该讲座为大家了解欧洲的中心—捷克共和国提供了一个复杂的视角。捷克的地理位置为其带来了丰富的文化和政治历史，各种影响力融汇于此地。如今，捷克共和国在欧盟扮演着有趣的角色-同其他中欧国家相似，其经济和社会稳定性是与其政治非稳定性相平衡。主讲人同时也将就欧盟的经济、政治、社会体系、文化、欧盟外部的国际关系等方面进行分析。

Session 10: Research ethics
We end the workshop by discussing the ethics of social science research, both generally and specifically, why research ethics are important and becoming more so.

Session 9: The Long Run: Getting Published and Keep Going.
How to get your paper accepted at conferences and your articles published in journals. How to handle reviews from referees and revisions. How to plan and execute a multipart research agenda. How to keep motivated to pursue a multi-part, multiyear research agenda.

Session 7: Designing Methodologies: Details of Yours and Mine
We will go through the process of designing multiple methodologies for actual pro-posed hypotheses from attendees and hypothetical studies resulting from brainstorm-ing. We also will talk about planning in advance for statistical analysis and other data analysis, specifically how complex data analysis is used to test hypotheses and answer research questions.

Session 8: Writing Conclusion (and Discussion) Sections the Right Way
Many, perhaps most, social scientists around the world do not know how to best handle writing Discussion and Conclusion sections of papers and articles. In fact, many simply do it badly and therefore uselessly. This session is about how to do it right, tying Hs/RQs results (not data) back to literature review and only Discussing when you have something that needs discussing.

Session 6: Bringing It Together: Choosing Methodology Based on Theory & Topic
Choosing methodologies based on the topic, theory, and practical considerations. Critiquing others’ methodology choices and methodology designs. Alternatives.

Section 5: The Fun—and Hard—Part: Designing methodologies, Part II
Designing methodologies: surveys, depth interviews, focus groups, ethnography, case studies, historical research, secondary analysis. Pros and cons of each. Critiquing your and others’ methodologies through the lens of internal validity, external validity, etc. Triangulation. No methodology is perfect, so how good is good enough?

Session 4: The Fun—and Hard—Part: Designing methodologies, Part I
Designing content analysis, textual analysis, controlled experiments, field experiments, that are tightly based on your hypotheses/RQs. Pros and cons of each. Critiquing your and others’ methodologies through the lens of internal validity, external validity and reliability.

Session 2: Literature Reviews: The Foundation of Everything Else.
This session is about strategizing for compiling the literature review, organizing the literature review by section and within sections, writing the literature review, with exercises in writing a literature review and critiquing others’ literature reviews in detail and overall.

Session 3: : How Do I Get Here? Writing Theory-Driven Hypotheses
Writing hypotheses and/or research questions strictly based on the literature review. Independent and dependent variables. Operational definitions. Writing theory-driven hypotheses/RQs. Critiquing others’ hypotheses and research questions.

Session 1: Where Do I Start?
This session focuses on picking research topics, and narrowing or broadening them through literature review. We consider theoretical importance, practical importance and application, personal interest, and other tangible and intangible considerations. We will go through brainstorming exercises in class, also consider others’ research agendas and starting considering what kind of topics and questions are related to which theories?

法国十八世纪伟大的思想家、哲学家、教育家、文学家，杰出的民主政论家和浪漫主义文学流派的开创者，启蒙运动最卓越的代表人物之一让·雅克·卢梭在其短暂的一生中留下许多流芳百世的著作，其一便是《论科学与艺术》——1749年卢梭应第戎科学院征文而撰写的获奖论文。
正当启蒙运动如日中天之际，卢梭对启蒙运动乃至一般而言的科学与艺术持批评态度，这是卢梭留给他的同时代人甚至是当代人的最初印象。实际上，卢梭并非质疑科学和艺术本身，而是质疑它们带给道德和风俗的影响。卢梭是怎样展开他的论证的？他批评文明社会与文明人的理据是什么？科学和艺术到底能否与道德相容？这是我们需要跟随卢梭一起思考的问题。