Learning from the Local. Communities and Tribal People in Global Frames
Program code
ss19-06
Program Duration
14 Days
Dates
September 8-22, 2019
Credits
6
Tuition
€ 950 to be paid in 4 installments (the flight from Italy is not included).
Tuition fee payment modalities will be specified after the application deadline directly to selected participants.
LEARNING FROM THE LOCAL. Communities and Tribal People in Global Frames
Description
The Summer School Learning from the Local is located in India from 7 September 2019 to 21 September 2019. The School is based on an intense academic program, on several meetings with local associative and cultural realities, and is strongly imbued of a travelling timing, that improves its educative value. The School leads the students to deepen the following topics in the field:
- Local development. Effects of bottom-up cooperation initiatives on local communities. Mumbai area;
- Heritage. Enhancement of local cultural traditions;
- Dissemination of knowledge. Dissemination and impact of communication technologies on local communities in productive activities and training, initiatives in the fight against poverty.
- Different ways to organize social and cultural life;
- Managing cultural diversity in complex contexts;
- Critical awareness of NGO’s activities;
- Direct experience of several processes of social, cultural and economics changes;
- Ethnographic research projects;
- Anthropological issues;
- Arts, local craft and immaterial heritage;
- Tribal people rights;
- Making of “Indian” and local identity;
- Sustainable tourism;
- Vincenzo Matera (cultural anthropologist, programm coordinator);
- Gabriella D’Agostino (cultural anthropologist);
- Stefano Caldirola (Contemporary Indian history);
- Romina Campostrini (tour operator).
The Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano Bicocca and the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna (Campus of Ravenna) approved the recognition of 6 cfu for students participating in the Summer School. The Italian Embassy in India promotes and sustains the program.
The Summer School aims to strength student’s capabilities with regard to the following points:
The Summer School is articulated in two stage: the first part counts 2 preliminary lectures/meetings in Italy, dedicated to present some basic concepts of anthropological theory, to delineate the main feature of the country and of the localities we will go to visit, and to prepare students for the travel part of the Summer School. A more definite schedule time and the detailed travel program will be defined for the end of April 2019.
Staff
Location
GUJARET,(INDIA)
Application Deadline
May 15th, 2019
Required Documents to be uploaded in the application form
CV and Passport/ID card, Motivation Letter.
Target Audience
Priority will be given to students participants holding a Master degree, university students from any background with at least 6 CFU in Anthropology can present the application.
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