General information

Located in a historical resort of the Swiss Alps, the GLOBE winter school in International Relations provides a unique environment for PhD students intending to situate themselves within the IR discipline. GLOBE PhD school builds up from the idea to create innovative PhD network workshops with colleagues from Groningen, Lausanne, Oslo, and Erfurt (GLOBE). Our focus on recent epistemological advances in non-positivist scholarship delivers expertise through tailor-made roundtables, PhD presentations, walk & talk sessions and collective readings.

Accommodation

The winter school takes place in the Villa La Joux, in Leysin, in the Swiss Alps. The Chalet is situated within walking distance from the last train stop called “Gare du Grand Hotel”, of the Aigle-Leysin train.

The fees for the winter school includes the four full board nights. Bed linen are included but you are asked to take towels as well as indoor shoes with you.

Check in: February 8th, 10am
Check out: February 12th, 2pm

Registration

Applications are open until 21 December 2020.
It can be done online and should include:

-A CV, with your academic records
-A motivation letter
-An abstract of your thesis and an abstract of the paper/chapter you plan to present at the winter school. (submitted as one document)

ECTS accreditation

3.5 ECTS credits can be obtained. Official Certificate of Attendance is also delivered. 

Contact information

Emmanuel Cenuse
summerschools@unil.ch
+41 21 692 2046