GRADUATE FACULTY TO HOST FORUM ON THE ELECTION
The Graduate Faculty invites the University community to join them in a
public forum entitled "What Happened?"

on Wednesday, November 10 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.,

at the Graduate Faculty, Swayduck Auditorium,
65 Fifth Avenue. (Manhattan)

Panelists will include Jose Casanova, Simon Critchley, Jeff
Goldfarb, and Ann Stoler. Each panelist will make a brief statement,
followed by discussion. The event is sponsored by the Departments of
Anthropology, Philosophy, and Sociology.

Andrew Arato (Paris, 11/3/04):
In almost no recent American elections have our deep political cultural
antinomies yield such neat contrasts: nation vs. democracy; imperial
aspiration vs. the rule of law; rhetoric vs. rationality; incarnation vs.
persuasion; will vs. judgement; symbolism vs. interest; particularism vs.
universalism; millenarianism vs. pragmatism...I could go on and on. In
wartime it will be said, or as others may prefer, in an imperial system
not yet defeated, the national-imperial-rhetorical-plebescitary-particular
pole will always win. Yet thanks mainly to the efforts of a grass roots
mobilization on behalf of the other America we came very close, and might
have just succeeded. In reality, we should have won easily against one of
the worst administrations in U.S. history.

Eli Zaretsky (Berlin, 11/4/04):
Few people have noticed that the causes of Bushs victory were the same
that Gibbon gave for the fall of Rome: Christianity and barbarism.

For more information, call 212-229-5777.  ¶ 9:10 PM