Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance
Theda Skocpol
Democrats, Republicans and the Explosive Politics of Health Insurance
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The Politics of Innocence
Miriam Ticktin
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 ...
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General Seminar
The 2016 US Presidential Election
Julia Ott, History: How Historic Is this Election?
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, History: Beyond Nasty: The Woman Problem and Election 2016
Deva Woodly, Politics: Parallel Politics: Electoral Politics and the Movement for Black Lives
David Plotke, Politics: Trump’s New Right/Left Campaign
Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology: The Promise and Perils ...
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Reclaiming Utopia
Challenging the Financial Imagination
The panel invited provocative reflections from theorists, activists and artists, on the possibilities of reclaiming radical utopias as a response to an increasingly dominant ‘financial imagination’. Set in London, a hub of such financial imagination (imbued with liberal utopian notions of ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’), the panel addressed questions such as: ...
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Paris Terror Events and the Dramaturgies of the Aftermath
Daniel Dayan is a fellow of the Marcel Mauss Institute (School of Advanced Study in the Social Sciences) and a professor at the Levinas European Institute. Dayan has been Research director at CNRS-Paris, and a visiting professor at Sciences-Po and the universities of Stanford, Geneva, Tel Aviv, and Oslo. He has also been an Annenberg scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and for many years a ...
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Bruno Latour – Facing Gaia
A GIDEST Video
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 ...
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The 1@1
National Minute of Silence for Women’s Equality
On 11/9, I felt physical pain. I'd lived through Reagan, and Bush ...and Bush... so, it wasn't a Republican win that squeezed my stomach with icy fingers. It was the vertiginous plunge of the elevator just as the doors were about to slide open onto full equality, the hurtling backward ...
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Fidel Castro, Liberalism’s Future, and Fake News
Past Present: Episode 62
In this week's episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate Fidel Castro's legacy, the future of liberalism, and the rise of fake news.
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On Public Seminar’s Post Election Teach In
A Workshop on Social Resistance
We must and will move beyond shock and despair, and toward creative action. This is what I took to be the major theme of our Post Election Teach In Workshop on Social Resistance. I helped organize the event, trying to be hopeful in the face of my own sense of ...
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What’s Next for Brazil?
The Crisis of 2016 in Context
Public Seminar at The New School for Social Research organized a roundtable discussion with the title What's Next for Brazil? The Crisis of 2016 in Context.
Since March of 2016, Brazil has experienced a controversial presidential impeachment process. This political crisis has polarized the nation and elicited scholarly and public debates about the status of Brazil's democracy, its ...
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Second Redemption, Glass Ceilings, and Global Populism
Past Present Episode 59
In this week's special election episode, Niki, Neil, and Natalia debate the onset of the Second Redemption, the highest and hardest glass ceiling, and the place of Donald Trump in global populism.
Here are some links and references mentioned during this week’s show:
We debated Jamelle Bouie’s argument that the 2016 ...
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Borders and the Politics of Mourning
Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016)
The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to host the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address by Judith Butler.
With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, ...
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