| 22 October 2019

UACES and the European Studies Association of Sub-Saharan Africa (ESA-SSA) are pleased to announce that we have been granted funding from the Erasmus+ Programme of European Union for our Jean Monnet Project ‘Diversity, Inclusion and Multidisciplinarity in European Studies’ (DIMES). 

Aims

This project seeks to explore ways to increase diversity within the field of European Studies, in particular with regards to the ethnicity, disciplinary focus and geographical location of its participants.

Through a series of events, research collaborations and publications, the project aims to:

• Improve the representation of BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of colour) academics within UACES and European studies more generally
• Move away from the emphasis on Western European and North American academics towards greater inclusion for scholars from under-represented, even marginalised, geographies
• Broaden the disciplinary focus of contemporary European Studies to include adjacent/related disciplines such as anthropology, human geography, cultural studies and sociology

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Project Coordinators

Maria Garcia, University of Bath; Maxine David, Leiden University; Toni Haastrup, University of Stirling; Dickson Ajisafe, University of Pretoria; Frank Mattheis, Université libre de Bruxelles & University of Pretoria.

Call for Project Participants

We are looking for additional project participants to get more involved in DIMES (e.g. contributing to the project blog, speaking at workshops and events, contributing to publications, assisting the advisory board, representing the project at events). To express your interest, please sign up here.

Mailing List

To get involved with DIMES and to be updated about our activities, join the mailing list. We expect to send 1-4 email updates per month. Sign up

Blog

Our DIMES blog will contain the latest news and reflections from our coordinators and project participants.

Social Media

Connect on social media for updates by following the hashtag #JeanMonnetDIMES. Follow @UACES Like @UACESeurope.

Launch Event

More information and CfP coming soon.

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The contents of the Jean Monnet DIMES project website and publications are the sole responsibility of the DIMES project. Views presented do not reflect those of the European Commission, who cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.