Marshall Berman - Thursday March 1 2007 5pm

Marshall Berman - March 1st at 5pm

"ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SPECTACLE IN TIMES SQUARE"

Centre for Cultural Studies, the Politics Department and Media and Communications present a special lecture:

by Marshall Berman, author of On The Street and All That's Solid Melts Into Air will speak in the IGLT at Goldsmiths at 5pm

*Thursday, 1 March 2007 : Professor Marshall Berman,
The author of All that's Solid melts into Air' and 'On the Town' will speak at CCS.
*5pm in Goldsmiths Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre.

All welcome.


• Tube Stations: New Cross and New Cross Gate
• Rail network trains via London Bridge to New Cross or New Cross GateStations.
• DLR to Deptford Bridge Station (10 minutes walk).
• Buses from Central London: 21, 36, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343,436, 453.

Marshall Berman holds academic degrees from Columbia University, Oxford and Harvard. Currently he is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, where he teaches political philosophy and urban studies. He writes frequently for The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bennington Review, La Jornada, New Left Review, New Politics and the Village Voice Literary Supplement and he serves on the editorial board of Dissent. His main works are The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society, All That is Solid Melts in Air: The Experience of Modernity, Adventures in Marxism, and On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square. He is co-founder of the Center for Workers Education at City College in Upper Manhattan.

On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square
Described as a “continuous carnival” and “the crossroad of the world,”Times Square is a singular phenomenon: the spot where imagination and veracity intersect. To esteemed scholar and author Marshall Berman, it is also the flashing, teeming, and strangely beautiful nexus of his life. In this remarkable book, Berman takes us on a thrilling illustrated tour ofTimes Square, revealing a landscape both mythic and real. On the Town is a unique look through the lens of the ideas and works of art that inspired– or were inspired by – this landmark’s allure.

For more info contact: Francisco Carballo, cup01fc@gold.ac.uk