Today at 4:30 p.m., the Colin L. Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York is holding a tribute to our departed friend and colleague Marshall Berman. 4:30-6:30 p.m. The Great Hall, Shepard Hall …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Next Wednesday, February 6 at 6 p.m., Dissent co-editor Michael Walzer and New York Review of Books contributor Yasmine El Rashidi will speak about the state of the Arab Spring. The discussion will take place in the Elebash Recital Hall …
In the Summer 2012 issue of Dissent, Hazem Kandil presented his analysis of Egypt’s recent revolution. This Wednesday he will be in New York to discuss his new book, Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen, now out from Verso. Wednesday, November 28 at …
This Saturday evening, Dissent‘s Sarah Leonard will speak with Laurie Penny about her new book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism. Penny is a journalist, feminist, and political activist from London whose blog, “Penny Red,” was shortlisted for the Orwell …
This Saturday, November 17, Dissent is hosting an open forum on the U.S. elections. Historians Michael Kazin, David Greenberg, and Kim Phillips-Fein will talk about current trends in American politics—how we got here, and where we’re headed. Michael Kazin is …
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Last Wednesday, the CUNY Graduate Center hosted a debate between author and journalist Chris Hedges and B. Traven of CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective on violence and “diversity of tactics” in Occupy and other social movements. The debate, moderated by CUNY sociology …
Todd Gitlin is talking about his new book, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, on Tuesday and Wednesday in Maine. “Will there be an Occupy 2.0? Reflections on the roots, spirit, and promise …
