In May of 2024 the Roses will again be in Salzburg to speak at the 100th session of the Global Citizenship Alliance.
This unique program brings American students, mainly from community colleges but also from some four year institutions, to Salzburg for intensive week-long seminars on human rights and the leading issues of the day.
After a pandemic-induced hiatus from travel, Peter and Hedy Rose will return to Austria in September, 2023 to participate in another session of the American Studies Program at the Salzburg Global Seminar.
This year’s theme is on the timely subject of “Borders” and will be examining issues relating to the sociology of exile, the politics of rescue, and the psychology of altruism.
Lecture “Tears in the Fabric of American Democracy,” delivered at Smith College on May 17, 2023, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the American Studies Diploma Program for foreign graduate students.
The talk was, in many ways, a follow-up to the main themes of the recent book Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear and, in many ways, a foretaste of matters to be covered in a forthcoming second edition to be published in 2025.
On July 1, 2023, Sea House Books released Partying Penguins in Patagonia, a fanciful fable and third storybook by Peter Rose.
This time the author is the illustrator, in his role as a photo-journalist. He takes the reader with him on an incredible day-long escapade on an island in Tierra del Fuego, that turned out to be something far more than a birding excursion.
New book for children, I have a friend named Conor (Sea House Books, 2021) released on April 15, 2021
Like Max, The Sea-Dog, published in 2018, this new Cape Cod story was illustrated by artist and book designer, Evanleigh Davis.
Interview on WXOJ-LP in Northampton, MA.on Tropes of Intolerance, March 28, 2021
The interview was recorded and may be heard by clicking on https://archive.org/details/occupy-the-airwaves-3.22.2021-peter-rose
Interview with Mindy Todd on “The Point” on NPR station WCAI, January 6, 2021
On January 6, 2021, Peter Rose was interviewed by Mindy Todd on the program “The Point” on NPR station WCAI. The interview took place only a few hours before the attempted siege of the Capitol in Washington. Some of what was discussed was all too prescient.
Click here to listen to Peter’s interview or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://www.capeandislands.org/post/how-racism-fear-and-bigotry-threaten-social-fabric-democratic-societies#stream/0
New book, Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear, (Routledge, 2021) was released on December 31, 2020.
In this book, which touches on many aspects of bigotry and scapegoating, populism and xenophobia, the Trump Era is presented as a case study.
Faculty member, Global Citizenship Alliance, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria, May 24-June 5, 2020
Two one-week sessions for students from American community colleges and universities focused on contemporary problems such as racial and ethnic relations, immigration, women’s rights, sustainable development
Closing Lecture, “Reflections on the U.S. as a ‘Herrenvolk Democracy’,” symposium at Roosevelt Institute for American Studies of Leiden University, Middelburg, NL, May 7-8, 2020.
Closing lecture at a symposium on “Racial Democracies” led by Damian Pargas