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Course not taught in the Summer Semester 2024/25! 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. Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (17.02.2025)
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The task of the course is to present various methodological and theoretical approaches to research in Area Studies and Modern History. Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
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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. Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
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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 Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
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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. Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
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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" Poslední úprava: Kocián Jiří, PhDr., Ph.D. (22.02.2024)
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