Fourth International Social Science Summer School “Violence and its Aftermath in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Context”

Venue: Zhytomyr (Ukraine)
Period: Jul. 4-10, 2012
Application deadline: Apr. 15, 2012

 
The Fourth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine will provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research on violence issues, involving specialists of the topic, as well as young promising researchers.

The School is interdisciplinary. The organizers welcome proposals from the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and adjacent fields. While the primary focus will be on the socialist and post-socialist era (in the former Soviet Union, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe), pre-Soviet history may also be examined. The discussions and presentations will analyze different dimensions of violence: war and non-war situations; state management of violence, as well as individual and collective strategies; mechanisms of violence outbreak; violent practices and post-violence situations; perpetrators and victims; sources and methods.

Some of the issues of particular interest to the School include:
• State monopoly of violence, implementation and resistance (past and present)
• War and post-war, conflict situations
• Violent practices and violent behaviour
• Memory and representation of violence

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The Summer School is open to PhD students (or students enrolled in a kandidat nauk program) and young researchers (up to six years removed from their PhD or kandidat nauk degree). Empirically grounded proposals are particularly welcomed.
The working language of the Summer School will be English, and it is important that prospective participants have a good knowledge of this language.
The selection committee will select candidates based on their responses to this Call for Proposals. The selected candidates will be advised before the end of May.

There is no program fee. Local transportation from/to Kyiv, accommodation, meals, classes, lectures, seminars and excursions are provided by the organizers and free of charge. The participants or their universities should only pay the travel expenses from the participant's country to Kyiv.

If you are interested in participating see the call for application

e-mail: ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com