashoka Changemaker Campus Initiative, a three-year program to create new educational models to support and develop social entrepreneurship within universities. 

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The New School for General Studies is hosting "Birth and Rebirth of a Nation" to consider current issues of race and representation. D.W. Griffith’s notorious white supremacist manifesto is discussed to reconcile the racial imagination of the average American of today with that of the average American of less than a century ago, when The Birth of a Nation was the most popular film of the day.

The event will be held on Saturday, September 26 from 10:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. For more information, read the press release. 

Artist Eve Mosher will be the Fall 2009 Visiting Artist at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. Mosher will present a public lecture on Tuesday, September 22, at 6:O0 p.m. on Collaborative Urban Interaction as Artistic Practice. She will also teach a four-week workshop to Lang College students titled, "Signs of Growth: Urban Food.” Mosher is known for her large-scale public projects that focus on the complex interactions between human and natural environments. For more information, click here.