Medical Matters in Post/colonial Situations (Matérialités médicales en situations post/coloniales)

*Recognition of ECTS depends on your home university.

Physical mobility

The physical mobility part will be running from 19 to 23 May 2025 and will take place in Marseille, France, at the Vieille Charité site of EHESS.

Schedule of the physical part

Part of the week will jointly be organized by the project partners: the Archives nationales d’Outre-Mer and the MuCEM (Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée). On site, we will be having guided visits of museums and archives (MuCEM, Archives nationales d’Outre-Mer, etc.), plenary conferences by senior researchers, and working sessions, in addition to evening cultural events.

Virtual part

The virtual part will be running from 3 February 2025 to 18 April 2025.

Schedule of the virtual part

The online workshop aims to open up different perspectives on colonial legacies in different institutions. We wish to encourage discussion between participants from different universities, by providing time for exchange in plenary sessions and in small groups. The digital format allows to gather a large number of participants, and to give room to different forms of international expertise, in particular from the African continent.

The online workshop will be complemented by self-paced preparation of a background bibliography on the subject, compiled by the program convenors and shared with participants via an electronic platform.

Requirements

This course is open to Master's and PhD students at CIVIS member universities with a background (History, Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Museum studies, arts), with a specific interest in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.

In order to follow the course participants must be fluent (C1 level) in French and English, but know both languages (be able to read scientific literature, etc.).

Critical thinking, data analysis, oral and writing skills, interdisciplinary methods are considered as desirable skills.

NB: Visiting Students - Erasmus Funding Eligibility

To be eligible for your selected CIVIS programme, you must be a fully enrolled student at your CIVIS home university at the time you will be undertaking the programme. Click here to learn more about the eligibility criteria.

This course is also open to students with the same academic profile, who are enrolled at a CIVIS strategic partner university in Africa. Please check here, if you can apply and this particular course is open to applications from your university. Successful applicants will receive an Erasmus+ grant covering travel and subsistence costs during their stay. Applicants should be willing to extend their stay at the host university for 1-3 weeks for additional research and/or training purposes. 

Application process

Send your application by filling in the online application form by 31 October 2024, including:

• CV
• Motivation letter
• Level of Language (According to CEFR)
• Research project outlines

Students' applications will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• The motivation letter should include:

  - Reason for applying and expectations from the course

  - A description of the applicant’s thematic interests (e.g., research topic or thesis topic)

• Quality and relevance of their research project to the course.
• Additional criteria will include gender, university location, research period and sites, advancement of study, in order to convene a mixed group of students.

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Assessment

The assessment will be based on the following criteria:

Qualitative evaluation of the course aiming at guiding the student into the acquisition of interdisciplinary approaches and the processing of comparative research into their own material. 

• First of all, the assiduity and participation in the discussions will be evaluated, including the preparation of the discussions by going through the bibliography and the critical presentation of their research.
• Secondly, participants will be required to reflect on a case study and prepare a dossier of analysis and documents related to that case study, which they will enrich throughout their collaboration with the project team.
• Finally, during their stay in Marseille they will be asked to prepare a way to present the information acquired through visits to different institutions, reading archival documents, and meetings with local experts. This way is completely at their discretion: it can be a field diary, a blog, a photographic documetation, an artistic project, a podcast or any other format they wish.

Blended Intensive Programme

This CIVIS course is a Blended Intensive Programme (BIP): a new format of Erasmus+ mobility which combines online teaching with a short trip to another campus to learn alongside students and professors across Europe. Click here to learn more about CIVIS BIPs.

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