The Quest for Peace and Equality under the “Postdigital Condition”
New Media Formations and Practices in Education
June 2-5, 2025
at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute
in Braunschweig, Germany
General information about the International Summer Conference
The Summer Conference will bring together early-career scholars, senior researchers, and practitioners from around the world. It will provide an interdisciplinary and international forum that will allow participants to debate and critically reflect upon key issues of this year's topic, strengthen research connections, and support critical reflection to inform future research and practice.
The Georg Arnhold Summer Conference primarily welcomes applications from academic experts, post-doctoral scholars and doctoral candidates from the humanities and social sciences, particularly education, media studies, history, political sciences, international relations, geography, sociology, law, and anthropology. Practitioners working for international organizations and NGOs with experience and valuable insights in the relevant fields are also welcome to apply. Applications from students enrolled in a master’s program and recent graduates with a master’s degree will be considered in exceptional cases.
Part of the summer conference is a workshop organized and facilitated by the Airbel Impact Lab, which is the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). During the workshop, conference participants will learn about the humanitarian approach to research and how to utilize design principles to improve the impact and increase the application of their work. Selected fellows this year will conduct and/or support research and innovation projects within one of two portfolios below that intersect with this year’s conference theme. Overviews of each portfolio’s strategic focus with examples of potential projects fellows may engage with are outlined on our website.
Submission information
Your Application must be received by January 5, 2025.
This application form consists of 4 sections:
- Personal Information and Institutional Affiliation
- Application for the Summer Conference
- Application for a fellowship with the IRC
- Additional questions and comments
This application form does not require any documents to be kept ready for upload. However, it is recommended to prepare paragraphs for some sections and copy them into the fields.
The following questions ask for more detailed answers:
Section 2: Application for the Summer Conference
- Abstract of your presentation (300 up to 500 words)
- Biographical note in text form (up to 250 words)
- List of publications (if applicable up to 5 titles)
- Motivation for your application to the conference (up to 150 words)
Section 3: Application for a fellowship with the IRC
If applicable, elaborate on your motivation for your application and answer the following questions.
(up to 250 words per question)
- Why are you interested in participating in the workshop?
- How would a fellowship with the IRC further your research and/or career?
- Please specifically describe your role in both quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis on previous research studies.
- Please describe any previous ed tech, AI, gender equity, programmatic or research experience within humanitarian settings affected by conflict or disaster.
- What innovative interventions are you interested in exploring from a research perspective and what would be their significance in humanitarian contexts?
- Describe the tools for data cleaning/manipulations and analysis with which you are familiar.
- Describe how you have addressed problems that have occurred in real world research, such as sampling bias.
Most of the questions in this form are mandatory. It is possible to jump back and forth in the form and to save an intermediate state.
There are 24 questions in this survey.
