Master in Risk, trauma and Society - 3rd Edition (2009-10)

Applications for the Master Programme are open from 4th May

In a time of great transformations, the sentiment of risk spreads, as societies interrogated themselves about the nature and meaning of impacting events, be them natural or caused by human activity.
The European social project, a model difering from the American, Chinese, Japanese and others, will tend to be characterised by its capacity to prevent and to manage marking events such as ecological disasters, foret fires, transportation disasters, terrorist activities, wars, and also droughts, pandemics, quakes, etc. Portugal, as a contributor to the European social project, is in a phase of strugling adaptation to modernity - with mixed results - in health care, sport, accident prevention, logistic and management.
The goal of this new Post-Graduate Course promotes advanced interdisciplinary studies in the social and cultural aspects of risk and trauma.
The Course gathers together researchers interested in applying sociological and anthropological tools to the understanding of the variety of collective and individual responses to risk and trauma, their impact on communities’ identities and memories.
This Course seriously intends to bridge the enduring gap between research and academic goals and the operative needs and experiences of those involved in the prevention and treatment of trauma, and in the management of risk, catastrophes and crisis. This is the main objective of the Master's Laboratory (Course 6), which develops a number of methodological and epistemological guidelines to integrate the subjects taught in the other courses: anthropological representations of risk and violence, social institutions, colective memories (Courses1, 3 and 4), medical trauma, public health and economy (Courses 2 and 5).

Course 1: Anthropology of Violence.
(Coordination: Manuel João Ramos)

Programme

1st Semester
1. Social Institutions and Crisis Management: the Politics of Trauma
2. Anthropology of Violence
3. Trauma and Social Behaviour: Stress, Memory and identity

2nd Semester
4. Risk and Trauma: Epidemiological Issues
5. Anthropology of Health
6. Methods in Social Sciences

FURTHER DETAILS: see HERE

The post-graduate course in Risk, Trauma and Society is organized by the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology of ISCTE-Lisbon

Coordinators

Prof. António Pedro Dores – Department of Sociology, ISCTE
Prof. Manuel João Ramos– Department of Anthropology, ISCTE

Contacts

Secretarial office of the Departamento de Antropologia - ISCTE
Avenida das Forças Armadas, 1649-026 Lisboa
Tels: 217903011; Fax: 217903012
<secretariado.depantropologia@iscte.pt >

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