Zeyno Ustun, Author at Public Seminar

Feature

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

February 16, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Video Minutes: [list] [list_item icon=""] Jason W. Moore Nancy Fraser Eli Zaretsky Q&A [/list_item] [/list] The Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies and the Committee on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research present Jason W. Moore in conversation with Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky about his book Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015). The conversation was moderated by Christian Parenti. Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web ...

Capitalism in the Web of Life: Author Meets Critics

Education

Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

An Interview by Jeffrey Goldfarb

February 8, 2016 • 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. At the end of the semester, Fall 2015, our Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldfarb interviewed Dean William Milberg. Together they assessed Public Seminar's good and bad days and how we can ...

Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

Multi Media

Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

December 9, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

On the basis of examples drawn from her own research in Central and Eastern European history before and after the collapse of Communism, Sonia Combe pointed out at this event how eyewitness accounts can improve our knowledge and understanding of history. Memory does not bring only emotion to the historical ...

Memory and History: Harmony or Dissonance

Multi Media

Theory for the Anthropocene

November 25, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

Roy Scranton, Stephanie Wakefield, and McKenzie Wark participated in a lecture on the Anthropocene. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Our greatest enemy, it turns out, is ourselves. The warmer, wetter, more chaotic world we now live in -- the Anthropocene -- demands an intensive rethinking of ...

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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 ...

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Replicability Crisis in Psychology

November 5, 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"] Public Seminar hosted a workshop with the title Replicability Crisis in Psychology. Our editor Jeffrey Goldfarb moderated the discussion held by three of our prominent Psychology faculty at the New ...

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Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

May 28, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

From Cultural Appreciation Days to Gay-Straight Alliances to cafeteria menus featuring “ethnic options,” twenty-first century American public schools bear the unmistakable mark of the diversity that has come to define the nation in the last fifty years. At the same time, it is also in public schools where citizens continue ...

Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

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Chiara Bottici’s General Seminar Lecture: Rethinking the Biopolitical Turn

May 5, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Zeyno Ustun

“Let me begin, actually, by introducing the devil.” With these words, on March, 4, 2015, Chiara Bottici opened her presentation to the General Seminar of the New School for Social Research, founded by the original members of the University in Exile and continuously running ever since. Bottici, quoting the words ...

Chiara Bottici’s General Seminar Lecture: Rethinking the Biopolitical Turn

Race

The Muslims are Coming! Video of Arun Kundani’s Lecture

Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror

February 26, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

This lecture by Arun Kundani, Adjunct Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, was part of the NSSR Sociology Lecture Series. It took place on February 9, 2015, in the Wolff Conference Room of the Vera List Academic Center at 6 E. 16th St. in New York.

Over the last few ...

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Krzysztof Czyzewski and Czeslaw Miłosz Meeting in their Native Realm*

September 1, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Zeyno Ustun

On May 18, 2014, for his contributions to understanding history and for his creative confrontation with memory, Krzysztof Czyzewski was awarded the Dan David Prize along with the French historian Pierre Nora and the Israeli Holocaust scholar Saul Friedlander. Of these three, the two distinguished historians and the theater practitioner-publisher-memory ...

Krzysztof Czyzewski and Czeslaw Miłosz Meeting in their Native Realm*

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Feminisms of the Left: On Gender, Marxism, Capitalism

April 30, 2014 • by Zeyno Ustun and Ariel Merkel

On the evening of April 8, 2014, the New School's Politics and Philosophy departments, along with the Gender Studies and Capitalism Studies programs, and PSWIP hosted a roundtable entitled "Feminisms of the Left: On Gender, Marxism, Capitalism." Johanna Oksala (University of Helsinki), Cinzia Arruzza (NSSR) and Nancy Fraser (NSSR) discussed ...

Feminisms of the Left: On Gender, Marxism, Capitalism

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A Conversation with Krzysztof Czyzewski

April 21, 2014 • by Ariel Merkel and Zeyno Ustun

On the evening of April 9th, the Polish theater director, actor, and "practitioner of ideas," Krzysztof Czyzewski, had a public conversation with Elzbieta Matynia and Jeffrey Goldfarb at the New School for Social Research. Czyzewski discussed his life course from actor in the avant-garde theater Gardzienice to a ...