New book · “Infrastructure Policy and Inequality” by Michael A. Cohen
A new book, “Infrastructure Policy and Inequality” by Michael A. Cohen, Professor of International Affairs and Founding Director of GPIA, The New School, will be out next month. The book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to...
Conference: Colonized Temporalities · Event Summary and video
On February 27, OLA held an in-person event as part of its program “2084: Imagined Futures from the South”. The keynote speaker was Carmen Ibañez Cueto, an interdisciplinary social scientist from Bolivia currently teaching at the Freie Universität in Berlin. The title...
Dialogue: SKINS OF THE FUTURE · Event Summary
Meeting Series: Paths of FuturesDialogue: Skins of the FutureNovember 28, 2023 This online meeting organized by the 2084 Futures Imagined from the South Program, brought together prominent Colombian academics with the student authors of the imaginations created within...
LATIN AMERICA IN A MULTI-POLAR WORLD · EVENT SUMMARY
November 15-16, 2023The New SchoolNew York The Observatory on Latin America of The New School, together with Universidad Torcuato di Tella from Buenos Aires, the Colegio de Mexico from Mexico City, and the Universidad de los Andes from Bogota, organized a two-day...
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