CFA: Transregional Summer Academy: “After Violence: The (Im-)Possibility of Understanding and Remembering”

Deadline: February 3, 2019


Dates:10–17 June 2019 in Dnipro, Ukraine

Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe (Forum Transregionale Studien), “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies, Center for Governance and Culture in Europe/University St. Gallen, German Historical Institute Warsaw, European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, and the Centre for Applied Anthropology (Kyiv) invite doctoral and postdoctoral scholars to apply for the Transregional Academy “After Violence: The (Im-)Possibility of Understanding and Remembering”.

Our Transregional Academy will address issues related to the understanding and remembering of traumatic experiences of physical and symbolic violence that occurred during the 20th and 21st centuries. This violence was prolonged by the erasure of memory, through silence, oblivion, fear, indifference, and manipulation of the public consciousness. The Academy will consider problems of representation and the silencing of traumas in various kinds of narrative texts (memories, fiction, journalistic texts, historiography, cinema, graphic arts, paintings, monuments and other symbolic structures). The Transregional Academy will predominantly focus on Ukraine, which became one of the main battlefields of the 20th century, profoundly affected by revolutions, the two world wars, and the Holocaust. Ukraine now represents a space of both military and symbolic conflict. The Academy additionally wants to explore studies covering the wider Eastern-European region, seeking original and productive comparisons with similar phenomena beyond Ukraine. Researchers engaged in interdisciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences are highly welcomed.

How to Apply: The Transregional Academy is targeted at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers wishing to present their current projects that concentrate on the themes relevant to the questions raised above. Although the Transregional Academy focuses on Ukraine and Eastern Europe, comparative perspectives on the above-mentioned issues from other regions are highly welcomed. 

• A CV (max. 3 pages)
• A three- to five-page outline of the project the applicant is currently working on, with a brief introductory summary thereof
• A sample of an academic writing (in any language)
• The names of two university faculty members who can serve as referees (no letters of recommendation required).

The application should be written in English and sent via email as one pdf file to prisma@trafo-berlin.de Please specify the topic of the Academy: “After Violence” in the subject line of the e-mail. Deadline for applications is 3 February 2019. Those who send their applications after the deadline will not be considered. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-February 2019. 

Note: The organizers cover all costs of travel and accommodation

For more detailed information about the program, its themes, and contact information, please click here.