Euro-Balkan Institute for Social and Humanities Research, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia is announcing 2010 Ohrid Summer School: A Dissident bridge of European cultural continuity to be held 16-29 August, Ohrid, Macedonia.
The Summer School “A Dissident bridge of European cultural continuity” will explore the history of Europe that is less known yet highly significant, that of the Bogoumil movement and its intellectual legacy. It is a history of spirituality demonstrating centuries-long cultural and intellectual exchange between the Byzantium, Balkans and the West of Europe, establishing civilizational continuity of a Europe undivided between the East and the West.The main aim of the summer school is to present the phenomena of Bogomilism, which in circumstances of rigorous religious confrontations, represented a factor of interaction and unification between different cultures and civilizations in Europe.
The Summer School is integral part of Ohrid Summer University (OSU) which is an academic program for young faculty, PhD candidates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals, which offers intensive, problem oriented and research based courses from the domain of social sciences and humanities. OSU was founded in 1998 and has functioned continuously since then, as one of the core programs of the Euro-Balkan Institute, involving a significant number of both junior and senior members of academic communities from various countries.
To date Euro-Balkan Institute, trough OSU program, has organized more than 30 summer schools from various areas with over 500 participants, involving more than 100 proffessors.During the 11 years-long period of its existence, OSU has engaged itself in: adequate and effective training of the academic staff, demonstration of successful linkage of state-of-the-art scholarship and effective and innovative teaching, promotion of academic excellence and ability to facilitate creation and sustenance of active networks of academics, as well as collaborative advancement of learning in certain disciplines within the international context.
Eligibility and fee:
- Participant must be MA or PhD students interested in exploring the issues of Byzantine Studies (not older than 36 years of age)
- Participant must be a national of one of the countries from Southeastern Europe in order for her/his accommodation costs to be fully covered by the Organizer. The total participation fee will be 100 euro.
- Participants from other countries are also eligible to participate, but ineligible for the financial support provided by the organizers. These applicants, will have to cover participation fee of 100 euro and accommodation costs.
Number of participants: 20
Working language of the Summer School will be English.
Please note that the Second Announcement with the detailed Programme of the Summer School will follow on 1st of May 2010.
Deadline for submitting the application: June 15th 2010
Deadline for announcing the results of the selection process: July 1st 2010
Contact person:
Prof. Dr. Maja Angelovska - Panova,
Director of the Summer School
Euro-Balkan Institute
Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax. + 389 2 30 75 570
Email: angelovska_maja@yahoo.com
Ohrid Summer University 2010
