Welcome to the 22nd summer school of Central European University

Many of you have heard about CEU’s fight for academic freedom and sent us messages of solidarity. Thank you for your support. Please note that the recent amendments to the Hungarian higher education law do not affect the operation of our summer courses, and CEU will maintain the continuity of its teaching and research without interruption. We look forward to another exciting summer school coming up soon!

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Format: 2017-06-23
Format: 2017-06-23

Research-Intensive courses

Constitution-building in Africa
3 July - 14 July, 2017
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.
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Creative Cognition: Evolutions, Processes, Applications
3 July - 7 July, 2017

This interdisciplinary course will address the human ability to find creative solutions to new problems, a capacity that has allowed us to overcome obstacles in problem solving that are insurmountable to other species. Creative problem solving is therefore viewed as a crucial cognitive component in enabling the rapid progression of human culture. The course will comprise lectures and discussions in the mornings.

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Jews and Christians between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean: Co-existence and Conflict
10 July - 21 July, 2017

The course will introduce its students to the ways in which Jews and Christians interacted in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the Caucasus and the Indian Ocean in the period between 600-1800 CE. This is the topic of a research project aiming at establishing a new area of study – relations between Jews and Eastern Christian communities from the rise of Islam to the end of the eighteenth century, marking the colonial conquest of Mughal dominated India.

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Ontology and Metaontology
14 July - 21 July, 2017
This will be a philosophy course on the topic of ontology and metaontology. Ontology is a branch of philosophy (in particular, of metaphysics) concerned with questions of existence.  Important ontological questions include the following: Are there any such things as abstract objects (i.e., non-physical, non-mental, non-spatiotemporal objects)? Are there are any such things as past and future objects, or are all objects presently existing objects?
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Romani Identities: Performance, Antigypsyism and Representation
3 July - 14 July, 2017

The aim of this CEU Summer School is to link participating students and scholars with a transnational network of scholars, performers, community activists, and artists in order to investigate the usage and potential of critical performance as a socially engaged practice within and between Romani communities. The questions this summer school aims to address are: What is the relationship between Romani performance, Romani iterations of performativity and hegemonic knowledge production? What are the slippages amongst these practices?

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Policy and Training courses

Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Water Management
3 July - 7 July, 2017

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. In the fifteen years since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the amount of data available, as well as data collection and processing methods have changed substantially.

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Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction
24 July - 28 July, 2017

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.

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Media Capture: The Relationship Between Power, Media Freedom and Advocacy
26 June - 7 July, 2017

Course structure and objectives
Arguably, the biggest challenge to media freedom and independent journalism today is the systemic political corruption in which private interests shape the decision-making process in state bodies and institutions. Increasingly, a model of captive, politically instrumentalized news media financed by owners, corporations, social and political groups, or governments, is becoming dominant in most parts of the world. This has severe consequences on independent media and journalism.

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Mediation Theory and Skills
3 July - 7 July, 2017
This intensive one-week course facilitates the exchange of ideas and cooperative projects among mediation scholars, practitioners, trainers, and students in the East and West.
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Placing Students in the Center: Student Centered Learning in European Universities
26 June - 30 June, 2017

This course will challenge the participants to debate the benefits, challenges and opportunities raised by the move in higher education towards student centered learning (SCL). The concept has been introduced recently into the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) but universities and national quality assurance agencies need to chart their own implementation standards and guidelines with very little information about what SCL means and how it can be measured.

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Strategic Human Rights Litigation
10 July - 14 July, 2017
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.
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Summer Institute on Social Exclusion and Discrimination of Children and Youth
10 July - 14 July, 2017

Around the world, children and youth face exclusion and discrimination due to disability, race, language, religion, gender, and poverty. This has lifelong consequences on their development, opportunities, and social inclusion.

Inclusive Education: Evidence, activism and converging constituencies
The role of early childhood development in promoting equity and social inclusion: theory, policy and practice
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The Precautionary Principle: Governance of Innovation and Innovations in Governance
24 June - 30 June, 2017
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.
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