The Summer School "Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges", Special Workshop for PhD and MA students "Reading&Writing in Humanities", Memory Workshop "The contested memory: Can there may be a historical truth established by law? Some sensitive issues in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the European Parliament Resolution "On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe"
Abstrakt
The Summer School "Eastern Europe from the Post-Socialist Perspective: Changes and Challenges" was held on August 24-28, 2020 at Charles University in Prague, http://prague.summer.school.tilda.ws/ Invited scholars from the University of Milan, University of Warsaw, University of Heidelberg, and Charles University delivered theoretical lectures followed by methodological seminars and workshops. Prague Summer School 2020 was primarily aimed at bringing together students and young researchers from all universities affiliated with the 4EU+ European University Alliance.
The project has a strong interdisciplinary agenda and presents a platform for collaboration in research fields such as contemporary history, political science and cultural, linguistic and regional studies. The main aim was creating, specifying and implementing new interdisciplinary approaches and interdisciplinary methodologies of teaching and research of Eastern Europe, which would later be applied at partner universities.
Special Workshop for PhD and MA students "Reading&Writing in Humanities": The aim of the workshop is to introduce basic rules and techniques of academic work. In the humanities and social sciences, the essential skills to be learned are the understanding of texts written by others as well as the capacity to produce written research of one's own.
Every student has to produce either a diploma or a dissertation thesis. Participants of the workshop will learn techniques for improving their abilities of textual analysis, understanding and evaluation of arguments and other skills necessary for improving the quality of their academic reading and writing.
Memory Workshop: "The contested memory: Can there may be a historical truth established by law? Some sensitive issues in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the European Parliament Resolution "On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe"": 75 years after the end of the Second World War, the controversies over the responsibilities for the horrors unleashed and the outcomes of WWII continue to produce divisions, which are potentially dangerous for the political stability of the European continent. Inspired by the resolution of the European Parliament on 19 September 2019, some official documents and speeches will be analysed to highlight how the conflicts of memory continue to divide historians and political elites of the different Central and Eastern European Countries.