Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities is held annually since 1997 under the aegis of the Fulbright Program in Russia, Moscow University and the Russian Association for American Studies in partnership with a number of American universities.
Each June the Summer School brings together a group of 25-30 interested graduate students and professors from all over Russia (and some of the CIS countries) for a session devoted to subjects such as: “America Virtual and Imaginary” (2005), “Consumption as Communication” (2006), “The Art of Change: Word as Performance in Contemporary Culture” (2007), ” University Among the Media: Innovation in Higher Learning and Changing Modes of Effective Communication” (2008), “Media Imagination” (2009).
The goals of the Summer School are
- to help younger Russian and American academics explore new fields of research and pedagogy in an international/comparative perspective;
- to help cultivate American culture studies in the Russian academy providing for increased flexibility and interdisciplinary awareness, the “cutting edge” methodology, the livelier and more efficient intellectual exchange.
The School nurtures the spirit of free debate, high professionalism and critical reflection. It also helps develop the necessary bi-lingual and bi-cultural communication skills among Russian and American students/scholars providing impetus for innovative research and relevant publications.