Are you currently pursuing your B.A., M.A. or PhD?

Would you like to

earn credit points and acquire new inspiration for your next paper,
research project or thesis? Are you interested in meeting and exchanging
ideas with young and established scholars from all over the world? Do
poetry readings and a spoken word performance sound intriguing to
you? If so, you should attend the summer school Border Stories!

WHERE: University of Augsburg, Germany

WHEN: September 7-11, 2015
WHO: All interested B.A., M.A. and PhD students
CREDITS: 4, 6, 8, 10 ETCS points (depending on the workload)
SEMINARS: Six sessions (ninety minutes each)
WORKSHOPS: Two sessions (ninety minutes each)
POERTY READINGS: Henry Beissel (Ottawa)
http://www.henrybeissel.com/
SPOKEN WORD POET: Dorothea Smartt (London, Barbados)
http://www.britbornbajan.co.uk/
FEES: 150 with & 50 without accommodation

https://borderstories2015.wordpress.com/
borderstories2015@gmail.com
The summer school Border Stories: Narratives of Peace, Conflict &
Communication in the 20th &21st Centuries will take manifold
metaphorical borders and the narratives of postcolonial literatures and
theory as a starting point to re-examine issues related to the
postcolonial concepts of place, space and sense of self, in addition to
exploring factual as well as fictional accounts concerning conflict,
communication and coming to terms with displacement.

Register in three easy steps:

1) Pick a seminar:
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Afrofuturism
Postcolonial Pathologies: Double-Consciousness and Fiction
Reading the South African City: Johannesburg-Capetown-Durban
Crossing Real and Imagined Borders between Minds: Empire, Conflict and
Peace in Anglophone Science Fiction
Energy Security and the War on Terror: Ecology and Insurgency in the
Postcolonial World

2) Pick a workshop:
Crossovers and Controversies: Debating Postcolonial and Queer Perspectives
in Deepa Mehtas Fire
Race and Space Challenging the Legacy of Colonialism in Fiction of the 20th
and 21st Centuries
Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed?
Border Crossings in Margaret Atwoods Speculative Fiction
Postcolonial Studies & Comics
Creative Writing Workshop with Dorothea Smartt

3) Send us an email (borderstories2015@gmail.com) including the

following information by August 15th:
Seminar & workshop choiceplease give us your 1st and 2nd choice of each
A paragraph indicating what your specific interest in the topic is and how far
you have proceeded in your studies
Are you booking with (150 ) or without (50 ) accommodation?