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The
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies integral structure relies
on two region-based summer institutes - the Democracy & Diversity
Graduate Summer Institutes in Krakow, Poland,
and Cape Town, South Africa - that are closely
linked to the New Social Science Training program (NSST) at New
School University’s Graduate Faculty in New York.
The
first Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in
Krakow, Poland, was organized two years after the collapse of communism,
in July 1992. Since then the institute has welcomed up to fifty participants
each July from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus,
Sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, and Southeast Asia. The program
is designed to provide new academic and professional opportunities for
civic-minded junior scholars and academically advanced civil society
activists and NGO professionals from relatively under-resourced backgrounds
primarily in its host region.
The first Cape Town Democracy & Diversity Institute was organized in 1999 in direct response to a call by a small group of SouthAfrican scholars taking part in the Krakow Institute. Since then, the Cape Town Institute has been bringing together an international body of junior scholars and activists, engaged in civil society and united in their desire to systematically study critical issues of democracy and democratization as manifested in the host region and beyond. The
Cape Town Institute is designed and organized in close collaboration
between TCDS and The EDGE Institute, Johannesburg.
The New Social Science Training (NSST) fellowship program complements the work of the region-based Institutes by providing them with an annual follow-up component and extension that furthers their objectives. Through the semester-long Fellowships offered in the NSST program, select Institute alumni continue to deepen their research work and learning experience begun at the Institutes in a more structured and closely supervised program context at New School University's Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. During their stay in the program, NSST Fellows work together in small research teams that meet weekly, discuss their ongoing work in the TCDS Work-in-Progress Workshop sessions, present their final research results in the program’s Concluding Conference, and have their completed papers published in the TCDS Working Paper series. Editor's Note: For furthre information, program and fellowship announcements, TCDS events, and conference calls please visit our TCDS highlights page or contact us at tcds@newschool.edu |
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