Global Café

The IPK Global Café offers faculty--from NYU as well as other academic institutions--an opportunity to present their own work on matters of globalization and transnational studies to faculty and graduate students. The bi-weekly lunch series draws upon a community of faculty and graduate students from across NYU's diverse array of departments. Individuals interested in participating should contact ipk.info[@]nyu.edu.

Rethinking Secularism

Menus in the Media - Member Meetings

Sponsored by the Menus in the Media Working Group, these monthly sessions will each have a different theme. The thematic questions will be posted on this page and circulated to the group at least one week prior to every meeting. The meetings will be recorded but these recordings will not be made public.

Group members, please RSVP with group member and administrator Anne McBride for each session so we can plan accordingly.

Technics of Liberalism - Group Meetings

These meetings take place once a month, often on the first Thursday of the month, and are open to Technics of Liberalism working group members.

Full Spectrum: Democracy and Human Rights in the Age of Emergencies

Organized by IPK Visiting Scholar Nicolas Guilhot, this interdisciplinary seminar will map the multiple processes that have led to the constitution of a field of international practices structured around the promotion of democracy and human rights. The purpose of the seminar will be to develop a comprehensive understanding of these new forms of social engineering and of the conceptual and normative framework under which they operate. It will be informed by a historical approach to the phenomenon of democracy promotion and resituate it in the context of the transformations of international law, human rights doctrines, and international politics. It will develop a sociological analysis of the institutional arenas – human rights organizations, NGOs, UN agencies, foundations and academic institutions – where this new global expertise is produced. At a more theoretical level, it will also look at how these new practices have transformed the concepts of democracy and human rights. For more information on this event series, please read the full seminar description (PDF).

Humanitarian Action Seminar

Now in its second year, the Humanitarian Action Seminar brings together practitioners and scholars working on humanitarianism for monthly discussions of shared interest. Sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, historians and others dialogue with representatives from the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, and research institutes to reflect on such topics as humanitarianism's role in geopolitics, its narrative forms, organizational practices, and ethical commitments. Past speakers include Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF), Nicolas de Torrente; writer and researcher, Alex de Waal; and Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, Thomas Weiss.

Exporting Enlightenment

Cultures of Finance - Member Meetings

Sponsored by the Cultures of Finance Working Group, this series of meetings is open to invited members of the group. Each month's meeting will have a different theme, as announced and determined by the group. These thematic questions will be posted on this page and circulated to the group at least one week prior to every meeting. Out of these meetings will come ideas for collaborative writing projects and public events. The meetings will be recorded but these recordings will not be made public. Generally, meetings will take place on the final Thursday of every month from 4:00 - 6:00pm, in the conference room at IPK. Group members, please RSVP with group member and administrator, Robert Wosnitzer, for each session.