15th OHRID SUMMER UNIVERSITY 2012
CALL FOR APPLICATONS
- The Summer Institute for Sexuality, Culture and Politics is a new permanent project initiated by the Department for Gender Studies at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia. The general aim of the Institute is to gather young post-graduate students, scholars and teaching staff from both Eastern and Western Europe and promote a shared platform for research and trans-disciplinary theoretical reflection on the complex modes of interweaving sexuality, culture and politics, and consequently of exchanging and questioning geopolitically determined discourses in the research of sexualities, gender studies, and queer theory. ...Reаd more
- Euro-Balkan Institute is pleased to announce its first annual Summer Institute for Byzantine Church Music for 2012. The Institute is designed to advance theoretical and practical exploration of the Byzantine Church Music that include different traditions and interpretations...Reаd more
- The summer school “Vampires and vampirism” will explore the vampire as anthropological and folkloric being who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood). Although vampirism as a mythical and folklore phenomenon, have been recorded in many cultures, the term vampire become especially popular in Europe...Reаd more
- Migration experiences and mass trans-national and cultural movements since World War II, as well as the dynamism of the cultural industry which caused epic changes in typological, phenomenological and cultural paradigms in reading of so called "new migration" in the world - represent the central subject of discussion at this school...Reаd more
- From Anatolia (east) to Calabria (west), Byzantium aimed the highest level of Universalism in the religious and sacral domain. Byzantine art being a manifestation of the spiritual, intellectual, social and political preoccupations, is thus profoundly universal. Nevertheless, the geographical spread of the empire with its multicultural and pluri-ethnic components imposed a regionalists and even individualist tendencies expressed through the artistic currents in both iconographic and stylistic sense. The Summer School “Between est and west – Universalism verses Regionalism in byzantine art” will explore the phenomenon of the diversity and uniformity in byzantine art through the notions of exchanges, contacts and eclecticism, especially between eastern and western aesthetics...Reed more
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