[ecrea] Comparing: summer school

> Comparing: a doctoral summer school
>
> contact email:
> (comparing /at/ ucc.ie)
>
> Comparing  is a international summer school 
> prompted by the intellectual urgency of 
> comparison in the humanities today. With the 
> emergence of new investigative frameworks (e.g. 
> global history, world literature, the 
> ethnological turn in disciplines like music, the 
> emergence of transcultural objects and 
> approaches), comparison has become a vital focus 
> for critical debate, both within and between 
> disciplines. Why compare today? And how? These 
> are among the questions we will explore in the School.
>
> The School, which is jointly organized by 
> University College Cork  and the Humanities 
> Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, 
> will take place in University College Cork from 5 to 9 September 2011.
>
> Comparing will be open to doctoral and other 
> research students in Irish universities and 
> internationally. The School aims to encourage 
> participants to reflect on the bearing of 
> comparative research in their own disciplines, 
> while at the same time engaging with disciplines 
> other than their own and with new 
> interdisciplinary developments where comparison 
> is at issue as a methodology, an element of 
> substantive investigations, a critical problem. 
> Throughout the School, the focus will be 
> critical debate: presentations by established 
> researchers will deal with the state of the art 
> of comparison in the light of ground-breaking 
> projects, and each day will include a 
> round-table discussion of the approaches under 
> exploration and the problems they may pose.
>
> Central to the programme will be presentations 
> by doctoral students, which be invited from 
> intending participants on the basis of a call 
> for papers. We will welcome proposals for 
> twenty-minute papers within one of the subject 
> areas which the School embraces ? literrature, 
> history of art, history, philosophy ? as well 
> ass interdisciplinary or theoretical proposals. 
> Proposals should be no longer than 500 words, 
> and should include your name, institution, title 
> of your doctoral project or dissertation, year 
> of registration, and email, and should be sent 
> to (comparing /at/ ucc.ie) no later than 14 March 2011. 
> Proposals will be reviewed by a selection 
> committee and the outcome will be notified to 
> you no later than 28 March. Applications to the 
> School will close on 29 April. An application 
> should be forwarded with a proposal for a paper.
>
> A number of bursaries will also be offered to 
> participating doctoral students. Priority in 
> awarding bursaries will be given to participants 
> who are presenting papers. Bursaries will be 
> paid on the basis of vouched expenses and will 
> not in any case exceed a value of ?300. 
> Applicaations for bursaries  must be made not 
> later than 29 April 2011, and intending 
> participants who submit proposals for papers 
> should submit an application form and a bursary application at the same time.
>
> Comparing is funded by the Irish Research 
> Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences

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