Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School
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Academic Year Reading Groups
Friends and Comrades – Aside from our three weekly coffee breaks (see below!), we’ll be hosting two Platypus reading groups which will serve as an introduction into the work of our organization. Focusing largely, although not exclusively, on content generated by the Platypus Review, the aim of these sessions is to provide attendees with a [...]
Academic Year Coffee Breaks
Friends and fellow travelers – We hope you’ve enjoyed your summer. Now it’s time to get down to business. Platypus will be hosting three Coffee Breaks beginning this week at our three New York campus chapter locations. The Coffee Breaks are a great time to meet with members of Platypus, fellow travelers, and allies of [...]
Iran Teach-In with Ervand Abrahamian: May 2nd, 1pm
Forging a Left in Iran: Possibilities and difficulties ATTENTION, LOCATION CHANGE: Tisch Hall, 40 W. 4th St. (4th and Mercer, on the South side of the street) Lower Level 2, Room. LC11. A teach-in on labor, human rights and prospects for a Left in Iran with Ervand Abrahamian The Platypus Affiliated Society, in collaboration with United for Iran, Amnesty International [...]
Teach-in: The Failure of the Islamic Revolution
Join Platypus members this Wednesday, February 17th at 7:30pm for a teach-in on the Iranian Revolution and a discussion on the current situation in Iran led by Platypus Review editor Pam C. Nogales C. This event will be held at the New School, 80 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 802 Undoubtedly, the Left today should demand the [...]
Platypus Reading Group: Saturday, October 31, 1– 4pm
Please join us for the eighth meeting of the Platypus Reading group. We will begin with the problem of our contemporary political moment, the absence of the Left, and will continue to investigate the history of the Left over the course of the upcoming academic year in light of this problem: What has the Left [...]
Film screening: Examined Life [ October 3rd, 7:30pm @ Union Docs ]
Film screening: Examined Life
Saturday, October 3 – 7:30pm @ Union Docs [322 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY ]
Platypus NY Chapter head, Chris Mansour, will be introducing the film. Discussion with Filmmaker and Stephen Duncombe to follow the screening.
In EXAMINED LIFE (2008, 87 minutes, Canada, DVD), filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
Public Forum in NYC: September 13th, 2009
The Platypus Affiliated Society presents
30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left
6:00pm Sunday, September 13, 2009
at The Brecht Forum 451 West St New York, NY