Join Anthony Greco in a panel discussion with Ellen Schrecker and Stephen Shalom on his book Chomsky’s Challenge to American Power. Ida Susser will moderate.
March 5, 2014
6:30-8:30 PM
Room 6112, Graduate Center
Anthony Greco’s Chomsky’s Challenge to American Power: A Guide for the Critical Reader assesses Noam Chomsky’s contributions to our understanding of the contemporary political world. The book examines most of the major subjects Chomsky has dealt with in his nearly half century of intellectual activism as a radical critic of American politics and foreign policy: the Vietnam War, America’s broader international role (especially its interventions in the Third World), the structure of power in American, politics, the role of the media and of intellectuals in forming public opinion, and American foreign policy in the post-Cold War world.
Anthony Greco is an independent scholar. After receiving his PhD in political science from Columbia University, he worked in financial, business, and public policy analysis in the course of a nearly 35-year career in the public and private sectors. Greco is an associate of the Columbia University Seminar on Twentieth-Century Politics and Society. He blogs at www.tony-greco.com.
Ellen Schrecker is Professor Emerita in history at Yeshiva University. Her books include Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America and Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism.
Stephen Shalom is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice at William Paterson University. His books include Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing US Intervention after The Cold War and Bitter Flowers, Sweet Flowers: East Timor, Indonesia and the World Community.
Ida Susser is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center (CUNY), at Hunter College (CUNY), and at Columbia University (Socio-Medical Sciences). She has conducted ethnographic research with respect to urban social movements in the United States and the gendered, local, national and global politics of the AIDS epidemic in New York City, Puerto Rico and southern Africa. She was co-chair of the Social Science Track for the 2008 Mexico City International AIDS Society Conference, co-chair of the AAA Commission of World Anthropologies, and is a founding member of the steering committee of Athena: Advancing Gender Equity and Human Rights in the Global Response to HIV/AIDS. Her most recent books include: AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (2009, Wiley Blackwell); and Norman Street Revisited: Claiming a Right to New York City (2012, Oxford). She received an award for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America from the Society for the Anthropology of North America, was founding President of the Society for the Anthropology of North America, and was President of the American Ethnological Society.
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