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The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies is pleased to announce the seventeenth annual Democracy & Diversity Institute to be held in Krakow, Poland from July 8-25, 2008. The three-week program will bring together up to forty graduate and advanced undergraduate students from the New School, and graduate students from East & Central Europe, Central Asia & the Caucasus, to examine current challenges to democratic politics, culture, and society in the host region and beyond. Historic and modern Krakow provides an ideal context for the Institute, and for the examination of such issues as democratic transition, the legacies of World War II, the Holocaust, and communism, as well as the possibilities and challenges posed by the expanded supranational European Union. The transdisciplinary, and often team-taught seminar courses, led by New School faculty, will this year explore questions of political culture, human rights, historical traumas and theories of evil, as well as historical, philosophical, and political dimensions of cosmopolitanism. Students select two of four seminar courses offered, and receive full course credits (totaling six credits). The program includes evening guest speakers, meetings with public intellectuals from the region, and field trips to socially and politically significant sites in the vicinity of Krakow.
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