Timetable

1996 - Pilot Program: Lviv-Warsaw

The major objective of this first part of the program was to establish contacts, gather staff and examine certain elements of the didactic program. The sessions were held in Lviv and Warsaw (4 weeks in Ukraine and 9 weeks in Poland) and attended by 75 students. Half of the participants came from Ukraine, the others were from Poland, Belarus, Moldova and Bulgaria. The Pilot Program was to test the model of a type-A session (long session of approx. 6-8 weeks). It was attended by lecturers from Poland (30 persons), post-Soviet countries (13 persons), USA, Italy and Germany (altogether 5 persons). A set of 10 interdisciplinary seminars and 5 types of weekly, single-field seminars were offered during the sessions. The main themes concerned philology, history, anthropology, cultural studies and ethnography. Additionally, the curriculum included courses in auxiliary sciences and classical languages. The Program was supported by the Báthory Foundation.

1997- 1999 Model Program

Its objective was to work out and test a complete MSH program offer, to establish rules of international cooperation, and to elaborate frame programs of sessions of different types (A, B, C, D, E) so that long-term study cycles along with an enrollment system might be constructed.

This part of the program included 7 sessions, organized in Lviv, Ivano-Frankovsk, Warsaw, Kraków, Kyiv, and again in Warsaw(18 weeks altogether), attended by students from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Russia, Bulgaria and Lithuania (about 250 persons).

The main Warsaw session was attended by 61 students supported by scholarships (80% came from outside Poland) and a group of independent participants. Its educational offer encompassed provision of tutorial assistance, 6 simultaneous single-field seminars focused on methodologies and 6 corresponding workshops, classical languages courses, courses on auxiliary sciences, history, and a computer course. The main themes of the seminars belonged to the following disciplines: philology, history, linguistics, ethnography, classical tradition (history of thought) and history of art. Altogether 26 professors were involved in providing tutorial assistance, 30 lecturers from Poland (scholars from Warsaw University, Jagiellonian University, University of Wrocław, and the Polish Academy of Sciences) and 12 from Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and the United States conducted classes.

The Kraków-Lviv summer school was held in September 1999. It was attended by 32 participants from Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. The main question of the session regarded the identities of Kraków and Lviv. The answer was sought by using various humanistic methodologies (history of art, sociology, ethnography, literary studies, and religious studies). The Program was supported by the Báthory Foundation.

1999-2004 Final Program

The basic patterns of operation are seminar groups, which work under the supervision of outstanding scholars. In the autumn of 1999, 4 research seminars were held in Warsaw. In the spring/ summer of 2000, 2 sessions were organized: in May-June in Warsaw (5 research seminars) and in June in Lviv (1 seminar). The next stage of the Final Program began in September 2000 with a session organized in Warsaw and several locations in the region of the Bieszczady Mountains (in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland) and with a month-long session organized in Warsaw (November-December) and dedicated to the problems of translation, theory of literature and rhetoric, traditions of antiquity, and theatre studies.

During winter/spring 2001 (January-March) two sessions were organized: the first one (January-February 2001) was dedicated to law and pre-modern history and the other one to contemporary history and linguistics.

During spring 2001 (April-June) two sessions were organized: the first one (April: Lviv and its surroundings) was dedicated to the history of the Greek- Catholic Church in Ukraine during the communist period, when its activities were persecuted, the other one (May-June: Warsaw and Lviv) was devoted to the present state of Byzantine studies in Poland and to the heritage of Byzantium in Ukrainian culture.

During autumn 2001 (September-December) six sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was devoted to the problems of the heritage of Roman law (a special module of the School), the second (Warsaw), devoted to the philosophy of sciences, was a continuation of the session organized in the previous year in Lviv, the third one (Oron'sko/Warsaw) was devoted to the problems of the heritage of classical art and culture in the modern art of the region, the fourth one (Warsaw/Lublin) was devoted to cognitive linguistics, the fifth (Warsaw/Perkoz in the Mazuria Lake region) concerned the problem of general education, and the sixth dealt with classical philology. The classical session stressed the collaboration with Grodno University (Belarus) and Lviv University (Ukraine).

During winter/spring 2002 five sessions were held: the first one (Warsaw) was devoted to the history and theory of theater, the second (Warsaw) concerned the narrative sources for the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the third one (Lublin) dealt with questions of dialogue between religions and denominations. The fourth one (Warsaw) concerned the problems of historical and comparative grammar, and the fifth one was devoted to the memory of the Jewish shtetl in East-Central Europe.

During spring/summer 2002 (May-June) two sessions were organized; the first was devoted to the problems of translating and interpreting texts written in Slavonic languages: Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian and Polish, and the other to the problems of regional development.

During summer/ autumn 2002 (July-September) five sessions were organized: the first one (Przemyśl) was devoted to social psychology, the second (Grodno/Warsaw) dealt with questions of the Lithuanian-Belarusian-Polish border, a continuation of an earlier session, the third one (Warsaw) - a continuation as well - was devoted to the heritage of Roman law (a special module of the School), the fourth one (Warsaw-Gdańsk-Stężyca) was devoted to the problems of the identity of small nations and ethnic groups (Kashubs were a case example), and the fifth one (Warsaw) concerned - as a continuation of an earlier session- the methodology in classical philology. The classical session again stressed the collaboration with Grodno University (Belarus) and Lviv University (Ukraine).

During winter 2002/2003 (October-January) six sessions were held: the first one (Lviv), a continuation of earlier sessions, was devoted to the philosophy of science, the second (Cieszyn) - organized together with the session of the Artes Liberales Academy - stressed the problem of ethnic identity in multicultural borderlands paying special attention to the problems of Silesia, the third one ( Warsaw) was a continuation of the "Translatorium" - workshops devoted to interpreting within Slavonic languages, the fourth one (Warsaw) dealt with questions of education drawn from American and Polish ideas on liberal education and the Prometheus Program, open to higher education teachers, the fifth one (Warsaw) was a continuation of the session "Belarus and its neighbors" and the sixth one (Warsaw) dealt with questions of linguistics.

During winter/spring 2003 (February-April) four sessions were held and they were continuations of what had been organized before; the first session (Warsaw) consisting of two modules dealt with questions of history: the first module was devoted to the education and instruction system in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in XVI-XVIII centuries, the other one concerned the sources of Kyivan Rus', the second session (Warsaw) was devoted to the history and theory of the theater, the third one (Poznań/ Gniezno) - organized together with the session of the Artes Liberales Academy - covered myths of the beginning in various aspects of human culture and the fourth one (Warsaw) concerned small nations and ethnic groups using the Tartars as an example.

During spring/summer 2003 (May-June) three sessions were held and they were continuations of what had been organized before; the first session (Warsaw- Mozyr) consisting of two parts, was a continuation of the previous ones "Belarus and its neighbors" and dealt with questions of the Belarusian-Ukrainian borders, the second session, also composed of two parts (Warsaw-Lviv) was devoted to classical philology and the third one "Translatorium" (Warsaw) was dedicated to the problems of translation between Slavonic languages.

During summer/autumn 2003 (July-September) three sessions were held. The first one ("Polish language, literature and culture" in Cieszyn) was organized exclusively for students of MISH (Inter- University Individual Studies in the Humanities) in Lviv; the other one (in two parts in Warsaw and Lviv) was a continuation of the session of the classical philology and the third one was the next edition of the International School of Roman Law.

During autumn/winter 2003 (October-December) six sessions were held. The first (in Kazimierz and Warsaw) was devoted to rhetoric, the second one(two modules: in Warsaw and Kedainai) dealt with works by Sienkiewicz, in particular his influence on national identity, the third one (in Minsk) was a presentation of Belarusian history, language and culture, the fourth one (in Warsaw) was a continuation of sessions devoted to the Jewish culture and heritage, the fifth one (Warsaw) was a continuation of the Lviv-Warsaw seminar "Philosophy of Science", and the sixth one (Warsaw), organized together with the seminar of »Artes Liberales« Academy, dealt with the question of identity.

During winter/spring 2004 (January-March) three sessions were held. The first (in Warsaw) was devoted to linguistics, the second one (in Warsaw) dealt with the antiquity tradition and its reception, the third one (in Wrocław), organized together with the seminar of »Artes Liberales« Academy, concerned the question of identity of the city.

During spring/summer 2004 (April-July) six sessions were held. The first (in Warsaw) was devoted to dialectology, the second one(also in Warsaw) covered works by Shakespeare, third one (in Wrocław) was a presentation of Wrocław as a European metropolis, the fourth one (in Warsaw) was a continuation of sessions in classical philology, the fifth one (Lviv) was a continuation of the "Translatorium", and the sixth one (Warsaw and Horki), was a continuation of seminars on "Belarus and its neighbors".

During summer/autumn 2004 (July-August-September-October) three sessions were organized: the first (trip around western Ukraine) was a continuation of the earlier one devoted to the works by H. Sienkiewicz as a factor of national identity and to the Ukrainian way of perceiving texts by Sienkiewicz, the second (Warsaw) was the fourth edition of the International School of Roman Law, and the third (Lviv) was a linguistic meeting devoted to the problems of Ukrainian and Polish dialectology.

During autumn/winter (2004/05) (October-November-December-January) four sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw-Supraśl) was a continuation of the earlier ones and concerned small nations and ethnic groups using the Tartars as an example, the second (Lviv) was a continuation of the Lviv-Warsaw seminar "Philosophy of Science", the third (Warsaw), organized together with the seminar of ťArtes LiberalesŤ Academy, dealt with the question of identity and the fourth one was a new formula of the school, mattering first of all questions of the methology.

During winter/spring (2005) (February-March-April-May/June) five sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was a cointinuation of the previous ones and devoted to the Classical philology, the second one (Kraków) organized together with the seminar of "Artes Liberales" Academy, was dedicated to the Enlightenment, the third (Warsaw) was a new edition of the session dedicated to Shakespeare, the fourth (Vilnius), dealt with the history of the city, and the fifth one was a new formula of the school, mattering the chances of the individual education within MISH.

During summer (2005) (June-July-August-September) four sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was dedicated to the reception of the Classical culture, the second (Supraśl) one was a summing up of the sessions hitherto dedicated to the matters of the borderland, the third (Warsaw) was the fifth edition of the International School of the Roman Law, and the fourth (in Warsaw with its second part in Lviv) dealt with the matters of the university autonomy.

2005/06-2008 Continuation

The Program aims at the continuation and development of the hitherto East-Central European School in the Humanities (MSH) created in cooperation between OBTA UW and leading Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian universities. MSH has become very efficient system of the faculty development. In academic years: 2005/06, 2006/07, and 2007/08 the Program is directed to it and targeted to the preparation of the young academics from outside European Union to the participation in the European Higher Education Area, aimed by the Bologna Process.

During autumn/winter 2005 (October-November-December) three sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was devoted to matters of teaching the humanities, the other (Warsaw) to the question, what "Mediterranean culture" is and the third (Warsaw) was the first from the session cycle devoted to Adam Mickiewicz.

During winter/spring 2006 (January-February-March-April) eight sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) as the second in the cycle devoted to the Mediterranean heritage mattered the Greek culture, the second (Warsaw) was dedicated to the comedies by Shakespeare, the third (Warsaw-Kaunas) was a continuation of the previous one that mattered works by Mickiewicz, the fourth (joint session AAL/MSH) discussed the situation of the semiotics in the contemporary humanities, the fifth (Warsaw) was a continuation of the previous ones devoted to the philosophy of science, the sixth (Toruń-Gniezno, joint session AAL/MSH) mattered the questions of multiculturalism, the seventh (Warsaw) was a continuation of the previous ones discussing the border countries of Belarus, the eight one (Warsaw) disputed Ukrainian and Polish language contacts.

During spring/summer 2006 (May-June-July-August) five sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) mattered the issues of the Holy Week, the second was dedicated to the role of Kyiv in the history (Kyiv), the third one discussed the role of intelligentsia in the history of the East-Central Europe (Warsaw), the fourth (continuation of previous ones) was dedicated to the classical philology (also in Warsaw) and the fifth one (Rome) opened a new series of meetings dedicated to Rome as the city of asylum.

During autumn/winter 2006 (September-October-November-December) six sessions were organized: the first one (Rostov-on-Don) was dedicated to the matters of the local societies in southern Russia and eastern Ukraine, the second one (Warsaw) mattered the issues of librarianship, the third one 9Warsaw) was devoted to the matters of the curricula of the ancient culture at the Lviv University, the fourth one (Warsaw) discussed the issues of Siberia, the fifth (continuation of previous ones) was dedicated to Belarus and the issues of the borderland, and the sixth (joint session of MSH and AAL) discussed the place of the university autonomy and teaching mission as the factors of the civil society.

During autumn/winter 2006 (September-October-November-December) six sessions were organized: the first one (Rostov-on-Don) was dedicated to the matters of the local societies in southern Russia and eastern Ukraine, the second one (Warsaw) mattered the issues of librarianship, the third one 9Warsaw) was devoted to the matters of the curricula of the ancient culture at the Lviv University, the fourth one (Warsaw) discussed the issues of Siberia, the fifth (continuation of previous ones) was dedicated to Belarus and the issues of the borderland, and the sixth (joint session of MSH and AAL) discussed the place of the university autonomy and teaching mission as the factors of the civil society.

During winter/spring 2007 (January-February-March-April-May-June) six sessions were organized: the first one (Lublin) was dedicated to the matters of the afflation, the second one (Warsaw) mattered the readings of the masterpieces coming from the region of the Mediterranean (antiquity), the third one (Warsaw) was devoted to the language contacts between Polish and East-Slavonic idioms, the fourth one as the joint MSH/AAL session (Warsaw/Gniezno) discussed the issues of interdisciplinarity in the humanistic research, the fifth (Warsaw) was dedicated to the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the special module dedicated to the Italian impact on the culture of the East-Central Europe, and the sixth one discussed the issues of teh text corpora in the linguistics.

During summer/autumn/winter 2007 (July-August-September-October-November-December) seven sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was dedicated to the matters of the interdisciplinarity during doctoral studies, the second one (Warsaw) mattered curricula of the ancient culture at Lviv University, the third one (Lviv-Warsaw) continued the cycle of seminars on the philosophy of science, the fourth one (Warsaw) was dedicated to the heritage of the Italian culture in East-Central Europe, the fifth one (Warsaw) mattered the heritage of the ancient culture in works by two predominant persons in the history of literature: Stanisław Wyspiański and Nikos Kazantzakis, the sixth one (Warsaw, the joint session AAL/MSH) debated the questions of the identity and autonomy and the seventh one (Warsaw) was devoted to he matters of the interdisciplinarity and the classics in the humanities.

During winter/spring 2008 (January-February-March-April-May) three sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was dedicated to the matters of the loanwords and mutual contacts among Slavonic languages, the second (joint MSH/AAL session in Katowice) discussed relationship between human being and machine, the third (Warsaw) was the seminar on the Italian impact on the culture of the East-Central Europe.

During summer 2008 (June-July-August three sessions were organized: the first one (Warsaw) was dedicated to the icon and the Byzantine tradition in the contemporary world, the second (Warsaw) was a subsequent edition of the International School of Roman Law, the third (Warsaw) was a seminar on librarianship, addressed to the employees of the Stefanyk Library in Lviv.

During autumn/winter 2008 (September-October-November-December) six sessions were organized: the first (organized together with the Pultusk Academy of Humanities) discussed problems of mutual relations between cultures, the second (Warsaw) was a seminar on Polish-Ukrainian Dictionary, the third (Warsaw) was the last edition of the seminar on the Italian impact on the culture of the East-Central Europe, the fourth (Warsaw) mattered relationship with Africa and the problems of colonialism and post-colonialism, the fifth was a second part of the seminar on Polish-Ukrainian Dictionary, and the sixth discussed the role of elites and their place within university autonomy and culture as well as historical memory.

In the sessions of the Continuation in 2005-08 (organized in Warsaw, Kaunas, Kyiv, Rome, Rostov-on-Don, Gniezno, Lviv, Katowice and Pultusk) 1453 participants took part (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have attended more than once). Half of the participants came from Ukraine (753 persons); the others were from Poland (476 persons), Belarus (144 persons), Russia (74 persons), Italy (23 persons), Lithuania (6 persons), Moldova (2 person) Austria (1 person), USA (1 person), and China (1 person)

In the sessions of the Continuation in 2005-08 3381 didactic units (contact hours) were held. The lessons were delivered by 1242 lecturers and panelists (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have lectured more than once) from various countries: Poland - 848, Ukraine - 124, Russia - 94, Belarus - 39, Italy - 22, Hungary - 20, Lithuania - 13, USA - 13, Spain - 12, Germany - 10, Bulgaria - 7, Greece - 7, Czech Republic - 5, Slovakia - 4, Serbia and Montenegro - 3, Georgia - 3, Austria - 3, Macedonia - 2, Albania - 2, France - 2, Canada - 2, Estonia - 2, Norway- 2, the Netherlands - 2, Croatia - 1, and Finland - 1.

2009- East-European School in the Humanities (MSH EW)

In September 2008 the last period of OSI HESP support finished. MSH authority took a decision to transform pervious East-Central European School in the Humanities (MSH) into East-European School in the Humanities (MSH EW). MSH EW is going to maintain the range of the program but stress the research done by PhD students from countries eastward of Poland, and to cooperate with the new established (at the University of Warsaw) liberal arts curriculum (Kolegium 'Artes Liberales' - CLASs), that is the joint unit of the University of Warsaw, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation (NY) and Foundation "Artes Liberales Institute" (Warsaw)

During first half of 2009 (January-February-March-April-May-June) ten sessions were organized: the first (Warsaw) was a training for tutors from the South Federal University in Rostov-on-Don (Russia), the second (organized together with the Foundation of Polish Rectors) mattered the role of the university in forming social elites, the third (Warsaw) was a first edition of the Research Laboratory, the fourth was a joint session of MSH EW with the PhD curriculum students at the "Artes Liberales" Academy and it mattered relationship among language, media and culture, the fifth (organized together with the IGITI in Moscow) discussed classical tradition and the role of the authority, the sixth was a second edition of the session organized together with the Pultusk Academy of Humanities that discusses problems of mutual relations between cultures with the special stress on Siberia, the seventh mattered the role of college in the history of the university, the eighth was a second training for tutors from the South Federal University in Rostov-on-Don (Russia), the ninth was dedicated to political discourse in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the tent was a secon edition of the Research Laboratory.

During the second half of 2009 (July-August-September-October-November-December) five sessions were organized: the first (Warsaw) was the third edition of the Research Laboratory, the second (Warsaw) was the third in turn edition of sessions on librarianship, the third (Warsaw) disputed the cultural and literary relationship between human being and dwarfs, lexicographical workshops formed the fourth (Warsaw) session, and the fifth was dedicated to the problems of the integration of the Ukrainian system of the higher education within the European Higher Education Area.

The sessions of MSH EW (i.e. since the beginning of 2009) were organized in Warsaw. 281 participants took part (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have attended more than once). Half of the participants came from Ukraine (145 people); the others were from Russia (61), Belarus (30), and Poland (45).

In the sessions of MSH EW (i.e. since the beginning of 2009) 654 didactic units (contact hours) were held. The lessons were delivered by 363 lecturers and panelists (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have lectured more than once) from various countries: Poland - 258, Ukraine - 55, Belarus - 24, and Russia - 14.

Summing up

Between 1999 and 2009 sessions were held in Lviv, Warsaw (Orońsko, Perkoz, Stężyca, Miętne, Supraœl), Grodno, Mozyr, Białystok, Lublin, Cieszyn, Poznań/Gniezno, Kazimierz, Kedainai, Wrocław, Horki, Kraków, Vilnius, Kyiv Kaunas, Rome, Rostov-on-Don, Katowice and Pultusk. They were attended by 3730 students (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have attended more than once). Half of the participants came from Ukraine (1927 persons); the others were from Poland (927 persons), Belarus (563 persons), Russia (238 persons) Lithuania (47persons), Italy (23 persons), Czech Republic (8 persons), Germany (5 persons), Montenegro (3 persons), Croatia (3 persons), USA (3 persons), Moldova (3 persons), Hungary (2 persons), Slovakia (2 persons), Austria (1 person), Romania (1 person), Bulgaria (1 person) and China (1 person).

Since 1999 The Program covered 13764 lecture units (contact hours) which the participants used to build up their curricula. The lectures were delivered by 3117 lecturers (counted separately for each session which means that a person could have lectured more than once) from various countries: Poland - 2129, Ukraine - 409, Belarus - 173, Russia - 142, Lithuania - 48, Italy - 48, USA - 34, Hungary - 23, Germany - 22, Spain - 12, Bulgaria - 9, Czech Republic - 8, Greece - 7, the Netherlands - 5, Slovakia - 4, South Africa - 4, Canada - 4, Georgia - 3, France - 3, Sweden - 3, Serbia and Montenegro- 3, Austria - 3, UK - 3, Albania - 2, Estonia -2, Norway - 2, Macedonia -1, Israel -1, Croatia - 1, and Finland - 1.