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On the American elections, Public Seminar and civility and subversion

November 10, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am feeling better this week. The election results were heartening, from top to bottom, from the high profile governor races in Virginia and New Jersey to the defeat of a most right wing county executive in Westchester, New York (close to home and very significant for me and my ...

Borders and the Politics of Mourning

Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016)

November 11, 2016 • by Douglas de Toledo Piza

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility (ZIMM) is honored to host the launch event of “Borders and the Politics of Mourning” a special issue published by Social Research: An International Quarterly (Summer 2016), with a keynote address by Judith Butler. With more than 15,000 migrants dead and disappeared since 2014, ...

Intensifying Crisis in Turkey

A Round Table Discussion

November 11, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

By clicking the red keywords and minutes embedded in the text below, you can watch specific moments of the discussion posted above. [tabs] [tab title="Videotext" icon="entypo-book"] On October 27, a couple of days before the critical November 1st elections in Turkey, Public Seminar hosted a round table discussion titled Intensifying Crisis in Turkey with the participation ...