Being an Islander Summer School - Jersey, Channel Islands
Saturday, 27 June - Saturday, 11 July 2026
BURSARIES
JICAS is offering five (5) x £400 bursaries for students undertaking an undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral programme of study at a recognised Higher Education Institution (HEI).
Pls email info@jicas.ac.je for a bursary application
ABOUT
The 2026 JICAS Being an Islander Summer School is run in partnership with the Société Jersiaise, Jersey Heritage and delivered in the 500-year-old Elizabeth Castle. This year’s Being an Islander Summer School will focus on the interdisciplinary study of islands and their distinctive cultures, with emphasis on their island identities, as seen through their long-standing histories, architecture, material culture, art formations and aesthetics.
Week two will continue to explore the main themes of ‘Thinking with Islandness’ and examines the widespread influence and power over time of thinking and working with islands (from biodiversity and theories of evolution to colonialism, ethnography, archaeology, anthropology and understandings of the ‘Other').
Week one will examine the archaeology, history, linguistic and intangible heritage of the Mediterranean islands, with a focus on the first millennium BCE. The lectures will discuss issues of cultural interaction, material culture formation, island art and aesthetics, as well as case studies of hybridization and migration, that are central to the identity of those islands across the first millennium BCE.
Pls email info@jicas.ac.je for a full prospectus
COST
£2,500 (tuition, shared accommodation at Elizabeth Castle, dinner Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, self-catering facilities, transportation to and from all field work and entry to all other cultural activities).