War in Our Time. By the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Hans Speier and Alfred Kähler, Editors. With a foreword by Alvin Johnson. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 1939. Pp. 362. $3.00.)

1939 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 682-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold J. Tobin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
New School

School Notes: Committee on Historical Studies

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-236
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
New School ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Historical Moment

The Committee on Historical Studies was established in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1984. The Graduate Faculty has long emphasized the contribution of history to the social sciences. Committee on Historical Studies (CHS) courses offer students the opportunity to utilize social scientific concepts and theories in the study of the past. The program is based on the conviction that the world changes constantly but changes systematically, with each historical moment setting the opportunities and limiting the potentialities of the next. Systematic historical analysis, however, is not merely a diverting luxury. Nor is it simply a means of assembling cases for present-oriented models of human behavior. It is a prerequisite to any sound understanding of processes of change and of structures large or small.

Martin, John (1893–1985)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Conner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Martha Graham ◽  
New School ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
American Modern Dance ◽  
The Times ◽  
And Function

One of the first full-time newspaper dance reviewers in the United States, John Martin wrote for The New York Times from 1927 to 1962 and was often referred to as the dean of American dance critics during his 35-year tenure. Martin used his bully pulpit at the Times to launch a discourse within the dance community surrounding the aesthetics of modernism in dance as well as to educate and rally a new audience. In the process he helped to establish dance reviewing as a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary and not just a subgenre of music criticism, as it had been treated before 1927. A vocal defender of the legitimacy of an American modern dance as defined by New York-based practitioners such as Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, Martin was among the first theorists of it, outlining a poetics of its form and function while introducing a new vocabulary. His prolific output includes thousands of essays and reviews for the Times and other periodicals, seven books, and a series of highly influential lectures given at the New School for Social Research, Bennington School of the Dance, and in the latter part of his career at the University of California-Los Angeles.

JOSEPH SCHILLINGER – A DISCIPLE'S REMINISCENCES OF THE MAN AND HIS THEORIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH PROF. ZVI KEREN

Tempo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (251) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Alona Keren-Sagee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Mathematical Basis ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
New School ◽  
The Arts

Joseph Schillinger (1895–1943), the eminent Russian-American music theorist, teacher and composer, emigrated to the United States in 1928, after having served in high positions in some of the major music institutions in the Ukraine, Khar'kov, Moscow, and Leningrad. He settled in New York, where he taught music, mathematics, art history, and his theory of rhythmic design at the New School for Social Research, New York University, and the Teachers College of Columbia University. He formulated a philosophical and practical system of music theory based on mathematics, and became a celebrated teacher of prominent composers and radio musicians. Schillinger's writings include: Kaleidophone: New Resources of Melody and Harmony (New York: M. Witmark, 1940; New York: Charles Colin, 1976); Schillinger System of Musical Composition, 2 vols. (New York: Carl Fischer, 1946; New York: Da Capo Press, 1977); Mathematical Basis of the Arts (New York: Philosophical Library, 1948; New York: Da Capo Press, 1976); Encyclopedia of Rhythms (New York: Charles Colin, 1966; New York: Da Capo Press, 1976).

Higher Education in Retirement: The Institute for Retired Professionals

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyman Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Research ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
New School ◽  
University Programs

This paper indicates the failure of our society to educate its citizens in the “worthy” use of retirement leisure. It contends that educated retirees should be offered an opportunity to function in creative, dignified and self-directed roles on university campuses. It describes the program of the Institute for Retired Professionals at The New School for Social Research in New York City, which has been functioning since 1962 and now serves as a model for a growing number of university programs for retirees. At the IRP educated retirees have found a new way of spending their retirement years in dignified roles as teachers, leaders, administrators and participants in their own inner university.

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