Call for Applications | ESSCS/TransHumanities Summer School – ‘Intersections: Reimagining Identities, Positionalities, Multiplicities, Alterities’
Dates: 2-6 September 2024
Location: Hotel Schloss Wartegg, Lake Constance (Bodensee), Switzerland
Application deadline: 22 April 2024
Application contact (general): melanie.sampayo@unibe.ch
Application contact (for NICA members): p.hesselberth@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Application contact (for ASCA PhD/PostDocs): E.Peeren@uva.nl
Full CfA: cfa_esscs summer school_intersections_bern_2024

In a world increasingly shaped by displacement, crisis and uncertainty, ‘identity’ has resurfaced as a crucial concept and is at the core of highly politicized and medialized disputes ranging from antiracist and feminist protests (e.g. #blacklivesmatter, #metoo) to nativist backlashes and anti-immigration stances. A prevailing climate of division and fear is punctuated by moments of solidarity. Academia is right in the thick of it. Few other concepts in the humanities and social sciences have been subject to such widespread debates in recent decades and yet have persisted as stubbornly as the concept of ‘identity’. While until recently the concept’s heyday was mainly localized in 1990s academic discourse, of late it has found its way back into focus, along with related concepts such as ‘subjectivity’, ‘alterity’, ‘difference’.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Dr. Jack Halberstam (Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University, New York)

Prof. Dr. Ange-Marie Hancock (Professor and Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race & Ethnicity, Ohio State University, Columbus) 

Prof. Dr. Daniel Loick (Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy, University of Amsterdam)

Application:

The application deadline is April 22, 2024. For NICA members, it is recommended to apply by contacting director Pepita Hesselberth, who serves as ESSCS representative, or through Esther Peeren (if you are an ASCA PhD/ PostDoc).