Abstract The Democracy Seminar, a network of seminars that ran from 1984 to 1994, and again from 2018 to the present (2021), were semi-clandestine meetings of scholars held simultaneously in Warsaw, Budapest and New York, before spreading to cities across Eastern and Central Europe. The seminar discussed topics in democratic politics and culture, and was the genesis of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at The New School for Social Research. The Democracy Seminar oral history...

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Materials intended for display in an exhibition celebrating Edith Wise Sommerich and Otto Sommerich. Edith was a longtime New School student, founding member and chair of the New School Associates, and, with Otto, a major donor to the school. The records consist of biographical documentation, correspondence related to Associates events, and a letter from President Emeritus Alvin Johnson.

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Administrative records regarding the formation and development of Eugene Lang College, 1983-1987, as well as audio recordings of a colloquium and convocation in 1985 and academic lectures from 1986.

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Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts is the undergraduate liberal arts college of The New School university system. Librarians in the former Raymond Fogelman Library established this collection of printed materials and ephemera created by the Eugene Lang College administration, faculty, or students, and The New School Archives staff occasionally adds to the collection. The bulk of the collection consists of student periodicals in the form of newspapers and journals.

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The collection consists of audiovisual recordings of events, including concerts, lectures, and an orientation, sponsored by Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School.

Abstract With roots in earlier undergraduate initiatives at The New School, Eugene Lang College was named in 1985 for its benefactor, establishing for the first time a division at The New School dedicated solely to educating traditional college-age undergraduates. The collection consists of files produced by the Eugene Lang College Dean's Office and saved to floppy disk, covering a range of topics from space allocation to curriculum development to strategic planning, budget projections and faculty...

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Written essays and visual maps in analog and digital formats created by Eugene Lang College seniors, collected in the 2010s for a project initiated by Dean Stephanie Browner to "help us see and understand your intellectual journey."

Summary The graduate school at the New School was established in 1933 as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In its early years, the school was often referred to as the University in Exile. The division's name was changed in 2005 to the New School for Social Research (NSSR). This collection contains material related to the school gathered from a variety of sources by librarians in the Raymond Fogelman Library over a number of years. Materials include documentation of...

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Audio and video recordings of events sponsored by the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, 1959-2007. The graduate school at the New School was established in 1933 as the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. In its early years, the school was often referred to as the University in Exile. The division's name was changed in 2005 to the New School for Social Research (NSSR).

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The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, often referred to in its early years as the University in Exile, was established in 1933. This collection consists of minutes from meetings from the time the Graduate Faculty was established through 1968.