Miller (Jim) Archives - Public Seminar

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Between Ideals and Realities

An overview of the General Seminar on the legacies of the University in Exile

March 5, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Last Wednesday, on February 26th, there was a special meeting of The New School for Social Research’s General Seminar, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the University in Exile. Three faculty members and three graduate students were asked to address a foundational question: “What is the meaning of The University in ...

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Reimagining Our Institution

March 5, 2014 • by William Somerville

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. Dr. Wagner-Pacifici draws our attention to two states of event: event as particle, and as wave. Event as particle may feel more conceptually intuitive: an event has a “shape” and ...

Education

The Mission and Structure of NSSR

March 5, 2014 • by Anthony Bonen

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. The cleavage between the stated mission of NSSR and its structure is gaping. The focus of social research is necessarily on deep, long-term and perennial concepts and challenges. The parsing ...

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Refuge and Exile: Illuminating an Academic Contradiction

March 5, 2014 • by Marianne Le Nabat

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. I would like to begin my remarks by saying that my own experience at the NSSR has been extremely positive on an intellectual level. When I arrived to the philosophy ...