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Summer School "Globalization and Diversity"

Title of the event Summer School "Globalization and Diversity"
Series International Short Term Programs Göttingen
Organizer Institut für Diversitätsfsorschung und Göttingen International
Type of event Tagung
Category Karriere und Weiterbildung
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Details The Goettingen Diversity Research Institute is organising an international Summer School on "Globalization and Diversity" which will be held from 02.08.-15.08.2018 in cooperation with partner universities from Europe, the United States and Japan.

The summer school will provide students with an overview over current debates on social diversity on a global and local scale. Through lectures the students will gain theoretical knowledge on different levels and dimensions of diversity. Therefore speakers from various research backgrounds are being invited.

Speakers:
- Dr. Kristin Aune, Coventry University (Gender, Religion, Higher Education)
- Dr. Laura Fantone, UC Berkeley (Visual and Post-colonial Studies)
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz, University of Vienna (Gender, sexual difference, methodology)
- Prof. Dr. Shinji Kajitani, University of Tokyo (Philosophy, Comparative Culture, Medical History)
- Dr. Yvonne Franke, Göttingen Diversity Research Institute (Globalization, Global Social Inequality)

Students will be enabled to pursue their own research in seminars and group work and will present their own work in one of the classes.

In the second module of the summer school, students will learn about specifically German topics and perspectives related to diversity trough excursions to a variety of locals sites.
These include:Guided City Tour // Concentration camp memorial site Mittelbau-Dora // Perspectives of Migration, Museum and Transit Camp Friedland // Wartburg Castle
Date Start: 02.08.2018, 09:00 Uhr
Ende: 15.08.2018 , 16:30 Uhr
Location Tagungszentrum an der Historischen Sternwarte (Geismar Landstraße 11)
Contact 39-21350
katharina.jannasch@zvw.uni-goettingen.de
External link http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/569981.html
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