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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 ...

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Intensifying Crisis in Turkey

A Round Table Discussion

November 11, 2015 • 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. [tabs] [tab title="Videotext" icon="entypo-book"] On October 27, a couple of days before the critical November 1st elections in Turkey, Public Seminar hosted a round table discussion titled Intensifying Crisis in Turkey with the participation ...

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Replicability Crisis in Psychology

November 5, 2015 • 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. [tabs] [tab title="Videotext" icon="entypo-book"] Public Seminar hosted a workshop with the title Replicability Crisis in Psychology. Our editor Jeffrey Goldfarb moderated the discussion held by three of our prominent Psychology faculty at the New ...

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Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

May 28, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring “ethnic options,” twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue ...

Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

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Borderlands and “Borderman”: Towards a New Cosmopolis

May 14, 2015 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

Through the study of contemporary migrants' experiences in Africa, Middle-East and Europe, this talk addresses the rising social importance of the "borderman," that is, men and women in the move in precarious condition. Professor Agier describes them as "wanderers," "métèques" and "pariahs," relating their trajectories to their social positions and ...

Borderlands and “Borderman”: Towards a New Cosmopolis

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Chiara Bottici’s General Seminar Lecture: Rethinking the Biopolitical Turn

May 5, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Zeyno Ustun

“Let me begin, actually, by introducing the devil.” With these words, on March, 4, 2015, Chiara Bottici opened her presentation to the General Seminar of the New School for Social Research, founded by the original members of the University in Exile and continuously running ever since. Bottici, quoting the words ...

Chiara Bottici’s General Seminar Lecture: Rethinking the Biopolitical Turn

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A Dialogue between Richard Rottenburg and Richard Bernstein on Critique and Hope

Jeffrey Goldfarb

May 5, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

The discussion following Richard Rottenburg’s Heuss Lecture did not fully explore the insights and challenges of the lecture. Nor were the questions and concerns fully articulated and evaluated. I particularly had a sense that Richard Bernstein asked a key question and it would be good for Rottenburg to consider it ...

A Dialogue between Richard Rottenburg and Richard Bernstein on Critique and Hope

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Richard Rottenburg on Anthropology, Critique and Hope

The Theodor Heuss Lecture

May 4, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On April 15th, Richard Rottenburg, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Halle, Germany and the 2014-2015 Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor at The New School for Social Research, presented a lecture to The New School’s General Seminar. Here is the announcement of the event: For a long time anthropology had a penchant ...