We are very pleased to announce the upcoming ERC BodyCapital Spring School.
Please circulate the Call for Applications widely, and notably to Masters and PhD students in related fields.
Audiovisuals and internet archives: Histories of healthy bodies in the 21st century
Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
1-4 April 2019

Deadline for application: 10 / 03 / 2019

The Audiovisuals and internet archives: Histories of healthy bodies in the 21st century spring school invites young researchers to engage in four days of intensive discussion and hands-on activities on the relation between the history of the healthy body, body politics, and the Internet at the turn of the twenty-first century (roughly 1990s-2010). The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.
The spring school is organized as part of the research project “The Healthy Self as Body Capital: Individuals, Market-Based Societies, and Body Politics in Visual Twentieth Century Europe (BodyCapital)” funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and led by Christian Bonah (University of Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin).
In building the historical foundation of the Internet era in the BodyCapital perspective, we will encounter new modes of representations and practices of the body that the Internet favored: webcam uses, first artist creations, reuse of traditional contents (photographs and films), amongst others.
The spring school includes talks and workshops with experts, a field trips, and film viewings. Further, the spring school will benefit from collaboration with the French Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA). Confirmed speakers include Niels Brügger and Valérie Schafer. Participants will also be invited to present on their own research projects.
The spring school will be held at the Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. It will be held in English. Participants may apply for funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses.

Interested master’s students, doctoral students, post-docs, and scholars in the fields of modern history, the history of medicine and science, and film studies, media studies, and communications are invited to apply with a cover letter ­explaining what you can contribute to the spring school and what you expect or hope to get from it and a CV.
Please send applications and any questions to: bodycapital.contact@gmail.com
For more information: http://bodycapital.unistra.fr/agenda/evenement/news/spring-school-audiovisuals-and-internet-archives-histories-of-healthy-bodies-in-the-21st-century-1/
Or consult our website: http://bodycapital.unistra.fr

The deadline for applications is 10 March 2019 and applicants will be contacted by 12 March 2019.