Nemesis Summer School

30/01/2017

Second NEMESIS Summer School - application process is now open.

16/12/2016

Advance notice: next July - 3rd-7th we will have the 2nd NEMESIS summer school, which will be held in Rostov on Don in Russia. The theme will be Russia, EU, security and memory. Advanced BA and MA students are welcome to apply. NEMESIS is a Jean Monnet network funded by the EU.
Interested students should contact me in the first instance. A full programme and practical details will be posted in the new year.

23/09/2016

NEMESIS assignment

Students wishing to acquire 3 ECTS for the Summer School must complete a piece of written work in the form of an essay of up to 4000 words. Please choose one topic from the below list:
1. Is the EU a Peace Project?

2. The concept of the EU as Empire helps to explain the outcome of the Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement – Do you agree? (base your arguments on the discussion between the pro and the anti-camps in the Netherlands).

3. Critically analyse the idea that the EU and Eurasian Economic Union are similar entities.

4. Using a media example from your country address the question: how is Europe imagined?

5. What is the impact of the Eastern Partnership on political risks in the target countries.

Essays should be sent by October 7th to [email protected]
(MS word format / no pdf please / the document should include a title page with author’s name)

Please keep in mind that plagiarism will not be tolerated and will result in a failing grade. Your essays will be checked in plagiarism checker and later sent to lecturers for assessment.
I will inform you about your results and transcripts individually.

Attached you will find CC grading scale with description.

Should you have any questions please contact me.

19/09/2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/in-poland-a-preview-of-what-trump-could-do-to-america/2016/09/19/71515d02-7e86-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html?postshare=7421474318697347&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.1aab065e6254

25/08/2016

Some places still available.

13/07/2016

http://www.civitas.edu.pl/en/summer-school-imagining-the-neighbourhood-in-between-russia-europe-memory-and-security/

07/07/2016

To all prospective applicants. The mode of application for the summer school is:

1. Application form (available from [email protected])
2. Short (4-600 word) letter of motivation
3. One-two page CV

21/06/2016

Working programme for NEMESIS Summer School, 19-23 September, Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland

20/06/2016

17/06/2016

19-23 September at Collegium Civitas, Warsaw. The Summer School ‘IMAGINING THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN BETWEEN’ -
RUSSIA, EUROPE, MEMORY AND SECURITY is part of an international Jean Monnet network 'NEMESIS', led by the Russian Southern Federal University with the Universities of Bremen, Amsterdam, Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna. With teaching delivered by academics from all of these institutions, sessions will include:- Is the EU a Peace Project?
- European Integration, European Identity and the Role of Memory
- Imagined Europe(s): Sameness and Othering in Public Media Discourse
- Political Risk in the Eastern Neighbourhood
- A Fine Old Conflict: Slavophiles and Westernizers
- The State of the neighbourhood and the State of EU policies and their Effects
- Security, Memory, Eurasia and Russia
- Europe and Russia in the Mirror of Mutual Apprehension

The summer school is open to MA, PhD and advanced BA students. There is no fee; upon completion of an optional written assignment students can gain 4 ECTS. For more information contact Ms K. Blaszczyk [email protected]