Living in a Precarious World:
Monday, March 31, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich,
acclaimed novelist Justin
Torres and DC Jobs with Justice leader Nikki Lewis are among those leading a
series of discussions today and tomorrow about “our increasingly precarious work
and lives in this rapidly changing economy.” The free symposium and literary
festival -- “Living in a Precarious
World: Art, Labor, and the New Economic Precarity” – runs today and tomorrow at Georgetown University’s Lannan Center
for Poetics and Social Practice and is sponsored by Georgetown's Kalmanovitz
Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. In response to the rise of precarity
-- a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting
material or psychological welfare -- artists, journalists, activists, and
academics have debated the larger stakes and implications of this new
“precariat.” How does the struggle to get by shape our lives, our
relationships, and our social institutions? How do we challenge the rise of
precarity, and what, if anything, does it offer as the basis for resistance?
“Living in a Precarious World” will explore these questions through
commentary, fiction, poetry, and interactive performance. All events are free
and open to the public.