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Conversations about Women was an ongoing lecture series held at The New School, focusing on biographical and autobiographical writing about women. Historian and New School women’s studies professor Gina Luria Walker moderated the panels and lectures. The collection is comprised entirely of audio recordings.

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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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This oral history project consists of six audio interviews conducted by New School for Public Engagement student Gerard O. Hemmerle as an independent study under the supervision of Professor Julia L. Foulkes during the Spring 2013 semester. Interviewees consist of long-serving university faculty and staff, primarily associated with what was known as the New School for Public Engagement. Recordings are all in English.

Abstract This collection consists of the papers of Jeffrey Goldfarb, the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at The New School. The collection contains teaching files; materials relating to Goldfarb's work in Poland; correspondence; and manuscripts for Goldfarb's published books. Also included are manuscripts of papers delivered at conferences, book reviews, prospectuses, and materials relating to Goldfarb's studies at the University of Chicago. Also found herein are materials...

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Consists of 166 audiocassette tapes recording conversations between retired investigative journalist Joseph Kahn and reporters, editors, and other media personalities invited to his courses at the New School for Social Research between 1979 and the early 1990s. Participants include Pete Hamill, Nick Pileggi, Gay Talese, and Murray Kempton, among many others. Frequent guests include Sidney Zion, Liz Smith, and Jack O'Brien.

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The collection consists of sound recordings of three Jubal Trio public performances held at The New School.

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The New School in cooperation with the New York City bookstore, Murder Ink, hosted a public lecture series between 1993 and 1995 devoted to discussions and readings by popular writers of mystery and crime fiction. The collection consists of audio recordings from the series.

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Between 1988 and 1990, The New School hosted an interview series, "Musicians on Music," organized and moderated by music critic Joan Thomson Kretschmer. The collection consists of analog audio and video tapes documenting Kretschmer and her guests at the university, including classical music conductors, singers, and performers.

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New Musicians at The New School was a classical music concert series offered by the New School for Social Research from 1985 to 1993. The collection consists of audio recordings of some of these concerts.

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This collection consists of audio and video recordings of class discussions, guest lecturers, and special events programmed by the Human Relations Center at The New School, a long-running program organized by women and directed primarily toward the personal, social and career development of women.