New School Faculty Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships
Date: 5/3/2011
Two professors from The New School were among the 180 awarded 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced recently. The recipients were chosen from over 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada. Guggenheim Fellows are “appointed...
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Re-Mixed and Re-Mastered: Defining and Distributing the Black Image in the Era of Globalization
Date: 3/28/2011
The Re Mixed and Re Mastered conference takes place on Friday, April 8, from 6 00 to 10 00 p.m., and Saturday, April 9, from 11 00 a.m. to 10 00 p.m., in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center,...
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Meditations in an Emergency: Professor Richard Wolff Covers the Economic Meltdown in Weekly Guardian Column
Date: 3/9/2011
Since the start of the year, Richard Wolff, visiting professor of economics in the graduate program in International Affairs, has been offering his sharp critique of the excesses of global capitalism in the op ed section of the UK’s Guardian.Wolff’s...
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Get Your Feet Wet: Water Week Preview February 4
Date: 1/24/2011
Water is nearly as ubiquitous in academic disciplines as it is on our planet from ecology to religious studies, from art to political science, water is an increasing presence in our intellectual discourse. This semester alone,...
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GPIA Presents Wikileaks: Implications for International Affairs
Date: 12/3/2010
Front pages the world over are still covering Wikileaks’ release of U.S. State Department cables, which contained candid assessments of topics ranging from Iran’s nuclear capabilities to the Russian government’s oligarchical tendencies to Balkan wedding practices. But analysts are just...
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The Politics of Development: Moynihan Station and the Complexity of Major Public Projects
Date: 11/9/2010
Nearly 400,000 people use Penn Station every day, twice as many as used it when it was built. In 1993, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed the conversion of the Farley Post Office building into a...
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Observatory on Latin America Hosts Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner
Date: 9/21/2010
Observatory on Latin America Hosts Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner...
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Graduate Program in International Affairs Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Testifies before the United Nations
Date: 9/15/2010
In July, Fukuda-Parr was called to lend her expertise to a joint session of the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council and Peacebuildling Commission...
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Parsons Architecture and GPIA Students Team Up in Uganda
Date: 8/17/2010
This fall, New School students are returning to Union Square from across the country and across the globe. Among those who will have traveled the farthest are a team of nine GPIA development students and five architecture students from the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons, who spent two months in Jinja and Mbale, two towns in Uganda...
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Global Brainstorming: New School Students Make Commitments at Clinton Global Initiative University
Date: 4/26/2010
Fourteen New School students headed south last weekend to attend the Clinton Global Initiative—University (CGI U) held at the University of Miami. ...
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New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Nicholas D. Kristof To Speak at New School Conference on Adolescent Girls
Date: 4/19/2010
Nicholas D. Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times op-ed columnist, will speak on Wednesday, April 28, at 1:00 p.m. at the 5th international conference Adolescent Girls as the Cornerstone of Society: Building Evidence and Policies for Inclusive Societies...
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Bridging Thoughts and Actions in Foreign Policy: GPIA Faculty Member Terra Lawson-Remer Awarded Fellowship
Date: 3/22/2010
Terra Lawson-Remer, assistant professor in the graduate program in International Affairs at The New School, has been awarded a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations for the upcoming academic year. ...
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Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr To Advise United Nations
Date: 2/8/2010
Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has been appointed to the Committee on Development Policy, a body of the UN Economic and Social Council. ...
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New Migration Documentary Screens at The New School
Date: 12/7/2009
On Wednesday, December 9, the Anthropology Department at The New School for Social Research will present a screening and discussion of the documentary film Messages from Paradise #1, Egypt: Austria/About the Permanent Longing for Elsewhere ...
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Nonprofit Directed By Two GPIA Graduates Holds Fundraiser To Bring Technology To Kenyan Students
Date: 11/9/2009
On November 13, the East African Center (EAC), a nonprofit organization directed by a team including two alumni of the graduate program in International Affairs, will hold a “Baraza for Kenya.” ...
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Michael A. Cohen: Speculating On Change: Four Paradoxes Of Our Urban Future
Date: 10/12/2009
Each fall, an inaugural lecture presents the Vera List Center’s annual theme in the broadest sense, rooting the concept within The New School’s intellectual tradition and serving as a guide to the center’s programs throughout the year. The theme this year is the notion of “change.” ...
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The President of Uruguay Visits The New School
Date: 9/28/2009
On September 21, the Observatory on Latin America and the graduate program in International Affairs welcomed the president of Uruguay, Dr. Tabare Vazquez Rosas...
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The Practices of Human Rights
Date: 9/21/2009
On September 25 and 26, the graduate program in International Affairs presents a conference on the practices of human rights...
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Faculty Member Publishes New Children’s Book
Date: 6/15/2009
Michaela Hertkorn, an instructor of politics who teaches in the Bachelor's Program and the Graduate Program in International Affairs, has published a children's book...
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OLA Presents: The Future of Us-Latin American Relations
Date: 4/6/2009
On Friday, April 10, from 9 30 a.m. to 7 00 p.m., a one day seminar will be held to review the recent reports prepared by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution, the Americas Society, and the Woodrow...
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OLA Holds International Conference on Latin American Bicentential Commenerations
Date: 2/16/2009
The Observatory on Latin America (OLA) will present an international conference titled, “Building Latin American Bicentennials,” at The New School on February 26 27, 2009. The conference, which is part of an ongoing OLA program of the same name directed...
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A Turning Point in Social Policies in Argentina
Date: 11/24/2008
On Tuesday, November 25, a special forum on social policies in Argentina titled, “Towards an Integrated and Inclusive Development in Latin America” will take place...
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Food, Energy, and Social Justice in Latin America
Date: 11/3/2008
In the context of the program "Latin America on the Move", the Graduate Program in International Affairs will present a policy and research conference titled, “Food, Energy, and Social Justice in Latin America.” ...
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The Graduate Program in International Affairs Hosts: “Bosnia And Herzegovina—Moving Forward”
Date: 10/13/2008
On October 24 and 25, the Graduate Program of International Affairs will hold a symposium with a delegation from Bosnia and Herzegovina, including member of the Presidency H.E. Zeljko Komsic.
After the country declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1992, Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered three years of brutal...
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The New School Collaborates: Ajkem’a Loy’a and Care
Date: 9/29/2008
This past summer, students and faculty from The New School lived and worked in the small lakeside village of San Lucas Tolimán, Guatemala, to collaborate with Ajkem'a Loy'a, an organization of female Mayan artisans. An exhibition documenting this initiative is currently on view through October 3 at the Arnold...
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Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest: Concepts, Policies and Politics
Date: 3/31/2008
On Friday, April 4, the graduate program in International Affairs’ lecture series Leading Edge in Policy Choices for Human Development presents the New York launch of Social Protection for the Poor and the Poorest: Concepts, Policies and Politics, a book edited by David Hulme and Armando Barrientos...
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Faculty Member Nina L. Khrushcheva Publishes New Book
Date: 2/11/2008
Nina L. Khrushcheva, associate professor in the graduate program in International Affairs at The New School, has published a new book, Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics. ...
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