Upcoming Sessions
In Fall 2011 semester CRC is offering the following sessions:
Course Innovation SessionsThese 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 the CEU 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 are combined with a workshop on the topic of the session.
Department?of Sociology and Anthropology?? Open Society Archives:
Teaching Social Policy with Documentary Film
November 5 - 12, 2011
(deadline for applications: 12th September, 2011)
The session provides CRC participants with an opportunity to enhance their courses by introducing visual analysis in teaching social science issues in the framework of public policy. The session aims at introducing participants to the diversity of recent works in the field of non-fiction, promoting extended use of documentaries in teaching, and offering a discussion platform for teachers from different disciplines and backgrounds.
The workshops will survey various approaches to documentary films, controversies in defining the genre, principles of narrative construction, the role of editing, sound, interviews and archival footage in presenting the position of the filmmaker. The session combines film viewing and discussions which center on the issues of migration and nationality policies in the context of raising nationalist subcultures in Europe. Drawing on interdisciplinary film scholarship and the participants' classroom experience, the discussions will raise questions about social problems presented in documentary films, discuss possible uses of documentary medium in shaping, modifying and challenging public policies, concentrate on the place and role of documentaries among other teaching and learning means including visual mediums, structured discussions, reading and writing assignments, field visits, etc.
We invite applications from university teachers at the departments of public policy, social sciences, nationalism studies, international relations, visual and gender studies?who teach courses on migrations, nationalism, social problems and social policy and are interested in introducing documentary film analysis in their classrooms.
By the end of the session each participant is expected to make a short presentation combining reflections on the discussed and independently researched material and outlines of future uses of documentary medium in the classroom.
NOTE: Applicants are asked to submit an 800-word statement of purpose on the possible usage of documentary cinema in teaching social policy courses in their home country .
Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science:
Politics and Sociology of World Health
November 14 - 18, 2011
(deadline for applications: 12th September, 2011)
The CRC session is organized around a five-day long Master Class which will discuss the politics and sociology of world health, in particular of epidemiology, aiming to forge a novel approach to bioethics. Relying on continental political philosophy (in particular, Jean-Francois Lyotard's work on Kant and political judgment), this new approach will think through the social ethics of pre-modern biomedicine, 19th century feminist and abolitionist approaches to racism and sexism, and pre-American civil rights in order to trace the emergence of modern methods in global epidemiology such as the randomized trial. These methods which are both statistically and ethically questionable and suspect could be in part presented as effective in battling large epidemics (such as HIV/AIDS) by relying for its subjects?on so-called disposable populations such as gay men and third world women. Since increasingly political decisions are being carried out in the name of protecting the health of citizens from threat, scholars need to be aware and critical of the development of a new form of governing through the management of health and bodies. We invite applications from scholars in numerous disciplines because this topic raises questions about political rights and new political practices; the sociology of contemporary health on an international level; and about issues of (bio)ethics and social justice.
NOTE:?Applicants are requested to submit?a one-page long motivation letter.
Legal Studies:
Self-help Repossession and Collection Agencies in Post-Socialist Countries: Part of Commercial or Procedural Law?
November 14 - 18, 2011
(deadline for applications: 19th September, 2011)
The law on credit and collateral underwent great changes in Central and Eastern European countries in the post-1990 transitory period due to the fact that during socialism this area of law was suppressed politically (e.g. it was contrary to the policy of the regime to evict non-paying mortgagees from their houses). The redirection of the development towards capitalism awaited these countries without a credit & collateral law, or with an underdeveloped system of law on mortgages and pledges. All the countries in the post-socialist world set out to ameliorate the situation. The reforms were inspired by models from developed Anglo-Saxon systems, led by secured transactions law enshrined into Article 9 of the U.S. Uniform Commercial Code. As a result, elements from common law appeared in all the recipient legal systems. However, the economic results of the reform were far below expectations, partially due the fact that the legal education has failed to adequately follow the changes. The reform of secured transactions law involved the introduction of new registry systems and the gradual appearance of industries exploiting the possibilities offered by the new legal framework. One of the hardly tackled areas of secured transactions law was the appearance of the collection agencies/companies whose entitlements is still not clarified in many countries.
The CRC session aims to tackle these questions corollary to the reform of secured transactions law in the post-socialist countries with special focus on self-help and collection.
NOTE:?Applicants are asked to submit?a one-page long essay about the state of these issues in?their home country.
Religious Studies Program:
Multiconfessional Societies in a global world - New Challenges to the Study of Religion and Society
November 21 - 25, 2011
(deadline for applications: 19th September, 2011)
Multiconfessional societies, due to migration, long-standing heterogeneous composition, and other factors, are not a signum of the modern world but demand new ways of political and social integration, by the state and society at large, and of scholarly analysis in the social sciences and humanities. Current debates about the so called 'clash of religions', local and global, prompted religious studies and related disciplines to review their methodologies and basic questions of study. The aim of this CRC session is to create an awareness of comparative study, methodological plurality and a necessity of a historical perspective. Ideally the session will result in critical comparative perspectives and conceptual clarity on specific social, historical and confessional problems.
The CRC session is open to specialists on all religions, as well as to all relevant disciplines and periods.
Note:?Applicants are requested to attach a one-page long essay about the so-called clash of religion and/or challenges to the study of religion today as perceived from their personal and/or national, regional perspective.
Jewish Studies and Gender Studies:
New Approaches and Methodological Challenges in Jewish Studies: Critical Readings of Testimonies
November 21 - 25, 2011
(deadline for applications: 19th September, 2011)
This CRC workshop will be structured around the extensive Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation, which contains interviews with 52,000 people:http://www.library.ceu.hu/vha.html.
The CEU Library has 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.
The highlight of the CRC week will be the international workshop on the topic held on 22 nd November, 2011 in the framework of celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the CEU.
University teachers of history, sociology, Jewish studies, 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 Visual History Archive in their teaching.?
Philosophy:
Contemporary Issues in Ancient Philosophy
November 28- December 2, 2011
(deadline for applications: 26th September, 2011)
One of the most vigorously developing areas in the history of philosophy is the study of ancient philosophy. To a large extent this is due to the application of analytic methods in the reconstruction and interpretation of ancient philosophical texts. As a result, problems are now expressed more sharply, and interpretative options are formulated more clearly. The aim of this session is to discuss how these recent developments and results can be represented in survey courses on ancient philosophy.?
NOTE:?Applicants are asked to submit?a one-page long essay about their approach to the teaching of ancient philosophy and the characteristics of their audience.
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Departmental Curriculum Development SessionsTiming: one week agreed during the Spring term (April -June, 2012)
Deadline for application is 1st February, 2012
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 the Departmental Curriculum Development Session. In addition to the regular CRC trainings (in individual course design and teaching methodology), these 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, and 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 April-June 2011, 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.
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.
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Summary of CRC sessions:1. Course Innovation Sessions? Sociology and Anthropology - OSA: Teaching Social Policy with Documentary Film November 5-12, 2011 (deadline for applications:?12th September, 2011) Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science: Politics and Sociology of World Health November 14-18, 2011 (deadline for applications:?12th September, 2011) Legal Studies:? Commercial or Procedural Law November 14-18, 2011 (deadline for applications:?19th September, 2011) Religious Studies: Multiconfessionsal Societies in a Global World November 21-25, 2011 (deadline for applications:?19th September, 2011) Jewish Studies and Gender Studies: New Approaches and Methodological Challenges in Jewish Studies: November 21-25, 2011 (deadline for applications:?19th September, 2011) Philosophy: Contemporary Issues in Ancient Philosophy: November 28 - December 2, 2011 (deadline for applications:?26th September, 2011) ? 2. Departmental Curriculum Development Session One week agreed between April-June, 2011 (deadline for application: 1st February, 2011) ? Note: CRC Spring 2012 sessions are planned to be announced by 28th October, 2011. ? |
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