The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

The Great Issues Forum is a new initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and presented by the Center for the Humanities. Each year, the Great Issues Forum will explore critical issues of our time through a single thematic lens. Our inaugural theme is Power. Through a series of free public events and online discussions involving prominent civic leaders, artists, and intellectuals, as well as an online seminar featuring notable guest bloggers discussing canonical texts, the 2008-2009 Forum will examine the ways in which various categories of power – political, economic, military, cultural, and educational – work in our increasingly globalized world.

Participate in the Great Issues Forum by viewing our online video/audio archive of past conversations and posting your own comments.

Participate in an online seminar with prominent guest bloggers, distinguished faculty, and select graduate students as they discuss a series of canonical texts related to the theme of power.

Online Video/Audio Archive

Barry McCaffrey

New video is now in the archive from the conversation on Military Power that took place on March 10th.

Week 11: Blogs

Daniel

Starting on April 7, As'ad AbuKhaliland Daniel Drezner will begin a discussion about the art and power of political blogging.

Educational Power

April 28, 2009

This program will bring together scholars and practitioners from around the world to talk about the impact of public higher education on social mobilization and economic development in the 21st century.

The Great Issues Forum is hosted by The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and jointly sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.