Going public – Challenges of contemporary anthropology and folklore
The virtual part of the program will run between 28 April 2023 and 19 May 2023. The selected students will opt for one of the three streams and will join the lessons accordingly. The three streams are: (a) Museums and archives, critical museum studies and cultural mediation, (b) Folklore/local culture, and (c) Migration, diversity, multi-ethnic dwelling. Each stream will organise four 2-hour meetings on Zoom/Meet during which the following issues will be addressed: · The professors will introduce the different concepts and general theoretical and methodological practices of each stream (e.g. fieldwork methods, material culture, oral culture, narrative analysis, local and global culture and society, critical heritage studies, cultural mediation, representations in ethnographic settings, in museums and in archives, migration, exile, diaspora, diversity in society, multiculturalism, transnationalism) · The professors will provide the literature (including references on the research methodologies and methods) to be discussed during the online meetings; · The professors will present the assessment task and criteria in class and will provide feedback on the feasibility of the research projects chosen by the students (e.g. the adequacy of the research field, the appropriateness of the research methods employed by the student, etc.). · The students can start preparing their assessment tasks, which will be presented and discussed during the summer school session. Explore heritage and public culture through instruction and research in situ in Sibiu, Romania, and learn to apply the theoretical and methodological tools of public anthropology, ethnology and folklore to the study of museums and archives and of local urban culture in multi-ethnic and multicultural settings.
Application Deadline
Virtual Part starting date
2023-04-28
Virtual Part closing date
2023-05-19
Total student workload
160
Specific field of studies
Public Anthropology, Ethnology, Literary and Folklore Studies and Cultural Mediation
Pre-requisite for selection
CV
Motivation Letter
Academic pre-requisites for applicants
Background in the Humanities and/or Social Sciences
Physical Part starting date
2023-07-03
Physical Part Description
The physical part of the BIP will take place in Sibiu, Romania, in the open-air ‘Astra’ Museum, with a duration of 5 days.
The physical mobility will take place between 3 and 7 July, 2023, and the activities, which will last 4 hours each day, will comprise the following:
· Preparation of projects based on fieldwork and/or interviews conducted by the students in Sibiu as part of their assessment tasks
· Presentation of and feedback on the students’ micro-research projects, as part of their stream work, which will be shared with the entire BIP group
· Keynote lectures
· Visits to the permanent exhibitions in Astra Museum
· Exploration of the multi-cultural landscape of Sibiu (known as Hermanstadt for the local German speaking community)
Physical Part closing date
2023-07-07
Language level required
B2
Field of studies related to the course
Social Science and Humanities
Course location
Sibiu, Romania
Course language
English