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At Public Seminar, we are committed to fostering discussions on the crucial issues facing our world today and building a shared global knowledge base. This independent initiative is part of The New School Publishing Initiative and involves contributions from faculty, students, and staff at The New School, along with support from collaborators worldwide. Our primary focus is on promoting the intellectual and cultural aspects of democracy, welcoming a variety of viewpoints. Leveraging our expertise in social sciences, humanities, design, and the arts, we strive to initiate and maintain meaningful conversations. It’s important to note that the opinions shared by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of The New School or the Public Seminar editorial team.
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publicseminar.org | Sarah Schweig
Cover of The Ocean in the Next Room (2025) | Sarah V. Schweig / Milkweed EditionsI’m still here in the city I entered years ago. I’ve been in the city all this time. I don’t look up and around much anymore. I’ve been studying philosophy and having a sonand killing time. I follow my son from roomto room in our two-room rental. While he sleeps,I kill a roach in the bathroom with a broom,and even thoroughly crushed its legs keepmoving. I get up each morning still asleepand keep moving.
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2 weeks ago |
publicseminar.org | Jedediah Purdy
Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Monkey, Birds, and Insects (ca. 1582–1616) | Mathais Beitler / Public DomainThe following text was first presented on April 22, 2025, as a distinguished lecture presented by the Henry H. Arnhold Forum on Global Challenges and the New School for Social Research. I want to trace the outline of an era that has closed. It ran from roughly the end of the Cold War until now, although it’s been in crisis for nearly a decade.
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1 month ago |
publicseminar.org | T. Alexander Aleinikoff |Hiroshi Motomura |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela |Nicole Hemmer
Join hosts T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Hiroshi Motomura, and Cristina M. Rodríguez for a conversation with guest Stephen I. Vladeck about the Mahmoud Khalil Case, deportation power, and the Constitution.
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1 month ago |
publicseminar.org | Luis Jaramillo |Salman Rushdie |Adam Mansbach |Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Salman Rushdie presents the 2025 Phillips Lecture at The New School In March, acclaimed author Salman Rushdie visited The New School to deliver the 2025 William Phillips lecture, a talk titled “Blasphemy Is a Victimless Crime.” Rushdie, the author of 15 novels, including the Booker Prize–winning Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, and nonfiction books including, most recently, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, spoke about freedom of thought and speech, the rising...
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publicseminar.org | Claire Potter |Sonali Chakravarti |Sophie Lewis |Natasha Lennard
On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Tessie Prevost woke up and put on one of her prettiest dresses. Like Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Ruby Bridges, Tessie was a very special little girl. Along with hundreds of other Black children, the New Orleans Four, as they would forever be known, had taken a test. The test was devised by the Louisiana Pupil Placement Board after Brown v. Board of Education had declared separate but equal schools unconstitutional.
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