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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