Nations, cultures and religions in Europe
[EUSL2201]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Elie Barnavi, Michel Dumoulin
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Thanks to historical and sociological concepts, lectures will underline what these identities are made of and the way they are continuously used in the present time.
Main themes
attention will also be drawn on how these senses of belonging are generally expressed and on how the European Union copes with them.
Lectures will also attempt to point out the evolution of discourses defining Europe's values, identities and representations. It will underline how those discourses have been redefined in order to promote or to hinder the European process and how they have been used to stimulate or to hamper the European commitment of peoples living in Europe. Electoral issues will also shed light on the debate.
Content and teaching methods
Second, connections between Europeans and European projects in the long run will come under scrutiny. Political cultures, democratic practices and their representations before 1945 will be analyzed. This switch from the present-day world to the period preceding 1945 will help better understand such factors as imagination, practices or customs brought out by the European project. Thirdly, a discourse analysis will underline the reappropriation process that is at work in the European space. Thanks to many texts and images, the lecturer will illustrate what is at work while the European governance is developing.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Periodicity: yearly.
Language: French.
Prerequisite:
Evaluation: to be determined by the professor in charge.
Support: to be determined by the professor in charge.
References: to be determined by the professor in charge.