Ph.D. diakoknak szeptemberi kurzus Bulgariaban

[Katalin Fabian]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS TO
The Summer University in Plovdiv on ¡§Balkan Societies,
Europeanization, Globalization¡¨
(Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 4 - 16, 2000)


DESCRIPTION

The Summer University in Plovdiv (SUP), which will take place for a
forth consecutive year, partakes in establishing intellectual
exchange and promoting regional consciousness among East-European
academics and students. Co-organized the Open Society Fund-Sofia and
the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational
Exchange ¡§Fulbright¡¨, it aims at providing students of
different
countries, in the Eastern and Western Europe and the USA, with the
opportunity to discuss the most important current problems of social
and human sciences in the perspective of the South-Eastern Europe.
Through their participation in courses held by well known regional,
European and American professors, the SUP seeks to overcome the
intellectual isolation which still pervades parts of Eastern Europe
and the Balkans in particular. It is aimed at offering to graduate
students the possibility of meeting, of comparing their individual
and collective experiences, of confronting the current burning issues
of the region and critically examine their interpretations and
manipulation.

The general topic of the SUP¡¦2000, ¡§Balkan Societies,
Europeanization, Globalization¡¨, has been chosen as to confront,
on
the one hand, the challenges of the prospect for the European
enlargement in the East and, at the same time, the debatable impact
of globalization on the (countries of the) region. As concrete
analysis has shown, developments in the East since 1989 have posed
the question of rethinking modernity. Discussing the European
enlargement and globalization will warrant the connection of current
transformations of Eastern Europe to the much older process of
Europeanization that has been in the center of political and cultural
debate in the countries of the periphery for one and a half
centuries. At the same time, it is aimed at heeding the
anthropological and sociological dimension of the developments that
take place in cultures where economy, politics, and jurisdiction are
not sufficiently autonomous.

The SUP will take place from September 4 through September 16, 2000.
During each of the two weeks one professor will give a systematic
course of three lectures, and three other lecturers will have one
lecture and/or one workshop each. The focus of the first week
lectures and workshops will be on the historical, cultural and
anthropological dimensions of the general topic. That of the second
week will be on its institutional and political aspects. Students are
supposed to deliver a written essay at the end of the SUP. The
working language of the SUP is English.
 ELIGIBILITY

The SUP is open to post-graduate students in the social sciences and
the humanities who are inscribed in MA or Ph.D. courses in the
countries of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, as well as to all
those who are interested in the region. Admission of around 20
students will be granted by a selection committee on the basis of:

fÞ recommendation by a professor;
fÞ Curriculum vitae
fÞ good knowledge of English;
fÞ a motivation letter of 400-600 words explaining how you see
your
contribution to the topic, how relevant it is in terms of your
personal intellectual/professional development and to your home
country¡¦s European integration.

The motivation letter and the letter of reference should be received,
by e-mail or post, not later than July 10, 2000, at the following
address:

Dr. Diana Mishkova
SUP¡¦2000 Academic Director
C/o Sylvia Voicu - Coordinator
Open Society Foundation
56 Solunska str.,
1000 Sofia
Bulgaria

e-mail : svoicu at osf.bg
tel. : (+ 359) 2  930 66 55


West European and American students should contribute a tuition fee
in the amount of $ 500.

For further information please contact:

Ms. Sylvia Voicu, SUP¡¦2000 coordinator
e-mail : svoicu at osf.bg
tel. : (+ 359) 2  930 66 55
or
Dr. Diana Mishkova, Academic Director of SUP,
e-mail: mishkova at plov.omega.bg
tel. (+359) 2 743759