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ICSI offers participants a unique opportunity
is designed to provide advanced graduate
to pursue this charge in one of three weeklong
students and junior faculty from around the
seminars designed to cultivate styles of
world with the opportunity to spend one
thinking and conceptual vocabularies that
week at The New School’s campus working
address the disparate sites and unequal
closely with some of the most distinguished
conditions in which we live. Each morning
thinkers shaping the course of contemporary
over the course of a week, seminar attendees
social inquiry. Each of these scholars teaches
participate in a four-hour master class.
a weeklong seminar on a foundational thinker
Afternoon workshops are devoted to an
or topic of contemporary concern in a series of
exchange between seminar participants and
hands-on, intensive, and intimate sessions.
discussion of their own research projects.
ICSI is founded on the premise that responding to current and emergent problems
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requires developing our collective capacity
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to formulate new and better questions, rather than relying on the application of alltoo-familiar ready-made theories. In the conditions in which most of us work today, there is seldom the time or the opportunity for in-depth exploration of those modes of inquiry most relevant to our research agendas and developing projects.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI)
