Teaching

Events

SS 2025

Advanced seminar 33323a "Current developments in Poland"

WS 2024/25

SS 2024

WS 2023/24

SS 2023

Lecture: The war over Ukraine. Geopolitical, historical, cultural and military aspects
Advanced seminar: Poland under the government of the United Right. A review at the end of the second term of office
Advanced seminar: Central Europe in the war over Ukraine. With an excursion to Poland and possibly Ukraine
- SPUR - Link to the events

WS 2022/23

Lecture: Communism as a totalitarian system and its overcoming in Central and East Europe
Advanced seminar: The war over Ukraine. Causes, course, consequences.
Advanced seminar: Poland under the government of the United Right. An assessment at the end of the second term
Research seminar
- SPUR link to the events

WS 2021/22

Lecture: Ethnic Complexity of Central and Eastern Europe
Advanced seminar: Political violence against a nation: Belarus since 2020
Advanced seminar: Security and Geopolitics of Central and East Europe. Historical and contemporary aspects
Research seminar
SPUR link to the events

SUMMER TERM 2021

Lecture: Political Structural Problems of Central and Eastern Europe. Eastern Partnership between the EU and Russia A controversial project
Advanced seminar: Authoritarianism or democracy. Case study (possibly with an excursion)
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and Eastern Europe
LSF link to the courses

WS 2020/21

Prof. Maćków is released for research in WS 2020/21. No seminars will be offered during this semester.

SS 2020

Lecture: New political systems in Central and East Europe
Advanced seminar: Polish-Russian relations
Advanced seminar: Structural change in east europe (with two-week excursion)
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and Eastern Europe
LSF link to the courses

WS 2019/20

Lecture: Communism and its consequences in Central and Eastern Europe
Advanced seminar: Four years of the PiS government in power
Advanced seminar: Current developments in Ukraine: politics, economy, society change
Advanced seminar: Political violence and political contradiction
Research seminar: Research colloquium
LSF link to the events

SUMMER SEMESTER 2019

Lecture: Nations in Central and East Europe
Advanced seminar: New EU members in conflict with Germany
Advanced seminar: Structural change in the Caucasus (with a two-week excursion to the Caucasus in June)
Advanced seminar: probably another one
LSF link to the courses

WS 2018/19

Lecture: Civil Society after Communism
Advanced seminar: Poland-Ukraine-Russia: The Triangle of Conflicts
Advanced seminar: Russia as an imperial power
Research seminar: New research projects on Central and East Europe
LSF link to the events

SEMESTER 2018

Lecture: Post-communist political systems
Advanced seminar: Democracy in Poland
Advanced seminar (with excursion): History and Politics in Georgia
Advanced seminar (expected)
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and East Europe
LSF-Link to the events of the chair

WS 2017/18

Lecture: Post-communist system transformation
Advanced seminar: Current developments in Central and East Europe (in the form of a block seminar with guest lecturers Dr Kazimierz Wóycicki and Prof. Dr Irina Busygina)
Advanced seminar: Belarus - a colony of the Russian empire?
Research seminar: New research projects on Central and East Europe
LSF link to the events

SUMMER TERM 2017

Lecture: Peoples and Nations in Central and Eastern Europe
Advanced seminar (with excursion): Historical Politics in Central Europe
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and Eastern Europe
LSF link to the courses

WS 2016/17

Prof Maćków is released for research in WS2016/17. No seminars will be offered during this semester.

Prof.Dr Tomasz Inglot, Minnesota State University, is offering the lecture "Comparative social policy in Central and Eastern Europe" in English as a substitute.

SUMMER TERM 2016

Lecture: Democracy and Authoritarianism in Central and Eastern Europe
Main/advanced seminar: Ukraine and the EU
Main/advanced seminar: Poland and Russia in crisis?
Main/advanced seminar (with excursion): Change in east europe
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and Eastern Europe

WS 2015/16

Lecture: Ukraine crisis as the crisis of Europe
Advanced seminar: Russia and the West
Advanced seminar: Political opposition and resistance in totalitarianism and authoritarianism
Research seminar: Academic work on Central and Eastern Europe

SUMMER TERM 2015

Lecture: Society Change in the Centre and East of Europe
Main/advanced seminar: The European crises of the 21st century: the global financial crisis, the euro crisis and the Ukraine crisis
Main/advanced seminar: Germany and Poland in the Ukraine crisis (seminar schedule)
Main/advanced seminar: Current political developments in Central and East Europe
Research seminar: Research projects on Central and Eastern Europe

WS 2014/15

Lecture: Peoples and states in "Eastern Europe"
Main/advanced seminar: The Ukraine crisis. Actors and solutions
Main/advanced seminar: Modernising Central and Eastern Europe. Baltic Sea countries. (Seminar with scientific excursion)
Research seminar: Academic work on Central and Eastern Europe

SUMMER TERM 2014

Lecture: Communism and post-communism
Main/advanced seminar: Current political developments in Russia
Main/advanced seminar: Current political developments in Poland
Main/advanced seminar: Structural problems in Central and Eastern Europe
(Seminar with scientific excursion)
Research seminar: Academic work on Central and Eastern Europe

WS 2013/14

Lecture: Elites and Parties in Transformation
Main/advanced seminar: Mass murder in Central and Eastern Europe
Main/advanced seminar: Post-communist presidents. Institutional design and governance
Research seminar: Academic work on Central and Eastern Europe

SUMMER TERM 2013

Lecture: Nation and Democracy in Central and East Europe
Main/advanced seminar: Political stability. Political reality or chimera?
Advanced seminar: Structural problems of Central and Eastern Europe
Research seminar: Academic work on Central and Eastern Europe

WS 12/13

lecture: Civil society in post-communism
Advanced seminar: Political violence and systems of violence
Main / advanced seminar: Central Europe between past and (post)modernity?
Research colloquium: Academic work on Central and East Europe

WS 11/12

Lecture: The Nations of Central and Eastern Europe
Research colloquium: Academic work on Central and East Europe

SUMMER TERM 2011

Lecture: Totalitarianism. Rise, "flowering", fall, transformation. Society change in east europe
Advanced seminar: Russia under Putin and Medvedev
Advanced seminar: Structural problems of east europe
Advanced seminar: Political science analysis of history
Research colloquium: Academic work on Central and East Europe

past events

Teaching - Notes

Academic theses at the Chair :

There are two requirements for writing theses under the supervision of Prof Dr Jerzy Maćków: the thesis should be based on political science and its topic should be discussed with the supervisor.

Formalities

Written work - Formalities

1. The text of your paper must be corrected for language and style errors before submission
errors. Do not forget the footnote text!
2. Your written work should consist of the following parts:

Title page
Table of contents
Introduction
Main part
Conclusion
Bibliography.

If necessary, an appendix (before the bibliography) and a list of abbreviations (before the introduction) can also be included
List of abbreviations (before the introduction, consisting exclusively of the
abbreviations) can be added.

3. The following must be written on the title page:

Working title (with subtitle if applicable)
Information about the course in which the thesis was written
Lecturer's name
Name, student number and subject of the author.

4. The structure of the thesis (which, incidentally, is to be discussed in the introduction) should be
be structured as follows:
Either
I (first chapter)

A (part of a chapter)

1. (Paragraph)

a. (section)
or
1. Level -------- 2nd level -------- 3rd level

3 3.1 3.2.1

4 3.2 3.2.2

5 etc. 3.3 etc.3.3.2

1. Direct quotations must be marked with inverted commas (indentation and close
(indentation and close-spaced typing are also possible); indirect quotations must be indicated in footnotes (or in brackets in the running text).
2. The footnote layout must comply with the generally recognised standards
(this includes the frequently overlooked "detail" that the first mention of the cited author should be preceded by the first name). Formulas such as "see", "cf.", "ibid.", "loc. cit.", "e.g.", "ff.", "f." should be used in accordance with the recognised citation rules. It is advisable to always have a "rule book" to hand when writing the paper, e.g. that by Ulrich von Alemann and Erhard Forndran, Methodik der Politikwissenschaft. Eine Einführung in Arbeitstechnik und Forschungspraxis, Stuttgart et al. 1995 (5th edition), pp. 139-145. We also recommend the brochure by Klaus Poenike, Die schriftliche Arbeit. Material collection and manuscript design for specialised, seminar and final papers at school and university. If reference is made to literature and sources not in the footnotes but in the main text of the work (the so-called American citation system), the corresponding formal citation rules must also be observed here (see for example Poenike, p. 15ff.). The mixing of the "American" and the footnote-based citation system demonstrates a spirit of invention that would be better used to discuss questions of content.
3. The bibliography and the table of contents should also be checked for compliance with formal rules (e.g. Poenike, p. 28ff.) and for any inconsistencies with the main text and footnotes (annotations)
(annotations):

a. do the page numbers given in the table of contents match
those of the main text?
b. Do the titles of the references in the bibliography match those
titles given in the footnotes (annotations)?

Citation rules

There are only two current citation systems: the "European" and the "American". They have evolved over decades and no academic publisher or journal that prefers to invent its own set of rules (academic journal) or completely dispenses with a set of citation rules (publisher that is only interested in printing subsidies and therefore publishes everything for which printing subsidies are paid) can be the authority for students in this respect. The standards are not set by abolishing the standards and engaging in an arbitrary mishmash of citations. You can find a description of the two citation systems that apply in the social sciences (lawyers, economics, etc. have their own citation systems) and are also binding at the chair here (external link, opens in a new window) (source: Alemann, Ulrich von / Forndran, Erhard: Methodik der Politikwissenschaft. An introduction to working techniques and research practice, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 141-145).

Divisions

Comments on holding the divisions

An unsuccessful division is characterised by the fact that it has at least one of the
of the following characteristics:

It resembles reading aloud a written term paper.
Its duration exceeds 25-30 minutes.
It consists of a presentation of the course of events that the speaker has to analyse
has to analyse.

A good division, on the other hand, lasts about 20-30 minutes. During this time, the following should be
be discussed:

The topic, the problem and the question of the division.
The source and literature basis of the division (very briefly).
The way in which the research question is approached (the method).
The results of the analysis, i.e. the main theses of the division.

Practise presenting your division before you give it!

Promotions

The first step towards a doctorate at the chair - for external students

If you would like to do a doctorate at the chair without having studied here, please send the following documents to the address of the professorship:

CV,
Information on the final grades of your degree programme,
Reasons why you want to do your doctorate at the chair and - most importantly
Concept of your doctorate. This should
1. the topic (with reasons),
2. the research question (in the context of the current literature),
3. an outline of the theoretical basis (with hypotheses if applicable),
4. methodological explanations and
5. provisional outline

Of your dissertation.
Please understand that no confirmation of supervision can be given without such a concept.

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