Call for Participants: Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching

The OSI International Higher Education Support Program (HESP) announces the launch of the new projects within the HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET).

ReSET aims to develop and nurture teaching excellence at the undergraduate university level. The program establishes a framework for the long-term collaborative development of scholarly teaching in areas important to the region's undergraduate humanities and social sciences curricula.

While ReSET projects address diverse subjects, fields, and disciplines, they share the same approach based on:

• developing reflexive scholarly and innovative undergraduate teaching;
• critical rethinking of the subject, drawing on the best and most current international scholarship;
• a collaborative structure fostering peer exchange and learning among the regional and international faculty.

Rooted in the concept of continuous development and self-renewal of university academics, ReSET creates opportunities for qualified and dedicated regional and international faculty to make a substantial contribution to the revision and advancement of teaching and learning in their subjects and fosters their leadership in the process of educational change in the region.

The projects listed below will commence during the Summer of 2007 and are now open to applications and statements of interest from junior faculty teaching at undergraduate university programs in the humanities and social sciences in the countries of Eastern, Southeastern Europe, the NIS and Mongolia.

HESP's funding of the projects, as a rule, provides coverage of all major costs of participation for the candidates from the target region. Nonregional faculty are encouraged to participate in seminar activities on a self- or co-funding basis. Please note that HESP neither recruits nor selects the participants of the individual projects; each project operates independently and the recruiting, funding, and organizational procedures vary between projects. All inquiries and applications should be directed to the organizers of the projects according to the contact information for each project provided below.

ReSET Seminar Projects

• Teaching Classics. Fundamental Values in the Changing World
• Building Anthropology in Eurasia
• National Historiographies in Post-Soviet Central Asia
• Alternative Culture Beyond Borders: Past and Present of the Arts and Media in the Context of Globalization
• Multiculturalism, Religion and Foundations of Morality in Contemporary Political Philosophy
• Contemporary Legal Theory
• Environmental Ethics in Teaching Social Sciences and Humanities
• Rediscovering Social Inequality and Exclusion after the Collapse of the State Socialism
• New Political Economics

ReSET Challenges Seminars

• Methodology of History
• Visual Studies of Immedia: Exploring Postmodern Immediacy of Mass Media
• Cultures of Memory and Emancipatory Politics: Re-visioning the Past and Communality in the Post-Yugoslav Spaces
• Comparative Politics and Post-Communism: Theoretical and Methodological Problems in the Study of Post-Soviet Eurasia

For further information, download the complete project list below.

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