Summer School ‘Border Stories @ University of Augsburg

Are you interested in meeting and exchanging ideas with young and established scholars from all over the world? Do poetry readings and a spoken word performance sound intriguing to you? If so, you should attend the summer school Border Stories!

The summer school ‘Border Stories: Narratives of Peace, Conflict & Communication in the 20th &21st Centuries’ will take manifold metaphorical borders and the narratives of postcolonial literatures and theory as a starting point to re-examine issues related to the postcolonial concepts of place, space and sense of self, in addition to exploring factual as well as fictional accounts concerning conflict, communication and coming to terms with displacement.

• WHERE: University of Augsburg, Germany
• WHEN: September 7-11, 2015
• WHO: All interested B.A., M.A. and PhD students
• CREDITS: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 ETCS points (depending on the workload; see under“Applications”)
• SEMINARS: Six sessions (ninety minutes each)
• WORKSHOPS: Two sessions (ninety minutes each)
• POERTY READINGS: Henry Beissel (Ottawa) http://www.henrybeissel.com/
• SPOKEN WORD POET: Dorothea Smartt (London, Barbados)http://www.britbornbajan.co.uk/
• FEES: 150 € with & 50 € without accommodation
• EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE: 30 July

Further information on the application process can be found here.

Please make sure to talk to your Studiengangskoordinatorin at TU Dresden, if you would like to earn credits for this summers school.