A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE IN MEMORY OF ERIK OLIN WRIGHT ERIK OLIN WRIGHT spent the last years of his life thinking about ways to challenge and transform capitalist societies. He distilled his thinking in a book, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century (Verso, 2019). The symposium is designed to launch a debate about
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5/3-4 The Inaugural Platform Economies Workshop
The inaugural Platform Economies workshop, headed by Janet Roitman and co-sponsored by The Heilbroner Center and The Institute for Public Knowledge, meets in May.
4/12 Heilbroner Center Student Conference
Entanglements in Late Capitalism: Instruments and Precarity The Heilbroner Center Graduate Fellows are hosting their annual student conference, this year on Entanglements in Late Capitalism: Instruments and Precarity. Keynote Jackie Wang will present on Carceral Capitalism, Surveillance Capitalism: The Prison Telecommunications Industry. This talk discusses the prison telecommunications industry, with a particular focus on Securus
Co-Director Julia Ott Honored By the American Alliance of Museums
Congratulations to our co-director Julia Cathleen Ott, who served on the Scholars Committee for the Museum of the City of New York’s award-winning exhibit, New York at Its Core. New York at Its Core was recently named the number 1 exhibit nationally by the American Alliance of Museums. The exhibit won the American Alliance of
2018-2019 Faculty Research Fellowships
The Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies is pleased to invite faculty in any discipline at the New School for Social Research to apply for a fellowship of up to $5660 to support research and writing during the 2018-2019 academic year (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019). Proposals should provide a one-page explanation
2018-2019 Graduate Student Fellowships
ANNOUNCEMENT: 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 2018-2019 academic year. Students may be considered for one
Biofinance: Biological foundations of capital imaginaries
This post was originally published on Public Seminar. To see the original article, click here. Capitalism has been the subject of too many conflicting definitions for any of the claims that follow to have any purchase on truth — understood as an adequation to the real. Beneath the numerous disagreements, however, a common substratum can be
Former Faculty Fellow and “Uneasy Street” Author Rachel Sherman Named 2018 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Please congratulate former Heilbroner Center Faculty Fellow and Uneasy Street author Rachel Sherman on being named 2018’s Andrew Carnegie Fellow! The following report was originally published on New School News. In her critically acclaimed 2017 book, Uneasy Street: the Anxieties of Affluence, Rachel Sherman spoke with 50 affluent New Yorkers to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding
Graduate Fellow Amanda Zadorian Named Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development, Moscow
Please congratulate our Graduate Fellow Amanda Zadorian on her upcoming postdoctoral fellowship at the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow. For more information, click here.
As West Virginia Goes: Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike
Below, find an excerpt from “As West Virginia Goes: Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike” by Ken Fones-Wolf. The entire article is available from Public Seminar. “For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump