Department of Management and Engineering

Linköping University Department of Management and Engineering Political Science: European Integration

733G40: History of European Identity, 7,5 hp Fall semester 2017 Course coordinator Per Jansson ([email protected])

Course administrator Elin Montecinos ([email protected])

Teachers Per Jansson ([email protected]) PJ Kjell O Lejon ([email protected]) KOL Karolina Nilsson ([email protected]) KN

Course description

This course deals with the question of "European Identity". Does it exist, how did it develop, what is the role played by geographical conditions, economy, religion, tradition, culture and politics? A guiding thought is that the history of Europe can be seen as a constantly changing system of networks that enables people to exchange ideas, cultural experiences and to trade. An important question is what can unite and what can split people in Europe?

The course consists of a series of lectures and two compulsory seminars. The purpose of the seminars is to provide the students with opportunities to engage in deeper discussions of the course literature and the themes of the course. Further instructions about the seminar assignments will be given during lectures and posted on Lisam. Schedule For time and location, see TimeEdit!

Date Subject Teacher 2016-08-21 Introduction PJ

2016-08-28 Lecture 1 PJ European Political Identity I Readings: Checkel chapters 1 – 4

2016-08-30 Lecture 2 PJ European Political Identity II Readings: Checkel chapters 5 – 9

2016-09-01 Seminar PJ European Political Identity

2016-09-04 Lecture 3 KOL Religion and European Identity I Readings: Article – “Petrus de Dacia”

2016-09-05 Lecture 4 KOL Religion and European Identity II Readings: Article – “Lutheranism or Secularism”

2016-09-07 Seminar KOL Religion and European Identity

2016-09-08 Lecture 5 KN Art History I. Middle Ages to Rococo Readings: distributed at lecture

2016-09-14 Lecture 6 KN Art History II. Ca 18th Century to Early Modernism Readings: distributed at lecture

2016-09-15 Seminar KN Art History

2016-09-18 (09.00) Home exam begins 2016-09-22 (15.00) Home exam ends

2016-10-16 (09.00) Re-exam begins 2016-10-20 (15.00) Re-exam ends Examination

A written home examination and three compulsory seminars.

Course literature

Checkel, Jeffrey T. & Peter J. Katzenstein (eds.), European Identity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Lejon, Kjell O., “The International network of the Medieval Swedish Dominican Petrus de Dacia”, accessible on Lisam. (2005)

Lejon, Kjell O., “Lutheranism or Secularism?”, accessible on Lisam. (2013)

Additional course readings will be posted on Lisam.