Central European University 2005 Summer Program November 26, 2004
Central European University announces its 2005 Summer Program for university teachers, advanced Ph.D. students, researchers and professionals in the social sciences and humanities. July 4-29, 2005
Central European University 2005 Summer Program
Deadline: February 14, 2005 (Financial Assistance for Applicants from Developing Countries is Possible)
The Summer University was established in 1996 primarily as a vehicle for helping young faculty, researchers and professionals in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by promoting academic cooperation and curriculum development in the social sciences and humanities.
In 2003 the program changed its original mission in an effort to become an internationally known and respected venue for cutting-edge research in a broad array of disciplines. It is aiming to involve a high-level international faculty (including CEU faculty), and excellent advanced doctoral students, junior or
post-doctoral researchers, teachers and professionals as participants. While application from all over the world is encouraged, continued priority is given to applicants from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and countries experiencing emerging democracies worldwide. Applicants from these countries, when admitted on merit, will be eligible for scholarship, while those from developed countries will usually be expected to pay fees.
Course offerings cater for the various needs of academic and professional development across a wide spectrum of disciplines. These include anthropology, art history, environmental sciences, comparative religion, political science, public policy, international relations, legal studies, etc. The program encourages topics in newly emerging fields and transdisciplinary approaches. SUN courses are designed to assist in the developing and refining of participants' research and policy agenda, as well as integrating the teaching of this agenda with innovative research.
The program is unique in its diversity of faculty and student body as well as its academic offerings. It brings together groups of interested individuals to study together intensively for two or three weeks in Budapest coming from an enormously varied geographical, cultural and academic background. Participants have been accepted into the program from 87 different countries ranging from East and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union to countries of Asia, Africa, North America and South America. The courses are taught by a team of teachers who also represent a wide range of countries in an effort to match the diversity of the student body. Professors have come from approximately 48 different countries from the region as well as mostly from Western Europe and America. This exciting
multi-cultural composition of the courses provides a stimulating environment for engaging participants and faculty in an inspiring and enriching dialogue during the summer school.
Eligibility and Funding
Applications are invited from all countries worldwide on a scholarship or a fee-paying basis.
General Eligibility Criteria
Minimum requirement for application is a university degree. Undergraduates without a university degree will not be considered. The program encourages applications from advanced Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, researchers and professionals. Before submitting your application please check at http://www.ceu.hu/sun/index.html whether the course of your choice has any additional course-specific application requirements or deadlines.
The language of instruction is English; thus all applicants have to demonstrate a strong command of poken and written English to be able to participate actively in discussions at seminars and workshops. (In some instances you may be contacted for a telephone interview.)
Individuals are not eligible to apply to a SUN course if they attended a CRC (Curriculum Resource Center) session in the same calendar or academic year (i.e., they must wait one year after their participation in one of the above programs before applying to SUN). Additionally, applicants are not eligible to apply to SUN if they have already participated in two CEU faculty initiative activities (i.e., CRC, SUN) within a four year period. Preference will be given to new applicants over former participants in Summer University courses.
Currently enrolled CEU MA students are not eligible. Ph.D. students may audit the course with the course director's permission.
Program Costs
The program costs are the following:
One-week course
Two-week course
Tuition fee
EUR 250
EUR 500
Accommodation
EUR 17 per night for a double room, including breakfast (Scholarships cover only the cost of rooms with double occupancy.)
EUR 102
EUR 221
EUR 28 per night for a single room, including breakfast
EUR 168
EUR 364
Room prices are subject to change
Applicants from developed countries
Participants from developed countries can be admitted on a fee-paying basis, i.e. they are expected to over their participation costs, which include tuition, travel, accommodation, insurance and living expenses. However, there are a limited number of tuition waivers available, which may be applied for on a competitive basis. If you wish to apply for a tuition waiver, please attach a cover letter to your application specifying your reasons.
Financial Aid
Participants from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and Mongolia, as well as those coming from emerging democracies worldwide can apply for financial aid. See the various financial aid packages below.
Tuition waiver: The tuition fee is provided. Recipients have to cover their own insurance, travel, ccommodation, and living expenses. Hungarian participants with residence in Budapest should choose this category.
Partial SUN Scholarship: Includes tuition fee and accommodation. The recipients of the scholarship have to cover their travel and living expenses.
Full SUN Scholarship: Includes tuition fee, accommodation and a full or partial travel grant. The ecipients of the scholarship have to cover their living expenses.
The Full SUN Scholarships may include a full or partial travel grant which can be applied for on a competitive basis and will be available in a limited number. The maximum travel grant awarded is EUR 1,160; visa costs and short domestic trips are not reimbursed. The citizens of the following countries are not eligible to apply for a travel grant: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and the western part of Ukraine,
i.e. they should choose the
Partial SUN Scholarship
The scholarships do not include insurance or living expenses, participants have to cover these on their own. Living expenses including local transportation and meals are estimated to be EUR 170 for two weeks.
As the number of fully funded scholarships available is limited, funding offered by institutions or individuals is welcome so that we can invite more well qualified applicants. When preparing your application, please consider if you or your institution can contribute to the program expenses. Faculty and Ph.D. students are advised to approach their home departments for travel grants; researchers may have research grants available which can cover their participation; professionals may turn to their employers to fund their training in SUN. While selection of applicants will be based on the academic merit of the applications, those willing to bear the participation costs fully or partially will be preferred in case of equally strong applications. See more information on the various forms of financial aid at:
http://www.ceu.hu/sun
Non-discrimination policy statement
Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of including, but not limited to race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
CEU Summer University Courses 2005
TENTATIVE COURSE LIST
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cultural Learning, Imitation, and Articraft Understanding: A Comparative Perspective, July 4-15, 2005
Course director: Gyorgy Gergely, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Developmental Research Institute for Psychological Research,
Budapest
Comparative Religion
Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist
Religions,
July 4-15, 2005
This course is generously supported by a grant from INTAS for participants from NIS countries.
Course directors: Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University,
Budapest,
Nadia al-Bagdadi, Central European University, Budapest
History, Medieval Studies
Conflict and the Law in Medieval Europe July 18-29, 2005
Course directors: Warren C. Brown, California Institute of Technology, Piotr Gorecki, University of California, Riverside
International Relations
Ethnopolitics in Eurasia and the Middle East,
July 4-15, 2005
This course is generously supported by a grant from INTAS for participants from NIS countries.
Course director: Erin Jenne, Central European University,
Budapest
Globalization, Governance and International Relations Theory,
July 11-22, 2005
with distance learning module before and after
Course director: Roger A. Coate, University of South
Carolina/United Nations University, USA
Nationalism Studies
History and Nationalism in Central Asia,
July 4-15, 2005
This course is generously supported by a grant from INTAS for participants from NIS countries.
Course director: Ablet Kamalov, Al-Farabi Kazakh National
University, Institute of Oriental Studies under the Kazakh
Academy of Sciences, Almaty
Political Science, Public Policy and Administration
X. European Summer School in Local Government Studies Leadership and Local Democracy: Does Leadership Make a difference?
July 4-15, 2005
In co-operation with the EUROLOC Network and co-funded by the European Consortium for Political Research and the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest
Course director: Pawel Swianiewicz, Warsaw University
Please note that the application deadline for this course is April 8, 2005.
Further course-specific application requirements are available at http://www.ceu.hu/sun/index.html
Sociology and Anthropology
Transnational Flows, Structures, Agents and the Idea of Development, July
4-15, 2005
Course directors: Judit Bodnar, Central European University,
Budapest,
Department of History/Sociology,
Ayse Caglar, Central European University, Budapest, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Shalini Randeria, University of Zurich, Department of
Anthropology
Training Courses
Legal Studies, July 4-15, 2005
Mediation and Other Methods to Foster Democratic Dialogue -Introductory Track A Chance to Reform, a Chance to Heal: Exploring the Potential of Restorative Justice Advanced Track In co-operation with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York and Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota
This course is generously supported by a grant from INTAS for participants from NIS countries.
Course directors: Lela P. Love, Kukin Program for Conflict
Resolution at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law/Yeshiva
University,
James R. Coben, Hamline University School of Law
Public Policy and Development
Civil Society Organizations: Promoting Pro-Poor Policy and Social Inclusion, July 11-15, 2005
In co-operation with the Overseas Development Institute (UK) and the Center for Policy Studies at CEU, Budapest with sponsorship of the European Commission FP6 "Structuring the European
Research Area"
Course directors: Diane Stone, Center for Policy Studies,
Central European University, Budapest
John Young, Overseas Development Institute, London
Public Policy
Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations and Local Financial Management, July 4-15, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute, Budapest and the Word Bank Institute, Washington This course is generously supported by a grant from INTAS for participants from NIS countries. With distance learning module Course directors: Adrian Ionescu, Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative of the Open Society Institute,
Budapest,
Serdar Yilmaz, World Bank Institute, Washington,
Jozsef HegedÝs, Metropolitan Research Institute, Budapest
Urban Studies
Strategic Approach to Urban Challenges, July 4-15, 2005
Co-sponsored by the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute, Budapest Course directors: Liviu Ianasi, "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Planning, Bucharest, Katalin Pallai, Urban
Specialist, Budapest
Public Administration
Strategic Corruption Control and Organizational Integrity, July
4-15, 2005
A course in strategic implementation
In co-operation with The Tiri Network, London and the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Course director: Fredrik Galtung, The Tiri Network, London
Applications must be received by the CEU Summer University
Office no later than February 14, 2005.
Applications submitted after the deadline will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
For additional information please contact:
Central European University Summer University Office
Postal address: H-1051 Budapest, Nador u.9. Hungary
Visitors' address: 1051 Budapest, Zrinyi u. 14. Hungary
Tel.: (36-1) 327-3811? Fax: (36-1) 327-3124
E-mail: (for information and general correspondence), (for requesting application forms)
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Deadline: Feb 14, 2005
Website: http://www.ceu.hu/sun/index.html
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