Jackie Wang is a Heilbroner Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School’s Eugene Lang College. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (2018), a book on the racial, economic, political, legal, and technological dimensions of the U.S. carceral state. Her forthcoming book manuscript, tentatively titled Vectors of Control, examines how, during
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11/9 | ONLINE | Book Launch: Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country’s fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt’s emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and
Bethany Moreton | The Man in the Gray Hair Shirt: Self-Mortification and Neoliberal Soul-Craft
Heilbroner Center Visiting Fellow and Professor of History from Dartmouth College, Bethany Moreton, will deliver a talk online based on her latest research, soon to be published in the journal Capitalism: A Journal of Economics and History, edited by Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History at The New School for Social Research. Ott will serve as a
4/23 | VIDEO | Book Talk: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein, moderated by Claire Potter
Thursday, April 23 | 12pm ONLINE Award-winning investigative journalist, reporter, and co-host of the Trump, Inc. podcast, Andrea Bernstein is launching her new book, American Oligarchs. Claire Potter, NSSR Professor of History, will moderate the online talk. The book tells the story of the Trump and Kushner families’ journey to the White House. It is
2/20 Juliet Schor After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How To Win It Back
6pm 2/20/2020 Teresa Lang Community and Student Center 55 W 13th Street, Room I-202 Since 2011 Schor has been studying the “sharing” and “gig” economies. Her book, After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How To Win It Back, is forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2020. When the “sharing
2/4 Paul Dourish: Examining AI and Data Platforms through the Lens of Digital Materialities
Tuesday, February 2, 2020 | 5:30 PM Klein Conference Room A510, 66 West 12th Street, New York Digital materialities extend beyond the “brute materiality” of wires, servers, and heat. Software elements have their materialities too, and examining the material configurations of computation and representation shows how their constraints are entwined with computational practice. I will
11/18 | New Materialisms: Sayler/Morris & Arts of Political Ecology
7:30–8:30 PM Kellen Auditorium (N101), Sheila Johnson Design Center, 66 5th Ave RSVP on Facebook Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) will discuss their work in the Museum of Capitalism exhibition and their recently released book, Water Gold Soil, in conversation with Maris Moran Jahn, whose current work explores complex historical and personal relationships between
12/12 | Challenges to overcoming inequality in Brazil: A conversation with Nelson Barbosa, former Minister of Finance of Brazil
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
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