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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