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No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School
Friday, March 26 (6:00-9:00 p.m.) and Saturday, March 27 (all day), 2010
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center (55 West 13th Street)
No registration necessary
The New School invites you to No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School, Friday, March 26, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. and all day Saturday, March 27 at the Theresa Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street. This exciting event is a celebration of the return of Gender Studies to The New School and an exploration of what the community wishes from this new undertaking.
Leading scholars in the field, along with the New School faculty and students, explore the rich institutional and intellectual history of the interdisciplinary field of Gender Studies and speculate about the directions this study might take us in the future.
Most of us who work in the nonprofit sector know about Idealist.org. It’s the place where we go to post and find jobs in the sector. It’s where we exchange ideas and materials and where we learn about new organizations offering innovative services. What many of us don’t know, however, is that Idealist is provided free to us by a nonprofit organization called Action Without Borders. Right now Idealist is in financial trouble due to the slow economy. It’s traditional source of revenue—the small fees it charges other nonprofits to post jobs—can no longer support the wide range of services that Idealist offers. We love Idealist and that’s why we are reproducing an appeal letter from Idealist ED Ami Dar here on our blog.
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