Virtual Events at The New School | Fall 2020
We’re excited to announce that we have an outstanding lineup of virtual events this fall, all free and open to the public!
Keep reading for everything from author readings to magazine launches to activism workshops, and keep an eye on our events calendar so you’ll know when new events are added.
Recipes for Disaster Launch Event
Thursday, September 3, 2020, 6–7:30PM (EDT)
Recipes for Disaster is the magazine version of comfort food. It’s a quarantine cooking zine built from the ashes of the dinner parties, restaurant hangs, and fearless family gatherings of our pre-pandemic lives, aimed at understanding the ways that a virus can restructure even the most mundane parts of one’s day.
Join the Recipes for Disaster editors for the digital launch of our quarantine passion project and a reading from some of our contributors.
Transceiver Lecture Series: Ed Keller
Thursday, September 10, 2020, 7-9:00PM (EDT)
Join NSSR as it launches a new series: the New School Policy and Design for Outer Space. Ed Keller will introduce modes of interdisciplinary design thinking and strategizing in the context of outer space. From cosmopolitics to microbial assemblages, this will be talk that is vast in scale and scope.
Vera List Center: Poetic Testimony
Saturday, September 12, 2020, 7:30–9:00PM (EDT)
Centered around Act 1 of her upcoming film, Slow War, Helene Kazan concludes her two-year fellowship at the Vera List Center with an assembly of other practitioners and New School faculty on the various forms of testimony: legal, poetic, artistic and visual. The film follows Kazan’s long-term exploration of creating a new, art-informed case against existing legal frameworks that legitimize violence in aerial warfare. Positioned as a provocation the film puts forward as evidence Kazan’s archival findings, informal and poetic testimonials, and “precedent.”
Writing for Children and Young Adults Alumni Panel: Amanda Joy and Laura Silverman
Monday, September 14, 2020, 6–8:00PM (EDT)
Join the New School’s Creative Writing Program for a conversation between young adult authors Amanda Joy and Laura Silverman, moderated by author and writing faculty, Caron Levis.
I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free: Black Women Equity Warriors in New York City Schools
Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 12–1:30PM (EDT)
This extrapolation of research forefronts Black female leadership from school communities who leverage an antiracist political agenda to address the racial achievement gap. Each of the school leaders on this panel — principals Raevan Askew, Cara Tait-Fanor, and Kameca Waugh and Chief Academic officer Samantha Pugh — make use of components from the “Equity and Excellence for All” agenda in the boroughs of NYC with the greatest economic hardships. This event is moderated by Tanishia Williams, doctoral candidate in Public and Urban Policy at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment.
CoPA Conversations: Hank Shocklee & Timo Andres
Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 5–6:00PM (EDT)
Join the College of Performing Arts for a conversation between pre-eminent music producer and sound designer Hank Shocklee and composer/pianist and Nonesuch Records artist Timo Andres. CoPA Conversations is a new series of curated talks between two artistic innovators drawn from our world-class faculty and selected guest artists.
Celebrate Climate Week with the Tishman Environment and Design Center + the Urban Systems Lab
Who Does Mapping Serve? GIS in Environmental Justice and Climate Change Research, Organizing and Action
Tuesday, September 22, 5:30PM-7:30PM (EDT)
Climate Justice in NYC: A Discussion with the Climate Change and Environmental Justice Leaders
Wednesday, September 23, 3:30–4:45PM (EDT)
Film Screening: Sacrifice Zones
Runs September 1–30
India China Institute: Past, Present, Future
Tuesday, September 22, 9–10:30am (EDT)
The lethal skirmishes between Indian and Chinese border patrols that took place in June in the Himalayan sector of their disputed border have raised new questions about a possible “re-set” of relations between the two Asian giants and the prospects for regional stability. A panel of historians, diplomats, and political scientists will address these concerns through the long lens of history and more recent geopolitical trends.
Giandomenica Becchio, “A History of Feminist and Gender Economics”
Tuesday, September 22, 12:30–2:00pm (EDT)
Join the New School For Social Research as it kicks off its Economics Seminar Series with a. Talk by Dr. Giandomenica Becchio, Professor of Economics at Turin University. Dr. Becchio will be presenting her most recent book A History of Feminist and Gender Economics, which offers a historical exploration of the genesis of feminist economics and gender economics, as well as their theoretical and methodological differences. Its narrative also serves to embed both within a broader cultural context.
J+D “Stories By Us” Black Journalism Students Panel
Friday, September 25, 2020, 6–8:00PM (EDT)
Join students from the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts in meeting fellow young Black journalists and content creators. This event is presented by the Journalism + Design program at Eugene Lange, and will feature an interactive panel led by experts. Looking for more events from Lang? Visit langremote.com for more.
DEL 2020: Digitally Engaged Learning Conference
September 25–26
DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. DEL is a place for creative and critical making, where you will find objects, artifacts, experimental technologies and performances alongside presentations and workshops. The conference is hosted in partnership with the School of Design Studies and welcomes educators, researchers, technicians, instructional designers, artists, makers, art historians, digital humanities scholars, and others across all creative disciplines.
Sanjay Reddy: The Political Economy of the Neoliberal University
Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 12:30–2:00pm (EDT)
Continuing NSSR’s Economics Seminar Series, Dr. Sanjay Reddy, Associate Professor of Economics, will provide a deep analysis about the political economy of the neoliberal university and use The New School as an example.
India China Institute: India and China in the New Asian Geopolitics
Thursday, October 22, 9:30–10:30 am
India and China successfully managed their relationship for almost forty years. Recently, however, a narrative of India and China as destined for conflict has taken hold in public discourse in both countries. This lecture will examine whether this is so, and the role of changing Asian geopolitics in the shifting prospects of India-China relations.
Presented by Shivshankar Menon, an Indian diplomat who served as National Security Advisor of India under Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
ALUMNI TALKS
New School Alumni is continuing its author talks this fall with talks from alumni Stephanie Danler, MFA Creative Writing ’14, and Leila Taylor, MA Liberal Studies ’18. The date for Danler’s talk is still TBD, but Taylor is set to discuss her new book Darkly on October 27. Keep an eye on New School Alumni’s Instagram for updates or stay tuned here for more about their upcoming virtual events.
The list above is just a sampling of what to look forward to this fall. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our events calendar, as more events are added regularly.
