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Burning Man’s Experimental Dreampolitics

Does the iconic festival suggest a new way forward?

February 6, 2018 • by Mariia Shynkarenko

When the era of master narratives recedes and well-trodden Enlightenment principles cease to be relevant, progressives should issue the challenge to come up with an alternative thinking. It is quite a challenge today to bring about new reasoning when the distinguishing feature of our current condition is distrust and skepticism ...

Burning Man’s Experimental Dreampolitics

Blue Monday

Blue Monday: Monday Morning Blues

An introduction to my new column

February 5, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Readers of Public Seminar will know that in the past couple of years I have become a regular and indeed somewhat relentless contributor of political essays on the dangers of Trumpism and the challenges to liberal democracy. I have greatly enjoyed working with the PS staff, and have been especially happy to collaborate with ...

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Religious Accommodations and “Equal But Different” Citizenship

Rogers Smith

February 5, 2018 • by Public Seminar

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) presents Populism and Religion lecture series from Rogers Smith (Associate Dean for the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at UPenn). A note from Jean Cohen, project organizer: Everyone seems to be writing on populism these days, which is unsurprising given the ...

Religious Accommodations and “Equal But Different” Citizenship

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A Conversation We Must Not Stop Having

The #MeToo movement

February 5, 2018 • by Elena Gagovska

I tried to speak out. I told our homeroom teacher and she yelled at the boys in our class in front of the girls, telling them that this was wrong. But no real disciplinary measures were taken. Most of the boys (at least in my class) engaged in non-consensual touching, ...

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#MeToo East and West

A matter of history and conditioning

February 4, 2018 • by Slavenka Drakulić

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar has reposted this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's achievements ...

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Religious Populisms, Right and Left, in Europe and the Americas

Jose Casanova

February 3, 2018 • by Public Seminar

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life presents the Populism and Religion lecture series from Jose Casanova (Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Theology at Georgetown University). A note from Jean Cohen, project organizer: Everyone seems to be writing on populism these days, which is unsurprising given the global rise ...

Religious Populisms, Right and Left, in Europe and the Americas

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A Post on Friendship, Love and Power

On the Power of the Powerless in Dark Times

February 2, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

“There are a great many things which cannot withstand the implacable, bright light of the constant presence of others on the public scene; there, only what is considered to be relevant, worthy of being seen and heard, can be tolerated…there are very relevant matters which can survive only in the ...

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#MeToo in Hungary

Liberal self-cleansing or real change?

February 2, 2018 • by Réka Kinga Papp

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout this week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

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Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part III

February 2, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the final segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. Having worked through the writings of both Kojève and Arendt, each of which endeavored to provide a thorough grounding in a comprehensive schematic of authority and power, it is ...

Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

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Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

A dangerous throwback to the persecution of Zoot Suiters

February 1, 2018 • by Lori Flores

Police in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands recently announced a pilot program to target young men in designer clothes who, if they cannot provide proof they obtained their garb legally, will suffer its confiscation or even being stripped on the street. “We know they have clothes that are too expensive to ...

Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes

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Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

A look at Sweden and sexual harassment

February 1, 2018 • by Ann Ighe

This post was originally published by Eurozine and was accompanied by three other posts that Public Seminar will repost throughout the week. Following the first wave of the #MeToo movement, a new phase of reflection has set in. Here, four authors and journal editors from the US and Europe assess #MeToo's ...

Work-based Campaigns Have Shifted the Focus From Victims to Structures

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Swedish Cash-Phobia

The fall of a kingdom, or when cash is no longer king

February 1, 2018 • by Angelica Stathopoulos

This Christmas I returned to the motherland to see family, friends, and to experience the short days, dark nights, and inexhaustible snowfalls that we in the north of Sweden are regularly blessed with. On New Year’s day I took a bus south to Stockholm to revisit my prior place of ...