The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum

The Great Issues Forum is a new initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and presented by the Center for the Humanities. Funding for the initiative was provided by the 2007 Carnegie Corporation of New York's Academic Leadership Award, presented to Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. Each year, the Forum will explore critical issues of our time through a single thematic lens. Our inaugural theme is Power. In a series of high-profile, free public Conversations featuring artists, intellectuals, and policy makers, the Great Issues Forum is examining the ways in which various categories of power – political, economic, cultural, military, and educational – work in our increasingly globalized world. Subsequent themes for 2009-2011 will be "Faith" and "Place."
The Forum also hosts an online seminar with prominent guest bloggers, distinguished faculty, and select graduate students who will discuss a series of texts related to the annual theme.
The Great Issues Forum is designed to replicate the mission of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York – to educate the children of all people, to pursue enlightenment, and to disseminate knowledge for the benefit of all society. By turning the spotlight for a year on an in-depth examination of an issue of great cultural and political consequence, the Great Issues Forum hopes to stimulate new scholarly lines of inquiry, inform students and the public at large, and encourage civic engagement in their local communities and around the world.

The Great Issues Forum | Great Issues Forum