| Summary: | A summary of the Fifth Annual Democracy & Diversity Summer Graduate Institute, a three-week program of studies in society, politics, and culture, held in Krakow, Poland between July 21 and August 10, 1996. Designed by East and Central Europe Program (ECEP), the program sought to bring together East European, American and other young scholars in a forum to examine common issues, such as democracy, democratic values, and the system of education and research in the social sciences. The seminars, workshops and special evenings featured among others: Professor Jeffrey Goldfarb (Department of Sociology, Graduate Faculty), Professor Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Sonja Licht (Director of the Soros Foundation Yugoslavia), Professor Bohdan Krawchenko (Kiev-Mohyla Academy, Kiev, Ukraine), Elzbieta Matynia (ECEP Director), Adam Michnik (historian, political thinker, and Editor-in-Chief of Gazeta Wyborcza), Czeslaw Milosz (1981 Nobel Prize Laureate), Professor Ann Snitow (Committee on Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, Graduate Faculty), and Elaine Zimmerman (Executive Director, Connecticut Commission on Children).
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