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Keynote speaker is Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent and The Jewish Political Tradition and author of Pluralism and Democracy, On Toleration, and Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality. Moderated by Oz Frankel, author of Whats in a Name? The Black Panthers in Israel and States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States. Can there be cultural pluralism in a state where Jews are the majority? Is there more than one ...

Tags: The New School Jewish Cultural Studies Department of Humanities Michael Walzer Oz Frankel Israel Palestine Politics Tolerance

Join Ian Martin, former UN envoy to Nepal, as he discusses the fragile peace process in that country. The peace process has been hailed as an unusual success story for being achieved by Nepali actors rather than the international community. But with the deadline for agreement on a new constitution fast approaching and the Maoist army still in cantonments, divisions among political parties threaten its successful completion. Is the process failing? Ian Martin is former special representative ...

Tags: The New School India China Institute Asia Nepal Nepali Peace Process Maoist Army Politics War Ian Martin United Nations Mission Andrew Arato Deepak Thapa

Join Ian Martin, former UN envoy to Nepal, as he discusses the fragile peace process in that country. The peace process has been hailed as an unusual success story for being achieved by Nepali actors rather than the international community. But with the deadline for agreement on a new constitution fast approaching and the Maoist army still in cantonments, divisions among political parties threaten its successful completion. Is the process failing? Ian Martin is former special representative ...

Tags: The New School India China Institute Asia Nepal Nepali Peace Process Maoist Army Politics War Ian Martin United Nations Mission Andrew Arato Deepak Thapa

This lecture analyzes the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa for the world economy. It examines the possible impact of their rapid growth on both industrialized and developing countries. The essential question is whether these four countries could be the new engines of growth for the world economy. The answer depends on the nature of their transformation and catch-up, which could span half a century or longer. Even so, rapid growth in these large ...

Tags: The New School India China Institute World Economy Politics China India Brazil South Africa Emerging Economies Deepak Nayyar Global Globalization

This lecture analyzes the economic implications of the rise of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa for the world economy. It examines the possible impact of their rapid growth on both industrialized and developing countries. The essential question is whether these four countries could be the new engines of growth for the world economy. The answer depends on the nature of their transformation and catch-up, which could span half a century or longer. Even so, rapid growth in these large ...

Tags: The New School India China Institute World Economy Politics China India Brazil South Africa Emerging Economies Deepak Nayyar

What is grammar, and how is it internalized in the mind? Is it made up of symbolic code or of neural connections? Is it a sedimented trace left by previous conversations or an innate human capacity? Our answers to these questions obviously shape the way we go about teaching second languages. In this talk, Scott Thornbury reviews some of the main models of grammar—often couched as metaphors—and looks at their implications for classroom practice. Thornbury is a faculty member in The New School ...

Tags: English Language Studies Oxford University Press Grammar Scott Thornbury English as Second Language

The experiences of the global south have revealed that the growth-driven modernization projects have left in their wake a trail of marginalization, dispossession, disempowerment, and the displacement of segments of the population. How is a growth process that leads to exclusion legitimized and how are the citizen/subjects governed through organized practices? How do the excluded population reproduce the economic and social conditions of their existence? How can the process of development ...

Tags: The New School India China Institute Politics Global Economy Social Marginalization Globalization Development Partha Chatterjee Duncan Foley David Harvey William Milberg

SESSION C: IDEOLOGY AND THE EROTICS OF PLAYBOR On Social Lubrication: Between the Digital and Chthonic, Dominic Pettman; The Digital Ideology, Jonathan Beller; Work Hard, Play Harder—Labor, Playbor, and the Ideology of Play, Julian Kücklich; Estranged Free Labor, Mark Andrejevic. Moderator Deborah Levitt. On November 12 through 14, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts hosted an international conference titled, "The Internet as Playground and Factory ," which explored the ...

Tags: Deborah Levitt Dominic Pettman Jonathan Beller Julian Kücklich Mark Andrejevic Digital Media Internet Social Economy Technology Blogging Online Profiles Facebook

SESSION C: IDEOLOGY AND THE EROTICS OF PLAYBOR On Social Lubrication: Between the Digital and Chthonic, Dominic Pettman; The Digital Ideology, Jonathan Beller; Work Hard, Play Harder—Labor, Playbor, and the Ideology of Play, Julian Kücklich; Estranged Free Labor, Mark Andrejevic. Moderator Deborah Levitt. On November 12 through 14, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts hosted an international conference titled, "The Internet as Playground and Factory ," which explored the ...

Tags: Deborah Levitt Dominic Pettman Jonathan Beller Julian Kücklich Mark Andrejevic Digital Media Internet Social Economy Technology Blogging Online Profiles Facebook

In 1960, American film changed forever, but the revolution didnt take place anywhere near a Hollywood set. That year, the New Yorker Theater opened on Manhattans Upper West Side and began screening cutting-edge films from around the world for an eager audience that included the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, and Pauline Kael—among many others—made the New Yorker their home, trusting the owners ...

Tags: The New School New Yorker Theater American Film Toby Talbot Dan Talbot Manhattan Art-house Movement Filmmaking Distribution