PANEL DISCUSSION | FROM KARL KRAUS TO JON STEWART
From Karl Kraus to Jon Stewart (and beyond). A panel about the power of humor and political satire.
Join a prominent cartoonist of the New Yorker, a self-declared failed intellectual (NEIN-we strongly disagree) and a prolific Austrian journalist in this illustrious panel dedicated to a stimulating talk about humor and political satire and much more.
With: Michael Freund and Robert Mankoff. Moderation: Eric Jarosinski
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS
Michael FREUND is a teacher and writer. For ten years he was head of the media department at Webster University Vienna where he continues as adjunct faculty, and he has worked for the Vienna daily Der Standard, managing the weekend supplement for 15 years and currently contributing as author and photographer. A native of Vienna, Austria, he went to school in Milan, Italy and studied in Vienna, Heidelberg and New York (Ph.D. in social psychology). During these years he developed a strong interest in intercultural differences and exchanges, resulting in published research, articles, presentations and in radio features he contributed to Austrian Public Radio primarily in the eighties. His interests include media politics, pop culture, cartoons and languages (he speaks four fluently and two more so-so). He appreciates satire and humor on both sides of the Ocean and tries to bring them closer together.
Bob MANKOFF, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and founder of The Cartoon Bank. He edited “The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker” (Black Dog & Leventhal); the best-selling coffee table book for holiday 2004, featuring all 68,647 cartoons ever published in The New Yorker since its debut in 1925. He describes this as the “golden age of humor,” where humor helps build personal connections in business and personal relationships. Mankoff has edited dozens of cartoon books, published four of his own, and is an accomplished cartoonist. In fact, over 900 of his cartoons have been published in The New Yorker over the past 20 years, including the best-selling New Yorker cartoon of all time (the harried businessman at his desk with a phone to his ear, reviewing his calendar and saying: “No, Thursday’s out, how about never. Is never good for you?”) He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist, a book published in 2003 on the creative process behind developing magazine-style cartoons. His most recent book is a memoir How About Never–Is Never Good For You?: My Life in Cartoons Published by Henry Holt & Co on March 25th, 2015 and was a New York Times bestseller. It will be issued in paperback this Fall.
Eric JAROSINSKI is a self-declared #FailedIntellectual and expert in modern German literature, culture, and critical theory, as well as the founding editor of Nein. Quarterly. Jarosinski’s writing has been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Wall Street Journal