Tag: Public Intellectuals
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“CUNY LAW SCHOOL EXHIBITS ART BY EX-RIKERS INMATES”
A different Post take on CUNY’s public programming. It’s written in a more “objective” or removed style than many of the other pieces from the Post. Read more.
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“America at War”
This very short “goings on about town” piece from the Daily News exemplifies the public turn of humanities education, especially at the Graduate Center, going on at this time. The public event connects the war in Iraq to the Philippine-American war.
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New CUNY Center to Focus On the Art of the Biography
The establishment of the center for biography at the Graduate Center. The article details conflict between scholars over the emerging field, and if it belongs in academia or elsewhere. Perhaps this also speaks to a pervasive focus on individual “celebrity” personalities within the academy. Read more.
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“CUNY to hold conference on African Diaspora”
Amsterdam News still consistently covers offerings for the Black community at CUNY. The article specifically mentions that the Graduate Center’s IRADAC is focusing on public programs, linking this article to several others from this time about the Graduate Center’s public intellectual offerings. Read more.
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“CUNYS COMMIES – HONORING A FELLOW TRAVELER”
I include this as a counterexample to the many Amsterdam News pieces on events at CUNY. The tone is as anti-communist as something written in the 50s, with plenty of name-calling and anguish over CUNY’s decision to host a centennial about a New York politician who had communist ties (and never mind the fact that…
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“GOING PUBLIC: How the “public intellectual” went from a buzzword to a relic, in one short decade”
A piece from the Washington Post on the aforementioned controversy surrounding celebrity professors and their academic credentials in the context of being “public intellectuals.” It mentions that the controversy reported on in the Times was particularly strange considering that West had actually published extensively on Sidney Hook. This is a rare instance of CUNY being…
