Events

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

New School Professor Julia recently contributed to a book conversation hosted by the Institute for Public Knowledge entitled, “A Discussion with Thomas Piketty about Capital in the 21st Century.” Taking place at NYU’s Courant Institute and including Thomas Piketty, David Stasavage, and Frédéric Viguier, the discussion is now available to view online here.

New School Professor Julia Ott recently participated in a panel discussion at The Museum of the City of New York entitled, “Financial Booms and Busts in American History.” Speaking with Steve Fraser, Mark Gongloff, and Robert E. Wright, the event was played on CSPAN and is now available to view online here.