Summer school 2017

21 March 2017

Dear Colleagues,

we are happy to invite you to:

Sensing Collectivities—Rethinking the Haptic: Touch, Movement, and Surfaces

A five-day international summer school and international workshop organised by the Phd Program "Loose Connections" at Hamburg University
Dates: June 14-18 2017
Venues: Sociology Department University Hamburg
Submission Deadline: April 3

Organisers: 
Prof. Dr. Urs Stäheli, Department of Sociology, University of Hamburg, urs.staeheli@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
Dr. Michael Liegl, Department of Sociology, University of Hamburg, michael.liegl@wiso.uni-hamburg.de
Elena Beregow, Department of Sociology, University of Hamburg elena.beregow@wiso.uni-hamburg.de

This year’s summer school of cultural transformations has a two-part format: the PhD-course on “Sensing Collectivities” and a workshop on “Thermal objects”. Students will have the opportunity to participate in both events and are able to gain 5 ECTS credits for the Summer School and an additional 3 ECTS for participating in the workshop on “Thermal Objects”.

Confirmed Speakers Workshop "Theorizing Temperatures and the Social"  -  14-15 June 2017, University of Hamburg

Agustina Andreoletti (Cologne)
Leo Matteo Bachinger (Troy, NY)
Elena Beregow (Hamburg)
Nigel Clark (Lancaster)
Wolfgang Ernst (Berlin)
Desiree Förster (Potsdam)
John Hockey (Gloucestershire)
Esther Leslie (London)
Helmut Lethen (Vienna)
Gunnar Schmidt (Trier)
Paula Schönach (Helsinki)

Confirmed Speakers Summer School "Sensing Collectivities—Rethinking the Haptic: Touch, Movement, and Surfaces", 16-18 June 2017, University of Hamburg

Nerea Calvillo (Warwick) University, UK 
Anna Harris (Maastricht )
Hanna Göbel (Hamburg)
Mark W.D. Paterson (Pittsburgh)

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