ABSTRACT
For more than ten years, teaching of cultural history in Eastern European universities has known some momentum. Is it a comeback of existing academic paradigms or just a borrowing of Western universities’ experiments? This chapter examines the frequent integration of cultural history studies in the framework of European studies modules, which are progressing in the academic landscape in the East in response to a real public demand, but also by benefiting from the subsidies proposed by the European Union. It analyzes academic practices in cultural history in sixteen universities of six Eastern European countries. Our goal is to show how cultural history is studied and incorporated in the global organization of the pedagogy, to which disciplines it is associated, what the specificities are of each country, and common elements within Eastern Europe. This study aims to offer an intellectual history of cultural reception, in which national models are still present, but where multiple changes are starting to appear and transform the European academic landscape.
