Massimiliano Tomba: Insurgent Universality

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The ARC Research Praxis Seminar Series Presents Massimiliano Tomba: "Insurgent Universality"

Hester Eisenstein: Neoliberalism and Hegemonic Feminism: Congruence of Seduction?

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Hester EisensteinProfessor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Queens College and The Graduate CenterHester Eisenstein is a native New Yorker. After getting her Ph.D. in French history from Yale University, she taught at Yale, at Barnard College (Columbia University), where she was active in the formation of the Women’s Studies Program and the Scholar and Feminist … Continue reading "Hester Eisenstein: Neoliberalism and Hegemonic Feminism: Congruence of Seduction?"

Don Kalb: Finance, Demos and Ethnos in the new old Europe

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Don KalbProfessor Sociology and Anthropology, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary and Utrecht University, NetherlandsDon Kalb's books include Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 (Duke University Press), 1997; (ed.) The Ends of Globalization. Bringing Society back in, (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers), 2000; (ed.) Globalization and Development: Key Issues and … Continue reading "Don Kalb: Finance, Demos and Ethnos in the new old Europe"

Celina Su: Redemocratizing Democracy, or Affirmative Governmentality? New York’s Recent Experiences with Participatory Budgeting

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Celina SuAssociate Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College and the inaugural Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies (with an appointment in Critical & Environmental Psychology), Graduate Center, CUNYCelina Su's work focuses on how everyday citizens engage in policy-making. Her publications include Streetwise for Book Smarts: Grassroots Organizing and Education Reform in the Bronx (2009), Our Schools Suck: Young … Continue reading "Celina Su: Redemocratizing Democracy, or Affirmative Governmentality? New York’s Recent Experiences with Participatory Budgeting"

Andrew Stauffer: Traces in the Stacks: The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth Century Print

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Andrew Stauffer - Pinetree Foundation Fellow Professor of English, University of Virginia Andrew Stauffer directs the NINES digital initiative and teaches in the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Anger, Revolution, and Romanticism (Cambridge UP, 2005) and the editor of works by Robert Browning (Norton, 2006) and H. … Continue reading "Andrew Stauffer: Traces in the Stacks: The Troubled Archive of Nineteenth Century Print"