TCDS Announces 25th Anniversary Democracy & Diversity Institute, July 5-21, 2016!
The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is proud to announce the startling fact that its upcoming Democracy & Diversity Institute will mark its 25th anniversary. This year’s Institute, themed In Unsettling Times: An Effort in Understanding, will be held at the New School summer campus in Wrocław, Poland, from July 5-21, 2016. Through a happy coincidence, Wroclaw has been chosen this year as a Cultural Capital of Europe! The D&D Institute, widely admired as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, brings an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural challenges facing today’s world. For our 25th Anniversary session we will be hosting a very special series of lectures and events featuring some of today’s major scholars and public intellectuals, among them two iconic philosophers, Agnes Heller and Richard Bernstein. Please consider joining us!
This intensive program offers the equivalent of a full semester’s graduate study. Interested Students should email tcds@newschool.edu for information regarding the application process.
Enroll in 2 of the following seminars and receive 6 credits:
Memory, Trauma, Evil
Richard J. Bernstein – Vera List Professor of Philosophy, NSSR
Carol L. Bernstein—Bryn Mawr College, English and Comparative Literature
Seeing at the Margins: On the Ethics and Politics of Sight
Alice Crary – Associate Professor of Philosophy, NSSR
Romancing Violence: Theories and Practices of Political Violence
Elzbieta Matynia – Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, NSSR
Learn more about our Faculty here!
Applications as well as full program information will be available online by February 22, 2016
Our local collaborator in Poland is the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education (IISCE) at the University of Lower Silesia.
