Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

TCDS Announces a New Collaborative Fellowship Program for Junior Ukrainian Scholars

Transregional Dialogues: Rethinking the Past – Re-imagining the Future is a new future-oriented fellowship program for doctoral students from Ukraine whose work, disrupted by war, needs support. The aim of […]

In Support of Osman Kavala – 2021 Recipient of the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Today, June 2nd, 2022, is the 1675th day in prison for Osman Kavala, Turkish publisher, philanthropist, and rights defender who, for his work on behalf of cultural dialogue, has been […]

Elzbieta Matynia Will Speak at the 2022 Night of Ideas in New York

TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia will speak at this year’s Night of Ideas, on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, New […]

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

Bryan Greene, an alumnus of the 28th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, with the theme of “Reclaiming Democratic Performatives: Actors, Spaces, Processes,” held in Wrocław, Poland, has received a […]

ON HIATUS: 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

With the deepest regret, but for obvious reasons, we have had to place our annual summer Institute in Wroclaw on hiatus. On the other hand we have been developing a […]

IN PERSON | Book Launch: ‘Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland’ – A conversation with author Krzysztof Czyżewski on lessons we have failed to learn

Exactly thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Today when we face a horrific war in Ukraine, one may ask what lessons we failed […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times – with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. Miller

Friday, March 25, 2022, 1:00PM to 2:30PM (EDT) Please join us at the launch of On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times, with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. […]

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PETITION! “We, members of the American and international academic community, professors and students alike, emphatically condemn the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and its contempt for international law. We […]

March 8 | ONLINE | Democracy in America? A discussion with E. J. Dionne Jr., Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol, and Claire Potter, moderated by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This webinar will explore the arguments for democrats (small “d”), left, right and center, to defend liberal democracy in America against its domestic opponents. The starting point of the discussion […]

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies: WE CONDEMN RUSSIA’S AGGRESSION

For thirty years we at TCDS have been building bridges between East and West and between worlds of academia and civil society. The idea of dialogue is at the very core of all our initiatives. […]

To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin

February 22, 2022 To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin (http://en.letters.kremlin.ru/letters/send) Ukraine is an independent country of its own rich and sophisticated culture. I have taught dozens of Ukrainian students (who are […]

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

WROCŁAW, POLANDJuly 12-27, 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 […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Wednesday, February 16, 2022, 12:00PM to 2:00PM (EST) Join us for a conversation with co-authors Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk about their recent book, Anti–Gender Politics in the Populist Moment (Routledge 2021). This book charts the new phase of global struggles around […]

Osman Kavala: 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award – VIDEO

On Friday, December 10th, International Human Rights Day, TCDS presented its 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award to Osman Kavala, an audacious doer, thinker, and visionary for a better world. […]

With Best Wishes from TCDS

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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TCDS Announces a New Collaborative Fellowship Program for Junior Ukrainian Scholars

In Support of Osman Kavala – 2021 Recipient of the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Today, June 2nd, 2022, is the 1675th day in prison for Osman Kavala, Turkish publisher, philanthropist, and rights defender who, for his work on behalf of cultural dialogue, has been […]

Elzbieta Matynia Will Speak at the 2022 Night of Ideas in New York

TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia will speak at this year’s Night of Ideas, on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, New […]

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

ON HIATUS: 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

With the deepest regret, but for obvious reasons, we have had to place our annual summer Institute in Wroclaw on hiatus. On the other hand we have been developing a […]

IN PERSON | Book Launch: ‘Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland’ – A conversation with author Krzysztof Czyżewski on lessons we have failed to learn

Exactly thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Today when we face a horrific war in Ukraine, one may ask what lessons we failed […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times – with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. Miller

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

March 8 | ONLINE | Democracy in America? A discussion with E. J. Dionne Jr., Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol, and Claire Potter, moderated by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies: WE CONDEMN RUSSIA’S AGGRESSION

For thirty years we at TCDS have been building bridges between East and West and between worlds of academia and civil society. The idea of dialogue is at the very core of all our initiatives. […]

To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

ONLINE | Book Launch: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Osman Kavala: 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award – VIDEO

With Best Wishes from TCDS

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 […]

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” […]

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

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

Securing the November U.S. Election: The Urgent Task for All Democrats

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TCDS Announces a New Collaborative Fellowship Program for Junior Ukrainian Scholars

In Support of Osman Kavala – 2021 Recipient of the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Today, June 2nd, 2022, is the 1675th day in prison for Osman Kavala, Turkish publisher, philanthropist, and rights defender who, for his work on behalf of cultural dialogue, has been […]

Elzbieta Matynia Will Speak at the 2022 Night of Ideas in New York

TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia will speak at this year’s Night of Ideas, on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, New […]

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

ON HIATUS: 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

With the deepest regret, but for obvious reasons, we have had to place our annual summer Institute in Wroclaw on hiatus. On the other hand we have been developing a […]

IN PERSON | Book Launch: ‘Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland’ – A conversation with author Krzysztof Czyżewski on lessons we have failed to learn

Exactly thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Today when we face a horrific war in Ukraine, one may ask what lessons we failed […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times – with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. Miller

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

March 8 | ONLINE | Democracy in America? A discussion with E. J. Dionne Jr., Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol, and Claire Potter, moderated by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies: WE CONDEMN RUSSIA’S AGGRESSION

For thirty years we at TCDS have been building bridges between East and West and between worlds of academia and civil society. The idea of dialogue is at the very core of all our initiatives. […]

To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

ONLINE | Book Launch: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Osman Kavala: 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award – VIDEO

With Best Wishes from TCDS

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 […]

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” […]

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

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

Democracy & the Pandemic: Contributions from the May 2020 Conference of the Democracy Seminar

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TCDS Announces a New Collaborative Fellowship Program for Junior Ukrainian Scholars

In Support of Osman Kavala – 2021 Recipient of the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Today, June 2nd, 2022, is the 1675th day in prison for Osman Kavala, Turkish publisher, philanthropist, and rights defender who, for his work on behalf of cultural dialogue, has been […]

Elzbieta Matynia Will Speak at the 2022 Night of Ideas in New York

TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia will speak at this year’s Night of Ideas, on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, New […]

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

ON HIATUS: 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

With the deepest regret, but for obvious reasons, we have had to place our annual summer Institute in Wroclaw on hiatus. On the other hand we have been developing a […]

IN PERSON | Book Launch: ‘Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland’ – A conversation with author Krzysztof Czyżewski on lessons we have failed to learn

Exactly thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Today when we face a horrific war in Ukraine, one may ask what lessons we failed […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times – with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. Miller

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

March 8 | ONLINE | Democracy in America? A discussion with E. J. Dionne Jr., Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol, and Claire Potter, moderated by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies: WE CONDEMN RUSSIA’S AGGRESSION

For thirty years we at TCDS have been building bridges between East and West and between worlds of academia and civil society. The idea of dialogue is at the very core of all our initiatives. […]

To Mr. Vladimir V. Putin

Announcing the 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

ONLINE | Book Launch: Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment

Osman Kavala: 2021 Courage in Public Scholarship Award – VIDEO

With Best Wishes from TCDS

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 […]

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” […]

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

A Social Imaginary – Beyond the National

The Politics of Small Things Before, During and After the Pandemic: From the Kitchen Table to the Kitchen Cabinet

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TCDS Announces a New Collaborative Fellowship Program for Junior Ukrainian Scholars

In Support of Osman Kavala – 2021 Recipient of the Courage in Public Scholarship Award

Today, June 2nd, 2022, is the 1675th day in prison for Osman Kavala, Turkish publisher, philanthropist, and rights defender who, for his work on behalf of cultural dialogue, has been […]

Elzbieta Matynia Will Speak at the 2022 Night of Ideas in New York

TCDS Director, Elzbieta Matynia will speak at this year’s Night of Ideas, on Saturday, May 21st at 7:30pm at the Brooklyn Public Library (10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, New […]

Bryan Greene, 2019 Democracy & Diversity Alumnus Named To Fulbright US Student Program

ON HIATUS: 30th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute

With the deepest regret, but for obvious reasons, we have had to place our annual summer Institute in Wroclaw on hiatus. On the other hand we have been developing a […]

IN PERSON | Book Launch: ‘Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland’ – A conversation with author Krzysztof Czyżewski on lessons we have failed to learn

Exactly thirty years have passed since the siege of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica massacre. Today when we face a horrific war in Ukraine, one may ask what lessons we failed […]

ONLINE | Book Launch: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times – with author Michael Ignatieff in conversation with Arjun Appadurai, Avishai Margalit, Elzbieta Matynia, and James E. Miller

TCDS Alumna Zuzanna Krzątała on Hosting Ukrainian Refugees in Poland – on BBC

Watch the video on BBC: Ukraine: Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in Poland Family of seven refugees now live in volunteer’s flat in PolandClose Watch as […]

Ukraine Statement of Support by New University in Exile Consortium

March 8 | ONLINE | Democracy in America? A discussion with E. J. Dionne Jr., Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol, and Claire Potter, moderated by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Transregional Center for Democratic Studies: WE CONDEMN RUSSIA’S AGGRESSION

For thirty years we at TCDS have been building bridges between East and West and between worlds of academia and civil society. The idea of dialogue is at the very core of all our initiatives. […]