Summer School European College of Liberal Arts Berlin 

Summer School opportunity:

European College of Liberal Arts Berlin
http://www.ecla.de/

International Summer University

The 2009 Theme: Montaigne and the Making of the Modern Self
http://www.ecla.de/index.php?id=112

The International Summer University, ECLA's first programme, has existed since 2000. Each year it has been developed with a new or revised curriculum. The theme for the 2009 ISU is “Montaigne and the Making of the Modern Self”. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most noted and influential writers of the French Renaissance. In his famous work, Essays, Montaigne invents the essay as a modern form of individual self-reflection. During the six week programme, students and faculty will explore how a new image of the modern self emerges from Montaigne’s Essays and investigate the impact of Montaigne's moral, religious, cultural and political ideals on our understanding of the modern self. Each week, readings and discussion will be organized around a general topic related to Montaigne's Essays, including the birth of the modern self in Renaissance Europe, the discovery of the New World and its consequences for the self-understanding of European cultures, Montaigne’s criticism of human presumption and pride as root causes of the Wars of Religion in 16th century France, the relation between morality and politics in modern statecraft, and the place of pleasure, friendship and sexuality as well as death in the care of the self. Along with Montaigne’s Essays, students will study a variety of philosophical, literary, and historical texts, including Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, and Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground. Films and museum visits will complement the readings.

The six-week long Summer University begins on July 6th 2008 and ends on August 14th 2009.

Deadline for applications: April 15th 2008 (date of arrival at ECLA)

Info on how to apply:
http://www.ecla.de/index.php?id=104

Info on financial aid:
http://www.ecla.de/index.php?id=105

Here is the 2009 Curriculum:

Week #1 – Care of the Self

Montaigne, That to Philosophize is to Learn How to Die/ Of Experience
Seneca, Brevity of Life
Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Films: Bergman, The Seventh Seal; Kurosawa, Ikiru

Week #2 –Presumption, Pride and the Skeptic Self

Montaigne, Apology of Raymond Sebond (excerpt)
Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Locke, Letter Concerning Toleration
Films: Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc; Kieslowski, Decalogue I

Week #3– Politics and the Self

Montaigne, On the Useful and the Honorable
Machiavelli, The Prince
Shakespeare, Hamlet
Films: Kurosawa, Throne of Blood; Paolo Sorrentino, Il Divo

Week # 4 – Cruelty of the Self

Montaigne, Of Cruelty
Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals (Part II)
Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Films: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, City of God; Herzog, Woyzeck

Week #5 – The Self and the Other

Montaigne, Of the Cannibals
Clastres, Society against the State
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Films: Coppola, Apocalypse Now; Haneke, Cache; Paul Leduc, Ethnocide

Week #6 – Pleasures of the Self – Love, Friendship and Sexuality

Montaigne, Of Friendship
Mann, Death in Venice
Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Films: Fellini, La Strada; Satyajit Ray, Song of the Little Road

Costica Bradatan, PhD
Assistant Professor

Texas Tech University
The Honors College
PO Box 41017
Lubbock, TX 79409

Senior Editor, Janus Head
http://www.janushead.org/

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Mladiinfo is looking for participants for online journalism training in Macedonia..
 
FEJS Macedonia is looking for participants from the following countries ( Slovenia, Croatia , Serbia, Montenegro and Albania ) for 5 days training in Skopje ( 23th-29th March) for online journalism and multimedia.

Training background
South East European Online Voice “- a magazine for intercultural ‘on-line’ communication and raising cultural self-awareness of young people in South East Europe

Tasks to implement
Provide a five-day training to 29 young journalists and students of journalism on how to create a magazine (South East European Online Voice) aimed at fostering intercultural ‘on-line’ communication and raising cultural self-awareness of young people in South East Europe.

Training requirements
Each project partner has to bring a laptop.

Date
23-29 March 2009

Place
Hotel Balzac, Skopje , Macedonia

Knowledge, Experience and Skills
Participants should meet the following criteria:

• To be students of journalism at the Faculties of Journalism in their country or be recently graduated students of journalism
• To be computer literate
• To be fluent in English

Project Background
The five-day training will focus on:

- Developing and advancing new media skills (On-line journalism) for young journalists of the SEE countries
- Teaching young journalists on how to be engaged in the process of creating public opinion in the SEE region
- Raising the level of the participants’ professional skills regarding investigative journalism
- Encouraging individual work (searching for information, using different sources, writing), along with monitoring and leading by mentors and editors
- Raising the level of participants’ cultural competency
- Wider project impact – participants will transfer the acquired skills and knowledge on their places of work, among their colleagues and the community they live in; dissemination of information relevant for
journalists, as well as for other NGOs, media, humanitarian organizations,
donors, etc.

We believe that the free flow of information trough the online media is an opportunity that should be given to the SEE students of journalism and young journalists from South Eastern Europe .

Travel, Accommodation and Food:
Participants will be accommodated in hotel ( two bedrooms) in the very center of the city, the food will be provided for the all days of the activity, the travel cost will be reimbursement up to 70% of the original cost, and the transfer will be done by bank transfer after receiving the original tickets.

To apply
Please send your CV and motivation letter to our email address
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