2020-21 Dissertation and Thesis Fellowships The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite doctoral and master’s candidates in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship to support dissertation or thesis research and writing during the 2020-2021 academic year. During the period of their fellowship, recipients will
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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
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
A Conversation with Heuss Professor Jens Beckert by Santiago Mandirola
Earlier this December, sociologist Jens Beckert sat down with Santiago Mandirola, sociology PhD student and former Heilbroner graduate student fellow, to talk about his latest book Imagined Futures by Harvard University Press, his current project on wealth, inheritance, and inequality, and his larger research agenda after being awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious research award in Germany
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
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
Emma Park in the Boston Review: “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah”
2018-2019 Faculty Fellow Emma Park recently published a piece in the Boston Review on “Perpetual Debt in the Silicon Savannah” with Kevin P. Donovan of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. With overlap with the work of the Center’s Platform Economies Research Group, the article argues that Kenya’s poor were among
10/30-12/11 Museum of Capitalism: Is it time to memorialize capitalism?
The Museum of Capitalism has arrived in New York City – the dynamic crossroads of global capitalism – opening at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the New School on October 30, 2019. The Museum of Capitalism makes capitalism strange as a way of engaging visitors to speculate – collectively and in solidarity –