Today! Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm: Sponsored by the New School 's Eugene Lang College , n+1 Magazine presents a series of issue-themed discussions, arguments, and debates. Dissent co-editor Michael Walzer joins n+1 editors Keith Gessen and Mark Greif for the inaugural discussion of n+1's "New New York Intellectuals" series at the New School. They will examine a number of issues confronting the contemporary left: the Iraq War, the rise of Putin's Russia, the possibility of American socialism, and the prospects of healing a fractured left in post-Bush America. Theresa Lang Student Center at the New School. 55 W.13th Street.

Tomorrow! Wednesday, November 19, 6-8:00pm: "Oral History, AIDS Activism and Archives of Feelings." Ann Cvetkovich is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Oral History Research Office in 1999-2000. She is the author of Mixed Feelings: Feminism, Mass Culture, and Victorian Sensationalism and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures , which includes oral histories with lesbian AIDS activists. She is also editor, with Annamarie Jagose, of GLQ:  A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. She works collaboratively on the subject of Public Feelings and is interested in the emotional dynamics of oral history and testimony. Room 902 in the International Affairs Building, on the Columbia University, Morningside campus (420 West 118th Street) .

The Day After Tomorrow! Thursday, November 20, 5:00 - 6:30pm: "The Political Culture of Journalism in the Age of Totalitarianism." NYU's Center for the United States and the Cold War Seminar present a lecture by Sam Lebovic , University of Chicago with a reception to follow. Tamiment Library, 70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor (between LaGuardia and Greene Streets). To RSVP or to receive a copy of the paper please email zk3@nyu.edu
 
Wednesday, December 3, 6-8:00pm: "Narratives of ANC activists in South Africa: Tensions in the Interregnum."   Roxsana Patel is a professionally trained Chartered Clinical Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and specialized in research and clinical intervention with survivors of political conflict and refugees, as well as youth in post-crisis transitional contexts. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and a British Chevening Scholar at the University of London and read for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. She has also written large research grants for various UN agencies and NGOs in the United States. Dr. Patel is the Senior Project Manager for two international foundations and is currently working on an oral history of the development of public interest law in South Africa. Room 902 in the International Affairs Building, on the Columbia University Morningside campus (420 West 118th Street) .

Wednesday, December 3, 7:00pm: Religion and Civil Life: A Conversation between Richard John Neuhaus and Philip Gorski, moderated by John Torpey. Father Richard John Neuhaus is the author of, among other books, Catholic Matters: Confusion, Controversy, and the Splendor of Truth, and the Editor-in-Chief of First Things, a monthly publication of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. Philip Gorski is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director (with Julia Adams) of Yale's Center for Comparative Research (CCR); his most recent book is The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Growth of State Power in Early Modern Europe. John Torpey is a Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. The Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY. 365 Fifth Ave (between 34 ^th & 35 ^th).

Thursday, December 4, 6:15pm: "Native Hawaiian Women and the Politics of Decolonization." Departments of Anthropology and American Studies; Wesleyan University present J. Kehaulani Kauanui . This presentation examines gender dynamics within the contemporary Hawaiian nationalist movement and new formulations of decolonization that engage colonial patriarchy. Kauanui suggests that there has been a paucity of sustained critique regarding contemporary male dominance because of the ways in which many Hawaiians draw on imaginings of a pre-colonial past free of gender domination as a way of side-stepping the question of male hegemony today. Seminar members are invited to meet for wine and cheese at 6:15 pm with the talk and discussion running from 6:45-8:00 pm. If you have any questions or would like to join the speaker, chairs and rapporteur for dinner at a local restaurant after the talk, please RSVP to Christina Charuhas ( cac2166@columbia.edu ) by December 2. 934 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University. For help locating Schermerhorn Hall, you can view a map of Columbia's campus at http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map .