Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Smart, Witty, Activist Writers Question Authority 4 panel discussions. In association with the University of Missouri School of Journalism. These four discussions feature women writers and journalists who employ comedy, literature, imagination, and art to shed light on social issues. Each guest reads a short selection of her work in this genre, after which the moderator initiates a conversation.
Time is set aside for questions from the audience.
Barbara Neely, author of the popular Blanche White mystery novels, former producer for Africa News Service, currently host of Commonwealth Journal, a radio program in Massachusetts. In honor of Senator Bob Kerrey, the seventh President of New School University. The fourth of seven planned lectures revisiting the original seven courses offered by the New School for Social Research when it opened its doors in February 1919. In 2001, Robert N. Bellah, Elliot Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California, author of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society, asks whether habit and a related idea, ritual, deserve the bad name that moderns have often given them. A look at the historical vicissitudes of these notions may help us in reappropriating them.