Exciting group of participants: Do join us!

Dear all
We still have some places available for Gregynog Ideas Lab V which takes place from 11-16 July 2016. Bookings can be made online by following the links on this site (gregynog.blogspot.co.uk) and requests for further information can be directed to Yvonne Rinkart at gregynogideaslab@gmail.com. Full details of our Guest Professors are to be found here too, plus a provisional schedule and seminar details.

We have an exciting group of participants signed up so far, from the US, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Switzerland and much further afield. Their interests range over postcolonialism; critical security studies; gender, feminist and queer theory; psychoanalytic theory; Middle Eastern Politics; political violence, war and politics; collective memory and trauma studies; visual and 'creative' methodologies; narrative methods; poststructuralism; and historiography. Participants are engaged with a wide range of great topics including looking at women as embodied subjects, the history of military psychiatry, the relation between mortality and politics, the everyday politics of women in right-wing movements, temporalities and modalities of recovery, the effect of state discourses of security on marginalised groups, post-terrorist memory and reconstruction, and how history shapes political possibilities.

We are looking forward to many fascinating discussions in seminars and workshops, and some great conversations in the intervals between scheduled activities. The five-day Ideas Lab is a gathering of like-minded people from different countries and institutions. It provides a friendly and relaxed setting and has led to long-standing friendships and fruitful collaborations. I hope you may be able to join us!
Jenny

Two New Guest Professors / Seminar Details Posted

We are delighted to announce further details of Gregynog V, as the deadline for early bird bookings at the reduced rate approaches:

• We have two new Guest Professors joining us this year: Andrew Davison from Vassar College, who works on the hermeneutics of borders, secularism and modernity, and Michael Dillon, whose wide-ranging work on continental philosophy in relation to war, security and politics is well known. 
• Our other Guest Professors include Jenny Edkins, Tom Lundborg, Himadeep Muppidi, Sam Okoth Opondo, Erzsebet Strausz, Rob Walker, Annick Wibben and Andreja Zevnik: see their brief biographical details.

• Draft details of the Guest Professor seminars are now posted on the site; topics covered include postcolonial politics and writing, the neoliberal subject, Deleuze and politics, amateur diplomacy, Derrida and Gadamer, images and aesthetics, psychoanalysis and resistance, researching war, and the art of representation.
• A draft timetable is also posted, showing the schedule for the week, including one-to-one research surgeries with Guest Professors, roundtables, presentations from participants, social events, and (optional!) yoga sessions.

The deadline for the early bird rate is 31 January 2016, so book now to secure your place at this reduced rate! Places are limited to 30 participants to ensure a relaxed, productive and friendly atmosphere. We welcome graduate researchers and early career faculty from all parts of the world, whether you have been before or are new to the Ideas Lab.

Online bookings can be made directly from gregynog.blogspot.com, and more information about how to book is there too. If you have any queries contact our Graduate Administrator, Yvonne Rinkart, on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com.

We look forward to welcoming you to Gregynog in the Summer!!
Jenny

Book at the early bird rate!

We are taking bookings for next summer's Gregynog Ideas Lab, which takes place from 11-16 July 2016. Further details of seminars by guest professors will be posted in the New Year. They will include topics such as feminist methodology and researching war, deconstruction and hermeneutics, Deleuze and politics, postcolonial writings, the neoliberal subject, and visual global politics. As usual there will be innovative sessions, including for 2016 an experimental learning space curated especially for the Ideas Lab, as well as the seminars, one-to-one research surgeries with guest professors, and much else.

Participants come from all over the world, and from various stages of their graduate study or their academic career. The Ideas Lab is equally suitable for those who have just embarked on PhD research--or are about to--and those who are already well established in their field. One of the things that makes the Ideas lab so unique, and so valuable afterwards too, is this mix of participants and the friendships that are built during the week at Gregynog.

The number of participants is limited. A place can be reserved with a deposit, and payment of the full fee by 31 January entitles you to the early bird rate. Please contact our graduate administrator, Yvonne Rinkart, on gregynogideaslab (at) gmail.com with any queries, or go straight to the booking link on this page.

We look forward to seeing you next summer!
Best wishes
Jenny