Euroculture IP 2019 Scholars Conference: Managing and teaching European Studies – what can we learn about ourselves?
27.6.2019, Palacký University Olomouc
Conference Background:
In everyday teaching and managing of study programmes, there is often little time for reflection. Decisions about course content, or major programmatic and organizational decisions must be taken quite quickly. However, there are some issues in need of deeper reflection, which we would like to address at the conference with regard to European Studies. For example, what is the implicit curriculum we are using? What assumptions guide our teaching and programme design? Whatdoes our student body look like, how has its composition changed over the years, and how do we deal with these changes? What teaching techniques do we use, and which ones are most promising? We often have implicit assumptions, tacit knowledge and taken-for-granted ways of doing things, but we only seldom pause to reflect on these implicit structures of our work.
We want to use this scholarss’ conference to remedy this problem to some extent. We welcome papers and presentations that deal with the long-term questions of managing and teaching European studies. Some of these questions have already been outlined above, but there is a plethora of other questions that can be addressed and reflected upon. We welcome both empirical papers and presentations – gathering data about ourselves and our student body that help us to teach better – as well as reflective papers that reflect on our own implicit assumptions about things like mobility, grading, the purpose of higher education etc.
Thus, the aim is to encourage a
dialogue among those who teach and administer European studies programmes, to
take a step back from day-to-day work and reflect upon their strategies,
practices and philosophies.
Programme:
9:15-10:45 Challenges of teaching European studies
Shruti Tambe: Heritage in the Bollywood Taj: Teaching Euroculture in India
Attila Nagy: Teaching EU studies in a post-conflict environment
11:15-12:45 Hidden assumptions of European studies
Janny de Jong: Unity and difference: is European history in Euroculture inclusive?
Arnab Dutta: Mobility, Immobility, and Cultural Transfer: A Critical Reflection on the Ideology of Mobility in European Studies
14-15:30 What is culture and how can we teach it?
Beth Goering: Teaching Intercultural Communication in Euroculture: Comparing Current Practice to “Best Practices”
Sanjay Kolekar: Inter-subjectivity as pedagogy in teaching sociology
15:30-16:00: Open Discussion: What can we learn from ourselves?
