Monday, February 16, 2009

Graduate Student Fellowship for Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute

"Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: Culture, Society, Politics after 1989"
May 20 - June 4, 2009

All selected students will receive full fellowships. Application deadline: March 15, 2009.

The DAAD Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota invites applications to the 9th Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in European Studies (TASI). The Institute will bring together 12 German or other European, and 12 North American graduate students for an intensive two-week seminar in Krakow, Poland. Cooperating partners are the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management and the Institute of Sociology at the Jagiellonian University. The 2009 topic is "Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: Culture, Society, Politics." The Institute will be taught by a multi-disciplinary team of faculty: Francis Harvey (Geography; University of Minnesota), Tom Wolfe (History; University of Minnesota) and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska (Sociology; Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland). The Institute is intended for advanced graduate students from all recognized institutions of higher education.

Full details and application materials at www.cges.umn.edu/fellowships/tasi.htm