I will be teaching
Constitutional Law at South East European University's (SEEU) Skopje campus this semester.
I appreciated the warm welcome given to me by the Vice Rector for International Relations. We discussed the history of the SEEU campus, its academic programs, my teaching responsibilities/logistics - and the current political situation. (On this last point, I will share in a separate post the Vice Rector's analysis of the current situation: see the post "Macedonia’s instability has huge implications for the Balkans") He also gave me a tour of the campus.
I have posted separately on this blog about the history of SEEU, but, for here, I will reiterate that the university was founded as a way to provide higher education educational opportunities to ethnic Albanians in their native language.
The Vice Rector's resume is most impressive -- he is a prolific scholar, a former Fulbright Fellow at UCLA, former Ambassador to the EU -- but I am most looking forward to learning more about his work as one of those who drafted the constitutional amendments per the Ohrid Framework Agreement.
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| with the Vice Rector for International Relations |
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| the Skopje campus looks out on this courtyard - which is surrounded by several museums (stay tuned for future blog posts - when we have a chance to visit these museums) |
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| the SEEU Skopje campus is the building to the right; to the left you can see the Kale Fortress |
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| SEEU Skopje |
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| next to the university is a Turkish hamam that was converted to an art museum |
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| a view of the library reading room |
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| partial view of the cafe |
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| a typical classroom |
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| with the Vice Rector for International Relations |
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| to get to our car we walked through the Old Turkish Bazaar, up the steps, and saw this magnificent view of the fortress |
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