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Second Gerda Henkel Acadamy at Villa Vigoni in June 2018CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - Workshop on "Europe and the World: Between Colonialism and Globalisation". PhD candidates in the Humanities and Cultural Studies as well as in the Social Sciences and Law will present their dissertation projects and to discuss their ideas in a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment overlooking Lake Como.Venue: Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Como, Italy; Date: 18-22 June 2018Deadline for applications: 15 December 2017[caption id="attachment_427" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Centre for European Excellence on Lake Como[/caption]In cooperation with the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German-Italian Center for European Excellence Villa Vigoni has established the Gerda Henkel Academy at Villa Vigoni to discuss past and present challenges of Europe in the political, social and cultural realm. The Academy’s work is dedicated to the theme “From the Ideas on Europe to the European Citizen”. The second graduate workshop of the Gerda Henkel Academy will take place in June 2018 at Villa Vigoni.The workshop’s theme is “Europe and the World: Between Colonialism and Globalisation”. The aim is to bring together young scholars for an interdisciplinary exchange on the notions of Europe’s relationships with other societies and other parts of the world, both from a historical and from a contemporary perspective. Among the questions the workshop will address are the following: What was and what is the relationship between “Europe and the World”, and which tensions and which potentials can we identify? What are (or have been) the underlying constructions and narratives of “Europeanness” vis-à-vis other cultures, and in which ways have they informed European colonial and imperial practices abroad? What role did economic, scientific, national, religious, and ethnic categories play in shaping practices of formal and informal colonialism outside Europe, and to which degree do we find remnants of such structures in contemporary global relations? How does, vice versa, globalisation influence the ideas and the politics that define the European “Self” (or “Selves”)?For further information see Call for Applications at www.academia.edu.Academic Board: Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Gehrke (University of Freiburg) Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann (Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz) Prof. Dr. Corinna Unger (European University Institute, Florence)