Summer Programs
To advertise your Summer 2012 program here, contact Nadia Hlibka at the MESA secretariat (fee-based service).
The presence of an ad or a listing on the MESA website does not indicate an endorsement by MESA. This is by no means a complete list; it reflects information submitted to the Secretariat only.
Programs and listings are uploaded as received.
| Date/Location | Summer Program (click on name for more information) |
Deadline |
|---|---|---|
| 04 June-08 August 2012 Tucson, Arizona |
University of Arizona Intensive Arabic Summer 2012 |
Contact below. |
| 04-16 June 2012 Granada, Spain |
Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues "Critical Muslim Studies" |
February 05, 2012 |
| 09-20 July 2012 Budapest, Hungary |
Central European University Summer School |
February 15, 2012 |
| 04 June-27 July 2012 | Indiana University Summer Language Workshop (SWSEEL) |
Priority Deadline March 01, 2012 |
18 May-30 June 2012
|
Jordan University of Science & Technology (JUST) Petra Crown Academics-JUST Intensive Arabic Immersion |
Rolling admissions |
| 12 June-08 August 2012 Monterey, California |
Monterey Institute of International Studies Summer Language Program in Arabic |
April 28, 2012 |
| 10 May-14 June 2012 Morocco |
Morocco Sustainable Community Development Program | January 31, 2012 |
| 02-27 July 2012 Barcelona, Spain |
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute |
March 01, 2012 |
| 18 June-10 August 2012 Madison, Wisconsin |
University of Wisconsin-Madison 2nd Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute |
April 16, 2012 |
University of Arizona
Summer Intensive Arabic Program
04 June-08 August 2012
Tucson, Arizona
The Arabic summer program at the University of Arizona at the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) is a rigorous program that adopts the proficiency-based approach and emphasizes cultural literacy and the use of technology.The MENAS Arabic Summer program in 2012 is offering four courses that count for two years of Arabic and that are taught by dynamic, experieced and supportive teachers. Visit the website: http://menas.arizona.edu/arabic or contact the Arabic Program (520 621-8013; fax: 520 621-2333) or the Arabic Program Coordinator, Sonia Shiri (soniashiri@email.arizona.edu).
Atlas Cultural Foundation and Montana State University
Sustainable Community Development Program
10 May-14 June 2012
The Morocco Sustainable Community Development program is an international service learning program that offers university students in the fields of architecture, education, and health the opportunity to participate in ongoing community development projects in the rural communities of the Zawiya Ahansal region in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
Language: English
Level(s): Graduate and Undergraduate (6 credits)
Subjects: Architecture, Health, and Education
(Students from all universities and fields of study are encouraged to apply.)
The program is accredited through Montana State University and is partnered with the Atlas Cultural Foundation (ACF), a non-profit organization with the mission of helping underserved Moroccans, especially women and children, improve their quality of life, through locally determined development projects in the fields of cultural preservation, community education, and rural health.
The foundation of the program is a real world experience of living, working, and learning in a rural Moroccan village. Students engage in meaningful, community-identified work; are immersed in an intercultural living environment in which they engage in cross-cultural dialogue; observe, study, and participate in the host culture; work with faculty and professional mentors; and generally engage in a variety of formal and informal intercultural exchanges. These experiences are then reflected upon in direct and indirect methods with peers, leaders, or cultural informants.
For more information, a detailed syllabus, or application materials please visit the MSU website or contact us via email.
MSU Official Program Website
http://www.montana.edu/international/studyabroad/summer_programs/morocco.htm
Cloe Medina Erickson, Program Director
medina@atlasculturalfoundation.org, 406-581-1865
Kevin Brustuen, MSU Office of International Programs
kevin.brustuen@montana.edu, 406-994-7044
Application Deadline: January 31, 2012.
Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues
Critical Muslim Studies
“Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival”
04 -16 June 2012
Granada, Spain /Al-Andalus
This international Summer School aims to open the space for the analysis and investigation of Islam not only as a spiritual tradition, but also as an epistemic decolonial perspective that offers contributions and responses to the problems that humanity faces today. Offered through The Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues, in collaboration with the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. The course is offered in English. For information, contact: www.dialogoglobal.com/granada or email questions to: cit@dialogoglobal.com. Application deadline: February 05, 2012.
Central European University Summer School
Polemos/Pulmus: Ways of Confrontation in Judaism, Paganism and Christianity in Late Antiquity
Budapest, Hungary
09-20 July 2012
CEU's summer school invites applications from doctoral students, postdocs, junior faculty and researchers from all over the world.The course aims at exploring the nature and various ways of confrontation between and within Early and Rabbinic Judaism, the Early Church, and Pagan religions and schools of thought. The sessions discuss how these movements coped with conflicts within and without; what their strategies were in confronting and accommodating foreign ideas, competing religions, worldly powers or internal subversion; and what role these external and internal confrontations played in shaping them. Course faculty include Daniel Boyarin, Shaye J. D. Cohen, John M. Dillon, Mark Edwards and Guy G. Stroumsa.
Financial aid is available. Information available at www.summer.ceu.hu/. Application deadline: February 15, 2012.
Indiana University
Summer Language Workshop (SWSEEL)
04 June-27 July 2012
Indiana University’s 63nd annual Summer Language Workshop (SWSEEL) will offer multiple levels of intensive instruction in Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Dari, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Tatar, Turkish, Uzbek, Uyghur, and Yiddish from June 4 to July 27, 2011 (all levels of Arabic and first-year Russian begin on May 29, 2012). All students earn one-year of university-level language credit and pay in-state tuition. Many competitive funding opportunities are available including Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) and Title VIII Fellowships, Project GO scholarships for ROTC students, and tuition waivers for graduate students enrolled in BCS, Czech, Hungarian, and Romanian. The priority application deadline is March 01, 2012. www.indiana.edu/~swseel for more details and to apply.
Priority deadline: March 01, 2012.
Jordan University of Science & Technology (JUST)
Petra Crown Academics-JUST Intensive Arabic Immersion
18 May-30 June 2012
Program Highlights: Modern Standard Arabic; accredited by Jordan University of Science and Technology; 8 or 9 credits ;120-140 contact hours; instruction: 4-5 hours daily; 2-3 language levels; excursions include world wonder Petra, Dead Sea, Baptism Site, Greco-Roman Decapolis cities. The program is open to students from the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. This program caters to students with all language proficiency levels and is designed with quality and affordability in mind. The program is based on full immersion and is taught by JUST’s AFL instructors. We welcome American and Canadian university/college program affiliation and honor all types of scholarships, including Boren, Fulbright, and FLAS. Regular program fee is $3,400 & includes tuition, housing, excursions, and texts. An “early bird” discount of $150 is available for those who apply by March 01, 2012. Some restrictions apply. Please check PCA’s website (arabicABCabroad.com) for full details, contact information, and an application. Deadline: rolling admissions (seats limited).
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Summer Language Program
12 June-08 August 2012
The Monterey Institute of International Studies’ Summer Intensive Language Program (www.miis.edu/academics/language/summer) offers 8 intensive weeks of study in six languages -Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Russian. The intensity and length of these programs might accommodate students looking to hone their skills to; 1) study abroad, 2) advance their proficiency level to engage in field studies in another country, 3) participate in higher level language courses at their home institute, or 4) enter the professional job market.
*We also offer year-round customized one-on-one and small group language training programs in common and less-commonly taught languages (www.miis.edu/academics/language/custom). These programs are open to anyone interested in language study and development of cross-cultural understanding.
Program Highlights:
- Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese
- 8-week intensive program (180 hours of instruction)
- Small class size (8-10 student average)
- Graduate and undergraduate credit earned
- Elementary, intermediate, and advanced courses offer in most languages
For information, please contact: Monterey Institute of International Studies, Intensive and Custom Language Programs (831-647-4115; silp@miis.edu).
Application Deadline: April 28, 2012.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Networks and Knowledge in the Medieval Muslim-Christian-Jewish Mediterranean
02-27 July 2012
Barcelona, Spain
The Mediterranean Seminar announces the opening of applications for a four-week NEH Summer Institute to be held on in Barcelona, Spain. This Institute, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the collaboration of the Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP and the support of the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California Santa Cruz, will bring together 24 college and university faculty and graduate students for an intensive 4-week course, directed by Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz) and Brian A. Catlos (Religious Studies, University of Colorado Boulder/History, UC Santa Cruz).
The aim is to introduce college and university instructors to new approaches to the medieval Mediterranean (c. 1000–1500) and its role in the emergence of the modern world. As a region whose history of connectivity goes back two and a half millennia, the Mediterranean is currently the object of innovative scholarship in various disciplines. Where traditional accounts cast the Middle Ages as the lull between the loss of the culture of classical antiquity and its “rebirth” in the Renaissance, rethinking the Middle Ages through the optic of the medieval Mediterranean emphasizes questions of religious and ethnic pluralisms, cultural contact, transculturation, and the negotiation of identities.
The 2012 Institute focuses on the medieval Mediterranean as a zone of cultural, scientific, and technological innovation. The facility with which ideas and technologies traversed the Mediterranean is testament to the commonalities underlying the apparent contrasts between ethnic and religious groups. The Institute’s distinguished multidisciplinary Guest Faculty examines the circulation of knowledge and shared practices through topics including:
- “Mobility and Communications” (Peregrine Horden),
- “Changing Christian Attitudes towards Muslim Food and Foodways” (Olivia Remie Constable),
- “The Topography of Translation” (Charles Burnett),
- “Networks of Literary Transmission” (Karla Mallette),
- “Medical Knowledge and Daily Life Experience” (Fernando Salmón),
- “Medieval Mediterranean Knowledge and the European Renaissance” (George Saliba).
Studying the circulation of medieval Mediterranean knowledge and practices, this project redefines Medieval inter-religious interaction so that “Holy War” is revealed not as the dominant mode of, but as only one pole of a spectrum that includes co-existence, accommodation, and cooperation. It reveals that many “modern” ideas and technologies (municipal republics, double-entry accounting, neo-Aristotelian logic, vernacular literature, paper, rice cultivation, universities, etc.) first crystallized in the medieval Mediterranean, thus calling into question established teleological meta-narratives, and geo-historical and cultural paradigms, in order to contribute to a revised understanding of the “rise” of the Modern West. For general information and in order to apply, visit: www.neh.gov.
Application deadline: March 01, 2012 (email and postmark deadline).
University of Wisconsin-Madison
2nd Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute
18 June-10 August 2012
Madison, Wisconsin
The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) and the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are proud to announce the second annual Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute (CESSI). CESSI will offer intensive courses in beginning and intermediate Kazakh, Tajik, Uyghur, and Uzbek. With sufficient enrollment, other Central Eurasian Turkic languages could also be offered. Please contact the CESSI program coordinator if you are interested in a language not listed above. Scheduling of all courses is contingent upon enrollment. Please apply to CESSI as early as possible to help ensure that your class will be offered.
CESSI 2012 will also feature lectures (in English) on Central Eurasian history and culture and a rich program of cultural events and field trips related to the countries of Central Eurasia. Information and application materials are from: www.creeca.wisc.edu/cessi.
CESSI is a joint initiative of 16 U.S. Department of Education-funded National Resource Centers at 10 U.S. universities, along with Nazarbayev University (Astana, Kazakhstan).
More information about UW-Madison FLAS fellowships is available at: www.flas.wisc.edu. For further information about CESSI 2012, please contact Nancy Heingartner, CESSI program coordinator, (608-262-3379; cessi@creeca.wisc.edu). The deadline for admission and the fee remission grant is April 16, 2012. The application deadline for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships at UW-Madison is February 15, 2012.