{"id":22253,"date":"2020-01-17T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22253"},"modified":"2020-01-17T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:10:30","slug":"apply-for-the-summer-institute-of-civic-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=22253","title":{"rendered":"Apply for the Summer Institute of Civic Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">The Summer Institute of Civic Studies<\/a>\u00a0is an intensive interdisciplinary seminar that brings together faculty, advanced graduate students, and practitioners from many countries and diverse fields of study. In 2020\u00a0it will take place from the evening of\u00a0June 18\u00a0until June 26\u00a0at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and Boston.<br><br><strong>To apply:\u00a0<\/strong>Applications are now being received and should be submitted by March 31 for best consideration. The application consists of a resume, a cover letter about your interests, and an electronic copy of your graduate transcript (if applicable).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Summer Institute was founded and co-taught from 2009 to 2018 by\u00a0Peter Levine, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Tisch College,\u00a0and\u00a0Karol Soltan, Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Since 2019, it has been led by Peter Levine. Each year, it features guest seminars by distinguished scholars and practitioners from various institutions and engages participants in challenging discussions such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How can people work together to improve the world?&nbsp;<\/li><li>How can people reason together about what is right to do?&nbsp;<\/li><li>What practices and institutional structures promote these kinds of citizenship?&nbsp;<\/li><li>How should empirical evidence, ethics, and strategy relate?&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 syllabus can be\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\" target=\"_blank\">found here<\/a>. You can read\u00a0more about the motivation for the Institute in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/summer-institute\/framing-statement\">Civic Studies Framing Statement<\/a>\u00a0by Harry Boyte, University of Minnesota; Stephen Elkin, University of Maryland; Peter Levine, Tufts; Jane Mansbridge, Harvard; Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University; Karol Soltan, University of Maryland; and Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seminar discussions follow a public conference,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/civic-studies\/frontiers-democracy-conference\">Frontiers of Democracy<\/a>,\u00a0which will take place\u00a0in downtown Boston from June 18 (evening) until June 20. Participants in the Summer Institute are expected to participate in the conference (free of charge) and then the Institute.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Practicalities:\u00a0<\/strong>Daily sessions take place on the Tufts campus in Medford, Massachusetts. Tuition for the Institute is free, but participants are responsible for their own housing and transportation. One option is renting a\u00a0Tufts University dormitory room.\u00a0Credit is not automatically offered, but special arrangements for graduate credit may be possible.<br><br>You can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tufts.us14.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=75f727c6964efde4f81500c24&amp;id=fdb14b9802&amp;e=16756f8a61\">sign up\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/content\/sign-summer-institute-civic-studies-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>\u00a0to receive occasional emails about the Summer Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer Institute of Civic Studies\u00a0is an intensive interdisciplinary seminar that brings together faculty, advanced graduate students, and practitioners from many countries and diverse fields of study. In 2020\u00a0it will take place from the evening of\u00a0June 18\u00a0until June 26\u00a0at Tufts University in Medford, MA, and Boston. To apply:\u00a0Applications are now being received and should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22256,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22253\/revisions\/22256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}