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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,
Cracow, Poland
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; and Professor Jorge Casta=F1eda, Dept.
of Political Science, Universidad Nacional Aut=F3noma de M=E9xico, Mexico
City 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 id=E9e forc=E9
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 10003. 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: BREUERI at NEWSCHOOL.EDU


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