New Central Europe 2 Fellowship Program
Academic Program – 2015 SPRING
Kőszeg, Europe House
Chernel st. 14
WEEK 1
May 18 – Monday
15.00 – 19.00 Welcome event and All-fellow meeting
The Europe House and the City of Kőszeg welcomes NCE2 fellows
May 19 – Tuesday
10.00 – 12.00 Orientation meeting for NCE2 Fellows (Sgraffito House)
coordinators: Izabella Szász, Edit Kőszegi
14.00 – 19.00 In Memoriam Elemér Hankiss - WORKSHOP
May 20 – Wednesday
10.00 – 13.00 Research meeting
chair: Ferenc Miszlivetz,
coordinators: Izabella Agárdi, Edit Kőszegi
WEEK 2
Pentecost – holiday, no programs
WEEK 3
June 1 - Monday
15.00-17.00 REUNION – a semi-formal debate
Presenting: István Kollai: Between Official and Non-official - Public Diplomacy in Practice
What does "public diplomacy" mean, and how can it function in practice? I would like to shed light on
the possible methods, tools and objectives of the public diplomacy in a Central European context, taking
examples from the activity of the Hungarian Institute in Bratislava.
June 2 - Tuesday
10.00-13.00 DATA and what to do with it – coordinator: Róbert Manchin
We invite you to a special day of introduction to projects that are related to data (Big and Small). By now
everybody heard about huge claims about the benefits what a data intensive analysis could mean to the
different fields. After a short overview by Róbert Manchin, who will give concrete examples of what a big
data inspired approach could mean to the disciplines represented among the current fellows, we will
have some short (15-20 minute long) introductions to a range of problems.
Zsolt Kosztyan will introduce us a modeling approach for a field that sometimes need to deal with huge
and complex systems (project management), Aniko Nemeth will talk on a special application
of Networks analysis. Janos Abonyi is going to give us an introduction of the toolbox of a data scientist
and will guide us through a series of steps on how a data scientist think about data mining, classification
and visualization of patterns within large data sets. Csaba Hegedus will talk on ways to reconcile
sometimes diverging opinions. Dezso Boda will help us to rethink how we deal with very complex
systems and ways of representing them in reduced models.
As you can see, Tuesday promise to be a very intensive, but richly rewarding intellectual day. The scholars
from Veszprem are doing a great job of willing to use language that is accessible to others who are
coming from different disciplinary background. We hope to stimulate interactions, and probing
possibilities to apply the approaches and principles to other fields as well.
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-16.30 KRAFT and Sustainable Development – coordinator: László Z. Karvalics
The session will introduce individual projects and how they relate to the over goals of KRAFT. Talks will
be approximately 15 minutes in length, the topics will vary. Methods of national development strategy,
indexing, measuring and forecasting potentials and uniqueness of a places well as specific case studies
of Kőszeg and its surrounding region will be discussed.
June 3 - Wednesday
TEAMWORK
WEEK 4
June 8 - Monday
15.00-17.00 REUNION – a time for semi-formal debate
June 9 - Tuesday
10.00-13.00 KRAFT and Sustainable Regional Development– coordinator: László Z. Karvalics
(with a coffee break between 11.30-12.00)
The session will introduce individual projects and how they relate to the over goals of KRAFT. Talks will
be approximately 15 minutes in length, the topics will vary. Methods of national development strategy,
indexing, measuring and forecasting potentials and uniqueness of a places well as specific case studies
of Kőszeg and its surrounding region will be discussed.
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-16.30 Globalization and Renewable Energies – coordinator:
Workshop on Ecological Sustainability
June 10 - Wednesday
10-12.00 Markus Molz and Gaudens Assenza
Workshop on Cultural Heritage Management
WEEK 5
June 15 - Monday
15.00-17.00 REUNION – a time for semi-formal debate
Presenting: Attila Pók: Centers for Advanced Studies
A conversation about unique institutions for the sciences and the arts around the world.
June 16 - Tuesday
10.00-13.00 Workshop: KRAFT and Tourism
Kata Lőrincz: Sustainable tourism: present and future
KRAFT team: Preparing a Database of Kőszeg’s Entrepreneurs – a brainstorming session
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
14.00-16.30 Workshop: Knowledge and Sustainable Development
Melinda Harlov: Architecture, Education and Society - Thoughts on an international conference
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia and the Politechnic University of Catalunya - BarcelonaTech in
association with several other stakeholders organize international conference yearly to connect
practitioners, decision makers, professors and other specialists. The aim is to provoke critical theories,
methods and practices arranged around certain topics. This year the three organizing key words were
Architecture, Education and Society.
Speakers from all over the world with diverse specialty discussed both theoretical questions and case
studies and engaged with the audience in the Q&A sessions. In the afternoons parallel sessions were
organized to provide floor to all the participants. This conference gave us useful thoughts and the
possibility of fruitful networking possibilities. The conference was outstanding due to the diverse and
very open audience who were all presenters as well and their diversity not just nationality and professionwise but in terms of the current level at their career path. All these characteristics show similarities with
our ISES platform and thus the experience in Spain might be interesting for us in Kőszeg as well.
June 17 - Wednesday
10-12.00 Lecture and discussion –
James M. Skelly: Europe and Identity
Professor Skelly’s research and teaching interests are rooted in the sociology of knowledge and focus
on reality construction related to issues of peace and conflict. His current research concerns the various
ways that fixed categories of identity can be destabilized and reconfigured.
László Z. Karvalics: European, Global and Postglobal Identities: how to Transcend Predatory
Identity
June 21 – July 3
WHITHER EUROPE? Evaluating the Past and Forecasting the Future
20th Summer University of ISES co-organised with the University of Pannonia
WEEK 6 & 7
July 6 – September 11
Individual research work and Teamwork