Summer Schools

Humboldt University, Berlin - February 22 to March 4, 2016, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta

The Return of the Past: Memory Making and Heritage in Southeast Asia

Post-colonial states in the Southeast Asian region have been described as being strongly oriented towards the future, prioritizing modernization and development. In recent years however, the past seems to have taken on a renewed relevance. This intensive two-week course brings experts from Berlin, Penang and Yogyakarta together to discuss memory and its transmission as a social, cultural and political phenomenon.

Heidelberg University, July 26 to 31, 2015

Walking the line – Art of border zones in times of crisis.

The summer school will engage with the production, circulation and the disruption of art and visual practices as they navigate the (thin) line between creative and destructive impulses in times when wars, struggles for national independence and conflicting ideologies result in border contestations and territorial partitions.