More than six hundred years ago, a conspiracy theory about the murder of children went viral in a brand new medium, and it has circulated in ever-changing forms to the present day, inspiring vigilantism, mob violence, and state persecution.
Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…
Malcolm Gladwell (author), Bernard E. Harcourt (Columbia), Laleh Khalili (SOAS, University of London), Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia), Massimiliano Tomba (University of California Santa Cruz), moderated by Adam Tooze and Jeremy Kessler To RSVP, please click here. Open to the public. Seating is limited. *NEW LOCATION: Faculty House Presidential Suite (3rd Floor), 64 Morningside Drive The year-long “Uprising 13/13” seminar series explores various…