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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 ...

Richard Rottenburg on Anthropology, Critique and Hope

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Andreas Kalyvas on the Critical Situation in Greece and Europe

A conversation with Jeffrey Goldfarb

April 24, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Andreas Kalyvas and I sat down the other day to discuss the situation of Greece and Europe. He and I have been talking about politics for years, in Wroclaw, in Johannesburg, in New York. We understand each other as we differ. He is a leftist, committed to radical transformation. I ...

Andreas Kalyvas on the Critical Situation in Greece and Europe

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A Conversation with Edward Koren

“We deal with it by talking about it”

April 15, 2015 • by Lily Swistel and Jeremy Safran

The Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School recently had the pleasure of having longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren discuss his craft as part of its Arts in Mind series. The title of the event, “We deal with it by talking about it,” was derived ...

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The Camp as a Space of Political Membership

Video of Nando Sigona’s Lecture

March 6, 2015 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility hosted a lecture by Nando Sigona entitled "The Camp as a Space of Political Membership," with discussion from professor Michel Agier on February 17, 2015, in the Klein Conference Room at 66 W. 12th Street. Included is a video of that event.

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The Camp as a Space of Political Membership

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Spatial Ordering of Exile: The Architecture of Palestinian Refugee Camps

December 1, 2014 • by Ann Stoler

Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal are a team of two extraordinary architects who live permanently at Beit Sahour on the outskirts of Bethelem in Palestine. They have worked since 2007 to revitalize, reconstruct, take apart, and reconceive both the ruins and abandoned spaces that are the remnants of the vast ...