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Former
Visiting Professor at Graduate Faculty Named for Presidency of
Germany
Political
philosopher Gesine Schwan, who in 1996-97 spent a year at the
New School’s Graduate Faculty as a visiting professor, and
who is currently president of the innovative European University
Viadrina on the German-Polish border, recently nominated as candidate
for president of Germany.More
South
African Connection:
New York Friends of TAC at the New School
On February 26, TCDS sponsored a founding meeting of the New York
Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign at the New School network
(FoTAC-NS). The organization invites all those to join it who
are interested in South Africa, civic activism, new social movements,
global action networks, health and social justice issues, ...More
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Martin
Butora Runs for Presidency of Slovakia
Dr.
Martin Butora, an active and highly sought after associate of
TCDS and a member of its International Steering Committee, has
been officially confirmed as a registered candidate for the presidency
of Slovakia.More
TCDS
Utilizes Internet to Promote Democratic Studies
Meron Tesfa Michael
Moving beyond the walls of traditional establishments, TCDS is
making a quantum leap from the desk to the desktop this spring,
as it teams up with the al-Farabi Kazakh National University in
Almaty, Kazakhstan (KNU), to launch an initiative to broadcast
lectures and seminars over the Internet to enhance democratic
studies in Central Asia. More
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Kidnapped
Europe: The Odds of Rescue
Elzbieta Matynia
When I came from Poland to the United States in the early 80s I
thought I was coming from Europe to America. I was wrong. I was
coming from a part of Europe that was -- for Americans -- hardly
visible. It wasn’t on their mental map. Their Europe’s
fantastical geography only had a West, even though, as in the conspicuous
case of Italy, it had a fairly visible south. Everything east of
Germany, Austria, and Italy -- including the populations, cities,
villages, and languages, even the landscape -- was gone. more
A
Cuba Story
An interview by Hana Cervinkova
The story of Emilia and Lino Fernandez is in the form of a fairy
tale. Reunited with each other and with their children in Miami
after 17 years of Lino’s imprisonment in Castro’s Cuba,
this aging couple’s account, filled with trials and suffering,
could end with the quintessential saying, “and they lived happily
ever after….” More
Thirteenth
Annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute
In collaboration with the International Cultural
Centre Krakow, TCDS will organize the thirteenth annual Democracy
& Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Krakow, Poland, July
11-29, 2004. More
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