Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, Wroclaw, Poland

TCDS is pleased to announce the 20th annual

Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute
Wroclaw, Poland
July 8-24, 2011

The World in Crisis: A Critical Reading

The Transregional Center of Democratic Studies of the New School for Social Research is very pleased to announce the twentieth Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute, to be held in the inspiring city of Wroclaw, Poland, from July 8-24, 2011. Located in a landmark modernist structure in the largest park of the Lower Silesia region, the Institute offers an intensive program of study, equivalent to a full semester of graduate study in the US.

Known as an intimate international forum for lively but rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the Institute brings an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural challenges facing today’s world. We are looking forward to welcoming another cohort of up to forty junior scholars from the US, Europe, and other parts of the world to this anniversary session of the Democracy & Diversity Institute. This year’s program will unfold around the theme The World in Crisis: A Critical Reading, and will consider issues of political violence, the salient role of new media, the contestation of gender, and the ethnicization of politics.

The courses offered at the 2011 Institute will include:

• ‘We the People’: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Belonging, Professor Sharika Thiranagama, New School for Social Research
• Media and News in a Time of Crisis, Professors Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris and New School for Social Research and Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, New School for Social Research
• Romancing Violence: Theories and Practices of Political Violence, Professor Elzbieta Matynia, New School for Social Research
• Gender: Stable and Unstable, Professor Ann Snitow, Eugene Lang College

Located between Berlin, Prague and Warsaw, and saturated with the history and memory of these three distinct cultures, Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) is a beautiful and booming city that uniquely conveys both the challenges and the promise of a united Europe. Drawing on Wroclaw’s culture of the borderland, TCDS’s network of distinguished and dedicated collaborators and alumni, and the New School’s reputation stemming from our long-term engagement in the region, this anniversary session of the Democracy & Diversity Institute offers a rigorous program of critical inquiry on some of the most pressing problems of our time.

Our local collaborator is the International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education at the University of Lower Silesia.

Please watch for the full program announcement, including full course descriptions, extra-curricular activities and application instructions, early in the Spring 2011 semester. Application deadline: March 14, 2011. For information and questions, please contact TCDS@newschool.edu or visit www.newschool.edu/tcds.