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
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Fall 2021 PERN Salon Series
The PERN Salon hosts discussions, presentations, and workshops. The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) is committed to fostering a community of learning. PERN organizes events with our members and guests on works-in-progress and new projects. PERN welcomes presentations in all forms of media, and we seek to foster exchange between academics and practitioners.
Call for Applications: Fellowship for Creative/Design Practitioners (Due 6/11)
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence and the Initiative for the Study of Power, Politics, and Organizing in the United States are pleased to invite candidates for a terminal master’s degree in any discipline at Parsons to apply for a fellowship to support their capstone or thesis project (or the equivalent) during
June Sekera Receives $75,000 RBF Grant to Create a “Dashboard” on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Metrics
Heilbroner Center Visiting Scholar June Sekera (Public Economy) is launching a new project on carbon capture and sequestration, supported by a $75,000 grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The principal product will be a “dashboard” tool for policymakers that displays the resource costs and environmental impacts for a range of approaches to atmospheric carbon reduction. The
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
Heilbroner Faculty Fellow Emma Park Talks about Collaborating on the Sawyer Seminar Award and Future Plans
Two current Heilbroner Faculty Fellows, Emma Park and Aaron Jakes, are members of an interdisciplinary team of researchers at The New School that has been awarded a $225,000 Sawyer Seminar grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. With her fellow co-principal investigator Gustav Peebles, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the SPE, Emma Park, Assistant Professor
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
Carbon Cleanup: The Public is Paying, But Who is Profiting?
By June Sekera Originally published on Handelsblatt in German on August 20, 2020. Under the banner of climate mitigation, governments are subsidizing the commercial development of industrial-chemical methods of carbon capture on the premise that we can “remove” carbon dioxide that we emit and keep burning fossil fuels. Yet the two methods most widely funded by