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(En)gendering Health and Illness in the time of Biomedicalization

May 6, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

How do prevailing ideologies of gender and of biomedicine in the U.S. shape the experience of living in the body? How do they influence how illness is constructed, experienced, and medically managed? This presentation will provide an overview of recent and ongoing research undertaken by the presenter and her collaborators, ...

(En)gendering Health and Illness in the time of Biomedicalization

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OOPS Lecture, Gender and Domination Class by Drucilla Cornell

May 3, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

In this talk for the "Gender and domination class" Professor Drucilla Cornell (Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Rutgers University) tackles the issue of pornography temptation, by unpacking one of the most controversial issue within feminist discourse.

OOPS Lecture, Gender and Domination Class by Drucilla Cornell

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Book Presentation: Fire and Blood

April 29, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Enzo Traverso presents his latest book, Fire and Blood: The European Civil War 1914-1945. with comments by professors Cinzia Arruzza, Federico Finchelstein, Andreas Kalyvas, and Eli Zaretsky. Fire and Blood (Verso Books) looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914–1945). Its ...

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Aeroplanes and Deportation

April 21, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots, doctors, ...

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PS Podcast Constitutional Crisis in Poland

April 20, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Public Seminar presents the Constitutional Crisis in Poland podcast. Our Editor in Chief, Jeffrey Goldfarb, conducted an interview with Jan Smoleński and Elzbieta Matynia. They discussed the continuing crisis in Poland, its apparent transition from democracy. The discussion builds upon an earlier contribution Smoleński published on Public Seminar Jan 25th, 2016.

PS Podcast Constitutional Crisis in Poland

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Episode 28: Bathroom Politics, Spring Break, and the Heroin Crisis

April 14, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the politics of public bathrooms, the history of Spring Break, and the origins of the American heroin crisis. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 28: Bathroom Politics, Spring Break, and the Heroin Crisis

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Episode 27: Hulk Hogan v Gawker, Parental Leave, and Bernie’s Scandinavia

April 5, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil delve into the privacy laws protecting Hulk Hogan's sex tape, the fight for paid parental leave, and the left's love of Scandinavia. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 27: Hulk Hogan v Gawker, Parental Leave, and Bernie’s Scandinavia

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2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

Rahel Jaeggi

March 30, 2016 • by Silje Kristine Anderson

How should we conceive of social change and moral progress? How do they come about? How are the two phenomena related to each other and how can they be evaluated—as change for the better? These are questions which have repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seem to be indispensable for a critical ...

2016 Heuss Lecture: The Dialectics of Progress

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Episode 25: Nancy Reagan, OJ Simpson, and Presidential Bodies

March 18, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate Nancy Reagan's legacy, the impact of the OJ Simpson trial, and the politics of presidential bodies. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 25: Nancy Reagan, OJ Simpson, and Presidential Bodies

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Episode 24: Trump’s Evangelicals, the KKK, and CrossFit

March 10, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Neil J. Young and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate Trump's hold on the white evangelical vote, the politics of the KKK, and the place of CrossFit in fitness history. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 24: Trump’s Evangelicals, the KKK, and CrossFit

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The Business of Being Made

March 8, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

Two weeks ago The New School’s Ferenczi Center hosted Katie Gentile and a panel of contributors to celebrate the launch of a new book and a new series. The book, The Business of Being Made: The Temporalities of Reproductive Technologies in Psychoanalysis and Culture, is the first to critically analyze ...

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Episode 23: Apple v. US, Michael Pollan, and Guantanamo Bay

March 4, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the government's attempt to hack the iPhone, Michael Pollan's new documentary "Cooked," and Obama's latest attempt to close Guantanamo Bay. Read more at Past and Present