CRITICAL & VISUAL STUDIES : 2012

Assistant Professor position in our Department - Politics or Geography

We have a new position for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Politics or Geography with "Ability to teach the history of economics in a social and political perspective is a plus." Here is the official notice with the link to apply: New position in our department! Assistant Professor - Politics or Geography POSITION SUMMARY: The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies in...

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SSCS Speaker Series: Jeffrey Surovell "The First Time as Deception, the Second As Farce: Post-Soviet Russian Policy Vis-a-Vis NATO Expansion and the Wars in Yugoslavia

Announcement 6:45 PM

The Department of

Social Science and Cultural Studies

Speakers Series

2012-2013
presents

Jeffrey Surovell

The First Time as Deception, the Second As Farce:
Post-Soviet Russian Policy Vis-a-vis NATO Expansion and the Wars in Yugoslavia

Tuesday, November 27th
5pm
Library Alumni Reading Room

Please join us for our final speaker for Fall 2012, Jeff Sorovell of the Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies discussing a topic of increasing importance as social conflicts involving the US, Russia, and NATO intensify in Syria, Spain, Greece, Gaza and around the Mediterranean.

It has been a practically universal assumption among Russian studies analysts--indeed, people generally--that Moscow after the fall of the Soviet Union has been an "opponent" of the West's policies. This was nowhere more manifest than toward the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the expansion of NATO, probably the most momentous foreign policy issues of the early post-Soviet years. My talk will attempt to demonstrate that far from being an "opponent," Moscow has in fact been a willing accomplice in the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and played the dutiful role of the West's "errand boy" in its campaign to coerce Belgrade to submit to NATO's dictates. These cases demonstrate, above all, the close community of interests that exists between Russia's capitalist elites and their Western "masters."

Jeff Surovell has written on Soviet and post-Soviet Russian domestic politics and foreign policy, including politics and foreign policy (vis-a-vis the Third World) in the Soviet era, Russian economic and political developments after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Moscow's policy vis-a-vis the advanced capitalist countries. In his book, Capitalist Russia and the West (2000), Surovell became the first to apply Marxist class analysis and dependency theory to the field of Russian politics, an approach which hardly endeared him to either the ruling elites in Russia and the West or the mainstream within the--universally pro-Western--community of analysts in the field of Russian studies. Surovell is Adjunct Associate Professor of History in the department.

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Franco Berardi Bifo - Uprising, Poetry, and Finance (audio recording)

Critical Analysis 6:02 PM

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Franco Berardi Bifo on Uprising, Poetry, and Finance Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies Speakers Series 2012-2013 Audio of Franco Berardi Bifo's talk, November 14, 2013 (Engineering Building, Room 307) http://archive.org/details/FrancoBerardiBifoOnUprisingPoetryAndFinance Abstract: The relation between language and financial power, and the process of de-referencialization of semiotic signs in the poetry of the XIX and XXth Century (from Symbolism to Futurism to Ermetism...

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Franco Berardi Bifo on Uprising, Poetry, and Finance November 14, 5pm

Autonomist 1:55 PM

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The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies Speakers Series 2012-2013 presents Franco Berardi Bifo on Uprising, Poetry, and Finance Franco Berardi Bifo, Wednesday, November 14th at 5pm (Engineering Building, Room 307) Uprising, Poetry, and Finance Abstract: The relation between language and financial power, and the process of de-referencialization of semiotic signs in the poetry of the XIX and XXth Century (from Symbolism...

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Social Science and Cultural Studies Speakers Series 2012-2013

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The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies Speakers Series 2012-2013 Fall 1. Nathan Zhang, October 3rd at 5:30 pm (North Hall 111) Founder of "Brandnu" - Beijing, China Talk: "Fashion as Sustainable Social Practice" Co-sponsored with Fashion Department 2. Jacqueline Fewkes, Monday October 8th at 12:30pm (Library Alumni Reading Room) Associate Professor of Anthropology Florida Atlantic University Title: Being Muslim at the...

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298 Full-text Metropolitan Museum of Art titles online

Announcement 3:29 PM

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has placed online almost 300 titles from their many exhibition catalogs and texts dating back to 1964. They are searchable and you can download the texts as a pdf file. Go here to Met Publications http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online?searchtype=F. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has placed online almost 300 titles from their many exhibition catalogs and texts dating back to 1964. ...

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Silvia Federici: "Witch-hunting past and present in the global political economy”

Announcement 11:38 AM

Silvia Federici

Professor Emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University
Teacher, Activist, and Autonomist Feminist Philosopher

"Witch-hunting past and present in the global political economy”

Tuesday, October 23rd

Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library
5pm

presented by

The Department of

Social Science and Cultural Studies

Speakers Series

Silvia Federici is a long time feminist activist, teacher and writer.

In 1972s she was a co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the international campaign for wages for housework in the United States and Internationally. In 1990 she was a co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and from 1991 to 2003 she was one of the editors of the CAFA newsletter. In 1995 she helped found the Radical Philosophy Association Anti-Death Penalty Project.

She has taught at the University of Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and she is now Emerita Professor at Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York).

Federici has authored many essays on feminist theory, women’s history, political philosophy and education. Her published books include: Revolution at Point Zero. Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle; Caliban and the Witch. Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation; Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and its Others (editor); Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural Adjustment in African Universities (co-editor).

Upcoming Fall 2012 Speakers

Franco Berardi

Uprising, Poetry, and Finance

Wednesday, November 14^th at 6pm

Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library

Jeff Surovell

USSR and post-Soviet Russia, including domestic politics and foreign policy.

Tuesday, November 27^th at 5pm

Alumni Reading Room, Pratt Library

Spring 2013 Speakers

Eva Illouz on the relationship between capitalism and emotional life.

(January, TBA)

Nona Shepphard

TBA

Co-sponsored with the Department of Humanities and Media Studies

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Pratt's New Media Studies M.A. Program

Announcement 10:00 AM

Graduate Program in Media Studies The Media Studies M.A. Program at Pratt is an intensive state-of-the-art program shaped in relation to Pratt’s art/design/architecture environment and to the burgeoning mediascape, lively social space, and theoretical scene of Brooklyn and New York City. Classes are small, following seminar, workshop and experimental formats, and all classes are taught by professors. It is a given that media...

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Katie Kelley: New Coordinator of Student Activities for Critical and Visual Studies

Announcement 6:51 PM

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We are very pleased to start the year off with announcing that Katie Kelley has become Coordinator of Student Activities! Gregg Horowitz, the Chair of Social Science & Cultural Studies emailed this announcement. Hello All. I am pleased to announce that Katie Kelley, visiting instructor in SSCS, has agreed to serve as Coordinator of Student Activities for Critical and Visual Studies. Many...

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Corinne Rendinaro (alum) - Exhibition at FB Gallery Opening Tomorrow, July 24th

Alumni/ae 11:19 AM

Alum Corinne Rendinaro is participating in a multi-media group exhibition at the FB Gallery in Manhattan. "Corinne Rendinaro moved to New York after high school to study Fashion Design. After taking a required course in life drawing, she found her true passion was art. She changed her major to Fashion Illustration where her attention was focused on movement of the body...

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Molly Adams and Elizabeth Merrill Awarded Faculty Senior Thesis Prizes

Announcement 11:37 AM

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Left side of the “Spectrum of Life” exhibit in the Hall of Biodiversity atthe American Museum of Natural History Source: Image taken by Molly H. AdamsSeptember 2011 At the end of the semester, the faculty of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies recognized two of our seniors for their outstanding thesis work. This year, we were pleased to give the Senior...

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THURSDAY: Wallabout Film Festival at IndieScreen, Brooklyn

Announcement 8:31 AM

Curated by a group of interdisciplinary students from Pratt Institute, the 4th Annual Wallabout Film Festival is proud to present the work of innovative student filmmakers from around the world in two programs. From stories of love gone bad and revenge not going according to plan, to explorations of greed and the pleasures of big butts, this year’s films will entertain, provoke, and...

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A lecture by the visiting SLAS Distinguished Scholar Juan Cole

Announcement 9:00 AM

The Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies invites you to attend a lecture by the SLAS Distinguished Scholar Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, on the question "Whatever Happened to the Arab Spring?" Professor Cole's lecture will be held on Monday, April 23, at 6 PM in the Alumni Reading Room. Professor Cole's most...

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Film by Joshua Sobel ('10) to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival this April

Alumni/ae 11:16 AM

Film by Joshua Sobel (B.A. Critical and Visual Studies '10) to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival this April Joshua Sobel is a Brooklyn-based video director and independent film producer from Miami Beach. While at Pratt Institute, he was one of the founders of the Wallabout Film Festival, an international student film competition currently in its fourth year. Graceland is his first credit as...

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Senior Thesis Public Reading and Reception

Announcement 1:20 PM

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Senior Thesis Public Reading and Reception *** Dekalb Gallery Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5pm - 6:30 Molly H. Adams. Communicating Interdependence: Ecological Thinking and the Natural History Museum. Alexander Damianos. A Study of the Public School New York. Michael Enten. The District Divide: An Investigation of the Effects of Gentrification on Go-Go Music in Washington, D. C. Rebecca...

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Assistant Professor position in our Department - Politics or Geography

SSCS Speaker Series: Jeffrey Surovell "The First Time as Deception, the Second As Farce: Post-Soviet Russian Policy Vis-a-Vis NATO Expansion and the Wars in Yugoslavia

Franco Berardi Bifo - Uprising, Poetry, and Finance (audio recording)

Franco Berardi Bifo on Uprising, Poetry, and Finance November 14, 5pm

Social Science and Cultural Studies Speakers Series 2012-2013

298 Full-text Metropolitan Museum of Art titles online

Silvia Federici: "Witch-hunting past and present in the global political economy”

Pratt's New Media Studies M.A. Program

Katie Kelley: New Coordinator of Student Activities for Critical and Visual Studies

Corinne Rendinaro (alum) - Exhibition at FB Gallery Opening Tomorrow, July 24th

Molly Adams and Elizabeth Merrill Awarded Faculty Senior Thesis Prizes

THURSDAY: Wallabout Film Festival at IndieScreen, Brooklyn

A lecture by the visiting SLAS Distinguished Scholar Juan Cole

Film by Joshua Sobel ('10) to Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival this April

Senior Thesis Public Reading and Reception

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