Upcoming Conference
This, the 21st in the Social Research conference series, will seek to examine what moment we are in with regard to how both our government and other political and cultural institutions organize, fund, restrict, facilitate, or otherwise affect the flow of knowledge and the implications of this for our democracy. |
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Recently Past Events
Tensions between religion and secularism are long-standing, widespread, and increasingly fierce, evidenced by debates over evolution, separation between religion and education, religion and science, and religious influences on political decisions. This, the 20th in the Social Research conference series, was a forum for discussions about the past and future separation between the religious and the secular. Charles Taylor delivered the keynote address.
The proceedings of this conference will be available in Social Research Volume 76, Number 4 (Winter 2009).
This conference was made possible with funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.
A group of experts discussed current trends that are reshaping universities around the world. The considered the benefits and the risks to universities as they navigate rapid globalization, international collaborations, massification, corporate partnerships, and the growing number of franchises. This conference also commemorated the 75th anniversary of The New School’s University in Exile, founded in 1933 as a haven for European scholars rescued from the ravages of fascism.
The proceedings of this conference are available in Social Research Volume 76, Number 2 (Summer 2009).
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