Call & Response occupies that open, inquisitive, generous place when pronouncements are offered, but conclusions not yet drawn. It usually entails participation by New School faculty and for a set period invites commentaries by visitors to the site.
CALL: Roberta Smith / RESPONSE: Laura Auricchio
CALL: Roberta Smith, Criticism: A Life Sentence
On November 5, 2009, Roberta Smith delivered the 2009 AICA/USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School. From her vantage as senior art critic of the New York Times, she shared her thoughts on art criticism in general and, in particular, as it relates to her twenty years at the Times. She both embraced and…
Posted on February 22, 2010
CALL: Birth and Rebirth of a Nation / RESPONSE: Chris Johnson
CALL: Birth and Rebirth of a Nation, colloquium and film screening, September 26, 2009
Centered on D.W. Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation, this day-long event reconsidered the notorious white supremacist manifesto in the context of the Obama call for change. The speakers, among them Douglas A. Blackmon, David W. Blight, Bill Gaskins, Margo Jefferson, Michelle Materre, Paul D. Miller (a…
Posted on December 2, 2009
CALL: Inaugural Lecture, Speculating on Change / RESPONSE: William Morrish
CALL: Inaugural Lecture, Speculating on Change
The inaugural lecture on “Speculating on Change” was delivered by Michael A. Cohen, Director, The Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School on October 16, 2009. Cohen discussed cities both as sites of the greatest impacts of global change, but also as sites providing solutions to some of the challenges that result from such change.…
Posted on December 2, 2009
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