Scope and Contents The demographic changes that mark post-1960s America have had a profound impact on our political and cultural systems. The influx of Hispanics and Asians in the last twenty years has posed challenges comparable to those generated by Eastern and Southern European immigrants in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In her recent anthology, Reinventing the Melting Pot, Tamar Jacoby showcases essays that investigate these changes, asking what it means to be an...

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Screening of an excerpt from the film, "Return to the Land of Wonders," by director Maysoon Pachachi. Panelists: Fergus Muir, Paul Kahlfeldt, Benjamin R. Barber. Moderator: Marc Pachter.

Inscription: Sondra Farganis / Rebulding Baghdad / Wolfson / (orig) / 4-13-05.

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Public policy analysts on the Bush agenda. Speakers: Gary Alperovitz, Robb Burlage, Wendy Kaminer. Moderator: Benjamin Silliman.

Inscription: Blue State Blues - NSU / May 2, 2005 / Wolfson Center.

Scope and Contents Participants: Sondra Farganis, Reverend Rosemary Bray McNatt, Gloria Steinem, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elaine Markson, Kathleen Norris, Shirley Press, Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov, Robin Morgan. Music performed by: Gretchen Langheld, Helen Hooke, Jmes Donahower, Peter Belci, Louis DeMartino, Doug Brandt. [Acording to the original event flyer, found in Exhibtiions and Public Programs, Wolfson Center folder, this event took place on 2005-05-25]Inscription: Andrea Dworkin Memorial /...

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Panel discussion. Panelists: Jazz Hayden, Costas Panagopoulos, Matt Kohn. Moderator: Sharon Lerner. Presented by The Information Project in association with the Wolfson Center for National Affairs.

Inscription: Voting in America / 09-14-05 / Special Programs.

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Panel discussion. Moderator: Youssef Yacoubi. Panelists: Jacques Berlinerblau, Susan Jacoby, Margaret Steinfels, John O. Voll.

Inscription: Is Secularism Dead? / 09/27/05 6pm.

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Moderator: Joan Harris. Speakers: Clark Kent Ervin, Charles Strozier, Chris Hedges, Warren Spielberg. Title is derived from the Fall 2006 New School Course Catalog descripion.

Inscription: Sondra Farganis 9/26/06 (orig) / 9/11 - The Byproducts of Trauma.

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Talk on the occasion of the publication of Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight. Speaker: Tom Hayden. Presented by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs in association with the New Press.

Inscription: Tom Hayden 10/6/06.

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Panel discussion. Panelists: Ruth Ben-Artzi, Amjad Atallah, Stephen P. Cohen. Moderator: Samuel Norwich. Sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs, in association with the Graduate Program in International Affairs, and Meretz USA.

Inscription: 4/10/06 / Divining the Tea Leaves: A Post-Election Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

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Panel discussion. Moderator: Sondra Myers. Panelists: Robert Drinnan, Brad Hirschfeld, Munir Jiwa, Patrice Brodeur.

Inscription: Democracy, Pluralism, Religion / NS-Wolfson / Nov. 1 2006 / orig.