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Believe Me: A Public Seminar Book Talk

Jaclyn Friedman, Samantha Irby, Tatiana Maslany, and Sabrina Hersi Issa talk feminism with co-executiv editor Claire Potter

May 18, 2020 • by Claire Potter

Almost 150 viewers joined us for an hour of conversation and readings from a new collection of feminist essays that have never been more relevant. Believe Me asks us to imagine a world in which we not only believe women, but act as though the things they report – harassment, sexual assault, ...

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GIDEST: The Tar Sands Songbook

The work of Tanya Kalmanovitch

May 17, 2018 • by GIDEST

In her documentary play The Tar Sands Songbook, musician, ethnomusicologist, Associate Professor at The New School’s College of Performing Arts, and 2017-18 GIDEST fellow Tanya Kalmanovitch uses strategies from the creative and performing arts, ethnography, and design to invite participants into an imaginative, critical process of unnerving the intimate relationship of oil ...

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GIDEST: The Facticity of the Voice

The work of Soyoung Yoon

February 11, 2018 • by GIDEST

Soyoung Yoon is Program Director and Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College and a 2017-18 Faculty Fellow at GIDEST. Her current research focuses on the re-definition of the "document" and the shift in its claims to the real from the post-WWII period to the ...

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On Religion and Backlash

Theda Skocpol on Popular and Elite Roots of Republican Extremism in the U.S.

February 9, 2018 • by Public Seminar

The Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life presents the Populism and Religion lecture series from Theda Skocpol (Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University). Note from Jean Cohen, project organizer: Everyone seems to be writing on populism these days, which is unsurprising given the global rise of populist movements, parties, ...

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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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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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GIDEST: End of Life

A nonfictional film

November 17, 2017 • by GIDEST

End of Life recently premiered at Doclisboa in Lisbon and will soon have its North American premiere at the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival. GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, ...

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GIDEST: Wetness Everywhere

Water, fluidity, and scarcity

October 3, 2017 • by GIDEST

GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, artist-in-residence, and doctoral fellows’ programs, we run a series of biweekly public seminars that feature both prominent and emerging scholars and practitioners. ...

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Investigating Normal

Sara Hendren

August 23, 2017 • by GIDEST

Is it possible to engineer an inclusive social future? An artist in an engineering school, Sara Hendren's work is driven by questions about human ability in tech-driven cultures. What counts as normal capacity? Which technologies liberate, and which confine? Drawing from disability studies, design research, social practice art, and urban planning, ...

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Michael Taussig | The New School

2017 ICSI Public Lecture

July 15, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Sponsored by The New School for Social Research. The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry will open part of its programming to the public – a series of lectures taught by this Summer's faculty cohort of K. Anthony Appiah (Professor of Philosophy and Law, NYU), David Harvey (Professor of Anthropology and Geography, CUNY), ...

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Peter Berger’s Last Visit to The New School for Social Research

Revisiting The Social Construction of Reality

July 1, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Although circumstances did not permit Peter Berger to attend in person The New School’s conference commemorating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Social Construction of Reality, it was wonderful to have him with us via Skype (nicely captured with me in the accompanying surreal photo). ...

Peter Berger’s Last Visit to The New School for Social Research

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How Hotel Workers Fought For a Union — And Won

May 30, 2017 • by Julia Ott

Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and The Nation Magazine present 'What does a feminism for the 99% look like? Ask the hotel housekeepers who unionized a Doubletree hotel owned by Harvard. These women fought the first female president of Harvard to gain a union. They asked Sheryl Sandberg to "lean ...