Study tours

Within the frame of the Second Summer Session ”European Visions and Divisions: Social Inequalities and Social Participation” we are planning two study-tours with following up joint discussions devoted to exploring the European visions and divisions through the history in Crimea.

The first Study Tour and Joint Discussion «On the Crossroads of European History: Raise and Fall of the USSR» is planned to Levadia Palace and Foros. Levada Palace is famous with the exhibition of the Yalta Conference of 1945 (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin), and Foros is known as a place where Gorbachov was located (locked) in August 1991 and following events of the Putch of GKChP (General Committee of the state of emergency) that marks the Fall of the USSR. The following up discussion after study tour is planned to be devoted to pathways of the raise of the influence of the USSR in Europe after WWII and fall of the USSR after Foros, elaboration of the visions on these events through European history and the role of the elites in the crucial turning points of the common European history with participation of all the professors and participants of the project.

The second study tour “Inclusion and Exclusion to Culture of Europe  through History pathways” is planned to Alupka, Yalta, and Massandra, where the palaces of the Russian imperators are located with the exhibitions and guide tour about Russian imperial history in Crimea, cultural crossings of the eastern and western styles of the visual culture and artifacts. The following up Joint Discussion after Study-tour is devoted to the questions of the cultural crossings and representations, European presence and Russian specificity of inclusion and exclusion in culture, the ways of the visual culture representations and interpretations  are translated through history and presented in the discourses of the guiding tours to the monuments (palaces) of Russian empire in current Ukraine.

These study tours include the socio-historical, political and cultural dimensions in understanding of the concepts of New Eastern Europe within the wider European history. It is important part of multidisciplinary in widening horizons of rethinking the key concepts of the project during the study-tours and following group discussions as a learning activity of participants.