The YUFE Academy starts

2. November 2020


YUFE, 3 Nov – 4 Dec, 2020. The YUFE Academy is a sequence of online lectures travelling along the YUFE campi on “European Identity”, YUFE’s first focus area, which will give interested students, staff and citizens a “feel” of YUFE. All twenty online lectures together cultivate into a programme one could follow entirely or only some parts of. All these little building blocks together make the YUFE Academy, a beneficial gathering and learning experience for YUFE students, staff and citizens.

Topics of the Lectures:

  • A community in progress? The dynamics of European identification in times of global crises
  • Hate speech and hate crime in the EU space: counter-actions and counter speech
  • A community in progress? The dynamics of European identification in times of global crises
  • The Mies Van Der Rohe Architectural Awards, Best in class in Europe
  • The European Dimension in Education
  • From Dissonant Heritage to Dark Tourism in Southeastern Europe
  • Sustainable direction for the future of tourism
  • Flipped UEF
  • Decentering Europe – a conversation with Dr Jens Adam
  • Sustainable and Resilient Development in Europe after the Covid Pandemics
  • Is my B2 your B2? Or what it means to be at a CEFR level
  • A More Perfect Union? On the Economics of European Identity
  • Immigration, Brexit and COVID-19: the future of multicultural Britain
  • Promoting European Union Values in International Relations
  • Parliamentary Democracy in Europe
  • Led By Donkeys: Englishness, Nostalgia, and Crisis
  • Law in Motion: A Legal Historical Journey across Europe
  • The idea of Europe – and its Consequences
  • Identities & Memory politics in Europe – the links between the European project and colonialism
  • Colonialism and Europe: the heritage of Enlightenment

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