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Rare Books: A Guide to Collecting, Appreciating, and Selling Antiquarian Books was a semester-long lecture series held at the New School for Social Research in partnership with the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. The collection consists of sound reel recordings of the weekly lectures.

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This collection consists solely of audio recordings of Reiner Schürmann (1941-1993) lecturing on Kant, Nietzsche, and philosophical anthropology. Schürmann was a professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and The New School Archives staff assumes that the lectures were made during Philosophy Department courses he taught in the late 1980s.

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Reverberations: Women and Music was a two-day colloquium primarily held at The New School, March 9-10, 1995. The event, consisting of lectures, panel discussions, and concerts, focused on the history of women in music. The collection consists of sound and video recordings.

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The collection consists of audio and video recordings of events sponsored by the Rose and Erwin Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School. With the exception of the Center's inaugural semester in Fall 1986, the recordings document the entirety of Center's existence.

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Speaking of Music, and Other Things was a public interview series held at The New School, consisting of conversations between concert promoter Danny Kapilian and popular musician guests. The collection consists of sound recordings of these interviews.

Abstract New School professor and semiotician Marshall Blonsky moderated the series, The Culture Elite, during the Spring 1993 semester as part The New School's Art and Politics lecture program. Guests included talk show host Charlie Rose, French cultural ambassador Annie Cohen-Solal, art critic and cultural commentator Anthony Haden-Guest, journalist and novelist David Ignatius, sociologist Richard Sennett, and journalist and disability rights advocate John...

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In 1973, Eugene McCarthy, former United States senator and Democratic Party presidential candidate, delivered a series of lectures at The New School on the topic of "The Future of Liberalism in America." This collection consists of audio recordings of four lectures held at the university in February.

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This collection consists of audio recordings of the six-lecture series, The New Reconstruction: America in the '70s, given by sitting United States senators at the New School for Social Research between November 1 and December 17, 1973. The series was produced by the New School in conjunction with the Fund for New Priorities in America, a New York-based non-profit organization started in 1968, which organized public discussion forums on important issues.

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The New York Times: The Inside Story was a special lecture series held at The New School during the Fall 1990 semester. The lectures featured journalists for The New York Times newspaper discussing various sections of the newspaper. Collection consists of audio recordings of these lectures.

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The New Yorker at The New School was a special lecture series held at The New School in the two consecutive Fall semesters of 1989 and 1990. The series featured lectures, discussions and readings with contributors from The New Yorker, a storied and long running American magazine. The collection consists of audio recordings.