The New School for General Studies announces the launch of a new Jewish Cultural Studies program this fall, as part of its Adult Bachelor's and Continuing Education programs. This curriculum explores Jewish cultural life, with a focus on secularism in Jewish communities and the contributions of Jewish thinkers to secular intellectual traditions.
To celebrate this launch, The New School will present Jewish Cultural Pluralism, a panel discussion on Monday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. that will reflect on efforts to maintain autonomous cultural traditions within political states, and the ways in which Jewish thinkers have contemplated coexistence. Moderated by Oz Frankel, author of What’s in a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel and States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States; panelists include Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent and The Jewish Political Tradition, author of Pluralism and Democracy, On Toleration, and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality; and New School for Social Research professor Yirmiyahu Yovel, the editor of New Jewish Time: Jewish Culture in the Era of Secularization, and author of The Other Within: The Marranos, Split Identity and Emerging Modernity and Spinoza and Other Heretics.
The discussion will take place at the New School's Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue. Admission is free, but seating is limited and reservations are required by emailing publicprograms@newschool.edu.
To learn more about Jewish Cultural Studies at The New School visit: www.newschool.edu/jewishculture.
Now back in the United States, three members of the group decided to continue this work. Kate Cowley and Jen Hill, alumnae of the New School's graduate program in International Affairs, and the University of Washington's Emma Nierman are co-directors of the East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children (EAC), a non-profit organization aimed at increasing literacy for women and children, eradicating poverty, and providing health care.
Due to the recession, the group developed creative fundraising techniques to continue providing the Kenyan students with computers, including a monthly 'Speed Dating for the Socially Conscious' event at Bar Great Harry in Brooklyn, New York.
“Participants in Takaungu think it is hilarious that we are doing this sort of thing to raise money for the school and clinic!”, says Jen Hill, the EAC’s US Program Director who came up with the idea after attending a speed dating event where the proceeds were donated to a non-profit. “They are fun and have helped us increase our network and number of supporters in a time when support for non-profits is harder to find,” she added. The next speed dating event is on December 7th, 2009 at Verlaine Bar, 110 Rivington, New York, NY.
On November 13, the EAC will hold an event at The New School called a “Baraza for Kenya," a fundraiser based on a Swahili “baraza” gathering held to raise awareness and share collective wisdom. The event will feature a presentation by Dr. Carolyn Kissane of New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and a discussion of how contemporary development trends such as public-private partnerships, transparency, sustainability, and capacity building look on the ground, and they will give insights into how one small organization is achieving big results in Eastern Kenya.
The event will raffle two additional XO laptops that will be given to Vutakaka Junior School students in the name of the winners.
The event will be held on Friday, November 13, 2009 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at 55 West 13th Street on the 2nd Floor. For more information, please visit www.eastafricancenter.org/baraza.
On November 5, The New School will host Daniel P. Erikson, an expert on U.S.-Cuba relations with the Inter-American Dialogue. With legislation to lift the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba making headway in Congress, Erikson will discuss the island’s “next revolution,” including rising expectations on both sides of the Florida Straits as Cuba’s leadership transition unfolds and the Obama administration indicates a willingness to take a fresh look at our relationship with the island nation. Read more here.
]]>The kick-off event is an Oct. 19th lecture by Peter M. Rutkoff, professor of American studies at Kenyon College and co-author of New School: A History of The New School for Social Research. Rutkoff reexamines the influence of The New School on progressive education and discusses school and university alliances and the continuing importance of experiential pedagogy.
For a complete schedule of all events and exhibits, please visit www.veralistcenter.org.
]]>The event seeks to advance the conversation about digital media beyond technological advances and commercial applications to touch upon vital issues facing the future of Internet users. In addition to panel discussions, the conference will include a playroom, a conference game, and a re-enactment of Facebook by a performance artist to explore the ideas of unpaid labor, value, leisure, play, fun, and exploitation in an economy that is increasingly driven by the expropriation of all our blogging, data entries in online profiles, and submitted photos and videos.
To view the full conference agenda and list of participants, please visit www.digitallabor.org. The conference is free and open to the public, but advance reservations are required online.
To view the press release, click here.
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]]>As part of a university-wide emphasis on social innovation, The New School is partnering with Ashoka, the world’s largest network of social entrepreneurs. The university has joined the Ashoka Changemaker Campus Initiative, a three-year program to create new educational models to support and develop social entrepreneurship within universities.
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The event will be held on Saturday, September 26 from 10:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. For more information, read the press release.
]]>In this last year of his term, President Vázquez will give an overview of the economic and social policies implemented during his government, as well as of the process of integration in Latin America.
Tabaré Vázquez, an oncologist and former mayor of Montevideo, became the first Uruguayan Frente Amplio president in 2005, after winning more than 50% of the vote in the national elections. The Frente Amplio is a coalition of progressive groups. Vázquez’s administration carried out important reforms in the health and tax systems, and implemented an "emergency plan" of social policies to assist the urgent needs of the most deprived Uruguayans. His government has also undertaken investigations of human rights violations committed during military rule in the 1970s and 80s.
NOTE: All flash photography and video cameras strictly prohibited.
Monday, September 21, 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Orozco Room at The New School, 66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor, New York
Event is by invitation only. Press must RSVP to Bridget Fisher, 212.229.5667 x3094 or fisherb@newschool.edu
For more information on the Observatory on Latin America, please visit www.observatorylatinamerica.org.
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