Events

Dissent Spring Issue Launch: Capitalism Today Monday, May 22, 2017 at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, UL105 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 Almost a decade since the financial crisis, economic debate remains trapped by stale assumptions that led to the calamity. Liberals don’t have a

Social Democracy Suppressed Series presents: The Bonds of Kinship: Intergenerational Debt and Familial Wealth in the Neoliberal Era Melinda Cooper, University of Sidney Thursday, April 27, 6pm, at 79 Fifth Ave Room 1618 “We want an economy where our debts are to our friends, families, and communities – and not to the 1%,”declares the Strike

Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and The Nation Magazine present the following film screening and debate: Clean In: How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union—And Won Wednesday, April 12 6pm University Center, Room L102 (63 Fifth Ave) What does a feminism for the 99% look like? Ask the hotel keepers who unionized a Doubletree hotel

Politics Speakers Series and Social Democracy Suppressed Series present: Adam Tooze Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University The recent financial crisis has given rise to a resurgence of interest in the tense relationship of capitalism and democracy. What this literature has tended to ignore is the fact that the financial

Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: A Talk with Former President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, A 106 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011 A talk with former president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff Mediation by Professor Nancy Fraser How did the

Paul Starr Princeton University April 20, 6pm, University Center, Room L104 (63 Fifth Ave) The Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act and to eliminate Medicaid’s status as an entitlement is not the first time conservatives have sought to stop, undo, or redirect reforms that have expanded health insurance and health care.

Megan Jacobs, Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712   In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its First Annual Graduate Fellows Symposium: What’s the matter with Capitalism? Friday, April 21 A symposium confronting contemporary capitalism, examining the ways in which the dynamics of accumulation, dispossession, and social reproduction shape – and are shaped by – the movements of people, substances and ideas. Discussions

The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies proudly presents its Social Democracy Suppressed Series, with stimulating events on April and May. Join us! Panic at the Pump: the Energy Crisis of the 1970s and the Transformation of American Politics Meg Jacobs Columbia and Princeton University 4/13, 6pm Orozco Room – 66 W 12th St Room 712

March 28, 6pm, Wolff Conference Room (6 E 16th St, Room 1103) Neil Roberts Associate Professor, Africana Studies Program and Faculty Affiliate, Departments of Political Science & Religion, Williams College Neil Roberts’s colloquium talk draws upon core claims advanced in the author’s recent book Freedom as Marronage and it delves into the implications of the work’s argument for the