Issues for the week of March 9, 2023 - Public Seminar

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Curated Essays for the

Week of March 9

Previous Weeks

Spring Break Reading

Performances of Democracy

Jessica Pisano

Associate Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research

Poetic Rage, Anti-colonial Avant-gardes

Ann Stoler

Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History at The New School for Social Research.

Writing in Third Person

Enzo Traverso

Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University

Statistics as a Form of Knowledge

Quentin Bruneau

Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Politics, The New School for Social Research

Austerity, Then and Now

Clara Mattei

Assistant Professor in Economics at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School

History Rhymes

Rana Foroohar

Columnist, editor and author

Bard, Kinetic

Anne Waldman

Author and Poet