In November, the Academic Council approved a series of Intensive Graduate Activities that will take place in 2018 and 2019.
Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D and (Geo)Spatial Networks
Visualizing Venice Summer Institute
June 4-16, 2018
Digital Technologies for Historical and Cultural visualization are transforming the ways that scholars can study and represent works of art, as well as growth and change in urban spaces and buildings.
The target audience for the workshop will be established teams of scholars (faculty, researchers, post-doctoral and PhD participants) and their technical partners working in the field of digital art history. We anticipate approximately seven (7) teams of 2 – 3 person each, drawn from an international set of collaborators focused on scaling up an existing Digital Art History project, with special attention to projects focused on the intersection of mapping and modeling, and those thematized around Visualizing Cities.
Applications now open
Deadline January 5, 2018
Summer Institute on Ageing
VIU Summer School
June 4 - 8, 2018
The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing offers a “state-of-the-art” program which will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, ranging from recent advances of the medical and epidemiological literature, to an extensive treatment of the economic dimension (pensions and long term care) and of the sociological dimensions (intergenerational transfers, role of family networks). Special attention will be given to the use of large micro-data sets, such as SHARE (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe) and sister surveys: the HRS, ELSA, TILDA, CHARLS
The Summer Institute is addressed mainly to graduate and PhD students in social sciences (economics, sociology, demography, political science), to MDs particularly geriatrics, students in epidemiology, public health. Moreover, policy makers and high-level officials in public and private institutions will be admitted if their background is adequate
Applications opening soon
Rolling admissions until April 30, 2018.
Successful applicants who apply before February 23, 2018 will be able to book accommodation on campus. Applicants who apply after that date will organize their own accommodation.
Climate Change Assessment: Economic Models and Evaluation Criteria
Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics (EAERE-FEEM-VIU)
June 30-July 6, 2018
The objective of the 2018 School is to provide students with a broad understanding of the theory and practice of welfare assessment of economic climate change models, and more generally in the evaluation of long-term environmental economic problems.
The Summer School is targeted to doctoral and post-doctoral students. Admission is conditional on the presentation by each student of his/her doctoral work; Ph.D. students are expected to be in the process of writing a thesis chapter on positive or normative aspects of welfare assessment of climate change (or related long-run integrated policy assessment problems).
Applications now open
Deadline February 15, 2018
Responsible Capitalism: Micro and Macroinstitutional Conditions of Transformation
VIU Summer School
June 25 - 28, 2018
The summer school aims to develop ideas that promote a more sustainable future by bringing together young scholars from all over the world to discuss their ideas on the future of Capitalism from the microlevel of individual decision-making to the organizational and the societal level.
Applications are welcome from current PhD students, post-doc researchers in Management, Strategy, Organization Theory, Finance, Economic Sociology, and related disciplines from universities worldwide.
Application open: January 8 - February 28, 2018
Critical Infrastructure Resilience
VIU Summer School
July 16-20, 2018
From the neighborhood we live in to global production supply chains, we live in an increasingly connected world, where we often use our infrastructure for multiple purposes. Our society becomes more efficient but also increasingly interdependent and complex. So the loss of performance or disruption in some key points can have a cascading impact throughout the system.
The program is suited to graduate students and working professionals from any university, research institute, or other organization (private companies, government agencies, NGOs) with an interest in critical infrastructure issues
Applications open: February 19 - March 25, 2018
Oriental Languages
VIU Summer School
5-14 July 2018
The intensive program offered by the Summer School in Oriental Languages (ÜLO) intends to train students from different nationalities in ancient and modern oriental languages (Akkadian, Classical Hebrew, Modern Hebrew, Aramaic, classical Arabic, modern Arabic, old Persian, Persian, Armenian, Georgian, Coptic, classical Ethiopian, Syriac, Old Church Slavonic). While it is often difficult to open courses in rare languages at every university, the ÜLO allows the
grouping of a sufficient number of students for the opening of such courses.
Level of students and suitable fields of study
Students in BA, MA, PhD in Linguistics, Humanities, Sciences of Religions, Theology, Social Sciences. The summer school proposes different levels of languages according to the student’s skills.
Applications open in early 2018 (via Unil website https://wp.unil.ch/summerschools/courses/langues-de-lorient/)
Sustainable Energies
PhD Academy
July 9 - 13, 2018
Energy need and consumption in our modern lives are constantly increasing and the search for reliable alternatives to the current energy production and storage technologies is intensifying. Economic prosperity, quality of life, health and our well-being, in general, are directly correlated with the availability of affordable energy. Yet, negative impacts of the production and use of conventional energy sources on the environment, and on the health of individuals, become increasingly evident with every day. Addressing this challenge, to produce clean cost-effective renewable energy, will most likely require breakthroughs in materials science and nanotechnology.
This goal of this school is to facilitate several forums for learning, discussion and exchanging ideas to address the challenging issues in Renewable Energy.
Applications open: February 26 - March 25, 2018.
For information on VIU PhD Academies visit: www.univiu.org/study/phd-academy
Films in Venice and Filming Venice
VIU Summer School
August 27 - September 5, 2018
The aim is to combine filmic theory and practice, applying them to representations of Venice, through a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach, reflected both in the composition of the faculty and the student body. The first week, students will be introduced to the history, culture and anthropology of Venice and its relation to visual media. They will be offered basic notions of film analysis and film-making theory. The second week, will be devoted to film-making practice. Students will be encouraged to develop a team project on Venice: a film, which will be screened and collectively discussed and analysed at the end of the Summer School. Deserving projects will be shown at the Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival in March 2019.
The program is for postgraduates and undergraduates from various disciplines, film studies, film making, art history, visual art, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, those who would like to learn film-making in various forms - fiction, docudrama, documentary, visual arts, etc.
Applications open: April 9 - May 15, 2018
Sustainable Social Security - towards a new (European) social security model?
Graduate Seminar
October 8 - 12, 2018
When taking into account recent developments in national socials security systems and European/international social policy monitoring, sustainability is often referred to as a major objective to be respected by social policy makers. Yet what is to be understood by this principle? Guiding question in the event is whether there is something as a common understanding of the principle of sustainability, valid across various disciplines and in a cross-national setting. The topic is thus addressed in a multidisciplinary manner and it goes beyond the approach of a mere economic-financial assessment of system sustainability
The research seminar targets (young) researchers, open to reflect upon the future of social security in our society and in what manner ‘sustainability’ can play a guiding role in this future development. Consequently the event will give ample opportunities for young researchers and starting PhD-students to present their vision and/or broader research on the topic of sustainability in social security.
Applications open: June 1 - 30, 2018
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Investigating Environments, Lifestyle and Health: Applications in Population Studies
Graduate Seminar
Dates to be determined, early 2019
Given the elevated cost of conducting epidemiological studies for diseases that require following participants over decades, the utilization of data collected for administrative purposes has become increasingly popular. The use of registries and administrative databases for capturing valid indicators of sociodemographic characteristics and health related events on a population-wide basis will be described.
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How Can the Humanities Help to Save the Planet?
Graduate Seminar
Summer 2019
Under the every increasing likelihood of global climate change and resulting political instabilities, what can and should be the role of the Humanities and humanistic discourses? It might seem that scientists and social scientists are best positioned to intervene in the massive social, political, and economic transformations that are likely to occur. Yet surely humanists—with their capacity to enable sociable bonds of human connection, to provide historical context, and to explore the very definition of what it means to be human in a material world—also
have an important role to play in addressing climate change. Humanistic discourses have long had the capacity to imagine the imaginable, and they have also facilitated
creative alternatives and solutions at key moments of historical crisis when only the boldest and most dynamic ideas matter.
Level of students: advanced Master’s degree and Ph. D. candidates
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