Hannah Arendt Center
Hannah Arendt, widely acknowledged today as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, taught at The New School as University Professor from 1967 until her death in 1975.

In the fall of 2006, events will be held in Europe and America to mark the centenary of Arendt's birth. Major international conferences, as well as diverse events and exhibitions, are planned for Germany (where she was born), France (where she lived in exile), and the United States (where she settled and became a citizen in 1951), and educational and cultural institutions in Berlin, Paris, Rome, and New York, among other cities, will be celebrating her extraordinary life and career. A full schedule of these events will be available at the Hannah Arendt Center in January 2006.

The Hannah Arendt Center was established at The New School in the spring of 2000. The center is dedicated to preserving Arendt's legacy and fostering the kind of participation in public life she exemplified. Digitization of the vast and unique collection of papers Arendt bequeathed to the Library of Congress has been made possible by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The New School's Fogelman Library is one of only three sites worldwide to provide online access to the entire archive.

For more information, contact:
Jerome Kohn, Director
Hannah Arendt Center
Philosophy Department
The New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue, Room 240B
New York, NY 10003
E-mail: reifn892@newschool.edu or KohnJ@newschool.edu

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Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, made possible through a generous gift from Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz, is the economic policy research arm of the school's Department of Economics. Lance Taylor, Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, is director. William Milberg, associate professor of economics, coordinates program planning. Jeff Madrick is the director of policy research. Areas of particular emphasis at the center are macroeconomic policy, employment, income distribution, and globalization. The underlying purpose of these activities is to determine the conditions under which a more stable, equitable, and prosperous economy is possible, both in the United States and globally, and to develop domestic and international policies necessary to bring about these conditions.

The primary work of the center is organized around six faculty-student research working groups. The International Trade and Deindustrialization working group looks at the effects of expanded manufacturing trade on US manufacturing employment and the impact of outsourcing in the services sector on US income distribution. The working group on Private Debt Sustainability focuses on the recent history of short-run movements in debt and interest rates in the United States, and considers their implications for the business cycle and for policy. The New Labor Market Indicators working group is devising a measure of labor market conditions that takes into account unemployment as well as discouraged workers, poor part-time jobs, and most notably a measure of the incidence of low-paying jobs in the economy. The Employment Protection and Labor Market Outcomes working group is investigating the role of various labor market policies on labor market outcomes in industrialized countries, questioning the research findings of the OECD and IMF that show rigidities to be a significantly negative influence on employment. The working group on Economic Growth and Employment is exploring possible structural change in the traditionally stable relation between growth and employment has undergone, as indicated by the "jobless recovery." The Social Protection and Labor Market Conditions working group is rethinking the way the social safety net is provided in the United States, by researching the costs and potential effectiveness of a major overhaul of the system for providing and financing health insurance, pensions, unemployment insurance, and preschool childcare.

The center has also sponsored a variety of funded programs, including the MacArthur project on Liberalization and Employment Performance in the OECD; the Ford Foundation project on External Liberalization, Economic Growth and Distribution, and Social Policy; and the Ford Foundation project on Enhancing Market Transparency and Financial Risk Management.

The center supports a series of high-profile public lectures, research workshops, scholarly books, and conferences. In the 2005-6 academic year, the biannual Irene and Bernard Schwartz Lecture Series will host distinguished speakers Laura Tyson and James L. Galbraith. These events are used to gain a greater understanding of how the profit-seeking activities of private firms might also serve broader social goals, such as the creation of good jobs, the improvement of public health and education, the diffusion of socially-useful new technologies, and the reduction of economic inequality.

Each year the center hires a number of graduate-student research assistants, who are assigned to the research working groups. It also awards the Irene and Bernard L. Schwartz Dissertation Fellowships to doctoral students doing policy-related economic research.

For more information, contact:
William Milberg
Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis
80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10011-8002
Telephone: 212.229.5901
Fax: 212.229.5903
E-mail: cepa@newschool.edu
Web site: www.newschool.edu/cepa

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International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship
The International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC) is a collaborative undertaking involving scholars and researchers from The New School and other New York-area universities (including Columbia University, New York University, City University of New York, and Fordham University), which engages in scholarly research, public policy analysis, and graduate education bearing on international migration, refugees, and the incorporation of newcomers into host societies. In addition, ICMEC hosts conferences, workshops, and community forums at The New School for Social Research to bring together international and area scholars, practitioners and policymakers.

ICMEC also serves as the intellectual and administrative home for The New School's participation in the Committee on Western European Studies.

Committee on Western European Studies
Funded in part by a Title VI grant from the US Department of Education in conjunction with its consortium partners, Columbia University and New York University, the Committee on Western European Studies sponsors lecture series and academic conferences, foreign language teaching workshops, and graduate-level language study. Recent events organized by the committee include "Resolving the European Asylum Crisis", "Europe and the Politicization of Second-Generation Diasporas", a "Culture and the Arts" seminar, and a foreign language teacher training workshop, "From Foreign to Familiar." Other activities include special courses taught each year by visiting consortium faculty; the development of new graduate course offerings; support for the improvement of language instruction; research seminars designed to provide training on use of print, electronic, and other media for specific research areas; and funds for increased library acquisitions. US Department of Education funding provides support each year for two graduate students for coursework and intensive study of a Western European language, as well as support for summer intensive language instruction scholarships. Title VI support for graduate students is administered by the Office of Academic Affairs and Scholarships.

For more information, contact:
ICMEC Coordinator
65 Fifth Avenue, Room 220
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212.229.5399
Fax: 212.989.0504
Email: icmec@newschool.edu
Website: www.newschool.edu/icmec

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Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Building on The New School for Social Research's interdisciplinary tradition, the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies creates and conducts cross-departmental programs aimed at addressing special needs and opportunities for graduate study and advanced research in the new global world. Following the social and political transformations of the recent years, when two contradictory processes-globalization and increasing fragmentation into ethnic enclaves-have come to dominate the imagination of both scholars and policy makers, TCDS's integrated set of activities draws on the concept of a region as a promising perspective from which to examine the complex relations between the local and the global.

The center's programs, designed to foster a better understanding of how the concerns of "new" and "old" democracies are today beginning to converge, focus on the problems of democratic institutional design at the local, national, and above all, regional level, primarily in the four regions targeted by its activities-Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus; sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; and North America.

Concepts and Concerns: TCDS's initiatives in its target regions rely on the center's long-standing overseas partnerships, dating from semi-clandestine collaboration between members of The New School and independent scholars in Central and Eastern Europe during the 1980s. Today, the center's expanded educational activities utilize a set of four analytical lenses to advance the study of the ways in which societies embedded in different cultural and historical contexts pursue their respective debates on, and solutions to, problems which they share in common: democratization, diversity, civil society and civic life, globalization, development, and equity. The center's programs facilitate collaborative discussion, study, and research on the issues of democracy and democratization. By assisting in mutual learning and sharing of intellectual and social experiences, the center helps to shorten distances between geographically or culturally distinct regions.

Toward New Social Science: While linking regions in order to enable a deeper and more textured understanding of the challenges of democracy in the contemporary world, TCDS's programs are also aimed at building bridges between academic research and the "real world" of democratic practice, where policies and local strategies are designed and civic innovation comes to life. For this reason, the center's partners and collaborators include scholars who are also actively involved in public life and in efforts to strengthen civil society.

Regions and Projects: TCDS's four target regions reflect the range of interests of the GF faculty who have cultivated links with these regions through more than a decade of scholarly contacts, academic partnerships, and collaborative partnerships. The center's main project, the Transregional Learning Network, consists of annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institutes in the target regions, the New Social Science Training fellowship program at The New School for Social Research, Work-in-Progress workshop series, collaborative teaching, visiting professorships, annual conferences, TCDS lecture series, TCDS Electronic Learning Networks, and the quarterly TCDS Bulletin.

The region-based Democracy & Diversity Institutes are held annually, in January (in Cape Town, South Africa) and July (in Krakow, Poland). In these intensive three-week programs, an international body of participants examines critical issues of democracy and democratization as they manifest themselves in the host region and beyond. Each of the institutes brings together up to forty young scholars and civic leaders, mainly from the host region but also from the center's other target regions. Faculty are drawn from The New School and from universities in the host region. Students from The New School for Social Research receive full course credit for two seminars they select from the four courses offered at each of the institutes.

The fifteenth annual Krakow Democracy & Diversity Institute is planned for July 2006. The deadline for applications is April 1, 2006. For program information contact:

Amy Sodaro, Program Associate
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
The New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue, Room 405
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212.229.5580 x3136
Fax: 212.229.5894
Email: sodaroa@newschool.edu
Web site: www.newschool.edu/tcds

East and Central Europe Program
Under the aegis of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, the East and Central Europe Program, which was established in 1990, continues its collaborative projects throughout the region. These include joint courses and research, faculty exchanges, workshops, and lecture series. The program's most widely known initiative is its annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Krakow, Poland, which is attended primarily by students from The New School for Social Research as well as from universities in Eurasia and other parts of the world.

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The Husserl Archives at the New School
Established in 1966 in memory of Alfred Schutz, the Husserl Archives at The New School for Social Research is a center for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy under the direction of the Department of Philosophy. The center is in possession of a complete collection of transcriptions of Edmund Husserl's unpublished writings, currently located in the Raymond Fogelman Library.

The purpose of the Husserl Archives is to promote and facilitate research in the work of Husserl in particular and phenomenological philosophy generally. The activities of the center will include the organization of small research groups, summer schools, and seminars composed of international students and scholars working on a variety of projects in or related to phenomenological philosophy.

James Dodd, Director
Department of Philosophy
The New School for Social Research
65 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10003
Telephone: 212.229.5465
Email: doddj@newschool.edu
Website: http://www.socialresearch.newschool.edu/phil/husserl

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