ELŻBIETA MATYNIA : ENACTING PUBLIC HOPE

This collection of essays and refl ections pays tribute to Elzbieta Matynia, Professor of Sociology and Liberal Studies and Director of the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the New School for Social Research. The publication was released on the occasion of the presentation of the 6th Courage in Public Scholarship Award granted by the NSSR-Europe Collective on July 19, 2023 in Wrocław, Poland. The timing also coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Democracy amp; Diversity Summer Institute organized by the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies (formerly East&Central Europe Program) – both institutions of international reach, conceived of and

developed by Elzbieta Matynia