Virtual Events at The New School | February 2021
This month, The New School has an outstanding lineup of virtual events, all free and open to the public.
Keep scrolling for everything from readings, screenings, panel discussions, and more with some of the university’s top artists, scholars, researchers, and thought leaders. You can also keep an eye on our events calendar so you’ll know when new events are added.
Poetry Forum: Laura Cronk and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta
Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 6:00PM to 7:00PM (EST)
Join The New School’s Creative Writing Program for a reading and conversation between poet and faculty member Laura Cronk and 2014 Carlos Malanca Memorial Award for Poetry winner, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta. Cronk will read from her new book of poetry, Ghost Hour, while Katigbak-Lacuesta will read from her book Hush Harbor.
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Role of Minority Entrepreneurs in Rebuilding NYC Post-COVID
Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:00–1:30PM EST
Join the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment for a conversation that explores the unique position of Minority Entrepreneurs in a pre- and post-COVID NYC. This discussion will ask the questions: How has this global City changed for MBEs as a result of the global pandemic? What holds steady? How does identity inform resilience and adaptability in this moment? And what roles and responsibilities do other stakeholders have in rebuilding NYC post-COVID?
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Latin American Dissertation Seminar Series
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 2:00PM to 4:00PM (EST)
Join The New School’s Public and Urban Policy (PUP) doctoral program for a series of seminars featuring research on Latin America and how their work is being advanced.
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Biden’s Immigration Agenda: Immediate Actions Taken
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 2:30PM to 4:00PM (EST)
Immediately after the election in November, the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) released a report presenting 40 recommendations for immigration policy reform. In the first week of his Administration, President Biden signed a number of Executive Orders, reversing many of the more drastic immigration policies put in place during the Trump Administration. Join the Zolberg Institute and the Center for Migration Studies in discussion of the 40 recommendations, what the new Administration has done to date, and what actions remain.
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Media x Women Skillshare: Secrets to Sustainable Health and Happiness
Friday, February 5, 2021, 1:00PM to 2:00PM (EST)
Every day is a new opportunity to change your life. The demands of living amid a global pandemic have proven challenging for all of us. More than ever before, we need to enhance our self-care practices. WW Coach Lisa Shaub will explain the importance of sustainable health and wellness for improving your life experience. She will share secrets to cultivating a positive mindset, becoming more active, making better food choices, and enjoying a good night’s sleep. Lisa will also answer questions from the audience at the end of the webinar.
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PIANO CANTABILE: “That Rings A Bell…….”
Friday, February 5, 2021, 7:00PM to 8:30PM (EST)
The Piano Cantabile Series is part of the Mannes Sounds Festival which was founded in 1999 by Pavlina Dokovska, chair of the Mannes Piano department. The festival presents more than 20 concerts annually performed by Mannes’ talented students as well as master classes and lectures by distinguished faculty members and renowned guest artists and is one of the outstanding components of Mannes’ performance program.
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Philosophy Film Club Screening: “Last Year at Marienbad”
Friday, February 5, 2021, 7:00PM to 10:00PM (EST)
Join the New School for Social Research’s Philosophy Film Club for a screening of “Last Year at Marienbad” (dir. Alain Resnais), with pre- and post-film discussion facilitated by Giuseppe Vicinanza, Philosophy MA student.
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UnGeeking Music: Sophisticated Pop Music
Saturday, February 6, 2021, 3:05PM to 3:55PM (EST)
Join Mannes Prep faculty Eric Chernov as he leads a virtual discussion titled “Sophisticated Pop Music”. The UnGeeking lecture series is designed for parents of young musicians to help introduce them to topics in the musical world, but is open to all who are interested.
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Doc Talk: MAYOR Screening and Q&A with David Osit
Monday, February 8, 2021, 2:00PM to 4:00PM (EST)
Join the School of Media Studies for a screening of Mayor, a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. Following the screening, there will be a live Q&A hosted by Amir Husak, Director of Documentary Studies and Assistant Professor in the School of Media Studies.
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Seminar 4: Reimagining Protocols: Reclaiming, Challenging, and Queering Surveillance
Monday, February 8, 2021, 6–8 pm EST
How have theorists and artists challenged these imposed protocols, engaging in what scholar Simone Browne has called “troubling surveillance,” to address the spillover of military surveillance into our civilian lives? Join the Vera List Center for a conversation with Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Fabiola Hanna, and scholars and artists, Margaret Laurena Kemp, Shaka McGlotten, and Abram Stern.
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BORDER AS METHOD: Geandy Pavón: Quo Vadis Cuba
Monday, February 8, 2021, 6:00PM to 7:00PM (EST)
Eugene Lang College’s BORDER AS METHOD series is a virtual, public-facing event series featuring artists, curators, activists, and scholars across the world focused on the making and unmaking of art under conditions of exile or forced migration, or from areas where travel is prohibited or difficult. In this first event, we talk to Geandy Pavón, a Cuban-American painter and photographer interested in the “conceptual aura” of ruins and decay in everyday practices of power display, issues he has developed with his Empire and Wrinkle Portraits series.
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Writing for Children & Young Adults Alumni Panel: Mia Garcia & Lisa Graff
Monday, February 8, 2021, 6:00PM to 7:00PM (EST)
The New School’s Creative Writing Program curates a series of forums and special events throughout the academic year. In this panel, join alumni Lisa Graff and Mia García for a reading and conversation moderated by Writing for Children and Young Adult coordinator, Caron Levis.
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China Made: the techno-politics, materialities, and legacies of infrastructure development
Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:30AM (EST)
The China Made project seeks to build an innovative research agenda for an infrastructural approach in the China Studies field. Join the India China Institute for a conversation about the approach of infrastructure as both an empirically rich material object of research and an analytical strategy for framing research questions and approaches that help us explore more nuanced realms of techno-politics, everyday life, and spatio-temporal change in contemporary and historical China.
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Climate Relations: Indigeneity in Activism, Art and Digital Media
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 3:00PM to 4:30PM (EST)
Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, this panel brings together native scholars and artists, each working at the intersection of activism, art, and digital media, who reflect on various strands of Indigenous climate relations that work towards improving the quality of our lives. Artist and VLC Borderlands Fellow Maria Hupfield (Anishinaabek, Wasauksing First Nation) and theorist Jennifer Wemigwans (Anishinaabek, Wikwemikong Unceded Territory) together with two-spirit curator, activist, and historian Regan De Loggans (Mississippi Choctaw / Ki’Che Maya) discuss recent projects spanning Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
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Jazz, Gender and Black Feminism
Thursday, February 11, 2021, 7:00–8:30PM (EST)
Join the College of Performing Arts for discussion with musicians, scholars and activists about the ways in which Black feminist thought can help us make the cultural shifts necessary for more equity, acceptance and inclusion to exist in the art form.
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Drug Politics: From AIDS to COVID-19
Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 2:00PM to 3:30PM (EST)
Hosted by the Julien J. Studely Graduate Programs in International Affairs, join a public lecture with Achal Prabhala — based in Bangalore, India — who is the coordinator of the #AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil, and South Africa, and Sean Jacobs, Assistant Professor of International Affairs. Prabhala will expand on the problem with access to coronavirus vaccines today as he traces its roots to the AIDS crisis that engulfed South Africa twenty years ago. He asks: “We’ve designed a system that saves only the richest of us; the rest consigned to suffering and worse. If a global pandemic won’t change it, what will?”
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The Role of Race, Labor Markets, and Education in Building an Equitable Recovery
Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 4:00PM to 5:00PM (EST)
The inaugural event of The New School’s Institute on Race and Political Economy, join Darrick Hamilton, the Henry Cohen professor of economics and urban policy and founding director of the Institute on Race and Political Economy, for a conversation focused on disparities in labor market experiences for Black, Latinx, and white workers during recessions and the unique impact of the current recession compared with previous downturns. This exclusive research briefing will conversation with scholars and professionals including Elisabeth Jacobs, Melody Barnes, Colleen Briggs, Carmen Rojas, and Kimberly Adams.
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Understanding the Black Lives Matter Movement
February 17, 2021 @ 6:00 PM EST
Join the Lang Theater Program for a special virtual event designed for teachers and students alike. This talk, hosted by Assistant Professor of the Lang Theater Program/The Arts Department and political organizer, Dr. Frank Leon Roberts, introduces participants to the guiding principles of The Black Lives Matter movement and provides a framework for embracing black progressive values in an age of domestic terrorism.
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Feminist/Female Legacies at The New School
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 2:00PM to 3:30PM (EST)
This roundtable, hosted by the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute, invites the community to reflect on new material about the school’s earliest, forgotten female/feminist founders, students, artists, and progressive educators from the past. The institute asks, what do these findings and stories mean to us today? How do our feminist roots and branches connect with one another? How do they invite us to reflect on a more inclusive, collective vision of the institution? How does new knowledge about female trailblazers linked to our community shift dominant institutional narratives that persist in the present?
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Schneider Concerts Presents the Merz Piano Trio
Sunday, February 21, 2021, 2:00PM to 4:00PM (EST)
Join the Mannes School of Music for a virtual concert featuring the Merz Piano Trio. The Gold Medal Winner of the 2019 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Merz Piano Trio is made up of Brigid Coleridge on the violin, Julia Yang on the cello, and Lee Dionne on the piano.
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Activism: Thought and Praxis in a Context of Hostility
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST)
Hosted by the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute, this panel is a conversation between Mayra Cotta, Elif Genc, Fania Noël, and Marianna Poyares — four PhD candidates at the New School for Social Research in the fields of politics, sociology and philosophy. The panelists will discuss their respective involvement in international feminist organizing, the Kurdish women’s movement, Afro-feminism, and immigration activism. In particular, they will reflect on their work, both theoretical and practical, in a context of hostility to their cause.
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Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST)
The new book Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, (2020, University of Minnesota Press), edited by Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese, analyzes how Blackness is contested through food, differing ideas of what makes our sustenance “healthy,” and Black individuals’ own beliefs about what their cuisine should be. This comprehensive look at Black food culture and the various forms of violence that threaten the future of this cuisine centers Blackness in a field that has too often framed Black issues through a white-centric lens, offering new ways to think about access, privilege, equity, and justice.
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“Through His Eyes: Sam Pollard’s Historical Lens” Screening, 2021 Spring Hirshon Artist-in-Residence
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 5:00PM to 7:00PM (EST)
Join the School of Media Studies for a screening and discussion with Sam Pollard, the 2021 Spring Hirshon Artist-in-Residence. Pollard, an accomplished film and TV editor and documentary producer/director whose work spans almost thirty years, will feature his work, engage in a discussion with Michelle Materre, Director of the Media Management Program & Associate Professor of Media Studies and Film, and engage with the online audience through a Q+A.
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The list above is just a sampling of what to look forward to this month. Don’t forget to keep an eye on our events calendar, as more events are added regularly.
