Jeremy Cohan

A public interview with author David Wilson, led by Platypus member Jeremy Cohan on April 19 at NYU. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcript in Platypus Review #39 Description Mass marches on May Day 2006 in the US, banning of minarets in Switzerland, pogroms in Libya against blacks from Central Africa feared to be mercenaries: Immigration is a central issue faced by the contemporary Left. [Read More]

A panel discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011, at Left Forum, Pace University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists James Vaughn - University of Texas at Austin, Platypus Affiliated Society Jeremy Cohan - New York University Richard Rubin - Platypus Affiliated Society Spencer A. Leonard - University of Chicago, Platypus Affiliated Society Description The “bourgeois revolutions” from the 16 through the 19 centuries – extending into the 20–conformed humanity to modern city life, ending traditional, pastoral, religious custom in favor of social relations of the exchange of labor. [Read More]

A panel discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011, at Left Forum, Pace University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element A version of Jeremy Cohan’s remarks are transcripted in the Platypus Review #38 A transcript of Timothy Hall’s remarks appears in Platypus Review #37 Panelists Chris Cutrone - School of the Art Institute of Chicago Jeremy Cohan - New York University [Read More]

A teach-in on the Communist Manifesto led by Platypus Affiliated Society member Jeremy Cohan, PhD candidate in Sociology at NYU, at the New School in NYC on February 17 , 2011. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description The 20th century has made the question of Marxism an obscure one. The absence of an International Left suggests the irrelevancy of Marxism to the present. Yet historically, Marxism mattered to society at large. [Read More]

A roundtable discussion hosted by Platypus NYU Monday, November 8, 2010 Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Transcripted in Platypus Review #32 Panelists Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice Greg Gabrellas, Platypus Gary Mucciaroni, Political Science, Temple University Sherry Wolf, International Socialist Organization Moderated by Jeremy Cohan. Descriptipon With roots in earlier radical traditions, movements that sought to radically redefine the relationship of sex, politics, and freedom erupted onto the historical stage in the 60s. [Read More]