Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]

December 23, 2021

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 2022 Climate Crisis and Questions of Justice We are pleased to announce the program of our 30th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic […]

December 22, 2021

With Best Wishes from TCDS

December 20, 2021

Political Leaders in Europe Remember Ágnes Heller

“The time,” once again, is “out of joint,” but the spirit of Ágnes Heller defies Hamlet’s bitter prediction about how quickly people forget. “[A] man’s memory may outlive him by […]

December 10, 2021

Neither Just, nor Legal: The Case of Osman Kavala

It’s been more than four years since Osman Kavala’s detention. On October 18, 2017, the day he was taken into custody, we all thought that “they probably won’t arrest him” […]

November 18, 2021

ONLINE | Courage in Public Scholarship Award Ceremony – 2021 Recipient: Osman Kavala

Friday, December 10, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE EVENT HERE The Courage in Public Scholarship Award was envisioned in 2014 at the conclusion of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies’ (TCDS) Democracy […]

November 16, 2021

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Closing Keynote by Elzbieta Matynia at the National Theaters: missions, tensions, transformations international conference held in Porto, Portugal, October 22-24, 2021 TCDS Director, Prof. Elzbieta Matynia delivered the closing […]

September 30, 2021

Death and Abuse of Refugees at the Polish Border

An update from Tomasz Kitlinski, fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium and of the Academy in Exile, former Fulbright scholar at TCDS. Refugees have been trapped at gunpoint […]

September 15, 2021

The Democracy Seminar Launches Its New Website

The Democracy Seminar (DS) has a NEW website – where you will find all their published pieces, videos from public panels, information about upcoming and past events, and more. Visit the new website for […]

June 21, 2021

ONLINE | Summer Public Events

TCDS has opened to the public the lunch and evening events taking place during its 29th Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Please find the schedule and the registration links […]

June 9, 2021

ONLINE | 2021 William Phillips Lecture: Scientomancy, or Divination by Science – by Olga Tokarczuk

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 12:00PM to 1:00PM (EDT) With remarks by Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University. Olga Tokarczuk is the recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Poland […]

April 20, 2021

The New Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in New York

The Limits of Monuments in Public Remembrance The tensions between public monuments and history frequently orbit the question of “historical faithfulness” or “accuracy.” The controversy surrounding the new women’s rights […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE CONFERENCE | Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

April 21 – 23, 2021 The Memory Studies Group at the New School is hosting its annual conference on April 21 – 23, 2021. This is the group’s seventh annual international conference since its founding in […]

April 8, 2021

ONLINE | OPEN HOUSE: The 2021 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 10:00AM to 11:00AM (EDT) Please join us to find out more about our 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Reinventing Our Future (this year offered online from July 6-20, 2021). You will have the opportunity to ask […]

March 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Talk: Political Junkies – with Author Claire Potter

Wednesday, May 5, 2021, 11:00AM to 12:30PM (EDT) Author Claire Potter will talk about her new book, Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, with guests: Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer, David Greenberg, and Nicole […]

March 17, 2021

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 11:30AM to 1:00PM (EDT) This event brings together two scholars with a deep interest in how civil society, feminist scholarship, and democratic practices have developed in both inter-related and disparate ways in post-communist […]

March 2, 2021

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

This year ONLINEJuly 6-20, 2021 Reinventing Our Future We are very pleased to announce that the 29th annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, organized annually by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of the New School […]

February 23, 2021

ONLINE | Book Launch: Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, with author Agnieszka Kościańska

Join us for a discussion with the author Agnieszka Koscianska about her book Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland, recently translated into English. The book recounts the non-linear […]