Brooklyn College in cooperation with the English Department, the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies, the Center for the Study of Brooklyn, the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, and Poets & Writers, Inc.
presents Brooklyn on My Mind
Election: Left and Right
Brooklyn on My Mind is a reading/discussion series about the borough of Brooklyn as a home to a community of writers and as a setting for political debate. Leonard Lopate, of WNYC Radio’s “The Leonard Lopate Show,” will moderate and conduct the audience Q & A. Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College, Professor of Journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, is the author of Why We’re Liberals: A Political Handbook to Post-Bush America. Alterman is also the “liberal media” columnist for The Nation and a fellow of the Nation Institute, a senior fellow and “Altercation” weblogger for Media Matters for America, and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Robert A. George is an editorial writer for the New York Post and a conservative blogger. George has appeared on the CNN public affairs program Take 5. He also writes for the Huffington Post, sponsors his own group political/cultural blog, Ragged Thots, and has written for conservative magazines such as National Review and Reason. Tickets for the event are $5 and are available at the BCBC box office until the night of the event in the Whitman Auditorium.
Monday, October 20, 2008
7 to 9 p.m.
Whitman Auditorium
For Information: (718) 951-5195 or for the BCBC box office: (718) 951-4500
WNYC Radio is a media sponsor of Brooklyn on My Mind
