Frances Fox Piven - Election 2024: Is Everything Going To Be OK?
Monday September 30, 2024 6:30 PM - September 30, 2024 8:00 PM Zoom New York City
Frances Fox Piven - political scientist, activist, and according to Glenn Beck one of the "nine most dangerous people in the world - analyzes democracy and politics today
Monday November 18, 2024 6:30 PM - November 18, 2024 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Political theorist Samir Gandesha reflects on the contemporary relevance of Leo Lowenthals and Norbert Gutermans landmark text of Critical Theory analyzing the roots of susceptibility to fascist propaganda, Prophets of Deceit.
Wafa Ghnaim, Tatreez Resistance: The Traditional Art of Palestinian Embroidery in the Diaspora
Wednesday January 22, 2025 6:30 PM - January 22, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Wafa Ghnaim, curator for the Museum of the Palestinian People in Washington, D.C. and Senior Research Fellow for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Ancient Near East, intertwines memory, history, politics and embroidery in sharing traditional ...
Malynne Sternstein: Love without Hope; Benjamins Trials with Surrealism
Monday February 10, 2025 6:30 PM - February 10, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Cultural theorist and University of Chicago Professor Emerita Malynne Sternstein weaves Czech surrealism into the urgency of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project.
David France, Staying Alive: Art & Activism in the Time of AIDS
Monday March 31, 2025 6:30 PM - March 31, 2025 8:00 PM SVA Honors Program New York, NY
Award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker David France speaks on the achievements, in the midst of terrible necessities, of AIDS activists in art and politics.