Samuel Abrahám (born 1960 in Bratislava) is rector of
BISLA, a small
liberal arts college
A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in liberal arts and sciences. Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capac ...
in Bratislava,
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
. Samuel Abrahám studied political science and political philosophy at the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
and at
Carleton University
Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...
in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Education Innovator
Samuel Abrahám is currently involved in
ECOLAS The European Consortium of Liberal Arts and Sciences, or ECOLAS, is a non-governmental educational consulting group based in Europe, that proposes to address key issues associated with undergraduate education as a consequence of the reforms initiate ...
- a network of universities supported by European funding in order to spread and support
liberal arts
Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the ...
education in Europe.
Membership of organizations
From 1996 to 2004 he was representative of the Project on Ethnic Relations, a Princeton-based foundation focusing on resolving ethnic tensions in
Central and Eastern Europe
Central and Eastern Europe is a term encompassing the countries in the Baltics, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Southeast Europe (mostly the Balkans), usually meaning former communist states from the Eastern Bloc and Warsaw Pact in Europe. ...
.
He is also a member of the advisory board of ''
Eurozine'' - an internet journal of a network of European cultural journals.
Academic posts
From 1990 onwards he helped to establish and lectured at Political science department at
Comenius University.
In 1996 he founded and has since edited Slovak-English cultural journal ''Kritika & Kontext''.
During 1996 - 2006 he founded and directed ''Society for Higher Learning'', an educational institution for gifted university students. In 2006 he co-founded and has been the rector of Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA).
BISLA website
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References
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1960 births
Living people
Rectors of universities in Slovakia
Writers from Bratislava