Sarah Schulman in conversation with Ben Shepard
Tuesday 08 October, 2013
7:30pm, $0
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
155 Avenue C
On the East Village, Street Activism, and the Gentrification of the Mind.
A discussion of Sarah Schulman’s life, writing, and the history of East Village activism, art, and the gentrification of the imagination between Sarah Schulman and Benjamin Shepard.
Does social change come from institutions or from grass roots movements? And what of the legacies of AIDS, housing, and gardens activism in New York’s East Village? Did the city create these changes or did activists? And what is the legacy of these struggles? Will the efforts of regular people be lost to the gentrification of the imagination or can regular New Yorkers create their own history and institutions?
Join Sarah Schulman in a conversation with Benjamin Shepard about the gentrification of the mind.
Sarah Schulman is the author of 16 books, most recently The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (U of California Press) and Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press), she is co-producer with Jim Hubbard of the documentary feature film UNITED IN ANGER: A History of ACT UP, which they will be screening in Moscow at the end of October. Sarah is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.