To help inaugurate the exhibition Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War which opens at the Museum of the City of New York on March 23, 2007, NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, in collaboration with the Museum, NYU's King Juan Carlos Center, the Gotham Center for New York City History, and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), will hold a lecture and panel discussion on Culture and Politics in a Time of War on Saturday, March 24, 1-3:30 pm.

New Yorkers serving in the Spanish Civil War were part of the cultural ferment that characterized many countries in the period between the Depression and the Second World War-- an alignment of art, radical politics, unionism, and internationalism. Culture and Politics in a Time of War looks at New York City as a locus of political discourse, cultural creativity, and engagement during a critical period in world history. It explores the richness of the cultural forces in New York--the arts, theater, writing, and journalism--engaged in depicting the Spanish Civil War and helping mobilize the antifascist opposition. It also looks at how political discourse and political affiliations became filtered through the lens of New York's varying ethnic cultures. It considers the resonances and the parallels between this vital and vibrant period of history and our current 'time of war'.

Speakers:
# Mike Wallace, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York City and Chair, the Gotham Center for New York City History

# Peter N. Carroll, Chair, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, author of The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War

# Peter Glazer, Associate Professor of Directing, UC Berkeley, award-winning writer and director of works including Woody Guthrie's American Song; Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War; and Foe, adapted from J. M. Coetzee's novel.

# Rob Snyder, Historian and associate professor of journalism and media studies, Rutgers-Newark; former editor of Media Studies Journal and author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York and Transit Talk: New York's Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories.

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