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Research fields and faculty have been selected for the 2009 DPDF competition (deadline Jan. 30).…
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Saad Eskander's essay on the SSRC's "Minerva Controversy" forum will be published in the quarterly journal Counterpoise. …
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Boston Globe editorial highlights healthcare findings in The Measure of America.…
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The Media Program announces 7 new grants and an online account of its 44-project, 2½ year, intervention in funding research-advocacy collaboration…
FEATURED STORY
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In his post for The Immanent Frame, philosophy professor
Patrick Lee Miller disputes Charles Taylor's assertion that
only a belief in transcendence and, by extension, personal immortality
satisfies the human need to find meaning in earthly existence. His post has
generated an impassioned discussion among several commentators. "Der Flug zum Himmel" (Ascent of the Blessed), by Hieronymus Bosch, circa 1490. Courtesy the Yorck Project. |
FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and
Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity
Edited by Katherine S. Newman
A Columbia/SSRC Book
Second in a new book series on the "privatization of risk," based on an SSRC project of that name.
FEATURED EVENT
Book Launch: Immigration and Religion in America, featuring editors Richard Alba, Albert Roboteau, and Josh DeWind. Nancy Foner is commentator. Tuesday Dec. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m. CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public.
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