On Thursday, April 26, a lively room of students and staff came together to celebrate excellence in student programming, leadership, and community building throughout The New School. Hosted by the Office of Student Development and Activities, the tenth annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet presented twenty awards in thirteen different categories, including Outstanding Student Leader of [...]
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Student writers across disciplines, divisions, and levels will be honored on May 9th’s celebration of the winners of the 2012 Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Award for criticism, fiction, poetry and drama about a piece in The New School’s collection. Award winners actively engaged the university’s art collection and found inspiration in the [...]
Cutting through the culture’s noise about idealized bodies, a group of New School students is working to create a space where individuals are welcome to express “our bodies on our terms.” Re-Embody Mine, a student initiative to collect and share body stories about the struggle of self, body, health and society, will be hosting a [...]
Can design drive a revolution? On April 27 and 28, writers, researchers and critics from around the world will gather at The New School to consider this question. DESIGN/HISTORY/REVOLUTION, an interdisciplinary conference exploring how design has shaped cultural, political, and scientific upheaval. will welcome an international cohort of scholars in design, history, politics and art. [...]
The cartoon image of the bearded, ponderous analyst and his couch-bound patient is familiar to any New Yorker reader. But New School for Social Research professor of psychology Jeremy Safran’s new book Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Therapies (American Psychological Association Publications, 2012), seeks to complicate and contextualize this stereotyped notion. “Psychoanalysis was the dominant form of treatment [...]
At this point in the continuing evolution of our country and of the human race, we urgently need …to recognize that we must each become a part of the solution because we are each a part of the problem. —Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century Over the course [...]
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