The Center for the American Experience

The Center for the American Experience (CAE) at @thenewschool examines the complex past and present of the nation and its place in the world and in our lives.

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

Our second What Is America? reading group is underway! 📚 We're bringing students and community members together to explore American history and identity, hear different perspectives, and connect with people they might not otherwise meet. https://t.co/pbPAzjyiqs

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

I got to interview Jill Lepore, one of my intellectual heroes for @CAEofficialTNS

We had to turn ppl away, but the whole convo is now available!

Her words about the importance - and cost - of speaking up in academia and beyond REALLY hit home

https://t.co/KkJyBBro0e

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

Huge congrats!

Proud to say our first @CAEofficialTNS event was hosting Andrew on this fascinating research on Marx’s American history.

Can’t wait to see the screen adaptation!

[Harriman Institute @HarrimanInst]

On Monday Nina Khrushcheva will examine the failures and successes of the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign about Russia's war in Ukraine, as well as the implications for a post-Putin Russia. Moderated by Timothy Frye (@timothymfrye) https://t.co/CUtHDnpDAb

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

Last chance to register (by 4pm today!). Don't miss this exciting and informative event.

[Harriman Institute @HarrimanInst]

On Monday Nina Khrushcheva will examine the failures and successes of the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign about Russia's war in Ukraine, as well as the implications for a post-Putin Russia. Moderated by Timothy Frye (@timothymfrye) https://t.co/CUtHDnpDAb

[Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy]

@CAEofficialTNS @nataliapetrzela @juliasonnevend 🔎 See what topics the center is covering and how: https://t.co/dfFaNTsk5c

[Heterodox Academy @HdxAcademy]

🚨"The stakes are simply too high not to try."

At the New School's Center for the American Experience (@CAEofficialTNS), @nataliapetrzela and @juliasonnevend are using shared culture to helps students move past binaries and into dialogue.

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

this is the most effective "depolarization" pedagogy I have experienced

centering issues where the obvious right/left (in/correct) takes are not obvious, so ppl have to think for themselves

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

3/ Thank you to everyone who joined us and brought so much energy to the conversation. We’re still thinking about it! ✨

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

1/ We got the photos back from our evening with Jill Lepore, and we had to share. 📸

What a night at @TheNewSchool!

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

2/ Lepore joined CAE Co-Director @nataliapetrzela for a conversation about AI, democracy, and her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

Glad to write about why we founded @CAEofficialTNS @TheNewSchool for @HdxAcademy - no, we’re not “another civics center”!

https://t.co/jVj21XTpbR

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

5/ CAE puts that idea into practice through public conversations, reading groups, performances, student fellowships, and more.

Learn about CAE at https://t.co/XaWh5z7aGA.

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

1/ What can the “American experience” teach us about learning & talking to one another in this fractured moment?

In a new @hdxacademy (Free the Inquiry) article, @juliasonnevend & @nataliapetrzela share why they founded CAE at @TheNewSchool. https://t.co/pTQRYgNaPQ

[The Center for the American Experience @CAEofficialTNS]

4/ At the heart of this work is a simple idea: the job of professor is to help students encounter a wide range of perspectives and learn how to think through difficult questions, not tell them *what* to think.

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

Beyond depressing to let the Right (or any political ideology) own "civics"

Every single person who cares about this country should support civics education that teaches about the messy whole of US history and its core institutions
https://t.co/Bn3U2v4uQ9

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

A really incredible evening welcoming Jill Lepore to @CAEofficialTNS @TheNewSchool - we talked AI, democracy, sci-fi, the future of the academy and more

TY to the standing-room only crowd, and don’t worry if you didn’t make it, our whole conversation will be released as a pod!

[Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela]

What was supposed to be a "quick recap" of this event w my History of Ed class became a 30 min, fascinating convo on value neutrality v viewpoint diversity, whether profs advertising their politics is good/bad, the issues of "academia w a capital A," audience etiquette
WOW!