Tag Archives: Marina Sitrin

They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

September 16, 2014
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
CUNY Graduate Center, Skylight Room

Marina Sitrin (Visiting Scholar, Center for Place Culture, and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center) and Dario Azzelini (Institute for Sociology, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria) present their new book. Tuesday, September 16th
4:30-6:30pm
Room 5109
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave. New York, NY 10016
*This event is co-sponsored by the read more»]

Pulling the Emergency Brake: The New Global Movements and ‘Now Time’

October 26, 2012
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Room 5307

In the spirit of Walter Benjamin’s ‘now time’, let’s pull the brake and reflect together about the state of global movements. On Friday, October 26th, 2012, join us for a day of dialogue between scholars and movement participants from Greece, Spain and Occupy. [read more»]

Imagine Real Democracy: Dialogue Among Global Social Movements Actors

This event, presented by the Committee on Globalization and Social Change, brought together in conversation young activists from Egypt, Spain, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the U.S. The conversation addressed the origins of the movements in each country and the linkages between them, especially in terms of the creation and use of novel democratic forms, the importance of [read more»]