In reaction to recent migrant and refugee movements, Europe is marked by a discourse of crisis. If this discourse has demonstrated anything it is that not only the institutions of the EU but the very idea of Europe itself is in crisis.  Europe’s failure to adequately respond to these movements seems to reveal a latently catastrophic rationality

The conference will consider the relation between various forms of critical theory and post colonialism, including how Marxism assessed colonialism and how neo-Marxists analyzed post-colonialism and the issue of critical theory and philosophies of history. We will also discuss and debate the developments and alternatives within post- colonial societies and polities with an eye to

TCDS is happy to present Asylum or Fortress? The Immigration Crisis and the Illusion of European Solidarity, a conversation with esteemed Hungarian writer and performer Peter Zilahy on the European migration crisis and its implications in European society.   Please join us Tuesday, April 12th, from 7.30-9pm at The New School, Wolff Conference Room, 6 E 16th st., Rm 1103.  We

Join g​lobal n​etworker and h​umanitarian e​xpert Kilian Kleinschmidt for a discussion on ​how technology, innovation, and inclusion can reframe the discourse on refugees, ​current approaches to humanitarian relief, and refugee and migration management. Following a 25 year UN career working in humanitarian relief in conflict areas around the world, Mr. ​Kleinschmidt founded the Innovation and​ Planning Agency (IPA) to foster the use of

The Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School presents a lecture by Wiliam Walters entitled “Aeroplanes and Deportation.” There can be no expulsion without the trains, planes, buses and ships that states use to transport deportees across borders and territories. There can be no deportation without an assortment of guards, pilots, doctors, human rights observers and

This seminar is a discussion of a pre-circulated paper. It can be found on the GIDEST site for attendees to read in advance. Laura Y. Liu presents “Sweatshop City.” Laura Y. Liu is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Her research focuses on community organizing, urban social movements, and

What is home? Is it a place, a feeling, an identity? Is it safety or belonging? Does it come with us when we move or do we leave it behind? When you are compelled to leave your home for reasons you cannot control, or you are raised far from the only home your family has ever known, where is your

ZIMM Lecture Series 2015-2016 Presents:   Vicki Squire: “The Violence of Border Security: Migrant Deaths Across Deserts and Seas” March 14th, 6pm-8pm, The Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall/Hoerle Lecture Hall, UL105, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Lower Level.  The violence of border security practices is no more evident than in the phenomena of migrant deaths

The Zolberg Institute in Migration and Mobility and the Sociology Department Present: Religion, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Israel Workshop Horit Peled & Yoav Peled The Religionization of Israeli Society An examination of the growing saliency of religious personalities, religious themes, and the religious outlook in Jewish Israeli society, in order to test the argument that