Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate INTERZONES DOCTORATE ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEETING BARCELONA, 30 MARCH 2012 “Supervising Troubles” Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate MEETING MINUTES Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate 9.30. Welcome by Prof. Teresa Auguera, Vice-Rector for teaching and scientific policy of the University of Barcelona, Prof. Amparo Cortès, Director of Doctorate Programmes and Policies, and Prof. Laura Borràs, Interzones local-co-ordinator at the University of Barcelona. Teresa Auguera, after giving some basic data on the Universitat Barcelona, emphasizes the importance of internationalization policies in Spanish universities and more particularly in Catalunya, she also mentions the fact that her university has been ranked first for research excellence across Spain last year. She also explains the groundbreaking initiatives that the UB is implementing in degree-awarding procedures. For this reason, the UB is particularly honoured to host a meeting which marks the beginning of a new phase for the Interzones EMJD and expresses pride in being part of such a big elite and cosmopolitan network. (A more strictly technical meeting as regards quality enhancement policies, assessment methods, external audits, and degree-awarding protocols took place between the Interzones general co-ordinator and the highest representatives of UB for such matters). The General Co-ordinator pays a tribute to the vice president and to the host university for their hospitality on behalf of the whole consortium and its coordinating university, the Università degli Studi di Bergamo, its rector, Professor Stefano Paleari, its scientific coordinator, Professor Alberto Castoldi, and Professoressa Franchi, Director of the Implementation of the programme. DG then excuses the members of the consortium who were not in a position to join the meeting in Barcelona or simply could not make it because of flights being cancelled (Bilcewski from Krakow; Galinier from Perpignan; Milanesi and Viviès from Aix; Franco-Ferraz from Rio de Janeiro, Bhaduri from New Delhi; BonafousMurat from Paris). Didier Girard communicates that from now on 5 associate members of the Interzones Consortium will be able to deliver degrees to non-fellowship students and establish cotutelle degrees with any of the other degree-awarding institutions of the Consortium (10 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate out of 16). DG congratulates the new partners and explains, with concrete examples, why this represents a fantastic added value to attract excellent students who cannot apply under the EM fellowship scheme (because of linguistic combinations not eligible for the EM fellowship, or mobility options made impossible because of their previous academic records). Some remarks on the importance (and duties) of becoming degree-awarding partners follow. DG confirms that he will have bilateral meetings with every one of the new degreeawarding partners (through the person in charge of such matters locally, usually the director of the doctoral school or the Vice President in Scientific matters, or Registrar director) to inform them technically about the specific standards of an EMJD (a degree awarding package - already prepared and accepted by the rest of the consortium - will be sent in the course of April 2012 to the new degree-awarding partners so that they can prepare themselves before students actually start their doctoral studies with Interzones). DG reminds everyone that the Interzones Consortium Agreement (ICA, available on-line on the official website) has a whole section on the specificities and requirements for the establishment of co-tutelle protocols, hence heads of doctoral schools should use this document approved and signed by all the partners of the Consortium as a starting point for discussion to implement degree-awarding policies and not let themselves be led astray by their own local authorities to think that they should negotiate co-tutelle contracts from scratch. The Interzones programme awards multiple degrees consisting of 1) two co-tutelle degree certificates from the two universities where the PhD student has spent two consecutive semesters, 2) 2 diplomas/certificates from the remaing two insitutions where he/she has spent one semester, 3) academic transcripts and one diploma supplement that have been finalized in accordance with the Treaty of Lisbon. DG insists on the fact that the Consortium has always defended the idea of a multiple degree (and not an idealized joint degree) fully recognized by all the universities and national governmental authorities of the consortium involved in the education of the student considered. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Questions follow which lead DG to recap the main differences between multiple, double and joint degrees, as understood in the EU terminology which might differ greatly from what it means in different countries. DG also takes advantage of the presence of Vice-Presidents in the meeting to make a synthesis of the new framework project “Erasmus for all” starting in 2014 in the context of “Horizon 2000” (as described to all EMJD co-ordinators in Brussels on March 16th 2012): there will be no difference made any more between European and non European partners OR candidates; and in their efforts to ensure a simpler management and an increase of the overall budget, the Commission for Education and Culture will take care of all programmes under the same Framework (Erasmus, Mundus Master Courses, but also Tempus, LifeLongLearning or Youth in action, to name but a few). An important thing to bear in mind is that EMJoint Doctorates will be not part of this overall “Erasmus for All” package. Representatives of the EACEA insisted that this would make it possible for them to have a separate and generous budget for EMJDs. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Every local-coordinator of the new five degree-awarding partner universities takes the floor. Prof. Laura Borràs acts as a spokesperson for the legal representative of Entre Rios University (Parana, Argentina), as she reads the Rector’s official declaration in Spanish (See Annex 1). Prof. Christine Savinel (Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle, head of the Doctoral School EAGE) shares the same conviction on the importance of this new position and expresses her gratitude on behalf of her institution. She insists on the fact that her university is eager to develop international doctoral agreements especially with foreign universities, and also adds as head of a doctoral school including English, German and European Relations departments, that she is thinking of opening the collaboration to Interzones to many other dpts potentially involved (especially Performative Arts and Comparative Literature). Prof. Camille Dumoulié (Paris Ouest-Nanterre) first underlines that the Interzones doctorate is, for his own university, a real “gift”: a comparative programme that from now on will be in a better situation (with the degree-awarding formula) to attract more pupils to join the programme without depriving his university of excellent PhD students. According to top researchers of his research centre, Interzones is not only one of the best Doctorate around, but the only one in France to specialize in Comparative Literature. This also is encouraging him, as Director of the Research Centre “Poétiques et littératures compares” to welcome top researchers in his own university but coming from different faculties to contribute to the success of the programme. Finally, Prof. Francesca Manzari (Aix-Marseille University) expresses, on behalf of Profs. Claudio Milanesi and Jean Viviès, the same gratitude for their new institutional status. The plurilinguist dimension (Hispanic, English-speaking, German, Slavic and all Romance languages) of the programme means a lot to Aix Marseille. Last but not least, Laura Borràs (Universitat Barcelona) sums up the UB’s position and shows to the audience a video that will soon be available on-line on the Doctorate’s website. The representatives of the core partners of the consortium then take the floor to welcome the new degree-awarding institutions and share with them their 2-year experience with Interzones: Ingrid Hot Davies (Karls Eberhardt Universität, Tübingen) insists on the Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate inventiveness of the programme and the fact that it has forced and helped the whole university (from academia to administration) to go truly international. Franca Franchi (Università degli Studi, Bergamo) introduces herself as the critical consciousness of the Doctorate and insists on thanking the University of Barcelona for the warm welcome and in particular Prof. Laura Borràs who has always been an operative and collaborative colleague from the start; Jonathan Pollock (University of Perpignan, Head of the Doctoral School) very generously expresses his pleasure at seeing more French universities among the degree-awarding partners as Perpignan so far has had the majority of Interzones PhD students staying with them. He also expresses his joy of celebrating this new development of the Doctorate in South Catalunya. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate 10.30: Break The Interzones Consortium official photography at the Cloister of the University of Barcelona. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate 11.00-13.30 Work session n°1: Induction semester 2012 Aula Gabriel Oliver- Facultat de Filologia As usual after the end of any induction semester in Bergamo, PhD students are invited to collaborate on a feedback report on the seminars they have followed. The 2 nd round Supervision Co-ordinator, Prof. Kapitolina Federova, has prepared a synthesis of the weaker points of last year’s cycle of seminars: 1. The importance of establishing a limited bibliography that the new round has to read and study during the holidays, before they join the Doctorate. Some of the books recommended last year were never discussed by the professors. So the basic Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate bibliography should be known and discussed thoroughly by all the professors coming to give a seminar. 2. Professors shouldn’t repeat lessons already done in other contexts; they should, instead, prepare something special, demanding and difficult even if it does concern everybody (in relation to their own research) and make sure that there is time for confrontations. 3. The interactivity during the seminars is an opportunity not to be missed; frontal presentations or lectures should be avoided altogether to give time for PhD students to be tested and to make them react one way or another so that they can benefit to the full of the presence and experience of senior lecturers and professors who can then point out the weaknesses of the students’ perspectives and argumentative skills. In order to prepare this much better, professors are invited to communicate to the group of PhD Students beforehand what is expected from them on D-Day (articles to be read, questions to be considered, preparations under one form or another) 4. Professors should not think that they have to deliver extremely long seminars but keep some time to have some time to exchange at length with students whose research is particularly in the area of specialization of the visiting professor. Professor Franchi declares she will take all these essential remarks into consideration to prepare the programme for the next induction semester and takes advantage of this feedback report to point out the leading role of this early stage in the academic training of our students, and of the importance of transmitting some universal concepts to the students. Hence, it becomes necessary and obvious to her that basic modules/sessions based on common readings must be conceived. Having said that, Professor Franchi points out that the AC should impose some rules to deeply involve the students into the courses and to give an official character to the Doctorate. Most students have an employment contract with a better salary than many experienced professors in countries represented in the Consortium and, in some cases, should not behave passively during the seminars. DG quite agrees with that and adds that certain attitudes of a few professors are not to be Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate tolerated either, he takes a good note of this, and announces that he will highlight these points at the next Inauguration Ceremony. Professor Hotz-Davies comes into the debate saying that the seminar formula is the most successful one because the students, who come from different countries and have different cultural backgrounds, feel more at ease taking part in less formal lessons. DG asks everybody to express themselves on those issues. A first round of opinions upon the importance and necessity of a closer and better monitored supervision mechanism and of a deeper didactic organization follows. Professor Christine Savinel suggests to organize something in the line of what they do at the Sorbonne, “From student to Scholar”, a twoday seminar on soft skills. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Prof. Müller-Nielaba (University of Zürich) comes into the debate arguing that the academic theme should be very precise; hence, Prof. Christine Savinel suggests working on the methodology of the seminars, on HOW to prepare and improve one’s skills to become global academics. The problem with the updated research projects from the new PhD students (to be discussed in the afternoon) shows that candidates do not lack references, but that they lack rigour and juggle with too many and too vague theoretical notions and concepts. Finally, Prof. Hotz-Davies suggests that an Interzones methodology is more a matter of testing the limits and the frontiers of many co-existing perspectives than more lectures on various new theoretical schools or concepts. She suggests that we consider various “Processes of demarcation” in our seminars to the PhD students. DG asks details about all these proposals and recommends that we use the first three weeks of October to actually do “Methodological Demarcations” sessions, and have them followed by the Inauguration of the cycle of conferences (October 22-24) and many other Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate seminars in November and December on the theme selected. Professor Franchi informs the AC members that Professor Giulia Sissa (U.C.L.A.) has been invited to give the plenary Inauguration speech this year for the 3rd round of students, following M. Augé and C. Severi for the first two rounds. Within hours, she has immediately and enthusiastically honoured the invitation, suggesting too to give an extra seminar on the following two days (Inauguration October 22nd, seminar 23rd & 24th). The General co-ordinator, given the scope and prestige of Giulia Sissa’s academic achievements, says how honoured he is by Giulia Sissa’s generous support and he strongly encourages all members of the Consortium to send representatives to attend the Inauguration Ceremony to engage in a fruitful intellectual debate. Prof. Franchi lists every suggestion that has come to her in the previous months from the various research centres of the Consortium: 1. Transmedia studies 2. Postcolonial legacies 3. Ethics and politics of desire 4. Cultural border crossways 5. In-between mapping 6. Through narratives A round table follows and it soon appears that proposal n°3 (“Ethics and politics of Desire”) emerges as the best one. This theme also triggers various proposals for seminars by various members of the consortium. Franca Franchi takes notes and invites everyone to send her argumented proposals in the weeks to come. She will also write to the whole consortium (for those not present in Barcelona) and will suggest a didactic schedule before the summer. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate 12.30 Summary and factual information on the morning Session It is decided that from October 1st to October 18th some didactic modules will focus on what has been coined by Ingrid Hotz-Davies as “Methodological demarcations”. The point of these sessions will NOT be to illustrate more theoretical schools of thought but rather to point out, concretely, the risks inherent in using too many of them or in too lose a manner; in other words, the goal of these sessions must be to make our PhD students sharper and less naïve before choosing a methodological perspective that is not perfectly relevant to the questions they want to raise Prof. Borràs and Prof. Hotz-Davies on Reading words and images (8th October); Prof. Müller-Nielaba on Hermeneutics (9th-12th October) Prof. X on Images, Imagology, Visual cultures (date to be fixed) Prof. Savinel on Intermediality (15th October); Prof. Christoph Reinfelt on System Theories (date to be fixed) Prof. Dumoulié, Prof. Pollock and Prof. Manzari on Literature, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (12th-13th October); Prof X on Cultural Studies (date to be fixed) To these sessions will be added a one-day soft skill training, “From Student to Scholar” which will insist on a certain number of skills that our PhDstudents must acquire : it is sad to see talented individuals who speak so many languages, unable to communicate without knowing how to present themselves, discuss issues one way or another without realizing that argumentative skills must be oriented towards a convincing logical discourse, talk without reading their notes from start to finish and sometimes focusing on peripheral literary toenails rather than engage in ambitious topics. In the past 12 months, DG has asked non-academic personalities working in the economic sector of communication and Public Relations to go to various venues where our 1st round PhD students were giving talks and the observations above unfortunately were confirmed. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate EACEA news on EMJDs As a conclusion to the morning session, DG informs the members of the consortium of some important news collected in Brussels (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate General Coordinators Technical Meeting, 16th March 2012): - The Interzones EMJD was praised for its truly international, non euro-centric and trans-cultural activities and protocols. - students’ initiatives were also appreciated and hyped. - the acceptance letter package, web site, e-platforms and other administrative tools were praised as best practice to other EM consortia. - Many other EMJD consortia find it very difficult to cope with appeals (to selection procedures) and support to students’ applications for visas. More generally speaking, the meeting (34 EMJDs were represented) was a formidable opportunity to exchange practices. - Many EMJDs offer topics that are appointed to certain students. Very often, selection and pedagogic processes are two different things. In other words candidates are first selected and then research projects are discussed or imposed; - Some EMJDs publicize the positions offered as job offers. Eventually, DG officially informs the Academic Council of a certain number of key issues that preoccupied us recently. Only good news! 1) Aliki Tzatha’s decision to quit the doctorate has been notified, accepted, and validated by the EACEA who have been very interested in the way we treated this case not anticipated by anyone at European level. The good news is that we will soon be in a position to transfer her fellowship to our paying student of the 1st round, Alessandro Rossi. We spare you the details of the administrative complexities we had to face to have this accepted and validated but the money will go to one of our students which is always better than back in the EU coffers. We will confirm you this but by May 1st A. Rossi should be considered as a Fellow in the B Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate category like any other for his remaining 3 semesters with us. 2) In the same context the UE has expressed no objection to the introduction of a withdrawal clause in cases of resignations to the Fellowship with no medical justification as long as the employment contract abides to the coordinating university’s national legislation. According to the Italian law, resignation clauses in fellowship contracts, except for medical reasons, are perfectly legal. The universities of Zürich and Tübingen, which had expressed disapproval at the introduction of such a clause, are reassured by the news and measures are being taken to introduce the clause (with modification of the employment contract and all related documents) as early as next September (3rd round and future 4th and 5th). This clause cannot be applied to students from the 1st and 2nd rounds. The withdrawal penalty will be progressive: Withdrawal during the first semester (Sept 1st - January 31st year n+1 ): no penalty because the candidate can be replaced by another one from the "shadow" list. Withdrawal during the second semester (Feb. 1st - August 31st year n+1): penalty of 5000 euros; Withdrawal during the third or fourth semesters (Sept. 1st year n+1 – August 31st year n+2): penalty of 8000 euros ; Withdrawal during the fifth or sixth semesters (Sept. 1st year n+2 – August 31st year n+3): penalty of 11000 euros. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate 15.30 Work session n°2 : Co-supervision mechanism Aula Gabriel Oliver- Facultat de Filologia Every one of the 9 research projects is discussed by the whole Academic Council one after another. Each member present takes notes for one particular candidate, and will send to the General Co-ordinator a short report on what must be improved or modified in the project to make sure that the research can be conducted successfully. These feedback reports will be communicated in late April to the students who will be invited to react in writing and another session of the AC will take place in Paris (Paris Ouest University, on June 29th 2012) to reconsider the students’ response (together with the research projects of the PhD students already with us but who might need refocusing their research, methodology). On October 18th and 19th 2012, the AC will organize a physical bilateral meeting in Bergamo with every student separately. Decisions will then be firm for all parties for the rest of their doctoral studies. No change in the research topic, language of writing, methodology and scope will be tolerated. Three hours later, all projects have been analyzed and commented on. DG adds that more protocols must be invented and finetuned: - collecting CVs from every research centre’s potential supervisors (minimum of five). The idea behind this is a flag ship approach which will give ideas to candidates about what our experts across the Consortium (not only from an academic point of view but also individuals who are ready and eager to work in a truly trans-cultural environment). The one-page CVs will be published on the official website. DG will soon write to every local co-ordinator to gather these documents. - E-platform or not for supervision? The Interzones website includes an e-platform that makes it possible for students and supervisors to communicate and follow up Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate what has been done here and there and how the thesis progresses. It is also a wonderful tool for the supervision coordinator to check that things are being handled properly by teachers and students alike. Unfortunately so far, the e-platform is very little used. This Spring DG will make sure that every pool of supervisors for every PhD student is in contact with one another. - Supervision coordinators and their roles. We still have problems with first supervisors who seem reluctant to initiate communication with the pool of supervisors involved in the student’s doctoral mobility - DG wonders whether we should not ask non-academic personalities (PR, communication, human resources) to form small commissions to listen and assess every PhD student’s rhetorical and communication capacities. Recap of the Interzones calendar in 2012 (All academic conferences are described at length on the Interzones official website) The Interzones Students conference for all EM post graduate students: “Preoccupied” (28th-29th June, Kulturpark- Berlin); AC Meeting (29th June, Paris Ouest-Nanterre, contact : Camille Dumoulié). We will discuss research projects and co-supervision issues for students of ALL rounds Interzones Conference “Latin Eros” (13th-15th September, Procida Island) October 18th (afternoon) and 19th 2012 : Bilateral meetings of the AC with PhD students 21st October 2012: Inauguration ceremony under the tutelage of Giulia Sissa. Seminar on October 22-23 October. Members of the Consortium (not only local coordinators) are strongly recommended to attend until the 22nd N.B. Future World Interzones conferences will be held in 2013 in Tübingen (Irritations, date to be fixed), Induction semester meeting in late March / early Arpil in Aix Marseille University and Sydney in November 2013. Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Barcelona, 30 March 2012 List of Presence Name and University Prof. Didier Girard EMJD Gal co-ordinator Université d’Haute Alsace (France) (Chairman – no vote) Prof. Franca Franchi Professor of French Studies, Department of Humanities, University of Bergamo (Italy) Prof. Laura Borràs Director of Hermeneia Research Group, Universidad Barcelona (Spain) Prof. Luis Felipe Canudas Division of Humanity and Communication Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) Prof. Camille Dumoulié Centre de Recherches Littérature et Poétique Comparées, Université Paris Ouest-Nanaterre-La Défense (France) Prof. Kapitolina Fedorova Faculty of Arts, European University at St Petersburg (Russia) Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Prof. Ingrid Hotz-Davies Englisches Seminar, Gender Studies, Karl Eberhards Universität Tübingen (Germany) Prof. Francesca Manzari Comparative literature Studies, Université Aix-Marseille (France) On behalf of prof. Claudio Milanesi Prof. Daniel Müller-Nielaba Head of the Graduate School, University of Zürich (Switzerland) Prof. Jonathan Pollock Director of Département des Etudes Anglophones, Université de Perpignan via Domitia (France) Prof. Christine Savinel ED 514-EDEAGE- Etudes Anglophones, Germanophones et Européenes Université Sourbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 (France) Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Annex 1 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ CONCEPCIÓN DEL URUGUAY, ENTRE RÍOS, 28 de marzo de 2012. SEÑOR DIRECTOR DEL PROGRAMA INTERZONES PROFESOR DIDIER GIRARD De mi mayor consideración: Me dirijo a usted a fin de agradecerle su atenta invitación para participar del encuentro organizado en el marco de las actividades del consorcio “Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones”, instancia a la que lamentablemente no podré asistir por encontrarme participando de reuniones indelegables que hacen a la buena marcha de la Universidad. Es un orgullo para esta Casa de Estudios formar parte del consorcio a través del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, una propuesta que se destaca no sólo por la excelencia académica, sino por su génesis y desarrollo interinstitucional, puesto que el dictado se realiza de manera conjunta entre tres Facultades de nuestra Universidad. La apertura de esta nueva posibilidad de intercambio académico constituye para la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos una celebración, y al mismo tiempo un resorte de responsabilidades: la de continuar dirigiendo los esfuerzos a la consolidación de redes como la que nos convoca, permitiéndonos trabajar de manera cooperativa y solidaria en torno a los desafíos comunes que nos unen. Es una oportunidad propicia, además, para reconocer a los hacedores de este espacio. Gracias a la voluntad y esfuerzos de todos ellos veremos cumplido el sueño de una cooperación e integración internacional basada en el respeto y compromiso mutuo, de un proyecto que, más allá de las diferencias étnicas, culturales, políticas o sociales, y basándose en problemáticas y desafíos comunes, reflexiona y acciona sobre la necesidad de trabajar articuladamente en pos del bien común. La instancia que – aunque a la distancia- hoy celebramos, es parte de ese trabajo que nos debemos las universidades en torno a la forma de concebir la producción de conocimiento científico, así como repensar la formación de profesionales para asumir e intervenir sobre las realidades sociales. Ruego a usted haga extensivo este reconocimiento a todos los presentes, saludo del que también hago parte a la directora del Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales, Profesora Claudia Kozak, demás autoridades y comunidad toda de la Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina. Cordialmente, Ing. Qco. Jorge Gerard Rector de la UNER Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Annex 2 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Annex 3 Università degli Studi di Bergamo Room 120 - Via dei Caniana, 2, 24127 Bergamo Italy e mail: interzones.phd@unibg.it website: http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/ Morning / Matin Aula Ramon y Cajal Claustre de Rectorat 9.30h Universitat de Barcelona Prof. Carles Carreras Prof. Teresa Anguera Prof. Enric Canela Prof. Helena Puigdomènech HERMENEIA RESEARCH GROUP Prof. Raffaele Pinto Prof. Laura Borràs Dra. Giovanna di Rosario Welcome from the Universitat de Barcelona / Bienvenue des autorités de l'Université de Barcelona Prof. Carles Carreras. Vicepresident of International Relations 9.45h Welcome by Prof. Laura Borràs, Interzones Coordinator at the UB. 10.00h Introduction by the General Co-ordinator, Prof. Didier Girard. 10.20h The Interzones Consortium (official photography) at the Cloister of the University of Barcelona Aula Gabriel Oliver Facultat de Filologia 10.30- 13.30h Work session / Session de travail by Prof. Franca Franchi: Next year's Induction Semester. Subject, lecturers, calendar... Afternoon / Après midi 13.30-15.30h Lunch / Déjeuner 15.30- 17.30 Work session / Session de travail: PhD supervision and Research Project Recommendations 13.0117.30- 18.00h Discussion : Expanding the Interzones "degree". 18.00h Closing remarks / Clôture Alberto Castoldi Organisation (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) Franca Franchi ERASMUS MUNDUS (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) Ingrid Hotz-Davies (Universität Tübingen) Jonathan Pollock (Université di Perpignan) Workshop JOINT DOCTORATE Hermeneia Estudis Literaris i Tecnologies Digitals Cultural Studies in the Literary Interzones Christine Savinel (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris3) Francesca Manzari (Université Aix-Marseille) Camille Dumoulié (Université Paris 10) Daniel Müller Nielaba (Universität Zürich) Kapitolina Fedorova (University of Saint Peterburg) 30th March 2012 Tomasz Bilczewski (Jagiellonian University) Luis Felipe Canudas (Iberoamericana de México) Elena Mazzoleni (Interzones Assistant) Didier Girard (General Co-ordinator) Aula Ramon y Cajal Aula Gabriel Oliver Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585 Barcelona 08007 Barcelona Universitat de Barcelona Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585 Barcelona 08007 http://www.mundusphd-interzones.eu/
