Practising Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Methods for Studying Space, Boundaries, and Power

Vytautas Magnus University Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute and Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities organize a PhD Training School Practising Collaboration: Interdisciplinary Methods for Studying Space, Boundaries, and Power.

About

This training school explores how territory, space, and boundaries can be studied through collaborative and interdisciplinary methodologies.

The programme offers:

• a rich set of research-based perspectives on contemporary questions on how space, territory and boundaries are experienced, claimed or contested;
• an intensive, hands-on workshop experience of working with an opportunity to engage with peers and senior scholars, and a chance to build collaborative international and interdisciplinary research networks for the future contemporary resilience-needed societies.

Learning methods:

• Theoretical lectures;
• Co-designing a collaborative research demonstrations;
• Creating a conceptual map of space, boundary, and security using participants’ disciplinary frameworks;
• Writing a short reflexive piece on collaborative dilemmas in one’s fieldwork;
• Designing an individual collaborative fieldwork plan.

Contacts

If you have any questions, please send your inquiry to vki@vdu.lt

Scientific Committee:

• Prof. Dr. Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė (V. Kavolis Institute);
• Dr. Risto Kunelius (HSSH);
• Pekka Mäkelä (HSSH).

Organizing Committee:

• Prof. Dr. Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė (V. Kavolis Institute);
• Gintarė Pocė (V. Kavolis Institute);
• Daiva Vilčinskienė (V. Kavolis Institute);
• Dr. Risto Kunelius (HSSH);
• Pekka Mäkelä (HSSH);
• Anna Jarske-Fransas (HSSH).

This is not a public event. Only successful applicants will be invited to the event. More about the call is here.

This workshop is one of the activities of the project “Strengthening of R&D activities of the Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Institute of Social and Humanities Sciences (SOCMTEP)”. The project is financed by the Lithuanian Science Council and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania, contract no. S-A-UEI-23-13 (12/27/2023). Funding program – “University Excellence Initiative” (No. V-940).