vol-1-issue-1 Archives - Public Seminar

Race

There’s a Black Man Running Down My Street

When nice white neighbors criminalize a man for being Black and kill him it’s not just murder—it’s a lynching.

December 1, 2021 • by Mark Allan Williams

When is a murder not a murder? When it’s a lynching. On November 24, 2021—the day before Thanksgiving—many Americans let out a collective breath of relief. In Brunswick, Georgia, a jury convicted Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan of murder for hunting down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, an ...

There’s a Black Man Running Down My Street

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Letter from Ukraine: The Maidan Experience

December 30, 2013 • by Andriy Bondarenko

Kyiv’s Maidan has really proved to be a lasting affair, strong enough to manifest the will of the majority of Ukraine's population. Everyone could see the evidence of its ability to stand against police forces. Even during calm periods Maidan is still an impressive sight.

For those of us who are ...

Letter from Ukraine: The Maidan Experience

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Tiny Instruments Hit a Profound Chord

Multicultual creativity in the city of Wrocław

December 24, 2013 • by Susan Yelavich

Last summer I was fortunate to be among the faculty of the Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wrocław, Poland, organized by Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS). Friendships were forged, ideas were tested, and disciplinary lines constructively crossed, all of which I’d been prepared for and had been looking forward ...

Theory & Practice

Kierkegaard’s Frenemies: From Adorno to Zizek

December 23, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

2013 was Kierkegaard’s 200th birthday. I am grateful to Mark Taylor for asking me to contribute something to his birthday celebration, and also for not giving us any time to prepare for it. Had he done so I might have had to do more than say what I think I know. Marx ...

Kierkegaard’s Frenemies: From Adorno to Zizek

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A Post on Laughter and Remembering in Berlin

Diversity, tension, relief, and the Stolpersteine

December 20, 2013 • by Irit Dekel

“...and this woman in the chic coat: is she going to clean also?”

Responding to advertisements calling for people to “actively remember,” on November 9 and 10, 2013, in Berlin and other German cities, the commemorative Stolpersteine (or “the stumbling blocks”) were physically cleaned. The Stolpersteine are little brass plaques placed ...

A Post on Laughter and Remembering in Berlin

Theory & Practice

Remembering Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod

December 18, 2013 • by Vera Zolberg

Twenty-thirteen is a sad year for the social sciences and history. With the death of Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod (b. 1928) last Saturday, the best of academic learning has suffered another blow. Her passing joins the recent loss of her New School colleagues Eric Hobsbawm, Aristide Zolberg ...

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For Gender and Sexuality Studies: A Manifesto

December 16, 2013 • by Public Voices

We write as members of a group of faculty from different parts of the New School who are working to return graduate-level gender and sexuality studies to the university. Our project is an unusually collaborative one, drawing on the work of colleagues from a wide range of programs and disciplines. ...

For Gender and Sexuality Studies: A Manifesto

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Snyder and Orr Suckerpunch the Arts in Michigan

December 13, 2013 • by Michael D. Hall

In a nifty move right out of the Reagan Revolution playbook, the governor of Michigan and his hand picked bankruptcy fixer finally revealed their plan for monetizing the art collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The plan is brilliant in its simplicity and in its political nuance.

After months of ...

Snyder and Orr Suckerpunch the Arts in Michigan

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The Booing of Zuma

December 12, 2013 • by Daryl Glaser

The booing of South African President Jacob Zuma at the Mandela memorial gathering – this before a resplendent cast of visiting global dignitaries, around 60,000 audience members and millions of international television viewers – resonated through first the stadium that hosted the 2010 soccer world cup and then the country ...

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Lenin’s Lost his Head: What’s Going On in Kyiv?

December 11, 2013 • by Yana Gorokhovskaia

On Sunday, for the second time in two weeks, a half-million people gathered to protest against the government in Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in an action dubbed on Twitter #ЕвроМайдан (EuroMaidan). Meanwhile, a short distance away, a smaller group of people toppled an eleven-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, quickly ...

Lenin’s Lost his Head: What’s Going On in Kyiv?

Education

The Case for Thoughtful Educational Assessment

December 10, 2013 • by Beth Kalikoff

A long-ago mathematics colleague at another university told a story about his first semester in the classroom. He threw a bunch of proofs on the blackboard and then, in the last five minutes, asked if there were any questions. There were no questions. He was unnerved. These students were good. The ...

The Case for Thoughtful Educational Assessment

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The Forces of Reproduction

Testo Junkie, by Paul Préciado

December 7, 2013 • by McKenzie Wark

“Humanity does not exist under the sign of the divine… but of the monstrous.” -- Paul Préciado “Read, this!,” he said, thrusting a soiled photocopy of a typescript into my hands. “It will change your life!” Then he disappeared back into the public toilet he was cruising. This was my introduction to ...