Мається інформація стосовно весняної школи з етнічних конфліктів у Німеччині:
CfA: Spring School, Ethnic Conflicts, Marburg, 6-11.3.2006
The First Marburg Spring School
The analysis of ethnic conflicts is en vogue in many strands of the social sciences. Concepts like ethnization or ethnification are used to describe the rising tide of this type of conflicts. However, many analysts tend to use the concept of ethnicity as a mere epiphenomenon as if scientific inquiry only needed to uncover the real causes, e.g. economic or political cleavages, underlying a given conflict.
The Seminar
In this transdisciplinary seminar we will explore a slightly different line of thought. Based on a broad reading of different theories of ethnicity, ranging from Max Weber to constructivism, we will reconstruct the dynamics of ethnic conflicts as self-sustaining systems equipped with their own inner rationale. Based on perspectives in sociology, political science, psychology, and cultural anthropology we will tackle questions like: What do observers and participants mean by calling a social phenomenon ethnic? Why are ethnic discourses so often used to describe group conflicts? What are typical trajectories of ethnic conflicts? What types of ethnic settings stabilize a given social order and which promote the escalation of ethnic conflicts?
Participants
The seminar is designed for Ph.D. students in the social sciences who work on ethnic conflicts. It employs two pedagogical methods: on the one hand, experienced teachers from various fields will give an overview of various disciplinary approaches and highlight potential routes for transdisciplinary research; on the other hand, advanced doctoral students are encouraged to work together in small groups to discuss their own research projects.
Potential topics to be analyzed include:
- Political Science
Ethnic conflicts An assessment of old and new theories of ethnic inter-group struggle
Ethnic community-building as a means for political mobilization
Ethnicity and political culture
- Sociology
The shifting ethnic group structure in Europe and North America
Ethnicity and race Competing or supplementing terms?
Ethnicity and the nation state
- Social Psychology
Social identity and ethnicity
Group conflicts and violence
- Cultural Anthropology
Why, when and how are conflicts ethnified ?
Construction of (ethnic) identity in popular media
For questions on the Spring School, please contact the Center for Conflict Studies at konflikt@staff.uni-marburg.de.
For applications, please use our online application system (available from 15th November onwards).
Further contact information:
Center for Conflict Studies
Philipps-Universitet Marburg
Ketzerbach 11
35032 Marburg
Phone:
+49 64 21 / 28 24 915 (Dr. Kerstin Zimmer)
+49 64 21 / 28 24 444 (S. Rein, G. Fischer) |