Sylabus
Terms and conceptsOkey Robin, Central Europe/Eastern Europe: Behind Definitions. Past and Present, No. 137, 1992, pp. 102-133Sinnhuber Karl A., Central Europe: Europe Centrale: An Analysis of a Geographicla Term.
Transactions and Papers, No. 20, 1954, pp. 15-39Franzinetti, Guido, Mitteleuropa in East-Central Europe. From Helsinki to EU Accession (1975–2004).
European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, 2008, No. 2, s. 219-235.Development of the ideaArnason Johann P., Introduction: Demarcating East Central Europe. European Journal of Social Theory 8, 2005, No. 4, pp. 387–400Halecki Oscar, Limits and Divisions of European History.
University of Notre Dame Press 1962, pp. 85-141.Szücs Jenö, Three historical regions of Europe.Kundera Milan, The Tragedy of Central Europe.Wandycz Piotr, The Price of Freedom. Introduction.Between Germany and RussiaBetz, Hans-Georg, Mitteleuropa and Post-Modern Identity.
New German Critique, No. 50, 1990, s. 173-192.Labov Jessie, A Russian Encounter with the Myth of Central EuropeLeRider, Jacques, Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Mittelosteuropa. A Mental Map of Central Europe.
European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, 2008, No. 2, s. 155-169.Neumann, Iver, Russia as Central Europe´s Constituting Other. East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 7, 1993, No. 2, s. 349-369.Stråth Bo, Mitteleuropa.
From List to Naumann. European Journal of Social Theory 11, 2008, No. 2, pp. 171–183Language, nation, state, identityBerger, Stefan, On the Role of Myths and History in the Construction of National Identity in Modern Europe.
European History Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2009, No. 3, s. 490-502.Kamusella, Tomasz, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, s. 1-60Development and backwardnessJanos, Andrew C., The Politics of BAckwardness in Continental Europe 1780-1945.
World Politics, Vol. 41, 1989, No. 3, s. 325-358Kochanowicz Jacek, A moving target or a lost illusion? East Central Europe in Pursuit of the West in Two Globalization Phases, p. 31-52Todorova, Maria, The Trap of Backwardness: Modernity, Temporality, and the Study of Eastern European Nationalism. Slavic Review, Vol. 64, 2005, No. 1, s. 140-164.
Anotace
The aim of the seminar is to provide students with key concepts of Central European history as they´ve been appearing since the beginning of the 20th century and to confront these concepts with the selected problems of Central European history. The course is based on text reading and interpretation.