{"id":477,"date":"2015-07-22T16:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/?p=477"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T14:29:20","slug":"summer-school-border-stories-university-of-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/2015\/07\/22\/summer-school-border-stories-university-of-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer School &#8216;Border Stories @ University of Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #444444\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/07\/uni-augsburg.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-478\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/07\/uni-augsburg-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"uni-augsburg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/07\/uni-augsburg-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/07\/uni-augsburg-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.tu-dresden.de\/american-studies\/files\/2015\/07\/uni-augsburg.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>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!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #444444\">The summer school &#8216;Border Stories: Narratives of Peace, Conflict &amp; Communication in the 20th &amp;21st Centuries&#8217; 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #444444\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">WHERE:<\/strong>\u00a0University of Augsburg, Germany<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">WHEN:<\/strong>\u00a0September 7-11, 2015<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">WHO:<\/strong>\u00a0All interested B.A., M.A. and PhD students<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">CREDITS:<\/strong>\u00a02, 4, 6, 8, 10 ETCS points (depending on the workload; see under<a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: #1abc9c\" href=\"https:\/\/borderstories2015.wordpress.com\/applications\/\">\u201cApplications\u201d<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">SEMINARS:<\/strong>\u00a0Six sessions (ninety minutes each)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">WORKSHOPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Two sessions (ninety minutes each)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">POERTY READINGS:<\/strong>\u00a0Henry Beissel (Ottawa)\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: #1abc9c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henrybeissel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.henrybeissel.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">SPOKEN WORD POET:<\/strong>\u00a0Dorothea Smartt (London, Barbados)<a style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit;color: #1abc9c\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britbornbajan.co.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.britbornbajan.co.uk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">FEES:<\/strong>\u00a0150 \u20ac with &amp; 50 \u20ac without accommodation<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">EXTENDED APPLICATION DEADLINE:<\/strong>\u00a030 July<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information on the application process can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/borderstories2015.wordpress.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please make sure to talk to your\u00a0Studiengangskoordinatorin at TU Dresden, if you would like to earn credits for this summers school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you interested in meeting and exchanging ideas with young and established scholars from all over the world? 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