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
Events
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
11/14 | AUDIO | Race and Capitalism or Racial Capitalism? A Discussion on History, Theory, and World Building
In recent years, the inseparable procedures of racialization and capitalism have been magnified in the public eye. Scholarship has moved alongside debt crises and the ongoing profitability of punishment, and taken clues from social movements that have dramatized the connections between the dynamics of race, finance, extraction, selective success and economic immiseration. In this conversation
10/23 The Bonds and Boundaries of Debt: Towards an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda
Amna Akbar, Destin Jenkins, Julia Ott, and Caitlin Zaloom will discuss Bonds and Boundaries of Debt. This event brings together scholars interested in the history, anthropology, and legality of debt. It asks participants to use one story/case study to theorize what is similar and distinct about various forms of indebtedness. Does the collective, non-consensual conscription