Villa Gillet RDV April11 2011
New York, New York
What is Engagement Today?
Panel Discussion
Monday, April 11, 2011
6:30 pm
FREE
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
In partnership with the Villa Gillet and its Transatlantic Insights series of debates, readings, and performances, Aperture presents What is Engagement Today? 2011 has already proven to be a watershed year for political engagement, with struggles across the globe for peace, civil and human rights, and protection of the environment moving people to action. Photographer Nina Berman; psychoanalyst and activist Miguel Benasayag; anthropologist and physician Didier Fassin; and reporterGeorge Packer will discuss the new tools for activism. Moderated by Mark Greif, editor at n+1.
Across the globe, from North Africa to the halls of the Wisconsin Capitol, we see social, political, and environmental issues pushing people to action. But who are the faces of these movements? Who are the Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Martin Luther King, Jr., of today? What are the new tools of activism online and in the streets?
A former Che-Guevarist in Argentina, Miguel Benasayag dedicates himself today to issues of health and immigration in France. Didier Fassin analyzes the expansion of an international humanitarian government and studies the treatment of disadvantaged groups through the ethnography of police, justice, and prison. George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has covered the Iraq War for the magazine, and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and global counterinsurgency. Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She is the author of Purple Hearts—Back from Iraq, 2004, portraits and interviews with wounded American war veterans, which was featured in Aperture magazine issue 191, and Homeland, 2008, an examination of militarism in post 9-11 America.
www.nplusonemag.com
www.wallsandbridges.net
What is Engagement Today?
Panel Discussion
Monday, April 11, 2011
6:30 pm
FREE
Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
4th Floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
In partnership with the Villa Gillet and its Transatlantic Insights series of debates, readings, and performances, Aperture presents What is Engagement Today? 2011 has already proven to be a watershed year for political engagement, with struggles across the globe for peace, civil and human rights, and protection of the environment moving people to action. Photographer Nina Berman; psychoanalyst and activist Miguel Benasayag; anthropologist and physician Didier Fassin; and reporterGeorge Packer will discuss the new tools for activism. Moderated by Mark Greif, editor at n+1.
Across the globe, from North Africa to the halls of the Wisconsin Capitol, we see social, political, and environmental issues pushing people to action. But who are the faces of these movements? Who are the Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Martin Luther King, Jr., of today? What are the new tools of activism online and in the streets?
A former Che-Guevarist in Argentina, Miguel Benasayag dedicates himself today to issues of health and immigration in France. Didier Fassin analyzes the expansion of an international humanitarian government and studies the treatment of disadvantaged groups through the ethnography of police, justice, and prison. George Packer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has covered the Iraq War for the magazine, and has also written about the atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast, the megacity of Lagos, and global counterinsurgency. Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. She is the author of Purple Hearts—Back from Iraq, 2004, portraits and interviews with wounded American war veterans, which was featured in Aperture magazine issue 191, and Homeland, 2008, an examination of militarism in post 9-11 America.
www.nplusonemag.com
www.wallsandbridges.net
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