Josh Lerner, a 2012 graduate of the politics department is executive director of the Participatory Budgeting Project, a non-profit organization that works with local governments, primarily in the US and Canada, to help institute direct participation processes in fiscal matters. The idea is to give community members a more direct means of influencing how public funds [...]
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New School politics alum is director of Participatory Budgeting Project
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Humanity in Action: International Human Rights Fellowship Info Session & Film Screening
Please join Humanity in Action and The New School, for an information session on the HIA Fellowship followed by the screening of Just People: A Quest for Social Souls with Independent Minds, a film produced by Humanity in Action and directed by acclaimed Dutch filmmaker Annegrits Wietma. Intensive and demanding, the Humanity in Action Fellowships bring together international groups of college [...]
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Faculty spotlight: Prof. Ruparelia’s work on India and social welfare
As India’s economy moves to become one of the driving engines of the 21st century, the fundamental challenge shaping its future will be how its ruling elites manage the risks and rewards of rapid economic growth. Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor of Politics, addresses this question in a new research project titled “Enacting a Right to Basic Social Welfare: India’s Great [...]
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Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute: The World in Crisis
Located between Berlin, Prague, and Warsaw, and saturated with the history and memory of these three distinct cultures, Wrocław, Poland was the site of The New School’s 21st Annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, offered by the university’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS). This year’s program unfolded around the theme “The World in Crisis—Responses and [...]
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Second Annual Radical Democracy Conference
Please join us on Thursday, April 5th at Columbia University and Friday, April 6th at The New School for the Second Annual Radical Democracy Conference. This year’s conference hosts panelists from Europe, Latin America, and the United States. It also features a Keynote address by Prof. Andrew Schaap, University of Exeter; and two round table [...]
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Eli Zaretsky to deliver Ralph Miliban Lecture at the London School of Economics and Politics on the future of the left
Prof. Zaretsky will give a talk on the Future of the Left this spring at the LSE as the Ralph Miliban Lecture. Ralph Miliban was associated with the LSE for over 30 years, was an important thinker on socialism and Western democracy and politics. Past lecture series topics included “Oil, Energy, Security, and Global Order”, [...]
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