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We watch with alarm as the Israeli government considers drastic changes, which if enacted, will severely undermine its constitutional democracy. We witness as well, the increasing frustration and anger among Palestinians, with no solution in sight for resolving the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. How can we explain this and what can be done?
Please join us online for an important, and much-needed conversation between two world renowned scholars and peace activists, from the region - Israeli philosopher, Avishai Margalit and Palestinian philosopher, Sari Nusseibeh. The conversation will be moderated by Omri Boehm, an Israeli/American philosopher and author of "Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel".
This is a conversation that should not be missed!
Registered attendees will receive the zoom link via email.
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Avishai Margalit is one of the foremost thinkers and commentators on the contemporary human condition, the moral issues of our time, and current problems facing Western societies. In addition to his influence as a philosopher, he is highly regarded for his profound and cogent observations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader struggle between Islam and the West.
Sari Nusseibeh is Professor of Islamic and Political Philosophy at al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, where he was the President from 1995 to 2014. Nusseibeh has written and lectured widely, his ever-increasing focus being the subject of war and peace in his region of the world. In 2003 Sari Nusseibeh co-founded IPSO (the Israel/Palestine Scientific Organization), and continues to serve at its co-chairman to this day.
The New University in Exile Consortium is a globally expanding group of colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Each institutional member is committed to hosting at least one threatened scholar every year and these exiled hosted scholars constitute our scholar cohort. We work with them individually and together to try and lessen the profound sense of dislocation which exiled scholars suffer and which adversely impacts their intellectual and personal lives. In the past year, the Consortium has expanded its mission to include finding placements for threatened Afghan and Ukrainian academics, students, and artists at Consortium member institutions.
 Established in September 2018, the Consortium follows in the tradition of The New School’s original University in Exile created by The New School’s first President, Alvin Johnson, in 1933. The first University in Exile became the home of rescued, largely Jewish endangered scholars from Germany and France. Today, members of the New University in Exile Consortium are hosting more than 100 exiled scholars from 22 countries.
Is your institution interested in joining the Consortium? Here’s how!
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies
Recognizing that democracy is not inevitable and that its future is far from certain, the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (TCDS) is dedicated to an interdisciplinary examination of democratic theory and practice, with the principle of open, rational public debate by citizens at its core. TCDS keeps an eye on the vibrancy of the public square as an indispensable incubator and maintainer of democracy, but also as a site that is vulnerable to erosion by the politics of distrust, nativism, resentment, and exclusion.
Inspired by the peaceful dismantling of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 and building upon earlier semi-clandestine collaboration with democratically minded intellectuals in that part of the world, TCDS’s transregional and cross-departmental research and study programs bring together civic-minded students, junior and senior scholars, and civil society actors from various regional contexts.
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, The New School offers more than a thousand public programs and events each year, providing fresh perspectives and unique learning opportunities. These lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and performances feature prominent and emerging artists, activists, and thought leaders.
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