Democracy & Diversity Institute Application Deadline Extended for New School Students!
Due to overwhelming demand we have decided to extend the New School student application deadline for this summer’s 26th Democracy & Diversity Institute in Wroclaw, Poland to Tuesday, April 25th, 2017! You still have a chance to earn 6 credits while studying at the New School’s summer campus in Europe! A limited number of partial scholarships are available to help students cover the program fee. Please contact us at tcds@newschool.edu for more information or with questions about the application process. We look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
TCDS
26th Democracy & Diversity
Graduate Summer Institute
Wroclaw [Vrots-love], Poland, July 6-22, 2017
Democracy Under Siege – An Effort in Understanding
TCDS is pleased to announce its 26th annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Institute to be held at The New School summer campus in Wroclaw, Poland from July 6-22, 2017. 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 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:
What is an Event?
Robin Wagner-Pacifici – University in Exile Professor of Sociology, NSSR
Media, the New Authoritarianism, and Its Opposition
Jeffrey Goldfarb – Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, NSSR
Anti-, Post-, and De-Colonialist: Rethinking Democracy’s Predicaments from the Global South
Shireen Hassim – Professor of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
We the People: Nationalism, Populism, and the Precariousness of the Democratic Project
Elzbieta Matynia – Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, NSSR
For Application Instructions and Full Program Information including full course descriptions click here!
To Download an Application Form click here!
For more about our Faculty click here!
For more information, please visit our website, or contact us by e-mail at tcds@newschool.edu or by phone at 212 229-5580 ext. 3137.
