VB: REMESO GRAD SCHOOL COURSES AUTUMN 2012

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REMESO Graduate School in
Migration, Ethnicity and Society
(Post Graduate Courses, for MA and PhD students)

Linköpings Universitet

Courses - Autumn 2012
Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: Contemporary and Historical Debates
10 September – 12 October, intensive week 24-28 September
Course Directors: Associate Professor Peo Hansen, Linköping University/REMESO; PhD Tünde Puskás Linköping University/REMESO

The course provides a survey of main ideas underlying debates on ethnicity and nationalism. Issues of national and ethnic identifications, theories on multiculturalism and ethnic and national mobilization will be tackled within five course themes that examine key theoretical debates and critically assess how concepts are used in everyday discourse, politics and in theory. Drawing on contemporary, historical and comparative examples, the course develops a critical engagement with different understandings of ethnic solidarities and nationhood, but also with more recent challenges posed by postnational, cosmopolitan, gender theory and supranational interventions. Questions of methodology are raised and critical queries are directed to the ways in which a “methodological nationalism” and other forms of tacit assumptions have permeated research. In this way, the course also stimulate and enhance students’ ability to carry out empirical studies.

Migration and Labour
22 October - 23 November, intensive week 5-9 November
Course Directors: Professor of Labour Studies Charles Woolfson, Linköping University/REMESO; Associate Professor Branka Likic-Brboric, Linköping University/REMESO and Associate Professor Zoran Slavnic, Linköping University/REMESO.


This course aims to provide an understanding of the barriers to decent work and protected labour standards in the global and European economy. Empirically, it examines the wider political economy of neo-liberalism, especially in the context of post-communist societies. These broader changes are in turn linked to the issue of migration, as labour from Eastern Europe has migrated to the core European Union older member states bringing different experiences and assumptions regarding labour standards and industrial relations. Thus, the course examines labour relations, standard-setting and enforcement strategies by labour market actors such as trade unions, by regulatory bodies such as labour inpectorates and by supra-national governance bodies such as the International Labour Organisation and the European Union.

More information and registration form will soon be posted here. For information contact Grad School Coordinator Tünde Puskas - tunde.puskas at liu.se<mailto:tunde.puskas at liu.se>

General information:
• The courses are offered to postgraduate students (PhD or MA).
• Courses comprise 5 weeks of full-time work for 7,5 ECTS. Students spend one intensive week at REMESO, at Linköping University, Campus Norrköping. Courses are usually examined by a paper assignment.
• There is no course fee.

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