Schedule
Conflicts, polarization, and international institutions: the world between the old and new order
Day 1
- Arrival and Registration
- Icebreakers
- Welcome Dinner
Day 2
- Official Welcome, Introduction to the Programme
- Visit to Czech Parliament
- Lunch Break
- Guided tour of Prague
Day 3
- Czech Language Workshop (free-time activity)
- (Field work: Uncovering Cultural Heterogeneity in Prague/another seminar)
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Frozen and hot conflicts in Post-Soviet Area
- Bowling
Day 4
- Workshop: Ethnic cleansing or genocide? The understanding of the wars in the former Yugoslavia
- Workshop: After Socialism: Social Polarisation, Global Change, and Local Agency in Central Europe’s Industrial Peripheries
- Lunch Break
- Seminar: Central Asia surrounded by conflict: terms and conditions of strategic stability
Day 5
- Lecture: Polarization in the European Society
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Divided US society
- Walk through the Prague Castle district (guided tour)
Day 6
- (Field work: Uncovering Cultural Heterogeneity in Prague/another seminar)
- Lunch Break
- Tutorial: Preparation for final group presentations
Day 7
- All-day trip: Kutná Hora (Ossuary guided tour, Cathedral visit, lunch provided)
Day 8
- Free day
Day 9
- Lecture: Populism as a European Challenge
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Shifting Fault Lines: Regional Security in the Wake of October 7 and the Trump Presidency
- Guided Tour of less known Prague
Day 10
- Workshop: No quiet on the cyber front: unpacking the paradoxes of the Russo-Ukrainian cyberwar
- Workshop: Tensions in Ukraine
- Lunch Break
- Lecture: Presidential Elections and Czech Society
Day 11
- Workshop: Revisionism and the liberal international order: changes and reforms of international institutions
- Lunch Break
- Lecture: Historical Memory in Spain
- Tutorial: Preparation for final group presentations
Day 12
- Workshop: USA and NATO: changing relationship?
- Workshop: Small States in the New Global Order
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Kosovo, the Western Balkans, and the Dimensions of Frozen Conflicts
- Evening: Individual preparation for final group presentations
Day 13
- Final Group Presentations
- Closing Ceremony, Conferring of the commemorative certificates of participation
- Farewell Lunch
- Afternoon: Free, Departure
Day 14
- Free Programme and Departure
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