1. Course Introduction: How we got there, from the positivist 70’s to the Roaring 2020’s (2 hours)

2. Race-Diversity-Ethics in the post-George Floyd period (2 hours)

3. Is Czech music White? and other vexing inquiries… (2 hours)

4. Different Approaches What Constitutes Authority in Scholarship: Documents “vs” Theory (2 hours)

5. Ness-ness and Comp. Nat. How nationalism (Czechness, Americanness, Blackness, etc.) affects the brain, and musical scholarship (2 hours)

6. Questions of Evaluation (REF, etc.) and Outreach/Impact in the US and Czech Republic (2 hours)

7. Musicology-Performance-Composition in the Czech Republic today (2 hours)

8. Comparison of conditions in research universities in the U.S. and Czech Republic (2 hours)

9. The University in the Age of Globalization: American and Czech Perspectives (2 hours)

10. Towards the future of musical scholarship (2 hours)

11. Student project presentations 1 (2 hours)

12. Student project presentations 2 (2 hours)