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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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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Hitchens in Wroclaw, A Remembrance
The late Christopher Hitchens had taught at The New School and several cohorts of students in the Committee on Liberal Studies had gotten to know him well. But those of us who participated in the 2009 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute in Poland will always remember him from Wroclaw. The institute had just relocated from [...]
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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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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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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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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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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 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 discuss Michnik’s newest book [...]
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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
