REMESO Graduate School - Linköping University, Sweden
Courses for Swedish and International PhD and MA Students:
Autumn 2014
1. Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates
13 October – 14 November 2014. On-campus week, 27–31 October.
Course Directors: Associate Professor Peo Hansen, REMESO and Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO. Guest Lecturer: Anders Stephanson Professor Columbia University.
This course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking on ethnicity and nationalism, including questions of national and ethnic identification, solidarity and mobilization, as well as theories on multiculturalism and citizenship. Students also explore recent debates on supranationalism, cosmopolitanism and the postnational. Emphasis is put on the ways in which nation and ethnicity need to be re-thought and re-historicized when confronted with issues of coloniality, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality. Questions of methodology are highlighted, addressing in particular methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism, as well as other forms of tacit methodological assumptions that have influenced research. In this way, the course also aims to strenghten students’ ability to carry out empirical research.
Deadline for applications: 29 September 2014
- REMESO Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students and advanced MA students.
- 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping.
- Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
- Accommodation is provided for all course participants during on-campus week.
- There are also a few travel grants available for members in Nordic Migration Research and IMER-förbundet: www.samfunnsforskning.no/nmr; http://imerforbundet.se/
2. Citizenship, Ethnic Division and Social Exclusion: National and Postnational Perspectives
17 November – 19 December 2014. On-campus week, 1-5 December
Course Directors: Associate Professors Magnus Dahlstedt and Anders Neergaard Guest Lecturers: TBA
This course aims to engage students in exploring and critically analysing perspectives on citizenship, the interrelations between citizenship and migration, and different models of citizenship—post-national, cosmopolitan, trans-national, etc.—beyond and below the level of the nation-state. Different conceptions of citizenship are examined in their practical translations with regard to ethnic and social exclusion/inclusion in policy making, legal frameworks and institutions. As the analysis of citizenship must go beyond the nation-state framework, the course takes a closer look at EU-led initiatives designed to combat discrimination and ethnic and social exclusion.
Deadline for applications: 24 October 2014
- REMESO Graduate School courses are offered to PhD students and advanced MA students.
- 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. One intensive week at REMESO, Campus Norrköping.
- Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
- Accommodation is provided for all course participants during on-campus week.
- There are also a few travel grants available for members in Nordic Migration Research and IMER-förbundet: www.samfunnsforskning.no/nmr; http://imerforbundet.se/
For information and application form: www.isv.liu.se/remeso/ or contact Graduate School Coordinator Branka Likic-Brboric,