CEU has also many other MA and Ph.D. Programs see www.ceu.hu Nationalism Studies Program Maria M. Kovacs Program Director H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u 11. Hungary Tel: (36-1) 327-3081 Fax: (36-1) 235-6102 E-mail: [log in to unmask] THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY BUDAPEST COLLEGE 13 July, 2001 The Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University is announcing a call for applications for MA and PhD studies at the Central European University in Budapest. The deadline for application is January 7, 2002. For information on the program please visit our homepage (http://www.ceu.hu/nation/). For information about financial aid, the offered grants and other admission related issues please visit http://www.ceu.hu/prospective_students.html Central European University Central European University (CEU) is an internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in the social sciences. It seeks to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by promoting a system of education in which ideas are creatively, critically, and comparatively examined. CEU serves as an advanced center of research and policy analysis and facilitates academic dialogue while preparing its graduates to serve as the region's next generation of leaders and scholars. Central European University was established in 1991 as a pan-regional university committed to promoting educational development throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEE/fSU). CEU is a unitary institution, under a common Board of Trustees and Senate, with teaching sites in Hungary and Poland. Its primary administrative offices are in Budapest. CEU has an absolute charter from the Board of Regents of the State of New York (US). The Nationalism Studies Program The Nationalism Studies Program was established by Central European University with the aim of promoting the study of nationalism in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The program is a successor to CEU's Center for the Study of Nationalism in Prague directed by the late Professor Ernst Gellner. Situated at CEU's Budapest teaching site, the program offers students an MA degree accredited by the Board of Regents of the State of New York. The program also offers a PhD degree in the framework of a joint History-Nationalism PhD track in collaboration with CEU's History Department. In addition the program's MA graduates may apply to the PhD program in Political Science based on a special agreement between the two units. Graduate students enrolled in PhD programs at universities outside CEU and who wish to utilize CEU's innovative programs and resources to assist the development of their dissertations can apply for the Doctoral Support Program. The Nationalism Studies Program is intended to respond to the growing demand for new knowledge and teaching in the field. Drawing upon the uniquely supranational milieu of the Central European University, it encourages a critical and non-sectarian study of nationalism with special emphasis on problems created by the new configuration of states, nations and minorities in the region. Students are encouraged to engage in an interdisciplinary study of nationalism, a subject that is inherently and fundamentally interdisciplinary. For this reason, the international teaching staff has been assembled to represent a wide range of relevant disciplinary expertise including history, social theory, economics, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, international relations and political science. The program offers a wide selection of courses that provide a complex theoretical grounding in problems associated with nationhood and nationalism combined with advanced training in the methodology of applied social science. Another group of courses place problems of nationalism in the context of economic and political transition as well as constitution building in post-1989 East-Central Europe with a comparative outlook on regime transitions outside the region. Entry requirements Applicants to the MA track must complete general CEU admissions requirements and submit a 500 word outline of their proposed research topic and one writing sample, e.g. a term paper of minimum 10 pages. A minimum of 550 TOEFL score is required. Graduates of CEU MA programs may apply for the joint History-Nationalism PhD track. Applicants from outside must complete general CEU admissions requirements and submit a 500 word outline of their proposed research topic and one writing sample, e.g. a term paper of minimum 10 pages. Applicants for the Doctoral Support Program must complete general CEU admissions requirements and submit an outline of their dissertation. For additional information on entry requirements, please see the CEU Admissions Bulletin or visit the web site of the CEU Admissions Office at http://www.ceu.hu/misc/admissions/ Program Structure and Academic Requirements The academic year is divided into a three-week pre-session introductory period, two semesters and a spring session. In the pre-session students will be given information about the resources available at the university and in Budapest, will pass a course on academic English and basic computer skills. Semester I and II includes courses and seminars. In the spring session students write MA thesis that reflect the overall academic development of the participants in terms of topic selection, accumulation of professional reading, and application of methods and skills acquired during the year. All students are required to maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA), earn a standard number of credits per semester and attend classes as required by the program. The department offers a list of core courses. Students are required to earn the majority of credits (24) from these courses. Courses from other departments can be selected for up to 4 credits per semester. Most courses are in seminar format; active participation of the student is required. Courses are designed to provide a multiple perspective on the study of nationalism. Historical, sociological, anthropological, legal and economical approaches will be applied, as well as methods of international relations, social theory, and political science. The coursework generally includes one or more written assignments based on the topics and literature discussed during the semester. The writing of academic essays and term papers is a good training for students for the more consistent MA thesis. Selected List of Courses Debates About Self-Determination and External Minority Protection in the 20th Century Mária Kovács Mária Kovács is a professor of history at the Central European University and Director of he Nationalism Studies Program at CEU. Her main research interests are in the history self-determination and international minority protection throughout the twentieth century up to the latest developments in the 199Os. Her previous book entitled Liberal Professions, Illiberal Politics, focused on the collapse of liberal institutions in Central Europe and more specifically, Hungary after the first world war and on the institutional expressions of interwar xenophobia and anti-Semitism. She has also published in the problem area of the conjunction of gender and ethnicity, focusing on the problem of ethnic leavages within feminism in the interwar era. Professor Kovács is also a member of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This course will concentrate on problems of self-determination and minority protection. We will examine various theories of self-determination, the extent and actual content of self-determination rights, the extent to which self-determination is regarded as a legal right, and current initiatives to extend and redefine self-determination rights as benefiting minorities, too. This course will examine issues that remain hotly debated to our day. The course will not attempt to provide "answers" to the debated issues, but will look at the polemical arguments advanced on opposite sides. Where possible, readings are selected to introduce students to the debates. The readings are selected to provide a historical account of experiments with self-determination and international minority protection as well as a cross section of the relevant literature on contemporary debates within various disciplines. Course Syllabus 1. Introduction 2. Self-determination, the current debate 3. Guest Lecture, Professor John Lampe, University of Maryland 4. "Self-determination and American Foreign Policy: from Woodrow Wilson to Bill Clinton" 5. External Minority Protection, The current debate 6. Self-Determination in History: developments during and after the First World War 7. External Minority Protection in History: developments after the First World War 8. Self determination in History: developments after the Second World War 9. Why did the Allies decide not to resurrect the Minority Treaties after the Second World War? 10. The conceptual shift: from colonial self-determination to self-determination in post-Soviet Central and Eastern Europe. 11. Accommodating conflicting rights: the 'limited' self-determination of minorities? 12. Papers Classical Debates in the Historiography of Nationalism Mária Kovács This course concentrates on the controversies surrounding the evolution of ideas related to the nation state, national sovereignty, self-determination and nationalist secession and the emergence of national minorities as modern political entities. The origins of these key concepts will be traced back to the time of their original appearance in history. We will look at a sample of classical arguments and theories of nationalism developed in various stages, various regions and various ages, and examine how the experience of 19th century nationalist movements, the two world wars, decolonialization and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc influenced arguments about, and scholarship on, nationalism. Readings are selected to provide a variety of classical and more recent, often contradictory interpretations of nationalism. Course Syllabus 1. Introduction 2. Myths and Misconceptions in the Study of Nationalism 3. Concepts, Definitions, Approaches 4. The French Understanding of Nationhood (1) 5. The French Understanding of Nationhood (2) 6. The American Understanding of Nationhood and Self-Determination 7. The German Understanding of Nationhood (1) 8. The German Understanding of Nationhood (2) 9. Self-Determination in Central and Eastern Europe: 10. The Making of Majorities and Minorities 11. Self-Determination in Theory and Practice 12. Nationalism and the Historians National Minorities: Debates on the Problem of Internal and External Minority Protection Mária Kovács This course will concentrate on the evolution of the concept of national minorities as legal-political entities and the development of the idea of internal and external minority protection from their first appearance in history to our days. Readings will examine the problem of minorities in the history of political thought with special emphasis on the question of how the liberal tradition regarded the problem of minorities. Topics will include the problem of older and contemporary liberal standards of dealing with minority issues. Experiences with minority politics will be examined in countries that have introduced minority protection legislation with those that refuse to extend special protection to minorities. Finally we will look at the problem of how the issue of minority protection appears in post-1989 East-Central Europe. Course Syllabus Section I.: The Contemporary Debate 1. Introduction 2. The contemporary political context East and West: debates over the "new tribalism" 3. The contemporary political context in the East: "nations" and "minorities" in post-Soviet East Central Europe Section II.: Minorities in History 4. Minorities in the history of political thought 5. The first experiment in international minority protection: the Minority Treaties and their failure 6. Why did the Allies refuse to resurrect the Minority Treaties System after the Second World War? 7. Political limits of international solutions during the Cold War Section III.: Contemporary Policies 8. Minorities in the New Nation-States of Eastern Europe 9. Minority Rights in Contemporary Eastern Europe, the lessons of Yugoslavia Interpretations of modern antisemitism András Kovács András Kovács studied philosophy and history and completed his Ph.D. in sociology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. In the early seventies he worked as editor at a publishing company and as lecturer in social philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University. Between 1977 and 1990 he was banned from professional activity in Hungary because of clandestine ("samisdat") publications. He has taught at various universities in Germany and participated in various research projects in Germany, France, the US, and the Netherlands. In 1990 he became senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University. Since 1997 he has taught several courses on sociology of nationalism and prejudice in the CEU Nationalism Studies Program and he is the academic director of the Jewish Studies Project at the CEU. His research interests include minority identities, prejudice, antisemitism, and sociology of post-Holocaust Jewry. In the last years Professor Kovács has carried out empirical research on antisemitism in post-Communist Hungary, on Jewish identity in Hungary and on national identity and European integration. He has published over 60 scholarly works, most recently a book on antisemitism in post-Communist Hungary. The course is to provide students with an overview of psychological, sociological, political and historical theories of modern antisemitism. After considering key concepts such as antijudaism, antisemitism, modern antisemitism it will give an introduction into the most influential scholarly explanations of the investigated subject. The course will concentrate on the theological explanations of the persistence of antisemitic prejudices, the psychoanalytically oriented personality theory, the projective theories of prejudice, the group conflict theories, and the political explanations of antisemitic movements and ideologies. Special attention will be given to the methods of empirical sociological investigation of the subject. Course Syllabus 1) Orientation, introduction 2) What is antisemitism? 3-4) Theological antijudaism, religious antisemitism 5) Psychological theories on antisemitic personality 6) Social-psychological theories on antisemitism 7) Group conflict theories 8) Interpretations of antisemitism as political ideology 9) Antisemitic crises in the history 10-11) Empirical research on antisemitism 11-12) Term papers' discussion Nationalism, national identity, national feeling: the economic and sociological approach András Kovács and Ugo Pagano The course will concentrate on the most influential economic, sociological and social-psychological theories of nationalism, national identity, national feeling and national conflict. After a general introduction in the sociology and social-psychology of attitudes stereotyping, prejudice and identity, Professor Kovács's lectures will deal with the theories of ethnic and national stereotypes, identities and conflicts as group conflicts. The seminars will introduce the students into the methods of empirical investigation of the subject. The lectures of Professor Pagano will give an insight into the theories of evolutionary economics, neo-institutionalism, rational choice. Course Syllabus 1) Introduction 2) Attitudes, stereotypes, stereotyping, social cognition 3) Ethnic stereotypes 4) National character, national stereotypes 5) Social identity, national identity 6) Nationalism as a subject of empirical investigations 7) Social groups, group conflicts, acculturation, assimilation 8-12) Economic theories and nationalism Nationalism and Contemporary Politics Petr Lom Petr Lom is Assistant Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the CEU. Born in Prague, he grew up in Canada and studied at the University of Toronto before receiving his Ph.D. in political theory from Harvard University in 1997. He taught at the EUI in Florence, Italy before coming to the CEU. He is the author of The Limits of Doubt: An Essay on the Moral and Political Implications of Scepticism (SUNY, spring 2001) and the translator of Jan Patocka's Plato and Europe (Stanford, spring 2001). His interests encompass ancient, modern and contemporary political theory, contemporary theories of nationalism and European identity. The purpose of this course is to serve as an introduction to the study of nationalism surveying the main political science approaches in contemporary scholarship on the subject. The course will be divided into two parts: first an overview of the main explanations of nationalism in current scholarship (primordialist/constructivist debates, modernization theories, economic explanations, rational choice theories). Then, as the study of nationalism should also be a matter of praxis, of not only understanding the phenomena but also to provide policy prescription we will survey theories of managing ethnic/nationalist conflict (e.g. consociationalism, theories of mediation). Course Syllabus Part I: Understanding Nationalism: Explanatory Models. 1. Concepts and Typologies: definitions, causes, consequences 2. Definitions II: Nationalism vs. Patriotism 3. Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Contructivist/Primordialist Debate 4. Modernization Theories I: Deutsch and Gellner 5. Modernization Theories II: Tradition and Post-Modernism 6. Economic Explanations 7. Rational Choice Explanations Part II: Managing Ethnic/National Conflict: 8. Ethnic Violence and the State 9. Consociation and its alternatives 10. Averting Ethnonational Conflicts Can Western Models of Minority Rights Be Applied in Eastern Europe? Will Kymlicka Will Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. Since then, he has been a research fellow or visiting professor at various universities in the United States (Princeton), Canada (Queen's; Toronto; Ottawa; Carleton), and overseas (European University Institute; Central European University). He is the author of four books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, and Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998). He is also the editor of Justice in Political Philosophy (Elgar, 1992), The Rights of Minority Cultures (Oxford 1995), Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU 1997), and Citizenship in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2000). He is currently a Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, and a recurrent visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. Several countries in Eastern and Central Europe are under significant pressure from the West to improve their minority rights record. Indeed, both the European Union and NATO have declared that respect for minority rights will be one of the criteria used in deciding whether to admit countries from Eastern and Central Europe. Various declarations and conventions have recently been adopted which seek to codify minimum standards and/or `best practices' regarding minority rights. These declarations and conventions are often implicitly based on Western models or assumptions about how to manage ethnic relations. Many critics argue that these models and assumptions will not work in the Eastern European context. Indeed, some critics argue that they do not always work well in the West, and that there is a double-standard involved in imposing standards on Eastern Europe that are not always respected in the West. In this course, we will examine these debates about exporting Western models of minority rights to post-communist Europe. We will begin by considering the actual practices of Western democracies, including various forms of language rights, territorial autonomy and multiculturalism. We will then consider a range of objections which have been raised to the adoption of these Western-style practices in post-Communist Europe. We will conclude with an examination of the strategies adopted by Western organizations, particularly the OSCE, in promoting minority rights in the region. Anthropological Approaches to Ethnicity, Racism and Nationalism Michael Stewart Dr. Michael Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Co-ordinator of the Centre for Democracy and Society which links social scientists working in the post-communist world working at universities in the UK. In his 1998 publication, "The Time of the Gypsies", Dr. Stewart reflects on the survival of the gypsies through the socialist period in Hungary and their refusal to assimilate into the majority population. A second book "Lilies of the Field" (a volume co-edited with Sophie Day of Goldsmiths College and Akis Papataxiarchis of the University of the Aegean) focuses on marginal people who live for the moment. Lilies presents an ambitious theoretical comparison of peoples across the globe who share some of the Gypsies' attitudes to time and history. Currently Dr. Stewart is working on a study of Romany historical memory in relation to the Holocaust. This study links oral and archival as well as participant observation research. His other current projects include a scheme supported by the British Council in Romania encouraging the fledgling Romanian Farmers' Association. As the project director of an ESRC Transnational Communities' Programme he is also orchestrating research on languages of identity among the Hungarian diaspora in Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. Dr. Stewart is also a recurrent visiting professor on the CEU Nationalism Studies Program and runs Summer Schools for both CEU-SUN and HESP. He is also a member of the HESP working group on educational needs of Romany students. The aim of this course is to explore how anthropological methods have been applied and with what success in the study of ethnic, racial and national conflicts or movements. The course will both introduce you to methodologically outstanding attempts to operationalise the theoretical models you meet elsewhere in this degree (Gellner, Anderson, Smith et al.) and make you familiar with a specifically anthropological discussion of notions of 'culture', 'identity' and 'society'. The course is regionally eclectic, though there is a recurring interest in the experience of eastern Europe and one whole section of the course deals with the experience of Roms and Gypsies across our continent. As befits an anthropological course, the perspective is systematically comparative and insights from both Pacific and South Asian history are considered at some length. The first days of the course examine the usefulness of certain key ideas drawn from the sociology of nationalism. Through a series of ethnographic examples we consider problems of political relativism vis a vis the 'invention of tradition' literature and then the particular form nationalist movements and conflicts take focussing particularly on the nature of religious nationalism in South Asia, and considering the fit or lack of fit of received theoretical models. Concluding this section of the course, ethnographies of violence are considered as a field in which empirical, field research profoundly alters a priori wisdom. In the second part of the course we turn to questions of race, class and ethnicity in advanced industrial systems, focussing on the Roms in particular. The course concludes first with a general discussion of the fashionable notion of 'politics of identity' asking what has been achieved when politics is reduced to the struggle for 'identity' and secondly with a consideration of the role of the holocaust in shaping Romany social life in the past half century. Course Syllabus Class 1. Inventing Traditions in the post-colonial world Lecture 1. Operationalising Anderson and Gellner: Sri Lanka and the Pacific compared Class 2. Inventing Traditions in South Eastern Europe Lecture 2. Folklore, ethnography and nation in South Eastern Europe Class 3. Religious nationalism Lecture 3. Religion and nation the cases of India and Sri Lanka Class 4. Interpreting Ethnic Violence Lecture 4. Political violence: myths and realities Class 5. How relevant is the American experience of 'Race' in Europe today? Lecture 5. Race and class: The USA and Europe Compared Class 6. What is the Roma/Gypsy niche in capitalist societies? Lecture 6. How have ethnographers approached Roma/Gypsies? Class 7. How did communist assimilationist policies define 'the Gypsy Question'? Lecture 7. Scapegoating the Gypsies from socialism to post-socialism Class 8. What forms may Romany politics take in postcommunist Eastern Europe? Lecture 8. Poverty and Politics Class 9. Is politics primarily about Identity and Recognition? Lecture 9. Language, Culture, Identity and Politics: theoretical problems of classical anthropological approaches Class 10. Memory, Commemoration and Forgetting Lecture 10. The Persecution of the Roma, Sinti and Gypsies in Nazi dominated Europe Theory and Research on Nationalism in the New Europe Rogers Brubaker Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has addressed European nationalism in historical, comparative, and, more recently, ethnographic perspective. He has also written widely on social theory, international migration, and the politics of citizenship. His book Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-ŕ-vis immigrants in France and Germany; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multinational states into would-be nation-states. He is currently working on an ethnographic study of ethnicity and nationalism in everyday life among minority Hungarians and majority Romanians in the ethnically mixed Transylvanian city of Cluj/Kolozsvár. Brubaker was educated at Harvard University, the University of Sussex, and Columbia University. He has been teaching at UCLA since 1991. This course is designed as a workshop rather than as a conventional lecture course or seminar. The workshop will meet jointly for ten days to discuss selected readings. In addition, I will be available for individual conversations with students about their research interests and projects. Course Syllabus 1. Introductory meeting 2. Post-multinational nationalism 3. Thinking critically about ethnicity and nationalism 4. Groups, categories, boundaries 5. An application: ethnicity, politics, and everyday life in Cluj 6. Anthropological perspectives on ethnicity and nationalism in East Central Europe 7. Three rich domains of study: Language, Memory, Violence 8. Microanalytic perspectives 9. Strategy and identity among Russian-speakers outside Russia 11. Conclusion Nationalist Doctrines and Political Thought Dr. Erica Benner (London School of Economics) Erica Benner is Lecturer in International relations at the London School of Economics. Her work deals with the history of thought on nationalism and the ethics of nationality. Her book Really Existing Nationalism (1995) placed Marx and Engels' thought on national issues in historical perspective, and reappraised the view that they misunderstood nationalism in their own time. Several articles including 'Nationalism Within Reason' (1997), 'Nationality Without Nationalism (1997), and 'National Myths and Political responsibility' (1998) critically assess recent attempts to reconcile liberal and national values, and argue that judgements about acceptable and unacceptable nationalism should be grounded in norms of political reason. She is currently completing a book, Nationalism, Insecurity and Political Judgement (Oxford University Press) that develops these arguments. Here and in a forthcoming article, 'Is there a Core National Doctrine?' (2001), concerns about geopolitical insecurity are seen as underlying many of the ethical problems of nationalism. Benner received M.Phil and D.Phil degrees from Oxford. She taught at Warsaw University (1993-5), the Skola Nauk Spolecznych in Warsaw (1994-5), and Oxford University (1995-7) before moving to the LSE in 1998. This is a 4-credit course for MA students. It offers an introduction to various national doctrines that have been advanced since the early modern era. Throughout the course we will ask: (1) is there a 'core' national doctrine shared by apparently different versions? (2) How are the basic ideas of nationality related to other political theories such as republicanism, liberalism, conservatism, and socialism? Does nationalism have any 'elective affinity' to some of these theories, but not to others? Readings and discussions will be based mainly on the work of classical authors of national doctrines. Each author's thought on nationality will be placed in historical context, and considered in relation to his writings on other subjects. We will also consider how each author's ideas have been developed and used in politics and recent political theories. Course Syllabus 1. Introduction : some basic concepts and distinctions 2. Is there a core national doctrine? 3. Machiavelli: the grandfather of nationalism? 4. Rousseau: republican liberty and the liberty of republics 5. Herder: cultural nationality 6. Fichte and Hegel: two German reactions to the French Revolution 7. Socialism, nation-states, and internationalism 8. Liberalism and Nationalism 9. Ethnicity, Race, and the Nation-State 10. Anti-Semitism and Zionism 11. Historicist doctrines and political judgement Nationalism and Political Judgement - PhD Course Erica Benner This course critically examines some of the main arguments in recent political theories of nationalism and nationhood. We will be asking throughout: (1) How far is nationalism subject to ethical and moral judgements, and how far to judgements of realpolitik? (2) Do political theories of nationality have universal relevance, or do they reflect the limited (mainly Anglo-Saxon) concerns of their authors? Readings will include classical and contemporary texts, though the emphasis is on more recent writings. Discussions will be organised around major themes or concepts. Course Syllabus 1. Introduction: nationalism and patriotism 2. Identity and recognition 3. Culture and liberalism 4. Cultural, political, and geopolitical insecurity 5. Reason and the non-rational 6. Democracy and citizenship 7. Multiculturalism 8. Individual and group rights 9. Self-determination 10. National vs. multinational states 11. National partiality and international justice Law and Ethnicity Tibor Várady The course is divided into two parts: Law and Ethnicity I, and Law and Ethnicity II. The first part will take 14 class hours, and this will enable students whose credit unit is 14 class hours to take it as a 1-credit course. The second part will be taught in 10 class hours. Parts I and II may be taken as a two credit course by all CEU students except Legal Studies students (whose credit unit is 14 class hours). Part I is offered to Legal Studies students as a 1 credit course. Course Syllabus Part I will concentrate on the following topics: Introduction 1.a Group-neutral and group-sensitive regulation 1.b The issue of collective rights 1.c Legal structuring of equality and, or balance Rights of groups "who came first" Law and Ethnicity in the former Yugoslavia 3.a Group rights and denial of group rights 3.b Ethnicity and property rights 4. Administrative structuring of territories in spite of (or the sake of) ethnic concentration 5. Language issues Law and Ethnicity II - Attempts to Chart Interethnic Justice - Part II is a sequence of related case studies devoted to chart interethnic justice in the former Yugoslavia. Students will be expected to present and to discuss various plans drafted during the Yugoslav crisis (1991-1999). Art and Nation: The Rise of the National Idiom in Central European Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts Tibor Frank Art and artforms contribute to, and reflect on, nationbuilding in most European countries. The study and understanding of national poetry, music, painting, sculpture, architecture and a host of other artistic genres may help us understand the various national forms of expression which have impacted the philosophy and politics of national and nationalist movements throughout Europe. The delicate nature of artistic expression gives us special tools to investigate the very fabric of national and nationalist thinking and establish the differences among various European countries, ethnic, national and religious groups. Special emphasis will be given to what we may identify as the "national idiom" and the "national genres," which have both created and expressed national cultures. Course Syllabus 1. Introduction I: The Age of Nationalism 2. Introduction II: From Romantic to Modern: The Making of National Art 3. National Idioms I: The Rise of the National Language(s) 4. National Idioms II: Folksong and Poetry 5. National Idioms III: National Symbol, National Design 6. National Genres I: The Opera 7. National Genres II: Historical Painting 8. National Genres III: The (Historical) Novel 9. Theories of National Art I: The National Canon 10. Theories of National Art II: Art, Ideology, and Politics 11. Art and Nation: The Contemporary Scene 12. Presentations and discussions. Review Session The Enigma of Nationalism Yael Tamir The purpose of this course is to unveil the motivating power(s) of nationalism. We will begin to examining the concept "nation", tying it to the notion of identity and identity politics. The following issues will then be discussed: Is nationalism motivated by the desire to preserve one's cultural identity; Is it an aspect of the struggle to secure political rights; Is nationalism the outcome of a psychological need to affiliate with a group (any group), an outcome of a struggle to pursue interests related to identity or culture or class. The above questions will be discussed with an emphasis on the last issue that of class politics. Unfortunately in recent discussions of nationalism the economic aspects have been over-shadowed by cultural issues. This course intends to rethink the economic aspects of nationalism and argue that we are witnessing a shift in the motivating powers of nationalism. The shift will influence the nature of nationalism and might, unfortunately, reinforce the more belligerent and xenophobic types of nationalism. Ethnic and Religious Dimensions of Modernization in Central Europe. Problem Areas, Survey Techniques and Empirical Approaches Victor Karady The course offers an overview of much neglected ethnic, religious and regional aspects of a number of economic, political, intellectual, infrastructural and demographic processes observable in post-feudal Central Europe in the wake of the introduction of free market capitalism, representative parliamentary rule as well as other State-run or privately managed programs of development in fields as various as health care, education, social services, policies concerning the family, etc. The stress is laid on the social transformations whereby ethnic, religious and regional identities generate specific types of inequalities in terms of social stratification, social reproduction or chances of access to elite positions in the framework of historically changing political systems from the early 19th century till the Second World War. Though major theoretical issues concerning ethnicity and modernization will be duely raised, the main focus of the course will be on local case studies of facts and figures related to ethnic, religious and regional group specific patterns of behavior, mostly in the Habsburg Monarchy and its successor states. Course Syllabus 1. General introduction 2. Social history of ethnic and denominational groups in Central Europe 3. Social morphology of particularistic groups in contemporary Central Europe 4. Process of post-feudal socio-economic restratification 5. Identity management and assimilation 6. Social demography of mixed identity and inter-ethnic and denominational relations 7. Conflicts of ethnic and denominational relations 8. Patterns of differential schooling 9. Demographic modernization and individualism 10. Social deviance Selected MA Thesis Titles Patriotism, Elect Nation, and Reason of State: Patterns of Community and the "Political Languages of Hungarian Nationhood" in the Early Modern Period The Past and its Properties: Restitution and National Identity in Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) after 1989 Categorically American: Ethnicity, Minorities, Multiculturalism and Change Ambiguities in the Conceptual Understanding and Practical Application of the Concept of Self-Determination in the Yugoslav Crisis Political Debates on Re-inventing Russian National Identity The Development of the Romany National Movement in Hungary Anti-Jewish and Anti-Gypsy Attitudes in Hungary and Yugoslavia: Social and Psychological Determinants Turkish Taboos: Ethno-Cultural Homogeneity and Secular Identity Yugoslavia - Dismantled and Plundered: The Tragic Senselessness of the War in Yugoslavia and the Myths that Concealed It Manipulating Nationalism in Serbia. Context Effects in Ethnic Distance Measurements as an Indicator of the Impact of Nationalist Propaganda Liberalism Meets Nationalism? Liberal Nationalism and the Liberalism of Fear Autonomy, Regionalism and Minority Rights in Post-Communist Romania (1989-2001): Problems and Debates Ethnic Conflict and Narratives of History: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh Student Comments on the Program "The location of the program in Budapest is very fortunate. The city is an amazing combination of East and West, and one really feels at a cultural crossroad here. Most of the research done at the department has to do with Central and Eastern Europe. The year spent at the CEU made me understand that local-specific studies should be done in the area. All the more so if student research is accommodated by a department which is at once as flexible and as profoundly committed to interdisciplinarity, as the Nationalism Studies Program." (Oksana Sarkisova, Moscow) "I think the selection of students was excellent. We had a small and competitive group in the year, with all kinds of national and cultural backgrounds. The same goes for professors; there was a great variety of fields to choose from, and the department was open to our initiatives. What I personally enjoyed also was the intention of the staff to be friendly with people so that each departmental party became a real event." (Markian Prokopovych, Ukraine) "The interdisciplinarity of the program appeals to me the most. In my class-work and research I combined sociology, political history and intellectual history. I think this multiple perspective is a unique trait of Nationalism Studies." (Alevtina Sedochenko, Ukraine) "It is a democratic department. Students have plenty of freedom of choice, and they are given maximum guidance in their research activities. It is very responsive to the needs of students in the selection and functioning of the teaching staff, in the compilation of reading material, and in the interdisciplinarity of the methods." (Monika Pál, Hungary) "There is no such a department anywhere else. It is a truly "CEU-spirited" program. You have a synthesis of research perspectives and a blend of various teaching traditions that is possible only here. And the combination of social science with history is an excellent professional foundation for those who study here." (Balázs Trencsényi, Hungary) Events Sponsored by the Program May 10, 2001 - Public lecture by Florian Bieber: Civic and National Concepts of Statehood in Bosnia Herzegovina The talk will discuss the recent development in Bosnia which seem to point to a more co-operative and less mono-ethnic political system (the creation of non-nationalist governments on all levels in Bosnia, the constitutional court decision declaring the entity constitutions unconstitutional in the references to only one or two nations, the establishment of constitutional commissions, election law etc.) and the response of nationalist parties (esp. the Croat self-government in Herzegovina). It will not only explore these recent developments and relate them to the original institutional framework of Dayton, but it will also raise some question on how to strike a balance between legitimate national grievances in a multinational state and nationalist policy which is detrimental for the existence of the state. March 20, 2001 - Public lecture by Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): Beyond 'Groupism': Ethnicity without Groups Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work has addressed European nationalism in historical, comparative, and, more recently, ethnographic perspective. He has also written widely on social theory, international migration, and the politics of citizenship. His book Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-ŕ-vis immigrants in France and Germany; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multinational states into would-be nation-states. He is currently working on an ethnographic study of ethnicity and nationalism in everyday life among minority Hungarians and majority Romanians in the ethnically mixed Transylvanian city of Cluj/Kolozsvár. Brubaker was educated at Harvard University, the University of Sussex, and Columbia University. He has been teaching at UCLA since 1991. March 13, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Ian Hancock, Professor of Romani Studies, University of Texas in Austin): Roma Identities Ian Hancock was born in Britain of British and Hungarian Romani descent and has been active in the Romani movement since the 1960s. Currently he is a Professor of Romani Studies at the University of Texas in Austin. Ian Hancock represented the Roma at the United Nations and UNICEF until 2000. Ian Hancock is the only Romani member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. He was awarded the prestigious Rafto Human Rights Prize (Norway) in 1997, and was chosen as the recipient of the Gamaliel Chair in Peace and Justice in 1998. His publications on the Roma include The Pariah Syndrome: An Account of Gypsy Persecution and Slavery (Karoma: Ann Arbor, 1987), and A Handbook of Vlax Romani (Slavica: Columbus, 1995). March 7, 2001 - István Szent-Iványi, MP: Debates about the Status Law (Workshop) Mr. Szent-Iványi, MP, chair of the Hungarian Foreign Affairs Committee, member of the Free Democrats' (SZDSZ) Executive Board and member of the National Council Presidency) was invited by the Nationalism Program to discuss with students the current political disputes concerning the so-called Status Law (regulation on the legal status of Hungarians in the neighboring states). Mr Szent-Iványi set forth the Free Democrats' opinion nad criticized the Status Law both from a conceptual and pragmatic point of view. He highlighted the problemat of defining nationality and determine who should be regarded Hungarian. He also talked about the undesirable and unforeseeable implications of the would be legislation (financial burdens, migration) and pointed out the political interests of the parties in favor of implementing the Status Law. According to Mr. Szent-Iványi, the Hungarian government's commitments to ethnic Hungarians can be best expressed by supporting educational and cultural institutions in the neighboring countries where Hungarians actually live. February 26, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Angéla Kóczé, sociologist, European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC): Gender and Youth February 23, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Nicolae Gheorghe, sociologist, advisor on Roma and Sinti issues, OSCE, Warsaw: The Roma Civil Society February 20, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Andzrej Mirga, sociologist, vice-chair of Specialist Group on Roma/Sinti of the Council of Europe, Poland: State policies towards the Roma. The Polish case February 12, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Elena Marushiakova, ethnographer, Sofia: Uniquness and Diversity The Lecture assumes some familiarity with the basic history and geography of Central and Eastern Europe. The lecture assumes also that the student will read in advance the selected part included in the reader in order to be theoretically introduced into specifics of the Gypsies as a unique community. The lecture focuses the region of Central and Eastern Europe. February 2, 2001 - The Roma in Society public lecture series. Nadezdha Demeter the first Romni author of a global history of the Rom, Moscow: Lungo Drom (Long Path) - The history of the Roma from India to present times. A double approach: from the outside about them and from the inside, as they perceive it December 7, 2000 - Public lecture by Erica Benner, London School of Economics: 'Is There a Core National Doctrine?' National doctrines are notoriously diverse, and often embody contradictory political values and criteria for membership. This article asks whether there is a 'core' national doctrine that connects republican, cultural, ethnic, and liberal concepts of nationality. It considers two attractive candidates: one locating the 'core' in a doctrine about the political and psychological significance of pre-political cultural identities, the other in the constitutional principle of popular sovereignty. After assessing the limitations of both, I sketch a different core national doctrine. This doctrine is constitutive and geopolitical, not constitutional or cultural. It has deep roots in the security concerns specific to the modern, pluralistic system of sovereign states, and prescribes in general terms the form that any community should take in order to survive or distinguish itself in that system. It says very little about the appropriate basis for such communities; the choice of political, cultural, ethnic or even racial criteria is left wide open. More than other versions, this 'core' is able to identify the common ground between cultural, constitutional, and other national doctrines. It also puts a sharp focus on the reasons why, historically, national and liberal values have been so hard to combine. November 30, 2000 - Public lecture by Michael Stewart, University College London: Roma - The Underclass of Post-Communism? The term 'underclass' is increasingly widely used in both everyday parlance and academic discourse in eastern Europe when discussing the plight of the Romany peoples in the region. Though the best of these uses tries to adhere to Myrdal's original structural/economic interpretation of the word (originally a Swedish folk term), the history of the term's diffusion in US academic and popular discourse suggests that behavioural interpretations are unavoidable. Riding in to eastern Europe on the back of the local use of a 'culture of poverty' model to discuss Romany communities, 'the underclass' suggests a false homogeneity, an inappropriate degree of closure of the Roma from the outside, a crude economic determinism and an overly pessimistic view of Romany abilities to dig themselves out of the hole many of them currently find themselves in. Patterns of eastern European inequality and social exclusion are not simply comparable with those found in the US and we would do best to avoid importing either the US folk or academic jargon without a systematic analysis of its appropriateness. November 7, 2000 - Public lecture by Will Kymlicka, Queens University: Justice and Security in the Debates on Minority Rights: Comparing East and West Prof. Will Kymlicka spoke to the University about whether Western attempts to accommodate claims of minorities could be applied to Eastern and Central Europe. While arguing for the success of democratic federalism and accompanying models of language rights, territorial autonomy and multiculturalism as domesticating and pacifying nationalism in the West, Kymlicka acknowledged the difficulty of applying such models to Eastern and Central Europe because of a)the potential of minority irridentism due to the presence of neighboring kin-states in the region; and b) the historical relation between current minorities and external powers, where minorities are often perceived as having historically collaborated with such kin-states in oppressing current majority groups. Nonetheless, though minority claims are thus quickly perceived/and or turned into security dilemmas in Eastern and Central Europe, Kymlicka argued that the region still must come up with ways of genuine accommodation of ethnocultural diversity and that federalism remains the most convincing model of just accommodation. June 8, 2000 - Ethnicity and Stratification in the Roma Society (Workshop). May 29, 2000 - Public lecture by Alina Mungiu Pippidi: Elite and Mass Nationalism in Post-Communist Romania Alina Mungiu Pippidi is a social psychologist and a journalist. Trained both in Romania and at Harvard, she published numerous articles and books on the Romanian post-Communist transition published in Romania and abroad, her most notable book being 'Die Rumanen nach '89' (The Romanians after '69), Friederich Ebert Stiftung Verlag. Her book 'Subjective Transylvania' has recently came out from the Romanian publiher Humanitas. She has published articles and essays in Le Monde, East European Politics and Societies, Government and Opposition, East European Constitutional Review, La Nouvelle Alternative, Europa Domani. She has lectured at many American universities, such as Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley and Georgetown. She is currently running the Romanin Academic Society, a public policy institute in Bucharest, Romania. May 26-28, 2000 - Conference in cooperation with the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in South East Europe, the Program in Gender and Culture, and the History Department of the Central European University: Perceptions of "Modernities": Emergence of Political Modernity, Social Transformation and Ideologies of Modernism in Central and Southeast Europe in the XIX-XX Centuries. April 27, 2000 - Public lecture by Júlia Szalai, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: The Politics of Recognition and the "Roma Question" in Hungary. March 8, 2000. - Public lecture by Michael Stewart, University College London: Eastern Europe and the People without History: Roma from Holocaust to the Present. February 3, 2000. - Public lecture by Will Kymlicka, Queens University: Federalism in Western Democracies and Eastern Europe. January 20, 2000. - Public lecture by John R. Lampe, University of Maryland: Rethinking the American Perspective on Southeastern Europe December 14-15, 1999 - Conference in cooperation with the Civic Education Project, Teleki László Institute and the History Department of the Central European University: Nation-building, Regionalism and Democracy: Comparative Perspectives on Issues of Nationalism in Romania and Hungary. Permanent and Visiting Faculty Mária M. 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