'Trans-sectoral PeaceLab. Hybrid Solutions to Hybrid Conflicts? Academia, Civil Society and the Arts' will be held in Frankfurt (Oder) between 20 August and 2 September 2018.
Viadrinicum is an annual summer school devoted to the countries of the Eastern Partnership region with a special focus on Ukraine. This year it will take place in the form of trans-sectoral PeaceLab, aiming to tackle the complex issues of war and peace mediation from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives. With a strong emphasis on the participatory element of educational process the school will allow its participants to deepen their knowledge with the help of academic seminars and enhance their practical and methodological skills in the framework of several project-oriented workshops. Students, Ph.D. candidates, young NGO activists and artists (up to 35 years of age) from all fields are invited to apply.
The school seminars will be devoted to theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of memory and identity discourse in the conflicts areas of the Eastern Partnership region. Among others, the program includes the following seminars and workshops:
- Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Vienna): Memory Wars Before and After 'Ukraine Crisis'
- Andrii Portnov (Frankfurt/Oder): Understanding Violence and War
- Lars Kirchhoff (Frankfurt/Oder), Anne Kraus (Frankfurt/Oder): Multitrack Conflict Management and Peace Mediation Method(s)
- Vesna Hart (Harrisonburg, VA): Restoring the Social Fabric: Bridging Memories and Narratives
- Marta Havryshko (L‘viv): Gender and War: Women in the Ukrainian Military during the War in Donbas
The full programme is available at viadrinicum.blog/viadrinicum-2018-programme.
Subject to final approval of the German Foreign Office and Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftstiftung (DPWS), European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) will be able to fund up to 30 travel scholarships (EUR 100-700, depending on country of residence).
Requirements to apply for the scholarship:
- students, Ph.D. candidates, NGO activists or artists up to 35 years, from any country of the world
- a genuine interest in trans-sectoral and interdisciplinary approaches to the problems of conflict and peace
- knowledge of English is sufficient to take an active part in the discussions.
More information and the application form are available at www.viadrinicum.blog.
Deadline: 10 June 2018.
Additionally to the Summer School, five German Ukrainian tandems will have an opportunity to carry on with their (research) projects on the role of culture in conflict regions in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Ukraine between June 2018 and May 2019. More information available at www.goethe.de/ukraine