Issues for the week of August 4, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Downward Mobility as a Relative Loss in Economic Security

December 19, 2024Teresa Ghilarducci, Ludovica Tursini

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Social Capitalism: An Alternative to Neoliberalism

December 18, 2024Mark Setterfield

Dark blue book cover with a green plant and yellow and orange flowers. The text reads The Witches of El Paso by Luis Jaramillo.

The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Luis Jaramillo

Generations of Women in The Witches of El Paso

December 11, 2024Marisol Aveline Delarosa, Luis Jaramillo

Clothing waste piles up on a beach

The Fashion for Baiting, Brainwashing, and Bullying

December 10, 2024Hannah McIntyre

December 9, 2024Honor Moore

Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d'Ognes (1786–1868) Marie Denise Villers French 1801

December 9, 2024Honor Moore, Elide Vincenti

Woodblock poster of Marx in front of factories

Reconstructing Capital

December 6, 2024Gant Roberson, William Clare Roberts

Joint Landscape by Shen Zhou

Misanthropy Is Having a Moment

December 5, 2024Alex Rossen

December 4, 2024Claire Potter

Children's school book in a pile of burnt rubble

Schools Are for Children, Not Soldiers

December 3, 2024Charles Bradley

Perfect Days

A Monk Without a Monastery

December 2, 2024Daniel Kopp, Nicholas Johnston

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Curated Essays for the

Week of August 4

Summer Syllabi: The War in Ukraine
What’s at Stake in Ukraine
Mariia Shynkarenko
PhD Candidate in Politics at The New School for Social Research
Making Sense of the War
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Researcher at ZOiS (Center for East European and International Studies) and SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, and professor at the department of politics, University of Vienna.
Preparing for an Apocalypse
Angelina Kariakina
Head of Newsroom at Suspilne
Echoes of War Reach New York
Anastasia Shteinert
Political reporter and MA in Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism, The New School for Social Research
Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom
Karolina Koziura
PhD Candidate in Sociology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research
What We Can Learn from the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean and University Professor, New School for Social Research
The Politics of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Nina Khrushcheva, Jessica Pisano, Everita Silina and Peter Hoffman