Flying Seminar: Framing Critical Moments OWS meets Bill Zimmerman Please come to meet Bill Zimmerman, author of “Troublemaker: A Memoir From The Front Lines Of The Sixties” When: Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM Where: Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor Who: Bill Zimmerman & OWS Flying Seminar: [...]
Echoes of “Russian-Georgian War” in August 2008: Memory Politics in Current Georgia
A Presentation by Malkhaz Toria Thursday, December 8th at 8:00 p.m. 6 E 16th Street, Room 1101 (11th floor) Bringing back the lost, historical memory became one of the more important goals of the Georgian government after the Rose Revolution, in 2003. Georgia’s new elites are trying to destroy mental bridges, between the Soviet past [...]
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Natasa Kandic at The New School 11/15 – picture gallery
MEMORY AND TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Natasa Kandic presents The Kosovo Memory Book, 1998-2000 Natasa Kandic is a human rights activist, the founder and director of the Belgrade-based Humanitarian Law Center. A dissident under Tito, she has later documented war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Among the evidence she gathered, [...]
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Natasa Kandic presents The Kosovo Memory Book, 1998-2000
The Graduate Program in International Affairs and the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies are pleased to present MEMORY AND TRANSNATIONAL JUSTICE IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA Natasa Kandic presents The Kosovo Memory Book, 1998-2000 Tuesday, November 15 6:00 – 7:30 pm 2 W 13th Street (room 1204) Nataca Kandic is a human rights activist, the founder and director [...]
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REWIND – an extraordinary documentary on South Africa’s TRC by Liza Key
In anticipation of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress (ANC) the New School’s Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, in collaboration with the South African Consulate General in New York and the Center for Public Scholarship, presents a screening of the documentary Rewind by Liza Key American Premiere Thursday, November 3 [...]
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Adam Michnik Introduced by Ian Buruma
In Search of Lost Meaning The New Eastern Europe Monday, October 31 5:30 – 7:30pm Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, room 1103 (11th floor) Please join the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, in collaboration with the Sociology Department at NSSR, for a special evening with Adam Michnik introduced by Ian Buruma as they [...]
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Flying Seminar: OWS meets Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution. In conversation with Adam Michnik
Flying Seminar: Framing Critical Moments OWS meets Poland’s Self-Limiting Revolution In conversation with Adam Michnik . . . . Please come to meet Adam Michnik, an architect of the peaceful dismantling of the authoritarian regimes in Eastern and Central Europe, who renounced revolutionary violence and argued for a self-limiting revolution. When: Saturday, October 29, 2011 [...]
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Flying Seminar at The New School: OWS meets Japanese Anti-Nukers in conversation with Jonathan Schell
Flying Seminar: Framing Critical Moments OWS meets Japanese Anti-Nukers In Conversation with Jonathan Schell . . . . Please come to meet Japanese anti-nuclear activists from Shiroto no Ran (‘Amateur Revolt’), who are briefly in New York to observe and support Occupy Wall Street. Shiroto no Ran emerged in response to the meltdown at [...]
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A Letter from Warsaw: A Democratic Vote of Diversity in Poland
October 2011 by Roch Dunin-Wasowicz Though currently residing in London, as a Polish passport holder I participated in the country’s general election last Sunday. On October 9, 2011, to my satisfaction, the Polish public elected Europe’s first transsexual member of parliament, Poland’s first openly gay parliamentarian, and its second person of color to become a [...]
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Deliberately Considered
- Psychiatry in the News and the Medicalization of the Emotional Life
- An Everyday New York Masterpiece: The Inconspicuous, Understated, Wise, 9/11 Memorial of the Union Square Subway Station
- Some Partial, Preliminary & Unfashionable Thoughts Toward Reassessing the 2003 Iraq War: Introduction
- Some Partial, Preliminary, & Unfashionable Thoughts toward Re-assessing the 2003 Iraq War – Did Anything Go Right, and What Were the Alternatives?
- Adam Michnik on The Church: The Opening of a Polish Dialogue
