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Johannesburg, South Africa
January 5-21, 2012
TCDS Open House and Reception
Monday, September 26, 5-7 p.m. at The New School
Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, room 1103
After The New South Africa
With Eve Fairbanks and Sean Jacobs
Tuesday, October 4, 5-7pm
72 Fifth Avenue, Room 321
In Search of Lost Meaning The New Eastern Europe
Adam Michnik, introduced by Ian Buruma
Monday, October 31, 5:30-7:30pm
Wolff Conference Room, 6 East 16th Street, room 1103
Rewind by Liza Key
American Premiere
Thursday, November 3, 6-8pm
The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street
TCDS announces the 11th Democracy & Diversity Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa, January 5-21, 2012.
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Building on the achievements of our Cape Town Institute (1997-2009), our new location in Johannesburg will offer a semester of graduate study centered on the theme The World in Crisis: A Critical Reading. The program is designed to facilitate intellectual, experiential, and practical insights into our increasingly global society and foster new relationships among scholars normally separated by geography.
As an intimate international forum for lively and rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, the Democracy & Diversity Institute brings an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural changes that are facing the world today. Members of the core faculty of The New School for Social Research co-teach seminars with distinguished South African scholars. The institute is visited by numerous guest speakers. Upon completion of the institute, U.S. graduate students receive graduate school credits and non-U.S. participants receive certificates of completion.
Johannesburg, the intellectual, economic and cultural center of South Africa and a gateway to the rest of Africa, provides the perfect backdrop for the Democracy & Diversity Institute. Drawing on Johannesburg's cultural and political significance, and TCDS's network of collaborators, especially our partner the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the institute promises to provide a strong and innovative program that addresses the state of our global society and reflects TCDS ongoing commitment to critical inquiry and dialogue as paths to improvement of the human condition.
Courses offered at this year's Institute include:
New Democracies, Old Questions – David Plotke (NSSR, politics) and Lawrence Hamilton (UJ, politics)
Understanding Global Economic Shifts – Stephen Gelb (UJ, economics) and Will Milberg (NSSR, economics)
The Politics of Violence: Nation, Boundaries, Bodies – Elzbieta Matynia (NSSR, sociology and liberal studies) and Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand, political studies)
Citizens and the State: Justice and Belonging – Hylton White (University of Witwatersrand, anthropology) and guest lecturers
Look for the full program soon, including course descriptions, application instructions, and deadlines. For more information, email tcds@newschool.edu.
TCDS launches the 20th Democracy & Diversity Summer Institute in Wroclaw, Poland.
On Friday, July 8, TCDS welcomed 30 junior scholars from The New School for Social Research and around the world to Wroclaw for the 20th Democracy & Diversity Institute. Centered on the theme A World in Crisis: A Critical Reading, this year's institute brought together students from 12 countries as diverse as the U.S., Albania, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Ethiopia, and Poland to study issues of political violence, the salient role of new media, the contestation of gender, and ethnic identity politics.
The Wroclaw Democracy & Diversity Institute takes place in a landmark modernist building in an idyllic park. In addition to the institute seminars, students enjoyed study tours of the city of Wroclaw and region of Lower Silesia and an intensive program of guest lectures, films, concerts, and other cultural and academic events. For two decades, the institute has provided an intimage international forum for lively and rigorous debate on critical issues of democratic life, bringing an interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the social, political, and cultural changes that face the world today.