“Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power” is supported by a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The seminar brings together an interdisciplinary team of faculty, graduate students, and guests to study the deep interplay among monetary policy, historical and contemporary dynamics of imperialism. Visit the Sawyer Seminar Events page for more details and
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A View From the Field: The Visions of Erna Brodber
A View from the Field (60 mins) explores the life’s work and the political era of Jamaican literary laureate, historian, fiction writer, sociologist and community activist Erna Brodber. Brodber, one of Jamaica’s great literary figures of contemporary times, is best known for such novels as Myal and Louisiana, and for a number of historical and sociological studies. She has
How Capitalists Think
Thursday, May 11, 4:00 PM to 5:30PM (EDT) A discussion of States and The Masters of Capital by Prof. Quentin Bruneau (NSSR/Politics) and The Capital Order by Prof. Clara Mattei (NSSR/ Economics), with Prof. Jeremy Adelman (Princeton University) and Prof. Julia Ott (NSSR/ Historical Studies). Join us in person, we have limited seats. Externals, please rsvp to get access
Sociology Colloquium: “Race, Class and Capitalism: The Changing Views of W.E.B. Du Bois”
Abstract: How should we think about the relations among race, class and capitalism? Does racism drive capitalism or capitalism drive racism? Can one end racism under capitalism? Or does one first have to vanquish capitalism? W.E.B. Du Bois’ sociology offers a succession of answers to these questions as he wrestled with a life of public and political engagement
Vital Alignments: Towards Reparative Caribbean Ecologies
Friday, May 12, 10am-5pm, Symposium Convened by Dr. Saudi Garcia (Anthropology, The New School) and Dr. Kris Manjapra (History, Tufts University, Heilbroner Center Fellow) Panelists: Distinguished Keynote Speaker Erna Brodber, Literary Laureate, Sociologist, and Community Organizer, Woodside, Jamaica; Veronica Agard, Ancestors in Training Project; Tao Leigh Goffe, Cultural Theorist, Cornell University; Catherine John, Cultural Theorist,
The Blue Commons Rescuing the Economy of the Sea: Guy Standing
Wednesday, May 12 4:00 – 5:30
ONLINE | Book Launch: Against NGOs: A critical perspective on Civil Society, Management, and Development
Nidhi Srinivas Associate Professor of Management Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment THE NEW SCHOOL discussants Suchitra Vijayan Author & Researcher NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Alf Gunvald Nilsen Professor, Department of Sociology UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA What would development look like if its practitioners and scholars were ‘against NGOs,’ challenging common sense about them? This book
Designing Symbols of Resistance
Hosted By Drake Reed 2021-22 Heilbroner Creative Practioner We are seeing surveillance technology evolve faster than ever, and we need creative ways to investigate how surveillance impacts our daily lives. In this workshop, we will explore the history of black resistance and methods of counter-mapping surveillance constructs. Throughout history, resistance movements have always had to
Beyond Neoliberalism and “Neo-Illiberalism”: Economic Policy and Performance for Sustainable Democracy
The global political retreat from liberal democracy and the rise of authoritarianism is well documented, but the economic causes and consequences of this “backsliding” have received much less attention. This conference will concentrate on the economics of the recent wave of anti-democratic regimes. Analyzing the economic causes and especially the economic consequences of the authoritarian
Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America’s Exercise Obsession
Join Professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela in conversation about her new book about the past, present, and future of United States fitness culture, which the New York Times has called “a whirlwind journey,” the Washington Post describes as “combining an academic approach with an activist’s urgency,” and the Wall Street Journal recommends for its “quick-lap pace” and “exciting
Class Traitors: One Percenters for Radical Redistribution (NSSR General Seminar)
Presented by Rachel Sherman, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology. Most rich people don’t seem to have a problem with massive economic inequality, justifying their wealth with reference to their hard work and moral character. But some wealthy people don’t buy these justifications, because they recognize that they have had “unearned” advantages, and see themselves as