Session

Presenters

Registration
8:00-8:30

Opening Ceremony
8:30-9:00
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Anatoli Mikhailov (Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius Lithuania)

Dan Davidson (Acting Сhair of Governing Board of European Humanities University)

Pavel Tereshkovich (Director of the Center for Advanced Studies and Education, European Humanities University)

Special Session
9:00-10:00
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Invited speaker:

Alexander Filippov (Director of the Centre for Fundamental Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), Social sciences and Humanities in the University: between police science and ideals of education in Eastern Europe".

Discussants:

Anatoli Mikhailov (Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Giedrius Viliūnas (Vice-Rector of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Sjur Bergan (Head of the Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Paticipation, Directorate General II Democracy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France)

10:20-11:50, The University in the Region – is it an Autonomous Corporation?

Chair: Mark Steven Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Elena Gapova (Western Michigan University, USA; European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Class as "Class": Post-Soviet Academia and the Global Academic Market

Vakhtang Kebuladze (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine), Civil Society and Humanities in the Post-Soviet Ukraine

Olga Breskaya (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Individual and Corporation in Belarusian and Moldovan University: in Search for common Goals and Values

Abdurahim Juraev (Tajikistan State University of Law, Business and Politics, Khujand), Some Experience of Aga Khan Humanities Project in Reforming of Teaching of Humanitarian Discipline at Universities of Central Asia

10:20-11:50, Models of Universities in Central and Eastern Europe and Types of Transmitted Knowledge

Chair: Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Yury Zaretskiy (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia), The Russian State and its Universities

Michael Bechter (Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně v Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic), Humanities in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic from 1988 until 2008 at the example of the TU Chemnitz and the UJEP Ústí nad Labem

Mikhail Sokolov (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia), The Social Uses of Higher Education, Economic Strategies of Universities, and Pricing of Baccalaureate Programs in Russia

Gregory Sandstrom (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), On Distinguishing Scientific Knowledge, Humanities and Ideology

12:00-13:30, Entrepreneurial Universities and University Management

Chair: Pavel Malukowitch (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

James A Powell (PASCAL International Observatory for Place Management, Social Capital and Learning Regions Universities of Salford and Glasgow), Creative Engagement and Leadership by Higher Education

Gregory Prince (President Emeritus Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA), Entrepreneurial Universities and University Entrepreneurs: A World of Difference in Managing Universities

Anne Lonsdale (Nazarbaev University, Astana), Entrepreneurial Universities,

12:00-13:30, Round-table: "The Important Role of Values in European Humanities Education"

Moderator: Stephen M. Garrett (Social Communications Institute, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, European Institute for Faith and Society, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Participants:

Anatoli Mikhailov (Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Values in the age of technology

Stephen M. Garrett (Social Communications Institute, Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, European Institute for Faith and Society, Vilnius, Lithuania), Religious Faith and Human Values: Pursuing Wisdom in Humanities Education

Teri McCarthy (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius; International Institute for Christian Studies, Overland Park, USA), Holistic Values Across Higher Education Curriculum

Gregory Sandstrom (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), On the Value of European Humanities, Social Sciences and Philosophy

Special Session
15:00-16:00
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Speakers:

Anatoli Mikhailov (Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius Lithuania), Humanities at risk: challenges for education in the twenty first century

Giedrius Viliūnas (Vice-Rector of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius Lithuania), The role of Humanities in Lithuanian Higher Education Reform

16:00-17:30, Models of Universities in Central and Eastern Europe and Types of Transmitted Knowledge

Chairs: Olga Breskaya (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Daryl McCarthy (President, International Institute for Christian Studies, Vilnius, Lithuania), Global Trends in Higher Education ─ Observations from a Personal Journey

Rene Lenz (University of Erfurt, Germany), Russian Higher Education Institutions: Adapting to a global model?

Victor Bed, Olena Shimko, Arpad-Robert Drashkovtsy (Augustine Voloshyn Carpathian University, Ukraine), Christian University in Modern Europe: Between tradition and future

Ivan R. Sokolovskii (Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Myth of early modern frontier University

16:00-17:30, Horizon and prospects of legal education in Academia

Chair: Alla Sokolova (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Oleg Bresky (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Lost in the Concepts: Teaching the Constitutional Law in the Eastern European Universities

Edita Gruodytė (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania), Challenges of the Bologna Process for the policy of legal education in Lithuanian Universities.

Nataliya Morozova (Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I.Lobachevsky, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Teaching Students to Think Critically About the Role of International Law in World Politics.

Olga Romanenko (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Legal clinic education at the university: teaching students how to become professional lawyers in the twenty-first century

Special Session
08:30-09:10
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Invited Speaker:

Sjur Bergan (Head of the Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation, Directorate General II Democracy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France), The European Higher Education Area between Training and Bildung

09:15-10:45, Challenges of the Bologna Process for National University Policy in the Region

Chair: Alexander Filippov (Director of the Centre for Fundamental Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

Anastasia Klimovich (Belarusian State University, Minsk; Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies, Minsk), European, Belarusian and Russian Approaches towards Professionalization in Higher Education

Santiago Sia (National University of Ireland, Dublin), The Marketplace, Academia and Education: a Philosophical Assessment of the Bologna Process

Anatoliy Kruglashov (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania; Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine), Mission of Post-soviet University: Replacing or reproducing the authoritarian culture?

Andrei Lavruhin (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), From "Sovereign University" to Bologna Process: Effects of 20-year Reforming of the Higher School of Belarus and Ukraine

09:15-10:45, Community-based Education in the Region

Chair: Gregory Sandstrom (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Eglė Bilevičiūtė (Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Reconfiguring Values and Knowledge for Sustainable Communities

Mandeta Minxhozi (University of Tirana, Albania), Education, Identities and Communities

Gaudenz B. Assenza (Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia; Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic), Alexander Martynau (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic), University for a New Renaissance: Transdisciplinary faculty organisation oriented by ecological resilience, social wellbeing and human potential

Lioubov Krasheninnikova (International Institute of Management LINK, Moscow, Russia), Knowledge Exchange under Cross-cultural Conditions

11:00-12:30, Round-table: “Humanities University Core Curricula ─ for What Purposes?”

Moderators: Aliaksandr Kalbaska (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Ryhor Miniankou (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Presenters: Ryhor Miniankou (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), "Social Literacy" in the Cosmopolitan Perspective: How to provide?

Veronika Furs (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Student as "ideal reader": reception of the course content by its participants

Svetlana Artioushevskaia (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Content and Language Integrated Learning in Higher Education

Susan Robbins (Klaipeda University, Lithuania), Academic Writing in the Humanities

Discussants:

Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Andrei Lavruhin (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Olga Shparaga (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Oleg Bresky (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

11:00-12:30, Integrative University Education: Pedagogy, values, and identities

Chair: Pavel Tereshkovich (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Mark Steven Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Globalization and the Neoliberal University: Threats and Opportunities for the Future of Humanities Universities

Tatyana A. Kapitonova (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Institute of Philosophy, Minsk, Belarus), Network Model of Higher Education in the Knowledge Society

Teri McCarthy (Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences, Vilnius; International Institute for Christian Studies, Overland Park, USA), Men Without Chests

Janine Maree Joyce (University of Otago, New Zealand), Bildung, Meditation and Safe Haven

Sunatullo Jonboboev (University of Central Asia, Dushanbe), The Epistemology of the post-Soviet Humanities Education in Central Asia:  Integrated Curriculum, Concerns of Values, Identity and the Bologna Process

11:00-12:30, University during the Digital Age

Chair: James A Powell (PASCAL International Observatory for Place Management, Social Capital and Learning Regions Universities of Salford and Glasgow)

Nilima Rabl (SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Broome, New York), The Digital Turn in Higher Education: New Media Imprints in the Fabric(ation) of Networked Intellectual Communities

Aliaksandr Puptsau (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Marina Sokolova (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk), Development of Distance Education in EHU: Problems and perspectives

Alla Pigalskaya (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), E-learning as individual project

Special Session
12:30-13:30
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Invited Speaker:

Richard Gale (Director of the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Mount Royal University, Canada), Training Professionals, Educating Citizens, and Schooling Teachers: Understanding and Improving Student Learning in Central and Eastern Europe, North America, and Beyond

15:00-16:30, The Civic Ethos in University Curricula in the Region

Chair: Alexei Krivolap (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Eduard Klein (University of Bremen, Germany), The impact of international organizations on the reduction of corruption the case of University Admissions in Ukraine

Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), "External Democratization? Western Actors and Central-Eastern European Universitities after 1991"

Zana Strazimiri (University of Tirana, Albania), Cultivating Civic Ethos, Values and Identities ─ a Permanent Mission of Philosophy Curricula

Alla Papcova (Komrat State University, Moldova), Komrat State University ─ formation on the background of transformation

15:00-16:30,The Mission of EHU in the Region (Student Panel)

Chair: Gregory Prince (President Emeritus Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA)

Hauryil Smaharzheuski (3-d year BA student, program "Cultural Heritage and Tourism"), Maksim Vashkevich (3-d year BA student, program "Visual and cultural studies"), Prospects for realizing research-oriented education in EHU: examining three case-studies in Eastern European Academia

Kseniya Peresypkina (1-st year MA student, program "International and European Law"), The role of EHU in formation and development of free and creative personality

Andrei Mayeuski (Alumni of 2012), Construction of Alumni Traditions: facing the complexities of (un)involvement

16.45-18.15, Round-table: "Evidence-based Research (Scholarship of teaching and learning - SOTL) and Student Learning"

Chair: Richard Gale (Director of the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Mont Royal University, Canada)

Georgiy Kasianov (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine), Great Expectations Versus Real Things: SOTL at the Good Ukrainian University)

Olga Breskaya (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Integrative learning ─ could it be applied in the classroom of the Study of Religion?

Ruslan Ramanau (Open University Business School, Milton Keynes, UK), Becoming an International Distance Learner: UK Open University Student Experiences

Svetlana Poleschuk (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Skills vs. Ideas: Theory/practice connection in vocational and liberal arts education

16.45-18.15, Teaching and Learning Anthropology in Post-soviet Universities

Chair: Felix Ackermann (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Vytis Čiubrinskas, (Center of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas), Discipline of Sociocultural Anthropology vis-à-vis Politics of Identity in Lithuania

Pavel Tereshkovich (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania), Belarusian Rite of Passage: from Soviet Ethnography toward Cultural Anthropology

Ludmila Cojocari (“ProMemoria” Institute of Social History, Moldova State University), Virgiliu Birladeanu (Institute of History, State and Law, Academy of Sciences of Moldova), Studying Anthropology in the Republic of Moldova: Opportunities and Deadlocks

16.45-18.15, In memorium of Vladimir Furs: book-presentation (in Russian and English)

Moderator: Olga Shparaga (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Participants:

Kestas Kirtiklis (Dept. of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania)

Alexander Filippov (Director of the Centre for Fundamental Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)

Ryhor Miniankou (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Veronika Furs (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Andrei Lavruhin (European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Closing Ceremony
18:30-19:10
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Moderator: Anatoli Mikhailov (Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius Lithuania)

Discussants:

Dan Davidson (Acting Chair of Governing Board of European Humanities University)

Mark Steven Johnson (Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Sjur Bergan (Head of the Education Department, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Partipation, Directorate General II Democracy, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France)