Summer Schools
The Cérium offers intensive summer schools organized for citizens interested in international issues, as well as local and foreign graduate students. These one week summer schools take place during the first two weeks of July, so during the Festival international de Jazz de Montréal.
Over the years, the program has become one of North America’s most ambitious international-affairs summer school programs. Each school is given by a dozen experts in the field.
Subjects in 2009:
From June 29 to July 4:
The Obama Presidency: Year One
India: Surprising Modernity
Pluralism and Radicalization in the Arab-Muslim World
International and European Environmental Law/Climate Change
From July 6 to 11:
Biodiversity: current situation, challenges and management issues
China Risen: How it is Changing, and Changing Us
Understanding and Preventing Terrorism
Peace Operations: Manufacturing Peace
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