[PEN-L:6767] Sokal & Social Text

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

FYI...

Doug
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>                               PUBLIC FORUM
>
>                           After the Media Event:
>                Politics, Culture, and the _Social Text_ Affair
>
>                        Wednesday, October 30, 1996
>                                  7:30 PM
>                               121 Meyer Hall
>                            2-4 Washington Place
>                            New York University
>
>                             Open to the public
>                             Admission is free
>
>
>The Cultural Reporting and Criticism program in New York University's
>Department of Journalism will host a panel discussion, "After the Media Event:
>Politics, Culture, and the _Social Text_ Affair", on Wednesday, October 30
>at 7:30 PM.  The event will provide a forum for airing the political and
>cultural issues raised by the controversial incident in which physicist
>Alan Sokal published an article in the cultural studies journal _Social Text_,
>then announced that the article was a parody meant to expose postmodernist
>arguments about science as nonsense.  The hoax made titillating headlines,
>but it has also inspired serious debate about the responsibilities of
>intellectuals and the role of cultural theory on the left.
>
>
>SPEAKERS:
>
>Alan Sokal, NYU Physics Department
>
>Andrew Ross, director of NYU's American Studies program and editor of the
>   "Science Wars" issue of _Social Text_ in which Sokal's parody appeared
>
>Ellen Willis, director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program
>   and author of the _Village Voice_ article "My Sokaled Life"
>
>Stanley Aronowitz, director of the Center for Cultural Studies at
>   CUNY Graduate Center and a founder and former editor of _Social Text_
>
>
>MODERATOR:
>
>Jay Rosen, NYU Journalism Department and Project on Public Life and the Press
>
>
>CONTACT:
>
>Margaret Lee, (212) 998-3786, mjl6089@xxxxxxxxxxx