European Renaissance IV: Western versus Eastern Europe

Better understand European developments in the following centuries studying aspects of the European Renaissance with extension to the late Renaissance in Eastern Europe

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CIVIS focus area
Society, culture, heritage
Open to
  • Bachelor's
  • Master's
  • PhD candidates/ students
Field of studies
  • Social Science and humanities
Type
  • Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP)
Course dates
6 February - 13 June 2025

The BIP will focus on the Renaissance culture (XIV-XVI cent.) and its Western and Eastern (later) facets, as a key to the construction of a European Cultural Tradition based on the classical heritage. The BIP will have a strong interdisciplinary perspective, from philosophy to religion, from literature and linguistics, to figurative arts and music; from history and historiography, to social and natural sciences.

European Renaissance IV is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-national, research-based, pedagogy oriented, inclusive project, with a strong transEuropean perspective and focus.

The online seminars will be hosted in collaboration between the three organizing universities (University of Bucharest, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), with their parteners (Sapienza Università di Roma, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Aix-Marseille Université; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Université Hassan II of Casablanca). 

The seminars will be coordinated by students in collaboration with guest speakers. Each seminar will cover a different area of the European Renaissance and the Mediterranean. The specific themes to be discussed will emerge from the concurring interests of the participants in the BIP, in a collaborative way. The platforms used will be Moodle and Zoom.

The 5 days face-to-face activities will be held at the University of Bucharest.

Main topics addressed

  • Boundaries of the Renaissance in Western versus Eastern Europe
  • The most important characteristics of the European Renaissance
  • Evolution of Renaissance ideas in the various fields
  • Diversity of cultural histories of European and Mediterranean lands and people shaped by and lived through in the light of European Renaissance
  • Contribution of the European Renaissance in the birth and shaping of the following centuries, not only in Europe.

Learning outcomes

Taking this course, the students will get familiarized with the diversity of cultural histories. They will also understand how lands were shaped by and people and lived through in the light of European Renaissance.

Dates: 6 February - 13 June 2025 Total workload: 150 hours
Format: Blended ECTS: 6*
Location: Bucharest, Romania Language: English (B2), Italian
Contact: roxana.utale@lls.unibuc.ro  

*Recognition of ECTS depends on your home university.

Physical mobility

The physical mobility part will be running from 9 to 13 June 2025 in Bucharest, Romania. 

Precisely because it is located in Eastern Europe, Romania is one of the best places to understand cultural differences in the XIV - XVI centuries. The University of Bucharest will organize workshops, visits to museums (The National Museum of the History of Romania, The National Museum of Art, The National Museum of Old Maps and Books Bucharest), trips to places where there are vestiges of the Oriental Renaissances: churches and monasteries, buildings - The Brâncovan Palace Museum in Mogoșoaia etc.

Virtual part

The program includes 10 online online meetings, spread between 6 February - 10 April 2025:

  • 06.02.2025: Redescovering classicism. Renaissance philosophy 
  • 13.02.2025: Social, political and religious changes
  • 20.02.2025: Italian Renaissance Literature (1)
  • 27.02.2025: Italian Renaissance Literature (2)
  • 06.02.2025: English Reinassance Literature
  • 13.03.2025: Renaissance in Iberian Peninsula, France, Germany and the Netherlands
  • 20.03.2025: Renaissance Art
  • 27.03.2025: Renaissance science and technology
  • 03.04.2025: Eastern Reinassance (1)
  • 10.04.2025: Eastern Reinassance (2)

Requirements

This course is open to Bachelor's, Master's and PhD's students at CIVIS member universities, with excellent English skills (B2), critical thinking skills, analytical skills, academic research skills, communication skills, and teamwork skills.

NB: Visiting Students - Erasmus Funding Eligibility

To be eligible for your selected CIVIS programme, you must be a fully enrolled student at your CIVIS home university at the time you will be undertaking the programme. Click here to learn more about the eligibility criteria.

This course is also open to students with the same academic profile, who are enrolled at a CIVIS strategic partner university in Africa. Please check here, if you can apply and this particular course is open to applications from your university. Successful applicants will receive an Erasmus+ grant covering travel and subsistence costs during their stay. Applicants should be willing to extend their stay at the host university for 1-3 weeks for additional research and/or training purposes. 

Application process

Send your application by filling in the online application form by 31 October 2024, including:

  • CV
  • Motivation letter

  • Level of english (According to CEFR)

Applications will be evaluated based on the relevance of this BIP for the candidate's further academic development; consistency with the candidate's study curriculum; successful participation in other BIPs (where applicable).

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Assessment

The final evaluation will have two components:

  • essay (50%)
  • oral presentation (50%)

The attendees will receive 6 ECTS for this programme.

Blended Intensive Programme

This CIVIS course is a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP): a new format of Erasmus+ mobility which combines online teaching with a short trip to another campus to learn alongside students and professors across Europe. Click here to learn more about CIVIS BIPs.

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The instructors are recognized members of the scientific community. Some of them are on their fifth collaboration in a Civis project, others - such as the African colleagues - are joining for the first time .

Their expertise is different, from history:

  • Ecaterina Lung, Alexandrina Lițu-Gîrboviceanu, Marian Coman - UB
  • Manuel and Antonio Sánchez, UAM; Gerassimos Pagratis - NKUA
  • Leila Maziane - University Hassan II de Casablanca

to literature:

  • Emilio Russo - SUR
  • Claudio Gigante - ULB
  • Sophie Singlard - AMU
  • Roxana Utale - UB,

from sociology to economics, from music and figurativ arts to political science, from philosophy to religion.