Politics and Comedy
April 28, 2012 The Spring 2012 issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly (79:1) was launched by a panel discussion with...
Egypt in Transition
27th Social Research Conference April 12, 2012 This conference aims to shed light on the origins of the events in Tahrir Square, the...
Steven Pinker & Robert Jay Lifton
2nd in the Public Voices series March 23, 2012 Speakers: Robert Jay Lifton, psychiatrist and author of Witness to an Extreme Century: A...
The Image
February 28, 2012 Social Research: An International Quarterly launches its Winter issue, “The Image,” with a colloquium produced in...
Public Voices: Russ Feingold
1st in the Public Voices series February 22, 2012 The Center for Public Scholarship presents the first in our Public Voices series. Russ...
The Future of Higher Education
26th Social Research Conference, December 8-9, 2011 There has been much discussion recently in the media (the New York Review of Books,...
Human Rights and the Global Economy
25th Social Research Conference, November 9-10, 2011 Human rights have become a mediating language for discussions of social justice and...
India's World
24th Social Research Conference, May 10-11, 2011 On Tuesday and Wednesday, May 10 and 11, speakers discussed key issues of contemporary...
Scholars in Exile
Endangered Scholars Worldwide event April 8, 2011 Endangered Scholars Worldwide is an initiative of the flagship journal of The New...
The Body and The State: How The State Controls and Protects the Body
23rd Social Research Conference February 10-11, 2011 Struggles over control of our bodies, which have a long history, are as fierce now...
From Impunity to Accountability: Africa's Development in the 21st Century
22nd Social Research Conference November 18-19, 2010 Our decision to devote an issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly and a...
Limiting Knowledge in a Democracy
21st Social Research Conference February 24-25, 2010 There is no question that the free access to knowledge and information are the...
The Politics of Resistance Under Theocracy
February 12, 2010 This one-day conference explored the strategies of everyday resistance, in particular those of women and youth, in the...
The Religious-Secular Divide: The U.S. Case
20th Social Research Conference March 5-6, 2009 The conference explored the tension between religion and secularity in the United States,...
Free Inquiry at Risk: Universities in Dangerous Times, Part II
19th Social Research Conference February 19-20, 2009 During the 1920s, Alvin Johnson, the New School's first president, became coeditor...
