August 6-23, 2012

The Institute offers three interdisciplinary area studies courses, which will contribute to understanding how Ukraine’s present is being constructed through its past. Specifically, the sociology and politics course will examine what kind of social transformations (economic, political, social) have taken place in the country since 1991, their historical roots and outcomes; the literature course will focus on the phenomena of “literature” and “totalitarianism”, and their (co)existence in the Ukrainian realities of the 20th century; the history course will focus on the politics of memory, and its relation to identity construction both in Ukraine, and in neighboring countries. The Institute also offers optional language instruction both for beginners, and for students who have background knowledge of Ukrainian and/or other Slavic languages.

AREA STUDIES BLOCK
• Post-Soviet Ukraine: A Case Study in Socio-Economic and Political Transformation 
• Mychailo Wynnyckyj, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Kyiv-Mohyla Business School, Director of the Doctoral School, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
• The Politics of History in Contemporary East Central Europe 
OlenaBetlii, Associate Professor of the Department of History, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
• Ukrainian Literature of the 20th Century: Run into the Accident of the Totalitarianism 
• Serhiy Ivanyuk, Associate Professor of the Department of Literature and Foreign Languages, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”

UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE BLOCK
• Oksana Plaksiy, Assistant Professor of the Department of Literature and Foreign Languages, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
• Introduction to Ukrainian Grammar: Beginner’s Intensive Course 
• Language Training: for Ukrainian as Foreign Language Speakers of Different Levels

Application deadline is prolonged till May 25, 2012

For more information about these courses: 
http://dfc.ukma.kiev.ua/summerschool