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Brief Course Descriptions
CEU Summer University July 5-30, 2004
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Cognitive
Neuroscience
Understanding
Actions and Minds: Integrating recent advances from Philosophy of Mind,
Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology of Language and Communication, Developmental
and Comparative Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence
July
5-16, 2004
The course is preceded by a three-day Exploratory
Workshop (July 5-7, 2004) supported by the European Science Foundation.
Course
Director:
György
Gergely, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Developmental Research Institute for
Psychological Research, Budapest
Resource
Persons:
Paul
Bloom, Yale University, Department of
Psychology
Gergely
Csibra, Centre for Brain and
Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College
Juan
Carlos Gomez, University of Saint Andrews, UK
Josef
Perner, University of Salzburg,
Department of Psychology
Csaba
Pléh, University of Szeged,
Department of General Psychology
Dan
Sperber, CNRS, and CREA, Ecole
Polytechnique
John
S. Watson, UC Berkeley
Karen
Wynn, Yale University, Department of
Psychology
The
summer course plans to focus on reviewing and integrating significant recent
advances in the interdisciplinary study of two central and closely related
topics that have come to preoccupy the current research directions in a wide
range of sub-disciplines of the quickly expanding general field of the cognitive
and brain sciences including philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience,
the developmental, comparative, and evolutionary study of social cognition,
psychology of language and communication.
1. The first concerns the
mechanisms and organizational principles involved in the production,
representation, and interpretation of intentional actions in human and
non-human, biological and artificial information processing systems.
2. The second concerns the study of the
inferential and representational systems specialized for understanding other
minds in terms of causal intentional mental states (theory-of-mind).
Interdisciplinary research on these questions has been growing extremely fast
during the last decade and produced significant theoretical and methodological
advances in the study of the evolutionary origins, ontogenetic development,
and mature functioning in human and non-human organisms (e.g. primates and
dogs) of domain-specific interpretative and representational mechanisms
that are specialized for interpreting,
predicting, explaining and learning from the intentional actions of other
agents.
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History
and Cultural Studies
Cosmologies
of History: The Symbolic Organization of Time In cooperation
with the University of California at Santa Cruz, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, and
Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies at CEU.
5-16
July, 2004
Course
Directors:
Sorin
Antohi, Central European University, Budapest
Tyrus
Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz
Resource
Persons:
Costica
Bradatan, Cornell University
Wlad
Godzich, University of California at Santa Cruz
Jörn
Rüsen, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen
Hayden
White, Stanford University and University of California
The
course is organized around three major topics. The first, "History and
Cosmos," explores these two fundamental modes of organizing time and the
symbolic mechanisms that underlie them. We reconceive the binary opposition of
cosmos and history as complementary elements within unitary "historical
cosmoi," symbolic frameworks within which societies organize and control
time. In the second part, "De-Universalizing History," we take up
recent challenges to the view of history as a universal medium allowing
chronometric correlations between events of different orders and in different
spaces. We sketch an alternative view of "global" history that
emphasizes active, open dynamics of cross-cultural translation and creative
misunderstanding, analogical and poetic transformation of other systems, and
detachment / reattachment of minority elements within larger historico-cosmic
systems. The final part, "Critiquing Historicism," considers basic
concepts and topics of historiography in light of the idea of historical cosmoi.
In particular, we focus on the conceptual foundations of historicist theory and
practice: its notions of context, event, temporal continuity, causality, and
singularity in historical time. This is an advanced-level course, offered to
young Humanities scholars (assistant professors / advanced PhD students) with a
proven relevant research and teaching record.
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History,
Philosophy
and Religion
Changing
Intellectual Landscapes in Late Antiquity
July
19-30, 2004
Course
Director:
Peter Brown, Princeton
University
Course
Organizers:
György
Geréby, Central European University, Budapest
István Perczel,
Central European University, Budapest
Resource
Persons:
Cristina d’Ancona,
University of Padova
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University,
Budapest
Glen Bowersock,
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton
Sebastian Brock,
Oxford University
Averil Cameron,
Warden, Keble College
Garth Fowden,
Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Research Foundation, Athens
Robert Markus,
Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Nottingham
Mariann Sághy,
Central European University, Budapest
Late
Antique thought has produced new intellectual phenomena and syntheses that
influenced later developments both in Europe and the Middle East. In the present
course, we will treat some of these, which rank among the most important. Such
is the idea of the Christian Roman Empire as an earthly reverberation of God’s
monarchy in Heaven and also as the Katekhon, "Retainer" of the
Antichrist, the cult of the saints, the birth of monasticism, Gnosis as a
lasting underground current of European and Middle Eastern culture, and
Manichaeism as a peripheral and persecuted intellectual current (not to say
religion), but one which even contrapunctually (through Saint Augustine, for
example) influenced our world.
Special application
deadline Applications for partial or
full scholarship packages must be received by the CEU Summer University Office
no later than February 9, 2004.
Class size is limited to 30
places maximum. There are altogether fifteen tuition waivers available
(scholarship packages included) on a competitive basis. Requests for tuition
waivers will be accepted no later than February 27. Applications by
fee-paying participants will be considered until all course places have been
filled, but no later than May 7.
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Legal
Studies
Global
Perspectives on Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) In
co-operation with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and Hamline
University School of Law, Minnesota
July
5-23, 2004
Course
Directors:
Lela
Love, Kukin Program for Conflict
Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva University
Csilla
Lehoczky Kollonay, Central European University, Budapest
Applicants
have the following options:
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apply
for the first two weeks only. Depending on previous experience and training,
please apply for either the introductory track or for the advanced
track;
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apply
for participation in all three weeks if you have a strong interest and/or
some background in the topics of week three (labour law).
Please
clearly indicate in your statement of purpose which option you are applying for:
two-week course or three-week course; introductory or advanced track.
Week one and two (July 5-16)
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Introductory
Track (for students without prior
course experience in mediation)
Mediation
and Other Methods to Foster Democratic Dialogue
Resource
Persons:
James
Coben, Dispute Resolution Institute, Hamline
University School of Law
Kinga Göncz,
Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs, Hungary
Lela Love,
Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law/Yeshiva University
Dana Potockova, Conflict
Management International, Prague |
Advanced
Track (for students with
theory and practice background in mediation and negotiation)
Models
for Change, Dialogue, and Individual and Social Transformation in Conflict
Resource Persons:
James Coben,
Dispute Resolution Institute, Hamline University School of Law
Lela Love,
Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of
Law/Yeshiva University
Julie Macfarlane,
University of Windsor, Ontario
Bernard Mayer,
CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado
Please note that participation in the advanced
track is on a fee-paying basis, however, a limited number of scholarships
are available for participants from countries of emerging democracies. |
| Through lecture, discussion,
demonstration and role-play, students will be introduced to mediation
theory and skills and examine the impact of culture and context on the
mediation approach adopted. Examples will focus on mediation models and
scenarios from both the United States and Central and Eastern Europe. The
task of translating hostile and adversarial communication into building
blocks of collaborative dialogue will be explored, as well as the
mediator's role in identifying, framing, and ordering the issues in
dispute. Analysis will highlight persuasive techniques for moving parties
from impasse to settlement. Special attention will be directed to the
ethical dilemmas faced by mediators, particularly challenges to a
mediator's impartiality, and the potential for abuse of discretion and
power. The course also will examine a variety of strategies to foster and
support democratic and constructive dialogue, particularly focusing on
"high-conflict" situations involving inter-ethnic tensions.
Students will study efforts in Central and Eastern Europe to promote
meaningful democratic dialogue in times of national and international
crisis. Participants should come prepared for a highly interactive
learning experience. |
To be taught in
two segments, week one will focus on the development of democratic
dialogue and mediating modalities to support social change and address
conflict. Students will examine models and processes that have been used
around the globe in both emerging and stable democracies to stimulate
multi-stakeholder engagement, to develop effective process and substantive
agreements, to reach consensus outcomes, and to support implementation
strategies. Week two will focus on advanced skills for mediator
intervention in disputes. After a critical review of basic mediator
skills, students will examine: theories of negotiation and their relevance
for mediators; different mediation models and their underlying rationale;
issues in mediating complex cases, including how to work effectively with
interpreters and other professionals; concepts of justice and their impact
on mediation; and methods of responding to impasse and other mediator
challenges. The course will culminate in a master class where participants
try out their skills to assess the impact of different approaches on party
behavior. Pre-course reading in designated books and articles will be
required. |
Week three (July 19-23)
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Trends
of Conflict Resolution in Labour Matters
Resource
Persons:
Stephen J. Adler,
National Labour Court of Israel, Hebrew University
Csilla Lehoczky
Kollonay, Central European University, Budapest
Manfred Weiss, Johann
Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
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| Through lecture, discussion, and other
interactive teaching methodologies, students will explore the history,
rationale and theory behind conciliation, mediation and arbitration as
means of resolving disputes alternative to judicial process and collective
actions. Examples will focus on the labor and employment arena, though
other areas of disputes when individual and collective interests may clash
will also be examined. |
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Legal
Studies
Global
Public Service Lawyering: Theory and Practice In cooperation with
the Global Public Service Law Project at New York University School of Law
July
12-30, 2004
Course
Directors:
Holly
Maguigan, New York University
Frank
Upham, New York University
Resource
Persons:
Ágnes
Kövér, ELTE School of Law, Budapest
Arnold
de Vera, Alternative Legal Assistance
(SALIGAN), Philippines
Diana Hortsch, New York University School
of Law
Pavol
Zilincik, Center for Environmental
Public Advocacy, Slovakia
Mia Serban,
Institute for Law and Society at New York University
This is a three-week advanced
course for public service lawyers in the region to examine the emerging global
phenomenon of public service lawyering and the forms it has taken in Central
and Eastern Europe. The course is organized around two substantive themes:
social and economic rights, and ethnicity, citizenship and political
exclusion; embedded in each conversation are certain core topics, including
globalization, the role of the state, and strategies used by public interest
lawyers. The curriculum aims to ensure that lawyers learn from each other,
trade practical lawyering strategies, and reflect critically at the underlying
assumptions and ideologies behind their work. The core of the course consists
of case studies written by and based on the students’ own experiences. The
case studies are prepared and presented by a team of three (teacher,
student-author, student discussion leader). Each case study is analyzed by the
group via an interactive discussion focused on the key lawyering and strategy
questions raised by the case. Field visits, hypotheticals and advanced
readings will also be part of this open, interactive learning process. The
readings outside of the case studies will address multiple foreign legal
systems, both from Central and Eastern Europe and from outside the region.
Course specific requirement:
applicants should be lawyers with at least two years of work experience in a
public service law setting – government, non-governmental organizations,
academia (including advanced doctoral students).
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Nationalism
Studies
Rewriting
History: Emerging Identities and Nationalism in Central Asia
July
19-30, 2004
Course Director:
Ablet Kamalov,
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Institute of Oriental Studies
Resource Persons:
Touraj Atabaki,
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Ágnes Birtalan,
University ELTE, Department of Inner Asian Studies
Anuar Galiev,
Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Almaty
Dru C. Gladney,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies
Colin Mackerras,
Griffith University, School of International Business and Asian Studies
H. B. Paksoy,
Texas Tech University
The course will use interdisciplinary
perspective to examine the phenomenon of Revising and Rewriting of the History
in Central Asia. It will examine the roots of this phenomenon going back to
the colonial time of print-capitalism, which fostered the emergence of
'imagined communities' in Central Asia and look at the problem from a
theoretical point of view placing it rightly within the theoretical concepts
existing in Historical Anthropology, Post-Colonial Studies and Area Studies.
The course will focus among others on such problems as the
complex interplay between Invention and Mythologization of the History and
Ethno-Nationalism as well as emerging new State based Identities. It will
introduce the multifaceted debate on the nature of invention of the History
and reveal its correlation with state building, politics, and political
regimes and show the role of History Writing in social and cultural life of
societies during the transition period. The comparative analysis of the
History Writing process in Central Asian states with those in other
post-Communist societies (Caucasus, Mongolia) as well as Chinese Central Asia
(Xinjiang) will enable to reveal general tendencies in the process of
Rewriting of the History and describe it as a natural phenomenon for the
contemporary post-colonial societies. The course will give participants the
skills necessary to apply academic theories, concepts and methodology to their
own researches and curricula.
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Philosophy
Philosophy
and Science in the Greco-Roman World
July
5-16, 2004
Course
Directors:
István
Bárány, ELTE, Budapest
Gábor
Betegh, Central European University, Budapest
István
Bodnár, Central European University, Budapest
Resource
Persons:
Myles
Burnyeat, All Souls College, Oxford, UK
Katerina
Ierodiakonou, National Technical University,
Athens, Greece/ St. Hugh's College, Oxford, UK
Sir
Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge, UK
Henry R.
Mendell, California
State University, USA
David N. Sedley,
University of Cambridge, UK
Leonid Zhmud,
Institute for the History of Science and Technology, St. Petersburg
The course will
concentrate on the relationship of philosophy and scientific thought in the
Greco-Roman world, from the Presocratics through the Hellenistic age up to the
close of classical antiquity. We would like to investigate how mathematics,
natural sciences, astronomy, and medicine influenced philosophy, and on the
other hand, how philosophy and its methods and techniques framed science and
scientific knowledge. Our intention is that the course should address basic
questions of interrelatedness, and should show how questions asked and methods
used either in science or in philosophy fertilized other areas of intellectual
activity. The focus will be on questions concerning the structure of
knowledge, methodology, second order theories, argumentativity,
demonstrational techniques, and polemics.
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Political
Economy and Public Policy
Globalisation
and Public Policy – GAPP
July 19-30, 2004
Course
Director:
Diane Stone, Center for Policy Studies, Central European
University, Budapest
Resource
Persons:
Bob Deacon,
University of Sheffield
Heribert Dieter,
German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Richard Higgott,
Warwick University
Violetta Zentai,
Central European University, Center for Policy Studies, Budapest
Structural influences from beyond the
boundaries of the state now constrain, mitigate, shape or determine the policy
process in many key issue areas. These structural influences are invariably
called ‘globalisation’. The aim of this course is:
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to
understand, define and explain globalisation and regionalisation be it in
its economic, political, socio-cultural and historical guises; |
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to
identify the range of potential policy implications that stem from the
various understandings of globalisation; |
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understand what kinds of constraints globalisation imposes on the
potential for independent policy initiative; |
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to
look at the role of 'non traditional actors' in the policy process outside
the borders of the sovereign state. Special attention will be given here
to inter-governmental international institutions and non-governmental
organisations (NGOS). |
Course participants will be advanced doctoral and
post-doctoral candidates as well as policy professionals working with
international NGOs, international organisation, government agencies etc. The
course leaders are internationally recognised academics all of whom have policy
experience and have published books on globalisation issues.
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Religious
Studies and History
Jews
and Muslims in the Middle Ages
July
12-23, 2004
Course Director:
Mark
R. Cohen, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Resource
Persons:
Gyöngyi Hegedűs ,
University of Toronto, Jewish Studies Program
Y. Tzvi Langermann,
Bar-Ilan University
Gideon Libson,
Hebrew University, Faculty of Law
Sarah Stroumsa,
Hebrew University
Raymond P. Scheindlin,
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd,
Utrecht University and Cairo University
This interdisciplinary course will survey the
history, religion, and culture of the Jews living in the world of medieval
Islam, from the rise of Islam to roughly the thirteenth century. Consisting of
lectures and workshops, it will consist of seven units.
Professor Abu Zayd will lecture on the Qur'an
and Islam, describing the religious milieu in which the Jews lived. The
historical context will be established in the classes taught by Professor Cohen.
His approach is comparative, so he will also discuss the situation of Jews
living in the Christian world. Professor Stroumsa’s topics will cover the
encounter between Judaism and other religions, including comparison with
Jewish-Christian polemics. Dr. Hegedus’s classes will deal with the large
question of the emergence and development of Jewish rationalism in the medieval
Islamic world.
Professor Langermann will carry the class into the fascinating
realm of Jewish science and medicine, which arose and flourished in the Arabic
milieu, as both Jews and Muslims shared the fruits of Greek science and medicine
after these texts were translated into Arabic in the early Islamic period. With
Professor Libson, the class will explore something on the face of it more
internal and diachronic in Jewish culture, Jewish law. But, as his pioneering
research has shown, even the inner sanctum of halakha was penetrated by Arabic
and Islamic influences. Professor Scheindlin will explore literary culture,
ranging beyond the usual topics such as poetry (though that will constitute a
central concern) to Islamic pietism and mysticism.
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Religious
Studies, Social Sciences, History, Middle Eastern Studies and Asian Studies
Reconsidering
Islamic Reformism – Comparative and Historical Perspectives
July
5-16, 2004
Course
Directors:
Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University,
Budapest
Nadia Al-Bagdadi, Central European
University,
Budapest
Resource Persons:
Said Amir Arjomand ,
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Mushirul Hasan, Jamia
Millia Islamiya and Jawaharlal University, New Delhi
Jacques Waardenburg,
Emeritus, University of Lausanne
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd,
Utrecht University and Cairo University
Islamic Reformism is the name normally given
to modernist trends in Islamic thought and practice. The purpose of the course
would be methodologically to invigorate and historically to enrich the study
of Islamic Reformism in global and comparative perspective. Though the
reformist current was paramount in Muslim societies, it has in recent years
become marginalised. Under the influence of radical political movements, and
out of wariness towards them, it has tended in many instances to deny its
indebtedness to modernity.
The main aim of the school is to develop and
enhance comparative and analytical aspects and will form an integral part of
the summer school's orientation. Not least in light of more recent
developments in Muslim and non-Muslim countries including the development of
scholarship, it is felt necessary both to reconsider the origins of Islamic
reformism proper, including its intra-regional and intra-national dimensions,
and to rethink its general conceptual configuration.
Course specific application requirement:
If available, applicants may like to send a copy of an article published in one of the major
European languages or in Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi or Turkish.
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Romany
Studies
A
Critical Basis for 21st Century Romany Studies Co-sponsored by the
PHARE Project, Hungary
July
5-23, 2004
Course Directors:
Michael
Stewart, University College London, Department of Anthropology
János
Ladányi, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration, Department of Sociology
Resource
Persons:
Paloma Gay y Blasco,
Queen's University Belfast, School of Anthropological Studies
Tibor Derdák,
Hungarian Ministry of Education, Budapest
Aladár Horváth,
Roma Civil Rights (NGO), Budapest
Csilla Kató, Visual
Anthropology Foundation, Sibiu, Romania
Katalin Kovalcsik,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Musicology, Budapest
Leo Lucassen,
University of Amsterdam, History Department
Yaron Matras,
University of Manchester, Department of Linguistics
Eva Sobotka,
Central European University
Judith Okely,
University of Hull
Alenka Spreizer, Institutum
Studiorum Humanitatis, Ljubljana
Péter Szuhay,
Hungarian Museum of Ethnography, Budapest
Irén Kertész
Wilkinson, University of Hull, Department of
Sociology and Anthropology
The course will show how it is possible to
conduct important and productive research in this area, and then how to
integrate Roma issues into teaching programmes, and how a richer and deeper
understanding of Roma changes ones perception not just of ‘Gypsies’ but of
non-Roma and the societies we all live in. It will in particular examine the
current teaching of Romany Studies (Romologia) in the region from primary school
through to Social Worker and Police Academies and try and devise proposal for
improvements of this provision.
The summer school will contain elements of learning common to
all participants and modular elements as described in the detailed course
description. There will be an opportunity for all to approach basic
understandings from Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, and Sociology. Then
there will be the chance to specialise in parallel sessions. All students will
participate together in sessions examining international Romology materials
(brought by students from abroad); in fieldwork and in course preparation work.
Course specific application
requirement: Applicants should send a brief
statement about the teaching of Romany issues in their country and a statement
of willing to investigate these before attending the summer school so as to be
able to produce a 10-15 page text on the teaching of Romany issues in their
country.
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Sociology
and Anthropology
Transnational
Flows, Structures, Agents and the Idea of Development
July 5-16, 2004
Course Directors:
Judit Bodnár, Central
European University, Dept. of History /Sociology, Budapest
Ayse Çaglar,
Central European University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Budapest
Shalini
Randeria, University of Zurich, Dept. of Anthropology
Resource
Persons:
Kaveh Ehsani ,
Jomhur
Social Research Association and Goft-o-Gu Quarterly, Teheran and Chicago
Jok Madut Jok,
Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles, Department of History
Ivan Krastev,
Centre
for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Norma Moruzzi,
University
of Illinois at Chicago, Dept. of Political Science
Vinh-Kim Nguyen, McGill
University, Dept. of Social Studies of Medicine, Montreal
John Ryle, Rift
Valley Institute and TLS, London
Peter Stamatov,
Yale
University, Dept. of Sociology, New Haven
Globalization has superseded development, authors of
globalization claim almost consensually. This course is a serious attempt to
bring globalization and development discourse into a dialogue with each other
and to explore the meaning of development in the age of globalization. The
(nation) state and the idea of public good are a key to this endeavor. The
course examines some strategic sites and structures that condition transnational
flows of commodities, labor and ideas as well as actors such as supranational
organizations, NGOs and private capital along with the state. In the selection
of topics and their treatment a conscious effort is made to introduce
non-western perspectives and to scrutinize the interaction of research,
policy-making and social theory. Beyond regular class discussions, a public
discussion will be organized on the theme with the involvement of some of the
resource people, other prestigious intellectuals invited by CEU for a different
event, and long-time practitioners of the trade of development consulting.
Due to its multiple geographical foci and the diversity of resource people,
the course is well-suited to offer a challenging perspective to students from
both the region and outside.
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Training Courses on Policy
Issues
Energy Policy
Energy Regulatory Practices
Co-sponsored
by the United States Agency for International Development
July 26-30, 2004
Course Director:
Péter
Kaderják, Hungarian Energy
Office
Resource Persons:
Florin Gugu,
Commissioner,
Romanian Electricity and Heat Regulatory Authority
Vidmantas Jankauskas, Chairman,
National Control Commission for Prices and Energy, Lithuania
Ion
Lungu, President, ANRE, Romania
Ligia Medrea
Carmen Oprea,
ANRE, Romania
Mihaela Popescu, Romanian
Electricity and Heat Regulatory Authority
Marko
Senčar, deputy managing director of the Energy Agency of the Republic
of Slovenia
Gábor Szörényi, Director,
Hungarian Energy Office
László Varró, Director,
Hungarian Energy Office
With this course, ERRA
would like promote better regulatory practices in ERRA member countries as well
as across the region as specific regional markets develop. ERRA members have
created training materials to provide the technical, economic and legal skills
that are needed to design and manage successful regulatory systems for the
electric power industry. The course will focus on three major modules: Basic
Economics of Regulation; Tariff and Pricing Issues; Licensing and Competition
Issues in a level of depth that meets the professional needs of staff in
regulatory commissions.
The design of the summer program is based on a peer-type of
cooperation. Instructors of the course are practising energy regulators with
significant and noteworthy regulatory experience and expertise. The course is
designed to assure the transfer of practises and information from experienced
regulators to new or young regulatory staff. At the same time, the course
ensures that practises and lessons accumulated by energy regulators of the
Central-Eastern European region are transferred to recently established
organizations of other regions. The course is jointly supported by the Central
European University and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Additional support was provided by the National Association of Regulatory
Utility Commissioners of the United States.
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Public Policy
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial
Management Co-sponsored by the the Local Government
and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest and
the Word Bank Institute, Washington
July 12-23, 2004
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distance learning segment: May 10-July 12, 2004
Course Directors:
Adrian Ionescu, Local Government and
Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest
József
Hegedüs, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
Resource
Persons:
Ken Davey, School
of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham
Robert
Ebel, World Bank Institute, Washington
Charles Jókay, IGE Consulting Limited,
Budapest
Balázs Krémer, Independent
Policy Advisor, Budapest
Nicolas
Levrat, University of Geneva
Gábor Locsmándi,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Martin Lux, Institute
of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Andrea Tönkő,
Metropolitan Research Institute
This course offers an analytical framework for
understanding and implementing fiscal decentralization: improving assignment of
functions and responsibilities and the fiscal relations between the central,
regional, and local governments.
Fiscal decentralization is closely related to
the "restructuring of the public economy", meaning rethinking the role
of the state in different sectors, such as social policy, education, housing,
communal services, etc. The process of restructuring took much more time than it
was originally planned. Furthermore, the process involved little if no
coordination at all among the sectors, and therefore has not taken into
consideration the effect this may have on fiscal decentralization. In fact
sectoral reform has often not organized itself along the lines of fiscal
decentralization principles at all.
The course will start with six distance
learning modules introducing participants to the principles and legal framework
of decentralisation, expenditure and revenue assignment and intergovernmental
transfer.
The two-week workshop style course will
include an advanced discussion and analysis through exercises and case studies
from the region, in the following areas: 1) worldwide trends in fiscal
decentralization and the concept and practice of the assignment of expenditure
responsibilities and revenue authority; 2) the design of various forms of
central to sub-national transfers and local own-source revenues;
creditworthiness and the financial risks of local authorities; and 3) the
emerging topic of budgeting and local public management.
Attuned to new teaching techniques, the workshop aims to
achieve the right mix of exercises, lectures, and interactive learning methods.
This includes the dissemination of materials prior to the course presentation
(in paper form and electronically). The course will use distance learning
techniques to teach the basics, and during the course the group will focus more
on the case studies and exercises.
Through the generous funding of the course
received from the World Bank Institute and the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of
the Open Society Institute applicants from all countries of Central and
Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, as well as from countries
of emerging democracies worldwide are eligible for travel grants.
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Urban Studies
Urban and City Development Strategies in a Globalized World Co-sponsored
by the the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open
Society Institute, Budapest
5-16 July, 2004
Course Directors:
Liviu Ianasi,
"Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Planning, Bucharest
Katalin
Pallai, Urban Specialist, Budapest
Course Manager:
Masa Djordjevic,
Central European University
Resource
Persons:
Ken Davey ,
University of Birmingham
Diane
Stone, Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest
John Driscoll,
Harvard University
Katalin Tánczos,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Recent worldwide globalization trends and
economic and political transformation processes in the countries of CEE and
former Soviet Republics have shown the need for re-defining the role of local
government. Ever-growing expectations of better governance and of professional
practices throughout the world have increased the demand for professional
education in local policy making, especially in the field of local strategy
integration and strategic urban management. The proposed course is aimed at
offering both understanding and knowledge related to new approaches in solving
urban problems and establishing integrated urban policies and management.
Faculty of the course consists of professors from leading universities and
well-known urban policy experts.
The course is designed for urban professionals
and policy analysts in the CEE region. It has an interdisciplinary approach that
can enrich the education of professionals form any domain connected to urban
policies. The course will review the context where local governments operate,
the available strategic planning approaches, it will single out specific issues
related to financial and sector policies, and in the closing block it will
reconnect issues through the discussion of some integrated urban strategies.
The teaching methodology includes pre-course policy research
and reading as well, as lectures, and interactive policy exercises during the
course. The course aims to link general concepts to policy implications by
applying the knowledge gained to concrete cases. The majority of exercises and
discussions will be based on the policy cases prepared and presented by
participants and led by policy experts who assist participants to consider and
evaluate various policy alternatives for concrete situations.
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