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The collection consists of audiovisual recordings of events, including concerts, lectures, and an orientation, sponsored by Eugene Lang College, the undergraduate liberal arts division of The New School.

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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.

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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.

Abstract The New School offered the Dean's Forum as a public programming series during the deanship of Ann-Louise Shapiro, which began in the months immediately following the September 11th World Trade Center terrorist attacks. The audiovisual recordings constituting the collection document guest speakers' responses to global terrorism, the United States' security and military policies, post 9/11 impacts on minorities, and concerns regarding the balance between civil liberties and security, as well...

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The collection consists of one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Non-Fiction Forum. Speakers include major Anglophone non-fiction writers, including art and music critics, historians, memoirists, and journalists.

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The collection consists of a little over one decade of sound recordings of poetry readings and discussions, titled the Poetry Forum, sponsored by The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program.

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The collection contains audio recordings of students in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School reading their thesis work.

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The collection consists of a little over one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Writing for Children's Forum.

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The Parsons School of Design Centenary Oral History Project consists of recorded sound interviews with twelve individuals as well as two audio monologues by the project's manager, Martica Sawin. The interviews, recorded in 1994, cover the history of different academic departments and design disciplines over the course of the twentieth century as experienced by former and then-current instructors and administrators. Recordings are all in English.