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Summer schools are courses organized during the summer break from academic activities, usually intented to explore and deepen the knowledge of a specific theme related to one's field of study. PECOB collects information of upcoming summer schools taking place in Central Eastern and Balkan Europe or dealing with this region.
Forthcoming summer schools will address post-enlargement EU policies, Ukraine since 1991 and its relations to the European Union and anthropology and folklore of the Balkans. Other courses will focus on global governance and international institutions and violence in soviet and post-soviet contexts.
The KAS RLPSEE and the Association “PRAVNIK” are proud to open the application process for the International Summer School Sarajevo 2015 "Transforming Legal Systems from South-East European Countries to Respond to Human Rights Challenges".
The last three decades of the Soviet Union prior to perestroika have been labelled the time of “thaw” and “stagnation” but also “mature” or “late” socialism. The controversies and legacy of that period have not rendered a simple overarching theory. The Tallinn Summer School in Social and Cultural Studies will bring together leading scholars and PhD students who are interested in discussing the Soviet Union from late 1950s to early 1980s.
For the fourth year the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean and the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam welcome applications for the Summer School ‘Cultures, Migrations, Borders’ that will take place on the island of Lesvos from 6 to 18 July, 2015.