International Winter School in Ethnography
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Description
Theoretically-informed ethnographic research offers a distinctive and unique approach. The Trento School in Ethnography has all along its history provided a forum for informal, in-depth reflection into social research methods as well as the underlying questions of social theory. The School provides participants with an inside view on the practice and the skills of ethnographic research across the social sciences. It offers a forum where adepts, students, and scholars can familiarize themselves with the status of the discipline, absorbing the tools and ‘tricks of the trade’ directly from long-time practitioners.
The teaching format is grounded in frontal lectures, where cutting-edge research is presented, complemented by interactive methodological workshops. Moreover, participants have a chance to present their current research projects, so as to receive feedback and recommendations by guest and resident professors as much as peers. Reading materials are circulated in advance among participants, ensuring they arrive at the school with a shared focus.
This 10th edition’s running theme is Translating Ethnography. Questions of translation, literal or metaphorical, apply to ethnography in myriad ways: from fieldwork to textwork, from an ethnographer’s sensuous and personal experience to the public domain of intersubjectivity, but also from the academic world to “ordinary” social and political life – an especially challenging task, in times in which academic knowledge tends to be dismissed, and many researchers lament the societal irrelevance of their findings. “Translating” is ultimately an invitation to carry knowledge across separate domains, beyond borders such as those set up by nativist and binary views of the world as an us-vs-them matter. We will discuss these questions, and many more, with the contribution of three eminent ethnographers, at the crossroads between different disciplines and substantive research topics.
Doctoral students and postdocs are our primary target. However, well-motivated M.A. students who are conducting ethnographic research, or plan to do so, are also very welcome to apply.
Guest Professors
Shahram Khosravi, Stockholm University
Dvora Yanow, Wageningen University
Daniel Miller, University College London
Deadlines
Application deadline: 5 December 2025 at 12:00, i.e. Noon (CET)
Selection: from 6 to 19 December 2025
Notification of selection results: 20 December 2025
The selection results will be posted on this web page, in the Download section. All participants will also be promptly notified via email.
Registration and payment: from 21 December 2025 till 10 January 2026 at 12:00, i.e. Noon (CET)
Link to apply to the Ethnography-2026 Call
How to apply
In order to apply please follow the link.
You need to register for the Call for Papers in order to participate in the Selection.
Here below the list of documents you need to upload in the Upload section of the Ethnography-2026 Call:
- 2-pages CV
- 1-page motivation letter
- 2-to-4-page research proposal
Please upload the required documents in PDF format (not password protected), thank you. (max.1,2 Mb per document)
For more information
For general information (related to the application procedure and the school organisation) contact:
For specific information (related to the proposed project and the contents of the summer school) contact:
- Chiara Bassetti: chiara.bassetti@unitn.it
- Paolo Boccagni: paolo.boccagni@unitn.it
How to reach us - Hotels
Form "Enti pubblici italiani" - after selection available in download