May 1, 2013 - June 1, 2013
Sociology Spring 2013 - Sharon Zukin
Date: May 2, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The Department of Sociology presentsSharon ZukinLocal Shops, Global Cities: Transforming Culture, One Street at a TimeThis
talk presents images and data at the midpoint of a transnational research
project on local shopping streets in six major cities from Shanghai to
Amsterdam, passing through the Lower East Side and Brooklyn. Taking a
common urban space as a microcosm of modern social, cultural, and economic exchanges,
we look at the powers and flows that shape the shopping street as a s...
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History Talk: Seth Rockman - Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America
Date: May 6, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
This talk considers the emergence of the American “negro cloth” industry in the 1820s and 1830s. At the intersection of material culture studies, business history, and comparative slavery, this talk traces the circuits of social knowledge that complemented the circuits of capital in the simultaneous expansion of the factory and the plantation. Enslaved men and women played a collaborative role in the design of particular textiles, and their preferences for some products and critiques of others s...
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Latin American Institutions and Development: A Comparative Analysis
Date: May 6, 2013 6:00 p.m.
The New School’s Global Studies Program and the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) welcome Alejandro Portes, a prominent migration and immigration scholar at Princeton University, who will deliver ASCE’s biennial Carlos F. Díaz-Alejandro Lecture. This lecture series honors the memory and career of Professor Díaz-Alejandro, a distinguished Cuban-American scholar in economics. Professor Portes will discuss the key role of governmental and other institutions in Cuba and elsewher...
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Philosophy Workshop-Euree Song-The Ideal and the Reality of the Philosopher-Writer in Plato
Date: May 9, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
In
the ancient biographies, Plato is reported to have studied and written poetry
before meeting Socrates, which caused him to burn his literary compositions.
This anecdote, be it true or not, points to Plato’s critical attitude to
poetry, which finds its utmost expression in the expulsion of poets from his
ideal state in the Republic. However,
it is baffling that Plato, who launches a thorough critique of poetry, is one
of the most ‘literary’ philosophers. In addition, he chooses for his
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Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy: Tyrants, Kings, Emperors, and Philosophers. Day 1
Date: May 10, 2013 9:45 a.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political
PhilosophyTyrants,
Kings, Emperors, and Philosophers: Philosophy and Political Power in AntiquityNew
School for Social Research, New York, May, 10-11 201355 W 13 St Room I 202May
109:45: Introduction – Dmitri Nikulin (NSSR)10:00-11:30: Andreas Kalyvas (NSSR), The
Dictator is a Tyrant: Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Critique of Roman
Republicanism and its Significance TodayChair: Chiara Bottici (NSSR)Abstract:
My
presentation focuses ...
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Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political Philosophy: Tyrants, Kings, Emperors, and Philosophers. Day 2.
Date: May 11, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Hannah Arendt and Reiner Schürmann Symposium in Political
PhilosophyTyrants,
Kings, Emperors, and Philosophers: Philosophy and Political Power in AntiquityNew
School for Social Research, New York, May, 10-11 201355
West 13 St Room I 202 May
1110:00-11:30:
Christoph Horn (University of Bonn), Individual
Competence and Collective Deliberation in Aristotle’s PoliticsChair : Euree Song (Kyung Hee University, Seoul)Abstract:There
can be no doubt that we find, in Aristotle’s Politics, many t...
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Alumni Day @ The New School 2013
Date: May 11, 2013 11:00 a.m.
All New School alumni are invited back to campus for a day of programs and events highlighting the best of the university. Alumni should visit the website for full information and to register online...
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In Celebration of the Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Awards
Date: May 14, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
This event is open to The New School community only. This is not a public event.To commemorate the 2012–13 awardees and the artwork that inspired their winning pieces, a gathering will take place with honorary guest and artist Hans Haacke. His piece Helmsboro Country (dyptych), 1990, part of the Vera List Art Collection, is the subject of the critical response essay "Helmsboro Country and Me" by Thomas J. Ashley, New School for Public Engagement, Institute for Retired Professionals. Gathering in...
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Philosophy Workshop-Saulius Geniusas (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), On the Origins of the Phenomenology of Pain
Date: May 16, 2013 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
My paper has a threefold goal. First, it aims to fix the historical origins of the phenomenology of pain. According to my central thesis, these origins can be traced back to an enthralling discussion between Edmund Husserl and two of his most important teachers, Franz Brentano and Carl Stumpf. According to my reconstruction of this discussion, while Brentano defended the view that all feelings, including pain, are intentional experiences, and while Stumpf argued that pain is a non-intentional fe...
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From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics
Date: May 17, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. This daylong conference addresses the changing cultural and political landscape shaped by new global social movements, and provokes responses and reflections from an international group of artists, activists, and scholars.While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being character...
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Demystifying Medical Marijuana in New York: Implications for Mental Health and Drug Treatment Providers
Date: May 30, 2013 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Eighteen states and the District of
Columbia have passed medical marijuana bills. One-third of Americans now live
in a state where medical marijuana is legal. New York has proposed a bill that
would create a state-regulated medical marijuana program allowing seriously ill
patients to access medical marijuana under the supervision of a healthcare
practitioner. Despite the expansion of medical marijuana programs across the
country and a growing base of scientific evidence about the efficacy ...
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The Nation at The New School - Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield
Date: May 31, 2013 7:00 p.m.
Nation Books and The
New School present Nation Books author
and Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow Jeremy Scahill in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security
reporter and blogger for Wired magazine.In
Scahill's newest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation Books,
April 2013), he takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot
soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with
orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary t...
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NSSR Psych--Riding the Wave: Mind-Body Tools for Managing Cravings
Date: June 1, 2013 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Join us for a unique workshop where contemporary psychotherapy and contemplative mind body traditions will be brought together with mutual regard and support for each other. We will discuss the nature of addictive behaviors from an integrative perspective and will offer practical tools for both practitioners and individuals who wish to learn more about integrating these skills into their own practice...
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