THE NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS: POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRSWinter-Spring 2012 |
NEW YORK, January 27, 2011 - The New School, the nation's leading progressive university, announces spring semester public programs on politics and current affairs. Public programming is an honored tradition at The New School, which has for nearly a century brought cutting-edge academic discourse out of the classroom by providing a public platform for influential thinkers, writers, and activists. EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS Two events examine Occupy Wall Street's influence on politics and culture. The Winter of Our Discontent: Stepping Back, Taking Stock, and Gazing Forward in the Wake of Occupy Wall Street (Feb. 11), is a public conversation with activists, organizers, and observers about the current state of the Left in America - and where it should be headed after Occupy Wall Street. Speakers include James Miller, Professor of Politics and Chair of Liberal Studies at The New School; Lawrence Weschler, Director of The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU; and others. Occupy the Page: The Importance of Print in Creating Change (Mar. 5), hosted by The New School's award-winning 12th Street Journal, welcomes editors related to the movement, including Arun Gupta of the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com. The New School for Social Research's Center for Public Scholarship (CPS) brings to campus Senator Russ Feingold (Feb. 22) on the occasion of the release of his upcoming book While America Sleeps. CPS will also convene an international group of activists, writers and intellectuals to map the revolutionary landscape of Egypt in Transition (Apr. 12 and 13). In honor of the launch of the spring 2012 edition of the journal Social Research, CPS hosts Daily Show head writer Tim Carvell and others for a discussion on comedy and politics (Apr. 28). Food Studies at The New School presents two panels on the intersections of food, culture and politics. Food History - Why Should We Care? (Mar. 21) brings together some of the discipline's leading theorists, including Fabio Parasecoli, Coordinator of Food Studies at The New School. Jewish Cuisines: The Local and the Global (Apr. 24) with June Feiss Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival and others, focuses on how Jewish foodways have found new homes and new traditions across the ages and around the world. EDITOR'S NOTE: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS |
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