CEU/Summer University - Budapest 2001


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Original sender: Sarolta Szabo <[email protected]>

CEU/Summer University - Budapest 2001


Dear Colleague,
 
We would like to solicit your help to promote the Central European
University (CEU) summer program among your colleagues, your contacts 
or any interested academics and professionals.
 
The Summer University (SUN) is an academic program for university
professors, administrators and professionals. It offers a series of 
intensive two, three or four-week courses in the social sciences and
humanities to encourage and promote regional academic cooperation and
curriculum development by drawing together young faculty in lectures,
seminars and workshops.
 
Please find enclosed the course menu for the Summer of 2001.
 
Applications should be received no later than January 15, 2001.
 
For further information you can contact our SUN office
([email protected]), write to our automatic e-mail account to receive an
application form ([email protected]), or visit our WEB site
(http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html) where you can find the
application form and the description of each course.
 
Thank you for your kind assistance.
 
Sincerely yours,
 
Eva Gedeon
Executive Director
SUN
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, N�dor u. 9.
Hungary
Tel.: (36-1) 327-3811
Fax: (36-1) 327-3124
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CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY

A Program for University Teachers and Professionals in the Social
Sciences and Humanities

SUMMER UNIVERSITY
HUNGARY 2001

July 9 - August 10, 2001 

The Summer University (SUN) is an academic program for university
teachers, administrators and professionals. It offers a series of
intensive two-, three- or four-week courses in the social sciences and
humanities to encourage and promote regional academic cooperation and
curriculum development by drawing together young faculty in lectures,
seminars and workshops. 

ELIGIBILITY AND FUNDING

Applications are invited from all countries. While the program is
still focusing on participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union and Mongolia, for SUN 2001 the scholarship
eligibility will extend worldwide with particular emphasis on
applicants from emerging democracies. The scholarship will cover
tuition cost, accommodation, travel, health insurance, and a book
allowance. The grant will also include a stipend to cover meals and
incidentals. However, participants from Budapest will only receive
free tuition, a book allowance and a reduced stipend.
 
Non-scholarship participants must pay for tuition ($200/week of
instruction equaling 1,200 classroom minutes), accommodation, health
insurance, travel and meals. However, there is a limited number of
tuition waivers available which may be applied for on a competitive
basis.

APPLICANTS MUST MEET THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA
 
Applicants must have a university degree and hold a teaching job at a
university or college in their home country, or work as an
administrator or a professional. Graduate students with teaching
experience may also apply. Undergraduates without a university degree
will not be considered.
 
The language of instruction is English; thus all applicants have to
demonstrate a strong command of English to be able to follow lectures
and participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. 

Individuals are not eligible to apply to a SUN course if they attended
either a CRC (Curriculum Resource Center) session or Popper Workshop
in the same calendar or academic year (i.e., they must wait one year
after their participation in one of the above programs before applying
to SUN).  Additionally, applicants are not eligible to apply to SUN if
they have participated in two CEU faculty initiative activities (i.e.,
CRC, SUN, Popper Workshop) within a four-year period.  Preference will
be given to new applicants over former participants in Summer
University courses.  
 
Currently enrolled CEU students are not eligible. Former CEU students
may only apply if they currently hold a teaching position in their
home country.

Successful applicants will receive a reader prior to the course and/or
will be asked to submit written assignments. The accomplishment of
these assignments is a pre-condition of participation. The course
Digital Literacy for Open Societies and Intergovernmental Fiscal
Relations will send out distance learning materials and will involve
participants in a pre- and post-course distance learning project.

Applications must be received by the Summer University Office no later
than January 15, 2001
 
A detailed course description with names of lecturers and topics to be
covered will be available in due course. Changes in faculty and/or
topics may occur.
 
For additional information please contact:
EU
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, N�dor u. 9.
Hungary
Tel.: (36-1) 327-3811
Fax: (36-1) 327-3124
E-mail: [email protected] (for information and general correspondence)
[email protected] (for requesting application forms)
WWW site: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html
 
CEU Non-Discrimination Policy:
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of -
including, but not limited to - race, color, national and ethnic
origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its
educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan
programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
 
The program will offer the following courses in 2001:

Anthropology
        The Plight of the Roma and Gypsy
People                                         
        July 9 - July 27
        Course Director: Michael Stewart                

Archival Studies
        Archives of Political Parties after the Collapse of
Communism           
        July 16 - July 27
        Course Directors: Charles Kecskemeti 
                          Gabriella Ivacs

Art History 
        History and Theory of Art after the Cultural
Turn                               
        July 23 - August 10
        Course Director: Margaret Dikovitsky

Asian Studies 
        Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and
Transnationalism*                  
        July 30 - August 10
        Course Directors: Mikhail V. Karpov 
                          Pal Nyiri

Comparative
Religion                                                            
        Comparative Religion 
        July 30 - August 10
        Course Director: Agnes Birtalan        

Complex Systems
        Complex Systems (Co-organized with the Santa Fe Institute, 
        Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)                
        July 16 - August 10 
        Course Directors: Melanie
Mitchell                                      
                          Imre Kondor   

Economics and Public Policy
        Competition Policy in the Transition: Theory, Implementation
and
Challenges*             
        July 9 - July 27
        Course Director: Todor Gradev

Gender Studies 
        Language and Gender and
Society                                         
        July 16 - July 27
        Course Director: Louise O. Vasvari

History 
        History and Memory: The Twentieth Century in
Retrospect*                        
        July 9 - July 20
        Course Directors: Sorin Antohi 
                          Jorn Rusen

Human Rights 
        The Human Right to Food and Nutrition: Principles and
Policies          
        July 30 - August 10
        Course Director: George Kent
                        
International Relations
        The UN, Civil Society, and the Private Sector in Global
Governance      
        July 9 - August 3
        Course Director: Roger Coate

        The UN, Civil Society, and the Private Sector: Partnership for
        Sustainable Human Security 
        July 9 - August 3       
        Course Director: Roger
Coate                                            

Legal Studies 
        Managing Conflict and Fostering Democratic Dialogue (In
co-operation
with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and Hamline
University School of Law, Minnesota)            
        July 9 - August 3
        Course Directors: Lela Porter
Love                                              
                          Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky

        Health Care Law from a Comparative and European
Perspective             
        July 9 - July 20
        Course Directors: Judit Sandor 
                          Andre den Exter

Library and Information
Science                                                 
        Digital Literacy for Open
Societies                                             
        July 9 - July 13
        (This is a one-week course, preceded and followed by distance
learning phases.)
        Course Directors: Lyn Robinson
                          David Bawden

Political Science 
        Intercultural Citizenship: the South-East European
Context              
        July 30 - August 10
        Course Director: Cesar Birzea 
        
        The Politics of Finance in Emerging
Markets                             
        July 16 - July 27
        Course Director: Laura Hastings

Public Policy 
        Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial
Management        
        July 9 - July 27
        (in co-operation with the World Bank Institute)
        Course Directors: Jozsef
Hegedus                                                
                          Adrian Ionescu  
                          Robert D. Ebel

Social Psychology and Sociology
        Cross-border Identities - a Narrative Approach to East-West
Experiences     
        July 30 - August 10
        Course Directors: Julia Vajda 
                          Roswitha Breckner

Sociology 
        Poverty, Ethnicity and Spatial Change in Eastern and Central
Europe     
        July 9 - July 27
        Course Director: Janos Ladanyi

Urban Studies
        The Future Role of Cities in a Globalising World: Challenges
        for New Public Strategies and Innovative Urban Governance 
        July 30 - August 10 
        Course Directors: Thomas
Knorr-Siedow                                   
                          Ivan Tosics

CEU reserves the right to change course offerings at its discretion.

*Course Specific Application Requirements

Applications for the courses listed below should contain the
following: 

Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism:
A two-page research proposal on a topic related to contemporary Asia,
written as if applying for a grant, including sections on purpose,
methodology, place of the project within the current state of research
in the field and more broadly in Asian studies, expected output, and
bibliography. (See the SUN website for a sample.)

History and Memory: The Twentieth Century in Retrospect:
A 10-15-page essay on one of the topics of the lectures (see course
description on the website or contact the Summer University Office).
Based on this essay, each course participant will be asked to make an
in-class 15-minute presentation during the course. 

Competition Policy in the Transition: Theory, Implementation and
Challenges:
A short essay (no more than 1000 words) analyzing one of the
following: 
- a competition policy issue that needs to be addressed in your
country -  what is the problem, who are the actors, what deficiencies
you find in the legislation & regulation, or in the competition policy
implementation, what needs to be done? You may use as a guide (but not
limit yourself to) the policy issues suggested for consideration in
the prospective syllabus of this course
- an anti-competitive case that has either been considered by the
courts & competition authorities of your country, or has stirred the
public opinion and received media attention. Relate the case as much
as you can to one or more topics included in the prospective syllabus
of this course and discuss how it has imperiled social welfare and/or
market efficiency.

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