Syllabus
Description
#1: Historical research on archival data (March 5, Monday, 8.30–10.30 am)
Barna, I. and Pető, A. 2015. Political Justice in Budapest after WW II. Budapest: CEU Press. pp. I-12. (Foreword, Political Justice in Europe: The State of Research)
#2: Competing memories (March 7, Wednesday, 8.30–10.30 am)
Pető, A. 2014. “’Hungary 70’: Non-remembering the Holocaust in Hungary”. Culture & History Digital Journal, 3(2)
(http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/55/210)
#3: Exploring social identity (March 8, Thursday, 8.30–10.30 am)
Hogg, M. A. 2006. “Social Identity Theory.” In Contemporary Social Psychological Theories, edited by Burke, P. J., pp. 111–136. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
#4:Prejudices in the society (March 9, Friday, 8.30–10.30 am)
Allport, G. W. 1954. The Nature of Prejudice. Boston: The Beacon Press. pp. 48–67. (Chapter 4.)
Attendance at the screening of two films at the One World, International Human Right Film Festival (https://www.oneworld.cz/festival/). Details to be announced later. The students are oblidget to pay for their tickets.
Annotation
ATTENTION: Block seminar by guest Prof. Ildikó Barna (Budapest) is taking place only March 5-9, 2018!!!
Aim:
The course aims at presenting and discussing significant issues of the societies of East-Central Europe. The topics are approached primary from the perspective of sociology, however, interdisciplinarity also plays an important role. The course places emphasis on methodological issues also, as it presents different methodological considerations and tools in the research of the discussed issues.
Ildikó Barna (barnaildiko@tatk.elte.hu) is Associate Professor of sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, where she also serves as a head of the Department for Social Research Methodology. From August till November 2015 she was a visiting fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. She has written and co-authored a number of publications, including "Survival Kit to SPSS. Multivariate Techniques for Social Researchers"(Hungarian, 2002); "The Refractions of Success" (Hungarian, 2005); and "Political Justice in Budapest after World War II"(English, 2015). Her presentations include: “Jewish Identity in Transition Changing Strength and Content,” European Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and “Hungarian Postwar Justice through the People’s Tribunal of Budapest: Quantitative Research on Archival Data,” at The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing Service Digital Archive in May 2014 at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.