Tandem Research between the University of Freiburg and Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta continues in 2013
The international and interdisciplinary tandem-research-cooperation between the Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta and the University of Freiburg will be continued in summer 2013. Nine Indonesian students of cultural anthropology and political science will come to Freiburg in June 2013 and conduct field research with students from Freiburg University.
Since 2004, the Anthropology departments of the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and the Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg (“Institut für Ethnologie” and “Jurusan Antropologi”) have organized annual student-centered “Tandem-Research” summer schools. During these projects, taking place alternately in Indonesia and Germany, lecturers from both universities supervise German-Indonesian pairs as they take part in fieldwork training and practice. This reciprocal transcultural research collaboration offers multiple perspectives on the research topics and helps to overcome polarized distinctions. It makes reflexive use of and at the same time challenges positions like “insider” and “outsider”, and simultaneously it reveals peculiarities of academic cultures. Since 2011, the cooperation has been extended to an interdisciplinary level by including the departments of Political Science/International Relations of both universities. The program is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The tandem model has also been extended to the level of anthropological PhD research.
For further information please visit http://www.ethno.uni-freiburg.de/lehrfor/lehrforschung