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 [...]
Tag | Democracy
Letter from Nairobi: Dlamini Zuma’s Footsteps in the Long Walk to Continental Unity
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TCDS IN PICTURES: NYC – Wroclaw – Jo’burg
After the successful celebration of the new academic year at the TCDS Open House held on Wednesday, September 26, we would like to share the Visual Tour of TCDS a slide show presented at the event with the broader community interested in TCDS. (Please note that the download may take a few seconds due to the large [...]
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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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Reinventing Political Culture, Jeffrey Goldfarb’s book launch, March 26 at 7 p.m.
TCDS in cooperation with the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research invites you to celebrate the publication of Professor Jeffrey C. Goldfarb’s new book Reinventing Political Culture: the Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power Monday, March 26 7:00 p.m. 6 East 16th Street Wolff Conference Room: Room 1103 The [...]
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A Letter from New York: Romania’s Winter of Discontent
In January, the streets of Bucuresti, Timisoara, Cluj, Iasi and many other Romanian cities have witnessed people’s frustration, desperation, and anger directed at the political class and particularly at President Traian Basescu. Initially, it was the resignation of Dr. Raed Arafat, the country’s popular Deputy Health Minister, over plans to privatize emergency health services that [...]
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Flying Seminar: OWS meets Bill Zimmerman – Picture Gallery
Flying Seminar: Framing Critical Moments OWS meets Bill Zimmerman Bill Zimmerman, author of Troublemaker: A Memoir From The Front Lines Of The Sixties, When: Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM Flying Seminar: Framing Critical [...]
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Flying Seminar: OWS meets Bill Zimmerman
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: [...]
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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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Deliberately Considered
- 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
- Some Partial, Preliminary, & Unfashionable Thoughts toward Re-assessing the 2003 Iraq War – Did Anything Go Right, and What Were the Alternatives?
