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The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) at the New School for Social Research is dedicated to the interdisciplinary examination of democratic theory and practice, with the principle of open, rational, public debate by citizens at its core.
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03/22/2025
03/18/2025
Deadline EXTENDED to March 30th!
Apply for the 2025 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, WROCŁAW, Poland, July 4-19, 2025.
This year's theme: Reclaiming Democratic Futures
Choose two out of the four core seminars:
Liberal Crises: History, Theory, Lessons - Andreas Kalyvas, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research;
Imagining Other Futures: Gender, Class and Race in Democratic Projects - Shireen Hassim, Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Ottawa, and the 2025 Hans Speier Visiting professor at The New School for Social Research;
Democracy’s Endgame? Making Sense of the Political Today - Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research;
America is Hard to Find: Crisis, Resistance, and Renewal - Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
More info here: https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/dd-institutes/2025-democracy-diversity-summer-institute/
New School for Social Research
03/14/2025
Join us on March 26th for our 'Book Launch: Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity' The New School for Social Research
In-person talk and book launch by Karen Underhill, University of Illinois Chicago, in conversation with Irena Grudzińska-Gross, scholar and writer
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 6:00PM
More info and to RSVP please see: https://event.newschool.edu/brunoschulz
Presented by TCDS, Polish Cultural Institute New York and Piasa NY
03/13/2025
Apply for our 2025 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute, to take place in WROCŁAW, Poland, July 4-19, 2025.
The forward-looking theme of this year’s Institute is RECLAIMING DEMOCRATIC FUTURES.
Application DEADLINE is March 20th!
More info here: https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/dd-institutes/2025-democracy-diversity-summer-institute/
Courses Offered this summer:
* Imagining Other Futures: Gender, Class and Race in Democratic Projects
Shireen Hassim, Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Ottawa, and the 2025 Hans Speier Visiting professor at The New School for Social Research
* Liberal Crises: History, Theory, Lessons
Andreas Kalyvas, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
* Democracy’s Endgame? Making Sense of the Political Today
Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research
* America is Hard to Find: Crisis, Resistance, and Renewal
Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College
The New School for Social Research
12/24/2024
12/19/2024
Join us in July 2025 in Wroclaw, Poland, for our 31st Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute.
The Institute, with the 2025 theme of RECLAIMING DEMOCRATIC FUTURES, is open to graduate students (and advanced undergraduate students) from *any* university in the world.
The entire program of the Institute will be announced in February 2025, but here are the titles of the four core seminars:
▶️ Liberal Crises: History, Theory, Lessons (Andreas Kalyvas, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research);
▶️ Imagining Other Futures: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Democratic Projects (Shireen Hassim, Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Ottawa, and the 2025 Hans Speier Visiting professor at The New School for Social Research);
▶️ Democracy’s Endgame? (Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research);
▶️ America is Hard to Find: Crisis, Resistance, and Renewal (Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College).
Find more info about our Institute on our website: LINK in BIO! 🔗🔗🔗🔗
12/18/2024
ANNOUNCING the 2025 Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute
in WROCŁAW, POLAND, July 4-19, 2025
This year's theme is RECLAIMING DEMOCRATIC FUTURES!
The forward-looking theme of this year’s Institute, Reclaiming Democratic Futures, is organized around four graduate seminars, augmented by evening conversations, micro-events, and excursions.
The entire program of the Institute will be announced in February 2025, but here are the titles of the four core seminars:
▶️ Liberal Crises: History, Theory, Lessons (Andreas Kalyvas, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research);
▶️ Imagining Other Futures: Gender, Race and Sexuality in Democratic Projects (Shireen Hassim, Canada150 Research Chair in Gender and African Politics, Carleton University, Ottawa, and the 2025 Hans Speier Visiting professor at The New School for Social Research);
▶️ Democracy’s Endgame? (Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research);
▶️ America is Hard to Find: Crisis, Resistance, and Renewal (Jeremy Varon, Professor of History, The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College).
Find more info about our Institute on our website: https://blogs.newschool.edu/tcds/dd-institutes/2025-democracy-diversity-summer-institute/
The New School for Social Research
10/22/2024
Read about 'Georgia’s Turn Toward Illiberalism and the “Uses and Abuses” of History' by Malkhaz Toria.
Read about 'Georgia’s Turn Toward Illiberalism and the “Uses and Abuses” of History' by Malkhaz Toria.
"The political and symbolic imaginary, the “memory consensus” regarding Georgia’s path toward Europe has come to an end. [...] As the parliamentary elections in October 2024 approach, the West is accused of supporting the “radical opposition” and their allied NGOs in plotting a coup in Georgia. The authoritarian grip on power is presented as a defense of Georgia’s sovereignty against the West."
Read the entire piece here: https://democracyseminar.newschool.org/essays/georgias-turn-toward-illiberalism-and-the-uses-and-abuses-of-history/.
Photo: 'Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.' April 25, 2024. Photograph from the Official Website of the Government of Georgia.
04/24/2024
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04/24/2024
No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT)
Wolff Conference Room, D1103 (11th floor)
Please join us for the Annual Janey Program Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism.
On April 25th 1974, after years of a brutal decolonization war, a group of left-wing officials of the Portuguese Army started a rebellion that caused the downfall of the Portuguese colonial and authoritarian regime. The Carnation revolution, as this rebellion is known today, inaugurated what has been described as the third democratization wave. This was followed by the collapse of military juntas, the end of authoritarian governments, and the fall of communist and apartheid regimes across Southern and Eastern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Southern Africa. This third wave, between 1974 and 2000, further cemented the idea of liberal democracies and multiculturalism as a predetermined destination for all modern societies. However, the last 25 years of resurgence of populist leaders, far right movements, ethno-nationalist parties, and anti-minority violence, challenged the wishful thinking of those that considered the democratizing effects of the wave permanent.
The conference will engage with the legacies of the third democratization wave and the new authoritarian turn across the globe.
Free and open to the public!
Must RSVP: https://event.newschool.edu/noendofhistory.
04/23/2024
No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 12:30PM to 6:00PM (EDT)
Wolff Conference Room, D1103 (11th floor)
Please join us for the Annual Janey Program Conference: No End of History: Crooked Circle of Democracy and Authoritarianism.
On April 25th 1974, after years of a brutal decolonization war, a group of left-wing officials of the Portuguese Army started a rebellion that caused the downfall of the Portuguese colonial and authoritarian regime. The Carnation revolution, as this rebellion is known today, inaugurated what has been described as the third democratization wave. This was followed by the collapse of military juntas, the end of authoritarian governments, and the fall of communist and apartheid regimes across Southern and Eastern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Southern Africa. This third wave, between 1974 and 2000, further cemented the idea of liberal democracies and multiculturalism as a predetermined destination for all modern societies. However, the last 25 years of resurgence of populist leaders, far right movements, ethno-nationalist parties, and anti-minority violence, challenged the wishful thinking of those that considered the democratizing effects of the wave permanent.
The conference will engage with the legacies of the third democratization wave and the new authoritarian turn across the globe.
Free and open to the public!
Must RSVP: https://event.newschool.edu/noendofhistory
04/23/2024
You are invited TODAY to the documentary screening of 'Citizens' (1986) followed by a discussion with Director/Producer Richard W. Adams.
This film portrays human dimensions of Poland’s Solidarity movement in 1980-81 that were obscured by Cold-War rhetoric: the efforts of workers, artists and intellectuals who joined together to create a thriving civil society within a totalitarian state. Solidarity activists describe how they learned that to protect their own interests they had to fight for the interests of Polish society as a whole. Their self-governing trade union won the trust and support of virtually all segments of society by providing the only available channel for the local grass-roots initiatives, open debate, and democratic action that ultimately led to non-violent systemic change in Poland and beyond.
RSVP: https://event.newschool.edu/citizensfilm.
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About TCDS
Recognizing that democracy is not inevitable, and that its future is far from certain – the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is dedicated to an interdisciplinary examination of democratic theory and practice, with the principle of open, rational, public debate by citizens at its core. As a commitment to dialogue has been at the very heart of all our projects, we keep an eye on the vibrancy of the public square as an indispensable incubator and maintainer of democracy, but also as a site that is vulnerable to erosion by the politics of distrust, nativism, resentment, and exclusion.
Inspired by the peaceful dismantling of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989, and building upon our earlier semi-clandestine collaboration with democratically minded intellectuals in that part of the world, TCDS launched its first project, the East and Central Europe Program, in January 1990. With the ensuing spread of democratic aspirations and transformations around the globe, TCDS’s integrated set of activities has drawn upon the concept of the “region”, rather than the “nation-state”, as a promising perspective from which to illuminate the relationships between local aspirations and global developments. Given the role of social science, the arts, and humanities in bridging an increasingly fractured world, TCDS works with a new breed of practice-oriented scholars to critically re-think the sources and processes of both the enacting and — more recently – the dismantling of democratic projects.
TCDS’s transregional and cross-departmental research and study programs, conducted both at home and abroad, bring together civic-minded students, junior and senior scholars, and civil society actors from various regional contexts. Our activities — region-based institutes, workshops, conferences, talks, and fellowships — are designed to further strengthen social and human capital, i.e., individuals and organizations concerned with the promise and sustainability of democracy. Our flagship projects have been the annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institutes (held in Poland since 1991 and also in South Africa from 1999 to 2015), aimed at a rigorous quest for a more textured understanding of the precariousness of democracy as it arises almost everywhere.
TCDS programs have generated over 1700 alumni from both The New School and more than 50 countries around the world. Our NSSR-Europe Collective is a tight and growing network of scholars and activists launched by a group of European alumni of NSSR/TCDS now living and working in Europe, many of whom hold important positions in academia, government, and non-governmental organizations.
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