Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Application Deadline Extended for New School Students and International Students!

We would like to inform you that the application deadline has been EXTENDED for both New School and International applicants.  The new deadline for New School Students is Monday, April 20, And for Non-New School applicants the new deadline is Friday, May 1st.

TCDS is pleased to announce its 24th annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Institute to be held at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland from July 12-28, 2015. Widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the D&D Institute brings an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural challenges facing today’s world.

This years Institute will be themed Beyond Empire: Memory, Violence, Identity.

Students will have the opportunity to enroll in 2 of the following courses and earn 6 credits:

Torture and the Rule of Law

Jay Bernstein – University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, NSSR

Memory, History, Belonging

Dmitri Nikulin– Professor of Philosophy, NSSR

Feminism and Post-Colonial Thought

Shireen Hassim – Professor of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

Romancing Violence: Theories and Practices of Political Violence

Elzbieta Matynia – Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, NSSR

 

FULL PROGRAM INFORMATION

For full program information including full course descriptions click here.

HOW TO APPLY

Application form is available on the TCDS Web site at http://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/wr15-application-form/.

 

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE

For all New School applicants, the application deadline is April 20, 2015. 

For all other applicants, the application deadline is May 1, 2015. 

 

 

For more information, please visit our website (blogs.newschool.edu/tcds) or contact us by e-mail at tcds@newschool.edu or by phone at 212 229-5100 ext. 3137.

 

Take The Next Step

Submit your application

Undergraduate

To apply to any of our Bachelor's programs (Except the Bachelor's Program for Adult Transfer Students) complete and submit the Common App online.

Graduates and Adult Learners

To apply to any of our Master's, Doctural, Professional Studies Diploma, Graduates Certificate, or Associate's programs, or to apply to the Bachelor's Program for Adult and Transfer Students, complete and submit the New School Online Application.

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