REMESO Graduate School: Courses Autumn 2017

  • 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 free of charge for all course participants during the on-campus week.

Introduction to Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies 

18 September – 20 October, 2017. On-campus week 02-06 October.
Course Directors: Associate Professor Zoran Slavnic and Postdoc Simone Scarpa, REMESO, Linköping University

This course addresses dilemmas and difficulties that researchers confront when collecting and interpreting data in studies of ethnic relations, ethnic diversity, discrimination, racism, social inclusion/exclusion, and migration.

Deadline for applications: 18 August 2017

Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Historical and Contemporary Debates

30 October – 1 December. On-campus week, 13–17 November

Course Directors: Professor Peo Hansen and Professor Stefan Jonsson, REMESO, Linköping University

Confirmed Guest Lecturer: Gurminder Bhambra, Professor of Sociology, Univerity of Warwick

This course examines key ideas and concepts underlying both historical and contemporary thinking on ethnicity and nationalism, including questions of national and ethnic identification and mobilization as well as theories on multiculturalism. Drawing on contemporary, historical and comparative examples, the course engages with different understandings of ethnic solidarities, nationhood and citizenship.

Deadline for applications: 10 October 2017

For more information and application form: www.isv.liu.se/remeso/remeso-graduate-school

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