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Courses 2021
Discovering the Dutch: Dutch Culture and Society - Track
top courseThis special track explores the question of Dutch identity by placing the history of the Netherlands and Dutch art in a wider European and transatlantic perspective. You will be in...
Dutch Culture: History and Art
top courseDuring this course you will be introduced to the rich cultural traditions developed in the Netherlands from the 17th Century to the present day in artistic fields such as painting,...
The Making of Europe: Rise of Civilization
top courseWe will bring you to the heart of Rome, where you will learn about the political, social and religious history behind the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages and the birth of the Renaiss...
Dutch Culture in a European Context - Track
top courseThis special track offers you the opportunity to study European and Dutch culture from one of the oldest and most beautiful cities of The Netherlands; the city of Utrecht. Excursio...
British Cultural Heritage Programme
The Cultural Heritage programme covers the best of British heritage. You will be able to explore the art, architecture, literature, music, design and popular culture that form the...
The Birth of Feminism: UCL, Bloomsbury and Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism
This module explores the rise of feminism in England from the publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to World War I, when London was a hot house of radical thinking an...
Advanced Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society
top courseThe study of human sexuality involves understanding its complexity and how it represents changing interactions over time involving the self, the body, culture, and power -- and as...
Introduction to Intercultural Communication
top course online courseThis course will be offered in an online setting. This course provides an introduction on foundational theories in the field of intercultural communication. These theories will...
Literature, History and Culture in Central Europe
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Each year, this program aligns with the Authors’ Reading Month, the largest literary festival in Centr...
Victorian Decadents, Degenerates, Goths and Global Citizens
This module explores a wide range of visual and literary texts, from gothic novels to Pre-Raphaelite paintings, which provide a sense of the extraordinary historical richness of th...
The Making of Europe - Track
top courseDive into the thrilling history of Europe and its role on the world stage, studying in three of the most exciting cities of Europe: Rome, Utrecht and Berlin! The combination of thr...
Dutch Culture: Society and Current Issues
top courseIn this course you will explore Dutch culture and identity by focusing on present-day Dutch society and its recent history. You will learn about typically Dutch phenomena such as t...
The 20th Century: Europe in Three Wars
top courseWhen asked about the 20th century in Europe, most people's first associations are either Adolf Hitler or the Second World War. However, during the 20th century, Europe not just exp...
Youth and Globalisation
online courseThis module provides an introduction to youth studies, with a particular focus on critically exploring the association between youth and the globalising world. This module consider...
European Encounters: The Baltics in the European Union - Track
top courseThe Baltic States share an intricate history of repression and liberation and are now thriving culturally and economically. Learn about the history and identity of these countries...
Multidisciplinary Game Research: Between Theory and Practice
top course online courseThis summer course provides a multidisciplinary perspective on games and play in contemporary culture, combining perspectives from various disciplines within the humanities, social...
Arts and Humanities
online courseJoin a global learning community of like-minded people on the Virtual Winter Festival of Learning, from 18-29 January 2021. Discover a range of exciting courses in Arts and Humanit...
European Cultures and Identities
top courseHave you ever wondered what makes Europeans ‘European’? During this course you will uncover the answers while staying in the beautiful medieval city of Utrecht. You will uncover Eu...
The We That is Not I: Communities as Operative Fictions
Communities and collectives are deeply ambivalent structures. They can come to signify either the restriction and oppression of individuals or a site for emancipatory politics and...
Commoning Art and Culture
This course asks how and why art and open societies have sustained each other across history, and how they may continue to do so beyond the crisis they jointly undergo in the curre...
The Making of Europe: The Long 20th Century
top courseWhere better than the thrilling city of Berlin to study the making of Europe in the 20th century? The course will identify the democratic values that have shaped the rebirth of Eur...
Founding Europe: From Antiquity to the 19th Century - Track
top courseCome and study in two of the most exciting cities of Europe: Rome and Utrecht! You will dive into the exhilarating history of Europe, from the rise of civilization in Antiquity to...
Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture: Contemporary Applications
Program description The aim of the course is to give an introduction to Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture, its theoretical background and context as well as new developments a...
Spanish for Intercultural Dialogue
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This Summer School is designed for those who are interested in the language and culture of Spanish-spe...
Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture: Main Theoretical Views and Concepts
online courseProgram description Juri Lotman is a distinguished semiotician, literary scholar and cultural historian, versatile and innovative thinker whose ideas have had extensive impact o...
Railway Stories – Transform Actual Train Journeys into Your Own Art
Many people travel by train on a daily basis. But what if the everyday train journey becomes an extraordinary experience along the railway tracks? In this two-week intensive cou...
The Dark Side of London
online courseThis module focuses on the visual representation of London from the Victorian to the contemporary period. In particular, it aims to analyse how artists and filmmakers have expresse...
Hispanic Footprints in the Heart of Europe
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. This Summer School "Hispanic Footprints in the Heart of Europe: Links and ties between the Hispanic wo...
European Encounters: Diversity and Integration from West to East - Track
top courseThis track is a joint programme on European integration by the Utrecht University’s Summer School and the International Summer University of the University of Tartu. The aim of the...
Ethics in Business & Society and Sustainable Change
Course 1: Sustainable Development & Corporate social responsibility Course Format: 3 hrs per day over 2-weeks; from July 12 - 23 System change is happening. Accelerating chang...
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
top courseSexuality and gender define what it is to be human: they are at the core of our existence. But how does society define and reinforce these concepts? In this summer school, we will...
Society, Technology and Behaviour
online courseThis module aims to explore the relationship between collective and individual behaviour, society and technology. It is especially concerned with how technologies evolve in relatio...
Migration and Integration: Refugees, Rights & Realities
top courseWhat are the legal, political & human ramifications of the current refugee crisis? How should states handle the recent mass migration? What are the forces behind this influx? How d...
Gender Studies
online courseThis module will provide an overview of ‘classical’ and contemporary theorizations of gender, and of the multiple ways in which gender is encountered in every aspect of our lives....
Research Methods in Intercultural Communication
top courseThis course will be offered in an online setting. In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of conducting research in the field of Intercultural Communication. C...
Central Europe: A Birthplace of Modernity
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. ABOUT THE COURSE This summer school will offer a complex take on the historical, cultural, and poli...
Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture
blended courseProgram description Juri Lotman is a distinguished semiotician, literary scholar and cultural historian, versatile and innovative thinker whose ideas have had extensive impact o...
Exploring Culture through Data: Digital methods & Data practices
top courseThe accelerating datafication of society constitutes challenges and opportunities for humanities research. Participants of this course get acquainted with some of the (methodologic...
A Four Seasons' Art, Literature, Nature and Crafts Course
blended courseLiterature, Nature and Sustainability • J-term programs •`May Term Programs • Summer Programs • Semester Programs• Faculty-Led & Customized Programs • Internship Programs The...
Europe: Diversity and Migration
This interdisciplinary summer school offers a comprehensive understanding of the complex relationships between migration and integration processes in a European context, based on t...
The Rise of Modern Europe - Track
top courseSeize the opportunity to stay in two of the most exciting cities of Europe: Utrecht and Berlin, and travel back in time! The two parts of this programme will provide you with an ex...
Music as Heritage: from Tradition to Product
Following the success of the previous two editions of the Music as Heritage course, in 2021 this summer university program will place its focus on Béla Bartók, one of the most infl...
Czech Culture of the 20th Century
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. During the summer program, participants will be offered a rich cultural program that will introduce th...
European Politics and Economy
top courseThe European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 democratic European member states. With almost 500 million citizens, it has become a major player in global politics...
The Making of Europe: From Middle Ages to Modernity
top courseTaking the beautiful city of Utrecht as a starting point, this course will bring you the opportunity to step into history. This historical journey, which illuminates Europe from th...
Past courses
Introduction to Estonia and Finno-Ugric Cultures and Nations
online courseAs Estonia is one of the Uralic nations, it is the best place to get to know Finno-Ugric cultures! A 6-lecture series on Finno-Ugric Studies provides an overview of the Finno-Ugric...
Gestures: How to Analyse Forms, Functions, and Meanings
online courseResearch has shown that the movements a person makes with their hands while talking relate to processes of thinking for speaking, the culture(s) the speaker is part of, and the loc...
African Philosophy in Global Times – Knowledge and Culture
online courseWe live in a time of increasing contact between different cultures. The opportunities, as well as the problems this brings are traceable in all academic disciplines, but especially...
Courses 2020
Enjoy Italy Course
Enjoy Italy course allows students to stay in Italy but out of classroom on foot, and use your 5 senses (watch, listen, feel, smell and taste) fully to experience Italian life....
Cultural Production and Urban Space
Cultural Production and Urban Space An international summer school (BA and MA-levels, 7.5 ECTS) at University of Copenhagen, 6th to 19th of August 2020. Deadline for application...
Migration and Cinema: Representations and Politics
This course is designed to introduce students to the phenomenon of contemporary international migration through the lenses of Cultural Pluralism and Accented Cinema. The rise in gl...
Gender Research Workshop: "Women Walking in the City"
online courseInspired by the journey of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Lauren Elkin’s critical work Flaneuse, this workshop seeks to explore the idiosyncratic journey of various women in the...
Visualizing Socialism
Students will be introduced with the key points of various visual values produced anthropology, through watching and analyzing important audiovisual achievements, such as avant-gar...
Multifaceted Relations: Africa - Asia
Week 1 - Asia and Africa: The Way Two Continents Interact Asia and Africa are two mega-spaces on earth which occupy almost 70% of the world population and cover about 30% of the...
Psychology of Music
top courseMusic is a cultural signature of our species, appearing frequently in daily life, across human societies, and throughout our history with striking diversity. Why are we musical? Ho...
Recreating the Metropolis
Recreating the Metropolis The topography of Berlin can be examined as a microcosm of German history and memory. The presences and absences of the German monarchy, the Weimar Rep...
Eastern European Perspectives
online courseNOTE: This is an online course. This JASSY interdisciplinary module offered by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași is an excellent choice if you are in search of a unique lea...
Liverpool, a City of Transformations
This module explores different representations of Liverpool through the ages to ask what they tell us about the city’s past and present. Each two-hour session will consist of a lec...
Advanced Creativity: Disruption and Originality
Learn to think and design differently to create disruptive and original solutions in creativity and innovation. The word "creativity" has become a hyper-concept, a somewhat diff...
Migrant Spaces of Europe
Migrant Spaces of Europe The relationship between urban space and migration has been full of challenges and inspirations in Europe. While migrants have a great impetus on the de...
Understanding Africa
online courseThis online course provides participants with an overall understanding of the history, politics and culture of Africa. With a diverse range of sessions, from History, Pan-Africanis...
Specialized Course on Cultural Heritage, Crime and Security
online courseThe protection of cultural heritage is a critical component within the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, as reported under Goal 11 through which count...
The Body Remembers What the Mind Forgets": Memory, Trauma and Writing
online courseIn this session, we will think about the relationship between trauma and memory. We will explore ideas from key thinkers, and have discussions on how trauma affects our relationsh...
Heritage Protection in Urban Conflicts
Heritage Protection in Urban Conflicts An international summer school (BA and MA-levels, 7.5 ECTS) at the University of Copenhagen, 3rd of August to 14th of August 2020. Deadline...
Irish Studies
This course comprises an integrated introduction to Irish Studies incorporating elements from all the contributing disciplines, a series of interdisciplinary seminars focusing on k...
Cultural Studies
Frankfurt Summer School 2020 offers the following academic modules in the Cultural Studies (taught in the mornings): • Literatura, Memoria y Cuerpo / Literature, Memory and Body (...
Feminist No Borders Summer School
The Feminist No Borders Summer School is three years in the making. The brainchild of Feminist Researchers Against Borders (FRAB) has survived a packed classroom in the Polytechnic...
Critical Studies of Food
online courseFood is presented in all its complex connections with culture, nutrition, environment, society, economics and politics. Course topics are accompanied by practical activities, rangi...
Culture, Economy and Society in Socialism and Cultural Heritage
The focus of this course will be: - the nature of economic systems; - planned socialism and market socialism; - the worldwide performance of different systems and the collaps...
Autoethnography and the Senses Workshop
online courseThis workshop offers delegates the opportunity to examine personal narrative by exploring appropriate use of autoethnography in qualitative research and focuses on the ’I’ in writi...
Gastronomy & Oenology
online courseDue to the covid-19 outbreak, this course will be taught virtually in 2020. We need to eat and drink to survive but we don't settle for anything. Why do we spend hours cooking d...
Contemporary Buddhism
The summer school enquires into contemporary Buddhism as an interdisciplinary topic of investigation through bridging area studies, religious studies, anthropology, sociology and p...
Liverpool, City of Music
Here in Liverpool, a port city on the north-west coast of England, statues of the Beatles provide an obvious example of the city’s association with music. Perhaps the world’s most...
Heritage Protection in Urban Conflicts
This course will focus on the humanitarian issue of ensuring the effective protection of our common cultural heritage during armed conflict, as well as the various actors at play i...
The Politics of Suspicion
top course[Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this programme has been cancelled for summer 2020. If you are interested, please visit the programme website and send us an email. We will keep you p...
Youth Summer School - Sustainable Development in Sweden
A four-week summer course introducing students to sustainable development practices in a Swedish context, as well as developing their English language skills. Students will discove...
Nuclear Tourism in Post-Soviet Sites
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes will take place in 2021. We will announce new dates once they are available. The world has recently been shaken by a dramatized TV r...
Contemporary Buddhism
International summer school (BA and MA-levels, 7.5 ECTS) University of Copenhagen ⋅ 27 July–7 August 2020 Deadline for applications: 1 April 2020 NOTE: Second round of applic...
Urban Culture in Theory and Action
1234 Urban Culture in Theory and Action is an international summer school (BA and MA-levels) at the University of Copenhagen, 30th of July to 20th of August 2020. Deadline for app...
Yoga: A Global History from its Origins to the Present
The current popularity of yoga across the world has led millions of people to practice it — and has made millions more aware of its existence. How different are modern yoga practic...
Analytical Methods and Unruly Concepts
top courseIn this course we set out to explore analytical methods as tools to ‘make’ concepts. Ethnographic concepts are an achievement of fieldwork and writing practices. They blend the emp...
Race, Islam and the Idea of Europe
top courseThis course will explore how and in what way ideas of Europe have emerged that rely, firstly, on particular understandings of Islam and, secondly, on forms of racialization or race...
COVID-19 in Africa: Health, Economic and Political Challenges
online courseThis online Bordeaux Summer School is open to graduate and doctoral students as well as professionals interested in the multidisciplinary issues raised by the COVID-19 epidemic in...
The Beautiful Mind: Global Perceptions of Mental Health
How young is too young to diagnose a child with bipolar disorder? What is the solution to alcohol addiction in South Korea? What is normal – and does “normal” even exist? To ex...
Research Methodology and Field Techniques
To provide basic outlines on epistemological, methodological and practical matters of ethnographic research. Understanding of the relationship between methodological practice,...
Hadrianus Academy
A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME IN LIVING AND LEARNING IN THE LEGACY OF EMPEROR HADRIAN. Spark your intellectual curiosity and enhance your skills in an intensive Gran Sasso...
From Gentrification to the Urban Revolution: or, Why Capital Loves the City (and What That Means for the Rest of Us)
top courseIt is hardly remarkable anymore to point to the central role gentrification plays in shaping cities and their social and economic life. And it seems like nothing more than a common...
A Cultural History of the Devil
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Viadrina Summer Program 2020 has been postponed. You’ve heard of him – but do you really know who he is? The Devil – also known as Lucifer, Sat...
Folklore Fellows' Summer School
Due to the covid-19 outbreak, all programmes for 2020 have been cancelled. Analytical perspectives and scholarly discussions on cultural heritage and memory, ethnic cleansing, r...
Japan Orientation
Due to current developments around the COVID-19 pandemic we have made the difficult decision to postpone summer study programmes at UEA for 2020, and have closed all applications....
Borders in Central and Eastern Europe - States, Migration and Mobility from 1800 to the Present
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Viadrina Summer Program 2020 has been postponed. This course deals will various kinds of borders in Central and Eastern Europe from 1800 to the...
Football City: Sport and Culture in Liverpool
Professional football has its roots in the working class communities of Victorian Britain and it developed into a global industry in the late 20th century. This module will exa...
Holocaust Remembrance
The main body of the course consists of the 3 main strands in the programme, as follows: - History of Second World War - Working in multidisciplinary teams - Problems in socie...
Intercultural Integration
Cultural Diversity (week 1) This course introduces you to the most important foundations of the study and research on cultural diversity. From the principal understanding, that di...
Kierkegaard – The Individual in Global Society
Once again, the Faculty of Theology and the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre are pleased to offer a course on the thought of Søren Kierkegaard in his hometown and at his own unive...
Memory: Embodiment and Corporeality
online courseCostumes and performances highlight the body memory and how people utilise the space that religion and culture provides for them to maintain personal as well as their masquerader c...
Munich-Berlin Middle East Summer School
During the 2020 Munich-Berlin Middle East Summer School, students will be provided with a broad understanding of the key political, economic, and societal developments in the conte...
Learning to Unlearn Decolonially
top courseColoniality of knowledge, aesthetics and spirituality are areas of experience managed and controlled by major Western institutions. The combination of institutions and languages se...
Anthropological Approaches to Understanding the Socialism
Socialism as an ideology and as a basis for social arrangement of certain number of countries in the world has been in the focus of the research community since the time of their c...
ITMO Spring Hype
Do you want to know more about Russian Language and Culture, ITMO University and St. Petersburg? Join our school and get ready for an exciting journey! During this journey, you...
Courses 2019
The Local Impact of Global Migration
In this module we will examine the consequences of migration in an urban context. We will look at images, pictures, cartoons, architecture and all other traces of migration in the...
French Cuisine and Gastronomy: an Exceptional Art de Vivre |No.1
The Sorbonne Summer University offers 14 cycles - 12 in French and 2 in English - taught by academics from the Sorbonne University. This cycle invites to discover France and th...
Challenging the Sites of Knowledge. Medial and Pluri-Medial Configurations and Transformations
Due to the impact of globalization and technological development, we are witnessing a growth and diversification of the sites of knowledge generation and the ways in which a variet...
The Struggle for the Truth. Institutions of Culture in Polarized Societies
Technische Universität Dresden Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresd...
Russian Attitudes and Values
This course is focused on intercultural communication issues with a special stress on Russian attitudes and values. This course will help the students who intend to build a Russia...
Sarajevo Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian Language and Culture School
An UONEDU Summer School of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language (s) provide the perfect setting for students to learn or develop their Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian language skills, si...
European Campus of Intercultural Perspectives
Contact with people from other cultures at work and in everyday life is a common fact nowadays, a consequence of increasing globalisation and migration. Intercultural competence ha...
Dance and Movement Science
In the course of increasing migration movements, the importance of intercultural competence acquisition is increasingly coming to the fore. It is therefore all the more important t...
Holocaust and Genocides in the East
The theme of this year’s summer school is ‘The religious aspect of cultural trauma’. In this framework we will examine three cases of genocides/cultural traumas, each one of them s...
International Baltic Summer School in Canadian Studies: Rethinking Canada
We welcome students interested in Canadian studies to participate in the first International Baltic Summer School in Canadian studies which introduces major themes and events of Ca...
French Cuisine and Gastronomy: an Exceptional Art de Vivre |No.2
The Sorbonne Summer University offers 14 cycles - 12 in French and 2 in English - taught by academics from the Sorbonne University. This cycle invites to discover France and th...
Danube School 2019: "Cultural Diversity and Identity in the Danube Region"
The Danube School Series is a short term study program for postgraduate students and young professionals, who learn and discuss about facts, challenges and projects of the Danube...
Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans
The 14th Konitsa Summer School offers a full academic programme with an emphasis on theoretical, epistemological and methodological issues in Sociocultural Anthropology. The Scho...
Health, Well-being and Culture
What does it mean to be sick and what does it mean to be healthy? What is the role of culture in how we experience and practice our well-being in the world? How do people negotiate...
Being on the Border History and Theory of Cut in Humanities and Social Sciences
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is launching a Winter School that aims at critically analysing the multifarious notion of cut. The notion of cut plays a crucial role in diffe...
Cultures, Migrations, Borders
The program of the course is structured around five thematic axes: a. Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of migration and borders. b. Institutional and political...
Russian History, Arts and Life
Four EUSP professors will deliver courses tailored for a better understanding of Russia through lectures specifically focusing on St. Petersburg. However, the topics explored in ea...
Smolensk and its Places for Memory in the Historical and Cultural Space of Russia
The cource is multidisciplinary. It consists of three components. They are history, language and culturology. There are also classes in the Russian language. The program consists o...
Management of Social Transformation (UNESCO MOST) Winter School
The main aim of the Winter School is to introduce the results of a large-scale research project on the preservation of cultural heritage implemented by the Institute of Advanced St...
Central European Culture & History
To know the history will help students to understand current geopolitics of Central European region and international relations in whole Europe. Prague is a pulsing modern city as...
Danube School Ruse 2019 – "Turning Point"
We are pleased to announce the current call for applications for the Danube School "Turning point" 19-21.12.2019 in Ruse, Bulgaria. The Danube School Ruse 2019 is a part of the D...
Learning from local communities and local people embedded in global frames
The 2nd Edition of "Learning from local. Communities and Local People embedded in Global Frames" Summer School aims to promote a deeper understanding of the social changes that lo...
Field Course - Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to think critically about the research process in the conduct of research. It is not a methods course or a summer in...
Human Resources Management, Leadership and Culture in an International Context
Human Resources Management, Leadership and Culture in an International Context. This Summer Course is a two week 4 ECT program focusing on adding a global dimension to the particip...
Courses 2018
Identity in a Globalised World
Description: The concept of identity plays a central role in current social debates and political polarisation. While some describe identity as an open construct that reflects glo...
International Summer School on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice
Students taking the programme will examine the theories and practices of conflict transformation from within local and global perspectives that will include case studies of Norther...
Between fairy tales and world wars – the culture module of the ISU
The International Summer University at Kassel is a unique short term education program specially dedicated to international students. Every year about 50 participants take seminar...
Crossing Borders in a Changing World
The 2018 Summer School at the University os Mannheim's School of Humanities is focused on crossing borders in a changing world. Students can choose from five classes taught by reno...
Homecooking
You can learn Italian way of life as well as cooking recipe. Florence surrounded by nature’s bliss, rolling hills of grapes and wheat field. Mother’s affections, people’s smiles an...
Tricksterology: The political Anthropology of Evil
We have the pleasure to announce the launch of the newest Summer School of International Political Anthropology (IPASS) based at the University College Cork. The them of this 9th I...
Managing Cultural Diversity course in Eindhoven
In July & August 2018, Maastricht School of Management offers you the opportunity to follow up to four intensive summer courses to become ‘certified in management.’ You can apply f...
Made in Italy
The training week is divided into topic days, lectures given by university professors, talks given by professionals, face to face interaction and workshops. At the end of the week’...
Gelato Making in Italy
Italy has a long history of “gelato” from the Roman Empire, the “modern” history of gelato begins in the Renaissance with alchemist Cosimo Ruggieri, who is credited with creating t...
Migration and Innovation
The Danube School is a short term study program for postgraduate students and young professionals, who learn and discuss about facts, challenges and projects of the Danube Region....
International Summer School in Irish Studies
Now in its eighteenth year, the International Summer School on Irish Studies is proving just as popular as ever with participants of all ages coming from all over the world to atte...
Academic Courses in Classical Civilisation
The Greek and Roman cultures marked a high point in philosophy, art and writing that was never seen again for 1500 years. Studying classical civilisation involves getting to grips...
Ethnographic collections, aspects of research, preservation and conservation
In this 8-day programme, experts, in cooperation with museums, will guide you. The days are usually divided in a more theoretical morning, while in the afternoon the focus is on ap...
Health, Well-Being and Culture
What does it mean to be sick and what does it mean to be healthy? What is the role of culture in how we experience and practice our well-being in the world? How do people negotiate...
Design for Health Care - Youth Care Innovation
Youth care innovation platform Garage 2020 has conducted research on the state of foster care family recruitment in The Netherlands. Based on their data analysis a customer journey...
Multiculturalism and Diversity
Contemporary society is characterized by diversity, including racial, religious, cultural, and linguistic diversity. The aim of the course is twofold: (1) to examine varying forms...
Contemporary Society and Religion: Conversion of Multiple Religions
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, would like to invite you to its international summer school, titled: “Contemporary Society...
Courses 2017
Winter Italian Home Cooking Course
Special Dishes for Special Day - Enjoy a wonderful Italian Christmas time while learning how to prepare some of Italy’s most delicious traditional dishes. Christmas cuisine incl...
Bordering and Othering: How Inner Asian Identities Have Been Shaped
The main aim of this Summer School is to delve into the ways that identities in China and Inner Asia have been changing, shaped and re-shaped depending on political, economic, and...
The History of Food in Italy
This 2 week program gives an overview of the evolution of the food system in Italy. By food system we mean everything to do with food, including its production, storage, processing...
Working Across Cultures in a Global World
The course springs from the importance of intercultural competencies for the 21st century personal and professional worlds. It starts by supporting students in analysing their inte...
Dutch Culture in European Context
This special track offers you the opportunity to study European and Dutch culture from one of the oldest and most beautiful cities of The Netherlands; the city of Utrecht. Excursio...
Ethnographic collections, aspects of research, preservation and conservation
The summer school will take eight days, including an excursion day in the weekend. Each day experts and students will discuss a topic in the morning. In the afternoon the focus is...
Post Conflict Societies
The course is about learning about the condition of the country after the Conflicts have ended
China, the US, Europe and the Rise of Asia: Ideas, Culture and Perceptions
Using historical, cultural, and sociological documents and data, this course examines the dominant self-perception of what are arguably the three most important global players, the...
Poverty and Human Development
This course will take you outside the world you know and grew up in and try to answer questions like: What does it mean to be “poor”? What is live like when living under a dollar p...
Conflict Resolution
You will be studying and learning about development in practice in a post-conflict area right in the middle of Europe.
European Cultures and Identity
Ever wondered what makes Europeans ‘European’? During this course you will uncover the answers while staying at the beautiful medieval city of Utrecht. You will not only uncover Eu...
The Making of Europe - From Middle Ages to Modernity
Taking the beautiful city of Utrecht as a starting point, this course will bring you the opportunity to really ‘step into history’. The many museums, cathedrals and canals of Utrec...
Central Europe: A Birthplace of Modernity
The program of the summer school consist of daily seminars, lectures, a cultural program, excursions, and field trips. The full program consists of forty-eight seminar hours (typ...
Cities in the Danube Region
The Danube Summer School (DSS) is an annual short term study program for postgraduate students and young professionals, who learn and discuss about facts, challenges and projects o...
The Making of Europe - Rise of Civilization
Discover Europe’s roots in this two-weeks course that takes you to the ‘Eternal City’: Rome, Italy. During this course you will make a voyage from Antiquity to the later Middle Age...
The Making of Europe – special track
Dive into the history of Europe and its role on the world stage with this multidisciplinary approach to numerous life-changing events from a political, economic and societal perspe...
Medicine and Human rights in Cross cultural perspective
top courseThe Medical Anthropology and Sociology winter school courses takes place annually in January. These short, intensive courses are designed to offer participants both an overview of...
Materiality: New Perspectives on Culture and Technology
Description: Against the backdrop of continual technological innovations, the question of what constitutes ‘material’ has gained fundamental significance. How does the perceptio...
Central European Culture and History
The first two days the interactive lectures will cover national diversity and secularization, the reflection of migration, Central European history and law. Students work on differ...
Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience
The Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience is organized by the Karlshochschule International University and InterCultur gemeinnützige GmbH. It approaches relevant topics in the...
A French cultural experience: fashion, gastronomy, perfumes
Paris is a dream city for anyone interested in fashion, culture, history, arts... French craftsmanship and savoir-faire are recognized worldwide and build on centuries of history a...
Courses 2016
Contested geographies: old and new connections between the Middle Kingdom and its neighbours
Our one-week intensive summer school will bring together scholars and students to discuss and learn about the Central Asia as well as other neighbours of the Middle Kingdom. This s...
Equestrian Normandy
Oral and written communication, reinforcement of grammatical structures, vocabulary enrichment, work in a digital audio lab. For students who do not wish to register for an option...
World on the move – and Europe? : Migration, Identity, Security
The objective of the Spring University Prague 2016, “World on the move – and Europe?”, organized by Charles University in Prague, is to provide students with a broad understanding...
Bodies of war
Classes are held from 9.00 to 15.00 Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday – free time. Working languages English and Russian. An interpreter provided All participants who at...
Intercultural Communication: Russian attitudes and values
This course enables the students to understand the “mysterious Russian soul”, the behavior, the dreams and fears of every Russian. This course will help the students who intend to...
Public Health and Human Rights
he importance of public health is growing and this theme has a potential to become one most pressing issues in the future. For example, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs are: comb...
Cultural immersion
The course includes extra Russian language course and a 3-days trip to the traditional riding-horse center "The Grey Horse" where participants will have a chance to explore folk ga...
Gender violence in war conflicts
Classes are held from 9.00 to 15.00 Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday – free time. Working languages English and Russian. An interpreter provided All participants who at...
Migration, displacement and entrapment in contemporary war conflicts
Classes are held from 9.00 to 15.00 Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday – free time. Working languages English and Russian. An interpreter provided All participants who at...
Walling
Walling: breaking and barring reality, creating an unreal state and the absurd with to overcome it Contemporary challenges related to borders and encirclement, such as colonisat...
Memory, Trauma, Representation: Perspectives from the Fields of War, Gender, and Refugee Studies
Classes are held from 9.00 to 15.00 Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday – free time. Working languages English and Russian. An interpreter provided All participants who at...
Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Management
Designed for advanced degree students, public and private sector executives, the ICH Research & Management International Summer School delivers theoretical and practical framework...
Cultural representations of trauma: in art, literature and cinema
Classes are held from 9.00 to 15.00 Monday to Friday Saturday and Sunday – free time. Working languages English and Russian. An interpreter provided All participants who at...
Culture & Heritage
Oral and written communication, reinforcement of grammatical structures, vocabulary enrichment, work in a digital audio lab. Optional module : CULTURE & HERITAGE - CIE 1 and/or C...
European Minority Rights and Minority Protection Regime
The one week course will provide the participants with thorough knowledge of minority issues covering a variety of topics – from the history of minority rights and international la...
Courses 2015
Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities
Traditional research in the social sciences and humanities is challenged by the emergence of new methods and tools that allow us to gain and compute more knowledge integrating vari...
Walking the line – Art of Border Zones in Times of Crisis
The production and circulation of art in times of crisis is the topic of this year’s summer school hosted by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”. At the...
Methodological Intersections: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School
The Trier Center for Digital Humanities at Trier University and the University of Luxembourg invite PhD students and postdoctoral scholars to participate in our inaugural Internati...
The Political Anthropology of Artificial Creation: Technology in Politics, in Economics and in Art
The theme of our 2015 Summer School is technology, understood as a modality of ‘artificial creation’. The central aim is to problematize the taken for granted character of technolo...
Heritage and Creativity
The Heritage and Creativity summer course for adult learners is a one-week course (13 to 17 July 2015) held in Peniche, Portugal, aiming at the study of Heritage and Creativity iss...
Visual Methods Seminar
The 2015 IVMS will emphasize visual studies of urban cultures and the application of visual methods in general to research and teaching. Seminar activities are designed and led by...
English as a Foreign Language
Specialized, small group, 2-week, fully-inclusive summer packages, living with the Forrest family in the heart of the beautiful Irish countryside, combining English tuition with an...
Arabic Codicology: The Islamic Handwritten Tradition and its Reception in the El Escorial Collection
The course, co-organised by Al-Furqan Foundation and the Complutense University, and directed by Nuria Martínez-de-Castilla, will be taught by specialists of Arabic manuscripts, am...
Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium
The objective of the Spring University Prague 2015, „Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium“, provided by Charles University in Prague, is to provide students w...
Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium
The objective of the Summer University Prague 2015, “Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium”, is to provide students with a broad understanding of the most sign...
Courses 2014
Politics, Economies, and Societies of the Middle East
This program provides students with broad understanding of political, economic and societal developments in the contemporary Middle East. It is based on an interdisciplinary approa...
Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium
The objective of the Summer University Prague 2014, „Reconfiguring Europe: an Old Continent in a New Millennium“, is to provide students with a broad understanding of the most sign...
Destination Barcelona: la ciudad y su escritura
Destination Barcelona: la ciudad y su escritura es un curso en que, a través de la conceptualización y el desarrollo de un proyecto periodístico (un fanzine, un diario, una revista...
Fulbright International Summer Institute
The Fulbright International Summer Institute (FISI) is an academic and cultural program created by the Bulgarian-American Fulbright Commission in 2002. FISI offers one-week inte...
Academic Reflections and Media Practice on Politics and Culture
The international Summer School, "Broadcasting the Americas: Academic Reflections and Media Practice on Politics and Culture", is an Erasmus IP project of nine European universitie...
Sapienza Summer School - Italian Language and Culture
Sapienza Summer School targets foreign students and it focuses on the Italian language and culture. It consists of two independent and parallel courses, taught in English and in It...
Management of Artistic and Cultural Events
The aim of this Summer School is to provide the tools to design, plan, prepare and organize art events and exhibitions and workshops in order to train professionals capable of desi...
Courses 2013
Nation, Democracy and Citizenship in Central Europe
The Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University is happy to announce its 2013 Summer School Program. Entitled, "Nation, Democracy and Citizenship in Central Europe"...
Courses 2012
British Archaeology
The Corpus Christi College Summer School in British Archaeology provides in-depth teaching in all of the major periods of British Archaeology within a European context and is tau...
Courses 2010
Ek-stasis (out of ordinary) in Politics: Studying revolutions, wars, and other liminal moments
Second IPA Summer School in International Political Anthropology 26 June – 4 July 2010, Florence, Italy Theme: Ek-stasis (out of ordinary) in Politics: Studying revolution...