Eugene Lang College Faculty: News + Highlights
Beginning the Fall 2018 semester with an outstanding selection of essays, books, articles, podcasts, projects, and more from the faculty at Eugene Lang College.
Literary Studies Co-Chair James Fuerst published New World Postcolonial: The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso (University of Pittsburgh Press), the first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incasas a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period.
Professor of History and Public Seminar Executive Editor Claire Potter co-edited Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past. She and co-author Renee Romano were interviewed about the book on the podcast In the Past Lane.
NEW BIOSAFETY LEVEL 2 LAB
New Interdisciplinary Science faculty member, Davida Smyth, will be heading up socially responsible scientific research on campus and with our community partners. To that end, the department has outfitted a new Biosafety Level 2 lab in the University Center with its very own genome sequencer as Davida’s research involves the investigation of antibiotic resistant bacteria and changing ecologies in the urban environment. Davida is a microbiologist and a Senior Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Leadership Fellow (now Lang has two!). Her work and interests are intimately tied to the department’s focus on health, environment, and equity — planetary health.
Learn More about the lab.
SCREENINGS, EXHIBITS, & PERFORMANCES
STEFANIA DE KENESSEY composed the electronic sound score for the dance performance SHE which the New York Times listed as one of seven dance performances to see in NYC in mid-May.
ANNA HARSANYI, Lang alum and Culture and Media instructor, curated an exhibition of site-specific projects, In, Of, and Crossing Delancey, in the soon-to-be-moved Essex Street Market. This exhibition presented projects by Sonia Louise Davis, Dillon de Give, and Hatuey Ramos-Fermín. Visitors had opportunities to explore the public and private histories of the market through the stories, perspectives, and lived experiences of the people who work and shop there every day.
CECELIA RUBINO co-wrote and directed a workshop production, The Lives of Tiresias, in June 2018 at Jefferson Market Playhouse. Lang alumni Lucas Syed, Michael, Buffer, Monica Gronchi, and Ben Bailey also worked on this project. The Lives of Tiresias is a new theater piece that explores the competing myths surrounding the blind seer Tiresias. The play traces the long life of the alleged seer from the time he was struck blind as punishment, through his tenure as unheard advisor to generations of Theban rulers, through his strange and even current afterlife.
ZISAN UGURLU performed in PANORAMA, directed by Motus, at The Teatro dell’Arte/La Triennale di Milano. This was a coproduction with Seoul Institute of the Arts | CultureHub, New York | Vooruit, Gent | FOG Triennale Milano Performing Arts | Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione | Grec Festival, Barcelona | L’arboreto — Teatro Dimora, Mondaino.
STORIES, ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
RACHEL AYDT published a short story, “Lunch Hours,” in University College of Dublin’s HCE Review.
RICHARD BERNSTEIN published an article, “The Urgent Relevance of Hannah Arendt,” in The Philosopher’s Magazine.
AMANDA BELLOWS published an op-ed, “150 Cheers for the 14th Amendment,” in the New York Times
CHIARA BOTTICI published an article in Thesis Eleven: “Towards an Anarcha-Feminist Manifesto.”
NINA BOUTSIKARIS published “That’s All, I Don’t Even Think of You That Often,” an essay on postcards, lust, and luminous absence, in Territory Magazine.
ALEXANDRA DELANO published an op-ed in Spanish for the New York Times and another op-ed in El Pais on the then-forthcoming election in Mexico and the candidates’ positions on migration. She also published an op-ed in the LA Times addressing the contradictions between what Mexico attempts to do for migrants in the U.S. and the neglect of them back in Mexico.
FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN published an article in the Washington Post about how Donald Trump is inspiring and legitimizing dictatorial leaders in Europe. He also co-wrote an article in May for CNN: “Italy’s Next Government is Europe’s Next Crisis.”
NANCY FRASER wrote an essay for the book, US Politics in an Age of Uncertainty: Essays on a New Reality. This essay, “The End of Progressive Neoliberalism: A Chance to Build a New, New Left,” was cited in a Real Change review.
KIA GREGORY published an article in the June issue of the New Republic. “Banking Black” asks if divesting from America’s big financial institutions can help fix racial inequality. Kia also published an enterprise story for the Hechinger Report on how the public housing authority in Philadelphia bought a high school in one of the city’s most impoverished areas as a way to protect and improve the area. The article investigates the possibilities of such measures.
JONATHAN LIEBSON reviewed A.D. Jameson’s I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture in the Washington Post Sunday Book World.
NATALIA MEHLMAN-PETRZELA published a piece in the Washington Post on the history and continued use of “bikini body” messaging: “A Swimsuit Season Ends, Pursuit of the ‘Bikini Body’ Endures. She also published a piece in Well+Good: “The American Fitness Obsession Has Made Its Way to France — But Something Has Gotten Lost in Translation,” a new take on being an “American in Paris” — through the lens of Paris’ emerging boutique fitness scene.
CLAIRE POTTER published a piece, “Why Taking a Stand on the Internet Can Turn a Problem Into a Catastrophe,” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
LIESL SCHILLINGER published a piece, “My Boot Camp in Corrective Democracy,” in the New York Review of Books.
ANN SNITOW published an essay in Dissent magazine. “Talking Back to the Patriarchy” is a potted history of feminist tone in relation to #MeToo.
ALEX VADUKUL, Literary Studies alum and instructor, was awarded the Rev. Mychal Judge Heart of New York award for his New York Times piece, “The Little Theater That Could.”
from PUBLIC SEMINAR,
open, critical, challenging, confronting the pressing issues of the day and fundamental problems of the human condition,expanding the project of The New School for Social Research
An interview with Alexandra Delano and an excerpt from her latest book, From Here and There: Diaspora Policies, Integration, and Social Rights Beyond Borders
“The Invention of ‘Gritty’ New York: Where did nostalgia of gritty New York come from and what makes it so potent?” by Zed Adams
“Beyond the Separation of Families: A view from Mexico on the crisis of the migration system” (originally written in Spanish for the Mexican magazine Letras Libres) by Alexandra Delano
“The Catholic ’68: Love and Protest” by Adrienne Harris
“Changing Social Norms: An introduction to Social Research Spring 2018 edition” by Arien Mack
“Revolution, Democracy, and Restoration Revisited: In Poland and Beyond” by Elzbieta Matynia
“Newschool.coop: Envisioning a Cooperative University?” by Michael McHugh
“Ask Brett Kavanaugh About Facebook” by Claire Potter
“Own This! A portfolio of platform cooperative, in progress” by Trebor Scholz
“How to Save 8.1 Million Seniors From Poverty by 2045” by Teresa Ghilarducci
“On Opposing Fascism With a Reality TV Face” by Jeffrey Goldfarb
When Trump Met Putin: An Eyewitness Report on the Helsinki Summit” by Elizabeth Kendall
“Don’t Run Against Trump” by Claire Potter
“Summer Camps, Boarding Schools and the Ideology of Family Separation in the U.S.” by Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela
“Separation is Never Ending: Attachment is a Human Right” by Howard Steele
INTERVIEWS, PANELS, & PODCASTS
- Chiara Bottici was interviewed in the Krisis Journal for Contemporary Philosophy.
- Christen Clifford was on the “Unvictiming the Gaze” panel at Union Docs in Brooklyn after short films about rape by female filmmakers.
- Alexandra Delano discussed the then-upcoming election in Mexico and the candidates’ positions on migration in a radio interview on Primer Movimiento, Radio UNAM.
- Teresa Ghilarducci was interviewed in Kiplinger about dealing with aging in the workplace.
- Kia Gregory spoke with Michelangelo Signorile on his Sirius radio show about her report on the bank black movement.
- Genevieve Guenther was interviewed on Minnesota Public Radio for a segment of the July 12 program called “Climate Cast.”
- James Miller was interviewed in The Daily Stoic.
- Robin Wagner-Pacifici will be on a panel at the London School of Economics and Political Science in October: Changing Cultures of Witness: Paintings, Selfies, and Hashtags.
- Trebor Scholz spoke to Fast Company about the Platform Cooperative Consortium at The New School.
- Ken Wark was a guest on Reimagine Europe’s podcast, Objecthood #6, where he talked about space.
- Deva Woodly and Shanelle Matthews spoke with the Chronicle of Higher Education about the role of the Activist-in-Residence at The New School — how it came to be and how they hope to spread the idea to more colleges.
CITATIONS AND MENTIONS
- A study Shai Davidai collaborated on with Thomas Gilovich of Cornell University was cited in British Psychology Society Research Journal and mentioned in Inc. The study, “The Ideal Road Not Taken: The Self Discrepancies Involved in People’s Most Enduring Regrets,” found that the biggest regret for many people is failing to live up to their own expectations.
- Alexandra Delano was cited in a Reforma article, “Dan Pocos Recursos En Pro Del Migrante,” about the limited resources the Mexican government commits to consular services.
- Arien Mack was quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about The New University in Exile Consortium.
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