NOI♀SE Summer School – Feminist Media Studies of Migration: European discourses and lived experiences

NOI♀SE 2016 Summer School Feminist Media Studies of Migration:

European discourses and lived experiences

29 August – 2 September 2016, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Organized by the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies

  • Would you like to explore how gender and postcolonial perspectives can be fruitfully combined for an emancipatory re-imagination of Europe as inherently culturally diverse?
  • Do you want to know more about how axes of difference including gender, race, religion, class and generation intersect in mediatized European discourses and lived experiences?
  • Are you curious to learn more about the feminization of migration?
  • Would you like to join us in mobilizing feminist media studies of migration to

    rethink Europeanness from below?

  • Are you interested in deconstructing the label of the migrant by re-considering

    who counts as a migrant and who does not?

  • Are you struggling to make sense of the so-called “rape-refugees” discourse that

    became en vogue after mass sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany and elsewhere? Worrying about the misuse of feminism by right-wing anti-immigrant politicians and journalists? Join us in studying the vexed power relations between media and migration.

    Join the 2016 Summer School!

    This year, the 24rd edition of NOI♀SE will introduce you to cutting-edge scholarship on media and migration at the intersections of feminist media and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, cultural anthropology, religion studies, communication, activism and the arts.

    Topical urgency and focus

    Norbert Baksa shot refugee-chic fashion photos of scarcely clad women at the Hungarian-Croatian border, an important location of frustration and contestation in the contemporary humanitarian crisis at the borders of Europe. The photos are framed like news images, but they were actually part of a fashion shoot series titled ‘Der Migrant’. Seemingly inspired by the humanitarian crisis, the photographer drew fierce criticism for glamorizing the pain, hardship and dire circumstances of Syrian asylum seekers trying to reach countries in North/Western Europe. These images raise attention for how discursive constructions of migrants are commonly gendered and draw on issues of religiosity. While female migrants are either exoticised and sexualized or depicted as oppressed by brown men and in need of being saved; male migrants are typically Othered as non-rational, backward in time, aggressive or dangerous drawing on historical orientalist frames. Besides gender and religion, additional axes of differentiation intersect in staking out the boundaries of Europeanises.

    Europe

    The flow of (forced) migrants resulting from various international conflicts is perceived as a fundamental challenge to the project of Europe. An estimated 950 thousand people arrived by sea in 2015, and 3605 people have died or are missing (UNHCR, 2015). Although predicated on the idea “Unity in Diversity” (Ponzanesi & Colpani, 2016, p. 7), Europe’s sense of diversity is strongly politicized. It’s relationship with migration is opportunistic and geared towards welcoming newcomers fitting a particular narrow configuration of race/gender/class/religion/ability/sexuality. For example, highly educated expats – especially those from the ‘Global North’ are welcomed under “Europe’s Highly Skilled Migrant Scheme”. In sharp contrast, refugees are Europe’s new absolute Other as is evident from the enormous death toll of undesired migrants at Europe’s borders, reintroduced border controls within the Schengen Area, and the symbolic violence and hostility towards refugees and asylum seekers in several European countries. Taking a comparative and critical perspective, we aim to rethink Europe from the outside and from within.

    Aims

    In order to contest this problematic, multilayered situation there is urgent demand for robust feminist and postcolonial cultural critique, engaged fieldwork and new, grounded empirical data. The 2016 NOISE Summer school invites students interested in taking up this challenge. Summer school participants will be:

    • introduced to feminist media studies of migration, with a particular focus on  multiculturalism and cultural difference; religiosity and post-secularism;         intersectionality; media, ICTs & diaspora; sexualities and queering migration.

• trained in theories, methods and ethics of qualitative feminist media analysis and fieldwork.

The summer school emerges from a wider engagement with questions of the gendered, racialized, sexualized and classed cultural politics of belonging, inclusion/exclusion and othering.

Target audience

This advanced training course offers a diverse yet coherent program of study from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Summer School is meant for PhD and MA students. Separate seminars for these two groups will be provided in the afternoons.

Formula

• Two lectures in the morning
• Separate PhD and MA-seminars in the afternoon
• Social program
• Students prepare before NOI♀SE by reading and collecting material for assignments

(approximately 40 hours of work). After the school has ended, participants who fulfilled all requirements (preparation of assignments and reading, active participation, and final essay of 10-15 pages) receive a NOI♀SE Certificate (5 ECTS).

• All students are expected to participate in the entire program for the duration of five days. Please check the website for more information, registration and regular updates:

http://www.graduategenderstudies.nl  Education  NOI♀SE 2016

Venue

The NOI♀SE Summer School 2016 will be hosted by Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Tuition Fees

The tuition fee is €425. This includes digital reading materials but excludes accommodation and subsistence costs (i.e., food, meals, drinks, etc.).

Teachers in the course

The NOI♀SE Summer School is organized by the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG, Utrecht University). The 2016 edition is coordinated by dr. Koen Leurs and dr. Eva Midden.
Several renowned international scholars from various disciplines including gender and postcolonial studies, media and communication studies, cultural anthropology and religious studies will be teaching at the Summer School.

Confirmed guest-speakers

  • Prof. dr. Mia Lövheim, professor of the Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden, with a research specialization in new media.
  • Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme (UU).I am also Head of Department Humanities at University College Utrecht (UCU).
  • Dr. Paul Mepschen, Lecturer at Leiden University, the Netherlands with expertise in Europe, Politics, Race, Sexuality, Subjectivity.
  • Dr. Donya Alinejad, Postdoctoral Researcher Digital Crossings in Europe, Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON), Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme (UU).
  • Dr. Lukasz Szulc, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders University of Antwerp Belgium / Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow London School of Economics and Political Science who researches media, sexualities and transnationalism.

    Additional names will be announced on the website in spring.

    Registration and Deadline:

    Deadline: April 22, 2016. You can find the application form on the website: http://www.graduategenderstudies.nl  Education  NOI♀SE 2016

    For more information

    NOI♀SE Central Coordination Utrecht University Muntstraat 2a
    3512 EV Utrecht

    The Netherlands E-mail: noise@uu.nl

    COME TO THE NOI♀SE SUMMER SCHOOL AND BE CHALLENGED!

CFP AAA 2016: Western Muslims, the Common Good, and New Evidence of Civic Engagement

Call for Papers for the 115th Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 16-20, 2016 Minneapolis. Session Theme: Evidence, Accident, Discovery.

CFP AAA 2016 Panel: Western Muslims, the Common Good, and New Evidence of Civic Engagement

Organizer: Alisa Perkins (Western Michigan University)

Orientalist notions of an essentialized Muslim other gain currency by perpetually constructing new forms of “evidence” that something is wrong with Islam. Nativist strategies of exclusion based on these ideas capitalize on supposed incompatibilities between Islamic practice and “western” values to fuel vitriolic rhetoric, lending cultural sanction to new laws with grave implications for Muslim and non-Muslim citizens alike. These include laws restricting various religious practices, freedoms of expression, and freedoms of association. They also include new regulations authorizing the detainment and deportation of citizens based upon religious affiliation, and the normalization of surveillance regimes.

In light of deeply inured systems of stigmatizing knowledge production, this panel devotes itself to exploring how Muslims in North America and Europe creatively elaborate a new ethics of citizenship and new epistemologies of belonging through discursive, material, and practical means in a way that challenges the “us/them” divisions upheld by essentializing, nativist positions. By taking part in various social justice movements, civic engagement projects, community uplift initiatives, and knowledge-production and dissemination projects hinging around the idea of the “common good” (maslaha), Muslims change the tenor of conversations about belonging and inclusion, leading to new forms of discovery and appreciation for shared values and the will to act on these between Muslims and non-Muslims. Whether implicitly or explicitly engaged, the theologically-based maslaha concept has been articulated and elaborated in a variety of ways across different Muslim societies over time (e.g. the sulh-i kull, or “absolute civility” concept in Mughal-era India) to signal Islamic(ate) ideas about public welfare or regard for all. Maslaha-based projects, whether local, national, or international in scope, bring Muslims together around initiatives that seek to improve conditions of the larger society in ways that respectfully take into account the well being of Muslims and non-Muslims at the same time.

These efforts, and the ways in which they are represented, are especially important for the production of alternative narratives by and about Islam and Muslims in the West, given that countering Orientalist “knowledge” on its own terms has not constituted an effective strategy for Muslims to “prove” their humanity. Muslim leaders and ordinary citizens in Europe and North America are continually called upon to examine hollow and demeaning displays of “evidence” that purport to demonstrate an ontic correspondence between Islam and violence. Muslim leaders and others are urged to try and disprove this link via sound bites, using terms that the dominant society can understand. At the same time, they are expected to apologize for crimes as if these acts had anything to do with Islam as practiced by the overwhelming majority of Muslims. These contradictions result in fatigue and frustration. On the other hand, expressive, intellectual, and activist movements engaging the meeting place between belief, practice, and ethical engagement can revitalize and strengthen beleaguered populations.

Papers may engage the following questions, or related themes: How do local interfaith movements welcoming refugees and other immigrants create new interfaces between Muslim and non-Muslim citizens? How do Western Muslims work across racial and religious lines to fight against exclusionary laws? How do they draw upon their own experiences with unwarranted incrimination to fuel support for ethnicity or race-based movements such as Black Lives Matter? How have Muslim and non-Muslim women worked together to ensure rights to veil or have access to alternative arbitration that may offer them desired rights and protections available under various interpretations of Muslim family law? How does shared concern for schools and creating a moral environment for children lead Muslim and non-Muslim parents to seek each other out for mutual support? How do Western Muslims express ideas about the common good via creative means such as visual and performed art, literature, and music? How are acts of cooperation between Muslims and non-Muslims to enhance the common good represented at different scales, from tropes related in casual exchanges to images circulated in mainstream media? How may these new portrayals work to change local, national, and international dialogues about Muslims in Europe and North America?

Please send a 250-word abstract plus a title for your proposed presentation to alisa.perkins@wmich.edu by Friday, April 1, 2016. Please circulate widely.

Call for Chapters – Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Dear Colleagues,

 

Currently, I am in the process of editing “Global Perspectives on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage” which will be published by the American publisher IGI Global (www.igi-global.com) and is scheduled for release in 2017.

 

I am delighted to invite you to consider submitting a chapter for the book.

 

The main objective of this book is to add to the limited accumulated knowledge in the field of religious tourism through providing readers with information on the international perspectives as well as the most current religious tourism practices used in both developed and developing countries. The book will also raise the level of awareness on the main studies carried out in the field of religious tourism and their corresponding findings. As a result, the book will help researchers and scholars in the field of religious tourism to have a clearer view towards this concept that in turn will contribute to the related accumulated knowledge in the field. The book aims to cover all related international perspectives on religious tourism (to include perspectives on Islamic Tourism as well as Christian Tourism, Hindu Tourism, Buddhist Tourism, Jewish Tourism, etc.,).

 

Chapters may focus on theoretical or conceptual research, empirical full-scale research, case studies, and/or best-practices-related or applied religious tourism activities in developed and developing countries. Recommended potential topics to be included in this book are (but not limited to) the following potential topics:

o   Religious Tourism

o   Pilgrimage

o   Islamic Tourism

o   Christian Tourism

o   Hindu Tourism

o   Buddhist Tourism

o   Jewish Tourism

o   Religious Tourism Trends,

o   Religious Tourism Practices

o   Religious Tourism Customers Behaviour

o   Religious Tourism Challenges

o   Religious Tourism Opportunities

o   Religious Tourism Concepts

o   Religious Tourism Destinations

o   Religious Tourism Firms

o   Religious Tourism Tools

o   International Perspectives of Religious Tourism

 

 

All the needed information regarding the book can be found on the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2121

 

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 15, 2016, a chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter, including a summary, preliminary outline, and explanation of the main contribution the chapter will make. Chapters’ proposals can be submitted online through the following link: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2121

 

Your kind professional involvement will greatly benefit the success of the book.

 

Best regards,

 

Professor Hatem El-Gohary

PhD, MSc, MRes, BSc, PGCHE, Chartered Marketer, MCIM, CeM, CSMA, HEA Fellow, AABPP Fellow, CMI Fellow.

 

Professor of Marketing

Editor in Chief: International Journal of Online Marketing

Head of BCBS Enterprise, Finance and Marketing Research Group

Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University,

City Centre Campus, Curzon Building, Room C236, 4 Cardigan Street, B4 7BD, Birmingham, UK.

Tel: 0044 121 202 4616

E-mail: hatem.elgohary@bcu.ac.uk

Book Announcement: (Un)Believing in Modern Society

(Un)Believing in Modern Society
Religion, Spirituality, and Religious-Secular Competition
Jörg Stolz, Judith Könemann, Mallory Schneuwly Purdie, Thomas Englberger, Michael Kruggeler

This landmark study in the sociology of religion sheds new light on the
question of what has happened to religion and spirituality since the
1960s in modern societies. Exposing several analytical weaknesses of
today’s sociology of religion, (Un)Believing in Modern Society presents
a new theory of religious-secular competition and a new typology of ways
of being religious/secular. The authors draw on a specific European
society (Switzerland) as their test case, using both quantitative and
qualitative methodologies to show how the theory can be applied.
Identifying four ways of being religious/secular in a modern society:
‘institutional’, ‘alternative’, ‘distanced’ and ‘secular’ they show how
and why these forms have emerged as a result of religious-secular
competition and describe in what ways all four forms are adapted to the
current, individualized society.

More information on
https://www.routledge.com/products/9781472461285__

Modernity and Religion: Conference in honor of Roberto Cipriani

Modernity and Religion

Conference in honor of Roberto Cipriani

Roma Tre University

Classroom 1, piazza della Repubblica, 10

March 17th, 2016 10:00 to 14:00

10:00 Greetings: Lucia Chiappetta Cajola, Director of the Department of Education

Introduction: Vittorio Cotesta

Chairperson: Marina D’Amato

Paolo De Nardis: Knowledge and legitimation

Salvatore Abbruzzese: Popular religiosity

Consuelo Corradi: Valle Aurelia: the break-up of an urban community

Vittorio Cotesta: The community studies: from Orune and Episkepsi

Federico D’’Agostino: Nauhatzen : the solidarity pueblo

Franco Garelli: The diffused religion

Enzo Pace: From diffused religion to religion beyond the frontiers

Costantino Cipolla: The qualitative approach

Francesco Faeta: For a visual sociology

Carmelina Chiara Canta: Religiosity in Sicily

13:00 Roberto Cipriani: New Horizons for Sociology

Crisi di governabilità e mondi vitali Riflessione sul libro di Achille Ardigò dopo 25 anni

Crisi di governabilità e mondi vitali
Riflessione sul libro di Achille Ardigò dopo 25 anni
Camera dei deputati, Sala della Regina
giovedì 17 marzo 2016, ore 14,30 -17
Interventi di Roberto Cipriani,
Paola Di Nicola e Pierpaolo Donati
Riflessione di Mario Monti

Conclusioni di Renato Balduzzi
Roberto Cipriani, ordinario senior di Sociologia nell’Università Roma Tre, è Presidente dell’Associazione italiana docenti universitari (AIDU). È stato Presidente dell’Associazione italiana di sociologia (AIS) e del Consiglio europeo delle Associazioni nazionali di Sociologia..
Paola Di Nicola, ordinario di Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi, insegna Sociologia dei sistemi simbolici e Sociologia della famiglia nell’Università di Verona. Direttrice della rivista Italian Sociological Review, è attualmente Presidente dell’Associazione italiana di sociologia (AIS).
Pierpaolo Donati, ordinario di Sociologia dei processi culturali, dirige il Centro studi sulla innovazione sociale (Cesis) dell’Università di Bologna. Già Presidente dell’Associazione italiana di sociologia (AIS) e consigliere dell’International Institute of Sociology (IIS), è il fondatore di un’originale “sociologia relazionale”.
Mario Monti, professore emerito di Economia politica e senatore a vita, è stato membro della Commissione Europea con deleghe al mercato interno dal 1995 al 1999 e alla concorrenza dal 1999 al 2004. Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri dal novembre 2011 all’aprile 2013, presiede il Consiglio di amministrazione dell’Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi”.
Renato Balduzzi, ordinario di Diritto costituzionale nell’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, è componente del Consiglio superiore della magistratura. È stato Ministro della salute nel Governo Monti e presidente della Commissione parlamentare per le questioni regionali. È tra i fondatori dell’Associazione Mondi Vitali.

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Conference: Religious Pluralisation – A Challenge for Modern Societies

Travel Grants available! The challenges of religious pluralization and the contribution to be made by interreligious dialogue in the areas of societal and scientific discourse will be discussed at the Herrenhausen Conference on October 4-6, 2016, in Hanover.

4th World Day of Prayer for Peace, Assisi (Italy), 2011 (Photo: Stephan Kölliker)

4th World Day of Prayer for Peace, Assisi (Italy), 2011 (Photo: Stephan Kölliker)

The long-held belief in the secularization thesis and the subsequent expectation that religion would gradually lose its societal relevance in public and scientific discourse led to religion being treated rather as a side issue. This has changed fundamentally in the wake of growing religious pluralization. In this respect, both the destructive potential of religion as well as initiatives designed to promote understanding between people of different religions and worldviews play a significant role. In view of these ambivalences, a need has arisen for clarification in the area of societal as well as scientific discourse. The planned conference will debate the challenges of religious pluralization and the contribution to be made by interreligious dialogue in five thematic areas – theology, politics/civil society, education, Communication/media and contexts. The aim of the conference is to describe innovative scientific approaches and broad political and social scopes of action for addressing religious plurality.

Herrenhausen Conference: “Religious Pluralisation – A Challenge for Modern Societies”
October 4-6, 2016
Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany

Program

The program for the Herrenhausen Conference on “Religious Pluralisation – A Challenge for Modern Societies” can be found in the column on the right. All speakers and chairs have confirmed their participation.

Session 1: Religion and Dialogue in Different Contexts

Public Lecture: Toward a New Paradigm for Religion in a Pluralist Age

Session 2: Community Building and Policymaking in European Perspectives 

Session 3: Contribution of Religious Education to Dialogue and Integration

Session 4: The Relevance of Interreligious Dialogue in the Public Sphere

Forum on Dialogical Theology 

Session 5: Interreligious Communication and the Role of Media

Perspectives of Further Research in the Field of Interreligious Dynamics 

Registration

If you would like to attend the conference, please register by clicking on the registration link in the column on the right. There are no fees for attendance but registration is essential.

Cancellation

Please cancel your registration if you cannot attend the conference. We have a waiting list for the meeting and can offer your place to another person if you cannot attend. Simply use the registration tool to cancel or send us an email.

Language

The conference language is English.

Travel Grants

The Volkswagen Foundation offers up to 30 Travel Grants for young researchers who wish to attend the conference. We are inviting Ph.D. students or early Postdocs (max. 5 years since Ph.D.) working on independent and challenging projects in the field of religious pluralization or in a field for which religious pluralisation is crucial to apply for a travel grant. Applicants are required to apply until March 30, 2016 by using the application form. The travel grant covers attendance, accommodation and travel expenses (excl. cab fares, parking, food and beverages while travelling as well as poster printing costs).

Venue and public transport

The conference is held at Herrenhausen Palace, a new conference center in Hanover, Germany. You can reach the venue by tram: Take line 4 or 5 and get off at “Herrenhäuser Gärten”.

“Governing Religious Identity”, Religion and Society Research Cluster, WSU

event at the Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Governing Religious Identity

Presenters:

Tanya Riches (Fuller Theological Seminary, USA): “Blak” Urban Aboriginal Australian Pentecostal Christians

Fiona Murphy (Queen’s University Belfast): The Jesus Walk: A discussion of the identity and home-making practices of African Pentecostalism

                                                                       in austerity Ireland

Douglas Ezzy (University of Tasmania): Governing Religious Diversity in Australia

Date:               Thursday, 31 March 2016

Time:               1.00 – 5.00 pm

Campus:          Bankstown

Location:         Building 23, Room G.41

RSVP to ssap-research@westernsydney.edu.au by 24 March 2016.

One-Year Visiting Position, Islamic World History/Modern Middle East – Franklin & Marshall College

The Department of History at Franklin & Marshall College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in Islamic World history and/or modern Middle East, beginning Fall 2016 pending administrative approval. The rank will be Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor depending on qualifications; candidates should have or be close to completing the Ph.D. Teaching experience is required. Teaching load is 3/2 and the successful candidate will teach two surveys of Islamic World history (Islamic World to 18th C. and Modern Middle East) as well as topics courses in his or her area of expertise or contributing to the College’s general education curriculum, “Connections.” Candidates should submit the following materials electronically via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/34141): letter of application, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, teaching statement, and teaching evaluation forms. Deadline for applications is March 20, 2016 or until the position is filled.

Pursuant to cultivating an inclusive college community, the search committee will holistically assess the qualifications of each applicant. We will consider an individual’s record working with students and colleagues with diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. We will also consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to academic success.

Franklin & Marshall College is committed to having an inclusive campus community where all members are treated with dignity and respect. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the College does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, sex, race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, family or marital status, sexual orientation, or any protected characteristic.

Workshop – Translations: indigenous, religion, tradition, culture

PhD course / workshop at the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway

August 17–19, 2016

Translations: indigenous, religion, tradition, culture

Translations may be linguistic, cultural, corporeal, spatial, temporal, and much more. Today this concept is used in a wide variety of ways within and across different academic disciplines to describe or explore processes of replacement or exchange. It brings attention to moves that are made to make something available, by at once transporting and transforming this something, from one frame and form to another. For example, according to the anthropologist and historian James Clifford (2013: 48):

Translation is a term for cultural processes that are profoundly dialogic and, like articulation, without closure or guarantee. [—] The theory/metaphor of translation keeps us focused on cultural truths that are continuously “carried across,” transformed and reinvented in practice.

Both scholars and others perform translations regularly as part of shifts between different vantage points, modes, codes, and contexts. The purposes of translations may be multiple, in academic projects as well as in daily life. They may be made to communicate, to bridge, to compare, to analyze, or to constitute, implement, change, sponsor, or shield something, or for numerous other reasons. Translations may be disputed or taken for granted, but, as Clifford (2013: 48) also points out, they are “always uneven.”

This PhD course focuses on translations that are performed by means of the category “indigenous” in combination with categories like “religion,” “spirituality,” “tradition,” “knowledge,” and “culture,” as well as associated vocabularies and schemata of classification.

The category “indigenous” plays highly significant roles in a broad range of contexts today, not just in numerous local, national, and regional settings but also on a global scale. The categories “religion,” “spirituality,” “tradition,” “knowledge,” and “culture” are perhaps even more common in contemporary hegemonic ways of speaking about the orders of the world. Academicians, politicians, and ordinary people alike make frequent use of these tags in diverse projects of translation. Studies of particular instances or trajectories of translation in which “indigenous” is used in combination with any of these other categories, as academic apparatuses, as political instruments, or as everyday tools of orientation, identification, and communication, may shed new light on creative and critical processes of entity-formation, entity-maintenance, and entity-questioning.

This course includes perspectives from the study of religions, history, cultural history, anthropology, indigenous studies, and philosophy, but the foundational issues that are raised makes it relevant also for PhD students from other academic disciplines. Students with research projects that do not contain translations with “indigenous” may participate with papers that focus on comparable translations by means of other categories. The discussions of case studies and theories of translation will enable the students to bring more reflexivity to their own projects, and aid them in developing critical approaches to both empirical matters and theories.

Keynote by Marisol de la Cadena (California, Davis) and lectures by Greg Alles (McDaniel), Greg Johnson (Colorado, Boulder), Arkotong Longkumer (Edinburgh), Kari Aga Myklebost (Tromsø), Nils Oskal (Kautokeino), Olle Sundström (Umeå), Bjørn Ola Tafjord (Tromsø), and John Ødemark (Oslo).

PhD students are required to present a paper in which they relate their own research to the topic of this workshop.

ECTS credits: 5

A list of readings will be distributed in advance.

Deadline for registration: June 1, 2016.

For more details and registration, contact Bjørn Ola Tafjord (bjorn.tafjord@uit.no) or Siv Ellen Kraft (siv.ellen.kraft@uit.no).

This PhD course / workshop is part of the activities of the research project “Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks”