THE NEW SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMS: POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Spring Update

Senator Russ Feinstein speaks at The New School in February 2012 (photo: Jonathan Grassi)

NEW YORK, March 27, 2012 - From local policy to global revolutionary movements, The New School's spring 2012 public program in politics and current affairs offers a wide range of events with leaders from government, academics, journalism and international affairs. Public programming on the pressing issues of the day is a cornerstone of The New School's historic commitment to making accessible the best of pertinent, cutting edge academic thought and discussion.

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Highlights include an examination of The Anatomy of Campaign Finance (May 1) hosted by the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. The event brings together Yale's Jacob Hacker, political journalist Joseph Hagan, and New School professor and former State Senator Jeffrey Smith to discuss the impact of the Citizens United ruling on the current campaigns.

Long an area of expertise for The New School, South American politics and history is the focus of several spring lectures. Internal Enemies and Dirty Wars in the Global 1970s (Apr. 5) welcomes scholars from Europe, South America and the United States to explore the long legacy of human rights abuses committed during the "dirty wars." In addition, Harvard's Jorge I. Domínguez will discuss Cuba: Today and Tomorrow (Apr. 18) and Stanford historian Tamar Herzog will lecture on Colonial Law and "Native Customs": Indigenous Land Rights in Colonial Spanish America (Apr. 19).

The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School for Social Research will host two events: Egypt in Transition (Apr. 12), part of the Center's ongoing Transitions series, brings an international group of activists, journalists, and scholars to New York for a day-long discussion of revolutionary Egypt. Politics and Comedy (Apr. 28) marks the launch of an issue of the journal Social Research on the topic, and features Tim Carvell, head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

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