juliafoulkes, Author at Histories of the New School

Histories

Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.
People

Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.
Reader

Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.
Reflections & Analysis

Personal reminiscence, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

Projects

In the Archives

Workers from The New School Archives reflect on issues, debates, conundrums and fascinations that emerge while collecting, preserving, organizing and describing the archives.
Offense & Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging

This 2014 exhibition investigated three episodes when art roused protest at the New School.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
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Articles on New School Histories

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Education

Judith Friedlander, A Multi-Campus University in Exile: Then and Now (2/21/2019) Val Vinokur, What’s so ‘Jewish’ about The New School? Inventing a parable of pluralism (2/7/2019) Julia Foulkes, New York is the Place: How the city has defined the school (1/31/2019) Mark Larrimore, How to Mark a Centennial: Telling the Story of the New School […]

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Why The New School?: On the École Libre des Hautes Études

by Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History, NSPE

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Talk given at the symposium on “Memories and Politics of Exile,” Parsons Paris, 6 October 2016 The New School has had a unique role in the history of refuge for intellectual exiles. Much of our sense of ourselves comes from the prescient action Alvin Johnson took in April 1933 to provide a haven for intellectuals […]