Student Activities

In the Three-Minute Thesis Challenge, participants must present their original research in just 180 seconds in an engaging form that can be understood by an audience with no background in the research area. The challenge is open to all graduating MA students and all PhD students. Participants gain presentation, research, and academic and professional communications skills and have the chance to win up to $1,000.

Student-run conferences and workshops are organized each academic year and generally take place in the spring semester. Some receive support from the Dean's Conference Fund.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most spring 2020 NSSR student conferences were canceled. Student conferences in spring 2019 included:

• A Possible Philosophy of the Digital
• Great Transformation(s): Between Past and Future in a Contested World
• What Is to Be Done in Brazil? A Question for the Radical Left
• Political Economy of the Global South: A Tribute to Samir Amin
• Paranoid Encounters
• Theft
• People in Support of Women in Philosophy
• Seeing Inequality, Living Inequality: The Psychological Effects of Economic Inequality, Economic Mobility, and Social Class
• Søren Kierkegaard and the Negative

The New School for Social Research Dean's Advisory Council consists of the NSSR Student Senate delegates, departmental student advisors, and other department representatives. The council meets with the dean on a regular basis throughout the academic year to discuss matters related to the quality of student life and the needs of the college in general. At the university level, a similar advisory body with representatives from each of the university's colleges meets regularly with the president of The New School. The members representing The New School for Social Research are chosen by NSSR Student Senate delegates. Elected student representatives are expected to attend meetings and report to their constituents on a regular basis.

Student associations are the representative bodies of each department. The Graduate Faculty Student Senate is the representative body of NSSR as a whole. 

Graduate Faculty Student Senate (GFSS)
Organizers: Weiouqing Chen and Reese Fond
gfss@newschool.edu

Anthropology Student Association (ASA)
Organizers: Ramon de Haan (fall 2020); Isabel Arciniegas Guaneme (spring 2021)
asa@newschool.edu

Economics Student Union (ESU)
Organizers: Owen Davis, Clara Zanon Brenck, and Cesar Castillo Garcia
esu@newschool.edu

Philosophy Forum
Organizers: Tara Mastrelli and Bryan Doniger 
philosophyforum@newschool.edu

Union of Political Science Students (UPSS)
Organizer: Cecili Chadwick
upss@newschool.edu

Psychology Student Government (PSG)
Organizers: Gen Tsudaka and Starlett Hartley 
psychstudentgov@newschool.edu

Sociology Student Association (SSA)
Organizers: Julian Gomez Delgado and Olivia Steiert
ssa@newschool.edu

Anthro Workshops is a student-led workshop series that takes place on Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. EDT. At the workshops, Anthropology students host an array of speakers (internal and external), postdoctoral fellows, film screenings, back-from-the-field presentations, and more. They also "workshop" student writing for PhD applications, MA exam prep, and grant writing proposals. Workshops are open to students, alumni, and friends; pizza and beer are always provided.

Organizers: Erin Simmons, Angelica Calabrese, and Elena Gleed
simme076@newschool.edu, calaa058@newschool.edu, elena.gleed@newschool.edu

The Feminists in Economics Student Association (FESA) offers a safe space to women to talk about any kind of problem they are facing. It provides access to tools and theory of feminist economics, emphasizes gender issues in topics broadly discussed in economics, focuses on disparities arising from underrepresentation and increasing awareness, and reduces gender disparities in the field by providing resources and a network.

Organizer: Clara Zenon Brenck
fesa@newschool.edu

NSSR Teach Support is a collaborative support system for the at-large graduate student teaching community at NSSR. Group members work on developing strong teaching skills, including course planning and structuring, course proposal writing, running class discussions, planning effective assignments, and teaching remotely. Join the Facebook group to share resources, ask questions, and announce workshops. Email P.J. Gorre to be added to the announcement listserv.

Organizer: P.J. Gorre
nssradvising@newschool.edu 

The Sanctuary Working Group is a collective of students, staff, and faculty creating a campus that is inclusive, protective, and just for all affected by racist, anti-immigrant practices. We work in coalition with La XENTE, the Latinx student organization. We center undocumented, international, immigrant, and mixed-status family community members and all people of color in our meetings and in our efforts. We are student-led and have a student caucus which meets separately, in addition to holding larger meetings that include faculty and staff. We welcome new members. Extensive knowledge about immigrant justice is not necessary. We welcome opportunities to collaborate with other organizations, departments, and programs across The New School. 

sanctuary@newschool.edu

The New School Memory Group is an interdisciplinary network of scholars whose research addresses questions of remembering and forgetting. We bring together New School students, faculty, alumni, and friends. Visit the Facebook group or tweet @NewSchoolMemory.

Organizer: Malkhaz Toria
memorystudies@newschool.edu

Theory Collective is a political theory workshop intended to provide valuable feedback and critique on both theoretical work and empirical or historical work informed by a theoretical framework. Meetings convene every other week around the work-in-progress of a presenter. Regular attendance is expected in order to ensure a thorough discussion of each paper.

Organizers: Anastasiia Kalk and Sarah Lenfest
kalka364@newschool.edu, sarah.lenfest@gmail.com

Global Historical Sociology is a working group formed by students interested in exploring historical and cross-national dimensions of social life. Group members meet twice a month to present and discuss one another's work, critically explore current theoretical and methodological approaches in the field, and invite speakers working on historical topics. Students from all departments are welcome.

Organizers: Karolina Koziura and Nuri Can Akin
kozik889@newschool.edu, akinn904@newschool.edu

New School Policy and Design for Outer Space (NS-PDOS) is focused on exploring the dynamics and distribution of egalitarian models of governance and design in all aspects of space exploration. As a chapter of SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space), an international student organization, we will draft and develop projects for further research into near- and distant-future design problems off earth. Questions of space settlement governance, economy, existential risk, communications and information theory, and bioastronautics are possible topics we will explore as a collective.

Organizer: Jaimie Boyd
nspdos@newschool.edu

The Psychoanalytic Society is focused on psychoanalytic theory in conversation with philosophy, psychology, and social thought. Activities include running a reading group and workshops, and attending on-campus events and conferences at institutes in Manhattan.

Organizer: Abby Concha
aconcha@newschool.edu

The Psychoanalytic Reading Group regularly gathers students with various levels of experience and interest in psychoanalysis and its connections with philosophical concerns to discuss readings that center around a chosen theme.

Organizer: Charles Torry
charles@newschool.edu

The Colombian Students Group aims to develop an interdisciplinary dialogue with students, faculty members, and others to shed light on circumstances related to the armed conflict, free trade agreements, human rights issues and the peace dialogues between the Colombian government, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), as well as general information about Colombia and its relations with the United States.

Organizers: Aura Hernandez Cardenas, Julian Gomez Delgado, and Francisco Gonzales
colombiansg@newschool.edu

The Wittgenstein Workshop is a research group that meets a few times a semester and invites scholars and NSSR faculty and students to present work-in-progress. While an interest in Wittgenstein might be helpful in attending, it is by no means necessary.

Organizers: Miranda Young, Mariam Matar, and Weiouqing Chen
nycwittgensteinworkshop@gmail.com

People in Support of Women in Philosophy is a group dedicated to the advancement of women and those who experience marginalization within the field of philosophy. Our group meets weekly to workshop papers, help members prepare for conference presentations and seminars, host guest speakers, and in general celebrate the work of our women and gender-non-conforming colleagues and mentors. Men are welcome and encouraged to take part as allies.

Organizers: K. Eskins and Weiouqing Chen
pswip@newschool.edu

The New York Phenomenology Research Group continues the long and storied tradition of phenomenological investigation at NSSR, introducing the next generation of students to the panoply of thinkers and topics for which phenomenology is known. No previous knowledge is required — all one needs is a willingness to return to the things themselves!

Organizer: Daniel Wagnon
phenomenology@newschool.edu

Minorities and Philosophy (MaP) is an international organization encompassing a collection of chapters from different philosophy departments that examine and address issues of minority participation in academic philosophy. Through MaP’s network, students can exchange ideas on topics related to minorities and philosophy, meet and support peers, and learn from other philosophy departments.

Organizer: K. Eskins

The New York German Idealism Group is a joint undertaking of the philosophy departments of Columbia University and The New School that organizes four events per semester, inviting scholars from the New York area and beyond to share their work on Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy in a workshop format.

Organizers: Agnese Di Riccio and Mithra Len
nygermanidealism@gmail.com