Uneven Geographical Development and the Euro Crisis

04/16/2013
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Room 5307, CUNY Graduate Center
Lecture and discussion with Costis Hadjimichalis Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 from 6.30 – 8.30 pm Room 5307, CUNY Graduate Center Free and open to the public This presentation will discuss long-forgotten conditions of uneven geographical development in the context of the current financial and debt crisis in the Eurozone. The dominant explanations of the crisis are mainly macro-economic [read more»]

Egypt: A Revolution Continues

04/12/2013
6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
NYU Cantor Film Center, Theater 101
Friday April 12, 2013
NYU Cantor Film Center (36 E 8th St.), Theater 101
6:00PM; free and open to the public
The struggle in Egypt that began in 2011 and inspired people around the world is at a critical juncture. Amidst a deadlock between the Muslim Brotherhood and the opposition, the persistence of police brutality and state [read more»]

The University Beyond Crisis

04/08/2013
11:00 am - 6:45 pm
Skylight Conference Room, 9th Floor
Please join us for the university beyond crisis a symposium designed to occasion collaborative critical discussion that thinks beyond the rhetoric of crisis to ask, what is, or what ought to be, the relationship of the university to the common good? How might we envision and work toward the realization of a university that addresses that relationship and in the [read more»]

VIDEO: Afiya Zia and Gayatri Spivak in Conversation – Faith and Feminism in Pakistan

Afiya Zia and Gayatri Spivak discuss the backlash against the liberal and/or secular women’s movement as betrayers of the Muslim (male) cause. They also discuss the misguided prescription of those academic and developmental projects that advocate the instrumentalisation of Islam as an appropriate and ‘authentic’ approach in Muslim contexts. Moderated by Sadia Abbas. [read more»]

How We Can Win: Marian Kramer and David Harvey

03/19/2013
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Brecht Forum
March 19th, 2013 7:30 PM at The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street www.brechtforum.org How We Can Win?   A Talk with Marian Kramer, moderated by David Harvey Mass unemployment. School closures. Rampant misogyny. Police shootings. What does a revolutionary struggle look like today? Marian Kramer comes to the Brecht Forum to talk strategies and tactics to face the situation [read more»]