"La Sapé: Youth, Fashion, and the Obligation to Consume in Dakar, Senegal"

1-4pm Room 9204-9205, CUNY Graduate Center

Cosponsored with Women's Studies and Continuing Education and Public Programs

Introduction: Mary Catherine Bateson
Speaker: Nancy Lutkehaus, University of Southern California

"The Gender of Mania"
2-4pm Room 9204-9205, CUNY Graduate Center

Cosponsored with the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and Continuing Education and Public Programs

Please join us after for wine and cheese in the Brockway Room (6402)!

Sippi Azerbaijani-Moghadam has been based in central Asia for five years and speaks several regional languages. She travels frequently into Afghanistan to investigate conditions for women and to report abuses. Sippi is an expert on the history of the region, especially refugee issues, and can speak knowledgeably on the concerns and fears of Afghan women. Sippi was based in Peshawar, Pakistan until the events of September 11 prompted her evacuation to the UK, but she is in constant contact with women's groups in Pakistan who continue to monitor the situation inside Afghanistan.
http://www.womenscommission.org

Kate Crehan, Department of Anthropology, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY

"Terrorism, Feminism, Communism, War: South African Narratives of Witness and Complicity"
1-3pm Room 9207, CUNY Graduate Center
Cosponsored with Continuing Education and Public Programs

Confirmed speakers: Stanley Aronowitz, Susan George, Manning Marable, Mike Davis, L.A. Kauffman, Kim Moody, Barbara Garson, Robert Naiman, Bill Tabb, Jeremy Brecher, Alex Callincos and Michael Hardt

CUNY Graduate Center
Room TBA

Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work Continuing Education
For more information: 212-817-2000 or hgautney@gc.cuny.edu

6:30pm Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center

Authors of Wilson's Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing, and Catastrophe in the 21st Century. Robert S. McNamara was president of the Ford Motor Company, Secretary of Defense to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and president of the World Bank. James G. Blight is professor of international relations at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.

6pm Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center

An event coinciding with the publication of Richard Wolin's Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse.
Discussion and book signing.

6pm Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton

In Association with The New York Times
Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History, Lehman College;
Margo Jefferson, Cultural critic, The New York Times;
Katha Pollitt, columnist and essayist (The Nation, The New Yorker);
Frank Rich, columnist, The New York Times, author of Ghost Light

6:3Opm Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center

6:30pm Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center

Author of Riot: A Love Story, Show Business, The Great Indian Novel, and India: From Midnight to the Millennium. He is a senior United Nations official.