Janey Program in Latin American Studies
While The New School for Social Research historically has not been committed to traditional area studies, the ongoing struggle over social justice, equality, and political liberty in Latin America has found deep resonance in this community. Faculty members and students have seen reflected in these developments many of the same concerns that not only led to the founding of the University in Exile in 1933, but have continued to inform and energize its work.

With generous support from Daniel and Susan Rothenberg, the Janey Program in Latin American Studies began in the 1991-2 academic year. The program supports fellowships for students from Latin America and the Caribbean who are pursuing graduate studies at the school, summer fellowships for fieldwork and research in Latin America and the Caribbean, an annual conference, lectures, and occasional visits to The New School by scholars from Latin America. Its current director is Courtney Jung, Associate Professor of Political Science.

The program's ongoing "Latin America: History, Economy and Culture" workshop provides an interdisciplinary space for students and faculty from the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, as well as visiting scholars, to present and discuss their ongoing research. The workshop meets every other week at New York University. For more information, contact:

Rodrigo Chacon, Research Assistant
Janey Program in Latin American Studies
The New School for Social Research
79 Fifth Avenue, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212.229.5905

Janey's Newsletter

Journal Donation Project
The Journal Donation Project (JDP) was launched in 1990 by Arien Mack, Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor of Psychology and editor of the journal Social Research. The mission of the JDP is to help develop the research and teaching capacities in institutions of higher learning by building archives of journals in countries that, for either political or economic reasons (often both), have been unable to do this on their own. The project began with the collapse of communism in response to the critical need for this material in the former Soviet Union and in East and Central Europe, where it had been unavailable for almost forty-five years. The JDP library network now includes 300 libraries in thirty countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, Iran, and Vietnam and throughout the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe. The journals provided serve to connect scholars, students, and professionals to a global community of current research, debate, and information.

The goal of the project was and is to provide major research and teaching libraries with current, high-quality journals published in the West, until they are able to procure materials with their own resources. Until 1995, the JDP's funding was based entirely upon the donation of subscriptions by publishers and editors. In 1996, however, the project introduced a reduced-cost subscription program, in which participating publishers extend significant discounts to libraries that purchase through the JDP. For example, the project's agreement with EBSCO allows it to provide online and CD-ROM access to three large databases—Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and MEDLINE—holding over 7,00 journals, to its network libraries at an immensely discounted price. The number of publishers participating in these ways continuously increases.

Today the JDP represents a major international library assistance program, with over 2,000 different English-language journals in the social sciences, humanities, law, art, public policy, business, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Additionally over ninety percent of the print titles provided by the project are accompanied by complimentary electronic subscriptions.

For more information, contact:
Arien Mack, Director
Journal Donation Project
The New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue, Room 416
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212.229.1041

Chong-Lim Lee - Program Manager Room 416C - 229-5789 ext. 3068
Beatrice Wainaina - Program Manager Room 416B - 229-5789 ext. 3070

Website: www.newschool.edu/centers/jdp/

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South Asia at the New School
The New School is poised to engage seriously with South Asia in a number of its divisions and through the leadership at the helm of the university. The appointment of Provost Arjun Appadurai, formerly of Yale University and the University of Chicago, demonstrates the level of commitment to South Asia at the university. The New School's robust and intellectually vital group of largely younger faculty delivers a first-rate South Asia curricular and research program. Email SoAsia@newschool.edu to join the listserv.

South Asia at The New School
65 Fifth Avenue, Room 343
New York, NY 10003
Email: SoAsia@newschool.edu
Web site: www.newschool.edu/gf/centers/southasia

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Bombay Observatory
The Bombay Observatory is a conceptual space for colleagues at the new School and in the greater New York City region with a special interest in the Bombay metropolis.  The Observatory sponsors relevant events, exhibits and institutional exchanges, both in the New York City and Bombay metropolitan areas. 

The Observatory is linked to PUKAR, a Mumbai-based think-tank founded in 2001 by Arujun Appadurai and facilitated by New School faculty member and former PUKAR co-director Vyjayanthi Rao.

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