Politics and Comedy
Social Research Issue Launch
Saturday 28 April, 2012
5 - 7pm, $0/Rsvp
New School, Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, Tishman Auditorium
Social Research: An International Quarterly launches its 2012 Spring issue (79:1), which is devoted to the theme "Politics and Comedy," with a panel of humorous speakers. This event is co-sponsored by The New School for Drama and part of The New School Alumni Day, April 28.
Participants:
Tim Carvell is head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a contributor to Slate Magazine and McSweeney's.
Nancy Giles is writer and contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning and was a collaborator on two public-affairs radio series for the CBS Radio Network.
Victor S. Navasky was editor of The Nation from 1978 to1995 and publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. Navasky is now George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism, Director of the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism, and Chair of Columbia Journalism Review at the Columbia Journalism School and is at work on a book about political cartoons.
Seating is first come, first served.
Participants:
Tim Carvell is head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a contributor to Slate Magazine and McSweeney's.
Nancy Giles is writer and contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning and was a collaborator on two public-affairs radio series for the CBS Radio Network.
Victor S. Navasky was editor of The Nation from 1978 to1995 and publisher and editorial director from 1995 to 2005. Navasky is now George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism, Director of the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism, and Chair of Columbia Journalism Review at the Columbia Journalism School and is at work on a book about political cartoons.
Seating is first come, first served.