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T C D S P R O G R A M A N N O U N C E M E N T :
F o u r t e e n t h A n n u a l
Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute
Krakow, Poland, July 10-28, 2005
This is to announce the fourteenth annual Democracy & Diversity Graduate
Summer Institute in Krakow, Poland, organized by the Transregional Center
for Democratic Studies (TCDS) of the Graduate Faculty of Political and
Social Science, New School University, New York. TCDS will again welcome up
to forty junior scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and
the Caucasus, the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, and other parts of the world
for an intensive three-week program of study in society, culture, and
politics. Offering the equivalent of a full semester's graduate study at an
American university, the Institute brings an interdisciplinary, comparative,
and highly interactive approach to bear on the study of social, political,
and cultural challenges to democracy and democratization today. The
Institute is widely known for creating an intimate transregional forum for
lively but rigorous debate on the critical issues of democratic life, and
for its interactive approach to the study of today's social, political, and
cultural challenges to democracy and democratization.
Core faculty from New School University's Graduate Faculty will be joined by
distinguished international scholars and by guest speakers from the region.
Upon completion of the Institute requirements, U.S. graduate students
receive full course credits and non-U.S. participants receive certificates.
All alumni become members of TCDS's ongoing Transregional Learning Network,
through which they continue interacting and developing contacts with their
colleagues in academia and civil society worldwide, and through which they
will gain access to opportunities for further study, research, and
collaborative projects.
Curriculum
* Contextualizing Feminist Thought: Issues, Orientations, and Actors in
International Perspective - seminar
(Professor Ann Snitow, Committee on Gender Studies and Feminist Theory,
Graduate Faculty, and Eugene Lang College, New School University)
The modern feminist movement began in the world wide upheavals of the
nineteen sixties. For reasons we will discuss in this course, the political
and social goals associated with feminism have had extraordinary staying
power as rallying issues, and a variety of women's movements have
established themselves as political and social forces in both North and
South. We will discuss some recurring feminist themes in international
perspective, noting permutations that arise with differences of race,
ethnicity, class, and national histories. We will also look at international
cooperation among feminists for ways it has helped - or failed to help -
local organizing. This year, seminar participants will choose priorities
from materials on the following themes: international legacies of the l960s;
feminist analyses of terrorism; EU versus U.S. family policies; problems
with the international feminist issue of "trafficking in women"; strengths
and weaknesses of common feminist organizational structures (e.g.
nongovernmental organizations); a comparative study of current abortion
rights in the U.S. and Poland; illiberal feminisms; mass versus elite
feminist movements; defining feminism across borders; feminist critiques of
nationalism; international responses to the "veil law" in France; a
comparative study of the construction of sexuality and sex education in
Russia and the U.S.; gay and lesbian visibility in the U.S. and Poland;
international entry points for feminist analyses of gender and war.
* Democracy and Its Opponents - seminar
(Professor David Plotke, Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty,
New School University)
Many accounts of the origins of democracy imagine an initial and even a
continuing unanimity among citizens in their approval of that form of
government. Yet most actual democratic polities include a significant number
of citizens who individually and jointly oppose many democratic commitments
and practices. This reality poses a serious challenge for theories of
democracy and for the conduct of democratic politics. The debate about
terrorism addresses some of the most extreme forms of this problem.
To consider how democratic polities can and should engage nondemocratic
and antidemocratic political forces, we start with basic accounts of
democracy and thus of what it mean for political actors to oppose democracy.
We briefly explore the problem of political obligation given divergent
political views. Then we examine three main ways in which democratic
polities have sought to respond to nondemocratic and antidemocratic
political forces: repression, toleration, and incorporation. We evaluate
these strategies through case studies of how democratic polities respond to
such political forces. We will consider cases of movements and parties that
are explicitly and consistently antidemocratic. Much of our interest will
focus on instances in which important political actors combine democratic
and antidemocratic themes and practices. Cases will include the following:
the Catholic Church in the United States in the 19th century, Communist
parties in Western Europe and South Africa in the second half of the 20th
century, radical Islamist political currents in Turkey, and populist
movements and parties in Latin America in the 20th century. Throughout we
will focus on how democratic polities can be sustained amid deep political
diversity; we will also consider whether and under what circumstances
antidemocratic political forces can make positive contributions to
democratic politics. We will read theoretical texts about obligation,
consent, and toleration; analyses of democratic political institutions and
norms; and case studies of encounters between democratic politics and its
partial and full opponents.
* Globalization and the Politics of Public Memory - seminar
(Professors Jonathan Veitch, Eugene Lang College, New School University, and
Elzbieta Matynia, Liberal Studies, Graduate Faculty, New School University)
This course will examine the controversies over the politics of public
memory which have become particularly tense at a time in which social and
political systems are being dismantled and reconfigured, ethnic identity
reemerges as a powerful source of conflict, and nation-states are challenged
by new global arrangements. The concepts of nation, identity, and
globalization will inform our analysis as we examine a wide range of
emblematic locations, among them: Auschwitz, Berlin, Hanoi, Hiroshima, the
Nevada Test Site, and images of resistance in the East and Central Europe.
We will pay particular attention to a variety of representational strategies
designed to elicit the "meaning" of those places, whether that be in the
arena of public art, museum exhibitions, tourist attractions, or monuments
and historic districts. How does one represent a volatile, multifarious, and
sometimes discredited past in a way that will enrich and amplify its
interpretive possibilities rather than diminish them? Readings will include
excerpts from theorists such as Benedict Anderson, Zygmunt Bauman, Anthony
Giddens, Eric Hobsbawm, Hayden White, Pierre Nora, Maurice Halbwachs, as
well as literary works by Milan Kundera, Gьnter Grass, Bruno Schultz, and
others.
* Sociology of the Public - seminar
(Professor Jeffrey Goldfarb, Department of Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New
School University)
This seminar course will provide a comparative study of the idea of the
public and its role in democratic practice. The starting point will be the
great historic debate between Walter Lippmann and John Dewey regarding the
relationship between public opinion and democracy. This then will be
critically evaluated using the theoretical contributions of such thinkers as
Erving Goffman, Hannah Arendt, Jurgen Habermas and Michel Foucault, and such
engaged intellectuals as Adam Michnik and Vaclav Havel, and Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King Jr. The inquiry will proceed with a consideration of the
project of constituting a democratic public life in the context of the media
transformations and globalization of contemporary cultures and politics.
Extracurricular Activities
* Evening Sessions: Past guest speakers have included Shlomo Avineri
(Hebrew University Jerusalem), Claus Offe (Humboldt University Berlin), Adam
Michnik (Editor, Gazeta Wyborcza), Czeslaw Milosz (Poet, Nobel Laureate),
Edward Mortimer (Director, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United
Nations), Bernd Weisbrod (Dept. of Modern European History, Univ. of
Goettingen), Harald Hagemann (Dept. of Economic Theory, Univ. of Hohenheim),
Krzysztof Czyzewski (Director, Borderlands Foundation; Editor-in-Chief,
Krasnogruda), and others.
* Field Trips: Historic Krakow, Jagiellonian University,
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
* Study Tours: This year's program will also feature a more extensive
exploration of successes and challenges of local self-government, 15 years
after the first democratic elections and one year after joining the European
Union. Study tours will be arranged to two communities in Southern Poland
known for their innovative and entrepreneurial leadership: a small historic
town Niepolomice, which is currently undergoing unprecedented revival
through exemplary economic creativity, and Lanckorona, small village
partnering in the Carpathian Ecoregion Initiative, a wide-ranging
international program to promote conservation and environmentally friendly
development across the region.
Accommodation
Przegorzaly Castle, on the outskirts of Krakow, is situated on a wooded
hilltop with a spectacular view of the Vistula River and the Tatra
Mountains, is easily reached from the city by public transportation. The
adjacent academic hotel, where program participants will be housed, offers
comfortable double rooms with bath and telephone.
Facts about the Program
Classes at the Democracy & Diversity Institute are conducted as intensive
seminars meeting daily during weekdays, in morning and afternoon sessions.
Each participant is required to enroll in two seminar courses of their
choosing, and take active part in the evening sessions and study tours.
Course readings are provided in specifically bound Institute readers. One
day per week is devoted to cultural programs, which include exploration of
architectural and historical landmarks, visits to museums, meetings with
artists and political figures, and various field trips. Upon completion of
the course requirements, participants receive an Institute certificate.
Program Costs
* Participants from the Graduate Faculty of New School University:
The cost of the 2005 Graduate Summer Institute is based on the Summer 2005
Graduate Faculty tuition rate and includes full room & board. Travel costs
are not included.
* Participants from Eugene Lang College of New School University:
The Eugene Lang College students selected to the 2005 Institute will receive
funding to cover full tuition and room & board during the program. Travel
costs are not included.
* Participants from other New School divisions, other universities in the
U.S., and universities/NGOs in Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the
Caucasus, and Southeast Asia:
The cost of the 2005 Graduate Summer Institute is USD 1400, covering
tuition, course readers, cultural program, and room & board. Travel costs
are not included. Applicants are strongly encouraged to seek funding
independently and already during the application process. A limited number
of scholarships may be available to qualified candidates from Central &
Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, covering economy travel,
tuition, course readers, cultural program, and room & board at the
Institute.
Application
* Applicants from Eugene Lang College: In order to be admitted into the
program, applicants must be enrolled at the Lang College as juniors or
seniors. ELC students in the Social and Historical Inquiry and Cultural
Studies & Media concentrations in especial are encouraged to apply.
Preference will be given to those applicants who can demonstrate active
involvement in civil society and civic life.
* All other applicants must have completed their undergraduate studies by
the time of the Institute and should be either enrolled in an advanced
degree program or working as junior university teachers or researchers.
Preference will be given to those applicants who can demonstrate active
involvement in civil society and civic life.
Application instructions differ between three categories of applicants:
1. Candidates from the Graduate Faculty of New School University and
Consortium Universities in New York:
To receive an application form, contact Christine Emeran, Office of
Admissions, Graduate Faculty, New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, New
York, NY 10003; tel.: (212) 229-5710, (800) 523-5411 (from outside NYC);
fax: (212) 989-7102; email gfadm***@n*****.edu. You may also download the
application form from TCDS Web site at www.newschool.edu/centers/tcds. For
further information, contact TCDS at (212) 229-5580 ext. 3136, 3139 or 3140,
or write to lyy***@n*****.edu. Deadline for applications by Graduate
Faculty and consortium university students is April 22, 2005.
2. Candidates from Eugene Lang College of New School University:
To receive an application form and for further information, contact Jon
White, Director of Academic Advising at Lang, 64 West 11th Street, Rm. 120,
tel. (212) 229-5100 ext. 2282, email whit***@n*****.edu; or Wendy Garay,
Academic Advisor/Study Abroad Coordinator, at 64 West 11th Street, Rm. 119,
tel. (212) 229-5100 ext. 2280, email gara***@n*****.edu. Deadline for
applications by Eugene Lang College students is April 1, 2005.
3. Candidates from Other Universities in the U.S. and Universities in
Central & Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the Caucasus, and Southeast Asia:
Interested junior faculty members and doctoral students should send an
application package consisting of the following materials:
* Application letter including the applicant's full name, date of birth,
gender, nationality, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address,
educational background, degrees received, and current institutional
affiliation (CV/resume). Also include an indication of the two courses you
would be taking in the program.
* Evidence of substantial English language skills (TOEFL test result or
statement by an English-speaking faculty member, or comparable).
* One- or two-page personal statement outlining your own analysis of the
current societal, political, or cultural issues (conflicts, problems) in
your home country which you deem most pressing or significant as challenges
to democracy or democratization there, and a description of how your own
ongoing work relates to these issues and to your decision to apply to the
Democracy & Diversity Institute.
* One letter of recommendation.
* Applications from Moldova: Please contact Ms. Victoria Kulikovski at the
Soros Foundation Moldova for information on application procedure and
financial support, at email vkulikovs***@s*****.md; tel. (373 2) 270 031, 274
480, 270 232; fax: (373 2) 270 507. The deadline for submitting applications
to the Soros Foundation Moldova is May 5, 2005.
* Applications from Serbia: Please contact Reconstruction Women's Fund for
information on application procedure and financial support, at email
offi***@r*****.org; Narodnog Fronta 66, 11000 Beograd; tel. (381 11) 3620
592; fax (381 11) 3612 835. Contact Reconstruction Women's Fund for the
deadline for applications from Serbia.
* Applications from elsewhere in these regions: Send complete application
package to:
Email: tcds@n*****.edu (important: include a note CR05 APPLICATION in the
subject heading); mailing address: Transregional Center for Democratic
Studies, Attn.: Krakow 05, New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, Room 405,
New York, NY 10003, USA; fax (1 212) 229-5894. The deadline for applications
from everywhere else outside of the United States is April 22, 2005.
All application materials can be submitted via e-mail. Recommendation letter
must be sent from the email address belonging to its author or as an
attachment to the application letter if scanned. For further information,
contact TCDS at (1 212) 229-5580 ext. 3136, 3139 or 3140, or write to
lyy***@n*****.edu.
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