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This collection consists of three audio recordings of lectures held as part of the Henry Wolf Lecture Series. This series, held in the Fall of 1998 in honor of graphic designer and longtime Parsons School of Design instructor Henry Wolf, focused on all aspects of graphic design. Speakers featured in these recordings include Henry Wolf, Ivan Chermayeff, and Milton Glaser. No transcripts have been made.

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This collection consists solely of audio recordings of Reiner Schürmann (1941-1993) lecturing on Kant, Nietzsche, and philosophical anthropology. Schürmann was a professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and The New School Archives staff assumes that the lectures were made during Philosophy Department courses he taught in the late 1980s.

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This collection consists of audio files of lectures given by classics scholar and philosopher Seth Benardete in his classes at The New School and New York University. The lectures represent Benardete's courses on subjects such as the works of Plato and Aristotle, among others. Each course consists of a series of recordings covering the semester-long span of that course. The recordings were made by Benardete's students on cassette recorder.

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Speaking of Music, and Other Things was a public interview series held at The New School, consisting of conversations between concert promoter Danny Kapilian and popular musician guests. The collection consists of sound recordings of these interviews.

Abstract New School professor and semiotician Marshall Blonsky moderated the series, The Culture Elite, during the Spring 1993 semester as part The New School's Art and Politics lecture program. Guests included talk show host Charlie Rose, French cultural ambassador Annie Cohen-Solal, art critic and cultural commentator Anthony Haden-Guest, journalist and novelist David Ignatius, sociologist Richard Sennett, and journalist and disability rights advocate John...

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The New York Times: The Inside Story was a special lecture series held at The New School during the Fall 1990 semester. The lectures featured journalists for The New York Times newspaper discussing various sections of the newspaper. Collection consists of audio recordings of these lectures.

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The New Yorker at The New School was a special lecture series held at The New School in the two consecutive Fall semesters of 1989 and 1990. The series featured lectures, discussions and readings with contributors from The New Yorker, a storied and long running American magazine. The collection consists of audio recordings.

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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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Worlds of Knowledge: Great Conversations was a special lecture series held at The New School in two consecutive Fall semesters in 1990 and 1991. The collection consists of audio recordings of public conversations between political scientist and New School professor Ralph Buultjens and a series of seven writers, scholars and public figures, held during the Fall 1990 semester.