Transregional Center for Democratic Studies

Lecture Series
 
 

Spring Semester - 1999 
 
 

February

February 25,  6:00 pm
Slavoj Zizek,  philosopher from the University of Ljubliana, Slovenia.
The Obscene Tolerance of the Superego: Postcommunist Fantasies.   Wolff Conference Room (Rm. 242, 65 Fifth Ave. at 14th St.)

March - April

Hans Maeder Lecture Series with Kai Erikson, The William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University.
Reflections on the Collapse of Yugoslavia: A Sociological View.

March 18, 6:00 - 7:30 pm             War Comes to Western Slavonia.   Swayduck Auditorium (65 Fifth Ave)

March 19, 12:00 pm                      Drawing Ethnic Boundaries.  Wolff Conference Room (65 Fifth Ave.)

April 1, 6:00 pm                             On Reading Maps and Telling. Wolff Conference Room (65 Fifth Ave.)
 
 

For additional information, please call Hana Cervinkova at (212) 229-5580
 
 

Fall Semester - 1998

September

Tuesday, September 15
Veran Matic, founder of Radio B-92 in Belgrade, speaking about The Role of Independent Broadcasting in Milosevic's Yugoslavia.

Wednesday, September 22
Jan Urban, journalist and publisher of Transitions, Prague, Czech Republic, speaking about current events in East Central Europe.

October

Wednesday, October 7
Adam Michnik, on a panel with Ira Katznelson and Irena Grudzinska Gross on the occasion of the publication of his book, Letters from Freedom (University of California Press, 1998).

Thursday, October 8
Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Director of the Oxford Programme on Comparative Media Law and Policy, and  Stuart N. Brotman, telecommunications and information consultant, launches the first session of the conversatorium, Media, Law, and Society, sponsored by TCDS, the Squadron Program on Media of Cardozo Law School, and the Oxford Programme.

November

Thursday, November 12
Andras Sajo, professor of Law at CEU and contributing editor to the East European Constitutional Review, speaking on the subject Hate Speech, Electronic Media, and Law, Cardozo Law School, 1pm., rm 1023.

Friday, November 13
Krzysztof Czyzewski, founder and director of the Center, Borderland of Cultures, Arts and Nations, in Sejny, Poland,and Editor-in-Chief of Krasnogruda, will give a talk Recreating the Culture of Dialogue in Central Europe. Wolff Conference Room, 3pm.

Friday, November 20
Renata Salecl, Philosopher and Sociologist at the Institute of Criminology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and visiting scholar at the University of Michigan speaking about Do We Still Believe in Authorities: Contemporary Subjectivity and the Big Other. Wolff Conference Room, noon.