The M.A. & Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature

April 17, 2017

6:30-8:30pm

Rooms C201/C202/C203

Acts of Resistance: Civic Alternatives to Executive Overreach

Guest Speakers

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. She is the author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen. (2015)

Michael Walzer, One of America’s foremost political thinkers, has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy. His publications include Just and Unjust Wars(1977) and Spheres of Justice (1983)

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His books, which have been translated into 10 languages, include The Politics of Being (1990) and Heidegger’s Children (2001)