CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Humanities Apr 11, 2013, 6:30pm, room 9206Education outside of a traditional classroom is on the rise. Again. Spurred on by DIY culture, a tidal wave of student debt, and changes in technology, new non-traditional learning scenarios are emerging in many academic disciplines. Join a conversation with protagonists from Anhoek School, Brooklyn Brainery, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Machine Project, Mildred's Lane, New York Arts Practicum, NYC Resistor, Occupy University, School of Missing Studies (SMS), SOMA Summer, The Public School, and Trade School.Moving beyond questioning whether these alternative spaces can produce meaningful learning, this roundtable seeks to bring together artists, educators, and scholars to present case studies of their experiments in... >>
Happenings of Note
Graduate Center, CUNY -- Center for Humanities
Nov 26, 2012, 6:30pm | The Skylight Room (9100)
Ashley Dawson, Matthew K. Gold, Michael Mandiberg, Tavia Nyong'o
What are the radical possibilities of open access publishing? This panel will bring together a number of scholars who have published online to consider how university presses are either facilitating or impeding efforts by academics to explore new forms of cultural production and media activism unleashed by movements such as Occupy Wall Street. Join us to explore these questions and to develop new strategies and models for contemporary academic publication. >>
Zone Books is pleased to announce the publication of Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism, edited by Meg Mclagan and Yates Mckee.
Political acts are encoded in medial forms--feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, images on live stream, tweets--that have force, shaping people as subjects and constituting the contours of what is sensible, legible, visible. Thus, these events define the terms of political possibility and create terrain for political actions. >>
"Apophatic Sovereignty Before the Law at Guantanamo"
Allen Feldman
Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM
Location: 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103
SPONSORED BY THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT, NSSR >>
Of interest to Social Text readers
Sep 14, 2012 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
20 Cooper Square, New York, NY | NYU Journalism 7th Floor Commons
Yanni Kotsonis, Director, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
Eliot Borenstein, Professor, NYU Russian & Slavic Studies
Barbara Browning, Associate Professor, Performance Studies
Katharine Holt, Ph.D. candidate in Russian literature at Columbia University
Avital Ronell, University Professor; Professor of German, Comparative Literature, English
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation
Pussy Riot is at the center of domestic controversy in Russia, and their sentence has sparked outrage throughout the world. But what exactly is the significance of the Pussy Riot phenomenon? How does Pussy Riot engage with traditions of dissidence while at the same time frustrate traditional expectations about political protest? How can we understand Pussy Riot in the context of performance art? What does this Russian riot girl movement tell us about feminism and gender politics in post-socialist Russia?
This event is co-sponsored by The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU and the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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Tavia Nyong'o (New York University) and Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt Universität) will present a one-day symposium on the radical black presence in arts, music and literature in Berlin since the 1980.
Keynote Speaker:
Alex Weheliye (Northwestern University)
"White Brothers With No Soul?" The Racial Politics of Techno in Berlin
The event will also feature a free screening of the new documentary "Audre Lorde's Legacy in Berlin."
The event will be held Friday, July 27th, 2012, at Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Raum 1.501. It is free and open to the public.
Please visit http://radicalblackberlin.wordpress.com for more information.
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May 4, 2012, 5:00pm | The James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center
Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. On the occasion of the publication of Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death, join an international panel of distinguished critical theorists, first convened at the Graduate Center in 2006, to discuss the value of the concept of biopolitics in addressing issues of governance and economy from the latter decades of the twentieth century to current geopolitical conditions of life and death. >>
This Tuesday is May Day. It's going to be an amazing day around New York. From art and music in the streets, to a free university in Madison Square Park with lectures by David Harvey and others, to a "guitarmy" over 1000 strong with Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello leading the way, to a Brooklyn high school strike in Fort Greene park, to an unprecedented coalition of immigrant justice, unions, and occupy groups marching together, we have injustices to decry and our own power to celebrate. Click here for a list of events. >>
China is everywhere in the news for its astounding economic development and its equally astonishing human rights abuses. Beginning with this curiously inverse relationship between economic success and political rights and freedom, the relationship of China and the human begs to be explored. Bringing together editors and contributors to Social Text's newly published double issue on "China and the Human" this interdisciplinary symposium seeks to question the self-evident nature of both "China" and "human" by examining the long career of the human in Chinese culture and thought, reaching back to ancient traditions and exploring the radical transformations under Maoism and in the current socialist-capitalist era. Join us for a series of panel discussions and conversations. >>
Opening Reception, 3/14, 3-6pm - Panel discussion on the militarization of the campus police, 3/14, 4:30-5:30pm - Exhibition opens 3/12 through 3/23/2012 >>
Periscope
Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession
This special issue of Periscope on “Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession,” reconsiders our sense of what qualifies as work or idleness when there is little or no work to be had. The role idleness might play in our lives, and in our collective imaginaries, may strike some as unthinkable or even irresponsible when so much suffering and uncertainty has been triggered by high unemployment rates. Yet perhaps now more than ever we have arrived at a moment that necessitates a critical rethinking of the normative institutions of work—in the form of employment or occupation, amongst others—under capitalism, especially during this time when “Right to Work” legislation, notions of a “jobless recovery,” and austerity measures have been proposed and implemented as the means of resolving various crises, both social and economic, in the U.S. and other parts of the globe. >>
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