[ Informação Mara Pieri, CES-UC ]
Monsters Summer School III: “Tracing, remembering and reclaiming queer lives”
(18-22 September | Centre for Social Studies | University of Coimbra)
I claim: my right to be a monster […]
My right to explore myself
To reinvent myself
To take my mutation as my noble exercise.
Susy Shock |“yo monstruo mio”
The image of the monster has been historically used to epitomise danger, abnormality, sin. Even before angels, monsters were portrayed as messengers who anticipated catastrophes, such as storms and other dramatic events which would be too strong to be explained. Only good behaviour, submission to rules or faith into another inexplicable bigger entity, such as magic, witchcraft or religion, could prevent societies from being touched by monsters.
The othering of monsters – or monsters as estranged from an imagined “us” – is part of the cultural narrative that dismisses the complexity of what we call humans, contributing to the binary division between good and bad, silencing all of which exists in-between. Indeed, monsters inhabit the spaces in-between narrow definitions and expose the failure of rigid divisions between “normal” and “abnormal”. Ultimately, the figure of monsters confronts us with the precariousness of by-default normativities, triggering the need to rethink what humanity is, and who counts as a human being, especially under the current political backlash against gender and sexual diversity.
The Monsters Summer School III embraces monstrosity in what it offers regarding the undoing of binaries and the celebration of embodied differences. We aim to trace, remember and reclaim monsters through a queer lens. We want to explore monsters as a possible theoretical figuration to escape mainstream celebrations of humanity and to embrace the vivid possibilities offered by interdisciplinary, boundary-crossing contributions from different fields of knowledge. We aim at creating spaces to discuss contributions and experiences that often fall out of the map even within critical studies. Finally, we interrogate the possibilities of creating knowledge from places of estrangement regarding mainstream sources of knowledge production in the academic fields of LGBTQI+ and critical studies.
Structure of the Course
The Monsters Summer School III will offer a balanced mix of keynote lectures, group discussions and hands-on workshops. Sessions will be presented and discussed in English. The week will also feature cultural events.
Confirmed Speakers
Daniela Perez Ferrandez (CES-UC, PT)
Eduarda Ferreira (CICS Nova, PT)
Calogero Giammetta (Univ. of Leicester, UK)
Line Hendriksen (Malmö University, SE)
Surya Monro (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Ana Cristina Santos (CES-UC, PT)
Fees
250€ early bird fee; 300€ registration after 1st June; 100€ for CES PhD students (up to 3)
Price includes tuition, all materials, coffee breaks and lunches during the Summer School.
Location
All activities of the Summer School will be held at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. The space is easily reached by public transport and the seminar rooms are fully accessible.
Eligibility
Applicants should be PhD students in the fields of Social Sciences and Humanities interested in exploring the issues of gender, LGBTI+, queer, disability/crip, aging and related areas. Holders of an academic, scientific, professional, activist and/or artistic curriculum that is recognized as relevant to the program by the Organizing Committee are also eligible. Topics of interest include:
Ageing bodies
biopolitics/necropolitics
crip and/or disability studies
critical (in)human rights
decolonial and postcolonial studies
fat studies
LGBTQI+ refugees and asylum seekers
mad studies
monstrous embodiments
queer geographies
posthumanism and transhumanism
trans, intersex and non-binary lives
Submit your application at https://ces.uc.pt/pt/agenda-noticias/agenda-de-eventos/2023/reclaiming-queers-and-other-misfits/applications
Important dates:
– 15th April 2023: Deadline for submitting your application
– Until 30th April: Selection of candidates
– Until 31st May: Early bird registration and payment
– 1-30 June 2023: Late registration and payment
[ Informação ISPUP Divulgação ]
V Summer School in Public Mental Health
This course will take place at ICBAS during May 22-26 to celebrate and coincide with the European Public Health Week. Registrations are open now!
As part of the annual summer courses organised by the European Public Health Association (EUPHA), this year we are promoting the V Summer School in Public Mental Health, in Porto, in collaboration with Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP), Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Hochschule Emden/Leer (Hs-Emden-Leer), the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), and the Mental Health Association of South-Eastern Europe (MHASEE).
“Facing the global crisis: preparing the next lessons from the pandemic and the war – Disasters, wars, and climate change from a Public Mental Health perspective.”
This is the theme of this V Summer School in Public Mental Health, featuring speakers from various global institutions, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA), and the European Public Health Association (EPHA). We also have a group of trainees from the Republic of Moldova who will take the opportunity of the Summer School to develop skills related to the reform of the Moldovan mental health system.
This course will take place at ICBAS during May 22-26 to celebrate and coincide with the European Public Health Week.
Throughout the course, we will teach content related to Public Mental Health, particularly in the context of disasters, natural disasters, and climate change, focusing on their effects on the mental health of populations. We will also explore content related to the mechanisms of action and programs for promoting mental health in adverse contexts, as well as range about the most appropriate research methodology for scientific production on the explored topic, including critical analysis of scientific articles and the development of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on the subject.
-️ See the full program here: https://tinyurl.com/2p96jcc5
– In case you have any doubts or need further information, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us: pmhsummerschool@gmail.com
[ Informação SPCE ]
“Diálogos Intergeracionais em Educação” – curso de educação contínua – FLUP em parceria com a SPCE
Serve o presente para divulgar o curso/unidade de educação contínua “Diálogos Intergeracionais em Educação”, no qual a SPCE participa como instituição parceira, a saber:
– a webpage do curso (https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/cur_geral.cur_view?pv_ano_lectivo=2022&pv_origem=CUR&pv_tipo_cur_sigla=UFC&pv_curso_id=28241);
– o seu programa (https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=514886);
– os públicos-alvo, vagas e critérios de seriação das candidaturas;
– e documentos a juntar à candidatura (https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/pt/CAND_GERAL.INFORMACAO_RELEVANTE_CANS_VIEW?pv_processo_id=1220721).
O prazo de candidaturas decorre até ao dia 28 de março de 2023.
Para mais informações sobre o curso, vai realizar-se uma reunião, via Zoom (link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/94316227206?pwd=UURieGEzS0dMeVZhQTVjbUhkNW53QT09; ID da reunião: 943 1622 7206; Senha de acesso: 810204), pelas 18:00h do dia 21 de março.
[ Informação FLUP | Comunicação ISUP ]
2nd ISUP International Summerschool | On war and peace: how tensions and conflicts cross societies (3- 7 july | Porto)
Today we are living in a declared war in Europe. A devastating war. But have we ever lived in peace? How do ‘wars’ rage in various spheres of society (politics, religion, economics, class structure, new and old media, gender, ethnicity…)? What are the triggers of societal clashes? What role do conflicts play in social (re)composition? What is happening with the desocialisation that is spreading in everyday life? What social “voids” are being created? Can consensuses sometimes also have harmful consequences in the reproduction of conformism and the status quo? What mediation can be created between antagonisms? How are they solved? On what scales? What role does the academy play in the analysis of these disputes?
It is urgent to create a time and a space for critical discussion that allows for establishing solid bridges between the university and the city in addressing these issues. The school’s programme includes lectures, round tables, talking circles, shared reading sessions and also workshops, guided tours and cultural moments in collaboration with local artists and organizations.
Target
Any person, inside or outside the academy, Portuguese or foreign, with a completed degree and interest in the themes addressed;
Participants confirmed!
Keynote speakers: Phillipe Bourgois and Gerben Moerman
Round tables: Ana Lúcia Santos, Cristina Roldão, João Teixeira Lopes, José Manuel Pureza, Lígia Ferro, Manuel Carlos Silva, Miguel Crespo, Maria Paula Meneses, Virgílio Borges Pereira, etc.
Workshops: Cláudia Marisa, Flora Paim, Renata Gaspar;
Guided tours: Interstruct Collective and Pedro Levi Bismark
Performance Art Talks: Gaya de Medeiros and Rebecca Moradalizadeh
Fees
120 euros – workers
80 euros – students
0 euros – unemployed
Registration until April 15, through the form https://forms.gle/mQ6WgK7qCqePBGzr6
Results announcement: 4 May
More information soon, on the ISUP website at https://isociologia.up.pt/en/events/2o-isup-international-summerschool
If you have any questions, please contact: isupsummerschool@gmail.com
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVipbB3LLN0
[ Informação Eliška Horáková, Schola Empirica ]
Prague Summer Schools – request for cooperation
This year we are organising the 20th edition of the summer school, which will take place from July 1 to July 8, 2023. Some of the topics are sociological and so I am asking you if you could forward information about our school to students and people who might be interested.
• Education: The Future of School
• Development, Sustainability and Globalization
• China: A World Superpower – Myth or Reality?
Prague Summer Schools are seven-day academic programs designed to bring together undergraduate and graduate students of various nationalities and academic backgrounds to enjoy their summer holidays in a unique academic and cultural environment.
I am also attaching a leaflet with the information, if you have the opportunity we would be very happy to forward or put it on display.
Thank you for helping us. It is rather difficult for us as a non-profit educational organisation to reach students who might potentially be interested.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me: horakova@scholaempirica.org
+info: https://praguesummerschools.org/