International Summer School Programme
"Resilience Studies in Action" – Mainz/Trier
Within the framework of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives and Theories (RECOMENT) in Mainz/Trier, two summer schools will be held under the overarching theme “Resilience Studies in Action.” Building on RECOMENT’s innovative conceptual framework – which frames resilience as a heuristic category for the analysis of processes across bio-cultural, socio-ecological, and socio-historical dimensions, as well as for examining the fields of tension between continuity and discontinuity – the Summer Schools acquaint participants with methodologies, methods, narratives, and theoretical approaches of resilience research.
Target Group and Academic Focus
The programme is aimed at early-career researchers (postgraduates, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers). It provides a space to explore:
- how different disciplines conceptualize resilience in theoretical and empirical studies, and
- how these approaches contribute to the resilience discourse.
Participants will therefore critically engage with inter- and transdisciplinary methods and develop new analytical perspectives.
Organisation
The summer schools will be jointly mentored by members of the ScienceCampus and invited experts in the field of resilience research.
- First Summer School: 2026 in Mainz
- Second Summer School: 2027 in Trier
Each summer school sets its own thematic focus.
Eligibility and Language
Participation is open to early career researchers in the humanities, cultural, and social sciences, particularly in the fields of:
Archaeology, Anthropology/Ethnology, Geography, Medicine, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology
Applicants should have a research focus related to resilience. The Summer Schools will be held in German and English.
Further Information
Further details on the events and registration will be available here soon.