Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(TMB238) -  Christina Koulouri, Athena Leoussi

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The seminar aims to present and examine pivotal questions about past and present European identities from a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective. Concepts related to ‘European identity’ will be considered from a historical, anthropological, sociological, and political perspective. A key underlying question is that of the balance and relationship between a common European identity and national and regional ones. The module traces the emergence and development of a specific European self-definition, from the eighteenth century onwards. It considers the emergence of this European self-consciousness in the context of those great political, cultural, economic and social transformations which have moulded and re-moulded European societies since the eighteenth century: the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Nationalism, Communism, Imperialism, Fascism, Decolonisation, Regionalisation, Globalisation, and European Integration. The module concludes with a case study, focused on the relation between European and Greek identities.

Teaching methods

The course is an English-taught international postgraduate seminar designed for Greek postgraduate students and Erasmus international students. It also welcomes participation of PhD students and academics.

It will be taught through eleven three-hour seminars: one per week over the spring semester. Core themes will be introduced through lectures. Each lecture will be followed by a general discussion which will involve students. Students may also be invited to act as discussants, i.e., provide a short commentary on the lecture, after having studied one or two articles sent to them by e-mail or uploaded on the e-class.

During the twelfth week a student workshop will be held. This workshop will involve presentations by the students on a theme of their choice, taken from the broad topics of the seminar. These presentations will form the basis of the essays which are part of the coursework for this module. The workshop will be led by the two Convenors (Professor Koulouri and Dr Leoussi). All students taking the module will be required to attend all the presentations and take part in the discussions which will accompany each presentation.

Students will write one essay of 5,000 words (+/- 10%; notes and bibliography excluded) on one of the seminar topics. The deadline for submission of the essay will be two weeks after the oral presentation. Greek students can write their essay either in English or in Greek.

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Παρασκευή 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2017