Joan Scott, Professor Emerita in
the School of Social Science, will deliver the keynote address at
the Central European University's conference on academic freedom.
The day-long conference seeks to clarify our understanding of what
academic freedom...
More and more employees across a growing range of industries
find the number of hours they work is swinging giddily from week to
week — bringing chaos not only to family scheduling, but also to
family finances. And a new wave of research shows that...
Peter Redfield, Member in
the School of Social Science, has been named President of the
Society for Cultural Anthropology. Redfield will
rejoin the board, on which he served from 2007 to 2012 as an
elected member, and succeed Robert Foster as...
Eric Maskin, Professor in
the School of Social Science from 2000–2011 and Nobel Laureate in
Economic Sciences in 2007, and Amartya Sen, Institute Trustee
(1987–1994) and Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences in 1998, return
to their recent essay “The...
Michael Walzer, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Social Science, reviews On
Betrayal (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Avishai Margalit, former Professor
in the School of Historical Studies. Of the book, Walzer writes,
"Betrayal is the breaking...
From 2012 to 2014, Myanmar suffered violence between different
communities, most of it involving Buddhists attacking Muslims. It
ranged from localised, fleeting, inter-group violence, to large
scale, apparently well-organised, state-supported...
David Kazanjian, Member in the School of Social Science, will discuss The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the 19th Century Atlantic World (Duke University Press 2016) at Labyrinth Books in Princeton on April 13 at 6:00 p.m.
Banning all Muslims was a popular campaign slogan for
then-candidate Donald Trump. People cheered at the simple logic:
all Muslims pose a threat, because so many hold hate in
their hearts and bombs in their vests. ... However odious, Trump’s
actions...