Seminar

With the conclusion of the part-time faculty strike at The New School and the ongoing organizing by students, faculty, and staff, this seminar makes space to process and understand the strike and its aftermath. As the fourth seminar in the Vera List Center Correction* series, the conversation considers the strike within the broader cultural and political context of labor organizing and reform, looking at both contemporary labor conditions and the very workings of our institutions. How can people become a corrective body to institutional structures and what are some recent models of empowering transformation that have emerged in higher education and in the arts?

Seminar 4: Becoming One: The University Between Labor Struggles and Communities of Care features an overview of current and historical labor and student mobilizations at the university in the context of similar efforts at other universities and concludes with a discussion on actions of solidarity in higher education and at cultural institutions. It was developed in collaboration with the VLC Academic Advisory Council. The seminar is moderated by VLC director Carin Kuoni. Among the speakers are One New School and students from the Fine Arts Pedagogy Group as well as Ujju Aggarwal, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Experiential Learning, The New School; Natasha Bunten, Culture Workers Education Center; Zoe Carey, President, ACT-UAW Local 7902; Tamara Oyola Santiago, Director of Wellness and Health Promotion, The New School; and Joshua Scannell, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School.