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Courses 2024
Latvia's Cultural Canon 2024
Latvian Language and Culture Summer School “Latvia's Cultural Canon” comprises two parts: Latvian language learning and Latvia's Culture Canon studies. This Summer School aims to...
Gender and Sexuality: Pasts, Presents, Futures
This course explores issues of gender and sexuality in the contemporary world with a special emphasis on LGBTQ+ issues, and asks: How has history formed the present that we find ou...
Semiotics, Pop Culture, Animals and the Environment
This course will examine how the relationships and meanings associating humans, animals, and the environment are mediated, constructed, and perceived within pop culture. Animals, e...
The 20th Century: Europe in Three Wars
top courseWhen asked about the twentieth century in Europe, most people's first associations are either Adolf Hitler or the Second World War. However, during the 20th century, Europe not jus...
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...
Temporal Sounds
blended courseThe Summer School TEMPORAL SOUNDS thematically focuses on the fascinating connection between sound and time and opens up a field of experimentation for the combination of artistic...
The Making of Europe: From the 20th to the 21st Century
top courseMany deeply impacting developments occurred over the course of the 20th century: Two World Wars were fought, the birth of the European Union and the fall of Communism, just to name...
Exploring Culture through Data: Digital Methods & Data Practices
top courseAre you curious, eager to learn and would you like to have an enriching experience during your summer holidays? This course would make a great opportunity! The accelerating datafic...
International Week Future Leaders
Why participate? The world is changing rapidly. Today, more than ever, it calls for authenticity, transparency and leading from the heart. True qualities of leadership cannot be...
The Politics of Disablement
top courseThe Politics of Disablement Summer School brings together scholars from various fields in the humanities and social sciences interested in thinking about the intersection of disabi...
Courses 2025
Methods in Digital Heritage
This intensive course examines the 'Digital Turn' in cultural heritage studies. We will focus on its historical importance and modern relevance for managing cultural sites and muse...
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Courses 2024
Liverpool’s Global Impact: A City of Cultural and Economic 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...
Monarchy: A Royal History of London
Level 4 This course examines London as the historical setting for monarchy and national ceremonial. As such the course considers Royalty’s central place in British life and exam...
A Sexual History of London
Level 5 Pre-requisite: students must have completed at least one year of University study to be considered for this module. In this module, students get an interdisciplinary...
Art and Society
Level 4 This module is an introduction to the visual culture of London, including painting, architecture, photography and contemporary media. Students will visit the major art g...
Society, Technology and Behaviour
This module aims to explore the relationship between collective and individual behaviour, society and technology. It is especially concerned with how technologies evolve in relatio...
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...
B-YOUTH 24
The 2024 edition of the B-YOUth Summer School (see 2023 and 2022 editions) which will be held in Como, Monte Barro, from 16th to 20th June 2024, will be dedicated to an in-depth ex...
Introduction to Estonia, Finno-Ugric Cultures and Nations
As Estonia is one of the Uralic nations, it is the best place to get to know Finno-Ugric cultures! A 6-day workshop on Finno-Ugric Studies provides an overview of the Finno-Ugric n...
French Gastronomy |No.2
The Sorbonne Summer University offers 15 cycles - 13 in French and 2 in English - taught by academics from the Sorbonne University. France is one of those countries that has a...
Urban Imaginaries: Between Place and Space in Berlin
Urban studies and its discourse on the city draw on scholarship from fields as diverse as human geography, history, anthropology and the arts. Berlin, with its seemingly infinite p...
Introduction to Sexuality Studies
Sexuality 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...
Animals Matter: Transforming Perspectives through Human-Animal Studies
This course covers various aspects of the dynamic and expanding interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies, sometimes known as critical animal studies, to which students are g...
Youth and Globalisation
This 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...
The Rise of Modern Europe
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...
From the Field to the Screen and Back: Creating Identity, Community and Music as Cultural Heritage through Contemporary Storytelling
After five successful editions, we continue our summer course addressing music as a cultural heritage from theoretical and professional aspects. In 2024, we will focus on storytell...
Murder, Media and Morality in Victorian London
Level 4 The module explores the Ripper murders, social history of the East End, London in the late Victorian era, the representation of the killings in the media, in film and li...
Black London: Black History in London from Tudors to Today
Level 4 Although they are often marginalised, communities of colour are at the very centre of London’s history from the Tudors to today. In this module, students explore the lon...
English Language, British Culture and Intercultural Skills (Session 1)
English is a global language, and as such, it serves a variety of purposes for people around the world. For some, it’s purely functional, for others, it’s a gateway to other cultur...
Sustainable Food Systems in Italy
Embark on a culinary journey through the breathtaking landscapes of Sicily, the "breadbasket of the Roman empire". Discover award-winning wineries, olive groves, honey farms, and m...
French Gastronomy |No.1
The Sorbonne Summer University offers 15 cycles - 13 in French and 2 in English - taught by academics from the Sorbonne University. France is one of those countries that has a...
Identity and Nationhood through the Lens of Wales
Claims about identity and national belonging have become an increasingly important feature of political debate and dynamics around the world in recent years.
Arcane Worlds: New Frontiers in the Study of Esotericism
The study of esotericism is a broad and many-faceted field. In the past, it has been described as 'othered knowledge', and esotericism has often been treated as a fringe pseudo-sci...
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,...
Cultural Heritage and Identity in Italy
Uncover the mosaic of Sicilian culture, shaped by millennia of civilizations. From the Phoenicians to the Romans, Normans, Arabs, and more, Sicily's identity is a living, evolving...
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...
Arts in Venice: The Shape of Water
The Arts in Venice Summer School ‘The Shape of Water’ is a unique inter-university project that offers students a multidisciplinary program in the historic city of Venice and in it...
Murder, Media and Morality in Victorian London
Level 4 The module explores the Ripper murders, social history of the East End, London in the late Victorian era, the representation of the killings in the media, in film and li...
Dutch Culture in a European Context
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...
Psychology of City Life
Level 5 This module aims to provide students with the opportunity to engage with a range of topics and issues in psychology that relate to growing up and living in or visiting a...
Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Global North and the Global South
top course blended courseThe study of cultural and creative entrepreneurship is a specialism of the dept. Arts Culture and Media in Groningen. The topic is normally approached from a western and economic p...
Spanish Culture & Society
Which social, political, cultural and both national and international phenomena define Spain as it enters the 3rd decade of the 21st century? To answer this question, this course a...
Introduction to Estonia and Finno-Ugric Cultures and Nations
As 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...
Crime and the London Underworld
Level 4 London and its criminal areas from the earliest times; changing nature of London criminal ‘underworld’ from modernity to late modernity. Notorious criminal families a...
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 examine...
European Politics and Economy
top courseThe European Union (EU) is a political partnership between 28 democratic European countries. With almost 500 million citizens, it has become a major player in global politics. In t...
Mythos as MythUs
blended courseThe Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as being humanity’s voice, long-shared, with which to respond to harsh...
The Family of Tomorrow: Navigating Diversity, Inclusion and Gender Identity
In the rapidly changing landscape of family dynamics and parenthood, this course delves deep into the intricate web of modern family structures, gender equality, and the evolving r...
The Making of Europe
top courseDive into the thrilling history of Europe and its role on the world stage, zooming in to three of the most exciting cities of Europe: Rome, Utrecht and Berlin! The combination of t...
Cultural Heritage, Crime and Security
blended 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...
French Language & Culture
This course is aimed at beginner students who have never done a French language course prior to their arrival in France. The course will introduce the students to the most frequent...
English Language, British Culture and Intercultural Skills (Session 2)
English is a global language, and as such, it serves a variety of purposes for people around the world. For some, it’s purely functional, for others, it’s a gateway to other cultur...
European Encounters
top courseThis track is a joint programme on European integration by the Utrecht University’s Summer School and the University of Latvia. The aim of the course is to introduce the diversity...
Victorian Decadents, Degenerates, Goths and Global Citizens
Formerly known as Victorian Revolutions and Evolutions: Literature and Visual Culture, this module has now changed title to better reflect the variety of perspectives and ideas loo...
Shakespeare, His World Our World
This module will explore how Shakespeare has become central to our way of thinking about ourselves and about others. His work permeates cultures across the world, where his writin...
Hebrew Codicology Summer School
During this 1-week intensive course, participants will learn the basics of Hebrew codicology and manuscript description, including an introductory overview of Hebrew palaeography,...
Climate, Change and Culture
Level 5 Pre-requisite: students must have completed at least one year of University study to be considered for this module. This module looks at the impact of climate change...
Hungary on a Plate: Bitesize History of Hungarian Gastronomy
The course will provide an insight into a lesser-known field of Hungarian culture by familiarizing participants with the gastronomic and culinary history of Hungary and the Carpath...
Intercultural Competence for Students
top courseBusinesses know that productivity depends on a work force that is socially and emotionally competent. If you want to become successful in a diverse world, a large part of that succ...
EasEuropean Perspectives on Culture, History and Integration
This JASSY interdisciplinary module offered by Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași is an excellent choice if you are in search of a unique learning experience. It would ultimate...
European Studies + German Class: Vienna-Prague-Munich
'Identity Politics in Europe' + 4 week German Class The Summer School analyses three main themes of European integration and identity politics in Europe at three different venues:...
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 Dark Side of London
This 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...
Get to know Tokaj
Our university is working to promote the vine and viticulture of the region, which has been closed since 1737, and its traditions, as well as the built and cultural heritage that i...
Black Sea and Caucasus: Diversity, Conflicts, and Networks
ILIAUNI International Summer School in BLACK SEA AND CAUCASUS: DIVERSITY, CONFLICTS, AND NETWORKS is designed to gather students from around the world for a fantastic international...
British Cultures
This module aims to give you a distinctive critical introduction to British Cultures as broadly conceived. We will study a variety of different cultural forms and genres which rang...
The Making of Europe: Rise of Civilization
top courseThis two-week course 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 bi...
The Holocaust in London: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in London
Level 4 In 1943, Jewish children arrived in Waterloo Station on the Kindertransports organised by Nicholas Winston, a British man whose actions helped to save hundreds of lives....
Decoding Bollywood: Films, Fandom, Fantasy and Beyond
The course will explore, analyse and decode the specific languages of cinema of Bollywood or mainstream Hindi cinema within India and beyond. It will do so through various entry po...
Discovering the Dutch: Dutch Culture and Society
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...
European Studies
top courseThis special track offers you the opportunity to explore the history and culture of Europe. Studying in the beautiful medieval city of Utrecht, you will not only explore the variou...
Gender Studies
This 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....
Founding Europe: From Antiquity to the 19th Century
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...
Modernity, Knowledge and Social Pathology
In this summer school module, we dive into the connection between modernity, knowledge and social pathology. We engage in debates about crucial issues like fake news, radicalizatio...
Courses 2023
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...
Competence-Base Higher Education Experience in Finland
SAMK Summer School offers a sneak peek of multidisciplinary education in Finland and at SAMK. Students can practise their spoken English and learn more about Finnish culture and li...
Dissonances. Re-interpreting and Re-assessing Difficult Heritage
blended courseLYNX - Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca Location: Piazza San Francesco 19, Lucca (Italy)...
Populism At The Periphery And Cultural Constituencies/Counterstances
The course will discuss the actuality of the political-economic and cultural sphere of the European capitalist periphery, focusing at the modalities and criticisms of various globa...
An Interdisciplinary History of Writing
How has writing shaped human societies and cultures and how have these, in turn, adapted writing to their needs? Research on written artefacts (such as manuscripts and inscripti...
International Cultural Experience (August session)
Week 1 Learn about British culture and society, and how these factors contribute to a diverse range of experiences in the workplace. You’ll visit a local business in the region...
Floating Texts: Unlearning to Write
For a lot of artists writing is a central practice to generate and process ideas or to create text-based work itself. Yet it is less discussed, taught, and highlighted as an artist...
Translation: Using the Concept in Society, Culture, Knowledge and Art Production?
There is no doubt about what has brought the concept of translation into the focus of social researchers, cultural theorists, scientists, and, not least, artists – the globalizatio...
Brand, Love and Culture in Pori
Get an unforgettable learning experience of the Finnish hospitality environment! This summer course provides you authentic and useful insights into destination brand management. Th...
International Heritage Sciences
This summer school offers students, researchers and professionals in heritage science an 8-days immersion with international experts, in an exceptional setting facing the Palace of...
The Art and Philosophy of Sport
Contemporary sports such as football, boxing and MMA are a global phenomenon and one of the most dynamic engines of the process commonly known, celebrated and feared as globalisati...
Ethics and Sustainability in Business
Course 1: Sustainable Development & Corporate social responsibility Course Format: 3 hrs per day over 2-weeks; from July 10 - 221 System change is happening. Accelerating chan...
South Asian on the Move
blended courseDiscover the rich history and dynamic transformations of South Asia through an immersive and interdisciplinary summer school program. This course explores the movements of people,...
Latvia's Cultural Canon
Latvian Language and Culture Summer School “Latvia's Cultural Canon” comprises two parts: Latvian language learning and Latvia's Culture Canon studies. This Summer School aims to...
Collisions, Contagions, Passages: Art and the Arts
Is there a unity of the arts? What does it mean to speak of art in general, or to insist on the specificity of a medium? We will examine how the arts relate to one another, problem...
International Cultural Experience (July session)
Week 1 Learn about British culture and society, and how these factors contribute to a diverse range of experiences in the workplace. You’ll visit a local business in the region...
Courses 2022
University in Ruins. Scaffolding Futures
Viadrinicum is an annual summer school at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and the larger context of Central and...
A Century of Chinese Cultural Innovation
blended courseThe University of St Andrews is steeped in tradition and known for its global outlook, ranked first in the UK by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide in 2022. This new...
British Popular Music in the North of England
Joy Division, The Smiths, A Guy Called Gerald, the Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys. But what about The Stone Roses, Echo and the Bunnymen, Lisa Stansfield, Reverend and the Makers an...
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...
Rome in Portuguese-speaking Cultures
The Summer School will take place in the four main universities of Rome (Sapienza, Tor Vergata, Roma Tre, UNINT) and will focus on the cultures of Portuguese-speaking countries and...
Collective Memory, Politics & Popular Culture
This course explores fundamental theories of collective memories and their connections with politics of memory and popular culture. Focusing on case studies of Kosovo and contempor...
Soviet Military History Traces in the Territory of Latvia
International Summer School “Soviet Military History Traces in the Territory of Latvia” comprises of acquaintance with Soviet military heritage and integrated learning of functiona...
Social Gaming. From Cooperative Online-Gaming to Game Co-Creation
blended courseNot only since the corona pandemic video games – according to Al Gore the "New Normal" (Tsai 2017) – are becoming increasingly relevant in our digitised society. Various forms of c...
Croatian Studies
*** Important: This course can be taken ONLY with another course offered by the ZSEM International Summer School.*** The course will acquaint students with the general details o...
The English Country House: A Social History
Country houses (stately homes) are one of Britain’s greatest contributions to world culture, but who created them and why? Have they always functioned as ‘containers’ for art colle...
Rethinking Exhibition Models of the Venice Biennale in Relation to the History of the Curatorial Practices
online courseThis workshop online provides an immersive and active understanding of curatorial practice and its developments in the last decades. Through the work of some of the most remarkable...
African Studies
Every year the Institute of African Studies (IAS) of the University of Bayreuth organises courses on African Studies as part of the Bayreuth International Summer School. This year'...
Invasivität
Most of the time, we look at the other coming from the outside in normative ways – the foreign is framed as interference or enrichment, rather than being perceived as neutral. In t...
Phenomenology of Border Area: Eastern Latvia
blended courseLatvian Language and Culture Summer School “Phenonemology of the Border Area: Eastern Latvia” comprises two parts: Latvian language learning and Border Area studies. Summer Scho...
Cultural Production and Urban Space
This summer school puts cultural production and event-making in urban space under the analytical scrutiny of critical urban theory. The aim of the summer school is to enable studen...
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...
Courses 2021
Marketing and Management in Creative and Culture Industries
online courseThe summer school is intended for students from fields as marketing communications, cultural management, arts management or students from art and design fields. The aim of the summ...
Urban Culture in Theory and Action
During this summer school in the heart of Copenhagen, students from across the world get an opportunity to move from analysing problems in urban societies to creating possible solu...
Online Intercultural Training
online courseContact 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...
Urban Culture in Theory and Action
blended courseUrban Culture in Theory and Action is an international summer school (BA and MA-levels) at the University of Copenhagen. Deadline for applications: 1st of April 2021. During thi...
Race, Islam and the Idea of Europe
online 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...
Out of Synchronization: Modern, Post-Modern, Neo-Feudal
blended courseWhat time is this that contemporary art is contemporary with? Is this simply our present pretending to be “modern”, as most believe? And if so, does this present have a clear idea...
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...
Kierkegaard – The Individual in Global Society
online courseOnce 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...
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...
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...
Cultural Production and Urban Space
blended courseThis summer school puts cultural production and event-making in urban space under the analytical scrutiny of critical urban theory. The summer school aims to enable students to exa...
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...
Crisis and Transition: Environmental Humanities in a Global World
blended courseIt is becoming increasingly clear that “hard” science alone cannot solve the global environmental problems such as climate change, nature degradation, biodiversity loss etc. In a w...
Culture, Power, Democracy
blended courseWithin a democratic society, cultural institutions are places for the formation of self-understanding. By showing, collecting, preserving and staging objects, they map society, inc...
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...
From Calling to Calling some "Evil Spirits"
blended courseAny time the TINA (There IS NO ALTERNATIVE) World is struggling with its contradictions and conflicts the questions and answers about a radical change are at stake. Among a variety...
Courses 2020
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Analytical Methods and Unruly Concepts
In 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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Courses 2019
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2018
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2017
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Conflict Resolution
You will be studying and learning about development in practice in a post-conflict area right in the middle of Europe.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Post Conflict Societies
The course is about learning about the condition of the country after the Conflicts have ended
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...
Courses 2016
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2015
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Courses 2014
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...