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A Staggering Reversal of Assumptions

Adam Tooze and Natasha Lennard discuss our current moment of bizarre juxtapositions in global politics

May 18, 2026 • by Natasha Lennard and Adam Tooze

Renowned historian Adam Tooze returned to The New School last month to reflect on this moment of dramatic geopolitical rupture. President Donald Trump’s unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iran has shown the fragility of the fossil fuel-based energetic order. At the very same moment, China’s meteoric rise as the world’s ...

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Live at Public Seminar: John D’Emilio

Public Seminar celebrates the publication of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

October 10, 2022 • by Public Seminar

John D’Emilio, a pioneering figure in the field of LGBTQIA+ history, will join Public Seminar Co-Executive Editor Claire Potter in a discussion of Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood....

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9/11: A Most Restless Event

September 11, 2014 • by Gisela Albuquerque Weise

The video below was produced between the Fall of 2001 and the Spring of 2002. It was first screened as a final project for the class Semiotics for Digital Producers, taught by professor Paul Ryan, as part of the graduate program in Media Studies of the New School ...

Education

Experimentation in Tandem with Exile?

March 5, 2014 • by Janet Roitman

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. I’d like to take up Robin’s invitation to think about what exile signifies and to ask, as she does, what are the consequences of having institutionalized the very singular, exceptional, ...

Education

Exile as Event

March 5, 2014 • by Robin Wagner-Pacifici

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. I want to start with the concept of exile itself; exile understood as an event that was produced, one might even say mandated, by an Event with a capital E. ...