Issues for the week of December 22, 2022 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of December 22

Previous Weeks

BEST OF THE SEMESTER

There Can Be No Nonviolence in Human Gestation

Natasha Lennard and Sophie Lewis

When Fascism Is Female

Sophie Boulter

Politics and International Studies graduate student, University of Cambridge

Turning Art into a Political Weapon

Terri Gordon-Zolov, Eric Zolov and Jordi Mariné Jubany

The Wall Street Journal Resurrects Mandeville

David Lay Williams

Professor of Political Science at DePaul University and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024)

Iran’s First Feminist Uprising

Kian Tajbakhsh

Academic Fellow at Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and Senior Advisor at Columbia Global Centers

Documenting the City of Refugees

Susan Hartman and Marisa Budlong
FALL 2022

Part 6: A New Treaty?

James Carroll

Author

People’s War and Nuclear Fear: The Anti-War Left and Ukraine

Jeremy Varon

Professor of History, New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College

Personal Reflections on War and Peace

Frida Berrigan

Community activist and author

Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech?

Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich and Lindsey Scharold

The Rat Race of Prestige and Boredom

Alla Anatsko and W. David Marx

The Dilemma of a Fragmented Self

Ken Hu

Liberal Studies MA graduate from NSSR