Issues for the week of January 1, 2020 - Public Seminar

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Week of January 1

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Sex and Gender

The New Sex Wars: A Roundtable

Claire Potter

Contributing Editor at Public Seminar, and Emeritus Professor of History at the New School for Social Research

Against Gyno-pessimism

Jodi Dean

Professor, Political Science department, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

What Does the Idea of Misogyny Really Describe?

Eli Zaretsky

Professor of history at The New School for Social Research

What Happened to Desire?

James Livingston

Professor of History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
New School Histories

The New School’s Secular Faiths

Mark Larrimore

Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts

True to the Paradox

Macushla Robinson

Writer, curator and PhD candidate, The New School. Founder, in·ter·sti·tial press.
Democracy

Reflections on Bolivia’s Coup d’État

Nicolás Figueroa García-Herreros

Authoritarian Coup or Deposed Authoritarian Leader

Enrique Peruzzotti

Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella University and a researcher at CONICET

Democratic Degradation and the Bolivian Coup

Leonardo Avritzer

Associate professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais