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Welcome to the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at The New School for Social Research.

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) offers advanced graduate students and faculty of all ranks the opportunity to spend one week with the world's leading thinkers at the New School in NYC. Each summer, the ICSI offers advanced graduate students and faculty from around the world the opportunity to spend one week at the New School's campus in Greenwich Village working closely with major

thinkers who have shaped the course of contemporary social inquiry. The Institute is founded on the premise that responding to current and emergent problems requires developing our collective capacities to formulate new and better questions, rather than relying on ready-made theories. Yet, in our current richly interdisciplinary landscape, few of us have the time and opportunity to explore in depth the range of modes of inquiry relevant to our research agendas and developing projects. The Institute offers a unique and intensive opportunity for Fellows to pursue this charge in one of three week-long seminars designed to cultivate styles of thinking and conceptual vocabularies that address the disparate sites and unequal conditions in which we live. Each morning over the course of a week, seminar attendees participate in a four-hour Master Class led by an internationally eminent scholar whose own work has shaped how we think today. Afternoon workshops are devoted to the seminar participants' own projects. The rest of the time is yours to use as you please, whether reading and writing, exploring the city, or continuing conversations with colleagues over dinner.

02/17/2026

Applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by Friday, Feb 20

01/09/2026

The extended deadline for applications is today by midnight.

01/02/2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Due to some issues with our web server, we are extending our deadline to January 9.

12/29/2025

REMINDER: Applications for the 2026 Summer Seminars are due January 1st.

12/16/2025

Applications for the 2026 Summer Seminars are due in 2 weeks.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”

Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

12/02/2025

Applications are due in 1 month!

11/17/2025

Reminder: we are now accepting applications for the 2026 ICSI Summer Seminars.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”
Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply.

Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

10/20/2025

Applications for ICSI 2026 are open!

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”
Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply.

Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

10/13/2025

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2026 Summer Seminars.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (Brown) will convene the seminar, “Unruly Jewels: Inhabiting the Ruins of the Jewish Muslim World"; Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia) will convene the seminar, "Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism during the Long Seventies"; Jack Halberstam (Columbia) will convene the seminar, “Unworlding: Utopia, Dystopia, Atopia,” and Robin D. G. Kelley (UCLA) will convene the seminar, “(Racial) Capitalism, Policing, and the Shifting Terrain of Class Struggle.”

Advanced graduate students, postdocs, and all ranks of faculty are eligible to apply. Applications are due January 1, 2026. For seminar descriptions and more information, please see our website: https://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org/

06/13/2025

TODAY: Join us for our final 2025 ICSI Public Lecture with Homi Bhabha, "Race, Time, Terror: On Affective Color, "at 5pm. Registration and valid photo ID are required.

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry will open part of its programming to the public – a series of lectures taught by this Summer's faculty cohort of Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut) , Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) and Homi Bhabha ...

06/11/2025

TODAY: Join us for our third 2025 ICSI Public Lecture with Bernard Harcourt, "Life, Death, and Juridical Power," at 5pm. Registration and valid photo ID are required.

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