Central European University
Curriculum Resource Center
History Department.
8 -11 February 2009 г.
Course Innovation Session
Debatable Problems of Eastern European History from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Workshop 1:
Byzantine-Orthodox traditions as cultural patterns in the history of Eastern Europe
Agenda:
Byzantine and Western Christianity in the Middle Ages: What did they really have in common? How did they actually differ?
Revealing the real impact of Byzantine confessional traditions upon Eastern and South-Eastern European society
'Orthodox civilization': Myth? Ideology? Reality?
Speakers:
M. Dmitriev: : How to teach a comparative history of two Christian traditions to our students? Sharing university experience in this field.
S. Golovascenko: About cultural and intellectual roots of East-West divergences in Christians dogmatic doctrines and their effects.
N. Bolgov: Some aspects of Byzantine traditions in our university courses
O. Dziarnovich: Byzantine inheritance in cultures on Eastern and Central Europe as subject of our courses.
O. Golubev: Byzantine diplomacy and Grand Duchy of Lithuania: a subject for our courses.
Invited speaker (will intervene on Wednesday, Febr. 10): M. Riedl
Workshop 2:
National identities and nationalism, 1800-2000
Agenda:
Current studies on nations and nationalisms: Achievements and failures
Are nations and nationalisms actually 'natural' and universal? Are they actually modern? What links do they have to civilizational traditions?
Supra-, trans- and anti-national realities in history: How to talk them about them in the classroom
Speakers:
M. Dmitriev:Are nations and nationalisms actually modern?
I. Chukhnova: National identity and nationalism in the context of cultural studies.
L. Aliyeva: Islam and ethnicity in history of Azerbaijan (presentation of a course project)
A. Kamalov: Nation and history in Central Asia (presentation of a course project).
O. Beznosova: Ethnicity and confession in history of Southern Ukraine: topic for university courses.
V. Yakubov: Ethnicity and confession in history of Northern Belarus': topic for university courses.
Invited speaker: A. Miller (CEU History Department)
Workshop 3:
Intelligentsia and revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe in 1800 -1917
Agenda:
Intelligentsia: What does it mean? Is it a specifically Russian phenomenon? How to teach the comparative history of intelligentsia
Origins and nature of revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe, 1800-1917: Truths, misconceptions, prejudices
'Trahison des clercs': Should the intelligentsia be blamed for totalitarian disasters of the twentieth century?
Speakers:
T. Saburova: Sociocultural representations and strategies of behavior of the Russian intelligentsia in the XIXth century: methodological approaches and research practice
G. Selyaninova: Russian intelligentsia: specificity of genesis and historical path.
S. Golovascenko:About paradoxes of links between religious dissent and 'revolutionary movement' in Russia, late XIXth - early XXth centuries.
Invited speaker: M. Janowski )CEU History Department)
Round table discussion:
'Eastern and Western Christianity in the formative age: one or two Christian worlds'?
Invited speaker:M. Riedl (CEU History Department)
Workshop 4:
Cultural reconstruction and sciences under communist rule in Eastern Europe
Agenda:
Utopia in power: What were the Bolsheviks trying to build?
The 'new man' and the 'brave new world': Deadlocks in the Enlightenment project?
The sciences under communist rule in Eastern Europe: What was achieved and what was lost.
Speaker:
M. Loskutova: 'Interpreting science and society in the Russian empire / early Soviet Union: recent trends in historiography and why it still makes sense to teach students about them
Invited speakers: K. Hall (CEU History Department), A. Rieber (CEU History Department), M. Siefert (CEU History Department)
Workshop 5:
Religion, nation, intelligentsia, revolution, cultural innovations, and the sciences in history of Eastern Europe: what should be changed in our university curricula?
Prospects for exploring debatable problems in East European history.
Conclusions
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