Copernicus Graduate School PhD Summer School, Poland, 2017

Publish Date: May 22, 2017

Deadline: Jun 06, 2017

6th CGS Summer School

Changes develop equally innovative and destructive potential. Transformation processes can be interpreted as progress, modernization and advancement, but as well as decline, degeneration and disaster. The deconstruction of acknowledged normality are always moments of great social intensity, which need collective commentary and classification in terms of remembrance culture. The elites perceive the function of mediator between social event and its interpretation in the sense of "positivity of discourse" (Foucalt).

In the central point stands the social action, that is every conscious process of individuals, which aims at gaining favourable frame conditions for self existence, in which rules the consciousness about the necessity of organisation principles, which use the stability of society. At the same time the aspect, which was until now little respected, of persistence of the "old" society and keeping traditions and obeying the norms of behaviour in the sense of the canon of values, like for example culture of remembrance, regional identity and confession, which are examined in more details on the background of self-organisation with an aim to question the communication between politics and society on to what extend the reflections of masses and elites about the condition of society agreed, or to what extend the condition of society is determined by the elites. With it every element should be identified, which as traditionally perceived preserve the social balance and determine the basis for the acceptance of the new, what holds together the mechanism of society in the reality. How do the elites communicate in or with the forms of self-organisation about the society and what role does the tradition and values play with that?

Workgroups

1. Nation as Agreement of Values (Determination Factors of the Modern Norms Creation)

2. Society and Justice (Boundaries and Possibilities of Civil Society Organisation Mechanisms)

3. Communication as Value (Mechanisms of Exchange of Social Orientations)

The Summer School is addressed to PhD students of all humanistic disciplines.

Every participant of the Summer School will be actively working in a discussion group under the guidance of CGS fellow. The fellows will deliver the preparatory reading.

The results of the event will be published in a reviewed volume of the "CGS Studies" scientific series, at the Cambridge Scholars Publishing House (UK). Every participant will be invited to deliver a paper related to the topic and inspired by the event.
The working language is English - all the discussions will be held and papers for the book have to be prepared in English.

Admission Fee

120 €/500 PLN (with accommodation)
95 €/400 PLN (without accommodation)

The fee covers:
- accommodation with breakfast and other board,
- participation in the working groups discussions and other related events,
- summer school materials,
- publication of the paper in English in a book of the series "CGS Studies",
- official banquet.

How to Apply

Application form: Application_form_6th_CGS_Summe-e77ba

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Disciplines

Communication Studies

Humanities

Social Sciences

Sociology

Study Levels

PhD

Eligible Countries

International

Host Countries

Poland