This
year MiReKoc Summer School will explore the theme of “Diasporas and
Transnational Communities”. Described as “awkward dance partners” by
Thomas Faist, the concepts of diasporas and transnational communities
have been increasingly coined together within the international
migration scholarship in the last decades. While the old concept of
diaspora has initially been used to characterize specific (and usually
victimized) populations living outside of an (imagined) homeland, the
term of transnational communities was taken into account within the
larger framework of transnationalism studies, evoking continuous ties
across states’ physical borders. Even though many scholars agree that
both terms address cross-border linkages of certain populations, the
intellectual debate lingers on how well the two terms overlap with each
other.
The Call for Applications is now opened. Submissions are due by midnight GMT on Sunday, 25 April 2015.
The
MiReKoc International Summer School of 2015 will be focusing on the
discussions around diasporas, transnational communities and
transnationalism. The Summer School will consist of two weeks
of lectures and discussions led by a distinguished international
faculty, combined with seminars led by NGO representatives and a field
trip within Istanbul. In this year’s Summer School, the theoretical
discussions will be examined along with the case studies of
transnational communities from the world, as well as of communities in
and from Turkey.
This
program is designed for PhD and graduate students as well as junior
experts in the field. Applications from all over the world are
encouraged. Further details about the program and courses will be
announced in late March on MiReKoc Summer School website. If you have
any further queries, contact the Summer School team by email at miss@ku.edu.tr.
See more: http://miss.ku.edu.tr/
