Calendar

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
2
Shifting Social Contracts Series – The Politics of Gradual Change: Understanding ‘Post-Neoliberal’ Social Policy in Latin America 10:00 pm
Shifting Social Contracts Series – The Politics of Gradual Change: Understanding ‘Post-Neoliberal’ Social Policy in Latin America
Sep 2 @ 10:00 pm – 11:50 pm
This presentation will review national debates on contested issues around Latin America’s gradual re-engagement with the state in the social sectors. It will provides insights into how post-neoliberal struggles over the relative weight of the state, markets and families play out in systems of social provision by looking at recent reforms in Chile—a country which[...]
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Green Tours by the Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC) 3:00 pm
Green Tours by the Tishman Environment and Design Center (TEDC)
Sep 10 @ 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the New School Facilities for a special Green Building Tour of The New School University Center. The University Center is a 16-story, approximately 375,000-square-foot building located at the intersection of 14th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The building has 230,000 square feet of academic space on[...]
Book Launch: Mr. Smith Goes to Prison 10:30 pm
Book Launch: Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
Sep 10 @ 10:30 pm – Sep 11 @ 12:30 am
New School urban policy professor Jeff Smith will read from his new book, Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis. Following a brief reading from the book, author Touré will moderate a discussion about criminal justice reform with Professor Jeff Smith, Soffiyah Elijah (Executive Director of[...]
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
2015 International Field Program Conference 4:00 pm
2015 International Field Program Conference
Sep 18 @ 4:00 pm – 10:30 pm
The Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School presents the annual International Field Program Conference. Join us for engaging presentations and refreshments to celebrate the work of 2015 IFPers. Winners from the #IFP2015PhotoCompetition (you can still vote on Twitter!) will also be announced. Last summer, seventy nine students from the[...]
MADE BY PEOPLE: A Conference on Clothes + the People Who Make Them 6:30 pm
MADE BY PEOPLE: A Conference on Clothes + the People Who Make Them
Sep 18 @ 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm
MADE BY PEOPLE: a conference on clothes & the people who make them. Friday, September 18 from 2:30 to 7:30PM University Center, Starr Foundation Hall/multi-purpose room, Room # L102 (basement level). The conference is free, including meals, but RSVP is required. This event in spsonored by the Association for International Development and Craft Talk and[...]
19
20
21
Politics and Policy Series: Examination of Voting Rights in the 2016 US Election 10:30 pm
Politics and Policy Series: Examination of Voting Rights in the 2016 US Election
Sep 21 @ 10:30 pm – Sep 22 @ 12:30 am
The Politics and Policy Series is a thought-provoking, stimulating series of courses and events. The series will combine in-class lectures and assignments with the hands-on experience and intellects of both American and Global politics experts in order to dissect the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, while also providing an international perspective. From the evolution of the[...]
22
23
24
Youth And Mayors Forum On Climate And Sustainability 7:00 pm
Youth And Mayors Forum On Climate And Sustainability
Sep 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join Joel Towers, Executive Dean of Parsons, ambitious local leaders, and students in a conversation aimed at developing innovative solutions to rapidly and collectively transform communities in a path towards sustainability in the Urban World by 2030. VIP attendee includes: Gino Van Begin, ICLEI Secretary General, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Marcio Lacerda, Mayor), Bogota, Colombia (Gustavo[...]
Cities Deliver Sustainable Development: Global Urban Leaders Endorse and Operationalize the SDGs 10:00 pm
Cities Deliver Sustainable Development: Global Urban Leaders Endorse and Operationalize the SDGs
Sep 24 @ 10:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Join us at The New School to engage with world-leading Mayors and local government representatives as they pledge their support for the United Nations’ new Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in their cities and commit to implementing the new urban agenda between now and 2030. We welcome you to join California Governor Edmund G. Brown,[...]
25
Global Urban Futures Presents Safer Cities 2:00 pm
Global Urban Futures Presents Safer Cities
Sep 25 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
UN-Habitat partners with the Global Urban Futures Project within the New School, New America, the Huairou Comission, and Next City on a two-part event to mark the occasion of the Post 2015 Development Summit in New York. The broad focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals and plans for a Safer Cities Campaign in the[...]
26
27
28
29
30
Shifting Social Contracts: The Politics of Transforming Social Policy in Democratic South Africa 10:00 pm
Shifting Social Contracts: The Politics of Transforming Social Policy in Democratic South Africa
Sep 30 @ 10:00 pm – 11:50 pm
Social policy change in South Africa is being reduced to a reductionist view of the influence of colonialism and apartheid regimes without taking into account the structural conditions and contexts within which race, class, gender and spatial divides shaped outcomes for the black majority. Attributing poverty and inequality simply to historical influences without taking into[...]