PhD - Master: Scholarships for African, European and ACP Countries – MUNDUS ACP II Project

Scholarship Title: MUNDUS ACP II Project Scholarships in Europe

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 January 2012.

Subject Fields of Study:01 Agriculture Sciences 02 Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning 03 Art and Design 04 Business Studies, Management Science 05 Education, Teacher Training 06 Engineering, Technology 07 Geography, Geology 08 Humanities 09 Languages and Philological Sciences 10 Law 11 Mathematics, Informatics 12 Medical Sciences 13 Natural Sciences 14 Social Sciences 15 Communication and Information Sciences 16 Other Areas of Study


Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Countries: European and several ACP Countries

Scholarship Description:

The Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 Programme is a cooperation and mobility programme in the area of Higher Education, implemented by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). In case of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 – Strand 1 (EMA2 – STRAND 1), under which the MUNDUS ACP II Project is being developed, the management is carried out under the supervision of the Directorate General EuropeAid (DG Aidco).

EMA2 – STRAND 1 main goals are to promote the European Higher Education, to encourage the reinforcement and improvement of students’ career perspectives and to favour the intercultural understanding through the cooperation with third countries, in harmony with the EU external policy objectives, in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the third countries’ Higher Education. This strand includes partnerships between European and third countries’ Higher Education Institutions, exchange and mobility in several Higher Education levels, and also a scholarship system.

The MUNDUS ACP II Project is the MUNDUS ACP Project renewal which implementation began in the 2010/2011 academic year. The Project comprises European and several ACP Countries‘ Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and HEIs Associations, and was implemented within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus, Action 2 – STRAND 1, Lot 15, ACP Countries.

How to Apply?

Details of eligible candidates can be found here.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

PhD - Master: CEU History Department offers fellowships for graduate students‏

CEU History Department offers fellowships for graduate students

The History Department at CEU Budapest offers competitive fellowships for MA and PhD programs.


Central European University in Budapest, Hungary is the only international English-language graduate school in Europe that is accredited both on our continent (in Hungary) and in the United States. The History Department focuses on early modern and modern history, with a number of regional concentrations, including Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the former territories of the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Comparative perspectives on Western Europe and the Middle East are encouraged in both teaching and research. Furthermore, it is possible to concentrate on a number of special subjects such as Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Ottoman Studies, History of Science, or Religious Studies. The affiliated Source Language Teaching unit offers courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Latin, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hungarian, Russian, Syriac, and Turkish.


The curriculum is comparative, interdisciplinary, and relates to current theoretical discussions in the field and beyond. The department offers courses in the following fields:


Historical Studies: Historiography, Theories, Methods, Skills
Social and Political History
Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual History
Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires



Students may earn certificates in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies. In addition to coursework, conferences, workshops, and guest lectures are held throughout the year to enrich the curriculum and the academic life in the department.


The History Department is a cosmopolitan place of learning, a site of transnational academic socialization where sophisticated scholarship is combined with a relaxed, collegial atmosphere. Faculty come from a variety of countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States. See www.history.ceu.hu for more information on faculty research interests and contact information.


In recent years the department has admitted students from over thirty countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The majority receive grants, fellowships, and other forms of need- and merit-based financial assistance. Many of our MA graduates have been accepted into high-ranking American and European PhD programs, and our alumni teach in universities around the world or have taken leading positions in government, business, and international organizations.



The department invites applications for the

1) one-year MA program, designed for students who have completed at least a four-year Bachelor’s degree;

2) two-year MA program, designed for those who have completed a three-year Bachelor’s degree;

3) PhD program.



All academic programs start in September 2012. The application deadline is January 25, 2012. Apply at www.ceu.hu/admissions. Early applications are encouraged.

For inquiries about the department, the programs, the funding schemes, and the admission process, or for any other questions related to our department, please contact Ms. Agnes Bendik: BendikAg@ceu.hu

Conference: Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies, Princeton University, 4 May 2012‏

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

International Graduate Student Conference

"Crisis and Innovation in Modern Greece"

Princeton University, May 4, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University announces our fourth International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies.

Submissions are invited from doctoral candidates at the final stages of their dissertation work. We seek proposals for papers that explore the interplay between moments of crisis and processes of innovation in modern Greece. Our primary aim is to discuss these two concepts, to explore their relationship and indicate their role in Greek social, political, and cultural life from the early modern period to the present. Possible research areas include institutions, policies, practices, discourses, and identities. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, such as anthropology, art history, film studies, economics, history, literary criticism, political science, and sociology. Comparative or interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers should be in English, and must not exceed 30 minutes.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 350 words no later than February 3, 2012. All Greek words should be transliterated. Each abstract should be accompanied by a cover letter, including (i) a curriculum vitae; (ii) a brief statement how the proposed paper connects with the dissertation-in-progress; (iii) the applicant's contact details (name, current affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses; tel. nos.); (iv) the names and e-mail addresses of two academic referees, including the dissertation supervisor and one other person familiar with the candidate's current research.

Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged. The applicants will be notified by February 24, 2012, whether their submissions have been accepted. Participants will be expected to submit the full text of their papers by April 13, 2012. Papers will be precirculated among conference speakers, chairs, and respondents.

The Center for Hellenic Studies will cover participants' travel expenses to Princeton, and will offer shared (double-occupancy) accommodation (up to four nights), as well as some meals on the days of the conference.

Submissions should be e-mailed to: hellenic@princeton.edu and nmichail@princeton.edu

Conference: Power, Representation, and Identity: Narratives by, about, and around refugees and forcibly displaced persons, 20-21 April 2012, York University, Toronto‏

2012 Centre for Refugee Studies Graduate Student Conference
Power, Representation, and Identity: Narratives by, about, and around refugees and forcibly displaced persons

April 20-21, 2012

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 20th and 21st, 2012 at York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers graduate and upper year undergraduate students from across disciplines, as well as practitioners, with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professionals, frontline practitioners, researchers, scholars and all those interested in forced migration issues.

The definition of refugeehood laid out in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is inextricably linked with narrative. Legally, a refugee is a person whose life comprises a particular story or plotline that includes flight as a result of feared persecution on the basis of certain grounds: race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion. Thus, refugeehood, in its strictest definition, is tied up with individual identity and life story. However, the contexts in which narratives surrounding refugees are constructed vary widely in their purposes and power relations. For example, refugees often must compile a narrative that emphasizes their own victimhood in order to meet the conditions required by assistance agencies or status determination systems. In other situations, refugees may decide to portray the ways in which they have enacted agency and resilience. Currently, many state governments construct a narrative around refugees in their public statements and legislations that labels asylum seekers as “bogus” or “queue jumpers”, or at worst potential terrorists. Media sources, in turn, reinforce this negative perception of refugees in the public imagination. On the other hand, in speaking to potential resettlement states, donors, and the public, UNHCR and non-governmental assistance organizations often employ a discourse that underlines the need to protect certain “vulnerable” groups, such as women, children, and the elderly. Furthermore, academic research about displaced persons encounters dilemmas of narrative, including whether the ‘voice’ of the refugee is being truly heard beyond the researcher’s own agenda as well as issues of ownership and usage of the findings.

Therefore, the goal of this conference is to explore the multiple contexts, motivations, and power relations inherent in this vast array of narratives by and about displaced persons. We hope to exchange research and ideas in order to better understand the complex and multi-faceted experiences of displaced persons and to reposition these narratives from the margins of vulnerability into our broader understandings of human life. This overarching theme seeks to embrace a comprehensive and interdisciplinary discussion of (forced) human migration. We welcome you to submit proposals on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

· Life stories about refugees

· The use of narratives in the Refugee Status Determination process· Intersectionality of oppression and refugee narratives/claims (gender, race/racialization, class, sexual orientations, etc.)



· Discourse analysis of different sources of refugee portrayal, i.e. government legislation, international agency funding appeals, media stories

· Artistic and literary representations of the forced migration experience

· Methodological and ethical issues when doing research with refugees and displaced persons

· Settlement challenges and services in the host society

· ‘Refugees’ vs. other experiences of forced and/or ‘irregular’ migration

A selection of strong papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal, REFUGE. If you are interested in having your submission considered for publication, please adhere to the REFUGE author guidelines, requiring papers no more than 7,500 words, double-spaced and formatted according to the newest version of the Chicago Style Manual. More details about author guidelines and the journal can be found at www.yorku.ca/refuge.

Submissions that fall under the category of visual, audio, and performing arts
are also welcome. All acceptable art submissions will be exhibited at the
conference location. Group/panel submissions are also invited.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Individuals or groups wishing to participate in the conference MUST submit a
250-word abstract by February 28th, 2012.


Abstract submissions MUST be accompanied by the following:

1. Name(s) of presenter(s)

2. Key presenter e-mail address

3. Title of abstract

4. A short personal profile (no more than 150 words)

5. Indication of whether the presentation will be made by a panel or an
individual

6. Indication of the type of audio-visual aids needed (i.e., projector,
laptop, DVD player etc.)


Abstracts should be submitted electronically to crsconference2012@gmail.com by February 28th, 2012.

Presenters who wish to be considered for publication in REFUGE must their completed papers to crsconference2012@gmail.com by April 20th, 2012.

For more information about presenting at the conference please contact crsconference2012@gmail.com.

For more information about registering for the conference and event details,
please refer to our website, which will be available in late January 2012.

Post-Doc: 2012-13 fellowship competition, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington DC‏

2012–13 FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
Applications due February 17, 2012

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 fellowship competition.

The Center awards fellowships to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution; the Center will also consider immediate post-docs and faculty between appointments.



The specific fellowship and the length of the award are at the Center’s discretion. Individual awards generally range up to nine months of residency; a minimum of three consecutive months is required. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month for the purpose of defraying local housing and other miscellaneous living expenses. Residents of the Washington, DC–metropolitan area receive a reduced stipend of $1,750 per month.

All applications and supporting materials must be submitted electronically and in English by February 17, 2012. The Center will announce its decisions in May 2012.



To learn more about the fellowships, go to ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/.



To apply or read the complete competition guidelines, go to ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application/.

If you have additional questions, please e-mail vscholars@ushmm.org

Conference: Intellectual Property in Modern Europe, Leipzig, 1-3 November 2012‏

Call for Papers - International Conference

GWZO - University of Leipzig, Germany (1-3 November 2012)



International Conference



Intellectual Property in Modern Europe – Tracing the Expansion of a Concept



Date: 1-3 November 2012

Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe

Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO)



The concept of intellectual property has developed into a major institution governing the national, international and transnational traffic and exchange of knowledge and (cultural) goods in the modern world. Framed at the intersection between the private and public sphere, the development of intellectual property rights reflects the diachronic wrangling to balance and regulate the access, distribution and diffusion of information and knowledge in modern societies. By the end of the 19th century, the leading Western European states had devised national legislations and partook in international organizations for the protection of intellectual property, whereas the majority of the newly created Southeast, East and East Central European states started to create domestic protection systems and got incorporated into the international system of intellectual property protection only at the dawn of the 20th century. Taking this observation as our starting point, the conference will examine the introduction and institutionalization of intellectual property (copyrights and patents) in Modern Europe from a comparative perspective.



By including a perspective of and from East Central and Southeast Europe, the conference seeks to develop a new comparative analytical framework for exploring the history of intellectual property in Modern Europe. The development of intellectual property in Southeast and East Central European States was initially shaped by growing international conformity pressure during the inter-war period. The establishment of socialist legal systems and cultures that followed after World War II promoted the abolishment of private property. Since 1989/1990 states in these regions and their societies are again under extreme transformation, adaptation and innovation pressure to (re-)individualise the protection of (intellectual) property. The (re-)establishment of a legal system that protects copyrights and patents, is not only seen as part of a legal and political transformation process but also as a necessary pre-condition for catch-up modernisation and a trigger for innovation.



The conference is organised by the project group “Legal Culture(s) of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries” / “Rechtskulturelle Prägungen Ostmitteleuropas in der Moderne” at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe / Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO - www.uni-leipzig.de/gwzo).

The project group investigates the legal culture(s) of East-Central Europe focusing on the history of material and immaterial property rights in agriculture, industry, culture and science. Legal culture is being analyzed by devoting special attention to land ownership, copyrights, patents and brands which are particularly controversial in the modernization processes since the late 1800s. The project is directed jointly by professors Dr. Stefan Troebst and Dr. Hannes Siegrist of the University of Leipzig. The project’s participants explore respectively the significance of the category “landownership” (Dr. Dietmar Müller), the protection of industrial property (Cindy Daase, M.A.) and the function and relevance of copyright (Dr. Augusta Dimou) in East Central Europe in the twentieth century. The group examines intellectual and industrial property rights focusing on processes of internationalization, transnational appropriation and local adaptation of legal doctrines, norms and institutions. Special attention is paid to the interplay between national, regional, transnational and global actors and institutions in the creation of normative orders.



We invite scholars working in the broader field of the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies and literature, legal scholars, experts in media and communication studies, economic historians as well as historians of science and technology to contribute to this conference with case and/or comparative studies as well as with theory focused papers. The call is open for established as well as young scholars and PhD students at an advanced stage of their PhD. We especially encourage scholars from Southeast and East Central Europe to submit paper abstracts. We envision the publication of selected contributions in an individual volume.



Proposed papers could address but are not limited to the following topics:
The transfer of legislation, concepts, norms and international standards and their “domesticization” in new contexts
The effect of intellectual property rights in modernisation and industrialisation processes, esp. on cultural and scientific developments

3. Law and its context: How do political, social, cultural and economic developments affect processes of legalization?
Formal and informal practices: What is the relationship between normative prescriptions and actual practice?
The role and connection of experts and/or lobby groups/associations in the institutionalization, popularization and enforcement of norms and standards on a national and international level (authors, publishers, international organizations, inventors, business associations etc.)
Framing and staging public discourses and debates on intellectual property
Philosophical and theoretical elaborations of the notions of “labour” and “property” and alternative conceptualizations regarding the “protection of ideas”
Real Socialism: Ideology and Intellectual Property, a change of doctrine and definitions of intellectual property?
Post-Communism and transformation: The end of ideology in the protection of intellectual property?
East – West comparison: Was the transfer of international (legal) norms to East Central and Southeast Europe a one-way street or were there cross references, reciprocal influences, and/or backslashes?
Intellectual property at a critical junction – new media / new inventions: Shifts in habits, marketing techniques, tastes and legislation
Standardization and Institutionalization: their role in the internal regulation of society and the state as well as in the regulation of international relations and transnational group interests



The conference will take place from 1st to 3rd November 2012 in Leipzig. Conference language is English.



Please send an abstract of not more than 500 words and a short biographical note of not more than 250 words not later than 20 February 2012 to Augusta Dimou (dimou@uni-leipzig.de) and Cindy Daase (cindy.daase@uni-leipzig.de). Successful candidates will be informed by 30 March 2012.

Please note: The conference papers will be due on 1st October 2012.

Travel costs and accommodation of the admitted panellists will be fully covered by the conveners.

Conference: Health, Culture and the Human Body, Istanbul, 13-15 September 2012‏

The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2012

Demographic
change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of aging societies.
Medical
care for elderly people cannot be conceptualized and organized without considering a cultural understanding of aging and the economic and social circumstances of a given society. In this regard this conference will focus on ethical, historical and epidemiological perspectives of aging in a global world, including issues such as health care research and health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices of elderly people. Further subjects of the conference are the beginning of life and sexually transmitted diseases, which will also be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This
conference will focus on the selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and other countries which for the last 50 years have been closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical practice. After the well received first round held in Germany (Mainz) in 2010, the aim of this second conference is to establish a discussion platform for different ethical considerations among historically connected countries, applying an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach to selected sample cases from
Turkey, Germany and other countries with comparable relationships.
The chosen
thematic areas are:
· Aging, culture
and medicine (aging and culture, aging and perception of the body, medical care and geriatrics, geriatrics and ethics, hospice systems)
· Sexually
Transmitted Diseases (e.g. AIDS,
syphilis, gonorrhea; the social perception of venereal diseases and medicine, politics-ethics and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases)
· Beginning of
life and ethics (Assisted Reproductive Technologies, abortion,
religion-medicine and the beginning of life)
· Migration
and Health
Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed
conference papers should be submitted by 29
February 2012, to the attention ofHakan Ertin MD PhD,E-Mail:
hakanertin@gmail.com Istanbul
University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics.
Tel: +90 532 321 71 77 Fax: +90 212 414 22 86 Publication of selected papers is envisaged.
Venue:Istanbul University Doctorate Halls –Beyazıt, Istanbul, Turkey
Organisation:
Hakan Ertin MD, PhD (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey) Rainer Brömer PhD (Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey) Ilhan Ilkilic MD, PhD (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) Hajo Zeeb MD, PhD (BIPS – Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Bremen, Germany)

Conference: Medworlds 4- "Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean", 29 Mays University, Istanbul, 5-7 Septermber 2012‏

An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Department of History, 29 Mayis University, in collaboration with The Mediterranean Seminar and Research Centre of Trans-Mediterranean Studies, University of California; Bern University, Department of the History of the Art, TransMediterraneanStudies.

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There are countless discussions and publications, case studies and unresolved questions, and eventually, research projects on “histories in and the history of the Mediterranean”, which all underline the commonalities and differences between the cultures and histories of the region. One issue should be kept in mind when considering these: It is no doubt very easy to be captivated by delightful similarities, overlooking diversity or, on the other extreme, to see insurmountable differences under the spell of modern national or global theories. However, the Mediterranean, a place of constant flux, should be more accurately described as ‘hybrid’: Frontier societies and particularly shores share an amalgam of cosmopolitan socio-economic and political structures.

One example process that brings about hybridity is migration and its domino effect-style repercussions. Although classical historiography highlights the region as one ‘source’ for many ideas, species, social organizations and religions, it is also a perennial destination for outsiders. This can be evidenced by the salient immigrations of people from all directions towards the Middle Sea, not restricted to ‘Völkerwanderung’. One can easily describe these waves of arrivals as multiple ‘domino effects’ which had corollary effects on the region in diverse localities. Shifts of ideas, modes of production, methodology, science, religion, language are among dynamics brought about successively by the various influxes to the region and yield hybrid outcomes. The dislocation of substances, structures, hierarchies, languages, religions and traditions in a domino effect facilitates the re-emergence of these social elements in the new location in novel and ingenious ways. In time, their imported or suspended character takes on a more permanent and assimilated character – a hybrid is born.

We hope that our rubric of 'Mediterranean Worlds' is broad enough to encompass the work of scholars conducting research across the whole range of elements of Mediterranean culture and history, while at the same time highlighting this year's special topic of 'domino effects and hybridization.’

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Suggested panel presentations comprising 3-4 presenters and chairperson (please submit 3/4 x 250-word abstract and a short rationale for the panel theme). 250-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers that broadly address the above themes, and that may address, but not be limited by, the following topics:

• Hybridity as an Aberration
• Incorporation and Reproduction of Liminality in institutions
• History of the “the Other” in the Mediterranean
• Language variation, multilingualism, language contact and contact
languages in the Mediterranean
• Reverse Processes: Modernity?
• Oral Tradition and Artistic Performance as Means of Intercultural
Communication
• Hybridity in Mediterranean Art and Architecture
• Hybridization of Land Settlement Patterns
• Saints, Pilgrims and Missionaries: travels in the Mediterranean hybridity
• Hybrid Methodologies
• Hybridity in Byzantine Archaeology



http://medworldsfour.wordpress.com/

Conference: The Construction(s) of Conflict and Peace, Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies (EXCEPS), 9-10 July 2012‏

The Construction(s) of Conflict and Peace

Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies’ (EXCEPS)

9-10 July 2012

University of Exeter, UK, Streatham Campus



Conference Convenor: Professor Gareth Stansfield



The manner in which conflicts are framed is intimately linked to conflicts’ various stages, including efforts to mitigate and/or abate their violent effects, be it through military intervention, humanitarian aid and/or the creation of new political dispensations. The shared understandings that provide the bases for these frames, however, are the products of various discursive practices within governments, NGOs, academia, journalism and manifold cultural productions and (e.g., literature, visual arts, museums, etc.). These practices are contingent and messy, and often deeply contested.



The conference will investigate these practices from a multidisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from both practitioners and academics. It seeks to uncover how the interplay of economic incentives, organizational cultures, political and social climates, and personal and collective beliefs lead to the production and privileging of particular types of knowledge vis-à-vis conflict and peace. It also seeks to explore how these processes vary across occupations, disciplines, time and space. For instance, how do donor and NGO priorities affect the production of ‘local’ knowledge within a conflict site? Are certain stakeholders accorded greater legitimacy vis-à-vis knowledge production? How does access to conflict areas and privileged informants, language and translation, as well as the processes of data collection and representation inform specific conflict interpretations and mitigation efforts? Similarly, if a conflict is located within the ’academic periphery’, how do the practices and priorities of the ‘core’ (e.g., US academia) shape knowledge production? In terms of time, how does knowledge change as conflicts transition towards peace, thus becoming ripe for ‘lesson’ extraction and exportation?



Beyond governments, NGOs, the media and academia, the conference also seeks to investigate how cultural productions create, affirm and/or challenge knowledge of peace and conflict. Specifically, how is knowledge of conflict and peace encoded through architecture and space planning, the visual arts, literature, museums, etc.? Do the different organizational cultures and intended audiences governing the production of these cultural artefacts create different types of knowledge? How are these types of knowledge incorporated and/or ignored by other knowledge producers within conflicts and peace processes?



The conference committee welcomes abstracts and panel proposals on any aspect of this theme. To submit a proposal for a paper or panel, please send an abstract of a maximum of 500 words to exceps-conference@exeter.ac.uk by 15 January 2012. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 February 2012. As a limited student travel fund will be available, please indicate in your abstract if you wish to be considered for this fund. For further information, please visit the conference website at http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/exceps/events/conference.html

Conference: Living together 'in' diversity. National societies in the multicultural age. CEU Budapest, 21-22 May 2012‏

Contemporary European societies have been recently characterized as
having entered the age of 'super-diversity'. Migratory flows in
particular have contributed to this transformation, due to the
heterogeneous ethno-cultural, and religious background of present
migrants, as well as their social status, age, and mobility patterns.
Among the effects this transformation has brought about is the increased
challenge posed to the constitutive principle of the nation-state, i.e.,
the assumption that identity (nation) and politics (state) can and
should be mutually constituent and spatially congruent. Thus,
unsurprisingly, many states have started perceiving diversity as a
'problem', potentially threatening national unity, while
anti-immigration and xenophobic attitudes have experienced a rapid
surge.
Existing scholarship has offered insightful critical analyses of this
'backlash against diversity', documenting the rise of repressive state
measures designed to limit access of new migrants to the national
territory and citizenship. Other scholars have instead moved away from
the idea of the nation-state, proposing either post-national solutions,
which decouple the cultural (nation) from the political (state), or
transnational paradigms, which implicitly discard the focus on the
nation-state as not only obsolete but also politically questionable.
Yet, despite important insights from this scholarship, social and
political life continues to remain largely structured by discourses,
resources and institutions articulated at the national scale.

AIM

It is therefore the aim of the proposed conference to explore how
'living together in diversity' is imagined, narrated, organized,
justified, and practiced within contemporary national societies. With
the stress on 'in' rather than 'with' diversity we want to move away
from reifying the dominant 'majority' society perspective, which assumes
diversity as something 'carried' solely by immigrants and something that
the 'native' society has to cope with. Some of the questions that we are
interested in are:

- What makes multicultural societies circumscribed by state borders
cohere together?

- What are the ways in which the nation becomes re-signified to
accommodate the ethno-cultural diversity of its populace?

- How do migrants position themselves in national narratives and
political structures?

- What alternative modes and models of belonging are at work within
present national societies?

- In which ways does the national continue to feature as a site of
attachment?



Although we acknowledge that these questions are inescapably normative
in character, we particularly welcome empirically-informed work. The
privileged level of analysis we are interested in is the national scale,
but papers focusing on sub-national and supra-national scales can also
be welcomed inasmuch as they can offer insights regarding how living
together in diversity works at the national scale. Regionally, the
conference will focus on Europe, but contributions discussing other
geographical contexts are also welcomed.
- Is it necessary to have some form of common identification at the
national scale to have functioning states in the first place?

DEADLINES

All potential participants are invited to submit an abstract (250-300
words) to Tatiana Matejskova (MatejskovaT@ceu.hu) by December 31st,
2011. By January 31st, 2012 participants will be informed about the
acceptance of their papers. Confirmation of participation and payment of
the conference fee will be due on February 28th, 2012. The conference
fee of 60 Euros will cover refreshments, lunches and conference
materials.


http://livingindiversity.eu

IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium, Transnational Crime and Corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Washington DC, 18-20 April 2011‏

2012 IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium:

"Transnational Crime and Corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia"

IREX, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Kennan Institute (WWC), is pleased to announce its 2012 Regional Policy Symposium, "Transnational Crime and Corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia." The research symposium, supported by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program), will bring American junior and senior scholars and members of the policy community together to examine and discuss transnational crime and corruption in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Topics may include: organized crime, corruption, human trafficking, drug trafficking, illicit trade, terrorism, cyber crime, financial crime and environmental crime, among others.

Junior scholars will be chosen based on a national competition to present their current research on the topic of the Symposium. Grants will be awarded to approximately ten junior scholars.

The Symposium is scheduled to take place April 18-20, 2012 in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and will involve two full days of reviews of current research projects, roundtable discussions, and the dissemination of research results to the policy community through a networking event.

Technical Eligibility Requirements:

      * Applicants must be US citizens

      * Applicants must either be currently enrolled in an MA, MS, MBA, JD, or Ph.D. program or have held a graduate degree for 10 years or less.

      * Applicants who hold an academic post must be pre-tenure.

Grant Provisions:

      * Round-trip airfare (provided by IREX through its travel office) and/or surface transportation from anywhere in the United States to the symposium site.

      * Meals and accommodations for the duration of the symposium.

To receive more information on the 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, please email inquiries to symposium@irex.org (or visit the program website at http://www.irex.org/project/regional-policy-symposium . [application | more] Application Deadline: December 9, 2011.

Gonda Van Steen

University of Florida

Dept. of Classics and Center for Greek Studies

125 Dauer Hall

Gainesville, FL 32611-7435

Territorial Cooperation in the EU, Barcelona, 2-4 May 2011‏

1. Call for Papers: "Territorial Cooperation in the European Union"

The University Institute of European Studies (IUEE) is inviting papers for a research workshop on "Territorial Cooperation in the European Union" that will take place in Barcelona (May 2-4, 2012).

This multidisciplinary workshop is intended to gather young scholars working on cross-border cooperation in the EU with special regard - but not only - to the Mediterranean countries. Papers should address cross-border, transnational and interregional territorial cooperation from different disciplines (e.g. political science, sociology, economy, geography, spatial planning and law). They should focus on cross-cutting themes (multi-level governance, institutional capacity building, policy learning and Europeanization) and/or on specific policy problems/sectors (territorial cohesion, local development, environment, urban regeneration, climate change and sustainable development, transport, energy, culture).

The two-days workshop will be an opportunity to share ongoing research on the topic and to receive feedback from a group of discussants (senior scholars from the partner institutions) working on the same field.

The programme will be divided into 4 panels:
1. The governance of cross-border cooperation: institution- and capacity-building
2. The European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation and the reform of Cohesion policy: the state of play
3. Policy networks and policy learning in cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation
4. Cross-border sustainable development strategies and policies Travel and accommodation funding is available.

http://www.euborderregions.eu/about/news/works - see http://www.euborderregions.eu/files/Call_for_Papers_Territorial_Cooperation%20May_2012.pd.pdf

Application Deadline: December 31, 2011.

Conference: International Conference "Human Security", Belgrade, Serbia, 13 December 2011

The Centre for Security Studies, Belgrade, and the Aleksanteri Institute of the University of Helsinki organise the International Conference “Human Security”, which will be held on 13 December at Aero Club, 4 Uzun Mirkova St., Belgrade.

The conference is the final part of the Aleksanteri Institute’s project “The Environment and Security in the Western Balkans: The Risks and Opportunities Through Co-operation”, supported by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (more details at: www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english/projects/balkan.htm). The conference is aimed at gathering representatives of Serbian Government and its agencies, experts and academics to discuss the results of research on the role of the environment in questions of regional stability and security in the context of local, regional and international co-operation established to ease these problems. The underlying assumption of the research project is that the link between the environment and security can generate both risks and co-operation in the Western Balkans.

Conference: Milan Stojadinovic - Politics in the age of global turmoils, Belgrade, 12 December 2011‏

Institute of European Studies and the Center for Conservative Studies invite you to attend the first scientific conference about the life and political activities of former Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Milan Stojadinović, titled

MILAN STOJADINOVIĆ - POLITICS IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL TURMOILS

Ten prominent Serbian scientists will present their research on specific aspects of this issue, with following open debate. The conference will be held on Monday, December 12th in the hall of the Art Center, 71 King Peterstreet (www.artcentar.rs).

Your presence and comments will be of great help.

-schedule-

10:00 – 10:30 – Introduction

Dragan Lakićević, Ph.D, IES Director

Miša Đurković, Ph.D, IES Project Coordinator

10:30 – 12:00 – 1st Session

Boško Mijatović, Ph.D – Stojadinović's economic thought and practice as a
Minister of Finance

Goran Nikolić, Ph.D – Stojadinović's Government economic policy

Bojan Dimitrijević, Ph.D – Army and national security durig the reign of
Stojadinović's Government

Miša Đurković, Ph.D - Stojadinović's foreign policy

12:00 – 12:15 - Break

12:15 – 13:30 – 2nd Session

Aleksandar Raković, Ph.D – Stojadinović's cultural policy

Veljko Đurić Mišina, Ph.D – Concordat crisis

Miroslav Svirčević, Ph.D – Stojadinović and Croatian question in Yugoslavia

13:30 – 14:00 - Cocktail

14:00 - 15:15 – 3rd Session

Ljubodrag Dimić, Ph.D – Stojadinović's exit form Mauritius

Srđa Trifković, Ph.D – Stojadinović in emigration

Momčilo Pavlović, Ph.D – Milan Stojadinović as a Rotarian

All presentations are to be within 15 minutes limit. The debate will start
after
the end of the 3rd session until the end of the conference at 16:00 hours.

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For additional inforation please contact

milan.igrutinovic@ies.rs

Encouraging active citizenship in the post-Lisbon EU, Sofia, 11-18 December 2011‏

ENCOURAGING ACTIVE EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP IN THE POST-LISBON EU

11-18 December, 2011
Sofia, Bulgaria

The UN Youth Association along with JEF and UEF-Bulgaria have the pleasure
of inviting you to participate in the international seminar "Encouraging
Active European Citizenship in the post-Lisbon EU"

The project will meet the need to inform the new European generation how the
EU works and the rights and obligations the EU citizenship brings.


We now have the Treaty of Lisbon, which has been a great step forward.
Nonetheless, it has become clear that even with the new treaty, the EU is
not equipped with the appropriate instruments to pull itself out of a
fundamental crisis. A crisis that has not only developed from a debt problem
into a full blown economic and social disaster but also into a substantial
questioning of six decades of European Integration. Indeed, the issues that
need to be addressed go to the core of the European Project.


The project will involve governmental officials, elected representatives,
scholars, activists of civil society organizations and, most importantly,
the participants themselves in a series of debates, working groups and euro
parties.

The political, social, economic and cultural aspects that the seminar
addresses will contribute to the broader involvement of the participants in
the Future of Europe debates in their countries.

Methodology:

Panel discussions, working groups, debates, lectures, plenary sessions,
simulation games and information market will be some of the methods used to
debate these issues.

The ideas and knowledge generated during the seminar can be used by every
participant and be implemented at local level.

The rich social program, including horse ride in Vitosha mountain
(optional), parties and sightseeing trip to the Rila Monastery, one of the
most significant and picturesque monuments on the Balkans, will enable the
participants to feel the atmosphere of Bulgaria - an ever-evolving and
modern country with great cultural heritage and traditions, dating back from
Roman and Byzantine times.

Participating conditions:

Age 18-30 (no limit for the head of
the delegation)

Countries Slovenia, Greece, Austria,

Costs: 70% of travel costs and 100% of
food and lodging costs
will be covered covered by
the organisers

75 Euro participation fee/person

For more info and an application form write to: asea@scas.acad.bg

PhD Studentship at Queen Mary, University of London‏

Postgraduate Studentships 2012

The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) offers a number of generous studentships for students entering commencing their doctoral studies in October 2012. The deadline for consideration for funded places is 31st January 2012. Candidates whose applications are received after this date may be considered for admission but not for funding.

QMUL Principal’s Studentships

The following studentships are offered:

• Politics & International Studies: in any area of politics or international studies, broadly defined, but with particular concern to the interests of members of the School's academic staff with respect to supervision – see here for more details on research interests in the School

• The Mile End Scholarship in British Political History (joint with the School of History) – see here for more details   

• The Transnational Politics of the Latin American Diaspora, focussing on Bolivia (joint with the School of Geography) – see here for more details

Queen Mary Principal’s studentships are open to UK, EU and international students. They cover tuition fees and a maintenance allowance of around £15,000 per year for up to three years. Candidates will normally be expected to have a good first degree and a Masters degree in Politics, International Relations, or a related subject.

Economic & Social Research Council: Doctoral Training Centre (London Social Science) Studentships

The School of Politics & IR is part of a prestigious ESRC-funded Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), London Social Science, with QMUL and Goldsmiths, University of London. The DTC will provide funding for up to two PhD studentships in SPIR for entry in 2012. Applications in any field where we can offer expert supervision are encouraged. A full list of research interests in SPIR is here.

Studentships cover up to four years of tuition fees and provide a standard maintenance grant of £15,590 per year. PhDs with a particular emphasis on quantitative research may receive an additional Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) stipend of £3,000. Successful applicants will be offered a variety of flexible models of combined PhD study and research training: either a 1 + 3 model (i.e. 1 year doing an MA or MRes in advanced research training plus 3 years of PhD) or a model where the research training is completed throughout the course of the 4 years of the studentship.

Please note that you need to complete an additional ESRC application form to be considered for funding through the DTC. Further details and guidance on how to apply are below and available here: http://www.londonsocialscience.org.uk/index.html.

Candidates must adhere to the current residential eligibility rules as laid out in the ESRC Postgraduate Funding Guide available here.

How to Apply

For both types of studentship, apply via the standard doctoral application process, indicating in your application that you wish to be considered for funding. Applications can be made online here. Further details on how to apply are here. Hard copies of the application form are also available.

ESRC DTC applicants must also complete an additional application for funding, which is available to download from here: http://www.londonsocialscience.org.uk/index.html (under Studentships). This additional form should be emailed directly to politics-pgresearch@qmul.ac.uk - ensure you include ‘ESRC DTC Funding Application – Your Name’ in the subject line of your email. Alternatively, you can send a hard copy to the School of Politics & IR, QMUL, London, E1 4NS for the attention of ‘The Research Manager.’

Successful applicants to both funding schemes are expected to start in October 2012.

You are encouraged to visit our website to establish if your research ideas fit with our current areas of interest. In addition, you are encouraged to make informal contact with a potential supervisor to discuss your proposed topic, in advance of making your application. Two of the College studentships indicated above pertain to specific subject areas – click on the links above for more information.

Applications to both College and ESRC-funded studentships must consist of the following:
• A research proposal which should include a hypothesis, key questions to be addressed by your research, methodology and an indicative bibliography. Further advice on writing a research proposal is here. Please note that the research proposal word length for a studentship application is max. 2000 words.
• You should have a 2:1 or equivalent in your first degree and if your first language is not English you must be able to provide recent evidence that your spoken and written command of the English language is adequate for the programmes for which you have applied. You need to provide evidence of an English language test score or intend to take a test before your studies. Information about English language entry requirements can be found here.
• Transcripts from previous degrees
• 2 academic references
• A full curriculum vitae (CV)
• Supporting statement which states why you want to take the programme

Your complete application must be received in the Admissions Office no later than midnight on 31st January 2012. ESRC DTC funding forms must also be received by this date. Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that academic references are also received by this date and no later than Friday 3^rd February 2012. Applications without references will be considered incomplete and will not be processed further.

Candidates whose applications are received after this date may be considered for admission but not for funding. Candidates will be interviewed for a place. Those shortlisted for funding will be passed to a selection panel for final assessment. ESRC DTC applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application from mid-March 2012.

General enquiries about making a formal application can be addressed to the Research Manager by email politics-pgresearch@qmul.ac.uk, or call +44 0207 882 5829.

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The Mile End Scholarship in British Political History (joint with the School of History)

Applications are welcome in the general field of British Politics and Professional Life in Britain in the 20th Century, with a particular focus on the relationship between the political elite and professional groups.. For example, a project may focus on the professional profile of members of Parliament, as well as patterns of cooperation and conflict between the legislature and professional groups, such as, those in medicine, or the trade union movement. Applicants are invited to contact Prof Michael Kenny and Dr Catherine Needham in SPIR, or Dr Helen McCarthy, Dr James Ellison, Dr Peter Catterall and Dr Martyn Frampton in History to discuss their ideas. Applicants are invited to contact Prof Michael Kenny and Dr Catherine Needham in SPIR, or Dr Helen McCarthy, Dr James Ellison, Dr Peter Catterall and Dr Martyn Frampton in History to discuss their ideas.

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'The transnational politics of the Latin American diaspora: the Bolivian experience'

This studentship is part of an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Schools of Geography and Politics and International Relations. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Cathy McIlwaine (Geography) and Professor James Dunkerley (Politics and International Relations) (with Dr McIlwaine as the primary supervisor). Applicants should develop their own detailed Research Proposal relating to any dimension of disapora politics among Bolivians. This might include addressing the following issues: dual citizenship, the nature of diaspora participation in formal and informal politics, the gendered and racialised dimensions of identity politics, the creation of transnational political spaces.

Candidates should discuss their research proposal with Professor James Dunkerley and/or Dr Cathy McIlwaine before submitting their application.

Please note that online applications should be submitted for the attention of the School of Geography.