News

March 2011

March 29th 2011
Updates from the SSRC's Public Sphere Resources now also available on Twitter @PublicSphereHub

February 2011

February 24th 2011
Seyla Benhabib on “The Arab Spring” in the Public Sphere Formation Essay Series
February 17th 2011
Herbert Gans on “Toward a Public Social Science” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series

July 2010

July 12th 2010
Thomas Bender on “Historians in Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series

June 2010

June 1st 2010
Tony Judt and Michael Burawoy contribute essays to SSRC Forum on Transformations of the Public Sphere

March 2010

March 30th 2010
Jürgen Habermas on “Intellectuals and their Public” in the Academia & the Public Sphere Essay Series

December 2009

December 11th 2009
Rogers Smith writes on recent attempts to eliminate NSF funding for political science research

November 2009

November 3rd 2009
Special Feature: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall on the essay forum Transformations of the Public Sphere

September 2009

September 15th 2009
Idea of the Day,a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the NYT’s Week in Review, lists Herbert Gans’ essay for SSRC public sphere forum as recommended reading.
September 3rd 2009
Herbert Gans argues for “Some Needed Disciplinary Changes for Creating Public Sociology” in the SSRC’s Transformations of the Public Sphere essay forum.