ANNOUNCING
Following the
success of our region-based institute in South Africa in the last three years,
we are pleased to announce the fourth Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer
Institute in Cape Town, South Africa. In an intensive two-week program, an international
body of civically-engaged junior scholars and activists will examine the critical
issues of democracy and democratizationas they manifest themselves in the region
and beyond. Seven years after launching its imaginative program for reconstructing
a post-apartheid society, economy, and state, South Africa provides an exceptionally
stimulating setting for study and debate on democratic transitions and consolidation.
The Institute, designed and organized jointly between the Transregional Center
for Democratic Studies of New School University, New York, and The EDGE Institute
in Johannesburg, will again bring together 50 young scholars and civic leaders
primarily from South Africa and other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also
from the United States, Latin America, and Central & Eastern Europe. Faculty
and Program The highly intensive program, offering the equivalent of a full
semester of graduate study, includes four core seminars, each co-taught by faculty
from Africa and the United States. Additional 2002 Institute faculty will include
special guest lecturer Claus Offe (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany). The
curriculum will be complemented by a daylong concluding conference, a series
of evening guest lectures, panel discussions, and field trips. Guest speakers
at the 2002 Cape Town Institute will include prominent civic leaders, policy
makers, and public intellectuals from the region. Guest speakers at the past
institutes have included: · Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert (former leader of parliamentary
opposition and co-founder, IDASA), · Amina Mama (Director, African Gender Institute),
· Njabulo Ndebele (Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Town), and · Zackie Achmat
(Director, Treatment Action Campaign).
Elzbieta Matynia, New School University