We are hereby inviting interested participants to enroll in international, CEU hosted, 1-semester interdisciplinary online courses about the Balkans and/or Nationalism. The courses are free and attendees have a weekly online seminar, they can contribute content to the project’s website, and most distinguished will be invited in person to a 7-day summer school in Budapest in Summer 2024. Students should send their CV and a short (200-300 words) motivation letter to [email protected] (for the Balkan course!) or [email protected] (for the Nationalism course!) by February 20, 2024 at the latest. Justification: Aiming to revive the tradition of Flying Universities, which was filling the gaps of formal education in our part of the world for decades, we developed courses Beyond War and Peace: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine and Rethinking Nationalism: Conceptual Frameworks and Political Challenges (4 ECTS credits each), organized by the Institute for Democracy of the Central European University and partners from the region. The courses will be offered online, starting from March 1, 2024, and consisting of weekly interactive lectures and mentoring sessions held in the late afternoon. The courses are part of a wider initiative Invisible University for Ukraine | Central European University (ceu.edu) which proved to be very useful for students of humanities and social sciences. The students are encouraged to partake in other courses too, should they fit their interests. We are particularly pointing out Academic English classes and Advanced Academia courses as relevant additions to their academic portfolio. The number of places is limited. Successful applicants will be notified by February 25.

We are hereby inviting interested participants to enroll in an international, CEU hosted, 1-semester interdisciplinary online course about the Balkans. The course is free and attendees have a weekly online seminar. Ukrainian students have further ability to apply for a research grant up to 800 Eur if they wish to write a research paper and contribute content to this website, and to attend in person a 7-day summer school in Budapest in Summer 2024. Interested students should send their CV and a short (200-300 words) motivation letter to [email protected] by February 20, 2024 at the latest. Justification: Aiming to revive the tradition of Flying Universities, which was filling the gaps of formal education in our part of the world for decades, we developed a course Beyond War and Peace: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine (4 ECTS credits), organized by the Institute for Democracy of the Central European University and partners from the region. The course will be offered online, starting from March 1, 2024, and consisting of weekly interactive lectures and mentoring sessions held in late afternoon. The course is part of a wider initiative Invisible University for Ukraine | Central European University (ceu.edu) which proved to be very useful for students of humanities and social sciences. The students are encouraged to partake in other courses too, should they fit their interests. We are particularly pointing out Academic English classes and Advanced Academia courses as relevant additions to their academic portfolio. The number of places is limited. Successful applicant will be notified by February 25. For a detailed information about the course content, schedule and lecturers, please follow this link.

The southeastern peninsula of the European continent, more recognizable under its loaded term “the Balkans,” is a region of stunning ethnic and religious diversity and rich history. Traditionally at the crossroads of imperial influences, this space was and remains a region of competing political projects. Throughout the 20th century, the pendulum between centrifugal and centripetal tendencies produced different national, but also federalist projects, which collided violently and deadly. The borderland character of the Balkans continues into the 21st century, with a significant part of the peninsula lingering in the EU antechambers. The unfinished character of its integration, alongside with its incomplete modernization, produced a number of challenges, whose past and present is in the focuses of this course. We intend to present these dilemmas and discussions as being relevant to Ukrainian students on many levels, without any intention, however, to postulate direct equivalences between the post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav contexts.