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
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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 –
9/26 | How To Be An Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
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
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