Central European University Summer University: Media Globalization and
Post-Communist European Identities
July 2 - 13, 2007
Course coordinator: Huub van Baar
Co-sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, ASCA.
Course directors: Aniko Imre, University of Southern California, John
Neubauer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ginette Verstraete,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Faculty: Andaluna Borcila, Michigan State University, Humanities,
Culture and Writing, US Aida Hozic, University of Florida, Political
Science, US Slawomir Kapralski, The Centre for Social Studies, Poland
Lisa Parks, University of California, Film Studies, US Miklos Sukosd,
Cental European University, Hungary
website: <http://www.sun.ceu.hu/3Courses/courses.php>.
The course examines the transformation of identities in the former
socialist region in the wake of the transition from state-controlled
cultures to those permeated by global multimedia practices. Issues of
political and cultural representation, the role of different
technologies in identity constitution and social control, historical
legacies and aesthetic questions will be addressed as integral parts of
the same problematic rather than as issues to be examined within
particular disciplinary confines.
Bringing together specific case studies and a multi-disciplinary
theoretical apparatus, we ask how the post-socialist, globalizing order
has produced needs and opportunities for creating new modes of
transnational culture beyond the nation and its ethnic, sexual and
religious exclusions. In addition, we will explore how the region's
post-Soviet geopolitical reconstitution and the politics of the EU's
enlargement have resulted in new migrations and diasporic formations
and have solidified or contested actual and metaphorical borders within
the new Europe. The course also provides an introduction to a range of
research foci and methodologies related to globalization and the media
across the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including
cultural geography, history, comparative cultural studies, film and
media studies, anthropology and sociology.
We welcome advanced graduate students and researchers in the humanities
and social sciences who intend to pursue comparative, interdisciplinary
research on globalization, identities and the media with a geographical
emphasis on the post-communist transitions, European integration, or
the cultural and political role of the United States in current
European economic, political and cultural transformations. We also
intend to facilitate future networking and publish selected papers
resulting from the course in a book collection and/or special issue of
a journal.
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