Nick Serpe, Quinn Slobodian, Alyssa Battistoni, and Adom Getachew

present

Dissent Magazine:
Summer 2019 Issue

Date

Sep
8
Sunday
September 8, 2019
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes senior editor NICK SERPE, guest editor QUINN SLOBODIAN, and contributors ALYSSA BATTISTONI and ADOM GETACHEW for a panel discussion of Dissent Magazine's most recent issue, "What Is the Nation Good For?"

About Dissent

Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals and a mainstay of the democratic left. Dissent has published articles by Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, A. Philip Randolph, Michael Harrington, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, Czesław Miłosz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chinua Achebe, Ellen Willis, Octavio Paz, Martha Nussbaum, Roxane Gay, and many others.

Adom Getachew
Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She holds a joint PhD in Political Science and African-American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination.

Nick Serpe
Nick Serpe

Nick Serpe

Nick Serpe is a senior editor at Dissent. He covers cinema, political economy, and technology, and his writing has recently appeared in Jacobin, Logic, and New Labor Forum. He is a former bookseller at the Harvard Book Store.

Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian

Quinn Slobodian

QUINN SLOBODIAN is the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six languages. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Dissent, the Nation, the New Statesman, and the New York Times, he is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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