NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCES:
CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING
I. Profile
II. Introduction
III. Mission, goals, and preliminary program 2004-2007
IV. First Summer Session, July 5-24, 2004
V. First Inter-Session Workshop, October 22-24, 2004
First Inter-Session Workshop "Nationalism, National Identity, and National Feeling: The Sociological Approach" October 22-24, 2004.
Preliminary Program
VI. Second Inter-Session Workshop, April 21-24, 2005
VII. Second Summer Session, July 18-31, 2005
Second Summer Session "Sociology and Social Anthropology of Post-Soviet Nationalism",
July 18-31, 2005.
Program
VIII. Third Summer Session, July 3-15, 2006
Third Summer Session "Nationalism and Ethnicity Reconsidered: Paradoxes of Post-Modernity and Multiculturalism ",
July 3-15, 2006.
Program
XI. Fifth Inter-Session Workshop, October 6-8, 2006
Fifth Inter-Session Workshop "New theoretical attempts to understand ethnicity and modern nationalism: Paradoxes of post-modernity and multiculturalism",
October 6-8, 2006.
Program
X. Final Spring Workshop, April 26-27, 2007
Final Workshop "The Problem of Tolerance in Classes on Ethnicity and Nationalism",
April 26-27, 2007.
Program
"Coordinator's Column" (Summer Session)
REGRETS
I. Profile
Title: |
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Social Sciences: Challenges for Research and Teaching
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Duration: |
Three years | |
Timing: |
July 2004 – April 2007 | |
Target region: |
Newly Independents States of the former Soviet Union and the countries of the former Socialist bloc in East, South and Central Europe
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Organizers: |
Faculty of Sociology, St. Petersburg State University
International Center for Comparative and Institutional Research, Russia Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Austria Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada Department of Sociology, University of California Los Angeles, U.S.A. |
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Format: |
Summer Sessions in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and inter-session workshops in Fall and Spring 2004-2007 |
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Mission: |
Development of self-sustainable regional research and teaching network;
Elaboration of the innovative academic course syllabi on ethnicity, nationalism, and identity based on the diverse theoretical- methodological approaches, regional experience, actual research outcomes and original inventive teaching techniques; Organization of research teams and elaboration of regional interdisciplinary research proposals with the special reference on the policy implications in the region |
II. Introduction
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In July 2004, Faculty of Sociology at St. Petersburg State University with its co-partners – International Center for Comparative and Institutional Research, Russia; Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, Canada; Department of Sociology at University of California Los Angeles, U.S.A.; and Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Austria – launched the three-year Project
Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Social Sciences:
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III. Mission, goals, and program 2004-2007
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Social transformation after Communist collapse has taken a variety of patterns in post-Socialist countries. In some cases it brought economic growth and the consolidation of a nation. In other cases, instead of stability and economic prosperity, it brought about vast economic recession and disastrous ethnic conflicts. Although many scholars have addressed this challenge since 1989 theoretical and practical results of these attempts are very often questionable. We see our missionin providing an opportunity to start a dialogue between scholars of different ethnic, racial, class, national, educational, disciplinary and cultural background.
Our project is aimed at sharing expertise between resource persons and participants. In the course of the dialogue resource persons provide theoretical and methodological guidance to young social sciences teachers and researchers from former Socialist bloc while the participants share their immediate knowledge and research outcomes with them. Such an interaction serves as a basis for both designing a set of comprehensive syllabi. The collection of syllabi should be used by the scholars in the region, not only by the participants of the school.
Another important outcome we aim at is certainly engaging research teams from the region in national, comparative or interdisciplinary research in ethnicity, identity and nationalism.
The goals of the project may be summarized as
In this regard the expected outcomes of the project are
Preliminary program* of the project includes
July 4 – 23, 2004 The First Summer Session “Socio-Political Turn in Studying Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theoretical Problematics and Problems for Teaching.” Repino, St. Petersburg
October 22 – 24, 2004 The First Inter-Session Fall Workshop "Nationalism, National Identity, and 'National Feeling': The Sociological Approach," St. Petersburg
April 2004 The Second Inter-Session Spring Workshop
July 2005 The Second Summer Session
October 2005 The Third Inter-Session Fall Workshop
April 2006 The Fourth Inter-Session Spring Workshop
July 2006 The Third Final Summer Session
October 2006 The Fifth Inter-Session Fall Workshop
April 2007 The Final Spring Workshop
_______________________ * Each event, including time and place, is to be confirmed in advance and is dependent upon funding available. The program for each event is to approved by the project participants and organizers |
