Democracy & Diversity: Summer Program in Krakov, 1998
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Democracy & Diversity: Summer Program in Krakov, 1998
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From: [email protected] ("Inst. for Democracy in E. Europe")
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I am attaching information on a summer program in Krakow, Poland
for graduate students and junior faculty from Central and Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. Please pass it on to anyone
you think may be interested. The contact person is Ina Breuer
([email protected]) at the New School in New York and the
information for applicants from the region is at the very end of this
message. Please note that the organizers hope to provide funding
for all participants from the region.
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From: "IRENE J. BREUER" <[email protected]>
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The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
at the New School for Social Research
announces
The Seventh Annual
Democracy & Diversity
Summer Graduate Institute
in
Cracow, Poland
from
July 12 -August 1, 1998
For the seventh consecutive year, we shall welcome fifty junior
scholars from Eastern Europe, the US, and other parts of the
world to the Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in
Cracow. At its castle site overlooking the Vistula, we offer an
intensive, three-week curriculum in society, politics, and culture
equivalent to a full semester's study in the US.
Originally designed by the East & Central Europe Program of the
Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, the Institute
remains an intimate, but now more broadly international, forum for
rigorous and lively examination of the challenges of democratic life.
Our core faculty from the New School's GF will be joined this year
by distinguished scholars and guest speakers from Israel, Mexico,
Poland, Russia, and South Africa. In addition to our ever-evolving
seminars on citizenship and the role of gender, the Institute's
annual public policy workshop will emphasize the role of media and
communications in relation to policy development.
Upon completion of the Institute, U.S. graduate students receive
credits and non-U.S. participants receive certificates. Yet their
unique, three-week experience does not end there. Because we
encourage and facilitate further participation in the ongoing activities
of ECEP and the more recently established Transregional Center for
Democratic Studies, alumni soon find they have become active
members of a much broader transregional community of
open-minded scholars, who are committed to strengthening civil
society and to bridging the gap between academia and the "real
world". I hope you will consider joining us.
Elzbieta Matynia
Director, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Curriculum
Continuity & Citizenship in Democratic Politics
Professor David Plotke, Department of Political Science, Graduate
Faculty
How can democratic practices and institutions be sustained? What
do political institutions and values contribute to democratic
continuity? What is the role of self-interest? These questions require
attention in both newer and more established democracies. To
answer them we will focus on the activities and features of individual
citizens. How should we understand the concept and practice of
citizenship? What do citizens need to agree on for democratic
politics to continue over time?
Problems in Democratic Culture
Professor Jeffrey Goldfarb, Department of Sociology, Graduate Faculty
Political correctness, affirmative action, multiculturalism, and identity
politics are controversial topics in the United States today. In this
course these contemporary topics will be analyzed as part of the
on-going struggle for a democratic culture. The controversies will be
considered in historical and theoretical contexts which involve
on-going attempts to address the problems and promises of
democracy in America. It will be a primary task of the class to
consider how these issues relate to the pressing problems of the new
democracies of East and Central Europe. Readings will include de
Tocqueville's Democracy in America and a selection of Hannah
Arendt's essays, as well as texts by Stephan Carter, Toni Morrison,
Robert Bellah, Bell Hooks, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Paul Berman.
Theories of Gender in Culture
Professor Ann Snitow, Committee on Gender Studies and Feminist
Theory, NSSR
In its seventh year, this course continues to reflect on-going
redefinitions of the field gender studies' and now includes a wide
range of material from scholars and emerging women's movements in
East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. This summer we
will discuss the difficulties of finding relevant and useful entry points
for feminism in the region. We will look at current efforts to include
women' inside the powerful international politics of human rights' and
at feminism's relationship to nationalism - with a critical assessment
of different versions of "global feminism".
Nation, Identity, Community
Professor Shlomo Avineri, Dept. of Political Science, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel; Professor Jorge Castaneda, Dept. of
Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
City; and Alex Grigorievs, National Democratic Institute, Moscow,
Russia
Whether defined as philosophical concept, ideology, attitude, or
group's state of mind, nationalism continues to be a major idee
force of the last two centuries, leading to successive reconfigurations
of the world map. This course will explore the origins of modern
nationalism both in the Enlightenment and in the romantic movement,
and will survey the current social science literature. Various
approaches to the study of nationalism as a historical phenomenon
will be investigated, with special attention given to Central European
countries and Israel. In the second part of the seminar we will
explore the questions of cultural identity, nation building, and
multiculturalism in Mexico and Latin America at the end of this
century. Finally, we will examine selected cases of ethnic conflict in
Russia and discuss different strategies of conflict resolution.
Workshop
Public Policy, Citizen Involvement, and Media
Elaine Zimmerman, Executive Director, Connecticut Commission on
Children and National Social Policy Consultant
This workshop will address several major policy issues in
contemporary North America and Europe such as child care,
education, civil rights, gender equity, and welfare. We will look at
the practical side of policy making, turning public concern and need
into policy, how policy becomes law, and how to ensure that good
policy is financed, enacted, and evaluated. What are the outcomes
of a policy, and how can law be improved over time for the public
good? How can the public be apprised of policy and its impact?
What role can media play in public awareness and expectation of
policy debate? What kinds of coalitions facilitate policy interest?
Public policy is a democratic process with citizen participation,
discourse, and public expectations of elected officials within
government who turn policy into law. This workshop will discuss
strategy, methods of citizen involvement, public leadership
development, as well as use of the media to bolster public
awareness of current policy concerns.
Why Cracow?
Cracow, the ancient capital of Poland, seat of the second oldest
university in Europe (1364), has been a center for scholarship and
politics for many centuries. It has traditionally served as a link
between the cultures of the East and the West. A city of Gothic
convents, Renaissance arcades, Baroque churches and Art Nouveau
coffee houses, Cracow has always been an intellectual and artistic
center. As a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 19th century
Cracow was closely associated with Vienna, the intellectual and
artistic avant-garde of the West. The famous sociologist Ludwig
Gumplowicz was a native of Cracow, and so were anthropologist
Bronislaw Malinowski and writer Joseph Conrad. At the turn of the
century, Cracow developed its own branches of Art Nouveau and
Expressionism. After World War II, the avant-garde tradition was
continued by the Cracow School of Painting, the theaters of Tadeusz
Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, and Jerzy Grotowski, and the music of
Krzysztof Penderecki. Cracow is also home to two Nobel laureates
in literature, Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996).
Accommodations:
Przegorzaly Castle (just outside of Cracow), which is on a wooded
hilltop with a view of the Tatra Mountains, is easily reached from the
city by public transportation. The accommodations will be
comfortable double rooms with bath and telephone.
Facts about the Program:
All participating students must have completed undergraduate studies
and currently be enrolled in a graduate program. The classes at the
Summer Graduate Institute will be conducted four times a week, in
morning and afternoon sessions. All books and course materials are
provided. One day per week will be devoted to cultural programs,
which will include exploration of architectural and historical landmarks,
visits to museums, meetings with artists and political figures, and
various field trips.
Participants from American Universities:
The cost of the Graduate Summer Institute is based on the 1998/99
Graduate Faculty tuition rate and includes full room and board. The
participation fee for those who wish to audit only is $1550. Travel
costs are not included. To receive an application form contact
Cynthia Mueller, Director of Admissions, Graduate Faculty, 65
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 0003. Tel: (212) 229-5710,
(800) 523-5411 (from outside NYC), Fax: (212) 989-7102.
Participants from Universities in East and Central Europe and other
parts of the world:
Interested junior faculty and doctoral students should send a letter
which includes the following information: full name, address,
telephone/fax number, e-mail address (very important), educational
background, degrees received, institutional affiliation, and evidence
of English language skills. Also include one letter of
recommendation and 1-2 page statement of your educational goals
and reasons for applying to the Institute. Mail, fax, or e-mail these
to: Ina Breuer, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, New
School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, Room 422, New York,
NY 10003, Fax: (212) 229-5894.
VHS video cassettes of a documentary film of the 1996 Institute are
available in our New York office and at regional Soros Foundation offices.
For more information, please contact:
Ina Breuer, Program Coordinator
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Tel: (212) 229-5580 or (212) 229-5115
Fax: (212) 229-5894
E-mail: [email protected]
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