between two worlds: phenomenological dimensions of home...

Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities “Euro-Balkan”

is announcing the 2ND Call for Applications for

Summer School

Between Two Worlds: Phenomenological Dimensions of Home and Migration Experiences

Within International Ohrid Summer University 2012

To be held from 12th-26th August, Ohrid, Macedonia

Migration experiences and mass trans-national and cultural movements since World War II, as well as the dynamism of the cultural industry which caused epic changes in typological, phenomenological and cultural paradigms in reading of so called "new migration" in the world - represent the central subject of discussion at this school. Key issues that oscillate around the academic debate are: ideological and technological implications in creating forced migration versus migration by choice, the concepts of comparative theorization between different national, ethnic and racial entities, narrative of the memory in the creation of transnational cultural attributes of the country which is not the country of origin of migrants, sociological paradigms and ambivalence of re-territorialization of the modern subject of migrants, the issue of being homed, home, intimate, gender, religious, sexual, cultural illuminations and their paradigm and theoretical discourses in contemporary cultural theories.

The academic focal interest of this academic discussion is to create a bridge between the theory of migration and the humanities and social sciences through the interest of linguistic, visual, cultural and discursive practices through the experiences of migration and its manifesting interdisciplinary forms through the experience of modern discourses to produce, to disseminate and to anticipate new knowledge.

Confirmed lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Sheleva (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje Macedonia)

Dr. Antonio Petrov (Harvard University, USA)

Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska (Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia)

Dr. Shannon Woodcock (University of Sydney, Australia)

Ass. Prof. Jordanka Galeva (Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia,)

The Summer School is integral part of Ohrid Summer University (OSU) which is an academic program for young faculty, PhD candidates, postgraduates, researchers and professionals, offering intensive, problem-oriented and research-based courses from the domains of social sciences and humanities. OSU was founded in 1998 and has functioned continuously since then, as one of the core programs of the “Euro-Balkan” Institute, involving a significant number of both junior and senior members of academic communities from various countries all over the world. To date “Euro-Balkan” Institute, trough its OSU program, has organized more than 30 summer schools from various areas with over 500 participants, involving over 100 proffessors. During the 14 years-long period of its existence, OSU has engaged itself in: adequate and effective training of the academic staff, demonstration of successful linkage of state-of-the-art scholarship and effective and innovative teaching, promotion of academic excellence and ability to facilitate creation and sustenance of active networks of academics, as well as collaborative advancement of learning in certain disciplines within the international context.

Located in the city of Ohrid, the centuries-long cultural metropolis of the Balkan region, OSU encompasses a variety of social and cultural events, provides appropriate locations for outdoor classes and includes educative excursions to the famous archaeological sites and cultural monuments, situated on the shores of the Ohrid Lake.

Summer School Programme Concept

Two two week course will be organized in series of lectures and master classes, discussion sessions, workshops and presentations.

Working language of the Summer School will be English.

In regard to the high standards established by the Euro-Balkan Institute and due to its membership in the Erasmus Charter, the Summer School will grant the participants appropriate certificate with 9 credits (ECTS), applicable in the master studies of participant’s home universities.

Eligibility and Fee

Participants should be postgraduate students (preferably MA, PhD student or young researchers) interested in exploring the issues of Cultural Studies, Migration, Genocide, Holocaust, Diaspora Studies, Visual Arts and Humanities and related Studies.

Participant must submit an abstract for a presentation in one of the summer school’s topics (according the detailed programme of the School) coherent with the School’s main topic;

Participants from all countries are eligible to participate. Tuition fee: 450 euro. The fee covers tuition and study material during the school, use of library and

computer room at the Campus with free internet, tour of the numerous ancient and medieval monuments in the UNESCO protected city of Ohrid located at the shore of the unforgettably beautiful Ohrid Lake. Other arrangements for accommodation, transportation and other expenses should be arranged by applicants on themselves.

Please note that we offer 20% discount if the participant pay the total fee to June 1st and 10% discount if the participant pay the total fee to July 1st.

Please note that we can provide for the interested participants discount prices for accommodation in Hotel Pella where the Campus will be located, near the beach. Ohrid also offers cheap accommodation in private houses

Number of students per Summer Institute or Summer School is 20. Please note that a course will not be offered if less than 10 students.

Terms and Conditions

Signing up for the OSU 2012 legally binds the participants to the terms and conditions. If the tuition fee is not paid by the applicants by July July 1st, 2012, their registration shall automatically be rejected.

After applications are processed, Euro-Balkan Institute will notify the applicants in writing (e-mail) whether their application has been accepted or rejected.

Interested applicants should send short CV, abstract for presentation and the available application form. Download the application form here.

Download the Academic Programme for the Summer School here.

Deadline for submitting the application: June 1st (from the Second Call) and July 1st (from

the Third Call)

Deadline for announcing the results of the selection process: July 7th

http://www.euba.edu.mk/tl_files/OSU%202011/Application%20Form_OSU_2011_HOLOCAUST_STUDIES.doc

Please send your applications to the following contact persons:

Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska,

Director of the Summer School

Email: [email protected]

Velimir Zhernovski, MA

Academic Coordinator of the Summer School

Email: [email protected]

Euro-Balkan Institute

Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63, 1000,

Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Tel/Fax. + 389 2 30 75 570

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ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

SUMMER SCHOOL

Between Two Worlds: Phenomenological Dimensions of Home and Migration Experiences

(12th-26th August, Ohrid, Macedonia)

Dr. Sofija Grandakovska, Director of the Summer School

Velimir Zhernovski, Academic Coordinator of the Summer School

Resource persons:

Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Sheleva (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje (Macedonia)

Dr. Antonio Petrov (New Geographies, Harvard University, USA)

Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska (Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia)

Dr. Shannon Woodcock (University of Sydney, Australia)

Ass. Prof. Jordanka Galeva (Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities Research “Euro Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia)

The morning sessions will be held in the form of interactive lectures/seminars, while the afternoon sessions will be workshops, discussions and presentations of participant’s papers.

Courses:

I. Course title: Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred Architecture

Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Petrov, is currently the editor-in-chief of the Harvard journal New Geographies, published by Harvard University Press. In his forthcoming volume 5, the Mediterranean, he aims to spatialize the Mediterranean as a larger geographic entity and recover the region as a critical spatial model for global interaction. He is also working on a book titled, Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred Architecture, in which he traces the emergence of new spatial paradigms in ecclesiastical architecture arguing that postwar American Protestantism not only overcame the traditional signification of sacred architecture, but also its dichotomy of form, function and aesthetics. Antonio holds a doctorate in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and cultural studies from Harvard University.

Short Description of the Course: In evaluating the influence of religion in the public sphere today, we see that the pastoral landscape of nineteenth-century has maintained the broadest visible public presence. It acted as an active agent and played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space. However, the strong cultural presence of religion witnessed in nineteenth century shifted to a marginalization or non-presence in twentieth- and twenty-first century. These paradigmatic shifts were a result of a scholarly resistance––towards both, new religious practices and new sacred architectural expressions––that critically dismissed the subjects and resulted in assumptions that have shaped the critique of new sacred architecture in global culture. Despite substantial evidence about the ways religion has shaped culture and the arts, historians have neglected to continue to explore this connection. This course interrogates traditional perspectives, and theorizes how a ‘new sacrality’ has developed own multivalent meanings rather than merely conveying traditional messages. In three discussions we will establish critical frameworks for evaluating the cultural significance of contemporary sacred spaces and analyze the aesthetic and material transformations of sacred space, which, in its evolution, are inseparable from the dynamism of global culture.

Required Readings:

Baudrillard, J. (1993). The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra. Postmodernism : a reader. T. Docherty. New York, Columbia University Press: 194-199. Foucault, M. (1967). Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias. Rethinking architecture: a reader in cultural theory. N. Leach. London ; New York, Routledge: 350-355. Bachelard, G. and M. Jolas (1994). The Dialectics of Outside and Inside. The poetics of space. Boston, Beacon Press: 211-231. Sloterdijk, P. (2009). Spheres Theory: Talking to Myself about the Poetics of Space. Harvard Design Magazine.

II. Course title: Home, Exile and Signature of Identity

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Sheleva,

Full professor at the Department of General and Comparative Literature, at the University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje, where she teaches Theory of Literature and Methodology of Literary Studies. She is author of the books: Comparative Poetics (1996), Studies on Literary Theory (1997), Cultural Essays (2000), From Dialogism to intertextuality (2000), Prisoners of the Everyday (2001), Home / Identity (2005), The home of writing (2008).

Short Description of the Course: The subject of this course is the discourse of homed (and

homelessness) and the exile. Through the idea of home as a place, the discussion will cover

a wide range of questions about the hermeneutics of home, identity and concept of

teritorialization of identity, exile, ethnicity, nationality, and the metacritical aspect of power

and relocation in context of multinational regions: the Balkans, Europe and the

Mediterranean.

III: Course title: Shoa and the Forced Migration

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska,

Engages in interdisciplinary studies in comparative literature, Cultural and Holocaust Studies and visual semiotics. She is the author of the scholarly books The Discourse of the Prayer *Говорот на молитвата+ (2008) and The Portrait of the Image *Портретот на сликата+ (2010), and two bilingual books of poetry The Eighth Day *Осмиот ден+(2005) and The Burning Sun *Препечено сонце+ (2009). She is editor with a foreword of the bilingual chrestomathies The Jews From Macedonia and the Holocaust: History, Theory, Culture *Евреите од Mакедонија и холокаустот: историја, теорија, култура+(2011) and a co-editor of the bilingual book-zine edition DOMA [HOME], vol. 1 (2010). Currently, Dr. Grandakovska teaches Contemporary Theories of Culture at postgraduate studies in the Department of Cultural Studies at the Institute for Social and Humanities Research “Euro-Balkan”, Skopje, Macedonia. http://www.apexresidentgrandakovska.blogspot.com/

Short Description of the Course: The focus of this course is concentrated at the connection

between Shoa and the forced migration during the World War II over the Jews in Europe,

within the central aspect towards the Jews from Macedonia. The question: How the

ideological paradigm of the Final Solution and different phases in its realization achieved its

final implementation through technological manners - will open the central discussion about

the forced migration, genocide, death in the concentration camps and annihilation and

humiliation of the 6 millions Jews in Europe.

http://www.e-knigi.com.mk/05kolumni/sheleva

Required Readings:

Vangeli Veskovic, Vera. (2011) “Treblinka”, in: The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust:

History, Theory, Culture, ed. by Sofija Grandakovska. Skopje: Euro Balkan Press.

Berenbaum, Michael. (2012) The Jews in Macedonia during World War II. Skopje: Holocaust

Fund of the Jews from Macedonia

Grandakovska, Sofija. (2011 ) “Homage on the Irony of Evil and on the Historical, Cultural

and Theoretic Memory of the Holocaust”, in The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust:

History, Theory, Culture, ed. by Sofija Grandakovska. Skopje: Euro Balkan Press.

Bauer, Yehuda. (2002) “Comparisons with other genocides”, in: Rethinking the Holocaust.

Yale University Press.

IV.Course: Migration and Trauma: Research, Pedagogy and Identity

Lecturer: Dr. Shannon Woodcock,

is a historian who has published research in Romani, Romanian and Albanian history,

genocide studies, and sexuality identity politics in post-socialist Europe. She has taught in

Albanian and Australian universities, and most recently spent five years teaching genocide

studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. Shannon lives in Tirana and is

currently completing multiple historical books and creative works exploring everyday life for

Albanians under the paranoid dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.

Short Description of the Course: This course overviews the post 1945 history of migration in Europe as a phenomenon of post-genocidal Diaspora formation in the context of 1848 and the hegemony of ethnonational identity. We explore how the impacts of war and trauma can be approached through various impacts, how Diaspora communities thus respond to asylum policy in various case studies, and how an awareness of these factors can produce a pedagogy of affect to ensure our tertiary classrooms are dynamic and safe spaces for studying genocide and post-war migrations. Special attention is paid to the function of violence and non-violence from various disciplinary fields.

Required Readings:

Text of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948. Julia Kristeva Strangers to Ourselves translated by Leon S. Roudiez. New York : Columbia University Press, 1991. Chapter One “Tocatta and Fugue for the Foreigner” Jean Amery At the mind's limits : contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980. Chapter Two “Torture” pp.21-41 and Chapter Three “How much home does a person need?” pp. 42-61. Babette Rothschild Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 “How Does Psychological Trauma Affect the Body and Brain?” pp.31-45. Damir Mitric “Duldung:The German Toleration Permit” Nando Sigona “Locating 'The Gypsy Problem'. The Roma in Italy: Stereotyping, Labelling and 'Nomad Camps'' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31: 4, 741 — 756, 2005.

http://www.unhcr.org/3b66c2aa10.html

http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search~S30?/Xkristeva%2C+julia&SORT=AX&searchscope=30/Xkristeva%2C+julia&SORT=AX&searchscope=30&SUBKEY=kristeva,+julia/109%2C136%2C136%2CB/frameset&FF=Xkristeva%2C+julia&SORT=AX&searchscope=30&120%2C120%2C

http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/search~S30?/Xamery%2C+jean&searchscope=30&SORT=AX/Xamery%2C+jean&searchscope=30&SORT=AX&extended=0&SUBKEY=amery%2C+jean/1%2C20%2C20%2CB/frameset&FF=Xamery%2C+jean&searchscope=30&SORT=AX&2%2C2%2C/indexsort=-

Probyn, Elspeth 2004 'Everyday shame', Cultural Studies, 18: 2, 328 — 349, 2004. Jane Ardley Violent Compassion: Buddhism and Resistance in Tibet, Paper for the Political Studies Association-UK 50th Annual Conference 10-13 April 2000, London. http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2000/ardley%20jane.pdf

IV.Course: Multiculturalism and Migration Policies

Lecturer: Doc. Dr. Jordanka Galeva,

Holds PhD from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Bologna in the field of

international cooperation and sustainable development policies with the thesis entitled

“The impact of European policies and programs on the development of the multicultural

society and the social status of minority communities in Macedonia.” During her studies in

Italy she worked as a correspondent and multicultural mediator for the Sesamo socio-

cultural association from Forli. Her academic experience includes teaching Modern history

of Balkan, Multiculturalism and Bio-politics and Development and human rights.

Short Description of the Course: The course will address the historical review of migration

waves and analyze them as a reason for the creation of multicultural societies. Hence, the

emphasis will be placed on creating new policies to respond to needs that arise in

multicultural reality. Through theoretical discourse of enforcement of politics that

correspond to the multicultural reality and historical review of international experiences on

the implementation of migration policies-case studies - will open issues related to culture,

protection of minority rights and multiculturalism as a phenomenon.

Required Readings:

Charls Taylor, Jurgen Hebarmas, Multiculturalism, Multiculturalismo, Feltrinelli, Milano,

2002.

Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford University, 1995. Amy Gutmann, (edited by), Multiculturalism, Princeton University press, 1994 -Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking multiculturalism, Cultural diversità and political theory, Palgrave macmillan, NY, 2006. R. D Grillo, Pluralism and politics of difference: state, culture and ethnicity in comparative perspective, Oxford University Press, 1998.

http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2000/ardley%20jane.pdf

PROGRAMME

August 12 (Sunday)

12:00 – All day: Arrival of participants 19:30 – 20:00: Welcoming speeches by Prof. Dr. Jovan Donev, Executive Director at the

Institute in Social Sciences and Humanities Euro Balkan and Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska,

Director of the Summer School

20.30: Dinner

August 13 (Monday)

Course title: Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred Architecture Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Petrov

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred

Architecture

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Disappearance of Representation and Meaning

13:00-15:00: Lunch Break

15:30-17:00: Participant’s presentations/Discussion

August 14 (Tuesday)

Course title: Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred Architecture Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Petrov

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Scared Architecture in a Psychedelic Culture


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Theorizing the phenomenological dimensions of popular

scared architecture



August 15 (Wednesday)

Course title: Superordinary! New Paradigms in Sacred Architecture

Lecturer: Dr. Antonio Petrov

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Bigness and Complexity


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Networks and Atmospheres


15:30-17:00: Round - table

August 16 (Thursday)

Course title: Home, Exile and Signature of Identity

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Sheleva

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: The Idea of Home and Identity


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: People and Addresses and People Without Addresses



August 17 (Friday)

Course title: Home, Exile and Signature of Identity

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Sheleva

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Postcolonial Discourse and Understanding of the Balkans as Periphery and Europe as Center


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: The Home and Multinational Regions



August 18 (Saturday)

Course title: Multiculturalism and Migration Policies

Lecturer: Doc. Dr. Jordanka Galeva

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Migration Phenomenon, Migratory Waves and the Creation of Multicultural Societies


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: The New Migration Politics in Multicultural Societies

August 19 (Sunday)

Sightseeing in Ohrid among cultural-historical venues

August 20 (Monday)

Course title: Shoa and the Forced Migration

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Sofija Grandakovska

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: The Jews from Macedonia and Treblinka


11:30-13:00: Interactive lecture: Deportation, Migration and Genocide



August 21 (Tuesday)

Course title: Migration and Trauma: Research, Pedagogy and Identity

Lecturer: Dr. Shannon Woodcock

09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: 1848 : Ethnonational Identity in Historical Context


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Migrants, Ethnicity and National Status: Macedonian

case study



August 22 (Wednesday)



09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Diaspora as Abandoned Citizens


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Psychology and Sociology as research tools



August 23 (Thursday)



09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: “Tolerated” Migrants: the Duldung Visa as understood by

recipients


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Which Europeans are refused a home? Case Study of the Roma



August 24 (Friday)



09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Pedagogy of Affect


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Pedagogy of Affect in practice and assessment


15:30-17:00: Round table

August 25 (Saturday)


09:30-11:00: Interactive Lecture: Violence and Non-violence as theory and research methodology in Diaspora studies


11:30-13:00: Interactive Lecture: Post-socialism and violence in Diaspora

15.00-16.30 – Lunch break

17.00-20.00 Free time

20.00-21.30 – Dinner

21.30-22.30 – Official Ceremony: Certificates

22.30: Official Party

August 26 (Sunday)

Departure of Participants

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