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SIS Scholarship: Politics&#160;of&#160;EmancipationWe are pleased to announce the second SIS Scholarship: Politics&#160;of&#160;EmancipationWho it is for:The SIS Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation Scholarship is for writers and researchers that apply for the Thematic Residency of the first residency period of SIS, April &#8211; July 2020 at Villa Adriana in&#160;Danigarci.Candidates that submit a Thematic Residency research or writing proposal which&#160;entails&#160;research in Sicily and that&#160;adheres to&#160;the theme, &#8220;Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation&#8221; are automatically in the running for this scholarship. The first thematic residency&#160;of&#160;The&#160;International Studies for Sicily&#160;(SIS)&#160;invites&#160;residents to question and explore the political critique of power,&#160;forms of protest,&#160;revolution, transnational and local collective&#160;movements of&#160;revolt,&#160;tactics&#160;of&#160;emancipation,&#160;infra-politics of&#160;the individuals&#160;as well as the&#160;riots and uprisings of the&#160;subalterns&#160;specifically from the perspective of&#160;Southern Italy,&#160;the Mediterranean and the&#160;global South.The residents&#160;are invited to elaborate specifically, but not exclusively,&#160;on the following issues:Techniques, practices, knowledge and&#160;politics&#160;of influence and counter-influence: a transnational and intersectoral approachEconomic and agricultural policies&#160;of the South and the &#8220;Right to Remain&#8221; of&#160;the youth Political ecology and&#160;the&#160;Green New Deal Feminism and ecology in the context of contemporary global / local struggles Chthulucene&#160;and other&#160;assemblages&#160;of nature and culture, ecology and technology Politics of imagination:&#160;imaginal politics,&#160;escapism&#160;(in cinema, in literature...), political science fiction, heterotopies, anthropology of anomaly,&#160;speculative fiction&#160;and other kinds of alternative narratives&#160;of the presentApplicationAll candidates for the SIS Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation Scholarship must apply for a Thematic Residency at Villa Adriana in Danigarci as specified in the&#160;Call for Applications, noting their motivation for being awarded a SIS Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation Scholarship.The deadline for candidates competing for the SIS Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation Scholarship must submit their applications by&#160;22 February 2020 at&#160;midnight&#160;Central&#160;European Time.Results of the competitionSIS will inform the winning candidate via email by February 25, 2020.The SIS Politics&#160;of&#160;Emancipation Scholarship covers the costs of a one-month residency at Villa Adriana (&#8364; 1000). The scholarship does not include travel costs and living expenses.SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship.Who it is forThe&#160;SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship&#160;is for authors whose research or writing is focused on the issue of the massive emigration of young people from the South, based on the people&#8217;s "Right to Stay / Diritto a Restare&#8221; movement and on the economic growth of Sicily.ApplicationThe deadline for candidates competing for the&#160;SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship&#160;must submit their applicationsby 22 February 2020 at midnight Central&#160;European TimeAll candidates for the&#160;SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship&#160;must apply for an Independent or Thematic Residency as specified in the&#160;Call for Applications, noting their motivation for being awarded a&#160;SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship.SelectionSIS will inform the winning candidate via email by February 25, 2020.The&#160;SIS Remain in Sicily / Resto in Sicilia Scholarship&#160;covers the costs of a one-month residency at Villa Adriana (&#8364; 1000). The scholarship does not include travel costs and living expenses.Scientific CommitteeM. Eric Biagi, Directeur de l&#8217;Institut Fran&#231;ais de Palerme&#160;;Mme Heidi Sciacchitano, Directeur du Goethe Institut de Palerme&#160;;Mme Francesca Martinez Tagliavia, professeure de Th&#233;orie et analyse du cin&#233;ma et de l'audiovisuel &#224; l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Palerme), chercheure associ&#233;e au Centre de Recherches Historiques de l'EHESS et Directrice de SIS / Studi Internazionali per la Sicilia&#160;;Mme Lisa Wade, Coordinatrice g&#233;n&#233;rale de SIS / Studi Internazionali per la Sicilia. 