Exile as Haven

On The New School Dorm Room Doors Vandalized with Swastikas

Those of us at The New School received news on Saturday that dorm room doors had been vandalized with swastikas. The president has acted swiftly, calling it a hate crime and enacting a zero tolerance policy for such actions. Since this may be an act of students -- entry to ...
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Exile as Haven

The Standing Rock Syllabus Project

On behalf of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective

As Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and organizers who engage in studies of Indigenous life, politics, and education, settler colonialism, and decolonization, we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous struggle to stop the 1,172 mile Dakota Access Pipeline. Projected to transport hydraulically fractured (or “fracked”) natural gas from the Bakken Oil ...
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The Standing Rock Syllabus Project

Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

An Interview by Jeffrey Goldfarb

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 ...
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Public Seminar Review by Dean William Milberg

Replicability Crisis in Psychology

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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Replicability Crisis in Psychology

Tears and Laughter for Naomi Weisstein

A report from the memorial in New York City

Long a fixture of progressive culture in New York City, The New School opened its doors on September 20, 2015 to host a memorial celebration of the life, achievements, and activist causes of the remarkable Naomi Weisstein. Weisstein, who died last March at age 75, was a pathbreaking ...

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Sociology vs. Market Fundamentalism

Last night, at The New School for Social Research convocation, I used the occasion of introducing the graduating MAs and PhDs in sociology to reflect on the dangers of market fundamentalism on universities and on the important resistance of our graduates : Looking at the big picture, it is easy to be ...
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