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Activism

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

This war must end now!

December 11, 2023 • by Public Seminar

We write as scholars and educators in the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, for the immediate lifting of Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and for the immediate release of all hostages. This war must ...

Scholars Call for an End to the Violence in Israel and Palestine

Activism

Questioning Art in a Time of War

How the fabric of my sensory experience was transformed by Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitvah

December 6, 2023 • by Abby Merrick

Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah is nominally addressed to Jewish teens in the United States who are preparing for their B’nai Mitzvahs (a gender-neutral rendering of Bat or Bar Mitzvah). It was published in an edition of 3,000 by Wendy’s Subway, an independent Brooklyn publisher, with support from ...

Interviews

Artists Against Colonels

In Shades of Resistance, unexceptional people take exceptional risks

December 5, 2023 • by Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham

Joseph Matthews and Evangeline Riddiford Graham chat about using fiction to unravel fascism, and why the “regime of the colonels” found the Greek underground counteroffensive of poetry and music so difficult to control....

Politics

Notre Dame and the Controversy over Fundraising for Its Restoration

An excerpt from Amy Schiller’s new book The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller

The fundraising for Notre Dame’s reconstruction was simultaneously a triumph and a fiasco for philanthropy. It showed philanthropy’s unique ability to build and sustain things of everlasting importance. At the same time, it also demonstrated how those very triumphs are undermined by preexisting conditions of economic inequality....

Notre Dame and the Controversy over Fundraising for Its Restoration

Interviews

Can Philanthropy Be Revolutionary?

A conversation with Amy Schiller about The Price of Humanity

November 29, 2023 • by Amy Schiller and Rachel Sherman

Amy Schiller sits down with Rachel Sherman to talk about how her newest book, The Price of Humanity, seeks to rescue philanthropy....

Activism

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

For those who question the capacity of rap to deliver powerful positive messages of social change, Slingshot Hip Hop supplies an answer

November 29, 2023 • by Zenzelé Soa-Clarke

Slingshot Hip Hop ends with a pan-Palestinian concert in the West Bank—minus the one rap group Israeli officers wouldn’t let exit Gaza. Even in their absence, the other groups maintain optimism: a belief that things can change, including people's minds. ...

A Pioneering Palestinian Film Offers a Quantum of Solace

Activism

Radical Care and the Making of a New World

What is a truly caring society?

November 28, 2023 • by Premilla Nadasen

Few people would disagree with an aspirational goal of a truly caring society—but what is a truly caring society? And what is the role of the state in a radical future? What kinds of reforms move us closer to a goal of a caring world, rather than setting us back? ...

Radical Care and the Making of a New World

Politics

We Need to Facilitate Informed Debate about Israel-Palestine

A preface to the open letter in response to “Principles of Solidarity”

November 27, 2023 • by James Miller

Public Seminar's executive editor introduces an open letter reply to Normative Orders research center's "Principles of Solidarity" statement....

We Need to Facilitate Informed Debate about Israel-Palestine

Activism

A Response to “Principles of Solidarity. A Statement”

Human dignity for all

November 22, 2023 • by Public Seminar

Solidarity means that the principle of human dignity must apply to all people. This requires us to recognize and address the suffering of all those affected by an armed conflict....

Race

What Does It Mean to Be “Latino”?

From ads to academia, which box do we check?

November 21, 2023 • by Kevin Anzzolin

From historical influences to contemporary marketing, Kevin Anzzolin explores the evolving nomenclature of the diverse "Latino" community....

The Media

Being Online

“The world must be made interesting, an object of curiosity, to answer the economic demand of the media”

November 21, 2023 • by Noam Yuran

The mobile phone has changed what it means to be a person. It has taken away our ability to bear intense emotions. It has infringed our sense of autonomy and diminished our ability to be alone....

Politics

Diaries of War

Voices of witness from Ukraine and Russia

November 20, 2023 • by Nora Krug

As the events of this war unfolded, I reached out to K., a Russia-born Ukrainian journalist in Kyiv, and D., an artist from St. Petersburg. I asked K. and D. if I could interview them to create a visual, weekly diary that would juxtapose their contrasting voices, and that would ...