ENTAN is
organising the First Training School on Non-Territorial Autonomy, 9-11
September 2020, in the border region of Sønderborg, Denmark and
Flensburg, Germany. Graduate and PhD students,
postdoctoral researchers and young career investigators (including those
who are ENTAN members) are invited to apply. Please share this Call for trainees with your PhD students and younger colleagues. Application deadline: 15 June 2020. We
are also inviting a limited number of experienced scholars who can
apply as lecturers on NTA topics, by 15 June 2020. Please find the
details in the Call for lecturers.
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The Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Society for Visual
Anthropology are excited to bring to you its second carbon-neutral
biennial conference: Distribute 2020, which will take place on May 7, 8,
and 9, 2020.
Like its previous iteration (Displacements 2018),
Distribute 2020 will be virtual and distributed: virtual in that it will
be anchored by a dedicated conference website streaming prerecorded
multimedia panels; and distributed in that presenters and viewers from across the globe will participate in the conference via in-person local “nodes.”
Distribute 2020 plans to offer three full days of streamed audio-visual
panels and in-person local nodes where participants can gather with
others to view the conference and join in related activities like
workshops, art exhibitions, and dinner salons. Our goal is a low-cost,
highly accessible, carbon-neutral conference that might pave the way for
rethinking the mega-conference model.
Our 2020 theme,
“Distribute” is meant to operate on multiple levels. Distribute is an
analytic lens to study the dispersal, diffusion, and (re)distribution of
humans and nonhumans, and of resources, practices, and ideas.
Distribute is also a call or imperative – redistribute! – to prompt more
ethically and politically engaged forms of scholarship.
Distribute 2020 asks: How can we turn our collective anthropological
attention to questions of distribution and redistribution, and to the
economics and politics, the violence and poetics of allocation and
dispensation, movement and migration, organizing and repositioning? And,
in so doing, how might we generate forms of publicly engaged
scholarship that reach beyond the traditional confines of academia?
Distribute 2020 joins a rising tide of voices addressing such critical
questions, offering an anthropological response and a means to imagine
another anthropology into existence.
Athina Simoglou is a lawyer. She has a master’s degree in public law and political science (AUTh) and in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Panteion University). Since 2011 she has been working in various projects of international organizations and NGOs in relation to asylum law and refugee status determination procedures in Greece. She currently works on administrative detention and legal assistance on asylum cases, in collaboration with UNHCR Office in Greece
Since 2008, CHS has generously supported the Harvard Summer Program in Nafplio and Thessaloniki (Greece),
by offering two research fellowships to a) junior faculty members
(Adjunct Lecturers, Lecturers or Assistant Professors) and b) Scientific
and Laboratory Teaching Staff (“ΕΔΙΠ” and “ΕΕΠ”) who hold a PhD, of
Schools of Humanities and Social Sciences from Greek Universities.
About the program
The fellows participate in the program by presenting their research
and interacting with colleagues and students from the U.S. and all
around the world, while the team exchanges experiences and ideas about
their different educational systems.
The fellowships aim to attract applicants with an academic background
strongly related with the disciplines of Comparative Cultural Studies,
the academic core of this program. CHS gives preference to those whose
application and cover letter suggests that they would be comfortable
working in an intimate, international, multilingual community of
scholars. Former experience in similar academic programs/activities in
Greece or abroad will be taken into consideration.
The fellowship includes:
Year-long appointment as CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece.
Year-long access to all Harvard electronic resources. The fellows
will receive an ID and HarvardKey to have access to all digital
libraries, available through the Harvard University library system.
A week-long stay in Nafplio or in Thessaloniki in July 2020 (dates to
be determined). The fellows will join the summer program and interact
with the students and the faculty. They will attend all seminars taught
during that week and address a one-hour lecture to the students on their
respective fields of interest. The Center covers accommodation,
transportation, breakfast and dinner, during the fellow’s stay with the
summer program, and offers a stipend aiming to cover additional
expenses.
Collaborating Educational Institutions
In the past, fellows came primarily from the Universities of Patras
and Ioannina. Since 2016, CHS opened applications to all Humanities and
Social Sciences Schools of Higher Education in Greece.
