The Graduate Center’s CHANGE series last week addressed “Climate Action After COVID-19.” The pandemic has provided us with a glimpse into a cleaner future because of changed, mainly reduced, transportation and consumption modes. But will these patterns last? Are they enough? Is simply going back to some status quo ante [...]
Last night’s conversation in The Graduate Center’s CHANGE series focused on how to make education more equitable. It’s an issue of particular urgency for the United States, as our democracy depends on informed, socially mobile citizens. Graduate Center Professor Carla Shedd (Sociology and Urban Education), author of Unequal City: Race, Schools, and Perceptions of Injustice, [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the U.S. workforce with layoffs, reduced hours, diminished earnings, and loss of health insurances. It has also it exposed deep inequalities around race and gender lines. Last night, as part of its CHANGE series, The Graduate Center gathered leading scholars and writers for [...]
On September 16 we kicked off a range of new CHANGE Fall 2020 online events in the frame of The Promise and Perils of Democracy project, and more than 1.000 people joined us from all over the world. CHANGE is a series in which we invite leading thinkers on ways [...]
What is the future of democratic societies? How do we become more democratic, establish fairer systems, equal access to education, culture, standards of living? How do we achieve participation in democracy itself? What does democracy cost? Over the course of the Spring 2020 semester, "The Promise and Perils of Democracy" [...]
In 2019, a turbulent last year of the decade, complete with major implications for democracy such as climate change and increasing inequality, the "The Promise and Perils of Democracy" project was in full swing. Our events highlighted issues as the role of justice in democracies and the judiciary in the [...]
On December 10, 2019, Branko Milanovic, visiting presidential professor and senior scholar at the Stone Center for Socio-Economic Inequality at The Graduate Center, discussed his new book, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, which explores the prospects for creating a fairer society in a world dominated [...]
Join us for Branko Milanovic's theses on The Future of Global Capitalism on December 10 at 6:30pm at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Milanovic, author of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, is a visiting presidential professor and senior scholar at the [...]
On October 24, 2019 a powerful group of speakers came to the Graduate Center for a panel on "Racism and Democracy". They spoke about the influence of ethnic bias and racism on US democracy. We heard how the social construct of race has shaped the geopolitics of the United States [...]
A couple of weeks ago economists and authors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman argued on a Graduate Center panel how the US tax system serves as a threat to US democracy. Their thesis, advanced in their book The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make [...]