Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

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 […]

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

In October 2020, a ruling by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, effectively ending legal abortion, incited massive protests across the country. People around the world saw pictures of Polish women fighting fiercely […]

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

“Endangered Scholars Worldwide calls attention to and condemns in no uncertain terms the daily public harassment of the courageous and repeatedly attacked Chinese human rights activist and professor, Dr. Teng […]

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

New School for Social ResearchNew York CityApril 21-23, 2021 Conference OrganizersThe Memory Studies Group at the New School, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, and the Democracy Seminar Call for Papers […]

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

Thurs., December 10th, 11:00AM to 1:00PM (EST)REGISTER HERE If jihadism and dictatorships are the most treacherous obstacles to democratization of the Middle East, their resistance against both make the Kurdish […]

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 11:00AM to 12:15PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. The nation-wide peaceful protest taking place in Belarus includes a broad spectrum of citizens: workers, pensioners, students, football fans, nouveau-riche entrepreneurs, […]

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

Thursday, November 5th – 12:30PM (EST) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS PANEL HERE. The panelists will engage in a free-flowing conversation about the meaning of the November 3rd election, as this can […]

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. Friday, November 20, 2020, 12:00PM to 2:00PM (EST) The aim of this webinar is to discuss the global rise in populism in order to understand how the populist form of […]

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. Thursday, November 12, 2020, 11:00AM to 12:00PM (EST) Join Ellen Freeberg, Associate Dean at The New School for Social Research, and Elzbieta Matynia Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and Director of the […]

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

Friday, October 16, 2020, 11:00AM to 1:00PM (EDT) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE! The aim of this webinar is to discuss the relationship between populism and democracy, starting from Nadia Urbinati’s new book, Me, the […]

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

Wednesday, October 7, 2020, 11:00AM to 1:00PM (EDT) WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE! The Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era, Facing Revisionist Russia: Ukraine and Georgia in comparative perspective webinar will address the instrumentalization of the historical […]

Some Alumni You Should Meet: Unseen Alumni with Indelible Memories – by Elzbieta Matynia

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

TCDS in Pictures: Johannesburg 2013 – Wroclaw 2012

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

Between the PAST and the FUTURE: Completion of the 12th Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute in South Africa Opens a Space for New Beginnings

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

Johannesburg 2013 full program information and application forms now available

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

TCDS announces the 12th Democracy & Diversity Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

TCDS Open House: Johannesburg-Wroclaw Orientation & Reception – Sept. 26 at 7 pm

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]

ONLINE | The Deep and Broad Social Dimensions of the Protests in Belarus

TCDS Alum, Monica Ciobanu Publishes New Book

Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964

ONLINE | The U.S. Election and the Future of Democracy: Political Science Perspectives

ONLINE | Book Talk: I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

ONLINE | Book Talk: Me, the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

WEBINAR | Narrating Conflicts in Post-Truth Era: Facing Revisionist Russia

A Letter from Johannesburg: Archbishop Tutu v. Tony Blair

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

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

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

ONLINE | Feminism and Democracy: Gender Studies in Romania

Applications are now open for the 2021 Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute!

29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute This year ONLINE | July 6-20, 2021 We very much hope that you will be able to join us.

Announcing the 29th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

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

Spring 2021 Visiting PhD Students from the University of Lower Silesia

This Spring semester we are pleased to welcome to The New School for Social Research six visiting doctoral students, affiliated with TCDS, from the University of Lower Silesia in Wroclaw, […]

Harassment of New University in Exile Consortium Member Teng Biao Must Stop

CfP: Suspended Present: Downloading the Past and Gaming the Future in a Time of Pandemic

HOPE AND REAL HUGS FOR 2021!

In a year like 2020 we must honor what has kept us going: our community of dedicated and relentless people who have continued to do amazing work despite so many […]

ONLINE | Kurds and Democracy: in Conversation with Saleh Moslem

ONLINE | The U.S. Elections and the Future of Democracy: Perspectives from Abroad

Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 11:00AM (EST)WATCH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE PANEL HERE. How are the U.S. elections and their results seen from outside the country? The panel will offer […]