Virtual Events at The New School You Won’t Want to Miss | April 2020
Let The New School keep you busy during this period of social distancing. Keep reading for virtual performances, readings, lectures, book launches, open mics, discussions, and more!
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
Virtual CoPA Open Mic
6:00PM (EDT)
The College of Performing Arts is hosting an Open Mic night for its community. Reserve your spot to perform by Thursday, April 16, by filling out this form.
MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020
Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health in Times of Planetary Crises: From Colonialism to Climate Injustice and COVID-19
6–7:00PM (EDT)
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Center for Earth Ethics for a webinar featuring Indigenous knowledge-bearers, Martha Many Grey Horses and Marcelo Eduardo Zaiduni Salazar join moderators Mindahi Bastida and Leonardo Figueroa, Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, to discuss the challenges to Indigenous health from past to present crises, as well as alternatives based on Indigenous whole health approaches.
TUESDAY, APRIL 21
First Year Writing Craft Lunch Lesson: Ellen Bass (Part 1)
12:30PM (EDT)
As a special conclusion to the Spring 2020 Craft-Lesson Lunch series, Eugene Lang’s First-Year Writing program welcomes Ellen Bass, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, to the community, as she joins our own Miller Oberman in conversation.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020
Climate Justice and Pandemics: A Roundtable on Reflections, Personal Experiences and What we do Going Forward
1:4-3:30PM (EDT)
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center for a discussion with our faculty, students and staff to share their experiences with the global pandemic, their thoughts about the interactions of climate change and social justice. This roundtable will be an opportunity to hear and share what we as a community are feeling during these turbulent times.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020
Think & Drink @Home: COVID-19 and Climate Justice in NYC
5–6:00PM (EDT)
Join the New School Alumni Association on Zoom for Think & Drink @ Home: COVID-19 and Climate Justice in NYC with New School Professor and Urban Systems Lab Director, Timon McPhearson.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2020
Book Launch: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein
12:00PM (EDT)
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is hosting a reading and discussion with award-winning investigative journalist Andrea Bernstein to launch her new book American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power (W.W. Norton, 2020). American Oligarchs tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families’ journey to the White House. Bernstein will read a short excerpt from her book and participate in a moderated discussion afterwards.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24
Design and Technology Cloud Salon: A.M. Darke
3–4:00PM (EDT)
The Design and Technology programs at Parsons are hosting Cloud Salon, a weekly online webinar that invites artists, designers, technologists, and industry professionals to present projects and engage in direct conversations with participants. The first of these webinars will feature A.M. Darke, an artist, game designer, and activist designing radical tools for social intervention.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020
Live Performance with CoPA Alum Fifi Zhang
Time: TBA
Join New School Alumni on InstagramLive with a performance by award-winning pianist Fifi Zhang (PDPL Piano ’19)
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
First Year Writing Craft Lesson Lunch: Miller Oberman Interviews Ellen Bass (Part 2)
12:30PM (EDT)
As a special conclusion to the Spring 2020 Craft-Lesson Lunch series, Eugene Lang’s First-Year Writing program welcomes Ellen Bass, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, to the community, as she joins our own Miller Oberman in conversation.
TUESDAY, APRIL 28
Book Talk: Food Fight!
4–6:00PM (EDT)
Join the Food Studies Program in a conversation with Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Latinx and Latin American Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University and author of Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace (University of Arizona Press, 2019).
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020
Writing for Children and Young Adults Forum: Kate Messner
6:30–8:00PM (EDT)
Join Creative Writing Program faculty Caron Levis for a discussion with author Kate Messner, who is passionately curious and writes books that encourage kids to wonder, too. Messner’s titles include both fiction and nonfiction; she writes award-winning picture books, easy readers, chapter book series, and novels for young readers.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
William Phillips Lecture: “Isolation, Loneliness, and Solitude 2020”with Masha Gessen
12:30-1:30PM (EDT)
The New School for Social Research welcomes The New Yorker contributor and author, Masha Gessen for a conversation moderated by Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor Of Philosophy at The New School.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020
A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: Psyche & Social Justice in a time of COVID-19
7:30–9:30PM (EDT)
In his new book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, Daniel José Gaztambide reviews the history of social justice in psychoanalysis, and how psychoanalytically-informed theories of race, class, and liberation gave rise to Latin American Liberation Psychology. Drawing on this history, the author and a panel of artists, activists, clinicians, and scholars will join the audience in a Zoom call to explore how psychoanalysis can help us understand this current moment.
LOOKING FOR MORE?
From trivia to fitness classes to movie nights, New School Student Success hosts a wide array of virtual events. They post the info about these events weekly on instagram (@newschoolstudentlife). In addition, New School Alumni is offering interactive talks and performances through InstagramLive, as well as a weekly Think & Drink series featuring conversation with alumni and thought leaders on various topics.
The Schools of Public Engagement is hosting a wide variety of virtual events, as is the New School for Social Research, while Parsons School of Design is offering two new weekly events, the Integrated Design Lecture Series and the Design and Technology Cloud Salon, both online. Both the College of Performing Arts and Eugene Lang College have been sharing information on their events on Instagram. To view all online events happening at The New School this spring, you can view our university-wide events page here.
