The New School for Social Research is rooted in a legacy of theoretically informed, historically grounded scholarship, offering rigorous graduate programs.
We are heartbroken to announce the death of Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, on July 4, 2022.
Prof. Bernstein taught philosophy for 70 years. We are forever grateful that he spent 33 of those years with us at
@TheNewSchool
.
More on his life & work soon.
Yesterday, Duncan Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, officially retired from NSSR and
@TheNewSchool
.
Read more about this leading global thinker on political economy and mathematical modeling in the thread below 🧵🔽
#EconTwitter
NSSR mourns the loss of Agnes Heller, Professor Emerita of Philosophy who taught at
@TheNewSchool
for more than 25 years. Her intellect and her courage will be missed by colleagues, students, and supporters from around the globe.
Congratulations to
@FaniaMakaya
, Sociology PhD student! She's been awarded a 2021-2022
@AAUW
International Fellowship to support her dissertation research on Black feminism on a global scale.
If your isolation/quarantine means extra time for thinking...
Then check out the syllabus for "Thinking," a class taught at NSSR by Hannah Arendt in 1974.
Thanks to
@Samantharhill
, as always, for the amazing archival find!
Beyond thrilled to be included in the 2023
#TIME100NEXT
list.
Thanks to Elizabeth Warren for a powerful write up.
“Weber’s bold ideas are helping shift the economic paradigm."
@SenWarren
OCT. 23 @ 6 PM
Crisis and Violence in Brazilian Elections: Democracy on the Ballot
Featuring VP candidate Manuela Davila, Glenn Greenwald of
@theintercept
, and
#NSSRfaculty
Andreas Kalyvas and Paulo dos Santos
100 years ago this month, we opened our doors for our first-ever lecture series. Only those concerned with "the grave social, political, economic and educational problems of the day" need apply.
Which course would you take?
#100YearsNew
NSSR mourns the loss of Lance Taylor — Professor Emeritus of Economics, the former Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development, and past
@SCEPA_economics
director — who died on August 15 at the age of 82.
.
@CornelWest
is here at
@TheNewSchool
!
Our 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Scholar is on campus today and tomorrow to give 3 Philosophy lectures, and to meet with Philosophy MA and PhD students.
📸 Action shots from today's lecture, "Philosophy as Vocation"
📚☀️ NSSR summer reading picks☀️📚
THE DEFICIT MYTH: MODERN MONETARY THEORY AND THE BIRTH OF THE PEOPLE'S ECONOMY (
@public_affairs
)
By
@StephanieKelton
(PhD Economics '01)
Orientation yesterday:
SO THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH WAS THE OLD NAME OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL, WE WERE ACTUALLY THE UNIVERSITY IN EXILE, THEN THE GRADUATE FACULTY OF POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCE, NOW WE'RE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND THE UNIVERSITY IS THE NEW SCHOOL-
NSSR mourns the loss of feminist scholar and activist Ann Snitow, who established the gender studies program at The New School and grew longstanding ties between the school and Eastern Europe
📢 Book Discussion: "Cannibal Capitalism"
📅 Mar. 23, 6 PM
Fraser argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital—and starve it to death.
Register here:
"We socialize risks but privatize rewards. In this view, only businesses create value; governments merely facilitate the process."
Top economist
@MazzucatoM
(
@NewSchoolAlumni
) explains how COVID-19 offers the chance to change this, and redefine 'value'.
🌎
#WorldwideWednesday
spotlight🌎
With a
@JaneyProgram
grant, Sociology PhD student
@juliangomezdel
is spending his summer in Colombia doing research for his dissertation, "Roots of Conflict: State, Society and Agrarian Reform in the Making of Contemporary Colombia"
"As Arendt showed us, the history of dictatorships is founded on lies....We see the same today, in efforts to negate or downplay the pandemic."
#NSSRfaculty
@FinchelsteinF
uses the insight of Hannah Arendt to explain Trump and Bolsonaro
"The 6 letters exchanged by Arendt and Adorno during the 3-month period between January 30 and May 2, 1967, give a vivid picture of the fight over Benjamin’s legacy..."
In
@LAReviewofBooks
, from
@Samantharhill
and Susan Gillespie
TODAY @ 4PM: Brazilian economist and Economics PhD alum
@nelsonhbarbosa
returns to campus to discuss "Effective Demand, Income Distribution, and Secular Stagnation"
WATCH: NSSR Dean
@williammilberg
interviews former Greek minister of finance
@yanisvaroufakis
on his new book, "Talking to My Daughter About the Economy"
Just got an email from a prof: “As a reminder, you are required to wear clothes during Zoom meetings.”
Rules are made when they become necessary, not before.
Congratulations to all of the Master's, PhD, and Certificate students who graduated from The New School for Social Research last night. We're so proud of the Class of 2021!
#NewSchoolGrad
#NSSRgrad
We are shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Jeremy Safran, NSSR psychology professor, former Department of Psychology co-chair, and an internationally renowned and admired psychotherapist. Our deepest condolences to his family and friends; we will miss him dearly.
We are so excited that Judith Butler &
@CornelWest
will be scholars at NSSR this year!
Butler will lead an intensive graduate seminar, Contemporary Feminist Philosophy. West will deliver 1 public lecture & 2 New School community lectures, & meet with Philosophy grad students.
We're thrilled to announce our inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholars: Judith Butler and
@CornelWest
!
Learn more about our scholars and this exciting new program here:
.
@Nina_EBanks
begins her lecture at
@TheNewSchool
on Sadie T.M. Alexander, and the comparisons this first African-American economist made in the 1930s between fascism and racism
She discussed her life in
@PublicSeminar
with
@AnnaNosthoff
:
"I felt that I had a debt to pay as a survivor. Writing moral philosophy and philosophy of history for me then became a way to pay my debt as a survivor to the people who could not survive."
There are excellent non-white & non-male candidates and candidates based outside the Global North. E.g Brazil's
@lauraabcarvalho
is not far from the top, with over 80 votes so far! Want to turn things around? Cast your vote for the
#NotTheNobel
Prize today (instructions above)✊
Till van Treeck, 2021-2022 Heuss Professor in Economics, delivers our annual Heuss Lecture focusing on income distribution, varieties of capitalism, and growth models
@ifso_due
In Geneva for
@ilo
centennial event (keynote tomorrow on why ‘just transition’ needs labour to co-create transition not just defend against outcomes). Lake walk tonight straight off plane with great Brazilian economist
@lauraabcarvalho
(
@NSSRNews
alums!)
Congratulations to our 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award recipients! 🎊
This year's recipients guided, connected with, and created supportive and compassionate learning environments for their students.
Read more about their impact on
@TheNewSchool
students ⬇️🧵
Happy 115th birthday, Hannah Arendt!
In Spring 1968, during her first year as
#NSSRfaculty
, Prof. Arendt taught “Political Experiences in the 20th Century” and co-taught “Plato’s Theaetetus" with Hans Jonas.
Which would you have taken?
News bulletin via
@TNSarchives
And our hearts are also with Grigory Yudin, NSSR Politics PhD candidate, who has been beaten and detained by Russian police during an anti-war street protest in Moscow earlier this week
@kjhealy
We appreciate the recognition of our University in Exile! But
@NinaBernstein1
is correct about this -- the FrankfUrt (ahem) School made its way from Germany to uptown.
📢JUST ANNOUNCED
@SandyDarity
and A. Kirsten Mullen will join
@TheNewSchool
to discuss their book, FROM HERE TO EQUALITY: REPARATIONS FOR BLACK AMERICANS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
🗓️ April 21, 2:00-3:30 PM ET
Register ➡️
THIS THURSDAY: NSSR welcomes
@Nina_EBanks
at 4:30 PM ET for a lecture on "Sadie T.M. Alexander: Fascism and Race"
Nina Banks is faculty at
@BucknellU
and is also a Visiting Fellow at
@RacePowerPolicy
Register at
Mourning the loss of Toni Morrison. Her 2016 visit to
@TheNewSchool
, arranged by
@NewSchoolWrites
and
@PENamerica
to present her with the 2016 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, was beautiful and inspiring.
3/22 || 12:30 PM ET
Economics Seminar: Prof. Mariana Mazzucato (
@MazzucatoM
)
This lecture will make the case for rethinking the role of govt. in the economy so that it is better equipped to deal with the greatest challenges of our times
Register at:
REMEMBERING RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN, 1932-2022
There is so much to say about such a brilliant and warm scholar, teacher, colleague, and friend.
The official
@TheNewSchool
announcement from NSSR Dean
@williammilberg
is in the screenshots below and this PDF:
We are heartbroken to announce the death of Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, on July 4, 2022.
Prof. Bernstein taught philosophy for 70 years. We are forever grateful that he spent 33 of those years with us at
@TheNewSchool
.
More on his life & work soon.
Hoy en Colombia se celebra la sociología. ¡The New School for Social Research les desea a todos un feliz
#D
íaDelSociólogo!
Today in Colombia is a day to celebrate the field of sociology and all sociologists. Happy
#SociologyDay
!
🎉🎊🎉
@AcsSociologia
@ColombianSG
Dec 7 || 12:30 PM ET
Economics Seminar: Max Ajl
@maxajl
, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at
@WUR
, will present his book "A People's Green New Deal" (Pluto Press, 2021)
Register at:
CONGRATS: Faculty at NSSR and Parsons awarded prestigious Sawyer Seminar Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, providing $225k in support for research and programming on "Imaginative Mobilities"
As of July 1, Duncan is Professor Emeritus. During the 2022-2023 academic year, the Economics department will hold a conference celebrating him and the political economy tradition at
@TheNewSchool
; more information to come.
(Photos from a small retirement gathering in May 🎉)
Congratulations to all of our PhD graduates in the Class of 2023! Presenting our Doctoral Commencement Award winners and their dissertations -- give them a follow! 🧵👀
"Hannah Arendt, Political Scientist Dead
'Hannah Arendt was a strong voice for sanity and reason in the world's intellectual community, devoted not only to writing but to teaching,' Dr. John R. Everett, president of the
@NSSRNews
said yesterday."
Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
Today we're watching these two brilliant lectures involving Marx from the 2019
@ICSI_NewSchool
summer sessions -- see below (1/3)
3/4 || 12 PM ET
Colonial Genealogies of Political Economy: Common Currencies, Hidden Hierarchies
W/ Professor Ndongo Samba Sylla (
@nssylla
) of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung + Professor Ramaa Vasudevan of Colorado State. Hosted by
@EmpireCurrency
Register at:
🚨 SOAS Economics and
@NSSRNews
Economics are offering a fantastic lecture series on contemporary issues in political economy (10, Oct'22 - 24, Apr'23.
An exciting series with powerhouses in heterodox economics! ✊🏾
Details in pictures and thread below.
New School Historians are *all over* the Washington Post's feature "Made By History," featuring diverse historical perspectives on a range of contemporary issues
Luiza Nassif Pires just received her PhD in Economics from NSSR. Her dissertation is entitled: "Identity Conflict and Functional Income Distribution: Essays on Gender, Class Solidarity, and the Wage-Profit Frontier."
@NewSchoolAlumni
"This crisis is accelerating the recurrent process of primitive accumulation. The capitalist system can no longer guarantee subsistence, can no longer guarantee that workers can reproduce themselves." -
@luizanassif
🤯🤯🤯
#femeconCOVID19
Excited to announce 3 new graduate minors
@TheNewSchool
!
📢 Anthropology & Design
📢 Global Mental Health
📢 Critical Perspectives on Democratic Anti-Colonialism
Learn more ➡️
Excited that
@democracynow
welcomed
@DarrickHamilton
on the show today!
Did you hear Amy Goodman mention the new Institute for the Study of Race, Stratification and Political Economy he'll be heading at
@TheNewSchool
this year?
JUST ANNOUNCED!
4/23 @ 12 PM
Journalist Andrea Bernstein (
@AndreaWNYC
) discusses her latest book, AMERICAN OLIGARCHS, and the often dark stories behind the rise of the Trump and Kushner families to the White House.
Register for the online talk at
Congratulations to
#NSSRfaculty
@shaikhecon
!
He received a 2021 Yicai (China Business Group)-
@jpmorgan
Financial Book of the Year Prize for the Chinese edition of his 2016 book, CAPITALISM: COMPETITION, CONFLICT, CRISIS (
@OUPAcademic
)
Watch the ceremony:
Vera List Professor of Philosophy, Richard J. Bernstein, presented his new book on Hannah Arendt, Why Read Hannah Arendt Now followed by a screening of the documentary film Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt.
Dec 10 || 12 PM ET
Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony - 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala (
@FreeOsmanKavala
)
An "annual tribute to exceptionally audacious thinkers, teachers, and doers" presented by
@TCDSNS
Register at: