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Public Seminar: The IMF Makes Class Warriors of Us All

On Public Seminar this week, Tithi Bhattacharya shares their contribution to the Hannah Arendt-Reiner Schurmann Memorial Symposium. On October 24, 1973, the Egyptian military, under the command of General Hosni Mubarak, and under instructions from President Anwar Sadat, dealt an unprecedented blow to the most powerful regime in the Middle East: Israel. As the Egyptian army

Event – David Harvey: “The Politics of Realization of Values”

Please join us on Wednesday, April 27th at 6PM for a talk by David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center) on “The Politics of Realization of Values.” Professor Harvey’s lecture is part of Rethinking Capitalism, a collectively taught interdisciplinary seminar at the New School for Social Research, but is free and open to the public. It will be held in room L104 of the New School University Center (63 5th

Event – Erik Olin Wright: “How to Be an Anti-Capitalist for the 21st Century”

Please join us on Wednesday, April 20th at 6pm for a talk by Erik Olin Wright (University of Wisconsin) on “How to Be an Anti-Capitalist for the 21st Century.” Professor Wright’s lecture is part of Rethinking Capitalism, a collectively taught interdisciplinary seminar at the New School for Social Research, but is free and open to the public. It will be held in room L104 of the New

Hannah Arendt-Reiner Schurmann Memorial Symposium: “Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation”

The symposium will be held on April 21–22, 2016 (Thursday and Friday) in the Wolff Conference Room (1103) at the New School for Social Research in New York City. This year’s Arendt-Schurmann Memorial Symposium will explore the theme of “Feminism, Capitalism and Social Transformation.” It will convene a diverse group of thinkers who are currently engaged in developing a

Event – Christian Borch: “High-Frequency Trading, Algorithmic Finance, and Avalanching Markets”

Please join us for the third talk of the Spring 2016 New School for Social Research Sociology Brown Bag Series:  Christian Borch “High-Frequency Trading, Algorithmic Finance, and Avalanching Markets: On the Eventalization of the Flash Crash” Comments by Professor Robin Wagner-Pacifici Wednesday, April 6th 12 pm – 1:30 pm Sociology Common Lounge Area 6 East 16th Street, 9th floor

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Event – Joshua Clark Davis: “From Head Shops to Whole Foods”

Join us on Monday, April 18 at 5:00pm as Joshua Clark Davis (University of Baltimore) presents a talk from his upcoming book, From Head Shops to Whole Foods: Small Businesses and Social Movements in the 1960s and ’70s (Columbia University Press, 2017). The talk is in conference room 529 at 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City. This

Darrick Hamilton on Bernie Sanders’ college plan in The Washington Post

The Washington Post published an article on Monday titled “These academics say Bernie Sanders’s college plan will be a boon for African American students. Will it?” One of the academics in question is Darrick Hamilton, Heilbroner Center faculty affiliate and Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at the New School. “A program like Sanders’s would ensure

Event – “Living in Fear City: The New York City Fiscal Crisis and the Politics of Inevitability” Kim Phillips-Fein in conversation with Janet Roitman

Join us on March 14th for the third installment of our Money in Politics series, presenting Kim Phillips-Fein (Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University) in conversation with Janet Roitman (Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research). Phillips-Fein’s talk, “Living in Fear City: The New York City Fiscal