RECODE PhD Summer School « The Challenge of Complex Diversity: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Europe and Canada »

The Challenge of Complex Diversity:
Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Europe and Canada

RECODE Summer School,
University College Dublin, 10th to 14thJune 2013

Applications are invited from doctoralresearch students to participate in a week-long summer school organized by the RECODE research networking programme, funded by the European Science Foundation, and hosted by the Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, from 10thto 14thJune 2013. Successful applicants will receive an award covering travel costs and accommodation.

RECODE, an interdisciplinary, comparative research programme, aims to explore to what extent the processes of transnationalisation, migration, religious mobilisation and cultural differentiation entail a new configuration of social conflict in post-industrial societies (see http://www.recode.fi/).The summer schoolwill examine the challenge of complex diversity, through theoretical and empirical perspectives from Europe and Canada.The week longprogramme will consist of lectures and seminars on the following four thematic areas covered by the RECODE network: (1) Linguistic diversity; (2) De-territorialized diversity; (3) Religious diversity; (4) Solidarity beyond the nation-state.