CIVICA ESR
COURSE CATALOGUE

Public speaking can be a daunting experience in general, but even more so in an academic setting. Whether it’s sharing your research findings, delivering job talks or teaching a class, doctoral students are frequently required to be in front of an audience. For those who suffer from presentation anxiety, the experience can be uncomfortable and even debilitating. This workshop will explore some of the common causes and symptoms of presentation anxiety.Students will come away from the workshop with a roadmap to present with greater confidence. This session will cover: • The physiology of presentation anxiety• Steps to take in the lead up to an academic presentation• Tools to minimize the symptoms of stress before and during apresentation• How to navigate a challenging Q&A session Lunch will be provided Trainer: Dr Serena Sharma Serena has spent two decades in higher education as both a student and an academic. Since completing her PhD, she has held academic positions at the University of Oxford, King’s College London and, presently, the London School of Economics. Through her own personal experiences in academia—from study, research and publishing to teaching and supervising—Serena has observed a significant gap in the level of support offered to students in coping with the unique pressures that arise in academic environments. With this in mind Serena has created a series of workshops dedicated to promoting wellness in research students.

Course description: https://elkana.ceu.edu/learning-design-yelc6105 “Learning by Design” is a semester-long, intermediate-level course focused on how students learn and how instructors can facilitate student learning. Building on Foundations of Teaching in Higher Education (which is a prerequisite), it shifts the focus even more firmly from the teacher to the student. In their roles as designer, facilitator (and assessor) of learning, course participants explore how they can guide students in their learning and how to make that learning longer lasting and more significant. During our sessions we will unpack assumptions that surround student learning, delve into theories of how students learn, and explore corresponding principles and approaches to teaching that seek to align learning, teaching, and assessment. We will discuss how to better understand your students, recognize several implications of student diversity for student learning, and explore how to support different types of learners and different types of learning. We will explore, at some length, how to assess student learning, including assessment design, grading, and feedback. Throughout all of this, we will constantly reflect on our own growth as scholars in the process of becoming facilitators of learning. This online course takes place on 11 Wednesdays, from 1:30-3:10 pm (Vienna time).
Teachers:

• Tamara Kamatovic (Central European University)
• Matyas Szabo (Central European University)

Policymakers, editors and business leaders tend to be pressed for time and receive too much information. Researchers who want their arguments to influence policy must learn how to communicate key messages clearly. The seminar will cover how to write concise and accessible texts. Participants will learn how to structure an argument and formulate recommendations. They will gain an understanding of different publication formats and develop publication strategies to maximise impact and reach the right audiences. Target group: PhD researchers with little or no experience in writing policy briefs or op-eds. Instructors: Sophia Besch and Ellen Thalman. Dates and times: 14, 17 and 21 April 2023, 2 - 6 pm
Entry requirements: little or no experience in writing policy briefs or op-eds

Antitrust law is an undertheorized field. The absence of a theory of what antitrust laws are about, and how, why, and when they do what they do is problematic. Broad claims for and against antitrust law reform are aired every time a legitimacy crisis hits the field. There is no testable way to validate or invalidate the claims made about antitrust law reform. This intensive course seeks to lay the ground for the development of a more explicit theory of antitrust law. It studies antitrust laws’ principles of action (firm size, economic concentration, market power, etc.), function (rivalry, uncertainty), limits (error costs and division of labor), methods (facts and principles), metaphysics (a priori knowledge), epistemology (economics schools of thoughts), ontology (firm, market, coordinated and unilateral conduct, etc.), mobilization (private and public), legitimacy (expert and popular), norms (welfare, choice, justice), and remediation (prevention and restoration). The course’s ambition is mostly descriptive. The point is to describe the anatomy, biology and behavior of our antitrust laws. The course assumes that it is intellectually useful to break down antitrust laws in ways that describe their structure and parts, mechanics and chemistry, and actual operation. In so doing, this intensive course seeks to show many versions of antitrust laws are possible, in ways far more diversified than the binary policy reform options often vindicated in the public conversation. The focus is on US and EU antitrust laws.
Teachers:

• Nicolas Petit (European University Institute)