The Political Anthropology of the Void

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Political Alchemy: creative destruction in politics

Place: Italy, Acquapendente 

Duration: 1 week, 21-27 June 2020

After ten successful Summer Schools, the Journal International Political Anthropology will host its eleventh annual Summer School, aimed primarily at advanced graduate students of Anthropology, Politics, Sociology, Philosophy, History, or other cognate disciplines, on the connected themes of political alchemy. You can find details about previous Summer Schools at http://www.politicalanthropology.org.

Application deadline: 15 May 2020

Summer School Staff: IPA Editors

Guest Speakers: Arpad Szakolczai, Camil Roman, Marius Bentza, John O’Brien, Tom Boland. 

Contact numbers: Diletta Tonatto +393 458.060.926, diletta.tonatto@gmail.com; Arpad Szakolczai +393 884.074.157 

Course leader: Dr Agnes Horvath, founding and chief editor, IPA 

Target group: PhD students in the fields of Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, Philosophy, History, or other cognate disciplines. In some cases we also accept Master students, upon successful application. 
Credits info: 5 for attendance, 10 if also finishing a 5000 words paper 

Fee info: Following even in this sense the spirit of Plato’s Academy, the philosophy of this summer school is to minimize the involvement of the circularity of money in academic life. Thus, the Summer School will only have a small registration fee (45Euro, not refundable), above the membership fee, 25 euro/year. The School will be self-supporting for meal and drinks, with a donation for accommodation. This can be estimated as 50 euro for the week for accommodation, and about 80 euro for food and drinks. Thus the total cost for the week,with ful board, should be about 200 euros.

Course leader

Agnes Horvath

Target group

PhD students in the fields of Sociology, Anthropology, Politics, Philosophy, History, or other cognate disciplines. In some cases we also accept Master students, upon successful application.

Course aim

The course will offer a political anthropological perspective on transformation processes. Taking as its starting point rites of passage and liminality, the course will explore what kind of processes might develop out of the uncertain and fluid conditions that characterise the middle stage, the empty, 'void' situation of a liminal rite of passage, and what kind of agents can emerge in such uncertain situations that can turn the void and the flux to their own advantage.

Fee info