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Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement

March 4, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents: Nancy Hiemstra: “Detain and Deport: A Transnational Ethnography of U.S. Immigration Enforcement” February 24th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level. In many states around the world today, immigration and terrorism are discursively conflated, immigrants are scapegoated as the cause ...

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Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

February 23, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Neil J. Young and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate Scalia's legacy, women in comedy, and Kendrick Lamar's Grammy performans For more Past and Present

Episode 22: Antonin Scalia, Samantha Bee, and the Grammys

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Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem

February 17, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the Zika virus and public health, Beyonce's Formation, and Hillary Clinton's feminism problem. Read more at Past and Present

Episode 21: The Zika Virus, Beyonce’s Formation, and Hillary Clinton’s Feminism Problem

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Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

February 16, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Video Minutes: [list] [list_item icon=""] Jason W. Moore Nancy Fraser Eli Zaretsky Q&A [/list_item] [/list] The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015). The conversation was moderated by Christian Parenti. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web ...

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

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Episode 20-Clinton, Reconstruction, Curvy Barbie and Bernie Sanders’ Unreligion

February 9, 2016 • by Neil J. Young, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Nicole Hemmer

In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate Hillary Clinton's comments on Reconstruction, Mattel's release of a curvy Barbie doll, and Bernie Sanders's religious (non)affiliation. Read more at Past and Present.

Episode 20-Clinton, Reconstruction, Curvy Barbie and Bernie Sanders’ Unreligion

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Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

An Interview by Jeffrey Goldfarb

February 8, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

By clicking the red keywords and minutes embedded in the text below, you can watch specific moments of the discussion posted above. At the end of the semester, Fall 2015, our Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldfarb interviewed Dean William Milberg. Together they assessed Public Seminar's good and bad days and how we can ...

Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

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Episode 18: Flint’s Water, New York Values, and Wheaton College

January 28, 2016 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Neil, Natalia, and Niki debate the origins of Flint's water crisis, Ted Cruz and New York values, and Wheaton College and evangelical higher education.

Episode 18: Flint’s Water, New York Values, and Wheaton College

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Episode 17: David Bowie, Bikini Bodies, and Natural Born Citizens

January 21, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Niki, Natalia, and Neil debate David Bowie's legacy, the history of bikini bodies, and Ted Cruz's citizenship. Read more at http://pastpresent.libsyn.com/episode-17-david-bowie-bikini-bodies-and-natural-born-citizens#u5Tz4Vt70qhIvgav.99

Episode 17: David Bowie, Bikini Bodies, and Natural Born Citizens

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The Oregon Standoff, Executive Orders, and Downton Abbey

Past Present Episode 16

January 17, 2016 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

On this week’s Past Present podcast, Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and Neil Young discuss the Oregon standoff, President Obama and executive orders, and Downton Abbey. Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show: The grievances listed by armed militants in the Oregon standoff include the federal government’s ownership and ...

The Oregon Standoff, Executive Orders, and Downton Abbey

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Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto

December 10, 2015 • by Chiara Bottici

Does it still make sense to speak about feminism in a world where gender categories are constantly being reshuffled? What does it mean to be a woman? Can we say “woman” without falling into the charge of essentialism or, even worse, heteronormativity? This lecture addresses such questions by proposing to combine ...

Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto

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Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

December 9, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

On the basis of examples drawn from her own research in Central and Eastern European history before and after the collapse of Communism, Sonia Combe pointed out at this event how eyewitness accounts can improve our knowledge and understanding of history. Memory does not bring only emotion to the historical ...

Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

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Theory for the Anthropocene

November 25, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

Roy Scranton, Stephanie Wakefield, and McKenzie Wark participated in a lecture on the Anthropocene. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in -- the Anthropocene -- demands an intensive rethinking of ...