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Modernity and Backwardness in East-Central Europe

Class at Faculty of Arts |
AHSV10042

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Program kursu je soustředěn okolo sedmi velkých problémových okruhů. Program semináře je otevřený, studenti mají možnost jej ovlivnit, ale poslední slovo má vyučující. Téma je uvedeno přednáškou po níž následuje diskuse podpořená vlastním studiem doporučené literatury:

Hranice (fyzické i symbolické)-

Moderní státy a národy, formování moderních národů, nacionalismus

Města, urbánní kultura, městské prostředí a identita

Civilizace - regiony

Historie a paměť

Sociální a politická hnutí

Role inovací a technologií v evropské společnosti (kultuře)

The programme of the course revolves around seven major issues. Lectures/presentations will introduce particular problems in a seminar setting. Discussion of the particular research will follow. The latter will be based on: a) Participant?s projects executed as assignments for this seminar, b) Selected readings.

Issues in focus:

Frontiers/Borders/Boundaries and Identities/Alterities

Modern states and nations ? nation formation, nationalism,

Cities - Urban Culture, Urban Space and Identity

Civilization - Regions

History and memory

Social and political movements

Role of innovations and technologies in European societies(culture)

Annotation

Seminar combines presentation of problems with discussions supported by individual reading. Seminar is offered to BA and MA students of history in both semesters as an introduction to principal issues of modernisation focussing on innovations, cultural transfers and resistances.

History students are mostly coming for two semesters to prepare their MA or look for an interesting research topic, and the seminar is designed to support these aims. It is focused on European history, mainly on European peripheries, with particular interest in East Central Europe, which is provisionally defined as a region east of Germany and west of Russia, and north of the Danube up to the Baltic see.

Southeastern Europe is generally coterminous with Balkans. One of the goals of the seminar is to open the research field to BA students and to give support to MA students to their individual research.