Shameless self-promotion:

The New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, Graduate Program in International Affairs’ Media Concentration and Department of Politics, presents

After The New South Africa

With Eve Fairbanks and Sean Jacobs

Tuesday, October 4, 5:00-7:00pm

72 Fifth Avenue, Room 321

Eve Fairbanks is a Washington-born journalist returned from two years of research and writing in South Africa. Her writing on social transformation there has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, The New Republic, and South Africa’s English-and Afrikaans-language newspapers, the Mail and Guardian and Rapport. A graduate of Yale and former political reporter, she covered the 2008 presidential race for New Republic. In late 2011, she will return to southern Africa under a Fulbright grant to write about a group of black and white South African farmers moving up to the Republic of Congo to farm.

Sean Jacobs, a native of Cape Town, is assistant professor and chair of the media and culture concentration at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School. He is an alumnus of the TCDS Democracy and Diversity Summer Institute. Sean worked as a political researcher for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa and has held fellowships at New York University and Harvard University. Previously he taught at the University of Michigan. He is writing a book about the relationship between globalization, neoliberalism, race and media in postapartheid South Africa.