BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.7//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news28@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190408T112206 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180820 SUMMARY:3rd CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School DESCRIPTION:The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in A frica (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB) call for applications for the 3rd CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies an d Area Studies in Africa. The Summer School is offered with the generous s upport of the Oumou Dilly Foundation (Switzerland) in cooperation with COD ESRIA and aims at strengthening the links between the community of scholar s organized in the CODESRIA community and scholars from the African Studie s community in Switzerland.\\r\\nThe overall objective of the Summer Schoo l is to stimulate and consolidate interdisciplinary approaches to researc h on Africa\, but also on other regions of the world undertaken from with in the African continent. It focuses on African Studies as an instance of area studies and seeks to identify themes that are theoretically\, conce ptually and methodologically relevant to the reflection on the intellectu al challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge and its contribution to general scholarship while inquiring into the relevance of the findings t o African approaches to other regions. The goals of the Summer School are the following:\\r\\n Give PhD students and emerging scholars the opportu nity to engage critically with new theoretical\, conceptual and methodolo gical developments in African Studies and enhance the relevance of the me thods to their work under the guidance of senior scholars\; Encourage PhD students and emerging scholars to reflect on the potential relevance of knowledge on Africa to the task of improving our theoretical\, conceptual and methodological tools both in the disciplines as well as in interdis ciplinary work\; Foster among PhD students and emerging scholars a sense of belonging to a community of scholars in pursuit of knowledge and schol arship\; Stimulate emerging scholars to work towards carving a space for African Studies in the broader field of scholarship and\, in this way\, h elping African Studies to claim a place right at the center of knowledge production.\\r\\nConceptual Note\\r\\n Engaging scientifically with ‘ot her’ societies enables the researcher to gain new perspectives on his o r her own social (and academic) environment and is\, amongst others\, fru itful for theory building. This requires a reflection on the researcher ’s own position and his/her relationship to the society or region he/sh e studies. Traditionally\, this assumption has been mainly based on the e xperience of\, and reflection on a ‘one-way’ perspective from the ‘ Global North’ (the researcher and research money) to the ‘Global Sout h’ (the object). African Studies and research on and in Africa are typi cally conducted by Western students and scholars doing research on ‘the other’ in ‘the field’\, or by African scholars and students – wh ether based in or originating from Africa – working on their ‘home’ societies and regions.\\r\\nThe predominance of a North-to-South gaze in research in and on Africa and in African Studies generates an imbalance that is problematic for the quality and relevance of Africa-related scien tific knowledge (or scientific knowledge related to the ‘developing wor ld’ in general). At the same time\, there is an assumed value of a gaze on ‘the other’ for the understanding of the ‘self’\; and what is more\, a value of a gaze from the outside – by the other – for the u nderstanding of the ‘self’.”\\r\\nThe Summer School sets out to pro mote more reflection on the relationship between the position of the rese archer and his or her geographical area of studies. Ultimately\, it sugge sts that researchers seek to identify approaches that allow a ‘reciproc al’ perspective by reflecting methodological and conceptual foundations but also\, in practice\, by systematically taking these issues into acco unt in the framework of exchange and collaboration. The Summer School wil l present an opportunity for participants to reflect on the relationship between the position of the researcher and the region of his or her studi es by asking several key questions: How does the origin and residence of a researcher frame his/her research on a specific society or region? To what extent does it make a difference whether a researcher is ‘from the re’ (e.g. West African studying West Africa) or not (e.g. European stud ying West Africa)? What is the added value of doing research in a foreign geographical area\; and what is the added value of studying one’s own society or region? What would be the influence of funding sources on the perspectives that the researcher deploys to study the ‘other’? And ho w does the relationship between the location of the researcher and the re gion of her/his studies change when the typical direction of the gaze cha nges (i.e. from ‘the South’ to ‘the North’)?\\r\\nThe 3rd edition of the CODESRIA/CASB summer school will offer participants an opportunit y to address these questions. The orientation of the Summer School offers a framework that per se deals with such issues. African Studies have a l ong tradition in Europe. The position of European scholars of Africa – the relation between their location and the area of their studies – has been reflected before\, and it is crucial that this reflection continues . Another important question\, which has increasingly been addressed in r ecent years\, concerns the position of African scholars in the diaspora\, their relation to their ‘home societies’ and the meaning of this rel ationship to their studies. Of equal importance is that students and scho lars based in Africa reflect their relation to the geographical areas the y study along similar lines – whether they work on their own societies or regions\, on other countries and regions in Africa or on areas outside of the continent. Participants to the Summer School will discuss these q uestions against the background of inputs from senior scholars and select ed literature and will reflect on their own situation.\\r\\nThe discussio ns at the Summer School will be structured along the following three major themes:Normativity: The motivation of the scholar\, the choice of the sub ject and the role of interests and values\;Research design and process: T he formulation of research questions\, the collection and analysis of dat a\, the choice and use of concepts\, methods and theories\;Output: The pr esentation and publication of research results and its perception by the scientific community\, by decision makers and by a wider public.\\r\\nThe expected outcome from the Summer School is that participants will develo p the competence to reflect on their own position within their present an d future academic environment\, enhance their awareness of the importance of doing so for the relevance and content of their work and develop appr oaches that allow for a more reflected and reciprocal perspective in thei r research.\\r\\nThe Pedagogical Team:\\r\\n• Elísio Macamo (Summer Sch ool Director)\, Professor of African Studies at the University of Basel (S witzerland)• Ralph Weber\, Professor of European Global Studies at the U niversity of Basel (Switzerland)• N.N• N.N\\r\\nApplication Procedures : \\r\\nThe Summer School is open for PhD students and emerging scholars enrolled and working at Higher Education institutions in any country. Ap plications from PhD students registered in African and Swiss universities and in the following disciplines are highly encouraged: Social Anthropol ogy\, Sociology\, History\, Religion\, Philosophy\, Gender studies and Po litical science. Travel\, accommodation and meals during the Summer Schoo l will be provided for participants enrolled at institutions in Africa.\\ r\\nThose wishing to be considered for participation should submit a five -page concept paper which should highlight: (a) what they are working on (b) how their work relates to the theme of the Summer School\;(c) their e xpectations from the Summer School should they be selected.In addition\, applications must be supported by an application letter\, a CV\, two let ters of recommendation from the candidate’s institution of affiliation and a copy of the applicant’s passport. Applicants are requested to use the following link http://codesria.org/submission/ [http://codesria.org/su bmission/] to submit their proposals.\\r\\nContact:\\r\\nFor specific que stions\, please contact:\\r\\nCODESRIA
 SUMMER SCHOOL

Tel.: (221) 3 3 825 98 21/22/23
Email: submission@codesria.org [mailto:submission@code sria.org]Website: http://www.codesria.org [http://codesria.org/spip.php?ar ticle2852] X-ALT-DESC:The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Af rica (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies Basel (CASB) call for a pplications for the 3rd CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa. The Summer School is offered with the generous su pport of the Oumou Dilly Foundation (Switzerland) in cooperation with CODE SRIA and aims at strengthening the links between the community of scholars organized in the CODESRIA community and scholars from the African Studies community in Switzerland.\nThe overall objective of the Summer School is to stimulate and consolidate interdisciplinary approaches to research on Africa\, but also on other regions of the world undertaken from within th e African continent. It focuses on African Studies as an instance of area studies and seeks to identify themes that are theoretically\, conceptual ly and methodologically relevant to the reflection on the intellectual c hallenge of Africa as an object of knowledge and its contribution to gene ral scholarship while inquiring into the relevance of the findings to Afr ican approaches to other regions. The goals of the Summer School are the following:\n\nConceptual Note\n Engaging scientifically with ‘other’ societies enables the researcher to gain new perspectives on his or her own social (and academic) enviro nment and is\, amongst others\, fruitful for theory building. This requir es a reflection on the researcher’s own position and his/her relationsh ip to the society or region he/she studies. Traditionally\, this assumpti on has been mainly based on the experience of\, and reflection on a ‘on e-way’ perspective from the ‘Global North’ (the researcher and rese arch money) to the ‘Global South’ (the object). African Studies and r esearch on and in Africa are typically conducted by Western students and scholars doing research on ‘the other’ in ‘the field’\, or by Afr ican scholars and students – whether based in or originating from Afric a – working on their ‘home’ societies and regions.\nThe predominanc e of a North-to-South gaze in research in and on Africa and in African St udies generates an imbalance that is problematic for the quality and rele vance of Africa-related scientific knowledge (or scientific knowledge rel ated to the ‘developing world’ in general). At the same time\, there is an assumed value of a gaze on ‘the other’ for the understanding of the ‘self’\; and what is more\, a value of a gaze from the outside – by the other – for the understanding of the ‘self’.”\nThe Sum mer School sets out to promote more reflection on the relationship betwee n the position of the researcher and his or her geographical area of stud ies. Ultimately\, it suggests that researchers seek to identify approache s that allow a ‘reciprocal’ perspective by reflecting methodological and conceptual foundations but also\, in practice\, by systematically tak ing these issues into account in the framework of exchange and collaborat ion. The Summer School will present an opportunity for participants to re flect on the relationship between the position of the researcher and the region of his or her studies by asking several key questions: How does th e origin and residence of a researcher frame his/her research on a specif ic society or region? To what extent does it make a difference whether a researcher is ‘from there’ (e.g. West African studying West Africa) o r not (e.g. European studying West Africa)? What is the added value of do ing research in a foreign geographical area\; and what is the added value of studying one’s own society or region? What would be the influence o f funding sources on the perspectives that the researcher deploys to stud y the ‘other’? And how does the relationship between the location of the researcher and the region of her/his studies change when the typical direction of the gaze changes (i.e. from ‘the South’ to ‘the North ’)?\nThe 3rd edition of the CODESRIA/CASB summer school will offer part icipants an opportunity to address these questions. The orientation of th e Summer School offers a framework that per se deals with such issues. Af rican Studies have a long tradition in Europe. The position of European scholars of Africa – the relation between their location and the area of their studies – has been reflected before\, and it is crucial that thi s reflection continues. Another important question\, which has increasing ly been addressed in recent years\, concerns the position of African sch olars in the diaspora\, their relation to their ‘home societies’ and the meaning of this relationship to their studies. Of equal importance is that students and scholars based in Africa reflect their relation to the geographical areas they study along similar lines – whether they work on their own societies or regions\, on other countries and regions in Afr ica or on areas outside of the continent. Participants to the Summer Scho ol will discuss these questions against the background of inputs from sen ior scholars and selected literature and will reflect on their own situat ion.\nThe discussions at the Summer School will be structured along the fo llowing three major themes:
Normativity: The motivation of the scholar\, the choice of the subject and the role of interests and values\ ;
Research design and process: The formulation of research qu estions\, the collection and analysis of data\, the choice and use of con cepts\, methods and theories\;
Output: The presentation and p ublication of research results and its perception by the scientific commu nity\, by decision makers and by a wider public.\nThe expected outcome fr om the Summer School is that participants will develop the competence to reflect on their own position within their present and future academic en vironment\, enhance their awareness of the importance of doing so for the relevance and content of their work and develop approaches that allow fo r a more reflected and reciprocal perspective in their research.\nThe Pedagogical Team:\n• Elísio Macamo (Summer School Director)\, Profe ssor of African Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland)
• Ralph Weber\, Professor of European Global Studies at the University of Ba sel (Switzerland)
• N.N
• N.N\nApplication Procedures: \nThe Summer School is open for PhD students and emerging scholars enro lled and working at Higher Education institutions in any country. Applic ations from PhD students registered in African and Swiss universities and in the following disciplines are highly encouraged: Social Anthropology\ , Sociology\, History\, Religion\, Philosophy\, Gender studies and Politi cal science. Travel\, accommodation and meals during the Summer School wi ll be provided for participants enrolled at institutions in Africa.\nThos e wishing to be considered for participation should submit a five-page co ncept paper which should highlight: (a) what they are working on (b) how their work relates to the theme of the Summer School\;(c) their expectati ons from the Summer School should they be selected.
In addition\, a pplications must be supported by an application letter\, a CV\, two lette rs of recommendation from the candidate’s institution of affiliation an d a copy of the applicant’s passport.
Applicants are requested to use the following link http://codesria.org/submission/ to s ubmit their proposals.\nContact:\nFor specific questions\, please c ontact:\nCODESRIA
 SUMMER SCHOOL


Tel.: (221) 33 825 98 21/22/23

Email: submissi on@codesria.org
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