The Center for Public Scholarship at The New School in NYC would like to
invite the members of the NYHIST-L listserv to attend this free public
event celebrating the University in Exile, on Thursday, January 30, 2014.

The University in Exile
<http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/subpage.aspx?id=9064> was
created by The New School’s first president, Alvin Johnson, as a haven for
scholars whose careers and very lives were threatened in Germany in 1933,
when the Nazi Party came to power and acted to expel all Jews and political
opponents from German universities. With financial support from Hiram Halle
and the Rockefeller Foundation, the University in Exile was able to rescue
more than 180 intellectuals and scholars with their families, a number of
whom remained at The New School for many years and all of whom made an
impact on the intellectual life of the United States.

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Join The New School to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the University in
Exile
Thursday, January 30, 2014
The New School, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, NYC
Events are free and open to the public.
RSVP to http://goo.gl/XR5tQf

2:00-5:00 PM
Screening of Hannah Arendt with the director Margarethe von Trotta, actress
Barbara Sukova, and co-author Pam Katz, and with Jerome Kohn, director of
the Hannah Arendt Center at The New School for Social Research

6:00-8:00 PM
Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, on "Protecting Scholars and the
Right to Free Inquiry" with Jonathan Fanton (former chair, Human Rights
Watch and former president, The New School), George Rupp (senior fellow,
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs), and Aryeh Neier
(President Emeritus, Open Society Foundations)

Details available at http://www.newschool.edu/cps/events/#uie.
(View this announcement with graphics at http://goo.gl/ZMURul.)