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TCDS’s 17th Annual Democracy & Diversity Institute in Krakow, Poland

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 Krakow, Poland

From left: NSSR students Marika Josephson and Dechen Albero enjoying the atmosphere of a small café in downtown Krakow to prepare for their classes.

Zagajewski Group
Krakow participants listen to a poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski, a prominent Polish poet and Professor at the Committee of Social Thought, University of Chicago.

D&D students and faculty gathered to participate in the Institute’s closing ceremony.

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A visit to the National Museum of Krakow. From left: NSSR students –  Pavlina Majorosova, Dechen Albero and Marika Josephson – with students from Poland – Aleksandra Szaniawska, Agnieszka Sznajder – and Ukraine – Maria Berkova.

From left: Karen Underhill (University of Chicago, Krakow D&D Alumna) introducing Jan Gross, Polish historian and sociologist, who joined D&D participants for an evening lecture and discussion about his two recent books. In the far left corner: Elzbieta Matynia (NSSR)

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Karen Underhill (University of Chicago, Krakow D&D Alumna), on the left, gives a historical tour of Krakow’s Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, to the Institute’s participants. From right: Dechen Albero (NSSR), Marika Josephson (NSSR), Prof. Richard Bernstein (NSSR) and Magdalena Kawa (University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska, Poland).

D&D faculty and participants on a guided tour through Nowa Huta, designed and built as a socialist model-city in the 1950s. (Front from left: Carol L. Bernstein (Bryn Mawr College, English and Comparative Literature), Richard Bernstein (NSSR, Philosophy) and Elzbieta Matynia (NSSR, Liberal Studies & Sociology)

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Karen Underhill (University of Chicago, Krakow D&D Alumna) showing D&D participants Massolit Books and Café, an independent English language bookstore that she founded several years ago in Krakow’s old town. From left: Jessica Daniels (Eugene Lang College), Karen Underhill and Anberin Pasha (Reconstruction Women's Fund, Serbia)

D&D participants Elife Krasniqi (NSSR, Kosovo) and Letitia Mark (Romania) sing a Roma song in Massolit Books and Café, an English language bookstore established in Krakow by D&D alumna, Karen Underhill

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D&D faculty gathered for the Institute’s final celebration. From left: Carol L. Bernstein (Bryn Mawr College, English and Comparative Literature), Jeffrey Goldfarb (NSSR, Sociology), Richard Bernstein (NSSR, Philosophy), Andreas Kalyvas (NSSR, Political Science), Ann Snitow (Eugene Lang College, Gender Studies) and Elzbieta Matynia (NSSR, Liberal Studies & Sociology)

View of the city of Krakow from the Przegorzaly Castle, the location of the Democracy & Diversity Institute.