The Lisbon Summer School 2012 will be organized from July 4th July to 6th July, 2012 at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal. The school has as its topic the controversial relationship between religion and politics along with the impact that this relationship has on gender issues. The Lisbon Summer School 2012 is organized by the Observatory on the Politics of Cultural and Religious Diversity in Southern Europe (POLICREDOS) at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal.
This summer school Participants will be asked to circulate their contributions prior to the summer school. There are no formal requirements for these contributions, but participants are requested to submit only advanced research papers. What is more, all the participants are supposed to read the assigned texts in advance. To participate in the summer school you must have at least completed a BA degree.
The topic of this summer school is by definition interdisciplinary. Grasping the complex interface between religion and politics, and how they it impacts on gender and gender relations involves different disciplines, such as Political Science and Sociology, Gender Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Religious Studies and Theology. Each of these disciplines can offer original and in-depth insights into the topic of this summer school. Therefore, researchers and practitioners working in these academic fields are invited to apply. Both theoretical papers on the normative and conceptual problems and empirical papers on case studies, comparative accounts and historical trajectories are welcome.
Interested graduate students and postdoctoral researchers should fill out the following form until April 1, 2012.
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