Shireen Hassim Archives - Public Seminar

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Illuminating Global Feminism

The teachings of Shireen Hassim

May 10, 2018 • by Siobhan Dougherty

Shireen Hassim is a professor of political studies who has published many works that aim to theorize and articulate the observed relationship between women, feminism, and political parties within Africa. Focusing primarily in South Africa, Hassim has done exceptional work attempting to increase the quality of education for South African ...

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Women of the World Unite?

Radical, Liberal and Conservative Feminism, and Democracy

March 9, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

In the wake of the International Women’s Strike, I feel a need to express my support of “the feminism of the ninety nine percent,” but also of “lean-in feminism,” and “conservative feminism” (if there is such a thing), fully aware that they do not support each other. Such is my ...

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Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

University Lectures at The New School

January 29, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Elżbieta Matynia and I are teaching a special university wide course for undergraduates this semester, inspired by our favorite political thinker, Hannah Arendt, and her illuminating collection, Men in Dark Times. The course is a response to the present political moment. We, as did she, live in “dark times.” And as ...

Women and Men in Dark Times (Syllabus Included)

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The New Authoritarianism and the Structural Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere IV

Concluding Remarks

August 29, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

It has been an eventful summer. As my dear friend and colleague Robin Wagner-Pacifici would put it, a restless eventful summer: “The world seems out of whack, and everyday routines are, at the least, disrupted. People … experience a vertiginous sensation that a new reality or era may be in the ...

The New Authoritarianism and the Structural Transformation of the Mediated Public Sphere IV

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Appreciating Professor Ewa Letowska

3rd Annual Courage in Public Scholarship Award by TCDS and the NSSR Europe Collective

July 25, 2017 • by Tomasz Kitlinski and Pawel Leszkowicz

It is social justice and historical necessity to award Professor Ewa Letowska the Courage in Public Scholarship Award. For us -- an openly gay couple in Poland -- the works and media activism Professor Letowska has always been a beacon of hope. She has voiced freedom and tolerance, more: acceptance and celebration ...