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We are pleased to announce that the third and fourth edition of the one-week&#160;intensive course “Sexuality and Morality” will be held at the Lisbon&#160;University Institute.&#160;Third edition: &#160;13-18 January 2014 /&#160;Fourth edition: 21-26 April 2014.Please note that scholarships are available via the European&#160;Commission-Grundtvig program for both editions, and that the application&#160;deadline for these is the 17th September 2013, very soon!&#160;We would really appreciate if you could forward this information to&#160;colleagues who might be interested.&#160;http://sexualityandmorality.wordpress.com/Intensive CourseSexuality and Morality: Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations Lisbon,&#160;13-18 January 2014 &#160;/ &#160; 21-26 April 2014 The course “Sexuality and&#160;Morality:Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations” will be held at the&#160;Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 13th&#160;to the 18th of January 2014, and from the 21st to the 26th of April 2014.&#160;Around 20 participants will be accepted.&#160;Scholarships are available from the Grundtvig Program funded by The European&#160;Commission (see below). Please note that the deadline for applying for these&#160;scholarships is the 17th of September 2013.Objectives and RationaleFrom the very beginnings of anthropology the entanglements of sexuality and&#160;morality have captured the imagination of scholars, challenging their&#160;normative assumptions and calling into question their descriptive and&#160;interpretative tools. What can be said of these entanglements at the&#160;beginning of the 21st century, after decades of research on the matter? Are&#160;there still unbroken taboos in the social sciences? How are we to understand&#160;sexuality and morality, and how can these issues be investigated? How are&#160;relations between sexuality and morality being (re)defined? What is the role&#160;of religion, politics, and commerce in (re)shaping these relations? How can&#160;anthropology improve our understanding of such complex entanglements?In recent years, sexuality and morality have received increased attention in&#160;the social sciences. While sexuality has ‘gone global’ and become a highly&#160;seductive concept (Moore 2011), its entanglements with moral issues andanxieties continue to provide important insights on key societal concerns&#160;and transformations. To illuminate such concerns, an emerging body of&#160;scholarship on morality in the social sciences, and more particularly in&#160;anthropology, seems particularly well suited. By giving new impetus and&#160;analytical purchase to the notion of morality, this scholarship helps us&#160;rethink sexuality and its wider implications.Challenging taken for granted assumptions on sexuality and morality, and&#160;focusing on their intersections, the course is designed to move from general&#160;theoretical and methodological considerations to a range of concrete&#160;examples dealing with religion, politics and commerce. Religious taboos, sex&#160;work, and same-sex marriages are among the cases addressed. They will help&#160;participants answer the key questions asked during the course, and provide&#160;exemplary illustrations of how sexuality, morality, and their complex&#160;relationships can be rethought in the light of the latest debates in the&#160;field of anthropology.Without neglecting classical authors such as Margaret Mead and Michel&#160;Foucault, the course has a strong emphasis on contemporary debates in the&#160;social sciences. It will review key perspectives and approaches, offer&#160;participants a flexible methodological and theoretical framework, and&#160;provide a space for debating a range of case studies and concrete examples&#160;under the guidance of lecturers with first hand ethnographical knowledge onthe addressed topics.ProgrammeThe course will consist of 5 lectures (3 hours per day), complemented with 5&#160;seminars (3 hours per day) that will allow in-depth discussion of previously&#160;shared material. There will also be a fieldwork excursion on the final day.&#160;Combining theory and empirical research this course offers theoretical as&#160;well as practical tools that will provide the participants with a wide&#160;spectrum of strategies to address the intersections of sexuality and&#160;morality.The lectures and seminars will be structured around the following themes:Day 1:The anthropology of sexuality and morality: An introduction&#160;Day2:Delineating the field: Key debates on sexuality and morality&#160;Day&#160;3:Sexuality, taboo and religion&#160;Day 4:Sex work and the commerce of intimacyDay 5:Same-sex marriages and the ‘end’ of genderDay 6, there will be a&#160;fieldwork excursion and a final discussion Lectures and seminars will be&#160;given by academics with a strong international profile that have both&#160;empirical and theoretical expertise on the subjects treated.The lectures are structured to proceed from more general theoretical and&#160;methodological considerations (lessons 1 and 2) to a range of concrete&#160;examples dealing with religious taboos (lesson 3), sex work (lesson 4), and&#160;same-sex marriages (lesson 5).&#160;The seminars provide a space for in depth, participatory debate on the&#160;topics addressed during the lectures. They are based on the discussion of&#160;key texts sent to participants before the beginning of the course. The&#160;distributed material allows participants to prepare in advance for the&#160;seminars, enabling also those who wish to undertake the course’s assessment&#160;to comply with its requirements.Tutorials are provided to participants who wish to receive the course’s&#160;diploma (6 ECTS) to support them in the preparation of their final papers.&#160;The tutorials offer methodological, theoretical, and practical guidance to&#160;help participants design and write up their research.&#160;The course is taught in English, but discussion may be in English and&#160;Portuguese depending on the participants’ preferences. As for the tutorials&#160;and the final essay, Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian are&#160;accepted.For enquiries related to the course content or the scholarships, please&#160;contact the Summer School co-ordinators, Valerio Simoni (vals_sim@yahoo.com)&#160;or Anna Fedele (fedele.anna@gmail.com)Scholarships:&#160;This intensive course has been included in the Grundtvig Training Database&#160;and a limited number of scholarships are available. We encourage prospective&#160;participants coming from countries in which the Grundtvig Program operates&#160;to apply for these scholarships after prior consultation with us regardingthe places available.You can find general information about the Grundtvig program at:&#160;http://ec.europa.eu/education/trainingdatabase/index.cfmCountries eligible:&#160;http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/national_en.htm