17 July – 31 July 2011 The fourth edition of the GUSS-International Summer School, coordinated by the University of Graz’s Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS), took place at Seggau Castle, near Leibnitz, Austria from July 17th to July 31st, 2011. This year the International Summer School on the Americas brought together twelve faculty members and guest lecturers and 58 students of twenty-five nationalities for a two-week summer program. The seminars offered in 2011 were: Film, Literature, Identities, Economics, and Sustainability. One of the main changes to the previous years was that this fourth edition of the summer school was funded as an ERASMUS Intensive Program (IP), applied by the University of Graz. The International Summer School on the Americas was carried out in cooperation with partner institutions of higher education in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, France, Romania, Slovenia, and Hungary.
18 July - 1 August 2010 The third CSAS/Utrecht Network Summer School attracted 45 students from all over the world. Twelve international experts, teaching 5 modules, dedicated themselves to an interdisciplinary examination of the Americas in this intensive 2-week course. The organisational team was proud to welcome a considerably increased number of participants this year, students as well as faculty, which can be attributed to the successful development of the now established field of Inter-American Studies within the Summer School. Videos created by students of the Summer School 2010 can be viewed on YouTube:
18 July - 1 August 2010
12.-.26 July 2009 During the second Utrecht Network Summer School at Seggau Castle, an international group of students and staff examined a wide range of Inter-American topics. In four seminars (1 Film & Society, 2 Literature, 3 Politics: Law & Security, 4 Environment: Urban & Regional Development) students discussed the Americas from various vantage points as one hemispheric region. The aim was to stimulate the dialogue between the different nations of the Americas as well as change the European perspective of the Western hemisphere. The enthusiastic participation of students and lecturers from Europe and the Americas proves that the approach and implementation of Inter-American Studies is contemporary and academically in demand.
Videos created by students of the Summer School 2009 can be viewed on YouTube:
The programme consisted of a well-balanced mixture of seminars in selected topic areas in the morning, transferable skills workshops in the afternoon, meet-the-professor-sessions in the evening, as well as various cultural events and excursions.
13 – 27 July 2008 For the first time the Center for the Study of the Americas in cooperation with Utrecht Network organised an international summer school for Inter-American Studies. Utecht Network partner universities as well as Canadian and US American universities participated with 35 students and international staff. Five seminars with interdisciplinary lectures and intensive afternoon workshops covered a wide range of new methods of instruction. Students and lecturers worked at a redefinition of the term “America” or “American”, from a US-centered towards a hemispheric perspective.
29 June - 13 July 2008 The first Graz University Summer School aimed at contributing to the internationalization of teaching and research by involving international experts from all relevant fields. Five seminars coveringEnglish & American Studies: Culture and Literary Studies, Linguistics, Jewish Studies: History of the Culture of the Jews and History of South-Eastern Europe offered specialized training in the various topic areas. Furthermore students had the possibility to earn additional transferable skills through courses such as scientific paper writing or intercultural communication and enjoy a varied evening program. |
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