Aleksandra Duda
Program Coordinator
International Institute for the Study of Culture and Education
University of Lower Silesia (DSWE TWP)
tel.:+48 (71) 355 65 04 ext. 158
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International Summer Institute on European Transformation
EXPERIENCING THE NEW EUROPE
Wroclaw – Prague – Cracow
July 1 – July 22, 2005, Wroclaw, Poland
Experiencing the New Europe, is a three-week international summer program,
which combines classroom study with on-site experiential learning to explore
cultural, political and economic transformation in the newly integrated
Europe. Through its interactive curriculum, Experiencing the New Europe,
studies how large processes of geopolitical change (the fall of Communism,
democratization, European integration) play out in the local setting of a
large European city and its inhabitants. The program will be based in
Wroclaw, a large academic and historical city located in the Southwest of
Poland, the capital of the region of Lower Silesia. The city of Wroclaw
offers a unique urban and cultural experience to international students who
will have the opportunity to study European culture, society and politics
through interactive learning methods, by visiting governmental, academic,
business and civil society organizations in the city and the region.
The Summer Institute offers an interdisciplinary course: History and
Politics of European Urban Cultures and Societies in Transformation
(anthropology, sociology, urban studies, history). The course is divided
into two sections – Cultures and Societies, and History and Politics. It is
co-taught by European and US anthropology faculty (Hana Cervinkova –
anthropologist, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland; Krista
Hegburg - anthropologist, Columbia University, New York, USA; Monika Baer -
anthropologist, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland; Raymond June -
anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley, USA). Morning classroom
sessions are combined with afternoon site visits, film screenings and
discussions, guest lectures and weekend study tours to Prague and Krakow.
The Summer Institute is designed for third or fourth-year university
students who wish to enrich their studies with a short-term study-abroad
program. The program is taught in English. The cost of the program is 1,400
USD and includes all classes and afternoon site visits and guest lectures,
accommodation at a comfortable hotel in the old center of Wroclaw, breakfast
and lunch on all days and weekend trips to Krakow and Prague.
The International Summer School is organized in collaboration with Tennessee
Technological University (www.tntech.edu/dswe) through which students at US
universities can obtain credits (for more information, please contact Dr.
Lisa Zagumny at [log in to unmask]). European students are eligible for
ECTS credits (please contact Aleksandra Duda at [log in to unmask]).
Applications are due by May 31, 2005 at [log in to unmask]
For more information, please contact:
Aleksandra Duda
IISCE Program Coordinator
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
tel.: +48-71-355-2240, ext. 158
Please visit us at www.iisce.org
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