CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
1st "Cité des Télécoms" Doctoral Summer School :
"History of electronic images: a long term perspective."
14th-18th September 2009
The Summer School will take place in France from
Monday 14th of September, to Friday, 18th of
September 2009. The summer school aims at
providing doctoral students with an overview of
relevant research results and of innovative
tools and methodologies in the field of
communication history. It is organised jointly
by the Cité des Télécoms, the Paris-Sorbonne
University and the Maastricht University.
Students will spend the five days at the Cité
des Télécoms in the northern part of Brittany.
See: http://www.cite-telecoms.com/. During the
summer school, students will present and discuss
their PhD research with leading international
scholars in the field of media history and
innovation studies. The conference language will be English.
The summer school will focus on the history of
the electronic image on a long term perspective.
This means that we are interested in projects
dealing with the history of electronic image in
a broad sense of the term, including topics like
television, video, telecommunications,
computers, electronic devices for professional
and artistic uses, medical equipment, basic
research etc. Each half day session will be
based on a keynote lecture by an invited scholar
and followed by student presentations and
discussions of their work in progress. Social
events and visits will give the opportunity to
discover either traditional or modern faces of this high tech part of Brittany.
The academic organizers:
Andreas Fickers (Univ Maastricht) and
Pascal Griset (Univ Paris-Sorbonne)
will be joined by
Ib Bondebjerg (Univ de Copenhague)
Patrice Flichy (Univ Marne la Vallée)
Sonja de Leeuw (Univ d'Utrecht)
James Schwoch (Northwestern University)
Isabelle Vera-Masson (CNRS- Paris).
All local costs (accommodation and food) will be
covered by the organizers, but participants are
expected to pay their own travel to and from
Lannion, the closest railway station linked to
Paris by TGV. Participation will be limited to
15-20 PhD students. Those interested in
attending the summer school should send the
following documents by e-mail to the academic organizers:
Pr Andreas Fickers (a.fickers /at/ lk.unimaas.nl)
Pr Pascal Griset (pascalgriset /at/ yahoo.fr)
1.) Cv
2.) a summary of their dissertation project
3.) an example of their work in progress
(provisional chapter of the dissertation or a
published article in any language).
The deadline for applications is May 11th 2009.
Students selected will be notified before May 25th 2009.
