This is the way Vasily Grossman, a Soviet writer born in a Jewish family in central Ukraine, defines in his major novel Life and Fate the level and sophistication of violence reached in the XXth century. The novel dedicated to the Second World War is a reflection on the management of violence in war conditions and its ambiguity, but also on the violence experienced by political prisoners in Stalinist camps and on the pervasiveness of violence in all spheres of life. Having lost his mother in the Berdichev ghetto during the war, the writer dedicated his novel to her and her shadow is present in the author's whole work of writing and memory.

Following Grossman's path, not only symbolically but also physically by installing the school near his native city, the Summer School will address the complexity and the aftermaths of violence, not only in war times, but also in times of peace, in the Soviet and post-Soviet context.

The Fourth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine will provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest research on violence issues, involving specialists of the topic, as well as young promising researchers.

The School is interdisciplinary. The organizers welcome proposals from the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and adjacent fields. While the primary focus will be on the socialist and post-socialist era (in the former Soviet Union, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe), pre-Soviet history may also be examined. The discussions and presentations will analyze different dimensions of violence : war and non-war situations ; state management of violence, as well as individual and collective strategies ; mechanisms of violence outbreak ; violent practices and post-violence situations ; perpetrators and victims ; sources and methods.

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Partners

Embassy of France in Ukraine ; Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa (Canada) ; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [ EHESS] (France) ; Internet network "historians.in.ua" ; Research project "Understanding Violence in Russia" Russiaviolence.hypotheses.org ; Doctoral School of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) ; French-Russian Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences in Moscow ; Zhytomyr State University (Ukraine)

Duration

Eligibility

The Summer School is open to PhD students (or students enrolled in a kandidat nauk program) and young researchers (up to six years removed from their PhD or kandidat nauk degree). Empirically grounded proposals are particularly welcomed.

The working language of the Summer School will be English, and it is important that prospective participants have a good knowledge of this language.

The selection committee will select candidates based on their responses to this Call for Proposals. The selected candidates will be advised before the end of May.

Program Costs

There is no program fee. Local transportation from/to Kyiv,accommodation, meals, classes, lectures, seminars and excursions are provided by the organizers and free of charge. The participants or their universities should only pay the travel expenses from the participant's country to Kyiv.

How to apply ?

To be considered for Summer School, candidates must complete an application form (that includes a 500 word project proposal) and add a CV. That can also send an additional written sample, such as a conference paper, a dissertation chapter, or a publication (optional). The application must be sent by e-mail Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. , by 15 April 2012.

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Deadline for applications - 15th April 2012