The New School for Social Research for presents “little magazines & The Conversation of Culture in America,” Thursday November 12 – Friday November 13, 2015. This two day conference ignites the conversation between contemporary journalisms and politics for a celebration of NSSR’s newly launched M.A. in Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism concurrent with the 50th anniversary of the legendary Salmagundi Magazine.
Friday
9:30–11:00 a.m.
Panel discussion “The Little Magazine Today” with:
Chair: Robert Boyers, editor of Salmagundi and Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters at Skidmore College
Jon Baskin, editor of The Point
Uzumaka Maduka, founding editor of The American Reader
Rachel Rosenfelt, founder of The New Inquiry
11:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Panel discussion “Left Politics & the Little Magazine” with:
Chair: James Miller, The New School for Social Research
Sarah Leonard, The Nation, Dissent
Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of The Jacobin
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and editor of The American Prospect
See Thursday, November 12 for additional discussion in Wollman Hall, and the late afternoon of Friday, November 13 for additional discussion in Theresa Lang Student Center.