On Tuesday, November 15th, the Program in American Studies will host a public conversation about Occupy Wall Street.

In conjunction with the event, the American Studies Program will sponsor free admission to MASS MoCA’s ‘The Workers’ exhibition for the public at 4:30.  Curator Susan Cross will introduce the exhibition.

At 5:30 members of the American Studies faculty will host a public conversation in MASS MoCA’s Bldg 1, raising topics related to the Occupy Wall Street movement.  How can we understand this movement in terms of the political use of public space, the deployment of technology and social media, its rhetoric, its racialization, and its relationship to international and national social movements past and present?

This event reflects American Studies’ commitment to thinking across academic disciplines, as well as to thinking publically in relation to work being done outside the academy as well as within it.