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In 1933, the New School’s first president, Alvin Johnson, with support from philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, initiated an historic effort to rescue endangered scholars from the shadow of Na**sm in Europe at the brink of WWII. These refugees became the founding scholars of “The University in Exile,” and constituted what became known as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, now known as The New School for Social Research. Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Political and Social Sciences was launched in 1934 by these scholars, who held the deep conviction that every true university must have its own distinct public voice. Read Alvin Johnson’s introduction to our first issue: http://www.socres.org/vol01/issue0101.htm
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The latest from Social Research: An International Quarterly is a special issue on the shifting political climate in Turkey. Read "Social Justice, Conflict, and Protest in Turkey: The Kurdish Issue and LGBTI+Activism" from Hakan Sandal-Wilson, now available subscription free on Project MUSE:
https://bit.ly/31OgrsF
#OTD in 1962, President John F. Kennedy was shown photographs of Soviet nuclear missile installations under construction in Cuba, setting off the Cuban missile crisis. Read "A Long Legacy of Distrust and the Future of Cuban-US Relations" from Philip Brenner and Teresa García Castro in Social Research: An International Quarterly:
https://bit.ly/2YYnNsJ
Where have all the commons gone? Prabhat Patnaik explores "Commons, Commodities, and Capitalism" in the latest issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly. Read now, subscription free, on Project MUSE:
https://bit.ly/3wgXeJM
Happy Birthday to late night host and comedian Stephen Colbert. Colbert's "border-crossing political satire" is examined in this 2012 piece in the journal Social Research: An International Quarterly. Read "Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert Go to Washington: Television Satirists Outside the Box", now freely available on Project MUSE:
https://bit.ly/3tIEbqD
"If my thinking about the anatomy of an apology is correct, then the myriad apologies being tendered these days by individuals and institutions, including the government’s apology for slavery, are woefully inadequate." Roy L. Brooks discusses the elements of a genuine apology in the lastest issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly. Read now on Project MUSE:
https://bit.ly/3vhQAmt
New Podcast Episode: "Social Research: In the time of Plague" JHUP is joined by Social Research: An International Quarterly Editor Dr. Arien Mack for a conversation about the journal's special Covid-19 issue, which revisits their 1988 AIDS response:
https://bit.ly/3mGlvoy #podcast #covid19 #AIDS
"Comedy is not always nice; it’s not always funny; and sometimes it’s more ribald than rational." - Ronald K. L. Collins in "Comedy and Liberty: The Life and Legacy of Lenny Bruce" from Social Research: An International Quarterly:
https://bit.ly/2Gnxhoc
Are we too busy to be engaged citizens? William E. Scheuerman discusses the pace of modern life's effect on democracy in the journal Social Research: An International Quarterly :
https://bit.ly/3ltBPcn
Today's #EditorsPick comes from Social Research: An International Quarterly: "Hannah Arendt's work is at the heart of Social Research's dedication to the inseparability of theory and lived experience. Her literary trustee, Jerome Kohn, is a masterful prose writer whose political philosophical insights are infused with an unmatched literary sensibility - - whether he is editing Arendt's work or explicating it in a variety of contexts." - Editor Cara Schlesinger
https://bit.ly/3bIxnjO
"Political Transitions Revisited," the Spring 2019 issue from Social Research: An International Quarterly features work on worldwide democratic challenges from authors including Jerome Cohen, Kian Tajbakhsh, Nermin Allam, Sam Greene and Agnes Heller. The 16 articles cover Hungary, China, South Africa and more.
http://ow.ly/NX2V50v60Bw
In April 2018, Social Research: An International Quarterly held its 37th Conference at The New School. a collaboration with the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, the conference examined "Cons and Scams: Their Place in American Culture."
Like other conferences hosted by the journal, the presenters also wrote a paper for a special issue of the journal, which was published as the Winter 2018 issue. Editor Arien Mack said this topic - which has a rich history - fit seamlessly into the time because "this is perhaps the first time we have had a US president whom some have called a con artist."
Mack joined us for a Q&A about the issue.
https://www.press.jhu.edu/news/blog/american-cons-and-scams?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sorscam&utm_content=jhup
Cons and con men have long been present in American culture, from Bernie Madoff to Trump University, street-corner crooks offering three-card monte to big-time art forgers.
Read more in the latest issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly, building off of the Center for Public Scholarship's 2018 conference.
https://www.socres.org/single-post/854-winter-2018-cons-and-scams