[csaa-forum] +++ ECREA - SUMMER SCHOOL 2006 - Call for participants +++

[Nico Carpentier]

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>Intensive Programme in Media and Communication:
>Enlarging Europe - enlarging participation?
>20. August – 1. September 2006, Tartu, Estonia.
>
>We are happy to invite you to participate in the Intensive Programme in 
>Media and Communication 2006 in Tartu, Estonia from the 20th of August 
>till the 2nd of September 2006. The overall theme for the programme will 
>be "Enlarging Europe – enlarging participation?". This main theme of the 
>summer school has been chosen because the enlargement process is opening 
>up a number of challenges and opportunities. Europe now has more types of 
>media organizations, cultures and styles. The thrust towards the knowledge 
>society has various effects on the everyday life of European citizens, 
>their participation in societal activities and media consumption. To 
>facilitate the successful, continuous and democratic European integration, 
>media have a vital role to play.
>
>The Intensive Programme in Media and Communication 2006 brings together 
>members of the European research community to this summer school in order 
>to debate contemporary issues in media, communication and cultural 
>studies. The programme combines contributions from international experts 
>and junior scholars, and takes the form of lectures, seminars, 
>presentations, and workshops. The summer school aims to provide a 
>supportive international setting where doctoral students can present their 
>ongoing work and meet students and academics from other countries, 
>establishing valuable contacts for the future. It also presents the 
>international landscape of communication and media research, helping the 
>students situate themselves within that.
>
>The summer school will be in the premises of University of Tartu, in the 
>Department of Journalism and Communication.
>
>There are three options possible to attend the summer school:
>1.      For students whose universities are a member of the organising 
>consortium(1) the fee for the summer school will be 370 Euros. This fee 
>will also cover the (cheapest possible) travel costs to the summer school 
>location (Tartu).
>2.      For individual or institutional ECREA members (see 
>http://www.eccr.info/ecrea), the fee will also be 370 Euros. This fee will 
>not cover the travel costs.
>3.      Non-consortium and non-ECREA members can become an ECREA member at 
>a highly reduced fee. The ECREA membership application can be submitted 
>simultaneously with the summer school application. The summer school fee 
>will be 370 Euros. This fee will not cover the travel costs.
>
>(1) These universities are: Amsterdam (UvA), Barcelona (Universidad 
>Autonoma), Bergen, Brussel (VUB), Budapest (Eötvös Loránd), Cracow 
>(Jagiellonian), Erfurt, Helsinki, Lund, Roskilde, Stirling, Tampere and 
>Westminster.
>
>Summer school materials (including a book), accommodation, breakfast, 
>coffee and lunch are included in all three options. Regretfully, there are 
>no travel- or other grants.
>
>Interested students are welcome to submit their expressions of interests 
>via a web form, which will be available from the 1st of April 
>(http://www.comsummerschool.org). The deadline for the application is the 
>15th of May. The main theme of the Intensive Programme is not a selection 
>criterion for student papers, and students working in different fields are 
>also welcomed. Nevertheless, students working in this specific field are 
>especially encouraged to apply. The working language of the Intensive 
>Programme will be English; therefore sufficient understanding and ability 
>to express oneself in this language will be expected.
>
>When applying, each interested student will be expected fill out a form on 
>the summer school website. This will include 1/information on their 
>academic profile, 2/an abstract of their PhD project (no more than 400 
>words, with a structure and contents of their choosing) and 3/answers on 
>the following five questions concerning their PhD project:
>    * What’s your main paradigm?
>    * What’s your theoretical framework?
>    * What are your methods?
>    * What’s your main objective?
>    * How much time have you used, how much time have your left?
>The abstracts and answers to the above five questions of the applications 
>that where accepted will also be published in the summer school 
>proceedings. Students are therefore requested to pay close attention to 
>the correctness of all details.
>
>Students whose abstracts are accepted will then (in a second phase) be 
>expected to provide the following documents and information by the 1st of 
>July 2006:
>1. A 10 page (3000 words) paper on their PhD project as a whole
>2. A set of questions (maximum 1 page) with questions or problems that 
>related to their own PhD projects.
>3. As students will be required to act as a respondent for one other 
>student PhD paper, they are requested to provide the summer school 
>organisation with the title of this one student paper.
>
>The 10 page paper should be a report of the student’s ongoing doctoral 
>research and not a conventional conference paper or a report of findings. 
>Rather, it is expected that the student will briefly present the focus of 
>the research and then take up aspects of the research process: 
>methodological, theoretical and practical issues on which he/she would 
>like to receive feedback.
>
>By the time of the summer school, each student has to prepare a 10-minute 
>seminar presentation covering the main points of their work. Each student 
>is also expected to actively participate in the discussions of their own 
>and other people’s work. As mentioned above, they will act as a respondent 
>of someone else’s paper (which they have to have read beforehand).
>
>The number of students will be limited to 3 students from each member 
>university of the Intensive Programme. Students whose universities are not 
>members of the consortium can apply to be part of the programme through 
>European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Only up 
>to 10 students can join the summer school through ECREA.
>
>All questions concerning the application procedure and other information 
>can be directed to the Co-ordinator of the Summer School Pille 
>Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt from University of Tartu by e-mail 
>(<mailto:pille.vengerfeldt at ut.ee>pille.vengerfeldt at ut.ee) or via the 
>website: http://www.comsummerschool.org.
>
>The Programme Committee members are: Prof. Nico Carpentier, Dr. Maren 
>Hartmann, Prof. Kaarle Nordenstreng, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt and Prof. 
>Peeter Vihalemm
>
>The Intensive Programme is supported by Socrates Erasmus (IP project 
>contract number: 69935-IC-1-2004-EE-ERASMUS-IPUC-6), the European 
>Communication Research and Education Association 
>(<http://www.eccr.info/ecrea>www.eccr.info/ecrea) the University of Tartu, 
>department of Journalism and Communication 
>(<http://www.jrnl.ut.ee/>www.jrnl.ut.ee) and a consortium of 14 universities.
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>Carpentier Nico (Phd)
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>Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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