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Media, History and Cultural Studies Courses

(MHCS) "A FILM JOURNEY THROUGH FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS DEMISE"

Numerous accounts of the Communist-era struggle for democracy and against the one-party state come to a sticky end when offering answers to the following questions: How did the one-time undivided focus of Eastern European pro-democracy activists – on human rights and pluralism of political views – disintegrate so quickly in the aftermath of 1989?

(MHCS) "ANTHROPOLOGY OF POST-SOCIALIST SOCIETIES"

This course first introduces both the East and West disciplinary trajectories of ethnology, ethnography and social/cultural anthropology before delving into the growing field of the Anglo-American anthropology of postsocialism and its ethnographies.

(MHCS) "CONFLICT, VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION IN SEE"

Violence is one of the key issues of the Balkans. In fact, it has become a defining populist stereotype for the region. This course aims to look critically at the concept and reality of violence in the Balkans from both an interdisciplinary and, particularly, a social/cultural - anthropological perspective.

(MHCS) "MEDIA AND CONFLICT"

It is nowadays widely accepted, both by scholars and by a broader public opinion, that information is a crucial strategic resource. As we move towards the virtually complete "mediatization" and "spectacularization" of politics, along with the digitalization of the battle_field, information is war.

(MHCS) "POLITICS AND LITERATURE: AN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE"

What are the origins of political consciousness? How does our understanding of political power and its exercise originate in literature? Why do the early manifestations of political and religious tolerance appear in utopian literature, rather than in philosophical treatises?

(MHCS) "RELIGION IN POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES"

This course will study contemporary approaches to the understanding of religions and politics in an East European context.

(MHCS) "RUSSIAN AND SOVIET CINEMA"

(MHCS) "THE LEGACIES OF EMPIRES IN EASTERN EUROPE

This course has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, it seeks to clarify the conceptual apparatus with which we approach the problem. What do we mean by the category historical legacy? What is specific about the historical legacies of institutions, empires inclusive? How can we strike a balanced middle ground between structuralism and historicity? To what extent can we territorialize legacies and insofar apply them to regions? What is a region and how are regions constructed?

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