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Welcome to CEU’s Summer University, a very special postgraduate study-abroad opportunity in Budapest, one of the great capital cities in the heart of Europe.

Please check back in November for the 2017 course list and submit your application for the new season.

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Research-Intensive courses

Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe

18 July - 27 July, 2016

This course explores new approaches in the history of science and urban history by inviting renowned scholars from both fields as well as graduate students to take part in an ongoing conversation about scientific knowledge and urban space. The study of the circulation and communication of knowledge in the public sphere has received increasing attention in recent years, bringing new approaches and developments to the study of history.

Constitution-building in Africa

11 July - 22 July, 2016

History has seen several waves of constitution-building in the 20th century with an unparalleled boom starting in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin wall. And while experts recently announced the end of this boom in new constitutions after the Cold War, the world is witnessing another wave of constitution-building, this time predominately in Africa.

In the Labyrinth of National Identity: Russia and Europe

11 July - 20 July, 2016

The course provides an opportunity to reflect on the recent political upheavals in Russia and in Ukraine. The aim of this course is, however, to explore national identity and nationalism in Europe and Russia disentangled from the news and to reveal hidden historically embedded patterns. The course will be built on texts and data of recent research materials with interdisciplinary, comparative and empirical approaches. Its overall objective is to raise participants’ awareness of the synergy resulting from these various approaches.

Low Dimensional Topology

4 July - 8 July, 2016

Low dimensional topology is an emerging field, whose significance is underlined by its intimate connection to physics, by the related Abel Prizes Atiyah (2004), Gromov (2009), Milnor (2011), and Fields medals (second only to the Abel Prize in mathematics), like the ones for Donaldson, Freedman, Jones and Witten. The Summer School concentrates on recent developments in low dimensional topology. The lecture series are aimed to introduce the participants to the latest developments in low dimensional topology.

Matter, Mind and Consciousness

18 July - 29 July, 2016

This will be a course on philosophy of mind, focusing on three topics that have been the subject of a good deal of attention in the last five to ten years, and which are currently at the vanguard of research: Phenomenal Intentionality, Panpsychism, and Substance Dualism. There is a good deal of cutting-edge research being pursued on all three of these topics today. The course will introduce participants to this new work, and pursue many of the questions and controversies surrounding it.

Performing Romani Identities: Strategy and Critique

11 July - 22 July, 2016

The Summer School will focus on the nexus between Romani studies and performance, with special attention paid to questions of visual culture and representation. The disquiet around increasing violence against and marginalization of Roma across Europe lends this course a special urgency. The course will focus particularly on the enduring hierarchies, exclusions and stereotypes that Romani communities and individual citizens face in everyday life and in multiple sites and structures of the nation-state.

Screened Memories: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Visual Culture

1 July - 9 July, 2016

Our understanding of the past, experience of the present, and visions of the future are shaped by the imagery transmitted by the multiple screens, which reflect and project, making reality a mediated concept and challenging the binary opposition between reality and its image. New mediatized world, marked by extreme visual excess and subtraction, requires new analytical tools and categories. These new competences are central for (re)framing the contested experience of history.

The Political Psychology of Populism

4 July - 13 July, 2016

Political psychology is the study of political behaviour of individuals and groups in the context of what we know about human psychological characteristics. It is a discipline at the intersection of political science and psychology and includes research on various topics, such as the formation and change of political attitudes and ideologies and how these relate to political behaviour (e.g.

Understanding Communication and Understanding Minds: The Role of Metarepresentation

27 June - 2 July, 2016

It has long been recognized that the human capacity for metarepresentation is at the basis for our proclivity to cooperate and communicate. However, the relationship of metarepresentation and communication has recently taken center stage in some of the discussions at the heart of cognitive science, philosophy, anthropology and linguistics.

What Makes Us Human? Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in China and the West

4 July - 15 July, 2016

Explicitly or implicitly, the question of what makes us human has been a central and ongoing preoccupation among thinkers from antiquity to the present, and in intellectual traditions vastly removed from one another in time and space.

Policy and Training courses

Alternative Dispute Resolution Summer School

27 June - 8 July, 2016

Increasingly, around the world, individuals are exploring means of resolving their differences prior to or instead of pursuing traditional court proceedings. In many jurisdictions, the court may require litigants to attempt to resolve their dispute through an alternative process prior to obtaining access to the court system. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is the umbrella term for a wide-range of processes which includes negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and restorative justice.

Sub-Courses:

Alternative Dispute Resolution – Mediation Theory and Skills

Alternative Dispute Resolution – International Business Negotiation

Geospatial Technologies and Remote Sensing for Monitoring SDGs

4 July - 8 July, 2016

With the recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the call by UN Secretary General for a “revolution” in the use of data for sustainable development, geospatial technologies have tremendous potential to effectively and efficiently monitor SDG progress.

Green Industry: Pathways Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development

11 July - 22 July, 2016

The course provides an opportunity to reflect on technical and policy level measures that improve industry’s environmental performance. Its overall objective is to raise participants’ awareness of solutions that help turn the “green industry” concept into practice and bolster its sustainability. Besides outcomes, there will also be an emphasis on green industry as a transition process that ‘bends the curve’ of conventional development towards green industry objectives over time.

Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction

11 July - 15 July, 2016

The Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) workshop will highlight recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and how they are empowering both decision-makers and citizens to play a proactive role in managing disaster risks and providing more effective disaster response. The workshop will build upon experience and expertise in ICTs and DRR by both UNDP and a diverse network of organizations, who have come together over the past two years to train environmental professionals in the field.

Innovative Financing for Education: Arguments, Options and Implications

25 July - 29 July, 2016

The integrated Sustainable Development Goals have prioritized quality improvements and expanded access to universal education through the secondary level. The global community’s struggle to implement the less ambitious Millennium Development Goals implies an urgent need to mobilize resources and develop the capacities necessary for the potentially transformative agenda to be realized.

Strategic Human Rights Litigation

11 July - 15 July, 2016

Human rights litigation is one of the methods by which civil society organizations can bring about social change. This course for human rights professionals will develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully bring cases to the regional human rights systems and the UN Treaty bodies, and to use those cases to achieve practical change.

Summer Institute on Program Evaluation

18 July - 22 July, 2016

The Summer Institute offers two parallel sub-courses on policy evaluation for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as practitioners such as government officials and professionals in non-governmental organizations.

Sub-Courses:

Policy Evaluation for Civil Servants and NGO executives

Using Logic Models to Evaluate Social Programs: Before, During, and After Program Operations

The Precautionary Principle: Governance of Innovation and Innovations in Governance

26 June - 2 July, 2016

The purpose of this course is to explore challenges and possible ways forward for the effective and appropriate application of the precautionary principle in sustainability governance. It will bring together a solid and diverse group of scholars and practitioners with expertise on the precautionary principle, risk assessment and management, environment and health research, science and technology studies, the governance of innovation, environmental governance, and long term transitions to sustainability.

Topics in Violent Online Political Extremism

4 July - 8 July, 2016

The VOX-Pol Network of Excellence is a European Union Framework Programme 7 (FP7) funded academic research network focused on researching the prevalence, contours, functions, and impacts of violent online political extremism and responses.

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