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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Dear friends
and colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<h4 style="margin:11.25pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">The <u>Summer Seminar on
Nationalism, Religion and Violence in Europe (NRVSS 201</u></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">8</span></u><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">)</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal"> organized by the Charles University in Prague and Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, supported by the CEFRES–French Research Center in Humanities
and Social Sciences, School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL),
University of Birmingham, Humboldt University of Berlin and the Institute for
the Study of Strategic Regions is ready to launch its sixth year!<span></span></span></h4>
<h4 style="margin:11.25pt 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background:white;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal">The NRVSS will focus especially on the topics of
ethnic and religious diversity, migration, and transformation, which might be
of interest for your students. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">Therefore, We would like to ask you for your support in promoting this
event. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-weight:normal">A key goal is to contribute in a substantial way to
the study of violence and to catalyze the growth of the study of violence as a
field. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">It is led by </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal">from the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal">most prestigious
institutions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal"> such as</span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal"> Humboldt
University of Berlin, Central European University (Budapest), the University of
Birmingham, the University of Manchester, the University of Pennsylvania,
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and the Taras Shevchenko National University
of Kyiv</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">, targeting </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal">students and graduates of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white;font-weight:normal">Political
and Social Science, History, Ethnic and Religious Studies, </span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Philology, Journalism</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> & other related
disciplines<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">. The seminar is
targeting </span></span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">graduate,
post-graduate students and activists</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">. </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Students will receive a certificate
of attendance and 8 ECTS credits for their active participation in the program.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span></span></span></strong></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Keynote
speaker:<span> </span><b>Prof. Stathis Kalyvas</b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 70.8pt;text-indent:35.4pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(73,73,73)">Gladstone
Professor of Government,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"> University
of Oxford</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Guest of
Honour:<span> </span><b>Paul Shapiro</b><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span>USHMM
Director for International Affairs<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">We believe
that the success we had in the previous seminars <span>Nationalism, Religion and Violence in SE Europe</span> in Thessaloniki in
2013, 2015 and 2017 and <span>Nationalism,
Religion and Violence in Europe</span> in Prague in 2014 and 2016 will enable
us to continue educating intellectual elites in the region and globally as well
as stimulating intercultural understanding.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">28 February 2018: Priority deadline<span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">31 March 2018: Deadline for those needing visas for
the Czech Republic</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:Arial">30 April 2018: Final application
deadline</span></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">For more
details please see the attachment and visit the website of the <span>Nationalism, Religion and Violence Summer
Seminar:</span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://nrvsschool.fsv.cuni.cz/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">If you or
anyone has any questions about the summer seminar, please feel free to contact
us at any time at </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:nrvsschool@fsv.cuni.cz" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">nrvsschool@fsv.cuni.cz</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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check our </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nrvsummerseminar/" target="_blank" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Facebook page</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> for current information, news and updates.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Katerina
Kralova<span></span></span></p>
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Program Director for Prague</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;background:white;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Institute of International Studies, Charles University<span></span></span></p>
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<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><b>Katerina Kralova</b></font><font size="1"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:x-small">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="1"><a href="http://krvs.fsv.cuni.cz/KRVS-24.html" target="_blank">Head of Department</a> </font></div><div><font size="1">Institute of International Studies </font></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Charles University, Prague</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small"><br></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://cuni.academia.edu/KaterinaKralova" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B2GEUQU_9PKSbTFuVHRqUHNGVDQ&revid=0B2GEUQU_9PKSN2hOUERPVHJMVlgzMERsUVVXTksxN3N4Qnh3PQ" alt=""></a><font size="1"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"></div></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">2015 <a href="http://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/fellows-and-scholars/all-fellows-and-scholars/katerina-kralova-2015" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Visiting Fellow</a> at the USHMM, Washington D.C.</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies</font></div></div><div><font size="1">2017 - 2019 <a href="https://kocian1.wixsite.com/primus" target="_blank">PI of the BOHEMs Project</a> (PRIMUS Research Programme)</font></div><div><div><p style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"><b>Latest publication: </b></font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(16,20,126)"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2017.1324277" target="_blank">Diverse perspectives
on Jewish life in Southeast Europe: the Holocaust and beyond</a> </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(16,20,126)">(T&F)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(16,20,126)"><br>
<i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2017.1324264" target="_blank"><span style="color:#10147e">‘Being traitors’: post-war Greece in the experience of
Jewish partisans</span></a> </i>(T&F);</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><font size="1"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.peterlang.de/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=89396&concordeid=267026" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">Minderheiten im sozialistischen
Jugoslawien</span></a></span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> (P.Lang); <i><a href="http://www.boehlau-verlag.com/978-3-412-50362-8.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">Das Vermächtnis der Besatzung</span></a> </i>(Böhlau
Vlg.);</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"><a href="http://ehq.sagepub.com/content/46/2/262.abstract" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#1155cc">In the Shadow of the Nazi Past</span></i></a><i> </i>(SAGE); <i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2016.1209837" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155cc">The ‘Holocausts’ in Greece</span></a> </i>(T&F);</font></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/219288/navraty/" target="_blank"><font size="1">Návraty. Poválečná
rekonstrukce židovských komunit</font></a></span></i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font size="1"> (Karolinum).</font><span style="font-size:9pt"></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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