October 6th and 7th: Global Histories of Capital Conference

Please join the New School and New York University for this year’s Global Histories of Capital Conference. This year’s theme is “Global Histories of Capitalism: New Perspectives on the Global South”, and features such speakers as the Heilbroner Center’s own Julia Ott, alongside others from New York University, The New School, and elsewhere. The keynote

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3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism Conference: November 10th & 11th, 2017

Pleas join us this November 10th and 11th for the 3rd Annual Platform Cooperativism conference!  Society’s sudden leap towards digital technologies and electronic platforms signals now, more than ever, the possibility for a truly democratic control over our economic and social worlds. In this spirit, the first Platform Cooperativism conference was held at the New

Series Launch: Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism

Please join the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the New School History Department  in celebrating the launch of Columbia University Press’s series, the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. This series takes the full measure of the complexity and significance of capitalism, placing it at the center of the American experience. The event will

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Slavery Today: Fighting Slave Labor in the 21st Century with Leonoardo Sakamoto

Please join the Heilbroner Center and Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sakamoto on Tuesday, September 19th at 5:00 PM in the Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall in the University Center, room UL105.  Brazil has rescued over 50,000 people submitted to contemporary forms of slavery since 1995, when the government recognized before the United Nations that slavery

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The Roots of Today’s Radical Right and the Crisis of American Democracy: A Conversation with Historian Nancy Maclean

The Robert Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies invites you to participate in a conversation with Nancy Maclean, author of the controversial new book “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”, and New School faculty members Julia Ott, Claire Potter, and Sanjay Reddy. This panel discussion will take place

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Book Launch: Uneasy Street, by Rachel Sherman

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and Sociology Department at The New School for Social Research invite you to join us to celebrate Rachel Sherman’s newest book: Monday, September 11, at 6pm – 63 Fifth Ave, Room 700 Rachel Sherman is Associate Professor of Sociology at The New School for Social Research. Uneasy Street is

Event – General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century

Please join Professor McKenzie Wark for an end-of-semester drink to celebrate the publication of his new book from Verso, General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty First Century, a guide to the thinkers and ideas that will shape the future. Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10003,

Event – Going out of the Recession?

The History Department Presents: Going out of the Great Recession? Contrast between the United States and Europe: Proposed Work from Economic History, 1960-2016 Professor Carles Manera Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) May 2nd, 4-6pm 80 Fifth Ave, Room 529