Julia Ott Archives - Public Seminar

Capitalism

Is Capitalism in Crisis, Dying, Dead — or Very Much Alive, for Better or Worse?

In search of an elusive concept

August 27, 2020 • by Ben Kodres-O'Brien

In 2014, a Museum of Capitalism opened for the first time, as if to commemorate a dying form of life. “The museum began just as capitalism ended,” declared the wall text for the most recent iteration of the travelling museum, at The New School in New York in fall 2019: ...

Save Higher Education (From Itself)!

A federal bailout for students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities

July 1, 2020 • by Julia Ott

More than three months into a national emergency, neither the leaders of America’s colleges and universities nor our elected officials have offered any plan to uphold higher education or any vision for its future. The ad-hoc responses of individual institutions do not suffice. Without federal relief and concerted reform, our ...

General Seminar

The 2016 US Presidential Election

January 17, 2017 • by Public Seminar

Julia Ott, History: How Historic Is this Election? Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, History: Beyond Nasty: The Woman Problem and Election 2016 Deva Woodly, Politics: Parallel Politics: Electoral Politics and the Movement for Black Lives David Plotke, Politics: Trump’s New Right/Left Campaign Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sociology: The Promise and Perils ...