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Course date
July 2–13, 2007
Location
Budapest
Application deadline
Course delivery
In-person

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 problem 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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