Events

  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

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

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

The New School’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility recently put on a panel event entitled, “The New School Divested. Now What?” The event, which was recorded and is now available online here, discussed The New School’s recent commitment to divest from fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas), but went further to ask how the university

Sven Beckert’s talk at The New School on February 5 was recently made available online.  Sponsored by the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, the talk covered Professor Beckert’s new book, Empire of Cotton, and was recorded by CSPAN.  The video is available below. http://www.c-span.org/video/?324267-1/book-discussion-empire-cotton

Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang College 65 West 11th Street Room B500, New York, NY 10003  William “Sandy” Darity will present “Does Racism Make You Sick?” at SCEPA’s Annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of

Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Dorothy Hirshon Suite, Arnhold Hall, Room i205, 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University, will present his new book, Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Professor Beckert will relate the epic story of the

Our very own Julia Ott delivered the plenary at Cornell University’s recent Histories of American Capitalism Conference. Held on November 6-8, 2014 at the ILR School’s Conference Center in King-Shaw Hall in Ithaca, NY, the inaugural Cornell Conference on the Histories of American Capitalism offered panels and papers that connected the diverse historiographic subfields of the

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Ave., room 529, New York, NY 10011   Guy Standing’s immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights – political, civil, social and economic – have been denied to the

Edward Baptist – The Half Has Never Been Told: U.S. Slavery and Nineteenth Century Capitalism Tuesday, September 23, 2014 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm 80 Fifth Avenue, 802 New York, NY 10003 The New School’s History Department presents Edward E. Baptist. Baptist teaches at Cornell University, where he is an associate professor of history and