The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is pleased to announce that it will hold its 22nd annual Democracy & Diversity Institute at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland from July 10 to 26, 2013. Widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the D&D Institute brings [...]
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Full Program Information & Application Forms now available – 22nd Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland (July 10-26, 2013)
The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is pleased to announce that it will hold its 22nd annual Democracy & Diversity Institute at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland from July 10 to 26, 2013. Widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the D&D Institute brings [...]
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POLAND, EUROPE, WOMEN: Wanda Nowicka on New Forms of Political Engagement, March 12 at 6:30 pm
Wanda Nowicka is currently Member of Parliament and the Deputy Speaker of Sejm – Lower Chamber of the Polish Parliament. She has been an activist in the field of women’s rights and health, human rights esp. sexual and reproductive health and rights for many years. She is a cofounding member of the Federation for Women [...]
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TCDS Announces 22nd Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland, July 10-26, 2013
The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is pleased to announce that it will hold its 22nd annual Democracy & Diversity Institute at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland from July 10 to 26, 2013. Widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the D&D Institute brings [...]
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TCDS Open House and Wroclaw 2013 Orientation
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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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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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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International Application Deadline for Wrocław Institute Extended to April 23rd
21st Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute Wrocław [Vrots-love], Poland July 9 ‘ 25, 2012 INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION DEADLINE ‘ APRIL 23rd Application forms are now available ‘ download PDF Note: To receive a Word doc. version of the application, please email us at tcds@newschool.edu Read the full description of the Institute and application procedures here. [...]
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Application deadline extended to April 9th
21st Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute Wroclaw [Vrots-love], Poland July 9 – 25, 2012 APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 9TH Application forms are now available: download PDF Read the full description of the Institute and application procedures here To receive a Word doc. version of the application, please email us at tcds@newschool.edu
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Deliberately Considered
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