Study social, political, and identity conflicts in the Central European context

• Academic focus, field experience
• Minor in Central Europe Studies
• Conflict transformation projects and activities
• Roundtables and workshops among students, experts, intellectuals from different ethnic backgrounds and with diverse political and ideological views
• Summer school: Off the Beaten Track: Politics and History, Philosophy and Art, and Ethnicity and Identity

Central Europe is a region with rich history, great art, and cultural as well as religious diversity. It is also a place with a turbulent history and ethnic conflict: it is the region where two world wars began, and where the Holocaust took place. It is a borderland that is emerging from a transition from its totalitarian past into an uncertain future, grappling with the legacies of two totalitarian eras of the twentieth century, between East and West. BISLA’s location in the heart of Central Europe invites interdisciplinary study of the region’s identity and identities within the region, its history, art, political transformations and potential, and its geopolitical context.

BISLA is proud to present a new Allen Kassof Center (AKC) – for History, Art, and Ethnic Conflict in Central Europe, which engages students, scholars, and experts in intercultural dialogue, roundtables, and projects. It offers a space for debating seemingly irreconcilable conflicts and divisions among those who would otherwise not find an opportunity – or even will – to face each other and debate their entrenched positions. BISLA also offers an undergraduate academic program focused on the history, politics, arts, and culture of Central Europe in the context of transition and the transformation of Europe and the world.

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