EUNICE Summer School 2025: "Crossing Borders: Colonial Echoes in Language, Space, and Culture"

This summer school explores the lasting impact of colonial legacies on contemporary societies, including gender, linguistic, spatial, and cultural identities through lectures, seminars, interactive workshops, site visits, and group discussions with experts from diverse fields and teachers of the EUNICE network.

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Gain grounded theoretical knowledge in interculturality.
• Improve their analytical skills to critically engage with aspects related to coloniality, interculturality, and power relations through language, discourse, and space.
• Develop self-awareness and a sense of cultural humility, recognise the influence of one’s own cultural background, and understand one’s own cultural identity, assumptions, and biases.
• Reflect on a wide variety of narratives and adopt an integrative approach to culture, space, and language.
• Understand the significance of space, culture, and language in fostering healthy European democratic societies and sustainable communities.

Activity Details

• Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)
• Virtual component: 30 June – 4 July 2025
• On-site sessions: 7 – 11 July 2025 at the University of Mons (UMONS), Belgium
• Coordinating university: UMONS
• Credits: 5 ECTS
• Maximum number of participants: 20 participants (2 per university)

Interested BTU students must send their complete applications to Christin Handrek by 16 April 2025. They must include the following documents:

• Short letter of motivation
• Curriculum vitae
• Proof of English language skills (at least B2)
• Certificate of Enrolment
• Current Transcript of Records (except for doctoral students)

Further information can be found here.