How might a politics centered on spectacular black death
marginalize the concerns of black women? Member Shatema
Threadcraft, Ralph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member in the School of
Social Science, explored this question during Ideas:
Celebrating...
On April 26, 2018, the Institute community gathered to celebrate
Ideas 2017–18 with talks by IAS Members––deep ideas explained in
under 20 minutes with no slides or chalk––followed by audience
discussions moderated by Faculty. The program concluded...
In this video, George
Steinmetz, Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science,
considers the ways that writing the history of the social sciences
helps us understand the conditions in which knowledge evolves,
declines, and flourishes during a...
Two pairs of earrings, four bracelets, and a mixtape inspired me
to write this book. I was in the Stadtmuseum in the German city of
Jena, peering into the various display cases of an exhibit called
Freundschaft! Mythos und Realität im Alltag der DDR...
Columbia University Press has published Gender and the
Politics of History: Thirtieth Anniversary Edition, by
Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita
in the School of Social Science.
This anniversary edition includes a new preface in which
Scott...
Yale University Press has published A Foreign Policy for the
Left, by Michael Walzer,
Professor in the School of Social Science. The book, adapted from
essays published in Dissent, a political journal for which
Walzer served as editor, asks how...
As controversy swirls in the wake of the revelations about the
abuses of women by powerful men in the arts, politics, media,
academia, restaurants, and elsewhere come to light, it is important
to remember that we are dealing not with exceptional...
From the Chinese Revolution of 1911 to the May 19 Movement of
1957, from the Xidan Democracy Wall of 1978 to the Democracy
Movement in 1989, Chinese people have never ceased in their
struggle for democracy. When the Tiananmen Massacre shocked
the...
Didier Fassin, James D.
Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has edited
Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography
Makes (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which brings
together an international roster of scholars...
