A Series of Seminar and Lecture Courses within the Flying University Programme

Dear colleagues,

The NGO “Centre for Social Innovation” and the Agency for Humanitarian Technologies offer a series of seminar and lecture courses within the “Flying University” programme for the 2011-2012 academic year.

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The “Flying University” programme includes lecture and seminar courses aimed at mastering contemporary intellectual practices and knowledge on current Belarusian and European issues, which are necessary not only for people engaged in research and expert work, but also for politicians, civic activists, and practitioners in education and culture.

The following courses are offered:

• • * Introduction to the Systems Approach (Uladzimir Matskevich)
  • * Technologies for Managing the Future: Development, Design, Programming (Andrei Yahorau)
  • * Beyond History: Contemporary Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding and Describing the Past (Aliaksei Lastouski)
  • * Introduction to General Hermeneutics (Pavel Barkouski)
  • * Pedagogy as Practical Philosophy (Uladzimir Matskevich)
  • * Methodological Colloquium: Reading Texts on the Methodology of Science (Dzmitry Halinouski)
  • * Programming Socio-Humanitarian Research (Aksana Shelest)
  • * Measurement in Humanities Research: Using Scales, Planning Experiments, Statistical Hypotheses and Inference (Alena Baradachova)
  • * Cultural Policy as Social Theory and a Development Programme for Belarus (Tatsiana Vadalazhskaya)
  • * Introduction to the Ideas, History and Geography of Political Science (20th-21st Century) (Andrei Kazakevich)
  • * Global Problems of Everyday Life (Modern Society in Search of Compromises) (Viachaslau Babrovich)
  • * Systems of Governance in Post-Soviet Belarus: Past, Present, Future (Viktar Charnou)
  • * Anthropology of Architectural Heritage (Stsiapan Stureika)
  • * Belarus: Image and Style. Creative Workshop (Michal Aniempadystau)

Detailed information about the courses is available in the attached file:

– Information Letter (pdf)