The University and Economic Forces

Speaker Series

The University and Economic Forces

Part 5 of Reimagining the University

May 19, 2023

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Speakers

Kristopher Olds

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Kristopher Olds is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the co-editor of Global Regionalisms and Higher Education: Projects, Processes, Politics.

Caitlin Zaloom

New York University

Caitlin Zaloom is a professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost, as well as a founding editor of Public Books.

Deondra Rose

Duke University

Deondra Rose is an Associate Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. She is the author of Citizens by Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship.

Moderators

Shahrzad Sabet

Co-Director, COMIT

Shahrzad Sabet is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT) and a Fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. Her current book project, which spans a variety of disciplines, makes the case for a reimagined universalism that reconciles the oneness and the diversity of humankind.

Benjamin Schewel

Co-Director, COMIT

Benjamin Schewel is Co-Director of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He is the author of Seven Ways of Looking at Religion (2017) and is currently working on a second book, Encountering the Axial Age, both from Yale University Press.