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Call for Applications—Democracy
& Diversity Institute Krakow, Poland
The application deadline for the sixteenth annual
Democracy & Diversity Institute held in Krakow, Poland, from July
9-27, 2007, is April 2, 2007. The three-week program, conducted by the
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, brings together forty students
from the New School and Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia
& the Caucasus to examine current challenges to democratic politics,
culture, and society in the host region and beyond. The seminar courses
at the Institute are led by faculty from NSSR. Students select two of
the four seminar courses offered and receive full course credits (totaling
six credits). The program also includes evening guest lectures, meetings
with public intellectuals from the region, and field trips to socially
and politically significant sites in the vicinity of Krakow.
Courses taught at the Institute this year include:
• Boundaries & Openness
in Contemporary Democracies
Prof. David Plotke, Department of Political Science, NSSR
• Globalization and the
Politics of Public Memory
Profs. Elzbieta Matynia, Department of Sociology, NSSR and TBA
• Media, Politics and Social
Interaction
Prof. Jeffrey Goldfarb, Department of Sociology, NSSR
• Theories of Gender in
Culture
Prof. Ann Snitow, Committee on Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, NSSR
and ELC
For full course descriptions, program
details, including program costs, click
here.
Recent Highlights
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TCDS hosts 8th Annual
Democracy & Diversity Institute in Cape Town, South Africa
For
pictures and a brief report
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Krzysztof
Czyzewski
Director, The Borderlands Center for Art, Culture, Nation
Trajectory of Return: Practicing Borderland in
Dialogue with Czeslaw Milosz
Krzysztof Czyzewski is founder and head of The Borderland Center of
Arts, Culture, Nations. Inspired by Nobel Laureate in Literature, Czeslaw
Milosz, Czyzewski established this avant-garde cultural organization
in 1990 in Sejny, Poland, right at the borders between Poland, Lithuania,
Belarus and Russia. Czyzewski has written and worked on the active role
of culture in multicultural communities and the need to overcome the
deep historical burdens faced by borderland communities in the Balkans,
Caucuses, and Indonesia, among others. Wednesday,
March 28, at 7:30pm
Wolff Conference Room, 65 Fifth Ave., 2nd Floor
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Aleksa Djilas
Writer, historian, prominent Serbian dissident and intellectual
Of Novelty and Oblivion: What we can Learn from
Dissidents under Communism
Aleksa Djilas is a writer, sociologist, historian and broadcaster. A
prominent dissident and outspoken critic of the communist government
of Yugoslavia, Dr. Djilas was in exile in Europe, the US, and UK throughout
the 1980s, but returned to Belgrade in 1990 and has since published
numerous books on Yugoslavia, including The Contested Country: Yugoslav
Unity and Communist Revolution (1991), Conversations for Yugoslavia
(1993), a selection of interviews he gave to the Yugoslav press, and
Disintegration and Hope (1995), a selection of essays on the Yugoslav
civil war. His articles have appeared in Spectator, The New York Times,
The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, Prospect, Commentary, Granta and
Nexus (Netherlands). He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute
for Applied Social Research, University of Cologne; the Russian Research
Center, Harvard; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,
Washington, DC; he currently lives in Belgrade. Thursday,
March 29, at 4pm
Room 510, 66 West 12th Street
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TCDS
and the Writing Program of Eugene Lang College
are pleased to host
Anything
but an Angel: A Tribute to Zbigniew Herbert An
evening of poetry readings and conversation dedicated to the work of
the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998) on the occasion of the
American publication by Ecco Press of The Collected Poems of Zbigniew
Herbert. A copy of the publication will be presented at the event to
the poet's widow, Katarzyna Herbert.
The evening celebrates one of the greatest 20th century poets, a moral
authority for Poles and a spiritual leader of the Solidarity movement,
whose work, translated and beloved around the world, includes the poetry
volumes Mr Cogito and Report from a Besieged City, and his essays on
European culture collected in A Barbarian in the Garden and Still Life
with A Bridle.
Participants in the conversation and readings will include the poet
Edward Hirsch, President of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Alice
Quinn, poetry editor of the New Yorker; Alissa Valles, translator and
editor of The Collected Poems and poetry editor with Words without Borders
at Bard College; poet Adam Zagajewski; Bob Kerrey, President of the
New School; political writer Adam Michnik; former U.S. poet laureate
Mark Strand; actress Elzbieta Czyzewska; and others.
The evening is co-sponsored by the Ecco Press.
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Andrzej W. Tymowski
Director, International
Programs at the American Council on Learned Societies
Schould Scholars
"Waste Time" Translating?Translation
does not appear high on the list of concerns for scholars, even in today’s
globalizing world in which scholars themselves, and their products,
travel ever more freely across international borders. Obviously, translation
deserves more attention because of its crucial role in communication.
But should scholars themselves make the effort to translate? Andrzej
W. Tymowski is Director of International Programs at the American Council
of Learned Societies. He is the author of a number of articles on social
movements in the East European transformation and has taught at Emory
and Yale Universities.
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