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This collection consists of an entire run of the weekly periodical, The Weekly Observer, reporting on events, programs, and people from the New School community, compiled and produced by the university's office of Communications and External Affairs. The collection includes several formats of the publication, including printed downloads of email blasts, html files, Word files, PDF files, and WARC files from the university website.

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Records of Tracyann Williams, PhD, who served as director of Academic Affairs for the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students (BPATS) in The New School's Schools of Public Engagement until she left the university in early 2020. Includes documentation on the Diversity Committee and the Diversity Task Force, the Gender Studies program, the Faculty Senate, and Students of the African Diaspora, for whom Williams was a faculty advisor.

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The New School Graduate Faculty established the East and Central Europe Program in 1990, expanding to become the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) in 1997, to foster dialogue on democratic theory and practice in East and Central Europe, Central America and southern Africa, among other regions. The collection documents the center’s events, seminars, workshops, and conferences. Also includes research and course files of TCDS founder, Elzbieta Matynia.

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In 2014, the New School celebrated the 80th anniversary of the University in Exile, which was the institution first established by Alvin Johnson to provide refuge for Jewish and anti-Nazi scholars fleeing Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. This born-digital collection contains files related to the planning and programming of the commemorative event on January 30, 2014, including tribute videos featuring notable New School trustees who fled Europe during World War II.

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During the fall 2025 semester, Eugene Lang College students of Alhena Katsof’s Practicing Curating course curated an exhibition featuring silk panels that replicated the fresco murals by José Clemente Orozco entitled, A Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood. The collection includes programs, posters, zines, and images of events held while the exhibition was on display.  

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The Vera List Center for Art and Politics is a research institute affiliated with The New School that supports artists, hosts events, organizes exhibitions, and publishes books focused on culture and politics. The Vera List Center records include program files containing planning documents and promotional material, as well as publication and administrative files.

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The New School hosted the long-running annual conference, “Wall Street and the Economy," from 1967 until 1990. The conference participants were both individual and institutional investors in financial markets, and consisted of panel discussions aimed at providing economic forecasts for the coming year. The collection consists of sound recordings from the earlier years of the conference.

Abstract The New School's Adult Division offered the special lecture series, "Wisdom of Life,” in the Fall 1959 and Spring 1960 semesters. Guest lecturers representing a a variety of professional experiences and personal backgrounds ranged in age from 60s to 80s. The course sought to provide audience members with “a better understanding of life through the experiences of those whose personal contributions to society have been deep and lasting.” The collection consists of audio recordings from the...

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This collection consists of material related to the Women's Legacy at The New School project, including student-led research projects, documentation of a performance during the New School Centennial in 2019, and a podcast interview with co-founder of the project, Gina Luria Walker.

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Between 1994 and 1997, the non-profit organization, World Music Institute, sponsored a series of concerts preceded by lectures at The New School, featuring musicians and musical styles from Central Asia, India, Iran, Latin America and elsewhere. The collection consists of audio recordings of these public programs.