Toruń International PhD Students' College (TMKD)
The Toruń International Phd Students' College TMKD was established in 2009. It has been organised yearly in a form of an international and interdisciplinary workshop. Since 2011 TMKD has been changed into the Copernicus Graduate School.
2nd Torun International PhD Students` College, 14-19 June 2010.
The subject of the college was: Transformation and Settling the Past.
The event took place at the Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun (Poland).
32 PhD students and 4 fellows came from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Hungary.
Four groups were led by famous scientists as the fellows:
1. Milos Reznik, Chemnitz University of Technology, Professor of Regional History of Europe
Transformation and model of behaviour
2. Dr. Andreas Lawaty, Director of the Nordost-Institut in Lüneburg
Memory and "historical policy"
3. Mathias Niendorf, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, Professor of East European History
Migration, acculturation and assimilation
4. Dr hab. Daniel Boćkowski, prof. UwB, University in Białystok, Institute of History
Democratic system and threats
The concluding discussion was the main point of the college as regards the content. The results were presented by many participants of the groups, who showed much phantasy in forms and methods of presentation. In the foreground came concepts like civic society, functionality, self organisation and form creating. During the presentation and the discussion an enthusiasm was seen, that determined fundamentally the success of the college. The exact report is available in Download part.
The college was a German-Polish initiative and it was supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation (Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit) and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
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1st Torun International PhD Students` College, 15-20 June 2009.
The subject of the college was: Creating Norms and Preservation of Tolerance.
The event took place at the Nicolas Copernicus University in Torun (Poland).
25 PhD students and 4 fellows came from Poland, Germany, Latvia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA.
Four groups were led by famous scientists as the fellows:
1. Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, professor of Eastern Europe`s history in the Eastern Europe Centre at the University of Giessen
Civic society. Prospects and limits of self organisation of societies in European comparison
2. Milos Reznik, professor of Eastern Europe`s regional history at the Chemnitz University of Technology
Attitudes of elites and creating of national norms
3. Theodore Weeks, professor of history and culture of Eastern Europe at the University Carbondale, USA
Social structures in Eastern European cities
4. Dr. Rafal Zytyniec, assistant in the Centre of Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin
Memory and the problem of "applied history"
The concluding discussion was the main point of the college as regards the content. The results were presented by many participants of the groups, who showed much phantasy in forms and methods of presentation. In the foreground came concepts like civic society, functionality, self organisation and form creating. During the presentation and the discussion an enthusiasm was seen, that determined fundamentally the success of the college.
The college was a German-Polish initiative and it was supported by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation (Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) as well as the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
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