On Wednesday, January 26th, the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies hostedAris Komporozos-Athanasiou for a virtual event on his new book, SpeculativeCommunities: Living with Uncertainty in a Financialized World. Speakers included Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Melinda Cooper (AustralianNational University), and Jamieson Webster (Psychoanalyst), with moderation by JuliaOtt (The New School). In Speculative Communities, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou
Events
10/12 | Insurance, Slavery, and the Question of Valuation: Michael Ralph, John Clegg, Ben Wiggins
Join the Critical History Today lecture series on October 12 for a panel discussion with Michael Ralph, Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at New York University and a Visiting Fellow at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies; John Clegg, Assistant Professor of History at University of Chicago; and Ben Wiggins, Director of the Digital Arts, Sciences, & Humanities
Fall 2021 | Currency and Empire: Sawyer Seminar Series
“Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power” is supported by a Sawyer Seminar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The seminar brings together an interdisciplinary team of faculty, graduate students, and guests to study the deep interplay among monetary policy, historical and contemporary dynamics of imperialism. Visit the Sawyer Seminar Events page for more details and
4/14 | DISSENT Spring Issue Launch: Global Economic Disorder
Dissent’s Spring 2021 issue, Global Economic Disorder, is out now. On Wednesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. ET, Dissent board member and special section co-editor Julia Ott will moderate a discussion with contributors Tim Barker, Penelope Kyritsis, Walden Bello, and Anakwa Dwamena. In the issue, Tim Barker examines global secular stagnation; Penelope Kyritsis and Genevieve LeBaron investigate textile workers’ widespread hunger; Walden Bello charts
3/8 | ONLINE | Abolitionist Economics: Moving Beyond Carceral Capitalism
Monday, March 8, 2021 6 PM EST | Online This event will gather scholars and activists to share their knowledge and wisdom about the political economy of the carceral state and campaigns to redirect resources away from prisons and police and toward BIPOC communities. In response to the summer of unrest, a public conversation has
11/11 | Online | Jackie Wang on Writing Carceral Capitalism: The Praxis of Autotheory | Anthropology Lecture
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
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
11/5 | Online | Julia Ott on The Origins of Venture Capital
Heilbroner Center co-director Julia Ott is giving a talk online at University of Notre Dame on her latest research: “The Origins of Venture Capital, the Return of Inequality, and the Decline of Innovation in the United States, 1936 – 1982.” Julia Ott is Associate Professor of History at the New School. She holds a PhD
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