WEEK 1: SETTING THE GROUND: TOWARDS A THEORY OF MIGRATION
September 2: 17 Opening: project rationale and official beginning of the programme, welcome addresses / 19:30 welcome party (Café 1, Veletržní palác)
Sept 3: 9-13 Migration and Modernity: Round table / 15-18 General discussion
Sept 4: 9-13 Theory and Methodology / Afternoon: Academic Board meeting
Sept 5: 9-13 ESRs project presentations 1 (1-8) / 15-18 Individual meetings 1 (according to WPs)
Sept 6: 9-13 ESRs project presentations 2 (9-15) / 15-18 Individual meetings 2 (according to WPs)
WEEK 2: MAKING IT PRACTICAL: TOPICS AND NON-ACADEMIC INTERVENTIONS
Sept 9: 9-13 Workshop 1: “Reflections of (American) Slavery in Central and Eastern Europe, 18th-19th Century” (Prof. Markéta Křížová) / 15-17 guided walk “Shared Prague / Divided Prague” (Zuzana Schreiberová)
Sept 10: 9-13 Workshop 2: “Revisiting the Golden Age: Brexit, Migration and the Rhetoric of National Identity” (Dr. Mirka Horová) / 15-18 Workshop: “The Effects of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ on Politics and Society in Central Europe” (Masha Volynsky and guests)
Sept 11: 9-13 Workshop 3: “Performing the Threshold: Community, Hospitality and the Migrant in Contemporary Theatre” (doc. Clare Wallace) / 15-18 Lecture: “The History of Immigration to the Czech Republic since the Velvet Revolution” (Masha Volynsky and guests)
Sept 12: 9-13 Workshop 4: “Black British Literature and the African and Asian Diaspora: Theory and Practice” (Dr. Soňa Nováková) / 16-19 trip to SAPA and dinner
Sept 13: 9-13 Workshop 5: “The Frontier, Migration and U.S. Ghost Towns” (Prof. Martin Procházka) / 13-15 Discussion of secondments
WEEK 3: GETTING THINGS GOING: WORK PACKAGES AND FINANCES
Sept 16: 9-13 Student round table WP 1 / 15-18 Finance: General introduction + Q&A (Lenka Zeisková)
Sept 17: 9-13 Student round table WP 2 / 15-18 Research, training, networking (expenses)
Sept 18: 9-13 Student round table WP 3 / 15-18 Registration with Research Office (Faculty of Arts)
Sept 19: 9-13 Student round table WP 4 / 15-18 Research, training, networking (expenses)
Sept 20: 9-13 Student round table WP 5 / 15-18 Research, training, networking (expenses)
WEEK 4: BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER: COMMON GROUND AND NEW PERSPECTIVES
Sept 23: 9-13 Guest speaker 1 (Dr. William O’Reilly, University of Cambridge) / 15-18 Discussion round
Sept 24: 9-13 Guest speaker 2 (Prof. Dr. Peter Burschel, University of Göttingen) / 15-18 Discussion round
Sept 25: 9-13 Guest speaker 3 (Dr. Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies) / 15-18 Discussion round
Sept 26: 9-13 Guest speaker 4 (Prof. Matthew Guterl, Brown University) / 15-18 Discussion round / 19:00 farewell dinner – Století
Sept 27: departures
