Sylabus
COURSE PROGRAM 1st WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: INTRODUCTION INTO THE COURSE SUBJECT. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY, STATUTE AND RECOGNITION OF ETHNIC AND NATIONAL MINORITIES IN POLAND, CZECHIA, SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY.
Readings:
AGARIN, Timofey, KALLAS, Kristina and PALERMO, Francesco: National Minorities in Europe: Handbook. 2018.
BIRO, Anna-Maria et al. (ed.): Populism, Memory and Minority Rights: Central and Eastern European Issues in Global Perspective. Leiden, Boston, Brill Nijhoff, 2018.
GELLNER, Ernst: Nations and Nationalism. London: Blackwell Publishers, 1983.
GELLNER, Ernst: Language and Solitude: Wittgenstein, Malinowski and the Habsburg Dilemma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
JUDSON, P. M. Exclusive Revolutionaries: Liberal Politics, Social Experience, and National Identity in the Austrian Empire, 1848-1914. University of Michigan Press, 2008.
KAMUSELLA, T. Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe. Central European University Press, 2019.
MALLOY, Tove H. and MARKO, Joseph: Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. 2018. 2nd WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: TERMINOLOGY, ETHNIC AND NATIONAL MINORITIES: MODELS AND APPROACHES, CENTRAL EUROPEAN CONTEXT. SCIENTIFIC VERSUS POLITICAL FRAMEWORK.
Readings:
SULLIVAN, Terry: Nationalism and the Nation State in Central Europe. In: CORDEL, Karl (ed.): The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe. London, Palgrave Macmillan 2000, pp. 6-25. (Reading) (PDF)
CORDELL, Karl: Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation in Central Europe. In: CORDEL, Karl (ed.): The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe. London, Palgrave Macmillan 2000, pp. 26-49. (Reading) (PDF)
SALVENDY, John T: The Dynamics of Prejudice in Central Europe. International Journal of Psychotherapy, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999. (PDF) 3rd WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN POLAND: KARAITES AND TATARS.
Readings:
KAMUSELLA, Tomasz. "Chapter 1: Nation-building and minorities in Poland, 1918–1939." In The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe, edited by Tomasz Kamusella and Motoki Nomachi, 27-64. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. (Reading) (PDF)
KIZILOV, Mikhail. The Karaites of Galicia: An Ethnoreligious Minority Among the Ashkenazim, the Turks, and the Slavs, 1772-1945. Brill, 2009
PAWLIC-MISKIEWICZ, Barbara. Performance of Identity of Polish Tatars: From Religious Holidays to Everyday Rituals. Routledge, 2019. 4th WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: LEMKOS IN POLAND. PEOPLE FROM THE BORDERLANDS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR OWN EXISTENCE.
HORNSBY, Michael. Revitalizing Minority Languages: New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
DUDRA, Stefan. Lemkos - the rediscovered nation. Przegląd Narodowościowy / Review of Nationalities, [online], 8/2018, pp. 111-132. ISSN 2084-4099 5th WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: NATIONAL MINORITIES IN POLAND: BELARUSIAN, CZECH, LITHUANIAN, GERMAN, ARMENIAN, RUSSIAN, SLOVAK, UKRAINIAN and JEWISH.
Readings:
ALEKSEEVA, Olga. The Belarusian Minority in Poland. 2011.
HERMAN, Alexandra. The Feminisation of Tradition. The Case of the Ukrainian Minority in Poland. Sciendo, 2019.
PASIEKA, Agnieszka. Reenacting ethnic cleansing: people's history and elitist nationalism in contemporary Poland. Nations and Nationalism 22 (1), 63 – 83, 2016.
POLKOWSKA, Dominika. FILIPEK Kamil. Grateful Precarious Worker?Ukrainian Migrants in Poland. In Review of Radical Political Economics, 2019.
RĘBISZ, Sławomir. SIKORA, Ilona. The Main Motivations of Ukrainian Students Who Choose to Study in Poland. In Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, Volume 10 Number 4 2015.
UDREA, Andreea. SMITH Davi. CORDELL, Karl. Karta Polaka, Poland and its Co-ethnics Abroad. Ethnopolitics 20:1, pages 1-11. 2021
ZIELIŃSKI, Konrad. CZEŚNIAK-ZIELIŃSKA, Magdalena. MATYSIAK,DOMARADZKA. Ilona, Anna.WIDŁA, Łukasz,HEINRICH, Hans-Georg 6th WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: IMAGINING THE NATION: NATIONAL ISSUES IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE
Readings:
BACH. Ulrich E. TROPICS OF VIENNA. Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire. 2021.
PECH.Stanley Z. The Nationalist Movements of the Austrian Slavs in 1848: A Comparative Sociological Profile IN Social history, Vol. 9 No. 18 1976 7th WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: HUNGARY, MINORITIES AND MINORITY POLITICS
Readings:
DOBOS, Balázs. “The Minority Self-Governments in Hungary”. In Autonomy Arrangements in the World, 2nd edition. 2022.
EILER, Ferenc- HÁJKOVÁ, Dagmar et al. Czech and Hungarian Minority Policy in Central Europe 1918-1938, 2009.
GERŐCS, Tamás - KISS, Tamás . “National Minorities in Hungary: New Challenges, Old Fears.” In National Minorities and Interethnic Relations in Europe: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings, edited by Till F. Paasche and Reetta Toivanen, 159-178. Cham: Springer, 2019.
PÉTI. Márton, SZABÓ. Laura, OBÁRDOVICZ. Csilla, SZABÓ, Balázs, CSÉCSI. Dávid, Analyzing Ethnocentric Immigration through the Case of Hungary – Demographic Effects of Immigration from Neighboring Countries to Hungary. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 8:4, pages 128-153, 2021.
VIZI, Balázs: Hungary: A model with lasting problems. In: RECHEL, Bernd (ed.): Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe. London, Routledge, pp. 119-134. (PDF), 2009. 8th WEEK:XXX
LECTURE: SLOVAKIA: MINORITIES AND MINORITY POLITICS, HUNGARIAN MINORITY
Readings:
AUER, Stefan: Slovakia: From marginalization of ethnic minorities to political participation (and back?). In: RECHEL, Bernd (ed.): Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe. London, Routledge 2009, pp. 195-209. (PDF) Hungarian Minorities in Postcommunist Slovakia and Romania. In: JENNE, Erin K.: Ethnic Bargaining. The Paradox of Minority Empowerment. London, Cornell University Press 2007, pp. 91-124. (PDF)
HARRIS, Erika. Moving politics beyond the State: The Hungarian minority in Slovakia. Perspectives, 27, pp. 43-123. (PDF), 2006.
CSERGO. Zsuzsa. Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. 9th WEEK:XXX
CZECHIA: MINORITIES AND MINORITY POLITICS, GERMAN MINORITY
Reading:
EILER, Ferenc- HÁJKOVÁ, Dagmar et al. Czech and Hungarian Minority Policy in Central Europe 1918-1938, 2009.
GLASSHEIM, Eagle. National Mythologies and Ethnic Cleansing: The Expulsion of Czechoslovak Germans in 1945. In Central European History, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2000), pp. 463-486.
SPURNÝ, Matěj. Migration and Cleansing Building a New Society in the Czech Borderlands after 1945. IN Seeking Peace in the Wake of War. Amsterdam University Press, 2015. 10th WEEK:XXX
CZECHIA: THE SLOVAK MINORITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: IDENTITY, INTEGRATION, AND CHALLENGES
Readings:
ŠRAJEROVÁ, Oľga. Slovaks in the Czech Lands after 1945 – between the State Nation, Minority and Assimilation. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta 67(3):631-648, 2019. 11th WEEK:XXX
LECTURE:CURRENT CHALLENGES AND ISSUES FACING ROMA COMMUNITIES IN THE VISEGRAD GROUP COUNTRIES
Readings:
THELEN, Peter. Roma in Europe. From social exclusion to active participation. Skopje: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2005.
ŠTEFANČÍK, Radoslav. THE FAR-RIGHT AND THE ROMA; REFLECTION OF ANTI-ROMA RHETORIC IN ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR IN SLOVAKIA. In ACTA GEOGRAPHICA UNIVERSITATIS COMENIANAE, Vol. 66, 2022, No. 2, pp. 165-186.
Roma Migration to and from Canada: The Czech, Hungarian and Slovak Case 12th WEEK: XXX
LECTURE: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: NAVIGATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF NEW MIGRATION IN CENTRAL EUROPE
Readings:
BOUČEK. Stanislav. The Visible and Invisible Vietnamese in the Czech Republic. The Problems of Adaptation of the Modern-Day Ethnic Group in the Local Environment of the Czech Majority. Národopisný věstník. 2018, 35 (77), No 2, p. 98-103. ISSN 1211-8117.WEINAR. Agnieszka. Multiculturalism debates in Poland. Cente
Anotace
This course focuses on the research of ethnic and national minorities in Central Europe and their history. Students will learn about the cultural, historical, and social aspects of minorities and their relationships with the majority in various countries in Central Europe.
The course deals with the development and changes in the history of these minorities in different countries, as well as the consequences of these changes for their current situation. It also addresses contemporary issues such as discrimination, integration, and minority rights.
Students will be introduced to cases and examples from countries such as Poland Hungary,.Slovakia, and Czechia. This course allows students to discuss different approaches to solving minority issues in Central Europe and their impact on society as a whole.