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Olympia Summer Seminars Fellowship
Cycle A: Conflict & Identity
July 7-18, 2011
Yale undergraduates are invited to apply for a fellowship at the Olympia Summer Seminars 2011, which take place in Ancient Olympia, in Greece. Applicants should submit a two-paragraph rationale for their participation, their curriculum vitae, and an official transcript. The deadline is March 31st, 2011. Submissions should be sent electronically to george.syrimis@yale.edu.
Program description
Since the summer of 2002, Olympia has been hosting, with growing success, an annual international graduate summer program in conflict studies. Thanks to the collaboration of Greek universities with Yale University’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, the hospitality of the city of Ancient Olympia, and the generosity of Greek foundations, the OSS bring together every year a highly diverse and talented group of graduate students, professionals, and professors from more than 30 countries from around the world. The purpose of the seminars is to create a forum for high quality academic work in the unique setting of Olympia, and to provide opportunities for the creation and consolidation of scholarly networks of cooperation.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary, the 2011 program will offer three cycles of studies. The application is competitive. Tuition charges cover only part of the total cost of the program since OSS is generously supported by several sponsors. A number of scholarships are offered on the basis of merit and need.
Course description
We now know much more about conflict and political violence than we did just fifteen years ago. Thanks to new approaches and tools, social scientists have pushed our understanding of the causes, dynamics, and consequences of conflict forward. At the same time, of course, there is still a lot that we do not know or understand. The objective of the course is, therefore, to survey this field, record what we know and explore its boundaries. As this is a naturally interdisciplinary field, we will draw from several disciplines and subfields: political science (including international relations and comparative politics), sociology, history, anthropology, and economics. We will examine a variety of issues, including the causes and dynamics of civil war, the varieties of mass violence, the evolving forms of warfare, its relation with nationalism and ethnicity, the logic of rebel group formation, cohesion, and performance; and the relation between conflict and economic development. Our geographic focus will be just as extensive and eclectic. By the end of the course, students will have acquired a broad overview of this fascinating and evolving field of inquiry.
The faculty includes:
Laia Balcells, Ph.D., Yale
Researcher, Institute for Economic Analysis,
Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Researchhttp://balcells.iae-csic.org
Christopher Cramer, Ph.D., Cambridge
Professor of the Political Economy of Development, SOAShttp://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30808.php
Stathis Kalyvas, Ph.D., Chicago
Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, Yale University;
Director of the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence at Yalehttp://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/skalyvas.html
Dimitris Keridis, Ph.D., Tufts
Associate Professor of International Relations,
University of Macedoniahttp://users.uom.gr/~keridis/
Paul Staniland, Ph.D., MIT
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicagohttp://home.uchicago.edu/~paul/Paul_Stanilands_Website. html