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[EVENT] Asia and Dissent in a Time of Strongman Leaders  

Please join us this Thursday in NYC for a roundtable discussion with experts on China, India, Japan, and Russia, hosted by the India-China Institute at the New School. Moderator: Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s professor of History, University of California at Irvine; …



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[EVENTS] A Party, a Lecture, and a Reading  

Next Friday, October 24, Dissent will celebrate the launch of our fall issue in Brooklyn with our publishing friends, Verso Books and The New Inquiry. Join us for drinks, discussion, and dancing from 9pm in the beautiful backyard of Hollow Nickel bar in Brooklyn.



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[EVENT] Dissent at Left Forum 2014  

Dissent invites you to join us for two panels at this year’s Left Forum, which will be taking place this weekend (May 30–June 1) at John Jay College in New York City. Register for Left Forum here. Cloud Labor: Working …



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[EVENT] Spring Issue Launch: Our Technology and Theirs  

New digital technologies, particularly social media, make money by offering “free” services to users that encourage us to spend our lives on their platforms, while other tech companies try to turn work that was previously paid into play for unpaid …









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[EVENT] George Scialabba discusses For the Republic  

Monday, October 21, 7:00 PM Book Culture (536 W. 112th St, New York, NY) Join award-winning critic George Scialabba for a discussion of his latest book, For the Republic, at Book Culture on. Scialabba will be in conversation with Dissent‘s online …



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[EVENT] Dissent 60th Anniversary Celebration  

Join Dissent in celebrating sixty years of critical thought and politics, in honoring Michael Walzer’s six decades as writer and editor, and in building the foundation for a renewed democratic left in the twenty-first century.



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[EVENT] The Economy Goes Pop (Tonight!)  

The Summer 2013 issue of Dissent marks the premiere of Front Matters, a new section of cultural criticism. To celebrate the new issue and the new section, we are hosting a conversation tonight at 7 p.m. with three of our …



[EVENT] China’s 99%  

Please join us for a conversation about China’s 99%, in partnership with the India China Institute at the New School. Wednesday, May 22, 6:00-8:00 p.m. The New School 55 W 13th St., 2nd Fl. (Dorothy Hirshon Suite) New York, NY …



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[EVENT] Belabored Launch  

Please join us for a conversation and party to launch Belabored, Dissent’s new labor podcast hosted by Josh Eidelson and Sarah Jaffe. Thursday, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Smart Clothes Gallery 154 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002 Our conversation will …



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[EVENT] Time for the Neo-Dissidents?  

Time for the Neo-Dissidents? Slawomir Sierakowski and Marci Shore in conversation about the current state of democracies. Tuesday, April 9, 4:00 p.m. Luce Hall, Room 202, the MacMillan Center 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT Sławomir Sierakowski is the leader …



[EVENT] Book Talk on Sustaining Activism This Sunday  

Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, authors of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration (excerpted here in Dissent), will be speaking this Sunday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in New York City. The event will be …