Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 6:30PM to 8:30PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. You are invited to the documentary screening of ‘Citizens‘ (1986) followed by a discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. […]

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

Monday, April 15, 2024, 3:00PM to 5:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Beneath the sustainability branding lurk new environmental injustices and green colonialism. The green growth and clean […]

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

The 2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute will be on hiatus this summer, as we are working on new activities and programs. Please watch our website for the current and upcoming TCDS […]

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995), edited by Elżbieta Matynia, (1996), is a rare document of semi-clandestine debates on building a democratic order by dissident intellectuals in the […]

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 6:30PM to 8:30PM (EDT) 6 E 16th St., Wolff Conference Room, D1103 Please join The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) at our annual OPEN HOUSE (otherwise known affectionately as the Pierogi Party) to learn about our transdisciplinary […]

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

The Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Group at The New School for Social Research (NSSR) with Keynote Lecture by Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University Professor, NSSR: Weaponization through Domestication: Events and […]

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

About the book: This book examines how civil society engaged with transitional justice in Russia, demonstrating abroad range of roles civil society can undertake while operating in a restrictive political context. […]

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Here at TCDS “headquarters” we are pleased to convey – while somewhat taken aback – the following completely unexpected announcement from the NSSR-Europe Collective: The NSSR-Europe Collective and the wider […]

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

Monday, November 14, 2022, 12:00PM to 1:30PM (EST) Join us for a conversation with author András Bozóki about his new book, Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary (CEU Press 2022). PANELISTS András Bozóki, Professor at the Department of […]

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

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

ONLINE | Remembering Gender: Recovering Lives, Reshaping Intellectual Histories

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

Letter from Wroclaw: Hana Cervinkova remembers Fritz Stern: an American historian born in Breslau, Friend of the New School, moral conscience of postwar Germany, and Honorary Citizen of Wroclaw

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

‘The Feminism of Uncertainty’ Publication Celebration with Ann Snitow!

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

Letter From Europe: Elzbieta Matynia “NSSR Europe Courage in Public Scholarship Award”

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

Letter from Lithuania: Adam Michnik “Vilnius and Warsaw – Our Common Cause

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

Applications and Full Program Information Now Available for 24th Annual Democracy & Diversity Institute, Wroclaw, Poland, July 12-28, 2015!

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

A Letter from New York: An Excerpt from “An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik” by Elzbieta Matynia

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]

Grappling with Democracy: Deliberations on Post-communist Societies (1990-1995)

Prof. Elzbieta Matynia Receives the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award in Wroclaw, Poland

The NSSR-Europe Collective and the TCDS Network gathered this summer at the Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw, Poland, to present the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award to prof. Elzbieta […]

Our Fall Open House & Pierogi Party!

The Weaponization of Memory in Times of Political Rupture(s)

Deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 10TH – 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

TCDS Alumna Publishes New Book, “The Role of Civil Society in Transitional Justice: The Case of Russia”

Israel and Palestine Now and in the Future: A Conversation Between Avishai Margalit & Sari Nusseibeh

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm EDT / 7:00 – 8:30pm IDT Virtual Event We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała receives the 2022 Aspen CE Madeleine K. Albright Leadership Award

Zuzanna Krzątała received her MA in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research and she is an alumna of the TCDS 2016 Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute. Through […]

Professor Elzbieta Matynia to Receive the 2023 Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Our Spring Open House & Pierogi Party!

Announcing the 2023 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland When: Thursday, February 16, 2023 6:30 – 8:30 PM […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

AFTER VIOLENCE WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 5-20, 2023 The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the return to our summer […]

We Are One University

We are One University, and OUR university is committed to social justice. The TCDS community stands in solidarity with the Part-Time Faculty on strike.

ONLINE | Book Launch: Rolling Transition and the Role of Intellectuals: The Case of Hungary

An Uncanny Era of Post-revolution (1989-2014)

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Ewa Łętowska, the 2017 recipient of our Courage in Public Scholarship Award, talks about creating democratic practices in Poland

“She was an accidental influencer who, four decades later, now in her 80s, is a sought-after talking head, issuing viral social media posts about democracy. And when voters sent their […]

Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT) Open to the PublicRSVPs are required. Photo: “A mural commemorating the 25th April Liberdade known as the carnation revolution on a wall […]

‘Citizens’ – Film Screening and Discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams

Presentation and Discussion on Green Colonialism: Geopolitics, Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

2024 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute – a one year HIATUS

New from TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia

‘Democracy’s Endgame? A plea for sustaining the infrastructure of hope,’ on Public Seminar a text based on a talk given on the occasion of her receiving the 2023 Courage in […]

Sociology Colloquium: Ideology and Populism: The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes featuring Dr. Bálint Magyar and Dr. Bálint Madlovics

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00PM to 7:30PM (EST) Wolff Conference Room/D1103 6 E 16 St New York NY 10003 Drs. Magyar and Madlovics will present key findings from their books The […]