{"id":17202,"date":"2016-07-22T09:52:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17202"},"modified":"2022-05-19T11:12:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T15:12:22","slug":"to-the-european-institute-of-civic-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17202","title":{"rendered":"to the European Institute of Civic Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am fleeing the country<\/s> heading to Augsburg, Germany for the 2016 Summer Institute of Civic Studies. It is aimed at participants from Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland, but they are convening\u00a0this summer in\u00a0Germany (thanks to the generosity of the DAAD<\/a>). The other organizers are my friends Dr. Tetyana Kloubert (Augsburg) and Prof. Karol Soltan (Maryland).\u00a0I’ll paste the syllabus below; it may be interesting because of its European focus. It ends with a practical training on nonviolent resistance that should be particularly illuminating when experienced right after relatively\u00a0abstract discussions of\u00a0democracy and civic society. I will\u00a0unfortunately miss that part because I’m coming back to the US on August 29, and I will resume blogging then.<\/p>\n

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Monday, July 25 9:00 \u2013 9:30<\/p>\n

9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

Introductions and Inspirations<\/p>\n

Framing Statement for the Summer Institute
\nSeamus Heaney, \u201cIn the Republic of Conscience\u201d
\nImages: fist of Otpor and open hand from Chandigarh
\nVaclav Havel, Address at Wroclaw University (December 21, 1992)
\nMyroslav Marynovych \u201cCivic virtues after Maidan\u201d
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

Democracies: Constitutional, Illiberal and Fa\u00e7ade<\/p>\n

Fareed Zakaria “The Rise of Illiberal Democracy” (1997)
\nViktor Orban’s Speech at the 25th Balvanyos Summer Free University and Student Camp (2014)
\nAttila Agh, “De-Europeanization and De-Democratization Trends in ECE” (2015)
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

I. The main theoretical debate of civic studies: J\u00fcrgenHabermas vs. Elinor Ostrom<\/p>\n

1. Venue: Negotiation and Deliberation<\/p>\n

Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes (2d ed.), Chapter 1 “Don’t Bargain Over Positions” pp. 3-14.
\nArchon Fung, “Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences” in Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 11, No. 3. (September 2003), pp. 338-67.
\nBernard Manin “Deliberation: Why We Should Focus on Debate Rather Than Discussion.”
\n17:30 \u2013 19:00 Reception at the Augsburg University<\/p>\n

Tuesday, July 26 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

2. Theorist: J\u00fcrgen Habermas<\/p>\n

James Finlayson (2005), Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Chapters 1, 2, 4) pp. 1-27, 47-61
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

3. Key concepts: Pluralism<\/p>\n

Peter J. Boettke et al. (2014), \u201cPolycentricity, Self-governance, and the Art & Science of Association,” in The Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 28, Issue 3 , 311-335
\nLeszek Kolakowski (1990), “How to be a Conservative-Liberal-Socialist”, Modernity on Endless Trial (University of Chicago, 1990).
\nIsaiah Berlin (1988), “On the Pursuit of the Ideal,” in The Crooked Timber of Humanity, ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press)
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

4. Theorist: Elinor Ostrom and the commons<\/p>\n

Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern (2002), \u201cThe Drama of the Commons\u201d, in Drama of the Commons, ed. Elinor Ostrom, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, pp. 3-26
\nElinor Ostrom (1996), \u201cCovenants, Collective Action, and Common-Pool Resources\u201d, in The Constitution of Good Societies, ed. Karol Edward Soltan and Stephen L. Elkin, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 23\u201338
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (invited speaker)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, July 27 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

5. Key concepts: Social capital<\/p>\n

Robert D. Putnam, “Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance,” in Ravitch and Viteritti, eds., Making Good Citizens, pp. 58-95;
\nJean L. Cohen, “American Civil Society Talk,” in Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal, pp. 55-85
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

II. Civic action and reflection: Education and Civic Education<\/p>\n

1. Key concepts: Civic Education \u2013 The person in development as a citizen<\/p>\n

Benson, Scales, Hamilton, and Sesma (2006), “Positive Youth Development: Theory, Research, and Applications”, in Theoretical Models of Human Development, ed. R. M. Lerner (Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. 1., 6th ed.), pp. 894-941
\nJoel Westheimer and Joseph E. Kahne (2004), “Educating the ‘Good Citizen’: Political Choices and Pedagogical Goals”, in Political Science and Politics, 37,2, pp. 241\u2013247
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

2. Key concepts: Civic Education \u2013 Principles of German political (adult) education: Bildung and M\u00fcndigkeit as core categories<\/p>\n

Hendrik Bohlin (2008), \u201cBildung and Moral Self-Cultivation in Higher Education: What Does it Mean and How Can it be Achieved?\u201c, in Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table.
\nZeuner, Christine (2013), \u201cFrom workers education to societal competencies: approaches to a critical, emancipatory education for democracy\u201d, in: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 4, 2, p. 139-152
\nMartha Friedenthal-Haase (1996), “The Knowledge-Base of Democracy\u201d, in Democracy and Adult Education, ed. J. Jug et al., Frankfurt am Main et al: P. Lang, pp. 133-138.
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (invited speaker)<\/p>\n

Thursday,<\/p>\n

July 28 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

3. Theorist: Freire<\/p>\n

Myles Horton and Paulo Freire (1990), We Make the Road by Walking, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 115-138
\nPaulo Freire (2000 [1970]), Pedagogy of the oppressed, New York: Continuum (Chapter 1. The justification for a pedagogy of the oppressed, Chapter 2. The \u201cbanking\u201d concept of education as an instrument of oppression)
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

4. Re-education and Rethinking the Past<\/p>\n

James F. Tent (1984), Mission on the Rhine : reeducation and denazification in American-occupied Germany, University of Chicago Press (Chapter: From Reeducation to Reorientation).
\nRichard von Weizs\u00e4cker (8. Mai 1985): \u201eZum 40. Jahrestag der Beendigung des Krieges in Europa und der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft\u201c (English translation)
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

III. Civic theorists respond to modernity<\/p>\n

5. James C. Scott<\/p>\n

James C. Scott Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, introduction and chapter 3, chapter 9.
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (proposed by participants)<\/p>\n

Friday, July 29<\/p>\n

9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

6. Modernity after Auschwitz<\/p>\n

Theodor Adorno (2003), Can one live after Auschwitz? : a philosophical reader, Stanford University Press (Chapter 2: Education after Auschwitz)
\nTheodor Adorno (with Hellmut Becker): Education for Maturity and Responsibility
\nDaniel L\u00e9vy, Natan Sznaider (2005), The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1-39.
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

7. Theorist: Hannah Arendt<\/p>\n

Hannah Arendt (1967): On Revolution. Excerpts.
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

8. Roberto Mangabeira Unger and radical modernism<\/p>\n

Roberto Unger, False Necessity, Chapter 1 (1-40)
\nRoberto Unger, Democracy Realized, “A Manifesto” (263-77)
\nWeekend : Free for private activities; optional sightseeing programs will be available<\/p>\n

Monday, August 1, 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

9. Theorist: Max Weber<\/p>\n

Max Weber (1965), Politics as a vocation, Philadelphia: Fortress Press (Max Weber (1988 [1919]), Politik als Beruf, in ders.: Gesammelte Politische Schriften, hrsg. von Johannes Winckelmann, 5. Aufl., T\u00fcbingen: Mohr, pp. 505-560 – excerpts)
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

10.Theorist: Edmund Burke<\/p>\n

Robert Nisbet (1986), Conservatism: Dream and Reality, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 1-46
\nWilliam Ophuls (with A. Stephen Boyan) (1992), Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited, New York: Freemann (Chapter 8), pp. 222-249.
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

11. Theorist: Friedrich von Hayek<\/p>\n

Friedrich Hayek (1960), The Constitution of Liberty, University of Chicago Press, (Chapter 1, Chapter 4 and Postscript)
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (proposed by participants)<\/p>\n

Tuesday, August 2, 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

IV. Constitutional Democracy<\/p>\n

1. Key concepts: Constitutional Patriotism<\/p>\n

M\u00fcller, Jan-Werner (2008), A General Theory of Constitutional Patriotism, in International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 6, Issue 1, 72-95.
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

2. Key concepts: Thinking constitutionally<\/p>\n

The Federalist Papers, ? 10 (The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, November 23, 1787), ? 51 (The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments, February 8, 1788).
\nStephen Elkin (2004), \u201cThinking Constitutionally: The Problem of Deliberative Democracy\u201d, in Social Philosophy and Policy, 21, pp. 39-75.
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

3. Key concepts: Thinking about constitutions<\/p>\n

Democracy Reporting International: Ukraine (2014), \u201cThe Promise and the Risk of Constitutional Reforms\u201d, Briefing Paper 46, March 2014
\nAckerman, Bruce (2000), \u201cThe New Separation of Powers\u201d, 634-69, 685-94, 712-25.
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (proposed by participants)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, August 3, 9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

4. Key concepts: Corruption<\/p>\n

John Ackerman (2014), \u201cRethinking the International Anti-Corruption Agenda\u201d, in American University International Law Review, 29, 2, pp. 293-333.
\nCreative Union TORO Ukraine and the UNCAC Coalition (2011), UN Convention against Corruption. Civil Society Review. Ukraine 2011
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

V. Toward a broader civic perspective<\/p>\n

Venue: Civic Studies for European Union<\/p>\n

Weiler, J.H.H. (2011): On the political and legal DNA of the Union and the Current European Crisis
\nDahrendorf (1997), After 1989: morals, revolution, and civil society, Oxford (15. From Europe to EUrope: A Story of Hope, Trial and Error.)
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

2. Global Civic Work<\/p>\n

James Nickel, “Human Rights,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online (http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/rights-human\/)
\nAndrew Clapham (2006), Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors, Oxford University Press, pp. 535-48 (Section 11.1 “Dignity”)
\nJames Speth (2008), The Bridge at the Edge of the World, Yale University Press, pp. 199-216
\nUnited Nations Organisations (1948), Universal Declaration of Human Rights
\nEarth Charter Commission (2000) The Earth Charter
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation (invited speaker)<\/p>\n

Thursday, August 4<\/p>\n

9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

VI. Democracy from below<\/p>\n

1. Venue: Community organizing and popular education<\/p>\n

John Gaventa (1980), Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, pp. 3-32
\nSaul Alinsky (1969 [1946]), Reveille for Radicals, New York: Vintage Books, pp. 76-81; 85-88; 92-100, 132-5, 155-158
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

2. Venue: Social movements<\/p>\n

Charles Tilly (2004), Social Movements, London: Paradigm Publisher, pp. 1768-2004
\nMarshall Ganz (2004), “Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements,” in Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion, ed. Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp.177-98.
\n13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

3. Venue: Social Movements in the Shadow of Gandhi<\/p>\n

Bhikhu Parekh (2001), Gandhi, Oxford University Press, (Chapter 4 “Satyagraha”) pp. 51-62
\nTimothy Garton Ash (2009), \u201cVelvet Revolution: The Prospects,\u201d New York Review of Books, December 3
\n16:30 \u2013 17:30 Evening Presentation<\/p>\n

Workshop: Nonviolent civic strategies (Dmytro Potekhin)<\/p>\n

Friday, August 5<\/p>\n

9:30 \u2013 11:00 Morning session<\/p>\n

Workshop: Nonviolent civic strategies (Dmytro Potekhin)<\/p>\n

11:30 \u2013 13:00 Noon Session<\/p>\n

Workshop: Nonviolent civic strategies (Dmytro Potekhin)<\/p>\n

13:00 \u2013 14:30 Lunch break<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 16:00 Afternoon session<\/p>\n

Workshop: Nonviolent civic strategies (Dmytro Potekhin)<\/p>\n

17:30 \u2013 22:00<\/p>\n

Summary of the Summer Institute: Perspectives and Challenges in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Germany in international comparison<\/p>\n

Farewell Evening \u2013 Social gathering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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