Janet Roitman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the New School, will speak to faculty, colleagues and students on October 16th at 5PM at 194 Mercer Street, room 306. Dr. Roitman will speak about her latest research, which seeks to understand “crisis” as a narrative device. Dr. Roitman’s Anti Crisis, published by Duke University Press in 2013, illuminates the social consequences and meanings of the proliferation of the idea of “crisis” in our contemporary culture.
Read more about Anti Crisis, here.
Read more about Dr. Roitman’s research and teaching, here.
Reception to follow.