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In Spring 2010 semester CRC is offering the following sessions:
IMPORTANT! In order to increase the impact of the CRC sessions on the curricula of participants’ local universities, in Spring 2009 we introduced some new elements in our programs.
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- Open House Sessions in broad discipline areas
The Open House sessions are organized in broad discipline areas covered by one or more CEU departments. These sessions are intended to introduce participants to CEU’s approach to a relevant discipline and new techniques for designing courses in that field. To this end the sessions will provide participants access to the facilities and resources of the CEU and the appropriate department, as well as general training workshops on course design and teaching methodology. Participants are invited to use the CEU library, visit relevant classes and meet faculty. The primary target groups of the Open House sessions are junior academics at the beginning of their teaching career, or mid-career and senior academics who would benefit from the above offerings.
Public Policy :
March 22– 28, 2010
(deadline for applications: 5 th February, 2010)
- Course Innovation Sessions
These sessions intend to explore the cutting edge developments in a particular discipline. The sessions are meant primarily for senior faculty with significant teaching and research experience or for outstanding, research-oriented junior faculty. By discussing recent developments and exploring contemporary debates with CEU’s host departments and faculty, participants are expected to revise or update their courses or offer new courses in their particular area of interest. Additional training on course development is also offered by the CRC. These sessions are organized with a strong involvement of CEU departments and often will be combined with a workshop or a conference on the topic of the session.
In Spring 2010 we offer the following Course Innovation Sessions:
History
Debatable Problems of Eastern European History from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
February 8 -14, 2010
(deadline for applications: 5th January, 2010)
The Curriculum Resource Centre and CEU History department (in cooperation with Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socials, Paris) offers academic training for university teachers working in the field of the history of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The CRC session aims to assist university teachers to revise and develop innovative, academically relevant courses that are non-ideological, comparative and preferably multidisciplinary, combining tools of historical, sociological and anthropological studies. Courses should deal with one of the following four major controversial topics:
* Byzantine-Orthodox traditions as cultural patterns in the history of Eastern Europe;
* National identities and nationalisms in 18 th– 20 th centuries;
* Intelligentsia and revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe in 1800 -1917;
* Cultural reconstruction and sciences under the communist rule in Eastern Europe.
The CRC session will foster a consistently critical approach to the present day theories and representations of the above mentioned topics.
NOTE: Applicants are expected to send statements of interest and data concerning their field of research and teaching interests.
Medieval Studies
The Variety of Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Middle Ages
February 22 - 28, 2010
(deadline for applications: 10th January, 2010
Christians and Jews populated medieval Europe from the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean to the Baltic Sea and from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. Within these broad geographical limits groups and individuals set up an intricate network system of commerce, trade, finance as well as the exchange of professional knowledge from philosophical concepts to domestic medical know-how. Recent scholarship has shown that the denominational divide, although ever present and at times even violently so, did not stop people from forming ties and expanding in more intricate ways and forms than previously thought. At times these networks functioned with what seems to be a disregard to the denominational and religious difference. This is by no means a simple and self evident statement. The theological background regarding “other” faiths within each respective religion, strong social, religious and authoritative circles critiquing such contacts if not discouraging them altogether created a formidable opposition for these contacts and networks.
The CRC session intends to establish awareness and understanding of the variety of contacts, connections and links of Christians and Jews in the past that always existed beside the violent divide.
NOTE : Applicants are invited to submit a one-page essay about their understanding of Jewish-Christian relations in the past and/or in present times.
Jewish Studies and Gender Studies
Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies
February 22 - 28, 2010
(deadline for applications: 10th January, 2010)
This CRC workshop will be structured around the extensive Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, which contains interviews with 52,000 people.
The CEU Library has recently been given access to this remarkable resource, and the CRC workshop will explore ways in which this database can be useful in designing university courses. Participants will be able to consult with CEU faculty in Jewish Studies and Gender Studies. During the session they will also have the opportunity to use the Visual History Archive. Teachers of history, sociology, anthropology and gender studies are encouraged to apply.
NOTE: applicants are requested to submit an 800-word statement of intention on how they are planning to use the archive in their teaching .
Gender Studies
Sexuality and Queer Theory
March 1-7, 2010
(deadline for applications: 15th January, 2010)
Recent events throughout the post-socialist/post-Soviet region have made abundantly clear the salience of sexuality to national and transnational political debates. This CRC session seeks to develop focused ways of understanding the role of homophobia in producing and sustaining conflicting forms of citizenship and national belonging and the roles/strategies of diverse actors in these processes. We invite applications from the fields of both Social Sciences and Humanities who wish to address these issues in their courses.
NOTE : Applicants are requested to attach a one-page essay discussing how, in their view, homophobia is currently manifested in the politics and everyday life of their country/region .
Environmental Sciences and Policy
Environmental Options at the Time of Economic Downturn: Crisis or a Window for Opportunities?
March 8-14, 2010
(deadline for applications: 22nd January, 2010)
The recent, globally experienced economic downturn shook the foundations of a number of models that had seemed to steadily define the modes of operations that, among others, influenced the environment related decisions of states. As it seems, the new situation might give room for rethinking the old models while searching for solutions. There are many talks about emerging "Green Economy" and that it might help getting out of the crisis. This CRC session examines what opportunities environmental options have among the changed circumstances and how they can help us to find a way out of the crisis.
NOTE : Applicants are requested to attach a one-page essay discussing their view on the question.
Political Science
Narrating the Nation: Identities, Scholarship and Power
March 29 - April 4, 2010
(deadline for applications: 20th February, 2010)
National history (re-)writing has occupied a central place in the process of state- and nation-building in post-communist Eurasia and is one of the most politically charged aspects in the region. The role of intellectuals, the relationship between scholars and policy-makers, the contextualization in and link to (and more often lack thereof) to analogous processes of national identity (trans)formation in neighboring states, the teleologies of national identity formation are some of the aspects that will receive attention in this workshop. In short the central question driving this CRC session is the following: how does post-communist scholarship on questions of state and nation defines its role vis-à-vis officialdom (authorities and narratives)?
We invite proposals to develop courses which aim to critically rethink the issues above and/or incorporate such questions in the curriculum.
The workshop will provide participants with suggestions about course formats, reading lists and topics for discussion which they could then build on when designing or revising their own courses. The workshop is recommended in particular to faculty with research and teaching interests in the study of political science, history, sociology, anthropology. Applicants with a background in linguistics/philology are asked to explicitly address the relevance of the themes discussed in the workshop to their current or proposed courses. Applications from Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and Ukraine are especially encouraged.
NOTE : In preparation for the workshop, applicants are asked to submit the following: (i) a one-page elaboration of their envisaged contribution to the workshop; and (ii) a 750-word essay on ’Power, the Nation, and National Historiography’.
- Topical Issues in Curriculum Development
These types of sessions are expected to cover topical issues of particular importance to the development of higher education in the region, in all areas related to curriculum development. Organized by the CRC office in co-operation with a wide range of strategic partners, these sessions address current trends in curriculum development, degree structures and particular or special interest issues.
In the Spring 2010 semester CRC is offering the following Topical Issues session
OSA (Open Society Archives at CEU) - Sociology and Social Anthropology
Rethinking Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts, Political Landscapes and Cultural Identities
April 7 - April 13, 2010
(deadline for applications: 15th February, 2010)
Responding to the growing interest in the sub-disciplines of Human Geography, the CRC session will provide faculty with an opportunity to enhance their curricula by examining key concepts of Cultural Geography. The session is meant to foster a fruitful exchange of theory and method for research-oriented faculty and will bring together discussants from around the world and from a range of disciplines, providing new perspectives related to the topic. Some of the themes of the session will include a critical examination of universal narratives of cultural identity, the ontological and discursive significance of national perimeters, developments in tourism geography, cultural convergence and the corporate governance of culture, post-colonial readings of landscape, the a future of undocumented migrants and unanswered peripheral questions relating to citizenship, and the fear of fluctuating legal boundaries.
The main objectives of the session are to survey cultural geographical theory and methodology and its politics and praxis, as well as to explore topical issues of relevance. Additional aims are to present an opportunity for faculty to clarify conceptual issues and provide them with theoretical signposts to guide their own curricula.
In addition to having the chance to carry out research at the CEU library, faculty will also be invited to attend a conference entitled Call for Proposals: Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture, that will take place concurrently with the CRC session, organized jointly by the International Alternative Culture Center, University of Alberta (Canada), and Department of Sociology of the Central European University.
For CfP visit http://www.alternativeculture.org/reset/content/view/145/1/
NOTE: Applicants are asked to contribute a 500 word essay on how participation in the CRC session will enrich their curricula.
- Departmental Curriculum Development Sessions
Departmental Curriculum Development Sessions
-timing: one week agreed for mid - April - June, 2010
Deadline for application is 15th February, 2010
Departments that are in the process of revising their existing curricula or are designing new programs (BA or MA) are invited to apply and send a group of their faculty to a new type of CRC session called Departmental Curriculum Development Session. We can only accept applications from departments whose discipline area is also present at the Central European University.
In addition to the regular CRC trainings (in individual course design and teaching methodology), these new sessions would offer workshops in curriculum development, revision and harmonization. Participants will have the opportunity to revise their own individual courses and to coordinate them from the point of view of content, level, approach, learning outcomes, as well as to jointly design outcomes-based departmental learning grids. In defining the exact content of these sessions we will take into account the specific needs of the applying department.
Timing of these sessions will be between mid-April and June, exact timeframe and length of sessions will be agreed upon with selected departments. For the sake of a smooth and quick arrangement of the session, departments are requested to propose more than one timeframe. Interest in a possible session during the 2010 Fall semester can also be signaled on the joint group application form.
Procedure
The group members need to be selected by the sending department. They all should meet the eligibility criteria of CRC, and should fill out an individual application form. Beside the individual application forms a joint group application form should be filled out and sent with all the application materials, possibly in one e-mail/pack, to the CRC (CEU CRC, 1051 Budapest Nador u. 9, crc@ceu.hu).
Following the selection of departments the CRC will contact the group leader and start negotiations on funding and the arrangement of the session.
Funding of Departmental Curriculum Development Sessions
CRC covers all the expenses of the group leader (if from the target region) related to travel and accommodation as well as provides him/her with all the benefits a CRC participant receives (book allowance, stipend). The expenses of the rest of the group should be covered through a matching funds scheme which will be individually discussed with the groups.
To download application forms for this type of session please click here.
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Summary of CRC sessions:
1. Open House Sessions :
Public Policy: March 22 – 28, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 5th February, 2010)
2. Course Innovation Sessions
History:
Debatable Problems of Eastern European History from the Middle Ages to the 20 th Century February 8 -14, 2010 – (deadline for applications: 5 th January, 2010)
Medieval Studies:
The Variety of Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Middle Ages
February 22-28, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 10 th January, 2010)
Jewish Studies and Gender Studies:
Testimonies and Teaching: New Sources and Methodologies for Jewish Studies
February 22-28, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 10th January, 2010)
Gender Studies:
Sexuality and Queer Theory
March 1-7, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 15th January, 2010)
Environmental Sciences and Policy:
Environmental Options at the Time of Economic Downturn: Crisis or a Window for Opportunities March 8 -14, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 22nd January, 2010)
Political Science:
Narrating the Nation: Identities, Scholarship and Power
March 29 - April 4, 2010 - (deadline for applications: 20th February, 2010)
3. Topical Issues in Curriculum Development Sessions
OSA-Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Rethinking Cultural Geography: Critical Concepts, Political Landscapes and Cultural Identities
April 7 – 13 , 2010 - (deadline for applications: 15th February, 2010)
4.. Departmental Curriculum Development Session
one week agreed for mid-April-June, 2010 – (deadline for application: 15th February, 2010)
Note: CRC Fall 2010 sessions are planned to be announced by 1st April, 2010.
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