{"id":232020,"date":"2010-01-26T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.cuny.edu\/mu\/forum\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:35:10","slug":"justice-and-injustice-in-1950s-america-a-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/232020","title":{"rendered":"JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE IN 1950s AMERICA: A LECTURE SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noam Chomsky, E.L. Doctorow and Tony Kushner <\/strong><strong>to Speak at John Jay College<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Distinguished Artists and Historians Will Explore How Americans Redefined <\/strong><strong>the Meaning of Justice in the 1950s<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The <em>Justice and Injustice in 1950s America<\/em> lecture series hosted by Professor Michael Meeropol, a prominent economist and elder son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will examine the various efforts to achieve justice in the United States during this transformative decade.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst a Cold War, the Korean War, nuclear proliferation and despite a fear of a dangerous expansionist Communist agenda, the 1950\u2019s saw the birth of new ideas, bold actions and resistance to conformity and conservatism. \u00a0Although 1960\u2019s are better remembered as a time of protest, 1950\u2019s brought the beginnings of a cultural shift in the United States. This lecture series at John Jay College will highlight the1950\u2019s that few people know.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speakers will include linguist Noam Chomsky; author E.L Doctorow; playwright Tony Kushner; journalist Victor Navasky; folksinger Peggy Seeger; historians David Levering Lewis, Eric Foner, Blanch Wiesen Cooke and Marilyn Young; and documentary filmmaker Ivy Meeropol; along with economist Michael Meeropol.<\/p>\n<p>This lecture series is funded by the New York City Council for the Humanities. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:\u00a0 Mondays from February 1 \u2013 May 17, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the full schedule of dates and speakers, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jjay.cuny.edu\/1950s\">www.jjay.cuny.edu\/1950s<strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:\u00a0\u00a0 7:00 &#8211; 8:00 PM <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission is FREE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0 John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, room 630T<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1964, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York is an international leader in educating for justice. It offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For more information contact:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doreen Vinas 212-237-8645<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky, E.L. Doctorow and Tony Kushner to Speak at John Jay College Distinguished Artists and Historians Will Explore How Americans Redefined the Meaning of Justice in the 1950s What:\u00a0\u00a0The Justice and Injustice in 1950s America lecture series hosted by Professor Michael Meeropol, a prominent economist and elder son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}