Since 1919, The New School has been home to scholars, creators, and activists who challenge convention and boldly make their mark on the world. To celebrate this groundbreaking legacy, we are opening our doors to the public for a weeklong festival of innovative performances, talks, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and more.
On October 1–6, 2019, join us as we reflect on a century of world-changing ideas and together imagine a new kind of future.
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How do capitalist economic formations produce hunger and disease? Can health and abundance be achieved within capitalism or only outside of it? In this discussion, building on her research on food systems, health and migration, Professor of Food Studies and Anthropology, Alyshia Gálvez will explore the concept of a “slow death,” the ways that chronic diseases like diabetes while framed as “diet-related” and to be addressed with behavior and diet changes, are actually products of the slow erosion of market forces on the body.