The course is an English-taught international postgraduate seminar designed for students registered on postgraduate courses at the Panteion University and the University of Athens, including Erasmus international students. It also welcomes the participation of PhD students and academics. Through a series of lectures delivered by an international cast of distinguished guest-speakers, followed by seminar discussions, the course traces the emergence and development of a specific European self-definition, from the eighteenth century onwards. It considers the emergence of this European self-consciousness in the context of those great political, cultural, economic and social transformations which have moulded and re-moulded European societies since the eighteenth century: the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment/Romanticism, Nationalism, Communism, Imperialism, Fascism, Decolonisation, Regionalisation, Globalisation, and European Integration.
The course aims:
· To consider concepts related to ‘European identity’ from a historical, anthropological, sociological, and political perspective.
· To discuss the question of the balance and relationship between a common European identity and national and regional ones.
· To present and examine pivotal questions about the bases of political community formation in Europe since the 18th century from a multi-disciplinary and comparative perspective.
Description of seminars:
1. Introduction
2. Ethnic and civic identities in Europe
3. European Identities vs national identities
4. European identities in flux: The Reformation and the refugee crisis of the 16th and 17th centuries
5. The “New” Europe. Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the test
6. Russia and European identities
7. Europeanisation and democratization of Serbia before the First World War
8. History and National Identity in Europe
9. Brexit but no Irexit? The Republic of Ireland in Europe, 1973 - 2016
10. Populism and Euroscepticism
11. Race and Racism in modern Europe
12. Students’ workshop
13. Students’ workshop
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