Course requirements

Introduction: The experience of total wars and world revolutions 26. 2. 2009

Recurrent modernization: industrial, political and cultural revolutions 5. 3. 2009

The establishment of socialist and post-socialist cultural hegemony 12. 3. 2009

Post-socialist nationalism and anti-feminism. 12. 3. 2009

National minorities and the challenge of re-emerging forms of conflict and solidarity 19. 3. 2009

The sense of historical injustice and the symbolic power of resentment 19. 3. 2009

Migration, displacement and post-colonial identities in Central Europe 2. 4. 2009

Strategies of cultural assimilation and the politics of naming 2. 4. 2009

The cultural power of naming and political struggle 30. 4. 2009

Nationality, citizenship and social integration in the New Europe 7. 5. 2009

Final paper assignment