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University of Edinburgh invites applications for GREYZONE Summer School. This is an interdisciplinary Summer School entitled Navigating the Grey Zone: Complicity, Resistance and Solidarity.

About the program:

• This summer school targets PhD students and early career researchers (within 4 years of obtaining their doctorate).
• The complexities of complicity in and resistance to systemic human rights violations will be explored.
• The ethical and political value of art for shedding light on the ambiguous reality of political responsibility and fostering relations of political solidarity will also be considered.
• The Summer School is part of the interdisciplinary ERC research Project GREYZONE, aim to bring together perspectives from political theory, political science, law, history, sociology, cultural studies, aesthetics and art.
• The main goal is to give participants the opportunity to interact across disciplinary boundaries with several international experts and to receive critical feedback on their own projects.
• The Summer School will involve extended scholarly discussions as well as social activities, allowing the participants to exchange ideas and initiate academic collaborations in a friendly environment.
• Participants will include a diverse mix of senior and junior scholars, PhD students and artists, who will work together on problematising the many faces of complicity, resistance and solidarity.

Location: University of Edinburgh

Duration: 25-27 June 2018

Study areas:

• Conceptualisations of complicity, resistance and solidarity in relation to systemic political violence;
• The grey zone as a challenge to political memory, identity, and history;
• The epistemic, moral and political value of artistic engagements with painful pasts;
• Broader theoretical and practical challenges raised by the complexities of complicity, including issues of moral, political and legal judgement and agency, guilt and responsibility, forgiveness and revenge, justice and reconciliation;
• The relationship between state-sponsored and artistic engagements with the grey zones of complicity and resistance;
• The value and effects of artworks on public debates about/institutional responses to past violence;
• Ethical and political dilemmas regarding the status of truth, the possibility of representation and the value of testimony in relation to the grey zones of political violence.

Applications:

• Apply by filling in online form.
• Registration Fee: £100

Important dates:

• Notification of acceptance: January 2018
• Register and registration fee: 28th of February 2018
• Submit papers: 18th of June 2018

Note:

• No assistance for participants in arranging visas to travel to the UK, but an official invitation letter will be provided in case application has been accepted.