2 – 22 July 2006, Lviv-Slavske:
“Constructing Social Space: Drawing Boundaries, Imagining Histories, Producing Knowledge (Region, Nation and Empire)”



1 - 3 February 2007, Kyiv:
“Social Time and Space: Values, Identities, Tolerance”



4 - 7 February 2007, Lviv:
“Intricacy of Urban Space”



2 – 18 July 2007, Lviv-Slavske:
“Memory, History and Today. From Multicultural Past to Monocultural Present?”



9 - 25 July 2008, Lviv-Vyshkiv:
“Difficult Subjects: How to Think about Them, Explain Them, and Teach Them?”



10 - 14 June, 2009, Lviv:
“Nationalism Fatigue ? New Approaches to the History of Society, Memory and Public Sphere in Eastern and Central Europe”

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Rethinking Social Time and Space: National, Regional and (G)local Paradigms in Teaching Eastern and Central Europe


Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching Rethinking Social Time and Space: National, regional and G(local) Paradigms in Teaching Eastern and Central Europe is a collaborative project of young university teachers in history, anthropology, cultural studies, political science and sociology funded by Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute (Budapest).

Hosting institutions:
Institute of History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
Research Center Borderland Society: Past and Present

Countries of participation:
Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Ukraine.

We come from different regions and disciplines, but all of us are concerned with past and its usages in contemporary academia. We are taking constructed character of social space and time as a promising and potentially explosive concept providing sound alternatives to the dominating nation-centered paradigm and attempt to devise adequate teaching methods and techniques facilitating this. We implement comparative analytic framework in social sciences and humanities in the region, developing methods for integration of this framework into undergraduate teaching. We work in trans-disciplinary course development and research teams run by our faculty and participants.

The project is planned as coherent three-year program incorporating intensive summer contact sessions, and inter-session activities, which engage the participants and resource faculty in collegial activities. Within a general thematic focus the contact summer sessions will focus on following topics:

I year
• Constructing Social Space: Drawing Boundaries, Imagining Histories, Producing Knowledge.
• Region, Nation and Empire

II year
• Memory, History and Today
• From Multicultural Past to Monocultural Present?

III year
• Places, Microstructures and Experiences of Resistance
• Teaching Difficult Subjects


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