Current Events
Spring 2013
February
Wednesday, February 13: Stories from the Black Atlantic and Mediterranean with Alessandra Di Maio
Tuesday, February 19: Frederic Ewen Lecture in Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom - Priests of Our Democracy with Marjorie Heins
Wednesday, February 20: Strangers in a Strange Land with Jim Periconi [Directions to Brooklyn College]
Monday, February 25: Conversations on Race and Performance: Reverberating Minstrels with Spike Lee
Tuesday, February 26: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Gotlib
Wednesday, February 27: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Erica Hunt and Julia Jarcho
March
Monday March 4: The 39th Konefsky Lecture: Civil Liberties and Endless War in the Age of Obama with Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, March 6: Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Elliott Abrams
Thursday, March 14: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Gotlib
Monday, March 18: Writing American History, Part I
Monday, March 18: Media and the Election
Tuesday, March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, I: Looking Back at 2012
Tuesday, March 19: Citizenship, Democracy, and Electoral Politics, II: Taking a Long View, Past to Future
Wednesday, March 20: The Role of Business in Electoral Politics
Wednesday, March 20: The Singing Newspaper: Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan
Wednesday, March 20: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness with Nicole Fleetwood
Wednesday, March 20: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Darin Strauss and Jackie Sibblies Drury
Wednesday, March 20: Brooklyn on My Mind with Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Ben Lerner, and Leonard Lopate
Thursday, March 21: The Age of Reagan
Thursday, March 21: Writing American History, Part II
Thursday, March 21: Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture by Sean Wilentz - A Historical View of the 2012 Elections
April
Tuesday, April 9: Whiting Seminar with Alan Aja, Amy E. Hughes, Stephanie Jenson-Moulton, Karl Steel, Karen B. Stern, and Justin Steinberg
Thursday, April 11: New Colombian Music in New York City with Jorge Arévalo Mateus
Thursday, April 11: Can Language Create Identity? Hebrew as the DNA of the Jewish People with Alan Mintz
Monday, April 15: Disability Studies and American Culture with Rachel Adams
Thursday, April 18: Are We Safer? Costs, Benefits, and Alternatives to 20 Years of Aggressive Street Policing
Thursday, April 18: Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium's Annual Jazz Festival with Papo Vasquez
Tuesday, April 23: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Gotlib
Wednesday, April 24: MFA Intergenre Reading Series with Timothy Donnelly and Elizabeth Strout
May
Thursday, May 2: Bring that Beat Back: The Development of Beat Making Techniques from Turntables to the Sampler with Patrick Rivers and Will Fulton
Thursday, May 2: The 15th Charles Lawrence Lecture - The Sweet Enchantment of Post-Civil Rights Racism: America's Racial Nightmare from the 1970s until the Obama Moment
Monday, May 6: Annie Lanzillotto reads from L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
Thursday, May 9: The Peter Zaneteas Award Presents: The Riddle of the Labyrinth with Margalit Fox
*date change: Thursday, May 16: Interdisciplinary Faculty Study Group led by Anna Gotlib
