Deadline: 15 April 2013
Open to: Romani MA and PhD students from Europe
Venue: 8-12 of July 2013, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne (France)
Description
Romani MA and PhD students from Europe are invited to apply for participating in a 5 days academic summer campus on “Minority knowledge, education and schooling of Roma”. This year, the Summer Academic Campus on Romani Studies aims to full grant 5 MA and Phd students in order to present their actual research’s work.
The concept of Summer Academic Campus on Romani Studies was born from a mature reflection and shared by many Rom researchers and academics in Europe and the United States on the imperative and fundamental need to develop, promote and give visibility to academic Romani knowledge and the perception and interpretation that worldwide Rom academics may have and of their respective discipline.
In the current climate of Gypsophobia (political, social, academic), it is important to offer a different perspective on Romani Studies. Unfortunately, nowadays, the subject suffered harm from an intellectual approach heavily influenced by denial. Despite the ever-increasing number of Rom researchers and academics, their products, their contributions and their voices are either little considered or simply denigrated by the institutionalized body of experts in Romani Studies. The Summer Campus on Romani Studies is the first global initiative to bring together Rom academics and researchers, so they can present their work together and contemplate the possibility of forging joint educational projects and research.
Objectives
This second edition of the Summer Academic Campus on Romani Studies has two objectives:
- Propose and develop areas of research and education correlated with areas of interests and predilections of the University in an interdisciplinary approach;
- Continue the dynamic developed during the first edition of stimulation and development of a centre of excellence in the field of reflection and international academic research, empowering and giving visibility to Roma academics and researchers. It would therefore consist in providing visibility and presenting the Romani potentia and episteme, from the excellence and rigor that all scientific approaches require. This assumption does no arise from a spirit of community decline but the need to empower and to inform the Romani scientific voices, which suffer research and teaching marginalization.
For the second edition of the Summer Academic Campus on Romani Studies, the scientific committee of the Romani Academy of Science focuses on “Minority knowledge”, education, and schooling of Roma. The Romani episteme serving regional, national, and European policies. New research perspectives.
How to apply
Candidate should fill in the application form and provide 500 words resume in English for their presentation and a short biographical description (250 words). Applications should be sent via email to campus.romani.studies@gmail.com no later than 15 April 2013.
