Dates: July 11 – August 5, 2016
Location: Center for Urban History, 6 Bohomoltsia Str., Lviv, Ukraine
Deadline for Application: April 8, 2016
Program Description
The summer school aims at providing a high-quality possibility of learning about up-to-date state of research on the Jewish history of East Central Europe, developing research and practical skills, critical thinking in analyzing various narratives of the past and their usage in the present, and finally building up a milieu and network of young academics, practitioners, and faculty in Eastern Europe and beyond engaged in the research, preservation, and promotion of Jewish heritage as part of multi-ethnic past in the region. The school gives space to researchers and practitioners from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia) to engage in shaping a more participatory historical culture and heritage practices, to challenge top-down modes in practicing both history and heritage.
The program includes lectures in the Jewish history of Eastern Europe during the 19th to 20th centuries; an introductory course of Yiddish; and seminar courses on transnational approaches and topics, cultural history, memory and heritage studies. An important part of the program is practical work with resources and exploring different formats of implementing projects in the public space of the city. The program includes tours to historical sites and towns, meetings with experts, researchers, local community, and discussions.
Formats
The program lasts for four weeks. It consists of 40 hours of elementary Yiddish, 80 hours of lectures, seminars and a workshop. The program will go beyond the academic history and offer participants various forms of practical work with historical material. Combining academic lectures and seminars with practical exercises, workshop, group tasks, the summer school will provide participants with tools for implementing public history projects. This year, the workshop will deal with multicultural artistic and literary Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg with focus on Jewish milieus. The aim of the workshop is to engage the participants with the formats of city walks and explore diverse and multicultural life of the city from the early 20th century till the Second World War. By relating people, places, stories, events and by involving documents, texts, visual materials, the city’s contemporary space will become a site of interaction between school participants and broader public.
Faculty
The Summer School invites researchers from leading centers of Jewish History and East European Studies and is involving local academicians to create a collaborative environment through many points of intersection and mutual experience.
This year the following individuals will lecture: Timothy White (New Jersey City University, USA), Joshua Shanes (College of Charleston, USA), Mayhill Fowler (Stetson University, USA), Christoph Mick (University of Warwick, UK), Karolina Szymaniak (Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw), Joanna Lisek (Wroclaw University), and Piotr Rypson (National Museum in Warsaw).
A workshop is being developed by Joanna Lisek, Karolina Szymaniak, Andrij Bojarov (independent artist and curator), Danylo Ilnytskyi and Victor Martyniuk (I. Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Katarzyna Kotynska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow); it will be facilitated by - Anna Susak-Chebotariova, Oleksiy Chebotariov (Center for Urban History), and Olena Andronatiy (Educator, lecturer of informal education, Hillel).
Eligibility
The summer school is open to graduate and postgraduate students (MA and PhD programs), young researchers, university lecturers, museum workers, practitioners in heritage from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia. Age limit for participation in the school - 35 years.
The working language is English. Participants must be comfortable working in English.
How to Apply
The application must include:
* Resume (CV)
* Motivation letter (no more than 3,000 characters about why you want to participate in this school)
* Project description no more than 3,000 characters (this can be a research, educational, or cultural project related to Jewish history, multiethnic history, or heritage issues, which you are currently working on or plan to carry out in the future)
* Contact phone/e-mail of two scholars, whom we can contact for a reference if necessary
The application must be emailed to summerschool@lvivcenter.org, by April 8, 2016. In the "Subject" please write "Application for Summer School 2016." Applications can be submitted in English, Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Belarusian.
Selection
A jury will evaluate the applications and select the finalists by April 17. The finalists will be interviewed by Skype selectively during the following week.
Program Costs
There is no program fee. The organizers will cover travel costs, accommodation, lunches, and excursions.
Awards
The participants will be granted
* Summer school certificates
* Basic Yiddish certificates
Award of the certificate, beyond fulfilling the relevant requirements, is contingent on successful completion of the candidate's Yiddish course examination.
Call for Applications
Organizers
Project Supervisors
Sofia Dyak
Iryna Matsevko
Project Assistant
Maryana Mazurak
Workshop Assistant
Olena Andronatiy
Source:http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/summerschools/jewish-history-2016/