[Air-L] Extended Deadline - Summer School on Virtual World Research from July 10-19 in Bremen, Germany

[Simone Heidbrink]

Dear List-members,

we have extended the deadline for application for this year's Summer 
School "How Virtual is reality?" (http://how-virtual-is-reality.eu/) held in 
Bremen (Germany) from July 10 to July 19.

We will accept applications until June 7th from anyone interested in doing 
academic reseach in Internet phenomena / Virtual Worlds. The course is mainly 
addressed to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students.

As a cooperative effort of the University of Bremen, the University of 
Oldenburg and Jacobs-University (Bremen) the summer course will broach the 
issue of the relevance of new environments such as "Second Life" and "World 
of Warcraft" for contemporary culture and social life with a special focus on 
rituals and religions.

Instructed by more than 10 international teachers, the participants in the 
Summer School will explore the interdisciplinary study of practical methods 
and theoretical approaches for the scientific handling of ritual and media. 
The media will not only objects of  methodological, theoretical and practical 
research  but will also serve as platform for academic discussion and 
teaching. Summer School participants will be able to design and perform 
research projects on religion both on and within virtual worlds.

Please forward this information to everyone who might be interested in the 
course. A banner and a poster are available on the "Media" section of the 
website.

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Simone Heidbrink, organizers

-- 
Simone Heidbrink M.A.
SFB 619 Ritualdynamik - Teilprojekt C2
Institut für Religionswissenschaft
Universität Heidelberg
Akademiestr. 4-8
D - 69117 Heidelberg

Tel.: ++49-(0)6221-547482
Fax.: ++49-(0)6221-547624

E-Mail: simone.heidbrink at zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
 http://www.rituals-online.de