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FRINGE is pleased to announce that the winners of the FRINGE Small Grants Programme have been announced. An extremely high number of high quality applications were announced and the committee chose to award grants to six of the highest-ranked projects. Full details of each FRINGE SGP event听will be announced soon. The winning projects are as follows:
Paula Borowska
Social capital and folk healing: babki as promoters of health behavior?
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
As Hardly Found, in the Art of Tropical Architecture
Dmitra Gkitsa
Ecologies of decay: Modern ruination in the global (post)socialist peripheries
Rebecca Irons
Postcards Post-Petrolera: Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora听
Mary Rawlinson
Justice in an Unjust World:听How theories of justice fail to address structural injustice
Anna Shadrina and Uilleam Blacker
(Dis)connected through words: past, present, and future tenses in contemporary Belarusian protest poetry
The FRINGE Centre explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in听social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together scholars from the听humanities and social sciences, FRINGE examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality听and marginality, and clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday听practices. Our interest lies in the hidden complexity of all embedded practices, taken-for-granted and听otherwise invisible subjects. Illuminating the 'fringe' thus puts the 'centre' in a new light. The FRINGE听Centre is an initiative founded by UCL鈥檚 School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES),听which works within the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) framework to pursue Critical Area听Studies. Learn more about FRINGE
Critical Area Studies
Area Studies has often been understood not simply in contrast but indeed in subordination to the听traditional academic disciplines: as mere application to a particular region of the general principles听formulated within university disciplines. Critical Area Studies, by contrast, centres on the conviction听that knowledge generated from the 鈥榖ottom up鈥欌�攖hat is, from particular contexts and with specialist听understanding of local complexities鈥攄oes not simply apply but in fact alters and even produces听general principles. Further, Critical Area Studies is committed to the idea that interdisciplinary听inquiry brings innovative perspectives that the traditional disciplines, or even multi-disciplinary听combinations thereof, often overlook.