Summer School “Baltic Practice – 2014”
« Europe in Russia: Business, Values, Culture»
28 June – 06 July 2014
Gelios Hotel, Zelenogorsk, Leningradskaya oblast’, Russia
28 JUNE, SATURDAY
Meeting at Leningradsky train station, Moscow
Departure from Leningradsky train station, Moscow
29 JUNE, SUNDAY
Arrival to Saint Petersburg, transfer to Gelios Hotel
12.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 18.00 Meeting of the participants, Working Groups start to work
30 JUNE, MONDAY
TOPIC OF THE DAY: “DRIVERS OF DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA: VALUES AND
ACTORS”
9.00 – 10.30
Breakfast
Opening:
10.30 – 11.00 Nina Belyaeva, Summer School Academic Director;
“14 years of Baltic Practice Project: Coming back to Russia with new experience”
Plenary Session
“Why Revolts ? Some Theoretical and Methodological Considerations.”
Mahama Tawat, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Institute for European Studies and Centre for Migration
Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
11.00 – 13.00
13.00 - 14.30
14.30 – 17.00
17.00 – 18.30
“Political Changes and Democratic Changes: Assessing Drivers Impact”
Dmitry Zaytsev, PhD, Associate Professor, Higher School of Economics
“Protest Publics as Drivers of political changes in Russia, Brazil, Egypt and Turkey”
Alexander Anufriev, Master Student, Higher School of Economics
Lunch
Work in Groups OR Visits to LCSR workshop sessions
(decided and monitored by Work Group Leaders)
Free time OR Visit LCSR’s Additional course on “Political support and Democratic Values in
cross-national perspective” (5 lectures) Lecturer: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, WZB (Berlin)
18.30 - 20.00
Dinner
Evening Discussion Club (moderators: Mahama Tawat, Dmitry Zaytsev) “Research Frontiers in
20.00 - 22.00
Measuring and Explaining Democratization and Good Governance”
21.00
Coffee Break
22.00 – 24.00 Professors Club Meeting
01 JULY, TUESDAY
TOPIC OF THE DAY “ETHICS, ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE INTERESTS”
9.00 – 10.30
Breakfast
Plenary Session
“Institutions and economic development: What we know about it?”
Edgar Tovar, PhD, Professor, Higher School of Economics
11.00 – 13.00
13.00 - 14.30
14.30 – 17.00
“Global Institutions & Global Inequalities”
Guiseppe Mastruzzo, PhD, Professor, University of Turin
“The role of institutions in civic integration process: the German case”
Maria Patrakova, Master Student, Higher School of Economics
Lunch
Work in Groups OR Visits to LCSR workshop sessions
(decided and monitored by Work Group Leaders)
17.00 – 18.30
Free time OR Visit LCSR’s Additional course on “Political support and Democratic Values in
cross-national perspective” (5 lectures) Lecturer: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, WZB (Berlin)
18.30 - 20.00
Dinner
Evening Discussion Club (moderators: Edgar Tovar, Guiseppe Mastruzzo)
20.00-22.00
“Institutions matter, and ethics, too”
21.00
Coffee Break
22.00 – 24.00 Professors Club Meeting
02 JULY, WEDNESDAY
TOPIC OF THE DAY “EUROPEAN OMBUDSMAN, ECHR AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION BEYOND
EUROPE”
9.00 – 10.30
Breakfast
Plenary Session
“Ombudsman Institution in Europe and beyond”
Simon Matthijssen, ex-ombudsmen of Rotterdam
11.00 – 13.00
13.00 - 14.30
14.30 – 17.00
17.00 – 18.30
“Release from Punishment: The Price Paid by Entrepreneurs”
Zinaida Porosova, Associate Professor, Higher School of Economics
“Key principles in decisions of European Court of the Human Rights ”
Artem Ul’danov, PhD student, Higher School of Economics
Lunch
Work in Groups OR Visits to LCSR workshop sessions
(decided and monitored by Work Group Leaders)
Free time OR Visit LCSR’s Additional course on “Political support and Democratic Values in
cross-national perspective” (5 lectures) Lecturer: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, WZB (Berlin)
18.30 - 20.00
Dinner
Evening Discussion Club (moderators: Simon Matthijssen, Zinaida Porosova, Artem Ul’danov)
20.00-22.00
National state and universality of Human rights: how to balance?
21.00
Coffee Break
22.00 – 24.00 Professors Club Meeting
03 JULY, THURSDAY
TOPIC OF THE DAY: “PUBLIC DIALOGUE IN PUBLIC SPHERE THROUGH NATIONAL CULTURES IN
CONDITIONS OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES”
9.00 – 10.30
Breakfast
Plenary Session
“The search for identity - a challenge for modern societies”
Gerhard Ermischer, PhD, Professor, University of Wurzburg
11.00 – 13.00
“Conflict between “European” and rooted media institutions in Russia”
Iliya Kiria, PhD, Professor, Higher School of Economics
“European values in contemporary political debates in Russia”
Anna Potsar, PhD in philology, Associate Professor, NRU HSE
13.00 - 14.30
14.30 – 17.00
17.00 – 18.30
18.30 - 20.00
20.00-22.00
“Russian Orthodox Church in public discourse: values and arguments”
Daria Chernusheva, Master Student, NRU HSE
Lunch
Preparation to the Debates OR Visits to LCSR workshop sessions
(decided and monitored by Work Group Leaders)
Free time OR Visit LCSR’s Additional course on “Political support and Democratic Values in
cross-national perspective” (5 lectures) Lecturer: Hans-Dieter Klingemann, WZB (Berlin)
Dinner
Evening Discussion Club (moderators: Gerhard Ermischer, Anna Potsar, Iliya Kiria)
How to justify value judgments?
21.00
22.00 – 24.00
Coffee Break
Professors Club Meeting
04 JULY, FRIDAY
DEBATES
9.00 – 10.30
10.30 – 12.30
12.30-13.00
13.00 - 14.00
Breakfast
Debates “What can be a driver of pushing Russia closer to Europe: business or values?”
Closing of the School, Awards
Lunch
Free Time OR Visits to LCSR workshop sessions OR Visit LCSR’s Additional course on
“Political support and Democratic Values in cross-national perspective” (5 lectures) Lecturer:
Hans-Dieter Klingemann, WZB (Berlin)
05 JULY, SATURDAY
Free Morning & Afternoon
Departure from Gelios Hotel to Saint Petersburg
Departure from Saint Petersburg to Moscow