For 30 years now, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School has been engaged in academic and artistic work around some of the most vital topics of our time, including democracy and freedom of speech, different ways of learning and knowing the world, identity and identity politics, ecology, labor and care, and more.

Every two years, the VLC introduces a new Focus Theme, a research topic that frames all of the Center’s activities, including its annual Forum. This year’s Forum launched the Center’s new Focus Theme, Correction*, which gives the VLC the opportunity to subject and explore their history to a critical evaluation so that their future unfolds along pathways and values that are important to them now. For the 2022 Forum, which was held in October and helped celebrate the 30th anniversary, the VLC invited various artists, thinkers, and activists to campus to share their work, which ranged from scholarly talks and presentations to concerts and communal meals, among many other activities. Videos of all proceedings of the Forum are now available at www.veralistcenter.org.