This year’s program will unfold around the theme Democracy Under Siege – an Effort in Understanding, and offers following courses:
What is an Event?, prof. Robin Wagner-Pacifici, University in Exile Professor of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
Anti-, Post- and De-colonial: Re-thinking Democracy’s Predicaments from the Global South, prof. Shireen Hassim, WiSER/Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Media, the New Authoritarianism, and Its Opposition, prof. Jeffery Goldfarb, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, The New School for Social Research
We the People: Nationalism, Populism, and the Precariousness of the Democratic Project, prof. Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research
This program will be complimented by several study tours of Wrocław’s cultural and historical landmarks as well as several evening events featuring artists and intellectuals from the region