About West University of Timisoara Summer School - 5th Edition
We are glad to announce the 5th Edition of the
“West University of Timisoara Summer School”!
This year, the 5th Edition of the “West University of Timisoara Summer School” will take place in Timisoara. The period in which our event will be taking place is June 19th – June 30th, 2023, however, the period might differ according to the short-term study programme selected. Our Summer School seeks to be an inter and multi-disciplinary one. On top of everything, all students are welcome – national or international, Bachelor or Master level. Each participant can focus on his/her area of interest and add value to their personal and professional development by participating in this event.
If you’re looking for the best way to spend the beginning of your summer while engaging in interesting and challenging short-term study programmes, you’ve come to the right place!
Application deadline: 31st May, 2023
Application deadline extended: 10th June, 2023
What do we offer during the Summer School?
→ A certificate of completion of the course followed within the event, valuing 1, 2 or 3 ECTS credits;
→ Course materials;
→ Accommodation;
→ Lunches;
→ Promo kits0
The courses we are offering this year are:
There will be introductory presentations of digital painting, concept art, digital modeling, texturing, rigging, photogrammetry, animation, rendering, etc. At the same time, at the end, small practical projects will be carried out to implement the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of the course.
Date: 19th – 23rd June 2023
Nr. ECTS: 1 ECTS
Teachers description
The 3 teaching staff have extensive experience in the field of the proposed course, both from a didactic and professional point of view. Sergiu Zegrean is the organizer of the Fictionart International Exhibition that took place within the Faculty of Arts and Design (2022). Alex Bunii is co-curator at the International Ocean Art Festival in South Korea. Lucian Ciorba is an expert in the field of multimedia.
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The course Digital Technologies for Language Research and Applications offers students a basic introduction to the concepts, tools, and techniques of Digital Humanities (DH) and Corpus Linguistics (CL). Students will become acquainted with the current landscape of the field of digital technologies for the field of humanities. Introductory lectures will be followed by hands-on workshops which will employ the resources available at the CODHUS centre (platforms such as https://roger-corpus.org/, https://expres-corpus.org/, https://comparaq.eu/), with whom students will become familiar. The course will showcase the interdisciplinary synergies between conventional and technology supported approaches to language.
Date: 19th – 23rd June 2023
Nr. ECTS: 1 ECTS
Teachers description
Madalina Chitez is a Senior Researcher in applied corpus linguistics at the West University of Timisoara. She received her PhD in corpus linguistics from Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Germany, and worked as a researcher at the University of Zurich and the University of Applied Sciences Zurich, Switzerland, for eight years. She has also participated in research exchange programmes at the University of Oxford and Coventry University (UK) and the University of Siena (Italy). Dr Chitez has coordinated extensive research projects focusing on the creation of corpora of academic writing, such as ROGER (Comparable Bilingual Romanian-English Corpus of Academic Genres in Romania – academic texts collected from students) and DACRE (Comparable Bilingual Romanian-English Corpus of Disciplinary Genres in Romania – academic texts collected from experts). She is the initiator, co-founder and president of the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS), which has a strong application-oriented character. CODHUS activities aim at creating multidisciplinary synergies between departments, resulting in practical solutions for research, teaching, learning or large-scale use: language-related digital research methods, software solutions for universities or pre-university settings (language teaching, translation tools, digital humanities teaching methods) and various online resources (websites, digital guides, databases). She has published in numerous international journals and collective volumes and co-edited four volumes. Her areas of interest and expertise are: applied corpus linguistics, digital humanities, academic writing, contrastive linguistics, computer-assisted language learning, language learning, language teaching, innovative teaching, research management, policy development in higher education.
Alexandru Oravițan is Research Assistant PhD at the West University of Timișoara, Romania. He has conducted extensive research into post-9/11 literature as part of his doctoral work. Currently, his postdoctoral research endeavours revolve around contemporary American literature and culture, as part of his affiliation with the American Studies Center (CSAM), and corpus linguistics, with particular focus on readability research, within the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS).
Loredana Bercuci is an assistant professor at the Department of Modern Languages of the West University of Timișoara, where she teaches English for Specific Purposes, Applied Linguistics and American cultural history. She holds a Ph.D. in American Cultural Studies and her research interests include English for Specific Purposes teaching, academic writing, corpus linguistics, and critical theory.
Roxana Rogobete is a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Romanian Studies of the West University of Timișoara, Romania. She teaches Literary Theory, Ethics, Romanian literature and New approaches in literary studies. Her Ph.D. in comparative literature focused on German-language migrant literature written in the postwar period. She has been involved as a postdoctoral researcher in projects such as ROGER (https://roger.projects.uvt.ro/), DACRE (https://dacre.projects.uvt.ro/), LEMI (https://lemi.projects.uvt.ro/). Her research interests include Romanian literature, digital humanities, academic writing, and ethics in the humanities. She is the secretary of the Centre for Corpus Related Digital Approaches to Humanities (CODHUS) and responsible for tutoring volunteers and interns at the centre.
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More information on DILARASS webpage.
The course explores current debates on the politics urban development in the context of the European Capitals of Culture. Focusing on the case of Timișoara, it examines critically the tensions between economic growth and green transitions in Eastern European cities. The course then reconsiders how cultural politics on the region rearticulates representations of European culture.
Date: 19th – 23rd June 2023
Nr. ECTS: 2 ECTS
Teachers description
Lucian Vesalon is Reader in Political Studies at the West University of Timișoara in the Department of Political Science, where he teaches courses on international development, globalisation and political ideologies. His research interests are related to the politics of development and political ecology. Publications are mainly focused on post-socialist development politics in Romania. Current work explores the development–migration nexus, especially in connection to uneven development and the environment in Eastern Europe.
Mihai Murariu is Senior Lecturer at the West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Political Science, Philosophy and Communication Sciences, with a PhD in political science at the University of Münster, Germany. He has published a book with Springer VS, entitled Totality, Charisma, Authority. The Origins and Transformations of Totalist Movements (2017), and one with Eikon, entitled Radical Peripheries: Heterodoxy, Modernity, and Totality in Japan and Romania (2019). His research interests include ideology, totalism, security, globalisation, terrorism, international relations, and modernity.
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The course explains the financial topics related to Public finance, Financial markets and Banking, using problem-based, behavioural-based and game-based approaches, contributing to their better understanding.
Date: 26th – 30th June 2023
Nr. ECTS: 1 ECTS
Teacher description
Dr. Liliana Donath is a Professor of Public finance, Monetary economics and Behavioural finance at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Finance. She has an extensive teaching and research activity in the field of Finance as well as in international activities. She is also a doctoral supervisor, having mentored numerous doctoral theses in these fields.
19.06.2023 – Opening event: presentation of the summer school course and program, students meet each other;
20.06.2023 – Conceptual and theoretical frame;
21.06.2023 – Methodological frame (fieldwork activities structure, research instruments, report structure, final presentation structure), organizing team-based study groups;
22-28.06.2023 – Field visits to different living areas of Timisoara and touristic-cultural points of interest related to the ECC2023, where students document and collect information through visual research instruments and participatory observation for their team-based projects (observation grid, transect walks, social resources map, cultural resources map, documentary photos).
Some of the fieldwork areas will be revisited for in-depth observations and better understanding of the studied urban area (e.g. The same site at different hours/days could reveal a different urban context, a more crowded one, populated with different social-occupational categories of users).
Students will receive every day feedback from the teachers and from peers about their ongoing fieldwork activities. The formative evaluation aim is to support students’ involvement in the learning activities and by giving feedback and correction suggestions, to ensure the best learning results at the end of the program;
29.06.2023 – completing individual reports of activities carried out and the team-project presentation;
30.06.2023 – feedback on the projects presentations and final evaluation.
Date: 19th – 30th June 2023
Nr. ECTS: 3 ECTS
Teacher description
Melinda Dincă, Ph.D. in Sociology, is Associate professor at UVT. She has competencies in social inclusion through access to education and work integration; social identity and cultural heritage; and team-based learning.
Melinda initiates and organizes various international learning contexts for students: since 2012 the ISSSA for developing transversal skills and professional competencies for students; since 2019 the interdisciplinary team-based learning activity Classroom Laboratory UVT-NTNU Joint Course for students from the West University of Timisoara (Romania) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway); and since 2022, the UNITA COIL initiative of joint lectures for the students attending the courses ”Social organization and human development” at the Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) and „Social policy” at the West University of Timisoara (Romania).
Registration
The links to the registration forms can be accessed by clicking on the title of the short-term study programmes above.
The application fee is 50 EURO and you will have to pay this amount should you be accepted. In this case, you will receive an e- mail containing the details of the bank account where you will have to deposit the registration fee.
*It is necessary to send the copy of the receipt (or a copy of the document proving the payment) at the e-mail address: international@e-uvt.ro
