Please join our colleagues at NSSR’s Sociology department for their upcoming Spring 2018 Lecture series! All lectures will be held in the Wolff Conference Room, 1103, 6 East 16th Street. See you there!
News
Darrick Hamilton Confronts Inequality Through Economics
The following article was originally published on New School News. “The first week of 2018 was a busy one for Darrick Hamilton, one of the country’s leading stratification economists. At the start of the new year, he traveled to the American Economic Association conference in Philadelphia to make a presentation on baby bond accounts, his
The Argument for Ditching the 401(k) and Starting Over
Heilbroner Colleague and Economics Professor Teresa Ghilarducci was recently featured in a new article from Bloomberg, “The Argument for Ditching the 401(k) and Starting Over.” Read the full article here.
Race and Capitalism: Michael Dawson and Nancy Fraser in Conversation, March 7th, 2018
Please join the Heilbroner Center and our colleagues at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Culture, and Politics, for a conversation on “Race and Capitalism” between Nancy Fraser (The New School) and Michael Dawson (The University of Chicago). The debate will center around two different conversations, “Black Politics and the Neoliberal
Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?
Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life Below, find an excerpt of Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s essay, “Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?” The whole piece is available through Public Seminar. “Now. Those discussions inform my appreciation of the latest developments, anticipating their future promise. The #MeToo movement in
Slam Precarious Work — February 14th, 2018
Wed, Feb 14, 2018, 04:00 PM – 06:00 PM at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Nothing to do on Valentine’s Day? How about joining us for an unconventional celebration of the publication of Precarious Work (edited by Alyson Cole and Faculty Fellow Victoria Hattam), WSQ (Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4, Fall/Winter 2017)? Inspired by Kathi Weeks’s article in the issue, “Down With Love,” we
Globalisation Cafe: The Economics of Palestine
Graduate Fellow Ibrahim Shikaki was recently featured on the podcast Globalisation Cafe, where he talked about his ongoing research concerning the relationship between wages, inequality, and Israeli occupation. Listen to the full podcast here. Graduate Fellow Ibrahim Shikaki
Forum: Debating the Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism”
Heilbroner c0-director and Dissent Magazine editor Julia Ott was recently featured in Dissent Magazine’s newest forum, “Debating the Uses and Abuses of Neoliberalism.” Professor Ott debated the explanatory power of neoliberalism alongside such experts as N.D.B. Connoly and Timothy Shenk. For a full list of debate positions, click here. To read Professor Ott’s piece, click
Grounded Struggles: A Day of Film and Discussion, February 9th 2018
Join us next month — February 9th, 2019 — for Grounded Struggles, a day of films and discussions on grounded struggles in Haiti, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, and the United States. We will watch three films — Landless Moroccans, Couscous, and Strong Roots — followed by a panel discussion with a wide variety of speakers. For more
Egypt in the First World War
Please join New School History Professor and former Heilbroner Faculty Fellow Aaron Jakes for his upcoming panel discussion on “Egypt in the First World War.” The panel will take place February 8th, 2018, at 2:30 PM, in the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford University. Professor Jakes will be joined by a panel of other