Issues for the week of December 4, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of December 4

About This Week's Issues Previous Weeks

Democracy

The EU’s University in Exile

Laszlo Bruszt

Professor of Political Science, Central European University

Can Democracy Be Established Undemocratically?

Muriel Blaive

Researcher, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague

Authoritarian Parasitism in Turkey and Beyond

Utku Balaban

Visiting associate professor of sociology, Amherst College
Violence

Initiating Inmates

Brittany Friedman

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University

Reclaiming Victimology

Alyson Cole

Professor of Political Science, Women’s & Gender Studies, and American Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’

McKenzie Wark

Professor of Culture and Media, New School for Social Research
Cities

Food for Thought

Justin Wood

Director of Organizing and Strategic Research, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

‘Our Readers Feel We Are on Their Side’

Clara Hemphill

Director of Education Policy, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School

Futures

Claire Potter

Co-executive Editor, Public Seminar and Professor of History, The New School for Social Research