{"id":248,"date":"2021-05-05T12:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/?page_id=248"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:43:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:43:04","slug":"themen-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"CBSS Summer University 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Minorities and societal resilience around the Baltic<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

August 2 – 8, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Danish Minister of State H.C. Hansen and the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Adenauer met for the signing of the Bonn-Copenhagen Declarations on March 29, 1955. Photo: DCBIB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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In modern nation-states, national minorities have historically been subject to suspicion and conflict. Traditionally, this has been linked to separatism or to perceived grievances of \u00bbthe others\u00ab. In the aftermath of the Second World War – and particularly in the process of European unification after 1990 – a different and more appreciative approach to national minorities has gradually developed. This shift, for instance, was integrated into the European Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (1995) and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (1992). The course materials offer a concise introduction to the issue of minorities in the Baltic Sea region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They address questions of conflict, reconciliation, coexistence, and cooperation between national majorities and minorities in both past and present. The course has a particular focus on three regions:

\u2022 the Danish\u2013German border region (where the course takes place),
\u2022 the Baltic region, and
\u2022 the northern region (the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland)<\/p>\n\n\n

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View from Knivsberg. Photo: Jon Thulstrup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

An intercultural place of learning<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The process of reconciliation between Denmark and Germany is discussed using the example of the German-Danish border region. In particular, the question is asked whether the blurring of national borders has led to a transnationalization of intergovernmental reconciliation.

Participants will work in small groups to create various podcasts to understand and communicate both the specific stories and their uses. Here they will have the opportunity to work with individual perspectives on history, culture, and politics in a multi-ethnic society.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Summer University: Study where others go on vacation!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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International participants and interdisciplinary research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a cooperative event of the CBSS, the International Business Communication Studies and the Center for Border Region Studies of the University of Southern Denmark, the University of Bialostok Vilnius Branch, the Department of Regional History of the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, the Frisian Seminar and the study program European Cultures and Societies of the European-University of Flensburg, the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation for the Promotion of Foreigners, the Association of German Northern Schleswig and the Danish Central Library for Southern Schleswig, the Summer University is aimed at students of various disciplines.
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Guided tour at the German Museum in S\u00f8nderborg\/Sonderburg. Photo: Caroline E. Weber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The international and interdisciplinary structure enables the participants to analyze the development of a historical border region from different perspectives. This opens up a new perspective on the history and present in the German-Danish border region for students and lecturers alike. The Summer University thus represents an innovative place of study and encounter that consciously promotes professional, interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Working languages of the Summer University are German and English.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Students at the Summer University at Idstedt-L\u00f6wen (Dan. Istedl\u00f8ven) in Flensburg\/Flensborg. Photo: Caroline E. Weber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Minorities and societal resilience around the Baltic August 2 – 8, 2026 In modern nation-states, national minorities have historically been subject to suspicion and conflict. Traditionally, this has been linked to separatism or to perceived grievances of \u00bbthe others\u00ab. In the aftermath of the Second World War – and particularly in the process of European… Read More »CBSS Summer University 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sommeruni.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}