Seminars
8th Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Rising Authoritarianism and the Role of Civil Society in Asia"
Rostock, Germany, 1-2 December 2017
The seminar was organised by the University of Rostock.
Participants were 9 PhD students from 6 countries - CGS members. During the event participants discussed issues of political systems, civil societies and political developments in Asian Countries. Their specifics were outlined, also in the comparative perspective, where general trends and particular case studies were analyzed.
The speakers were:
Prof. Jakob Rösel, (University of Rostock)
Politics and Civil Society in India and China
Prof. Jörn Dosch, (University of Rostock)
Politics and Developments in Southeast Asia
It was held in the building of the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock. The working language was English.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Chair:
Prof. Ralph Schattkowsky (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń / University of Rostock)
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (University of Zielona Góra)
7th Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Visual History and Historical Reception Studies"
Rostock, Germany, 1-3 December 2016
The seminar was organised by the University of Rostock.
Participants were 15 PhD students from 9 countries - CGS members. During the event participants discussed approaches to research visual history and its reception. Also the importance of visual material in researching history was analyzed, as photographs, films, posters and images.
On the last day the participants shared their opinions on the film "Rotation" by Wolfgang Staudtes.
The speaker and chair was:
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, PhD. from the German Historical Institute Warsaw.
It was held in the building of the History Department of the University of Rostock. The working language was English.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (University of Zielona Góra)
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6th Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Minorities in (Central) Europe with Special Focus on Roma"
Warsaw, Poland, 27-29 April 2016
The seminar was organised by German Historical Institute Warsaw.
Participants were 14 PhD students from 7 countries - CGS members. During the event participants discussed approaches to research on ethnical minorities, presenting problems of Roma minority in Slovakia, their relations with Slovak majority and strategies of their integration in the society. On the last day the participants shared experiences with their PhD concepts and how they can use what they learnt in future research.
The speakers and chairs were:
Tatiana Podolinská, PhD. from the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Tomáš Hrustic, PhD. from the Institute of Ethnology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
It was held in the building of the German Historic Institute Warsaw. The working language was English.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (University of Zielona Góra)
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5th Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Society in Dictatorship. Stalinism and its Consequences"
Rostock, Germany, 3-5 December 2015
The seminar was organised by the University of Rostock.
Participants were 20 PhD students from 9 countries - CGS members and guests from Rostock. During the event participants discussed approaches to research on stalinism and its consequences for Central-Eastern European countries.
In the introductory part new CGS members were welcomed. In the evening young scholars visited former Stasi Prison in Rostock and were guided by the former political prisoner. On the last day the participants shared the experiences with attitudes towards stalinism and communist system in their countires.
The speaker and chair was prof. Stefan Creuzberger from the History Department of that university.
It was held in the building of the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock. The working language was English.
The event was financially supported by the Herbert Quandt-Stiftung.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Seminar chair:
Prof. Stefan Creuzberger (University of Rostock)
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (University of Zielona Góra)
Partner:
Supported by:
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4th Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Jewish Spaces-Jewish Places"
Warsaw, Poland, 5-8 March 2015
The seminar was organized by the German Historical Institute Warsaw in cooperation with the POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
Young scientists discussed variety of issues about Jewish culture and communities in Europe. The first part of the event was devoted to definitions of Jewish places and spaces, as well as to the history of Jews in the 1st Polish Republic. After that the participants visited the Polin museum. In the evening the group watched and discussed the film Ida. In the second part the focus was laid on the Jewish communities in the border areas in 19. and 20. century and Jewish ghettos as an enforced Jewish space and its symbolic role after the tragedy of holocaust.
The speakres were:
Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz, (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Border Space. A border from a Jewish Perspective
Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, (POLIN, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews)
Guided Tour in the Polin Museum
Maria Cieśla, PhD. (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Jewish Space in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Stephan Lehnstaedt, PhD. (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
When is a Nazi Ghetto a Ghetto? Defining Jewish Spaces Then and Now
Katrin Stoll, PhD. (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
The Topography of the Former Site of the Warsaw Ghetto: Spatial Constellation, Collective Symbols and Symbolic Practices
Anna Novikov, PhD. (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
The Interwar Katowice: a Meeting Place between the "Ostjüdisch" and the German Jewish Imagined Spaces
The seminar was chaired by Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz The working language was English. It was held in the building of the German Historical Institute and POLIN Museum in Warsaw.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Seminar chair:
Prof. Ruth Leiserowitz (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (University of Zielona Góra)
Partners:
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3rd Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Civil Society Outside Europe"
Rostock, Germany, 6-8 December 2013
The seminar was organized by the University of Rostock and the Rostock University of Music and Theatre in cooperation with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) and Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).
Young scientists discussed variety of issues about civil society in the non European countries. The first part of the event was devoted to the Asiatic developments in Nepal, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. In the second part the focus was laid on the Latin American societies of Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Urugauy etc.
The speakres were:
Prof. Jörn Dosch, (University of Rostock)
Civil Societies in Asia
Prof. Nikolaus Werz, (University of Rostock)
Civil Societies in Latin America
Christine Dettmann, PhD., (University of Essex, UK)
Behind the Scenes: Searching for the African Roots of the Martial Art Capoeira
The seminar was chaired by Adam Jarosz, PhD. The working language was English. It was held in the building of the Rostock University of Music and Theatre in Rostock.
It was financially supported by the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation and German-Czech Future Fund.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Seminar chair:
Prof. Hartmut Möller (Rostock University of Music and Theatre)
Secretary:
Adam Jarosz, PhD. (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Partners:
Supported by:
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2nd Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
"Revitalizing of Local and Regional Cultures"
Chemnitz, Germany, 16-18 October 2013
The seminar was organized by the Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) in cooperation with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) and Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).
Young scientists discussed variety of issues connected to the seminar topic. The most important points were: language, nation, identity, regional languages in comparative perspective, the significance of mulitilingity, as well as so-called "small languages" and prognosis of their development in the future.
The speakres were:
Piotr Kocyba, PhD (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Ethnic Revival and the Question of Language - the Case of Upper Silesia
Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, PhD (Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw)
Revitalization of Minority Cultures and Languages. Methods, Possibilities and Aims
The seminar was chaired by Professor Miloš Řezník. The working language was English. It was held in the building of the Alte Heizhaus in Chemnitz.
It was financially supported by the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation and German-Czech Future Fund.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Seminar chair:
Prof. Miloš Řezník (Chemnitz University of Technology)
Secretary:
Krzysztof Olszewski, M.A. (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Partners:
Supported by:
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1st Copernicus Graduate School Seminar
Toruń, Poland, 21-22 April 2013
The seminar was organized by the Chair of History of International Relations of the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) in cooperation with the Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary) and Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).
It had the introductory character for the work of the members group. After presentation of the CGS fellows and members, the programme and idea of the project was commented. Afterwards every CGS member presented and discussed their PhD thesis concept with fellows and other members.
It was chaired by Professor Ralph Schattkowsky and Adam Jarosz, M.A. The working language was English. It was held in the building of the Collegium Humanisticum in Toruń.
The seminar was financially supported by the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation.
Schedule of activities
Administration:
Seminar chair:
Prof. Ralph Schattkowsky (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń/University of Rostock)
Secretaries:
Adam Jarosz, M.A. (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Krzysztof Olszewski, M.A. (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Partners:
Supported by: