Passing Present and Pressing Past in Area Studies - JTB333

• Title: Passing Present and Pressing Past in Area Studies
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:20 / unknown (20); summer:unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D.; Mgr. Klára Smitková; Mgr. Jakub Šindelář
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JTB001, JTM001

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

Course not taught in the Summer Semester 2023/24!





The course serves as an introduction to Area Studies seen as an interdisciplinary field where different methodologies, topics and theories provide insight into links between past and present affairs.

All the important information, presentation scheduling and reading distribution is facilitated via Moodle platform: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5314#section-0.

Each class is led by an expert presenting their topics, who navigates the students through various theoretical, methodological and empirical issues.

Aim of the course

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

The task of the course is to present various methodological and theoretical approaches to research in Area Studies and Modern History.

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

Students are asked to select a topic/class of their preference until the first session, on October 19th (the first class is not available for the students' presentations.), through our polling form.

The students have to consult their selected topic both before and after the presentation, the course completion requires a written output of their research design (min 1500 words); the research design should contain the definition of the topic and justification of its relevance (research gap), research questions and proposed methods of solutions.

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Literature

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

The literature for the individual classes is related to the respective class topics and is accessible through the Moodle: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5314#section-0

Teaching methods

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

A class consists of a discussion over the relevant text chosen by the session leader, which all of the students will have to read and reflect on, a presentation of the main topic (approx. 30 min) and the subsequent student presentation of proposed research designs.

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Jiří Kocián, Ph.D. (22.02.2024)

1)  Area Studies: concepts, approaches, discipline(s)? (Jiří Kocián)

2) 'Between debt and democracy': Overindebtedness and resistance in a Czech deindustrializing town (Jitka Králová)

3) "Value orientations of Russian youth" (Marina Perglová)

4) "Coexistence, cooperation, integration in Central Asia: Global prism vs. local priorities" (Anna Jordanová)

5) "Beyond traditional dichotomy: multifaceted nostalgia for communism in contemporary Romania" (Klára Smitková)

6) "Building legitimation narratives: role of conceptual metaphor in governance legitimacy" (Klára Kosová)

7) "The making of Neoliberal City: On Urban Anthropology of Post-socialist Cities" (Kateřina Fuksová)

8) "Jennifer Kent’s the Nightingale: Film representation of the violence of colonial history" (Jakub Šindelář)

9) "Small state role-taking: diverging foreign policy trajectories in the Gulf" (Petr Buriánek)

10) "Final discussion - conclusions"