34.810, Summer Schools: Telling People Apart: Sorting, Grouping, and Distinguishing / Germany

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Subject: 34.810, Summer Schools: Telling People Apart: Sorting, Grouping, and Distinguishing / Germany

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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:36:04
From: SFB1482 Human Categorization [summerschool1482 at uni-mainz.de]
Subject: Telling People Apart: Sorting, Grouping, and Distinguishing / Germany

Telling People Apart: Sorting, Grouping, and Distinguishing

Host Institution: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Website: https://www.crc1482.de/

Dates: 18-Jun-2023 - 24-Jun-2023
Location: Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Focus: Studies in Human Categorisation
Minimum Education Level: MA

Special Qualifications:
PhD candidates

Description:
Call for Applications:

International and Transdisciplinary Summer School for PhD Candidates
Telling People Apart: Sorting, Grouping, and Distinguishing

June 18 - June 24, 2023

Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
Organized by the Collaborative Research Centre 1482 - Studies in Human
Categorisation

The Collaborative Research Centre 1482 “Studies in Human Categorisation”
[Humandifferenzierung] invites you to a summer school at the Johannes
Gutenberg University in Mainz from June 18-24, 2023. In five work-intensive
days, we will examine a phenomenon that is as ubiquitous as it is fundamental:
Human beings continuously differentiate and categorise each other in a variety
of ways, for example by age, gender, nationality, religion, language, race,
attractiveness, but also by dietary habits or music preferences. In an
exchange with renowned experts from various disciplines, conceptual and
methodological foundations for the study of human categorisation will be
discussed in different formats. 
The summer school understands itself as an explicitly transdisciplinary
endeavour and is therefore aimed at doctoral students from all kinds of
disciplines concerned with "differences" between humans, but also between
humans and non-humans (things as well as animals). The goal of the summer
school is to engage its participants in the discussion and development of new
perspectives on practices of human differentiation. The summer school offers
its participants the opportunity to jointly explore the theoretical concept
and empirical research perspective of "human categorisation". Participants are
invited to reflect on their own research projects in the light of the insights
gained in these discussions. “Human categorisation” contains the proposal to
bring the heterogeneity of human differences investigated in different fields
under one conceptual umbrella. Crucially, these differences are not – as the
concept of "diversity" for instance assumes – regarded as given differences
between types of human beings, but as the result of practices of human
categorisation. Moreover, the relevance of certain categories, such as gender
or race, is not simply assumed, but treated as an empirically open question.
Discussions will focus on the "doing" of differences as well as their
"undoing". 
The summer school will pursue the following overarching questions: 
-  What is the analytical value of "human categorisation"? What is the
theoretical and empirical potential of this perspective? 
- How can practices of human differentiation be investigated? Which
methodological approaches are suitable for which forms of human
categorisation? 
- Under what conditions does a particular difference become salient? How, when
and why does a certain category appear to be particularly relevant? How do
they reemerge or disappear again? 
- Who or what are the agents of categorisation? Human beings? Artifacts?
Institutions? Discourses?
- Who categorizes whom? When do self-categorisations and categorisations by
others correspond to or contradict each other?  

In this summer school, participants will come together in a variety of formats
to work on their projects. There will be workshops led by international
experts from various disciplines, including sociology, linguistics, theater
studies, translation studies, anthropology, history, or media and cultural
studies. Every morning starts with a writing breakfast, giving participants
the opportunity to reflect on the previous day. One-on-one advisory sessions
allow participants to discuss their projects or their careers with advanced
scholars. The program will be rounded out by keynote lectures by Stefan
Hirschauer, Rivke Jaffe, Ted Schatzki, Jürgen Streeck.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                      Cognitive Science
                      Discourse Analysis
                      Linguistic Theories

Subject Languages: Kinyarwanda

Registration: Open until 28-Feb-2023

Contact Person:  Human Categorisation
                Email: summerschool1482 at uni-mainz.de

Apply by Email: summerschool1482 at uni-mainz.de

Registration Instructions:
We welcome applications from doctoral students worldwide regardless of their
disciplinary affiliation. To apply, please send us a short description of your
PhD project (no more than 3 – 5 pages) together with a cover letter and a CV
in English. In your PhD description, please outline your topic, methods,
current stage in the process, and how your project relates to the theme of the
summer school. In the cover letter, please let us know your motivation and
expectations. How do you imagine your project will benefit from a discussion
of approaches, methods, theories, or case study examples regarding practices
of human categorisation?  

Please submit the above-mentioned documents in one PDF-file via e-mail to
summerschool1482 at uni-mainz.de until the 28th of February 2023.

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