Timetable & learning outcomes
This unique summer school in France and the French-speaking world explores epistemological, historical and educational reflections that integrate the consequences of postcolonial approaches both in the training and scientific mediation of social and human sciences. Ultimately, the course questions the North vs. South divide in the face of globalization.
The program is designed for young or future lecturer-researchers in social sciences from different global contexts. Throughout, the main objective will be to question the capacity of social sciences to produce a common framework of reasoning from different points of view. Participants will be provided with resources (historical knowledge, authors and reference "canons", past and contemporary epistemological and terminological controversies) and exercises (comparative analysis of canons, terminologies and references mobilized in the practice of research, teaching and mediation) allowing them to introduce cross-perspectives into their disciplinary training activities, on both the challenge of globalization and the challenge of connecting viewpoints.
Course content will cover lessons on the theoretical and historical perspectives of social and human sciences and the development of their teaching and research references. Practical work will be carried out on the basis of comparative data or materials provided by the participants and their own references in research, teaching and scientific mediation practices.
Tentative program
Please note: some self-guided work may be required throughout the summer school.
Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
Day 5 |
Welcome and introduction |
Political and academic stakes of "decolonialism" |
Ethnographic museums: colonial heritage, coloniality of representations, postcolonial perspectives |
From colonial global modernity to Anthropocene issues |
Presentations workshop 1: Compare, revise, increase the canon of sociology? |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Can a disciplinary canon be both situated and shared? |
Transnational circulation / appropriation / connections of categories and references |
How to build the program of an international Master degree in African studies? |
How to organize the transnational circulation and discussion of academic productions? |
Presentations workshop 2: Comparing references on the notion of development in social sciences |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Workshop 1: Compare, revise, increase the canon of sociology? Workshop 2: Comparing references on the notion of development in social sciences |
Locally grounded, globally relevant: insight from the design of a sociology methodology module |
Workshop 1: Compare, revise, increase the canon of sociology? Workshop 2: Comparing references on the notion of development in social sciences |
Workshop 1: Compare, revise, increase the canon of sociology? Workshop 2: Comparing references on the notion of development in social sciences |
Debrief and closure |
Debrief |
Debrief |
Debrief |
Debrief |
A certificate of participation will be awarded to students upon completion of the course.
Program may be subject to change.