The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Both the Media & Culture concentration and the GPIA present students with the chance to involve themselves in student organizations and publications engaged in media and culture related issues beyond those addressed in the formal curriculum. Offerings include:

Student Organizations:

Arts, Culture, and Communities in International Development (ACCID)

This student-led GPIA group serves as a resource and forum for students interested in issues of arts and culture in the practice of international development. ACCID hosts conferences, seminars, and other events exploring the diversity of subjects in the field. Click here to learn more or contact ACCID.

Imagining Global Asia

imagining global asia (iga) is a collective that takes Asian Studies beyond the classroom to investigate the challenges, victories and shifting identities of Asian cultures and people in a global world. iga combines educational and research initiatives with public events, multimedia projects, publications and web resources to foster an ongoing dialogue about imminent economic, political and cultural issues facing Asia today. iga examines these issues via the lens of media technologies focusing on the experiences of people who face the daily impacts of these shifting tides of globalization. Click here to learn more.

Latin America Forum

Currently Latin America is evolving in unprecedented ways with dramatic political changes and a rethinking of its economic and social development models. Combining these shifts with Latin America’s multicultural character and diverse history provides for an interesting time in the region. These many transitions taking place in Latin America and the Caribbean had sparked the interest of several GPIA students and in Spring 2006 they created Latin America Forum. Latin America Forum emerged from a group of students who envisioned these exciting events as a great opportunity to stimulate and facilitate the discussion on the wide range of issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean. Click here to learn more.

Project Africa

Project Africa will serve as a site for both the exchange of ideas and a change of outlook. Academics, students and practitioners will be encouraged to create and promote a fresh representation of Africa as a diverse and potential-filled economic, social and political entity — and where necessary, be challenged to reexamine outdated conceptions of Africa. Click here to learn more.

Student Publications:

The GPIA’s student-initiated and edited journal, Contexts is dedicated to addressing the most challenging and current topics in the field of international affairs. It is entirely conceived, written, edited and published by students in the GPIA . Its Editor-in-Chief oversees production for one year at a time in order to provide opportunities for learning the art of producing an academic journal to as many students as possible. Contexts was last published in 2007, and a 2008 issue is forthcoming. For more information, please contact the Journal directly.

The GPIA Newsletter is published once a semester in order to share information of interest between students, faculty, alumni and other members of the GPIA community. It generally comes out in the final quarter of each semester. GPIA Bulletin was last published in Spring 2007.

To learn more about the Media & Culture Concentration please contact the Concentration Chair, Professor Nina L. Khrushcheva, at Room 603. Sonja Uwimana is the current Concentration Associate. Please contact her with questions, suggestions or concerns.