5th CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa (Fully-funded) 2022/2023: The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies in Basel (CASB) call for applications for their 5th Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.
Application Deadline: 30th June 2022
To Be Taken At (Country): Dakar, Senegal.
About the Award: The overall objective of the CODESRIA/CASB Summer School is to stimulate and consolidate interdisciplinary approaches to research on Africa, but also on other regions of the world undertaken from within the African continent. It focuses on African Studies as an instance of area studies and seeks to identify themes that are theoretically, conceptually and methodologically relevant to the reflection on the intellectual challenge of Africa as an object of knowledge and its contribution to general scholarship while inquiring into the relevance of the findings to African approaches to other regions. The goals of the Summer School are the following:
Theme: How Political is Knowledge?
The discussions at the CODESRIA/CASB Summer School will be structured along the following three major themes:
The expected outcome from the Summer School is that participants will develop the competence to reflect on their own position within their present and future academic environment, enhance their awareness of the importance of doing so for the relevance and content of their work and develop approaches that allow for a more reflected and reciprocal perspective in their research.
Type: Training/Short course
Eligibility:
Number of Awards: Not specified
Value of Award: Travel, accommodation and meals during the Summer School will be provided for participants enrolled at institutions in Africa.
Duration of Programme: 8 – 12 Aug 2022
How to Apply:
The 5th CODESRIA/ZASB Summer School invites applications from doctoral students interested in exploring these issues as part of a larger framework of engaging with methodological challenges in African Studies.
The Summer School is open to PhD students and emerging scholars enrolled and working at Higher Education institutions in any country. Applications from PhD students registered in African and Swiss universities and in the following disciplines are highly encouraged: Social Anthropology, Sociology, History, Religion, Philosophy, Gender studies and Political science. Travel, accommodation and meals during the Summer School will be provided for participants from African Institutions.
Those wishing to be considered for participation should submit an application with the following:
With regard to (b) applicants should challenge themselves to look critically into their work and ask themselves what role any of the issues listed below play in it:
Applicants are requested to make their submissions using the following link https://submission.codesria.org/
Applications can be made in French, Portuguese, and English.
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