The University of Minnesota Center for German and European Studies in collaboration with European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) Germany is pleased to announce the 2015 Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute for advanced graduate students.
Emotions in Late Modern Societies: Persons, Politics, and Social Practices.
The social sciences depart from the assumption that human action emanates from rational beings who activate material resources and use available role models in order to reach their goals. In such a perspective, people appear as individuals who act in accordance with their potential in a goal-oriented society – the core of modern or late modern narratives. Beneath these assumptions have often been a whole range of value judgments, such as claims about rationality being male, strong, and public while emotions are female, weak, and private. The humanities, in contrast, have traditionally paid more attention to expressive works that are understood to explore evolving worlds of feeling and flows of experience.
TASI 2015 invites graduate students from the US and Europe to convene for two weeks of examination of the subject of emotions in social behavior and practice. We are interested most of all in assembling a group of emerging scholars who bring interdisciplinary commitments and concerns to their work, and who are interested in sharing their work with their peers internationally.
Where: the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
When: July 20 - August 1, 2015.
The Center for German & European Studies will provide North American graduate students with a $750 stipend towards their travel expenses. European students will receive travel aids of $150.
Room and board at the European University Viadrina are free of charge.
Application Deadline: May 15, 2015.
For more information and application information, please see the follogwing web pages
- http://cges.umn.edu/fellowships/tasi.htm (American applicants)
- http://www.europa-uni.de/de/internationales/Summer-Schools/Emotions-in-Late-Modern-Societies_-Persons_-Politics_-and-Social-Practices_1/index.html (European applicants)
With regards,
Chair European Studies
Department of International Affairs
European University Viadrina
Große Scharrnstraße 59
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
email: tasi@europa-uni.de