[spectre] Central European University Summer University July 2-13 2007

[geert lovink]

> Central European University Summer University: Media Globalization and 
> Post-Communist European Identities      
> July 2 - 13, 2007      
>
> Co-sponsored by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, 
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam School of Cultural 
> Analysis at the University of Amsterdam.
>
> Course directors: Aniko Imre, University of Southern California, John 
> Neubauer, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ginette Verstraete, 
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands     
>
> Course coordinator: Huub van Baar, University of 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
>
> For a detailed program, see the CEU Summer University website: 
>  <http://www.sun.ceu.hu/3Courses/courses.php>.
>
> Course description
>
> 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.