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PS Podcast Constitutional Crisis in Poland

April 20, 2016 • by Zeyno Ustun

Public Seminar presents the Constitutional Crisis in Poland podcast. Our Editor in Chief, Jeffrey Goldfarb, conducted an interview with Jan Smoleński and Elzbieta Matynia. They discussed the continuing crisis in Poland, its apparent transition from democracy. The discussion builds upon an earlier contribution Smoleński published on Public Seminar Jan 25th, 2016.

PS Podcast Constitutional Crisis in Poland

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An Uncanny Era of Post-revolution (1989-2014)

December 15, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Today's post comes to us via the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies blog. -J.G.

On November 10, 2014, TCDS, partnering with the Polish Cultural Institute, hosted An Uncanny Era of Post-revolution (1989-2014) at The New School. Second in the series of events marking the 25th anniversary of the dismantling of Communist rule ...

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Gray is Beautiful: An Introduction to a Series of Reflections on Democracy Dilemmas

September 30, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am borrowing here the title of Adam Michnik’s lecture at The New School in December, 1996, in which he reflected upon “democracy in Central Europe.” I will use his lecture’s title and argument for a series of posts on dilemmas that arise in the pursuit of democracy and social ...

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Krzysztof Czyzewski and Czeslaw Miłosz Meeting in their Native Realm*

September 1, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Zeyno Ustun

On May 18, 2014, for his contributions to understanding history and for his creative confrontation with memory, Krzysztof Czyzewski was awarded the Dan David Prize along with the French historian Pierre Nora and the Israeli Holocaust scholar Saul Friedlander. Of these three, the two distinguished historians and the theater practitioner-publisher-memory ...

Krzysztof Czyzewski and Czeslaw Miłosz Meeting in their Native Realm*

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A Conversation with Krzysztof Czyzewski

April 21, 2014 • by Ariel Merkel and Zeyno Ustun

On the evening of April 9th, the Polish theater director, actor, and "practitioner of ideas," Krzysztof Czyzewski, had a public conversation with Elzbieta Matynia and Jeffrey Goldfarb at the New School for Social Research. Czyzewski discussed his life course from actor in the avant-garde theater Gardzienice to a ...