Dear Visitor!

Higher Education Support Program of Open Society Institute (Budapest) and the Centre for Ancient Philosophy and the Classical Tradition of Novosibirsk State University, Russia announce a new Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching and invite interested scholars and university educators to take part in the program.

The collaborative international project entitled Teaching Classics. Fundamental values in the changing world is carried out by a team of scholars and educators from Novosibirsk, Dublin, Budapest, Athens, Teheran, Cambridge, Utrecht, etc., and involve junior university-based academics primarily from the Newly Independent States. The duration of the project is currently planned for three years starting in Summer 2007.

Target audience. The project is oriented at young faculty and graduate students primarily from the NIS region who are sufficiently educated in humanities, teach classes at university level and are interested in developing their professional skills. 

The participants should be committed to work as a group for an extended period of time and have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and mission as educators and be able to formulate their educational strategies and philosophy.

Requirements. Each participant must have a very good command of English language. Additional requirements: at least basic knowledge of some of the classical languages (e.g. Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Church Slavonic, etc.), literature, the methodology of classical studies and work with contemporary scholarly publications at the advanced level.

Application procedure. Completed application form (will be sent out to interested persons upon request); application essay; a sample syllabus; a CV with a list of publications; a scholarly paper (preferably in English) 

The following pages are still under construction. Therefore you might not be able to find here the information you are looking for.

In these cases please contact us at the address below.  

Contact us

Mailing address: Department of Philosophy,

                              Novosibirsk State University

                              Pirogov Street, 2, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

                              Tel.:   7 (383) 363 20 35

                              E-mail:  Eugene Afonasin

THE PROJECT IS SUPPORTED

BY THE FOLLOWING FOUNDATION

| Open Society Institute |