We are proud to announce that the 2008-2009 Asch Center Seminar Series will be supported by a Seed Grant from the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum.
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CANCELLED--TO BE RESCHEDULED Monday 8 October 2012
Monday 20 Feb 2012 4:15pm Monday 30 Jan 2012 4:15pm
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On June 2nd, NPR’s Bryant Park Project news show featured Marc Ross discussing recent violence in South Africa against immigrants from Zimbabwe and other neighboring countries. Follow the link below to read a summary and listen to the interview. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91054504 Jeremy Ginges, currently at the New School for Social Research, coauthored an op-ed piece in the New York Times on opinions of Arab journalists. Far from being our enemies, Arab journalists could be among the “most powerful weapons in the war of ideas against terrorism” according to the authors. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/opinion/25pintak.html? _r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin An excerpt from Asoka Bandarage’s new book, The Separatist Conflict in Sri Lanka: Broadening the Discourse (Routledge) was recently published in the Harvard International Review. Bandarage is professor at Georgetown University. The Sri Lankan Conflict A Multi-Polar Approach By Asoka Bandarage http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1725/ A posting onThe Situationist website featured a video created by Roy Eidelson. According to Eidelson, our “Five Core Concerns” are easy targets for leaders wishing to sway public opinion. He explains how how awareness of core concerns can help us to “recognize, counter and resist the appeals of warmongers.” To view the video on Eidelson’s [...] |
The Drone dream series is my first body of work using photographs together with mixed media. My aim is to create collages that evoke a dream-like acceptance of a scene that is resolved, yet uneasy. Using an interchanging creative process that relies on drone/automation, dream/randomness and moments of lucidity where key decisions are made, I cultivate the difference between what is concrete and what is in the mind. Drone/automation can infiltrate the creative process until a point when the artist/remote-controller takes over. Dream/randomness reflects the collision of imagery and sensory experiences in the mind, and an aesthetic that hinges on impossibility.
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