Lecture The “Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism”: The Struggle for Free Speech at City College of New York, 1931–42  Thursday, April 16, 6:30–8:00 pm Martin E. Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.)   Carol Smith, Associate Professor, retired, CCNY, will highlight CCNY student and faculty activism, which was spawned by the […]

Symposium Art, Social Change, and the Urban Sphere Thursday, March 26, 6:00 pm Art Department, City College of New York Compton Goethals, Room 249 West 140th Street and Amsterdam Avenue (A, C, B, or D train to 145th St., or 1 train to 137th St.) Held in conjunction with The Left Front, this symposium will […]

Lecture Picturing Chicago’s Jewish Ghetto: Todros Geller and the Imagined Past Monday, March 2, 6:30 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South   Lecture by Daniel Greene, Adjunct Professor of History, Northwestern University.   Co-sponsored by NYU’s Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, Skirball Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies; […]

Readings Creative Writing Gallery Prize Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 pm Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East   The undergraduate Creative Writing Gallery Prize winner and finalists will read their poems and prose in response to The Left Front. Introduced by Darin Strauss, Creative Writing faculty contest judge. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Creative Writing Program and […]

Panel Discussion Jewish Tales of Scottsboro Monday, March 9, 6:30 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South   Panel discussion moderated by Hasia R. Diner, Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History and Director, Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, NYU. With speakers James Goodman, Professor of […]

Panel Discussion Left, left, left, right, left:  The Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture Friday, March 6, 7:00 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South   Panel discussion moderated by James D. Fernández, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portugese; with speakers Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum […]

Symposium Destroying Radical Icons: Mexican Muralism and the New York Left Friday, February 27, 2:30–8:00 pm   Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East 2:30–3:30 pm: Gallery Conversation on The Left Front   King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South 4:00–5:30 pm: Panel 1 5:30–6:00 pm: Break 6:00–7:30 pm: Panel 2 […]

Lecture Birobidzhan: A Sweet-Turned-Empty Dream about a Socialist Jewish Homeland Monday, February 23, 6:30 pm King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South   Lecture by Gennady Estraikh, Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies and Rauch Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, NYU. Accompanied by a screening of L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin!, […]

Related Exhibition Vida Y Drama de México: Prints from the Monroe E. Price and Aimée Brown Price Collection Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven Organized by Suzanne Boorsch and Lucy Gellman On view until February 1, 2015 Information: artgallery.yale.edu, 203/432-0600