Snitow Receives the Courage in Public Scholarship Award
A report from Warsaw, June 9th, 2015
It was in late July of 2014, during the final two days of the 23rd annual Democracy & Diversity Institute, that a sizable group of the Institute’s alumni -- representatives of a much larger NSSR/TCDS community now living and working in Europe -- joined us in Wroclaw. They were an impressive and ...
Reflections on a Revolutionary Imaginary and Round Tables
The new always appears in the guise of a miracle
This is the prepared text answering the question "What do we really know about transitions to democracy?" for the General Seminar of The New School for Social Research, March 19, 2014.
It was a quarter of a century ago, in 1989, that a new kind of revolutionary imaginary emerged, one that ...
Jonathan Schell Remembered
Letters from The New School for Social Research
Here are two remembrances of a distinguished colleague, Jonathan Schell, who died last Tuesday. Miller wrote his as a letter to the members of the Committee on Liberal Studies, where Schell once taught. Matynia’s is a remembrance of Schell’s public engagements as a writer and public actor, ...
Interview with an Expert on Violence
Elzbieta Matynia introduces a very special poem
In late September the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, which I direct, arranged a talk by Anabel Hernández, a Mexican journalist and courageous writer whose book, Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers,has just been published in English by Verso. I had heard about Hernandez and her work, but ...