CENTERS AND PUBLICATIONS
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university and involving The New School and
itself to engendering and promoting freedom
other institutions.
of inquiry—not merely as an intellectual
The center’s multifaceted activities include
exercise but as a lived imperative—and
producing Social Research: An International
to addressing, illuminating, and alleviating
Quarterly, an award-winning journal that has
pressing social problems. These goals are
been mapping the landscape of intellectual
rooted in the earliest history and ideals of The
thought since it was first published by The New
New School. In this spirit, all of our activities
School in 1934; the annual Social Research
and initiatives are intended to foster dialogue
conference series, launched in 1988 (which will
within and beyond the academy and to
expand to include new events to engage experts
enhance public understanding of important
and the public on critical and contested issues
social and political issues. The center draws on
of our times with the intent of influencing public
the strengths of The New School and its faculty
policy); the New University in Exile Consortium,
to shape and inform its programs.
an expanding group of 12 universities and
Under the direction of Dr. Arien Mack, Alfred
colleges committed to assisting scholars at
and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology
risk; and Endangered Scholars Worldwide, an
and editor of Social Research: An International
activist initiative started in 2008 to respond to
Quarterly since 1970, the center unites a
the wrongful imprisonment of scholars around
number of existing initiatives and draws on
the world.
their demonstrated strengths to develop new programming. It is designed to serve as a
centerforpublicscholarship.org
bridge between the many initiatives at The
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New School consistent with its mission and as a catalyst for new programs both within the
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
The Center for Public Scholarship dedicates
