Spring 2018 Sociology Lecture Series

Please join our colleagues at NSSR’s Sociology department for their upcoming Spring 2018 Lecture series! All lectures will be held in the Wolff Conference Room, 1103, 6 East 16th Street. See you there!  

Darrick Hamilton Confronts Inequality Through Economics

The following article was originally published on New School News.  “The first week of 2018 was a busy one for Darrick Hamilton, one of the country’s leading stratification economists. At the start of the new year, he traveled to the American Economic Association conference in Philadelphia to make a presentation on baby bond accounts, his

Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?

Reading Public Seminar, Thinking about the Relationships between Gender Justice and Free Public Life Below, find an excerpt of Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s essay, “Is There No Feminism Without Capitalism?” The whole piece is available through Public Seminar.  “Now. Those discussions inform my appreciation of the latest developments, anticipating their future promise. The #MeToo movement in

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Egypt in the First World War

Please join New School History Professor and former Heilbroner Faculty Fellow Aaron Jakes for his upcoming panel discussion on “Egypt in the First World War.” The panel will take place February 8th, 2018, at 2:30 PM, in the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford University. Professor Jakes will be joined by a panel of other

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Emma Park Joins the New School’s History Faculty and the Heilbroner Center

Congratulations to Professor Emma Park, the most recent addition to the faculty of the New School History department and the newest collaborator with the Heilbroner Center! Professor Park’s research focuses on the history of infrastructure in East Africa. Specifically, “to understand the dynamics among capital, state formation, and the politics of belonging, she analyzes British

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Debt Comes For Us All

Students protest against the new GOP tax bill The following is excerpted from Amy Osika’s essay, “Debt Comes For Us All: Students protest against the new GOP tax bill,” available in full from Public Seminar. “A colleague and I walk over to a group of policemen, asking them what they think about the new tax

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Sex Work and the Capitalist Patriarchy

Legalization is not a substitute for abolishment The following is an excerpt from Amy Brozovich’s essay, “Sex Work and the Capitalist Patriarchy: Legalization is not a substitute for abolishment,” available in full on Public Seminar.   “To understand prostitution, its racist character must be acknowledged. Women who were and continue to be forced into prostitution

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Confronting Financialization Demands a Radical Cultural Politics

Excerpted from Max Haiven’s 2014 book, Cultures of Financialization: Fictitious Capital in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.  Read a longer excerpt on Public Seminar. “In fact, the economic and social precariousness that neoliberal financialization causes, and on which it relies, may be a perverse and skewed reflection of a much deeper, ontological field of possibility. As Randy Martin explains,

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The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Poetry, Art, and the New Spirit of Capitalism Vince Carducci, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Detroit’s College of Creative Studies, takes on Jasper Berne’s new book The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization. Read the full article from Public Seminar. This review was originally published in the Motown Review of Art.

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