After our spring gathering at the TCDS Open House that took place on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at The New School for Social Research, our New York-based intellectual home, we would like to present the ~ VISUAL TOUR OF TCDS ~ a slide show featuring the two latest Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institutes in Wroclaw 2012 and Johannesburg 2013. (Please note that the download may take [...]
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European Migration Policy Event, February 19th
Dear TCDS Friends and Alumni, On behalf of the Global Studies Program and the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity, and Citizenship (ICMEC), TCDS is pleased to invite you to a public lecture featuring Grete Brochmann and Jan-Paul Brekke. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 19th at 4 pm, for more details check the attached [...]
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Daniel Dayan’s Feb. 25th lecture at The New School “Appearing in Public: Media and the Politics of Showing”
Dear TCDS Friends and Alumni, On behalf of NSSR, TCDS is pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Daniel Dayan, one of the leading experts in Media Theory and our very own professor at the 2011 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute in Wroclaw. The lecture will take place on Monday, February 25 at 6 pm, [...]
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The Bronx into Bronx: Brno Roma, Ghettoized Identities, and the Global Circulation of Iconic Images – Dec. 3 at 8 PM
The Bronx into Bronx: Brno Roma, Ghettoized Identities, and the Global Circulation of Iconic Images Monday, December 3, 2012 – 6:00PM The New School, 55 W. 13th St. – Hirshon Suite – Mezzanine Level This talk will focus on Dr. Radim Marada’s current research on Roma people in the Czech Republic. In the Czech city [...]
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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 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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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 Country with No Exit? Migrations from Communist Countries – September 18 at 6 PM
Thanks to the Soviet-style system of police control and the revolutionary changes since 1989, international mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of this kind and a unique experiment in the limits of state control. Dariusz Stola will discuss the evolution of migrations from communist states as they evolved from multi-million [...]
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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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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?
