Please choose one or more of these Events and reserve your space via the link below. Let the whole group know your choices. Thanks, Lee
http://greatissuesforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=64
Political Power
Thursday, October 2, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium
What is the most effective way to influence the exercise of political power? Can genocide be halted? What are the natural limits of political power? Join three preeminent policy and opinion makers as they discuss the violation and defense of human rights by national and international powers. Featuring Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor; Nicholas D. Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times; and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center will moderate.
Economic Power
Monday, October 20, 2008, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium
What is the role of the U.S. in the disposition of the world’s economic and environmental resources? How are financial markets best defended from economic shock? Does liberalization ensure prosperity? Journalist Naomi Klein speaks with economists Joseph Stiglitz and Hernando de Soto in a conversation moderated by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Cultural Power
Monday, November 10, 7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium
How does art affect consciousness, bridge political, ideological, religious, and geographic distances, and contribute to physical and political change? Tom Stoppard and Derek Walcott, two international literary luminaries, examine the power of culture and art in a globalizing world. David Nasaw, Distinguished
Professor of History at the Graduate Center, will moderate.
Power & Sex: America’s War on Sexual Rights
Monday, November 17, 7 pm, Elebash Recital Hall
How has the conser vative agenda come to dominate the national and international conversation on sexual practices and reproductive rights? Why have American liberals become so intimidated? Faye Wattleton, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Women, speaks with Nation columnist Katha
Pollitt and historian Dagmar Herzog, author of Sex in Crisis: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics about the powerful influence of the religious right and other conservative forces on today’s sexual politics.
Hi Everyone!
It seems that the link is not working properly for some reason, but the link is relatively easy to access. If you log onto GreatIssuesForum.org, click on the “Conversations” tab and then “Calendar & Registration.”
I just registered for “Culture Power” right now, but am strongly considering also attending “Power & Sex” and registering for it as it gets closer to the date.
Chris
I signed up for an Art Spiegelman lecture about comics at the New Yorker Festival. Considering I might be using Maus for my Thesis, I think its a good fit.
– Jesse
Hi everyone,
I registered for the Political Power lecture. Although not directly related to my research, I think it’ll be an interesting lecture.
Hopefully, I’ll see one of you there!
~Milushka