Social Sciences

The course will be based on (one or) two meetings and participation on a net site. The meetings are scheduled for 30.01 – 31.01.07 in Tromsø and 17.04 – 19.04.07 in Lund. The participants will gain access to a net site where a number of articles are available. The site also includes a forum component for discussions, questions and text presentations. Contributions at the net forum can be given in Norwegian or English according to ones preferences. It is possible to attend the first part of the course only; the meeting in Tromsø and the forum. In order to attend the last meeting in Lund, the first part of the course is obligatory.

Academic coordinator:
Jonathan Friedman, professor II at CEPIN, UiTø, professor at University of Lund and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France.

Contact:
If you have any question, please contact:
Head of Research, CEPIN, associate professor Gry Paulgaard.
E-mail: gry.paulgaard@sv.uit.no

Administrative coordinator: Hege Folkedal.
E-mail: hegef@sv.uit.no
Phone: (+47) 776 46199.

The course venue:
First meeting: 30 - 31 Januay 2007. University of Tromsø, Faculty of Social science. Room 1323 in Teorifagbygget, house 1.

The second meeting: 17 - 19 April 2007. University of Lund, Sweden.

Lectures:
Professor Jonathan Friedman. And in the second meeting in Lund there will be one or two invited lectures by Friedmans colleagues.

Language: Norwegian / Swedish / English.

Registration deadline: Monday 23 January 2007.

Credits, registration and Exam:
Participants in the course may earn 10 or 5 ECTS- credits depending on their level of involvement in the course.

The whole course is worth 10 ECTS-credits based on:
1) the meetings in Tromsø and Lund
2) reading of the articles and discussion in the forum
3) the exam on the net consists of at least 2 or 3 contributions in the forum and shorter essays based on a number of general questions concerning the content of the literature and the themes
4) a paper (10 pages at minimum) which are based on the students own research as they link to the themes of the course
5) th papers are to be presented in Lund at a seminar 17 - 19 April 2007.

The first section of the course is 5 ECTS-credits based on:
1) the meeting in Tromsø 30 - 31 January 2007
2) reading of the articles and discussion in the forum
3) instead of paper, the exam on the net consists of at least 2 or 3 contributions in the forum and shorter essays based on a number of general questions concerning the content of the literature and the themes.

The course has 2 different codes, depending on how many credits you want to earn:
10 ECTS = use the code SVF-8032.
5 ECTS = use the code SVF-8031

Please use SVF-8032 OR SVF-8031 in the application form section 3 ("course"):
The application form in Norwegian
The application form in English

Send the application form to this address:
Hege Folkedal
Faculty of Social Science, UiT,
9037 Tromsø.
(Or e-mail to: hegef@sv.uit.no )

NB! Notice that the course has a limited number of places (25) - please apply within 23 January. (Priority: 1)PhD-students at University of Tromsø - UiT, 2)PhD-students at a university other than UiT and 3) participants with minimum Master's degree or equivalent).
(Information about this in norwegian page: prioritering av søkere)

After registration deadline all applicants will get information about the course and list of participants by email.

Course description:
The course combines two series of themes. The first is an introduction to recent debates concerning the issue of globalization and what shall be referring to as the anthropology of global systems, or global systemic process. The first lectures will introduce the history of the emergence of the term “globalization” in the different disciplines of the social sciences and the humanities. It will then contrast the globalization approach with the analysis of global systems, for which the best introduction is the book Cultural identity and global process (Sage 1994). This introduction will be used to set the stage for a discussion of a number of issues and themes that have characterized the study of the global in the past several years, including the issue of the history of global systems, political power, the transformation of the state, the upsurge of local and transnational identifications, the (re)-emergence of terrorism, the emergence of new global elites and more.

The forum
The forum is a section within the net course that functions like a seminar without the problem of being present at the same time. It allows any participant to take up questions and themes that are made public to the other members of the site who can then discuss and debate the issues at hand.

Program
The first meeting (Tromsø)
Lecturer: Professor Jonathan Friedman
At the first meeting there will be lectures about the difference between globalization and global systemic approaches and the critical relation between the two. There will also be given information about the net site and the participants will get access to the literature and the net forum.

The second meeting (Lund)
Main lecturer Professor Jonathan Friedman.
There will be one or two invited lectures by colleagues at Lund in this section of the course.

Detailed program for the two meetings will be presented later.

Example of literature for discussion and debate