Arien Mack, Author at Public Seminar

History

Fifty Years of Social Research

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

March 1, 2020 • by Arien Mack and James Miller

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

Announcements

The Pros and Cons of U.S. Universities Operating Campuses in Countries with Authoritarian Regimes

A Center for Public Scholarship Public Voices event

November 24, 2019 • by Arien Mack

What are the goals these offshore US campuses and centers in such countries aim to achieve? Can they be achieved? Must the curricula in the courses taught be altered to comply with the limits on free inquiry either implicitly or explicitly imposed? If US students attend these campuses ,are they free to travel and talk ...

Feature

Changing Social Norms

An Introduction to Social Research Spring 2018 edition

June 5, 2018 • by Arien Mack

Since Social Research is a quarterly journal and each of its issues is focused on a single theme, we must plan long in advance of publication and invite authors a year or two before an issue appears. As a consequence, we cannot hope to be timely, although sometimes -- almost by chance ...

Education

Turkey Dismisses Another 786 People from Universities in Post-Coup Crackdown

An Open Letter

January 30, 2017 • by Arien Mack

649 academics, along with more than a hundred administrative staff members, lost their positions at several universities. 41 of the dismissed scholars were members of the Academics for Peace initiative. Since July 2016, more than 120,000 people have been dismissed while nearly 44,000 have been jailed and more than 80,000 detained. ...

Uncategorized

Endangered Scholar: Jason Rezaian

An urgent update

October 26, 2015 • by Arien Mack

Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, who received his BA at The New School’s Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, was unjustly convicted this month by the Iranian Revolutionary Court and sentenced to 15 to 20 years after already having been held in Evin Prison in Tehran for more than 15 ...