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Spring  Session

COMPARATIVE  RESEARCH  IN

TEACHING AND RESEARCH OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY(IES) 

April 1-4, 2010

Kyiv, Ukraine

Location

PROGRAM

 

March 31 Wednesday          Arrival of participants

April 1, 2010 Thursday

Session 1     9.30 – 11.00

Opening Session

Lecture-Colloquium by Olga Kutsenko "Eastern Europe under system transformations:  trends and social outcomes"

Coffee break

 

Session 2     11.30 – 13.00

Lecture- Colloquium by Nikolai Genov “Rethinking Controversial Trends in Eastern Europe: New Geopolitical Constellations and New Conceptual Maps”

Lunch 13.00 – 14.00

 

Session 3     14.00 – 15.30

Lecture- Colloquium by Svitlana Babenko "Research-Based Teaching&Learning"

Coffee break

 

Session 4     16.00 – 17.30

“How to Teach Comparative European Societies”

Discussions of working groups leaded by S.Babenko (Rethinking Social Inequalities Structure), O.Kutsenko (Culture: Division and Cohesion), C.Wallace (Social Participation, Political and Media Representation), A.Gorbachyk, N.Genov (Institutional Background of Societal Processes: EU and NEE National Profiles)

18.00

 Welcome Dinner

 

April 2, 2010. Friday

Session 1     9.30 – 11.00

Lecture-Colloquium by Claire Wallace "Evaluating the quality of society in European countries"

Coffee break

 

Session 2     11.30 – 13.00

Lecture-Colloquium by Christian Haerpfer  'Political Capital in Post-Communist Europe'

Lunch 13.00 – 14.00

 

Session 3     14.00 – 15.30

Lecture- Colloquium  by Max Haller "Social inequality before, during and after state socialism"

Coffee break

 

Session 4     16.00 – 17.30

“How to Teach Comparative European Societies”

1.Presentations by participants of their projects of articles by four working groups (chapters of the teaching source-book)

Dinner 17.30 – 18.30

 

 

April 3, 2010 Saturday

Session 1     9.30 – 11.00

Lecture- Colloquium by Andrii Gorbachyk "Methods for comparative analysis of quantitative data"

Coffee break

 

Session 2     11.30 – 13.00

Lecture- Colloquium  by Evgeniy Golovaha "Cross-Cultural Comparison of European Post-Communist Societies"

Lunch 13.00 – 14.00

 

Session 3     14.00 – 15.30

“How to Teach Comparative European Societies” 2.Presentations by participants of their projects of articles by four working groups (chapters of the teaching source-book)

Coffee break

 

Session 4     16.00 – 17.30

“How to Teach Comparative European Societies”

Joint discussions and Closing session

Dinner 17.30 – 18.30

 

 

April 4, 2010, Sunday

 

Study-tour around Kyiv

Departure of participants