The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, SCEPA, and the Reconvexo Collective invite you to: “Challenges to overcoming inequality in Brazil: A conversation with Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance of Brazil” With Nelson Barbosa and Marcelo Medeiros After many years of decreasing income inequality and poverty levels, Brazil is again facing a worsening
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10/22 Accounting for Capitalism with Michael Zakim
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 12:00 pmRoom G529, 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 The Historical Studies department with the Heilbroner Center is proud to welcome Michael Zakim, Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, for his talk on Accounting for Capitalism: The World the Clerk Made. Zakim is the author of Ready-Made Democracy, a political
11/14 | AUDIO | Race and Capitalism or Racial Capitalism? A Discussion on History, Theory, and World Building
In recent years, the inseparable procedures of racialization and capitalism have been magnified in the public eye. Scholarship has moved alongside debt crises and the ongoing profitability of punishment, and taken clues from social movements that have dramatized the connections between the dynamics of race, finance, extraction, selective success and economic immiseration. In this conversation
10/23 The Bonds and Boundaries of Debt: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
Amna Akbar, Destin Jenkins, Julia Ott, and Caitlin Zaloom will discuss Bonds and Boundaries of Debt. This event brings together scholars interested in the history, anthropology, and legality of debt. It asks participants to use one story/case study to theorize what is similar and distinct about various forms of indebtedness. Does the collective, non-consensual conscription
Emma Park in the Boston Review: “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah”
2018-2019 Faculty Fellow Emma Park recently published a piece in the Boston Review on “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah” with Kevin P. Donovan of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. With overlap with the work of the Center’s Platform Economies Research Group, the article argues that Kenya’s poor were among
10/30-12/11 Museum of Capitalism: Is it time to memorialize capitalism?
The Museum of Capitalism has arrived in New York City – the dynamic crossroads of global capitalism – opening at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the New School on October 30, 2019. The Museum of Capitalism makes capitalism strange as a way of engaging visitors to speculate – collectively and in solidarity –
9/26 | How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF ERIK OLIN WRIGHT ERIK OLIN WRIGHT spent the last years of his life thinking about ways to challenge and transform capitalist societies. He distilled his thinking in a book, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century (Verso, 2019). The symposium is designed to launch a debate about
5/3-4 The Inaugural Platform Economies Workshop
The inaugural Platform Economies workshop, headed by Janet Roitman and co-sponsored by The Heilbroner Center and The Institute for Public Knowledge, meets in May.
4/12 Heilbroner Center Student Conference
Entanglements in Late Capitalism: Instruments and Precarity The Heilbroner Center Graduate Fellows are hosting their annual student conference, this year on Entanglements in Late Capitalism: Instruments and Precarity. Keynote Jackie Wang will present on Carceral Capitalism, Surveillance Capitalism: The Prison Telecommunications Industry. This talk discusses the prison telecommunications industry, with a particular focus on Securus
2/4 Feminism for the 99% and the New Feminist Wave
In preparation for the next transnational feminist strike on March 8th, we will have a discussion about the new feminist wave with some of its protagonists and organizers from around the world and a conversation around Arruzza, Bhattacharya, Fraser, “Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto” (Verso 2019). 4pm: Welcome and opening Remarks: William Milberg (Director