Euroculture IP

IP Day 7 -part 1

Last day of this year’s IP was very busy, so we will come with photos in two parts.

First one will focus on Student projects, concluding several days when students worked on
their projects. Our three amazing lecturers guided students through the process of
portraying their reflection of youth, or their polemics with the stereotypical perception of
youth in society and in the media, using diverse techniques of expression, varying from
artistic techniques in the purest sense of the word through multimedia to dramatization.

Everyone had a great time checking and listening to all the projects, also becoming part of
several of them to some point.

For the prresentation, we were so happy that two out of out three lecturers were able to join
us.

We hope everyone enjoyed the afternoon the way we did!

IP Day 6

Sixth day of this year’s IP was full of lectures and discussions.

We started our morning by Keynote lecture by dr. Petra Guasti from Charles University about Varieties of Illiberal backlash in Central Europe, followed by roundtable discussion.

In the afternoon, we had two paralel parts. In the lecture room we had a chance to listed to many interesting papers as part of the Scholar conference, concluded with another roundtable discussion.

Students participated in Career day. In four different groups they had a chance to talk to Euroculture alumni working in various fields about their life and workd experience after their studies.

IP Day 5

Thursday of this year´s IP was decated to excursion. Students and some of the tutors went to Dolní Vítkovice, which used to be a heavy industial area including coal mining, coke ovens and blast furnace operations, almost in the middle of Ostrava. It was turned into national site of industrial heritage in 2002, and in 2008 it was listed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites under name The Industrial Complexes at Ostrava.

Parts of the vast area found a new purpose, as it became a host of various cultural events, music festivals as world famous Colours of Ostrava, museums, concerts and more. One of the parts of the area is the Science and Technology Centre, where its mirrored facade hides four permanent interactive exhibitions.

Students enjoyed the trip out of Olomouc and had a good time (we hope) 😊

REMINDER!

As you know, we will have a Keynote lecture by dr. Petra Guasti tomorrow morning from 9.00.

Do not forget that the lecture will be in Aula at Křížkovského 10 (main building of Faculty of Arts)!

IP Day 4

It is hard to believe that IP is already it its second half!

Most Wednesday programme was dedicated to Student projects. We will not spoil anything about the projects yet, but we can tell that we are very excited this year – it will be different! All this is thanks to three amazing lecturers, Vladislava Závrská, Petra Ševců and Pavla Baštanová. Students also got feedback to their IP Papers in the afternoon.

Important part of each IP is IP Roundtable – a discussion between staff of each university with student representatives of 1st and 2nd semester from each university. Roundtable is a tool we use to get a feedback from students as we are constantly working on making Euroculture better and better.

REMINDER!

Are you interested in questions about how the Euroculture staff and students can unlearn and move beyond Eurocentrism, learn to accommodate manifold and diverse voices in the Euroculture curriculum, and accommodate diversity and difference to the benefit of all in the programme? Then this project is for you!

Check this post for information and registration link!

We are really excited about this project, as Euroculture can benifeit from this project as well!

IP Day 3

We cannot believe that third day of the IP is already over! Tuesday was rather academiclly themed, as students finished their IP Paper presentations in the morning, and afternoon was full of interesting lectures!

Afternoon was kicked-off by Tomáš Katrňák, professor of sociology from Masaryk University in Brno, who introduced us to the concept of inequality of educational opportunity that is common in social stratification research, in light of educational expansion of European countries after launching of Bologna process in 2000. Next lecturer, politologist Ondřej Slačálek from Charles University in Prague, had everyone engaged in the discussion about if we are subcultures and if we can see cultures wars as mutually produced moral panic and conflict between generations.
After coffee break, everyone got back together to hear a lecture by Elisabeth Goering, professor from Indiana University-Indianapolis, when we had a chance to explore the perceptions of Gen Z in the workplace that are perpetuated through media messages. Last lecture of the day way presented by dr Sanja Nielsson from Dalarna University who talked about the youth of the Hare Krishna movement from Sweden´s experiences of bringing their unique voices and culture to the streets of Europe.

The whole day was wraped up by Chill-out evening in our Department´s backyard. Students had a chance to relax after two days of IP Paper presentations, enjoying Czech beer and lovely evening 😊

IP Day 2

First day of thiy year´s IP is almost behind us. What a busy day! In the morning students started to present theis IP Papers and we heard they all went pretty well! We cannot wait to hear the rest of them tomorrow 🙂

Afternoon was dedicated to the introduction into Student project, which we are wery excited about this year. Students were really interested in the ways they can elaborate their ideas and we are so looking forward to seeing the results this year!

For the final part of today´s programme everyone met in our main lecture room for the first two lectures of this year´s IP Panels. In lecture by our colleague Lars Klein from University of Göttingen about „which generation is better“, he analyzed which function the talk about generation has, how i tis led and why i tis (o rit is not) useful. It was followed by lecture by Alice Koubová, philosopher from the Czech Academy of Sciences. In her lecture, she summarized the tropes connected to neoliberal interpretation of resilience and showe under which conditions resilience can still offer a unique conceptual framework, research approach and ethical standpoint useful for the youth in the current situation.

And a little bit of colour for the end 😊

Well, we think we were pretty busy today. We will be back tomorrow with more!

IP 2023 Day 1

Euroculture IP 2023 is finally here! After long months of waiting (almost) everyone have finally made it to Olomouc and we kicked-off the whole IP! 😊

We must say that the first days is always the most easy one, as everyone is getting to know the new surroundings and trying to navigate the new place. We had a very warm welcome by Euroculture Olomouc director of studies, Antonín Kalous, then we went through all the aspects of the whole week, had some small resfeshments and after a brief information students left the building to explore Olomouc during a small orienteering activity. The fastest group made in in something over a half an hour!

Tomorrow will be a bit more busy with IP Paper sessions and first of IP Panels with lectures. So see you tomorrow!

Olomouc Public Transport

Dear all,

we hope you are as excited as us for this year’s IP in Olomouc that starts in just couple of days! As your arrival to our lovely city is behind the corner, today we have some information about public transport in Olomouc. We borrowed some slides from our colleagues from Welcome Office to guide you through the process of buying tickets for public transport in Olomouc. So, check the slides for how to buy the tickets without problems 🙂

Please note that you need Czech coins to buy the tickets.

We will see you shortly!

Euroculture Olomouc team

Worlding Euroculture

Dear all,

we know that we promised we will be posting much more in the last two weeks before the IP, but as you can imangine, we are super busy with the final preparations. But we will work on it!

So, today we want to introduce you to an optional activity organized by three Euroculture colleagues from University of Groningen, that will be open to students and staff, both current and former 🙂

Our Groningen colleagues Margiet Van Der Waal, James Leigh, Senka Neuman-Stanivuković are working on project WORLDING EUROCULTURE. An informal conversation on how to accommodate the 'multiple anywheres' in the programme. You can join them for an informal conversation to brainstorm how to “world” Euroculture for future generations. And how do you think this might be of interest for you? Are you interested in questions about how the Euroculture staff and students can unlearn and move beyond Eurocentrism, learn to accommodate manifold and diverse voices in the Euroculture curriculum, and accommodate diversity and difference to the benefit of all in the programme? Then this IS for you 😊

You will need to sing up for the activity by Monday 28th June, 17.00. Link for the sign-up form can be found on IP’s website. And if you are interested in participating, but will not be able to make it to Olomouc, you can joint hem online! Links to Zoom and to IP’s website are hidden under the QR codes in the post 🙂

We will see you there!

Euroculture Olomouc team

Keynote Lecture

Dear all,

as we mentioned in yesterday’s post about the anniversary programme, today we have have more information about the Keynote Lecture, that will take place on Friday 30th June and will kick-off our anniversary celebrations.

Keynote lecture will be presented by dr. Petra Guasti, an associate professor of democratic theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on reconfiguring the political landscape and revolves around representation, democratization, and populism.

And what will bet he topic? Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe. In her lecture, Petra Guasti will focus on how illiberalism has emerged as a phenomenon within the Central European context and how practices of democracy beyond liberal democracy have developed and emerged in a European context during the past 25 years. Based on her own research she will explain how these developments have been studied and made sense of and how this scholarship has helped to make sense of these societal and political developments. She will also present what big challenges and developments scholars might need to grasp and study for the coming years.

After her keynote lecture there will be a Roundtable discussion.

We will see you there!

Euroculture Olomouc team