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“It was my first experience of this sort, and I found the week not only intellectually stimulating, but also highly rewarding. I felt the combination of lecturers as well as students produced a truly unique experience for myself, and I feel very privileged to be a part of it.”
Sarah Kerrigan, UK, CDPE 2009 student
The statement “Culture matters" is very true in the context of the European integration! The processes of European integration brings about new practices as well as concepts. The co-operation, mutual adjustment and merging of political institutions such as legal regulations or tax and fiscal policies are concomitant with the cultural processes of Europeanization – the process of cultural intertwining, if not homogenization, of European societies.
Center for Public Policy is pleased to invite students to the Summer School on
Cultural Dimensions of Politics in Europe 2010 (CDPE 2010)
We invite you to share our passion for the study of culture and the complex ways in which it affects politics. We also invite you to become more aware of the workings of power through and by the means of culture. The multicultural open minded environment of the summer school is ideal for learning more about the differences among Europeans and the universality of some of their experiences and values.
Many of the political processes in today’s Europe affect our identities and values, engage us in rituals, provide us with symbols and metaphors we live by. It will be our pleasure to know more about what your imageries of Europe are as well as to share what we have learnt about Europe’s ever changing and multiple identities and senses of belonging. We will be happy to meet you in a beautiful city of Prague and discuss the ways in which these identities and symbols differ across Europe as well as find some universal features of European political culture.
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