Issues for the week of December 18, 2019 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of December 18

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Mobilities

The Epistemology of the Refugee: 30 Years after Zolberg

Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez

Grassroots Asylum

Simon Behrman

Teaches law at Royal Holloway, University of London

Lockstitch Lives

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee

Research Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and Global Labor Justice.
Democracy

30 Years Ago, A Moment of Joy and Hope

Adam Michnik

Editor-in-Chief of the Gazeta Wyborcza.

A Public Service

Tim Schwartz

Co-organizes the digital training organization Los Angeles Cryptoparty, a member of the Electronic Frontier Alliance

American Elections: A Conversation on the Left

Nancy Fraser and Andrew Arato
Work

The Precarious Labor of the Fitpro

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

Associate Professor of History, Eugene Lang College, The New School

Dancing is Work

Stuart Hodes

Professional dancer and choreographer

The Unemployment Rate Is Not a Fact

Patrick Sheehan

PhD candidate in sociology, University of Texas-Austin