Social Research: An International Quarterly launch: Politics and Comedy

Saturday, April 28

5:00-7:00 p.m.
John Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street

Social Research: An International Quarterly launches its 2012 Spring issue (79:1), which is devoted to the theme of “Politics and Comedy,” with a panel of humorous speakers. This event is co-sponsored by The New School for Drama.

Participants:
Tim Carvell is head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a contributor toSlate 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.

RSVP is required to cps@newschool.edu. Seating is first-come, first-served.

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