Graduate Conversation with Sarah Schulman

Graduate Conversation with Sarah Schulman

Sarah Schulman, Award-Winning Author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

Open to any interested graduate students, not only WGSS

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Date: Monday, February 27, 2023


Time: 10:00-11:00 am


Location: McMillan Hall 211


About the Event

For graduate students: Join Sarah Schulman, award-winning author, filmmaker, and oral historian, and longtime activist, for coffee and an informal conversation about storytelling, writing, and social justice. Open to all interested graduate students. Please RSVP by 2/24.

About the Author

Sarah Schulman is the author of more than twenty works of fiction (including The Cosmopolitans, Rat Bohemia, and Maggie Terry), nonfiction (including Stagestruck, Conflict is Not Abuse, and The Gentrification of the Mind), and theater (Carson McCullers, Manic Flight Reaction, and more), and the producer and screenwriter of several feature films (The Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets. She is a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at College of Staten Island, a Fellow at the New York Institute of Humanities, the recipient of multiple fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the cofounder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film and Video Festival, and the co-director of the groundbreaking ACT UP Oral History Project. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a longtime activist for queer rights and female empowerment, and serves on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Sponsors

Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Left Bank Books, Department of History, American Culture Studies Program, and Center for the Humanities.

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