IN BETWEEN NATIONS AND PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS: EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND THE NEW WORLDS.

[ Poster 2009 AILAE Summer School ]

In June 2009 AILAE held the first AILAE Summer School in Cultural and Critical Studies in partnership with the University of Calabria.

The AILAE Summer School emerges of AILAE's desire and mission to:

-offer European students the opportunity to explore further the fields of :

Cultural Studies, Critical Studies; Migration and Diaspora Studies; Race and Ethnicity; Multicultural Critical Theory; Whiteness,Race and Feminist Theory; Indigenous Studies;
Art and Society; Postcolonial Literature and Australian Popular Music.

-propose an intensive accredited program with prominent scholars and artists

-make excellent expertise in the mentioned fields available by holding courses and schools in areas where international debates may not be readily accessible

-promote and facilitate dialogue amongst artists and scholars across regions of the world

-provide opportunities for an international gathering amongst researchers to exchange knowledge

-overcome the barrier of language-bound dissemination of research by making sure that new and outstanding findings circulate everywhere

Outline of AILAE Summer Schools ( 2009, 2010, 2011)

AILAE, in its effort to promote and establish strong relationships between European countries and other regions of the world, is interested in instigating rigorous investigation and debate around the role that European changing borders are playing in influencing culture-play in and around the Mediterranean regions.

Migration and Diaspora have linked these regions amongst themselves and to the Australian and American areas. Nations are merging and new identities are forming: in betweenness is a category that translates into the urgency for new formations and new projects.

AILAE as an agency of change sensitive to the needs of the territories it connects ideally through its work, namely the Mediterranean areas, including the Balkan regions, Lebanon, Turkey.

AILAE acknowledges that there is a need for a wide and accessible international debate between European, Australian and American intellectual and artistic communities in order to focus on dynamics of identities and relationship between cultural and artistic practices.

AILAE’s aim is to address this gap and to provide opportunities for artists and scholars but especially younger artists, researchers and students, to engage with first class practicing artists and scholars, to immerse each others in a real exchange of ideas and work.

The AILAE Summer School 2009 aimed in particular at challenging and instigating reflection about a critically engaged, contemporary understanding of cultural practices in the European Mediterranean and Australian regions.

The AILAE Summer School counts amongst his lecturers, internationally renowned scholars and artists who engage with the participants on a daily basis via workshops, lectures and performances.
The Summer School is an accredited course ( contact us for information about credits).

The 2009 edition featured the following scholars and artists:

Ghassan Hage ( http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/episode/143);
Mireille Astore ( http://mireille.astore.id.au );
Ian Mc Lean ( https://www.socrates.uwa.edu.au/Staff/StaffProfile.aspx?Person=ianmclean) ;
Franca Tamisari ( Universita’ Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy)
Renata Summo-O’Connell (AILAE Founding Director, www.ailae.org)

AILAE Summer School 2010: Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy

About credits (ECT), evaluation , more information and details for enrolments, please contact AILAE at info@ailae.org


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