THE NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS: POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
SPRING 2007

NEW YORK, January 6, 2007—The New School, including Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy, the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, and the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program present a range of programs addressing topical issues of New York City, national and international affairs.

Among the highlights are discussions with some of today’s leading social, political and philanthropic figures. John Brademas, president emeritus of New York University and former U.S. Congressman (Feb. 6), will discuss the role of ethics in politics with New School President Bob Kerrey; Newark Mayor Cory Booker (Feb. 12) will present a lecture on the role of local government as the foundation of democracy; George Soros (Feb. 26) will participate in a panel discussion on philanthropy with Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher, moderated by Milano Dean Fred P. Hochberg; former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman (Feb. 27) will participate on a panel campaign finance reform; and Ken Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, will address the 2007 edition of the Human Rights Watch World Report (Mar. 8). The New School will also present the premiere of the documentary film Race to Execution (Feb. 1), followed by a panel discussion on the fairness and accuracy of the administration of the death penalty.

As part of its newly launched Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program in conjunction with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts presents the four-part series, The Constitution in Crisis, which aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document by bringing to the school leading scholars of law, history, and literature and human rights activists. Featured speakers include Cass Sunstein, the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago (Feb. 7); Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University (Feb. 28); Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University (Mar. 15); and Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (Apr. 12).

As part of its Urban Conversations series, Milano presents a daylong conference that will address the decline of the urban middle class in the United States (Apr. 17), featuring moderators Brian Lehrer with WNYC New York Public Radio and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, as well as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.

The Wolfson Center presents a conversations series on topical public policy issues, featuring Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution and Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How the People Can Correct It), in conversation with New School President Bob Kerrey (Mar. 14); Bob Abernathy, host of PBS’ Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, in conversation with writer Chris Hedges (American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America), Blu Greenberg, the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; and Irving Greenberg, president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation (Apr. 5); and Harry Hirsch, editor of The Future of Gay Rights in America, in conversation with Lisa Duggan, editor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (May 10).

EDITOR’S NOTE: A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS IS ATTACHED. All public programs are subject to change.

HUMANITY AND TORTURE: TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
Wednesday, January 24, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St, 2nd Fl.
Admission: $8.
Webcast: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents a panel discussion focused on a new documentary film, Taxi to the Dark Side, about U.S. policy and practice with respect to torture. This probing and balanced documentary by Alex Gibney, a leading documentary filmmaker, considers the implications of torture policies nationally and worldwide. Panelists will include key people involved in the project who will discuss the intellectual, political, emotional, and economic considerations, commitments, and challenges they faced. The evening includes a sneak preview of a portion of the film.

FILM PREMIERE: RACE TO EXECUTION
Thursday, February 1, 6:00 p.m. reception; 7:00 p.m. screening
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.
Admission: Free.
The New School Department of Media Studies and Film presents the premiere of the documentary film Race to Execution, by Queens College Professor Rachel Lyon. Race to Execution is a provocative and haunting portrait of two Death Row inmates—Robert Tarver of Russell County, Alabama, and Madison Hobley of Chicago—exposing how race infects America’s death penalty system. This hour-long film will be broadcast on PBS’s Emmy award-winning Independent Lens in March 2007. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion moderated by New School Professor Michelle Materre with panelists Rachel Lyon; Jim Lopes, co-producer; Bryan Stevenson, executive director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama; and Christina Swarns, director, Criminal Justice Project, NAACP/LDF. Participants will discuss key issues raised in the film, such as fairness and accuracy in the administration of the death penalty today. Presented in conjunction with the National Black Programming Consortium, the Independent Television Service, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: Legal Defense and Education Fund, McCarter & English, LLP, and producers Lioness Media Arts, Inc.

ROBERT HEILBRONER MEMORIAL LECTURE:
THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE
Thursday, February 1, 7:00pm
The New School, Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor
Admission: Free
The Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at The New School presents the second annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on “The Neoliberal Agenda for the Future of Science,” featuring Philip Mirowski, Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Mirowski's areas of specialization are in the history and philosophy of economics, with subsidiary areas in evolutionary computational economics, the economics of science, science studies and the history of the natural sciences. His most recent books are Machine Dreams (Cambridge, 2001) and the edited volumes The Collected Economic Works of William Thomas Thornton (5.vols., Pickering & Chatto, 1999) and (with Esther-Mirjam Sent) Science Bought and Sold (Chicago, 2001).  His forthcoming book, The Effortless Economy of Science? Will be published by Durham: Duke University Press

INAUGURAL PAUL H. DOUGLAS LECTURE: JOHN BRADEMAS
Tuesday, February 6, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St, 2nd Fl.
Admission: Free
The New School for Social Research presents John Brademas, president emeritus of New York University and former U.S. Congressman, who will delivers the inaugural Paul H. Douglas lecture on the role of ethics in government, an especially timely topic, given the focus of both the new Spitzer administration in New York and the new Democratic majority in the U.S. Congress. An Indiana Congressman from 1959-81 and president of NYU from 1981-1992, he founded the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at NYU to broaden both academic and public understanding of our nation's most powerful policy-making institution. New School President Bob Kerrey will join Brademus for a lively debate and discussion. The event is presented with generous support from the Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation.

THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS: CASS SUNSTEIN
Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: Free.
This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, visiting professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country’s leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America’s outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. Cass Sunstein, the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, will speak on executive power and the U.S. Constitution. The series continues February 28, March 15, and April 12.

CHINA DIALOGUES
Thursday, February 8, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor (enter at 66 West 12th Street).
Admission: Free. RSVP to [email protected].
Parsons The New School for Design, in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art, presents a panel discussion on the emerging East-West architectural discourse and rapid urbanization of China, featuring Chinese architect Yung Ho Chang, Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture, MIT; Tina Di Carlo, assistant curator (MoMA); Ole Scheeren, architect and designer (OMA), and Jianying Zha, author. This event is being held in conjunction with the MoMA exhibition “OMA in Beijing.”

THE BARBARA JORDAN LECTURE SERIES:
MAYOR CORY BOOKER: THE STATE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Monday, February 12, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.
Admission: $5.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School in association with Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy presents this year’s Barbara Jordan Lecture by the Honorable Cory Booker, the 36th mayor of Newark, New Jersey, who will discuss the vital role of local government as the foundation of a living, and not just theoretical, democracy and the possibilities and limitations of local government in supporting important social reforms. Mr. Booker, a graduate of Stanford University and a Rhodes Scholar, was a staff attorney for the Urban Justice Center in New York and a program coordinator for the Newark Youth Project before he won a seat on the Newark City Council. He was elected mayor in 2006. This event is supported by the Barbara Jordan Lecture Fund, endowed by the late Vera List, a long-time benefactor and trustee of The New School, in honor of the late African-American congresswoman from Texas. The lecture series is devoted to the state of democracy, reflecting Representative Jordan’s legacy as one that turns a critical eye on the U.S. political experience, with the lectures as a scorecard on how we are faring as a country.

THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT: HAS HUMAN CIVILIZATION GONE TOO FAR?
Tuesday, February 13, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Admission: $5.
Webcasts: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The third in a four-part series organized by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs and the New York Salon, this panel discussion addresses the role of rational inquiry and science in the debate about the environment. How is it that we have come to perceive ourselves as the biggest threat to our existence rather than as the solution provider and innovator? Panelists to be announced. Series concludes on March 20.

VISUALIZING IRAQI POLITICS AND CULTURES IN IRAQ AND THE DIASPORA
Friday, February 16, 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th St., 5th Fl. (enter at 66 West 12th St.)
Admission: Free for the Center for Book Arts members and New School students and faculty; $10 for general public; $5 for students and faculty.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Baghdad emerged as a vital cultural center in the Arab world. After the devastation of the Hussein regime, and the developing civil war now, how do Iraqi artists today cope with the daily physical challenges most of us can barely imagine? The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School and The Center for Book Arts in conjunction with their exhibition Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art presents a panel discussion moderated by exhibition curator, Nada Shabout a leading authority on Iraqi contemporary art and a consultant to the U.S. Department of State Cultural Antiquities Task Force, explore the proliferation of the book as an art form pursued by contemporary Iraqi artists; the relationship between Islamic manuscripts and contemporary book art, notions of identity and resistance to the erasure of identity, and the experience of exile.

ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING GOES NICHE
Tuesday, February 20, 7:00 p.m.
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Admission: Free, reservations required at [email protected].
The Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School and the Producer’s Guild of America present a discussion on the next generation of social networking sites that will incorporate nothing but multimedia and exploit niche markets within online communities. Speakers to be announced.

THE FOURTH ANNUAL NYC GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE
Saturday, February 24, 9:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The New School, Swayduck Auditorium, 65 Fifth Avenue.
Admission: Pre-registration $20, day of event registration $25, ages 21 & under $5. Group rates available; see www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org for more information.
The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the Department of Media Studies and Film present this gathering of community-based and -oriented media institutions. The conference promotes unity and exchange of ideas among independent media organizations in New York City and the region, raises public awareness of the independent media, and forges stronger bonds between local community activists and the grassroots media. For the complete program, visit www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org.

BIG IDEAS, BIG GIFTS, BIG IMPACT:
A CONVERSATION WITH TODAY’S PHILANTHROPISTS
Monday, February 26, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, ground floor. 
Admission: Free and open to public. RSVP required to [email protected].
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy presents a conversation with leading philanthropists George Soros and Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher, moderated by Milano Dean Fred P. Hochberg, with opening remarks by New School President Bob Kerrey. Global financier and philanthropist George Soros is the founder and chairman of a network of foundations that promote, among other things, the creation of open, democratic societies based upon the rule of law, market economies, transparent and accountable governance, freedom of the press, and respect for human rights. Alphonse Fletcher, Jr., known as Buddy, is Chairman and chief executive officer of Fletcher Asset Management, Inc., which he founded in March of 1991.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM:
HOW TO RETURN OUR DEMOCRACY TO THE PEOPLE
Tuesday, February 27, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Orozco Room, 66 West 12th Street, 7th floor.
Admission: $6.
Today, the need for campaign money affects who runs for public office and who wins our elections. Furthermore, once elected, our leaders must spend more and more time raising campaign funds, which means less time doing the public’s business. Americans for Campaign Reform, whose honorary chairs are former Senators Bill Bradley, Bob Kerrey, Warren Rudman, and Alan Simpson, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School will host a panel discussion featuring former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire Warren Rudman who will delve into the impact of money on our political system and weigh different approaches to the problem, including ethics reform, regulation of lobbying activity, and public funding of elections.

THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS: ERIC FONER
Wednesday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: Free.
This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, visiting professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country’s leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America’s outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. The second lecture will be delivered by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, speaking on the history of freedom under the U.S. Constitution. The series continues on March 15 and April 12.

HUMAN RIGHTS
Thursday, March 8, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: $8.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents Ken Roth, director of Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.-based international human rights organization, who will speak on the pressing human rights issues detailed in the 2007 edition of the Human Rights Watch World Report (published by Seven Stories Press), which includes policies on refugees, children’s rights, AIDS, gay and lesbian rights, terrorism and counterterrorism, and concerns that extend beyond government policies to those of multinational corporations.

CONVERSATIONS: WHAT KIND OF DEMOCRACY DO WE HAVE?
Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: $15 for the series, $5 per panel.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs presents the first in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today. At this discussion Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic Constitution and Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How the People Can Correct It), talks with New School president Bob Kerrey, about what kind of democracy we have. Is it too rights oriented and insufficiently concerned with issues of citizenship and our civic culture? Or just the reverse? The series will continue on March 27, April 5, and May 10.

THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS: ELAINE SCARRY
Thursday, March 15, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th St., 5th Fl. (enter at 66 West 12th St.).
Admission: Free.
This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, visiting professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country’s leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America’s outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. The third lecture will be delivered by Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, who will speak on the U.S. Constitution in relation to war and the social contract. The series concludes on April 12.

LIVING IN A STATE OF FEAR
Tuesday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: $5.
Webcast: www.newschool.edu/webcasts
The last in a four-part series organized by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs and the New York Salon, this panel discussion addresses all of today’s doomsday scenarios, from oil depletion and global warming to the danger of bad parenting, all of which emphasize human culpability and vulnerability. These days, human ingenuity is regarded with apprehension and even fear. What are the consequences for the future of civilization? How we view humanity matters but is the future human? Speakers to be announced.

THORSTEIN VEBLEN AT 150
Friday & Saturday, March 23–24, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Admission: $5 per day.
Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) is among the most original thinkers in American social thought. His books and essays offer penetrating insights into vital aspects of our changing world; corporate power, the limits of democracy, the conservative cast of culture, problems or war and peace, and the many ways in which technology both reflects and transforms society. The sixth meeting of the International Thorstein Veblen Association will honor the 150th anniversary of Veblen’s birth. Featuring papers by scholars from a number of countries, conference panels will examine these and other aspects of Veblen’s contribution to a deeper understanding of our time. Special sessions will be devoted to a consideration of the implications of Veblen’s thought for understanding the United States’ international position in the 21st century and to the work of the late Arthur Vidlich, founder of the Veblen Association and for many years professor of sociology at The New School for Social Research.

CONVERSATIONS: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT VS. THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: $5.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents the second in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today. At this discussion Alan Wolfe, author of Does American Democracy Still Work? talks with Eric Alterman, political journalist and author of When Presidents Lie: The History of Official Deception and Its Consequence. They look at the issues of the practices of democratic government inhibiting the policies of a democratic state, and whether we are extending democracy without due regard for its intrinsic qualities. The series will continue on April 5 and May 10.

CONVERSATIONS: RELIGION AND POLITICS
Thursday, April 5, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: $5.
The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents the third in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today. Bob Abernathy, host of PBS’ Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly, brings his interviewing skills to the stage to ask about the great spiritual questions of our day. In conversation with writer Chris Hedges (American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America), Blu Greenberg, an award-winning writer, psychologist and co-founder and the first president of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance; and Irving Greenberg, president of Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, he asks how religion plays into the political and personal landscapes. The series concludes on May 10.

PODCAMP NYC AT THE NEW SCHOOL
Saturday, April 7, 9:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.
Admission: Free.
The Department of Media Studies and Film presents Podcamp NYC at The New School. This free one-day “unconference” is dedicated to the sharing of information around new and social media including audio and video podcasting, and blogging. Attendees and participants include podcasters and viewers/listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes. The first Podcamp was held in Boston on Sept 9–10, 2006, and was organized by podcasters and technology writers Chris Brogan, Christopher S. Penn, Bryan Person, Steve Garfield, Adam Weiss, and Susan (Sooz) Kaup, with help from dozens of others. The main goals of Podcamp are to share information, network, and foster community around the many issues of portable media production. Participants can register online and propose session topics at http://podcampnyc.pbwiki.com/.

THE CONSTITUTION IN CRISIS: BRYAN STEVENSON
Thursday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th St., 2nd Fl.
Admission: Free.
This four-part lecture series curated by Sam Haselby, visiting professor, and co-sponsored by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Program, the New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts aims to deepen public understanding and raise critical awareness of this charter document of the United States by bringing three of the country’s leading scholars of law, history, and literature and one of America’s outstanding human rights activists to address the topic of the Constitution in Crisis. The final lecture will be delivered by Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, professor of clinical law at New York University, a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, speaking on political rights under the U.S. Constitution.

URBAN CONVERSATIONS: THE EROSION OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
Tuesday, April 17, 8:30 a.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street. 
Admission: Free and open to public. RSVP required to [email protected].
As part of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy’s Urban Conversations series, Milano and the Center for New York City Affairs present a conference that will address the decline of the urban middle class in the United States. Moderated by Brian Lehrer, WNYC New York Public Radio, and George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, speakers including New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, will discuss ways in which mayors, governors, and other policymakers are striving to keep cities affordable and livable for working- and middle-class families and their efforts to boost working people’s ability to earn decent incomes and gain a foothold in the middle class.

STORIES FROM THE FIELD:
THE THIRD ANNUAL U.N. DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, April 21, 10:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m., and Sunday, April 22, 10:30 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street.
Admission: Full day: $20 public; $15 United Nations, MCA-I members, and New School faculty; $10 students; half day: $15 public; $12 United Nations, MCA-I members, and New School faculty; $8 students.
The Media Communications Association-International, New York Chapter, and the U.N. Department of Public Information in cooperation with The New School present two full days of screenings, panel discussions with the filmmakers, and award presentations. Filmmakers from or contracted by agencies, offices, funds, and programs of the United Nations and some from the general public were invited to participate based on the theme of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. (Visit www.un.org/millenniumgoals to learn more.) The final selections will be screened. For more information and a complete program, visit the festival website at www.mcainy.org/unfilm.

JOURNALISM AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY
Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 p.m.
The New School, 66 West 12th Street, room 510.
Admission: $5.
In the past several years, more than 100 journalists around the world have been killed doing their job, while 24 countries jailed 125 journalists last year alone. The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents Martin Fishgold, editor and former president of the International Labor Communications Association, who will talk with a group of respected journalists (to be announced) about how new legal threats to journalists are emerging daily and how the U.S. military has stonewalled investigations into the deaths and detentions of journalists in Iraq. Other than these dramatic instances, journalists here and abroad are threatened in subtle and not-so-subtle ways to hide the truth. What does it mean to be a journalist and how are journalists in this country fulfilling the roles of afflicting and comfortable and comforting the afflicted?

CONVERSATIONS: GAY RIGHTS IN AMERICA
Thursday, May 10, 7:00 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor.
Admission: $5.

The Wolfson Center for National Affairs presents the concluding segment in a four-part series of conversations with writers and thinkers who are extending the boundaries of discussion on some of the key public policy issues of today. Issues of toleration, fairness, marriage, civil unions, privacy, and politics are of concern to the gay community and to the larger American polity. Harry Hirsch, editor of The Future of Gay Rights in America, and Lisa Duggan, editor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, talk about the specifics and the implications of these and other issues.