Schedule
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Conflicts, polarization, and international institutions: the world between the old and new order
Day 1 – Monday, April 6, 2026
- Arrival and Registration (Opava Dormitory)
- Icebreakers and Orientation (campus Jinonice)
- Welcome Dinner
Day 2 – Tuesday, April 7, 2026
- Official Welcome
- Seminar: Central Asia surrounded by conflict: terms and conditions of strategic stability (Anna Jordanová)
- Lunch Break
- Lecture: Polarization in the European Society (Martin Mejstřík)
- Guided tour of Prague
Day 3 – Wednesday, April 8, 2026
- Workshop: Kosovo, the Western Balkans, and the Dimensions of Frozen Conflicts (Shpresonë Grulaj)
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Frozen and hot conflicts in Post-Soviet Area (Slavomír Horák)
Day 4 – Thursday, April 9, 2026
- Seminar: Ethnic cleansing or genocide? The understanding of the wars in the former Yugoslavia (Ondřej Žíla)
- Workshop: After Socialism: Social Polarisation, Global Change, and Local Agency in Central Europe’s Industrial Peripheries (Tereza Juhászová)
- Lunch Break
- Minigolf
Day 5 – Friday, April 10, 2026
- Lecture: Whose Knowledge Counts? Decolonising Fieldwork and Rethinking Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe (Kateřina Fuksová)
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Divided US society (Jana Sehnálková)
- A tour through the Prague Castle district
Day 6 – Saturday, April 11, 2026
- Free day
Day 7 – Sunday, April 12, 2026
- Free day
Day 8 – Monday, April 13, 2026
- Lecture: Populism as a European Challenge (Martin Mejstřík}
- Lunch Break
- Lecture: Presidential Elections and Czech Society (Michal Kubát; Jinonice study rooms, A126)
- Tutorial: Preparation for final group presentations
Day 9 – Tuesday, April 14, 2026
- Visit to Czech Parliament
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: Shifting Fault Lines: Regional Security in the Wake of October 7 and the Trump Presidency (Irena Kalhousová)
- Workshop: Kosovo, the Western Balkans, and the Dimensions of Frozen Conflicts (Shpresonë Grulaj)
- Lecture/Workshop: Revisionism and the liberal international order: changes and reforms of international institutions (Jan Hornát)
Day 10 – Wednesday, April 15, 2026
- Workshop: No quiet on the cyber front: unpacking the paradoxes of the Russo-Ukrainian cyberwar (Roman Kolodii)
- Lunch Break
- Workshop: The Russo-Ukrainian war as an epistemological challenge: framing the emergent world order (Valeria Korablyová)
- Tutorial: Preparation for final group presentations
Day 11 – Thursday, April 16, 2026
- Final Group Presentations
- Closing Ceremony, Conferring of the commemorative certificates of participation
- Farewell Lunch
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