Wroclaw Orientation & Reception Wednesday, March 6 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Please join the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies for an open house and reception for new students, alumni, friends and associates. Stop by to learn about our upcoming Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, to be held from July 10-26, 2013, meet D&D alumni, our staff [...]
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Letter from Nairobi: Dlamini Zuma’s Footsteps in the Long Walk to Continental Unity
By Moses Karanja South Africa’s Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, 63, became the first female head of the African Union (AU) Commission, a post poised to test her leadership abilities to the limit, but also to potentially make her the ablest successor to President Jacob Zuma. In the apt words of one government official, “Ms Dlamini-Zuma’s job [...]
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TCDS Academic Writing Workshop – Oct. 27 at 11 am
Getting Started Each of us has to write. Most of us find the experience painful and, let’s admit it, not always successful. More often than not, “writing” consists of staring blearily at a blank notepad surrounded by a rising tide of crumpled pieces of paper. (Well, OK, to update the image substitute “computer screen” for [...]
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TCDS OPEN HOUSE: Johannesburg-Wroclaw Orientation & Reception – Sept. 26 at 7 pm
“Thirty students from around the world, with four worldly professors, some visiting helpers, and frequent nightly discussion guests – all crammed into the same lunch room, the same lobby, the same hotel bar – this is a perfect dynamic for the formation of group bonds which both highlight differences and transcend them.” – Jake, U.S.A., Wroclaw [...]
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A Letter from Poland/Eastern Europe: Performing Human Rights – Pussy Riot vs. the Pseudo Religious, Homophobic, Misogynists of Eastern Europe
by Tomasz Kitlinski, a TCDS alum Originally published in Deliberately Considered on September 17, 2012 The Pussy Riot trial will go down in the history of injustices as the Oscar Wilde trial of the 21st century. Against the evil powers that be, the Moscow artists acknowledged their inspirers, fellow outcasts: Socrates (this connection to the martyr of philosophy [...]
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A Letter from Johannesburg: Archbishop Tutu v. Tony Blair
By Shireen Hassim Originally published on September 7th, 2012 in Deliberately Considered Tony Blair came to Johannesburg last week. He was part of the Discovery Leadership Summit, hosted by Discovery Invest, and as you might expect he was the headline act. Tony Blair on leadership: now that would be an interesting lecture, if you could afford the [...]
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Miloslav (Milan) Petrusek (1936 – 2012)
In Memoriam – Milan Petrusek New York, August 30, 2012 Miloslav Petrusek, a sociologist from Prague who, after the 1968 Prague Spring, was gradually marginalized as a member of Czechoslovak academia and eventually banned from teaching at Charles University altogether, died last week in Prague. A brilliant scholar and teacher, he had shared the ethos [...]
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Wroclaw 2011 Slideshow
Hi all, Check out our youtube video on Wroclaw 2011. Also, Check back soon for more information on Wroclaw 2012!!
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Johannesburg 2012 Photo Gallery
Welcome to the Photo Gallery of TCDS’s Johannesburg Democracy & Diversity Institute in January 2012! Forty students, from New York’s the New School and a number of universities throughout Africa, convened at the University of Johannesburg, the new host of TCDS’s Democracy & Diversity Institute in South Africa. [...]
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Deliberately Considered
- John Dewey in China
- Documentary Filmmaker William Miles, 82, Brought Lost Chapters of Black History to Life
- 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
