International Summer School in
Urban Ethnography
Visualizing the City

Trento, Italy
APPLICATION DEADLINE | 15.07.2014
• UNITN | Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

The second edition of the Summer School in Urban Ethnography @ UNITN aims to strengthen and develop the experience and positive working environment established in the first edition. The School’s core mission remains to provide participants with an inside view on the practice of urban ethnography.

GENERAL INFORMATION
The second edition of the School is focused on the visual – at the conceptual, methodological and substantive level. For a week, we will dive into current debates about:

• Urban visuality and urban in/visibilities;
• Visualizing the city, urban rhythms and urban transformations;
• Visualizing urban objects, spaces, atmospheres, events and cultures;
• Researching into the visible and invisible life of public places;
• Understanding the episteme of the image;
• Practicing and reflecting upon visual research methodologies.

Teaching method will be based mainly on interactive formats, such as workshops, data sessions, and ‘ethnographer’s kitchen’ sessions. Participants will have a chance to present their research project and hear a feedback on them. There will be four keynote lectures by established international scholars. Presentation of case studies and on-going research will occupy a large share of the allotted time. Reading materials will be circulated well in advance among participants, ensuring that they arrive at the meeting with a strong shared background. The Summer School draws on the expertise of the Department of Sociology at the University of Trento in the study of urban sociology, urban cultures and territorial analysis. It is co-organized and supported by the Italian ethnography journal Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa.

KEYNOTE LECTURES
• W.J.T. Mitchell
"Foundational Sites and Occupied Spaces"
• Douglas Harper
"Piazza Grande. The sociology of an Italian space and place"
• Giovanni Semi
"Designing the urban: place-making and the critical role of atmospheres"
• Mirko Petric
"Visual Vehicles of Deurbanization: Examples from a Postindustrial Heritage City"

APPLICATION AND FEES
• Applications are open until July 15th, 2014
• Participants will be selected on the basis of their Curriculum Vitae (please enclose your full C.V.), a short Statement of Interest in the Program (one paragraph), and abstract/outline of their current Research Project (or of their Thesis or dissertation). All materials need to be sent to urbanethnography@unitn.it.
• The fee for participation is 300 €, inclusive of tuition, coffee breaks, lunch, social dinner and welcome drink.Travel and accommodation costs are not included.
• The School is for 20 partcipants