Central European University

A Program for University Teachers
and Professionals in the Social
Sciences and Humanities

Summer University
Hungary 2001

July 9 - August 10, 2001 

The Summer University (SUN) is an academic program for university teachers, administrators and professionals. It offers a series of intensive two-, three- or four-week courses in the social sciences and humanities to encourage and promote regional academic cooperation and curriculum development by drawing together young faculty in lectures, seminars and workshops. 

Eligibility and Funding

•	Applications are invited from all countries. While the program is still focusing on participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, for SUN 2001 the scholarship eligibility will extend worldwide with particular emphasis on applicants from emerging democracies. The scholarship will cover tuition cost, accommodation, travel, health insurance, and a book allowance. The grant will also include a stipend to cover meals and incidentals. However, participants from Budapest will only receive free tuition, a book allowance and a reduced stipend.

•	Non-scholarship participants must pay for tuition ($200/week of instruction equaling 1,200 classroom minutes), accommodation, health insurance, travel and meals. However, there is a limited number of tuition waivers available which may be applied for on a competitive basis.

Applicants must meet the following criteria

•	Applicants must have a university degree and hold a teaching job at a university or college in their home country, or work as an administrator or a professional. Graduate students with teaching experience may also apply. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered.

•	The language of instruction is English; thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of English to be able to follow lectures and participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. 

•	Individuals are not eligible to apply to a SUN course if they attended either a CRC (Curriculum Resource Center) session or Popper Workshop in the same calendar or academic year (i.e., they must wait one year after their participation in one of the above programs before applying to SUN).  Additionally, applicants are not eligible to apply to SUN if they have participated in two CEU faculty initiative activities (i.e., CRC, SUN, Popper Workshop) within a four-year period.  Preference will be given to new applicants over former participants in Summer University courses.  

•	Currently enrolled CEU students are not eligible. Former CEU students may only apply if they currently hold a teaching position in their home country.

•	Successful applicants will receive a reader prior to the course and/or will be asked to submit written assignments. The accomplishment of these assignments is a pre-condition of participation. The course Digital Literacy for Open Societies and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations will send out distance learning materials and will involve participants in a pre- and post-course distance learning project.

Applications must be received by the Summer University Office
no later than January 15, 2001

A detailed course description with names of lecturers and topics to be covered will be available in due course. Changes in faculty and/or topics may occur.

For additional information please contact:
CEU
Summer University Office
1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9.
Hungary
Tel.: (36-1) 327-3811
Fax: (36-1) 327-3124

E-mail: summeru@ceu.hu (for information and general correspondence)
sunreq@ceu.hu (for requesting application forms)
WWW site: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/sunindx.html

CEU Non-Discrimination Policy:
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of – including, but not limited to – race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

The program will offer the following courses in 2001:

Anthropology
	The Plight of the Roma and Gypsy People 					July 9 – July 27
	Course Director: Michael Stewart		

Archival Studies
	Archives of Political Parties after the Collapse of Communism 		July 16 – July 27
	Course Directors: Charles Kecskemeti 
			 Gabriella Ivacs

Art History 
	History and Theory of Art after the Cultural Turn 				July 23 – August 10
		Course Director: Margaret Dikovitsky

Asian Studies 
	Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism*			July 30 – August 10
	Course Directors: Mikhail V. Karpov 
			 Pal Nyiri

Comparative Religion 								July 30 – August 10
	Comparative Religion 
	Course Director: Agnes Birtalan        

Complex Systems
	Complex Systems (Co-organized with the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)		Course Directors: Melanie Mitchell 					July 16 – August 10
			 Imre Kondor	

Economics and Public Policy
	Competition Policy in the Transition: Theory, Implementation and Challenges*		
              Course Director: Todor Gradev 						July 9 – July 27

Gender Studies 
	Language and Gender and Society 					July 16 – July 27
	Course Director: Louise O. Vasvari

History 
	History and Memory: The Twentieth Century in Retrospect*			July 9 – July 20
	Course Directors: Sorin Antohi 
			Jorn Rusen

Human Rights 
	The Human Right to Food and Nutrition: Principles and Policies		July 30 – August 10
	Course Director: George Kent
			
International Relations
	 The UN, Civil Society, and the Private Sector in Global Governance 	July 9 – August 3
	Course Director: Roger Coate

	The UN, Civil Society, and the Private Sector: Partnership for Sustainable Human Security 
	Course Director: Roger Coate						July 9 – August 3

Legal Studies 
	 Managing Conflict and Fostering Democratic Dialogue 
(In co-operation with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota)		
Course Directors: Lela Porter Love 						July 9 – August 3
			Csilla Kollonay Lehoczky

	 Health Care Law from a Comparative and European Perspective		July 9 – July 20
	Course Directors: Judit Sandor 
			Andre den Exter

Library and Information Science							
	Digital Literacy for Open Societies						July 9 – July 13
	(This is a one-week course, preceded and followed by distance learning phases.)
	Course Directors: Lyn Robinson
			 David Bawden

Political Science 
	Intercultural Citizenship: the South-East European Context 		July 30 – August 10
	Course Director: Cesar Birzea 
	
	The Politics of Finance in Emerging Markets 				July 16 – July 27
	Course Director: Laura Hastings

Public Policy 
	Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management	 July 9 – July 27
	(in co-operation with the World Bank Institute)
	Course Directors: Jozsef Hegedus  						
			Adrian Ionescu  
			Robert D. Ebel

Social Psychology and Sociology
	Cross-border Identities - a Narrative Approach to East-West Experiences 	July 30 – August 10
	Course Directors: Julia Vajda 
			 Roswitha Breckner

Sociology 
	Poverty, Ethnicity and Spatial Change in Eastern and Central Europe 	July 9 – July 27
	Course Director: Janos Ladanyi

Urban Studies
The Future Role of Cities in a Globalising World: Challenges for New Public Strategies and Innovative Urban Governance 
	Course Directors: Thomas Knorr-Siedow					July 30 – August 10
		 	 Ivan Tosics

			CEU reserves the right to change course offerings at its discretion.

*Course Specific Application Requirements

Applications for the courses listed below should contain the following: 

Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism:
A two-page research proposal on a topic related to contemporary Asia, written as if applying for a grant, including sections on purpose, methodology, place of the project within the current state of research in the field and more broadly in Asian studies, expected output, and bibliography. (See the SUN website for a sample.)
History and Memory: The Twentieth Century in Retrospect:
A 10-15-page essay on one of the topics of the lectures (see course description on the website or contact the Summer University Office). Based on this essay, each course participant will be asked to make an in-class 15-minute presentation during the course. 
Competition Policy in the Transition: Theory, Implementation and Challenges:
A short essay (no more than 1000 words) analyzing one of the following: 
- a competition policy issue that needs to be addressed in your country –  what is the problem, who are the actors, what deficiencies you find in the legislation & regulation, or in the competition policy implementation, what needs to be done? You may use as a guide (but not limit yourself to) the policy issues suggested for consideration in the prospective syllabus of this course
- an anti-competitive case that has either been considered by the courts & competition authorities of your country, or has stirred the public opinion and received media attention. Relate the case as much as you can to one or more topics included in the prospective syllabus of this course and discuss how it has imperiled social welfare and/or market efficiency.