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At a time of heightened concern about freedom of speech—both within and outside the academy—New School New Books 2024 serves as a crucial reaffirmation of these rights, for everyone at the university and beyond. As an expansion of New School New Books: A Reading Series, first presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in spring 2023, the second edition introduces the latest publications by New School faculty in a three-part collective reading event, starting at 10:30 am with a performance and reading by Ahmed Abdullah, author of A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Co-presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the Creative Writing Program, the Office of Equity & Belonging, New School New Books celebrates recent publications by university faculty, centers, and institutes, across all five colleges. Curated around thematic clusters, nearly twenty authors assemble for a three-part series of readings and exchanges around a range of topics. Arriving from different fields and programs, they demonstrate the interdisciplinary and public-facing nature of New School scholarship.Â
The readings are divided into three sections: Sustaining Environments (11–12:30 pm), Critical Counterpoints (12:30–1:45 pm), and Culture Capture (2:15–3:30 pm), with topics ranging from critiques of modern-day systems—the political, the academic, the medical—to the intersections between cultural production and identity.
The 2024 edition of New School New Books is presented in conjunction with Spitting Image Art Book Fair (March 22–23), a community exhibition and trading event organized by students of Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design, demonstrating the proximity between teaching and learning. With a focus on artists’ books, zines, and print ephemera, S.I.A.B.F. hopes to honor New York City’s DIY scene through the display of contemporary paperworks.
Participants include Ahmed Abdullah, Ujju Aggarwal, T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso, Ana Isabel Baptista, Ben Barry, Katayoun Chamany, Camonghne Felix, Alan McGowan, Natalia Mehlman-Petrzela, Marisa Morán Jahn, Kirstin Munro, Dmitri Nikulin, John Reed, Jennifer Rittner, R. Trebor Scholz, Helen Schulman, and Kelly Walters.Â
Find the full program listing on the VLC's website.
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View the full list of authors and their publications via the Libraries’ New School New Books 2024 guide.
This program is organized by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, co-presented by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Equity & Belonging, and co-sponsored by the Provost's Office and The New School Libraries.Â
Effective February 23, 2023, event guests and/or visitors to the New School are no longer required to provide proof of up-to-date vaccination or negative result from a PCR test and do not need to use the CLEAR app to present their vaccination status.Â
Wearing a mask is recommended but not required on campus.
The Vera List Center tries to share its programs as widely as possible, which means recording our programming and making it available on the Vera List Center and The New School websites. By attending the event, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, or exhibition. You can view past Vera List Center events at veralistcenter.org/events/past.
The Vera List Center is committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to and inclusive of all. Wheelchair or mobility device seating is available. Please let us know when registering if you need this or any additional accommodations, or send an email to vlc@newschool.edu.
Everything New starts with a Spark.
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This event is part of an initiative led by the Provost’s Office to amplify and celebrate the work that brings together our community—and sets us apart.
Visit the main Spark hub to see all events.
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