Heilbroner Affiliated Faculty and CEO of The Oliver Scholars Program, David Allyn wrote a recent op-ed in the New York Daily News, advocating for urgent investment on gifted and talented programming in grades K-8, since “gifted students who stay trapped in regular classes grow bored, lose interest in school and fail to realize their full potential.” Read The brightest kids
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Jan Dutkiewicz on the Moral Meat Market and Animal-Welfare Violations in Jacobin
Heilbroner Student Fellow Jan Dutkiewicz wrote a recent article in Jacobin, offering a critique on the supposedly moral meat market and its animal-welfare violations, exposing “how hollow the rhetoric of corporate responsibility is” when it comes to protecting animals from gruesome and violent abuses. Read The Moral Meat Market in Jacobin
Event – Johan Mathew, “Unveiling Money: Counterfeits, Arbitrage, and Finance Across the Arabian Sea”
Wednesday, December 7 at 6:00pm Room 529, 80 Fifth Avenue Next in the History Speaker Series is Johan Mathew from Rutgers University, with a talk titled “Unveiling Money: Counterfeits, Arbitrage, and Finance Across the Arabian Sea.” Johan Mathew is an economic historian with a particular interest in crime and illicit commerce and how they shape
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on football and American conservatism in The Guardian
Heilbroner Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of History Natalia Mehlman Petrzela contributed to a recent article in The Guardian, offering a historical account of how conservative American politicians have used football to “mak[e] a broader point about the unfortunate feminization of American culture” in the twentieth century. Read Will the NFL go back to being its brutal old self
Event – Film Screening: 13th, Ava DuVernay’s documentary on mass incarceration
Tuesday, November 29 at 8:00pm Join the Kerrey Hall Social Justice Collective for a screening of 13th, a new documentary on mass incarceration from acclaimed Selma director, Ava DuVernay. Professors Mia White and Julia Ott will be facilitating a conversation after the film has ended. Snacks will be provided. Kerrey Hall is located at 65 5th Avenue.
Nancy Fraser interview in Dissent: Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
The Fall 2016 issue of Dissent Magazine, on the theme of Feminist Strategies, features Nancy Fraser in an interview with Sarah Leonard. The two discuss what Fraser calls the “crisis of care” in contemporary capitalism. Read the full interview at dissentmagazine.org.
Event – Symposium on Reviving Economic History
The New School for Social Research is hosting a Symposium, “Reviving Economic History and Reframing the Economic Problems of Our Time,” with Robert Brenner, Julia Ott, Clara Mattei, Quentin Bruneau, and Aaron Jakes. Join us on December 1 at 4pm in the Orozco Room, room 712, 66 West 12th Street. Event page
Event – Feminist Strategies: Dissent Magazine Issue Launch
Join Dissent editors and writers for a discussion on feminist movements with Dawn Foster, Premilla Nadasen, and Ann Snitow, moderated by Sarah Leonard. Tuesday, November 22, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall University Center, UL105, The New School 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 A virulent misogynist is now president of the
Event – Social Democracy Suppressed with Avner Offer, Sheri Berman, Gerald Epstein, and Darrick Hamilton
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents the first panel in the “Social Democracy Suppressed” series: a panel discussion of Avner Offer’s new book The Nobel Factor. Join us at 6:00pm on Tuesday, October 25 in 66 West 12th Street, room 510. The panel will be moderated by Jeff Madrick. Avner Offer‘s book The Nobel
Event – Screening of Inequality for All
In preparation for the U.S. Presidential Election, the Capitalism Studies minor program will screen the film Inequality for All, followed by a discussion with Professors David Howell, David Plotke, and Julia Ott. Join us on Monday, October 24, at 6:00pm in The New School’s University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Room L105. Called “A passionate argument on behalf