Fw: H-ASIA: Call for Applications: Summer School 2011 in Heidelberg, Germany

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> H-ASIA
> April 13, 2011
>
> Call for Applications: Summer School 2011 in Heidelberg, Germany
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> From: "Boklage, Evgeniya" <boklage@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de>
> Dear H-Asia members,
>
> The Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at
> Heidelberg University welcomes applications for its Summer School 2011
> from graduate students in humanities and social sciences with an interest
> in transcultural studies. It will take place from July 24 to 29 in
> Heidelberg, Germany.
>
> This year's Summer School "Cultures of Consumption in Asia and Europe"
> will explore the meaning and significance of consumption in the past and
> present as a crucial link between Europe and Asia. Although 'consumer
> society' has become a prominent term for the description of the ways of
> life connected with a globalized modernity, the particular mode of
> experience and of interaction with things to which it points is neither
> exclusively modern nor exclusively occidental. Referring to the recent
> innovative insights from cultural and economic history, social sciences
> and anthropology, together with the expertise of foremost scholars working
> on both European and Asian themes, the aim of the programme is to gain a
> truly transcultural grasp of respective cultures of consumption.
>
> The programme is designed to provide stimulating opportunity to get new
> inspiration for graduate work, exchange ideas on the topics of one's
> research and actively engage with an international group of peers as well
> as renowned scholars. The confirmed speakers include Joanna Elfving-Hwang
> (Frankfurt), Sheldon Garon (Princeton), Manpreet Janeja (Cambridge),
> Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest), Angus Lockyer (SOAS London), Seoungsook Moon
> (Vassar College), Francoise Sabban (EHESS Paris), and from the University
> of Heidelberg Rudolf G. Wagner, Christiane Brosius, Harald Fuess, Katja
> Patzel-Mattern, David Mervart and Mio Wakita.
>
> In addition to the academic programme, a range of excursions and leisure
> activities in and around the city of Heidelberg is on offer, including a
> guided city tour, visit of the German Packaging Museum and a beer tasting
> event.
>
> Prospective participants should send their application together with a
> letter of motivation by May 31, 2011 to the address
> summerschool@asia-europe.uni-heidleberg.de
>
> For detailed schedule and session topics of Summer School 2011 see
> www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/summerschool
>
> Please circulate this email among the graduate students of your
> department.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Prof. Dr. Harald Fuess, Chair of Cultural Economic History
>
> Evgeniya Boklage, Press Office
>
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