The Anatomy of Campaign Finance: Money's powerful influence on US politics and policy
Date: May 1, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The power of campaign donations to shape political decisions is front and center in the 2012 presidential election. Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations, mega-donors and unions to invest vast resources in candidates' campaigns, has been called an undemocratic giveaway to social and economic elites. Does their growing electoral power undermine the public interest, or simply increase the public visibility of candidates' messages and influence? What are the long-ter...
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Writing for Children Forum: Selene Castrovilla
Date: May 1, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Selene Castrovilla, is called “an author to watch” by School Library Journal, is an award-winning teen and children’s author. Her teen novels are Saved by the Music, The Girl Next Door and Melt. Her children’s books—both about little-known events in the American Revolution—are By the Sword and Upon Secrecy. Selene is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at The New School. Moderated by Deborah Brodie who after 22 years at Viking and six as co-founder of Roaring Brook Press is now a f...
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Milano Brown Bag - Mind, Money, and Management: What have I learned from Immanuel Kant on Critical Thinking, Purposiveness, and Design
Date: May 2, 2012 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Join us while we discuss Immanuel Kant's approach to critical thinking, purposiveness, and design led by Professor Antonin Wagner...
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No Way to Pay: What’s next for homeless families in NYC?
Date: May 3, 2012 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The Center for New York City Affairs presents: No Way to Pay: What’s next for homeless families in NYC? New York’s homeless population is near an all time high, with more than 40,000 New Yorkers living in shelters - including 16,500 children and their parents. Amid the continuing fiscal crunch, New York City and State recently ended a unique rent subsidy program that helped thousands move out of shelters and into apartments, and new federal rent subsidies are nowhere to be found. The search is on for new housing alternatives. What is next for families in the shelters... and those on their way there?...
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Career Counseling at 66 West 12th Street(14)
Date: May 3, 2012 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Now Available: Walk-in career counseling!...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Reviewing Translations
Date: May 3, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Margaret Atwood
Date: May 3, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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Guns and Butter: What Paramilitarism Can Tell About Why the Bloody Colombian Armed Conflict Has Gone on For So Long
Date: May 3, 2012 6:00 p.m.
This lecture is delivered by María Teresa Ronderos, the editorial advisor of Semana magazine, editor in chief of VerdadAbierta and columnist for El Espectador. She is an award-winning investigative journalist for her reporting on illegal campaign financing, victims of armed conflicts and paramilitary land theft. Sponsored by the Observatory on Latin America, Graduate Program in International Affairs...
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Just Over Our Shoulder: Writing About The Recent Past
Date: May 3, 2012 6:00 p.m.
How does writing about the recent past differ from history as it is normally understood? Join us for a panel discussion celebrating a new collection of essays, Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back, which explores the challenges and pleasures of writing contemporary American history. Three contributors to the volume will speak about what is emerging as a new field of history, with its own practices...
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Who Builds Your Architecture?
Date: May 3, 2012 6:30 p.m.
“It demonstrates what can happen when talented architects are allowed to practice their craft uninhibited by creative restrictions (or, to be fair, by the high labor costs of most developed societies).” -- Nicolai Ouroussoff,on Steven Holl Architects’ Vanke Center in Shenzhen, China(The New York Times, June 27, 2011)Who Builds Your Architecture? emerges in part from two recent petitions:Who’s Building the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi? and Who’s Building the Global U?
Both initiatives have been organi...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Understanding Egypt
Date: May 3, 2012 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Jennifer Egan
Date: May 4, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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The Cosmopolitan Canopy and Trayvon Martin: Racial Faultlines in American Society
Date: May 4, 2012 6:30 p.m.
Professor Elijah Anderson, the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University, will deliver a lecture on his recent ethnographic work, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. The racial incorporation process that began with the civil rights movement of the 1960s affected American institutions and the urban environment. Although cities remain segregated by race, African-Americans and other people of color are increasingly present in settings once viewed as ...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Best European Fiction
Date: May 5, 2012 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Writings from the Domestic Workers United
Date: May 5, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Brian Selznick
Date: May 5, 2012 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Steve Bell
Date: May 5, 2012 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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PEN World Voices Festival: Tony Kushner
Date: May 5, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Writers from around the world convene in New York City to celebrate the written word in action. Engage with literature in bold and unexpected ways and discover how words can be amplified through music, theater, puppetry, film, and much more. Marking PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, this year’s festival features performances, discussions, one-on-one conversations, and readings. For the complete schedule of the PEN World Voices Festival, which runs from April 30 to May 6, visit www.pen.org...
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Career Counseling at 66 West 12th Street(15)
Date: May 7, 2012 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Now Available: Walk-in career counseling!...
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Art and Event Series: David Harper
Date: May 8, 2012 6:00 p.m.
The New School student organization Bricollab presents David Harper, curator at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Harper rejects the suggestion that curation exclusively generates or enforces art world standards. Instead, his curatorial method involves discussing, developing, executing, and pitching his concepts in conjunction with the artists being exhibited. His most recent exhibition, BCC#7, held on March 9, was a live collaboration at STADIUM Gallery between six New York and six European artist...
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Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival 2012: Director in Residence Screening: Man Push Cart and Plastic Bag
Date: May 8, 2012 7:00 p.m.
The Dorothy H. Hirshon 2012 Film Festival's Director in Residence Screening will feature two films by Director in Residence Ramin Bahrani. Bahrani was born in 1975 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Iranian parents. He has directed three feature films: Man Push Cart (2005), Chop Shop (2007), and Goodbye Solo (2008). Man Push Cart had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and was also shown at Sundance. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best First Film. Chop Shop...
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First Features 4, Spring 2012
Date: May 8, 2012 7:00 p.m.
First Features is collaborating with the 2012 Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival in this screening of Ramin Bahrani's first film Man Push Cart (2005) and short film Plastic Bag (2009). Man Push Cart (2005, 87 mins.)This charming film is the story of Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock singer, who ekes out a living selling coffee and donuts to morning commuters from his push cart in Midtown Manhattan, because he wants to provide a better life for his estranged young son. The routine of his hard life is ...
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A Tribute to Joe Brainard
Date: May 8, 2012 8:00 p.m.
A celebration of the publication of Library of America’s The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. With Paul Auster, Frank Bidart, Jonathan Galassi, Ann Lauterbach, David Lehman, Geoffrey O’Brien, Harry Mathews, and Ron Padgett.Hosted by Robert Polito, director, the School of Writing...
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Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival 2012: Original Script Reading
Date: May 9, 2012 7:00 p.m.
The 3rd Annual Original Script Reading event celebrates the creative work of students who are completing The New School's Screenwriting Certificate program. With actors reading on-stage and video dramatizations, the audience experiences compelling stories brought to dramatic life as the Script Reading publicly showcases our student writers' talents. This event is part of the 2012 Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival. ...
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12th Street Issue # 5 Launch and Reading
Date: May 9, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Politics and Letters come together for an evening of readings by Elissa Schappell, Téa Obreht and student contributors to 12th Street Issue 5, The New School’s undergraduate literary journal, published by the School of Writing at The New School. Téa Obreht is a 2011 National Book Award finalist and winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, The Tiger’s Wife. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stor...
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Career Counseling at 66 West 12th Street(16)
Date: May 10, 2012 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Now Available: Walk-in career counseling!...
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Jewish Cultural Studies Faculty Seminar in Honor of Justus Rosenberg
Date: May 10, 2012 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Please join us for a reception to celebrate Professor Justus Rosenberg and the three-year Jewish Cultural Studies program at the New School for Public Engagement. Professor Rosenberg, a literary scholar who served in the French Resistance, has been teaching at The New School for 51 years. At the event, Professor Rosenberg and New School for Social Research graduate student Scott Ritner will present their current oral history project “Justus Rosenberg: A Life in Translation.” The event is free...
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Summer Open House Night
Date: May 10, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Learn about continuing education options at The New School, including courses, certificate programs, pre-college programs, and undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered by The New School for Public Engagement, Parsons The New School for Design, Mannes College The New School for Music, and The New School for Social Research. ...
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Publication Gala for Judith Malina's new book, The Piscator Notebook
Date: May 10, 2012 7:00 p.m.
The New School celebrates the publication by Routledge Press of theatrical pioneer Judith Malina’s The Piscator Notebook, in which Malina chronicles her experiences as a drama student at The New School, explores the origins of modern political theater, and uncovers the roots of The Living Theatre. The book is also a tribute to Erwin Piscator, who directed the Dramatic Workshop at The New School. Tishman Auditorium was the site of many of the productions described in Malina’s book.The evening’s e...
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Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival 2012: 33rd Annual New School Invitational Film Show
Date: May 11, 2012 7:00 p.m.
The 33rd annual invitational film show, the culmination of the Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival, is a gala screening of outstanding films made by New School students in the past year. The films are previewed and judged by a panel of industry professionals at open screenings in November and February. An awards ceremony and reception with the filmmakers and judges will follow the gala screening. The Hirshon Film Festival was established in 2001 by a bequest from Dorothy Hirshon, a trustee of The ...
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SOLD OUT - Manuel Castells Lecture: The Global Financial Crisis from 2008-2012 and Alternative Economic Cultures
Date: May 17, 2012 7:00 p.m.
This event has reached capacity. No more reservations are being taken. We apologize for any inconvenience.Manuel Castells, university professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles will speak on "The financial crisis from 2008-2012 and the response from the grassroots: alternative economic cultures and social movements." Professor Castells will provide an analysis of the economic crisis, and then explo...
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Flying Paper: Documentary Film Sneak Preview Party
Date: May 21, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Come join us for a special sneak preview screening of the forthcoming documentary, Flying Paper. The film tells the uplifting story of Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites flown at once. The film seeks to humanize the conflict in Gaza through the creative voices and cinematic rendering of the fascinating culture of kite making and flying among youth in Gaza. The film (currently in production) is directed by Nitin Sawhney, New Scho...
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The 6th Annual Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival 2012 (Day 1)
Date: May 22, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by this year's students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel lead a Q&A with the artists following the screenings each night. These films are the product of a year of work in documentary production, history, and theory.A public reception with the students and faculty follows the opening evening screening. For more information please vis...
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The 6th Annual Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival 2012 (Day 2)
Date: May 23, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by this year’s students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel lead a Q&A with the artists following the screenings each night. These films are the product of a year of work in documentary production, history, and theory. For more information about the Documentary Media Studies certificate, visit www.newschool.edu/docstudies. ...
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The 6th Annual Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival 2012 (Day 3)
Date: May 24, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Over three evenings, short documentaries made by this year’s students in the Documentary Media Studies graduate certificate program are screened for the public. Media Studies faculty members Deirdre Boyle and Deanna Kamiel lead a Q&A with the artists following the screenings each night. These films are the product of a year of work in documentary production, history, and theory. For more information about the Documentary Media Studies certificate visit www.newschool.edu/docstudies. ...
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World Science Festival: Infinite Inspiration
Date: May 31, 2012 - June 2, 2012 8:00 p.m.
The World Science Festival returns to NYC & The New School, May 31–June 2...
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