JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2009
PUBLIC PROGRAMS AT
THE NEW SCHOOL
The
Crits: Parsons Faculty on the Presidential Inauguration
Tuesday,
January 27, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission
Free
For
the closing event of the art exhibition Ours: Democracy in the Age of
Branding (at the Kellen Galleries in the Sheila C. Johnson Design
Center, ending February 1, 2009), the pros from Parsons The New School
for Design critique the political spectacle of the Barack Obama
inauguration. With Shana Agid, Director of
Academic Projects; Laura Auricchio, Assistant
Professor of Art History, School of Art and Design History and Theory; Andy Bichlbaum, Professor of Design in Subversion, School
of Art, Media and Technology; Simon Collins, Dean,
School of Fashion; Melanie Crean, Assistant Professor
of Media Design, School of Art, Media and Technology; Bill
Gaskins, School of Art, Media and Technology; Arthur Ou,
Assistant Professor of Photography, School of Art, Media and
Technology; and Derek Porter, MFA Lighting Design,
School of Constructed Environments.
Moderated
by Tim
Marshall, dean
of Parsons The New School of Design. Presented by the
Fundraising
and the Financial Crisis: How Forward-Thinking Nonprofits are Creating
Opportunities
Monday,
February 2, 2009, 7:00pm
Wollman
Hall,
Admission
$10; Free for all students with ID
Join Karen
Brooks Hopkins, President of the
Cave
Canem Reading: Poets on Craft
Tuesday,
February 3, 2009, 6:30pm
Theresa
Lang Community and
Admission
Free; no reserved seating
The Cave Canem
Foundation and the New School Writing Program present master poets Cathy Park Hong
and Myronn Hardy.
Moderated by Camille Rankin,
Cave Canem, Program/Communications Coordinator. Sponsored by Cave Canem
and The New School Writing Program. For more
information, go to www.cavecanempoets.org.
Publishing
Forum: Getting Published in Today’s Market
Wednesday,
February 4, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission
$5; Free for all students with ID
Top
agents discuss what they look for and the challenges of the publishing
world in today's climate, especially considering the growing presence
of online electronic publishing. With Kirby Kim,
agent, Endeavor; Sarah Burnes,
agent, The Gernert Company; and Amy Williams,
agent, McCormick & Williams. Moderated by Helen Schulman,
Fiction Coordinator, The New School Writing Program.
Poetry
Forum: Mary Jo Bang
Thursday,
February 5, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission $5; Free for all students with ID
Mary
Jo Bang is the author of
five books of poems, including Elegy
(Graywolf Press, 2007). She is the recipient of numerous awards,
including the 1996 Bakeless Prize, a “Discovery”/The Nation
award, a Pushcart Prize, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation,
and a Hodder Award from
Fiction
Forum: Lore Segal
Monday,
February 9, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission
$5; Free for all students with ID
Lore
Segal
has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities. Her reviews appear in The New York Times Book Review and her stories in The New Yorker. Moderated by Helen Schulman,
Fiction Coordinator, The New School Writing Program.
Writing
for Children: Kate McMullan
Tuesday,
February 10, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission $5; Free for all students with ID
Kate
McMullan, author of Myth-O-Mania
series. McMullan has written more than 50 books for children.
Generations of children have delighted in the jokes and riddles she has
written and collected (often in collaboration with Lisa Eisenberg)
under the name Katy Hall; as Kate McMullan, she has written nonfiction,
several popular middle-grade novels, and picture books illustrated by
her husband, Jim McMullan. As K.H. McMullan, she has created the
imaginative Dragon Slayers’ Academy series. Moderated by Deborah
Brodie, editor.
James
Beard: The Quintessential American Epicure
Thursday,
February 12, 2009, 6:00pm
Wollman
Hall,
Admission
$8; Free for all students with ID
James
Beard, “the quintessential American cook” as Julia Child
called him, laid the ground work for the gastronomical revolution that
surged during the last half of the 20th century. We consider the life
and work of this outsized American culinary hero in the third in our
"Culinary Luminaries" series, following Julia Child in summer 2008 and
M.F.K. Fisher in fall 2008. With Mitchell Davis, Vice
President, James Beard Foundation; writers Betty Fussell,
Barbara Kafka, and Judith Jones; and Dana Polan, professor of Cinema Studies at New York
University. Moderated by Andrew F. Smith, editor of
the Oxford
Companion to American Food and Drink, and Food Studies
professor. Sponsored by the Food Studies Program at The New School.
Second
Annual
Tuesday,
February 17, 2009, 6:30pm
Wollman
Hall,
Admission $5; Free for all students with ID
In the summer of
2008, Jeffery Renard Allen,
faculty of The New School Writing Program, founded the Pan African
Literary Forum, an international writers’ conference focusing on
the works of the African diaspora. The conference was held in Accra,
Ghana in the summer and a special reading was held at The New School in
January. For summer 2009,
Allen directs the second annual Pan African Literary Forum in
Film
Screening: I Am an American
Wednesday,
February 18, 2009, 6:00pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission
Free; reservation required through gpiaevents@newschool.edu
With
Cynthia Weber,
producer and director, professor of International Relations, Lancaster
University (UK). Moderated by L.H.M.
Ling,
associate professor of International Affairs, The New School. In
response to the AdCouncil's post-9/11 campaign featuring people
declaring "I am an American," Cynthia Weber produced I
Am an American: Video Portraits of Unsafe U.S. Citizens, seeking
to demonstrate through her interviews what the AdCouncil failed to
do: show the true impact of 9/11 the lives of diverse
citizens. Q & A follows the screening. Presented by the
graduate program in International Affairs.
Food
Writing Forum: Eat, Memory
Wednesday,
February 18, 2009, 6:30pm
Wollman
Hall,
Admission
$5; Free for all students with ID
The
Writing Program and the Food Studies Department host a reading
featuring contributors to the anthology Eat, Memory, a
collection of food-inspired recollections of some of
Media
Studies Video Show
Friday,
February 20, 2009, 8:00pm
Theresa
Lang Community and
Admission
Free; no reserved seating
Each
semester, students in the Master of Arts in Media Studies program
screen their works, ranging from documentaries to experimental video.
To see excerpts of works from previous semesters, visit www.newschool.edu/mediastudies./video. Sponsored by the Department of Media Studies and Film.
Nonfiction
Forum: Wally Lamb
Monday,
February 23, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission $5; Free for all students with ID
Wally
Lamb is the author
of The Hour I First Believed: A Novel. His first two
novels, She’s Come Undone (Simon &
Schuster/Pocket, 1992) and I Know This Much Is True (HarperCollins/ReganBooks,
1998), were # 1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable
Books of the Year, and featured titles of Oprah’s Book Club. I Know This Much is True was a Book of the Month Club.
Moderated by Jackson Taylor, Associate Director, The
New School Writing Program.
SculptureCenter
Lecture with Paul Sietsema
Monday,
February 23, 2009, 6:30pm
Theresa
Lang Community and
Admission $5; Free for all students and SculptureCenter members
As
part of exploring how contemporary artists think about sculpture,
SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the
Poetry
Forum: Trevor Winkfield
Tuesday,
February 24, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission
$5; Free for all students with ID
Trevor
Winkfield is an acclaimed
painter, who shows his work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He is a co-editor
of the literary magazine The Sienese Shredder.
Winkfield will discuss the interdependence of the arts, the specific
attractions of painting and drawing to modern poets, as well as
subjects as magazine editorship and Raymond Roussel’s innovative
writing strategies. Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry
Coordinator, The New School Writing Program.
Aperture
Foundation: The Obsolescence of the Photographic Object
Wednesday,
February 25, 2009, 7:00pm
Tishman
Auditorium,
Admission
Free; no reserved seating
The
Aperture Foundation, the Photography Department at Parsons The New
School for Design, and the
Nonfiction
Forum: Tracy Daugherty
Thursday,
February 26, 2009, 6:30pm
Alvin
Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall,
Admission $5; Free for all students with ID
Tracy Daugherty will read from
his new book, Hiding Man: A
Biography of Donald Barthelme, and will be joined by David Gates,
who wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of
Barthelme's Sixty Stories,
and will read from Barthelme's work. The event will be moderated by Justin Taylor,
editor of Come Back,
Donald Barthelme (McSweeney's), a symposium to which both
Gates and Daugherty are contributors.
Media
Studies Film Show
Friday,
February 27, 2009, 7:00pm
Tishman
Auditorium,
Admission
Free; no reserved seating
New
School film production students are encouraged to screen their
completed films at public shows held in February, July, and November of
each year. These shows are qualifying screenings for the New School
Invitational Film Show held every May. Qualifying shows are an open
call, and films are selected on a first-come first-served basis. Reception to follow. Sponsored by the Department of Media
Studies and Film and hosted by Department chair Peter Haratonik.
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