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

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

Event – Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

Friday, February 5, 2016 at 6:00pm Starr Foundation Hall, The New School University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York The Heilbroner Center and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso,

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Event – Jonathan Soros: “When Free Speech and Democracy Conflict”

  On December 3rd, Jonathan Soros will present “When Free Speech and Democracy Conflict” at The New School. The event is open to the public, but RSVPs will be done at this location online via EventBrite. Sponsored by the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, the event will include comments and discussion with two of The

Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy

Upcoming event at The New School (h/t Trebor Scholz): Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy November 13-14, The New School http://platformcoop.net The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain

Economization of the Social at The New School

On June 5th and 6th, The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research sponsored a weekend conference entitled, “The Economization of the Social since the 1970s.” The event featured a number of illustrious attendees and presenters from a wide array of disciplines