Internship: European Council on Foreign Relations is offering internship

Internship in Communications unit
The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is the first pan-European think-tank. Launched in October 2007, its objective is to conduct research and promote informed debate across Europe on the development of coherent and effective European values based foreign policy.

Position
We are looking for a communications intern for 3 to 6 months to start as soon as possible. Working from ECFR's London office for 20 hours a week, the intern will support the communications unit in organising ECFR's media profile and implementing its communications strategies.

Responsibilities
Answering enquiries from the press or other media representatives
Assisting the communications team in updating and promoting ECFR's website/social media presence
Monitoring media coverage and updating ECFR's database of media appearances/media contacts
Helping the communications team with producing various media outputs
Other tasks as required by the communications team

Experience and skills
Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office, html) including some knowledge of database maintenance and website management.
Basic graphic design skills and experience with photoshop and/or gimp.
Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, flexibility and ability to multi-task and prioritise, good organisational skills and eye for detail
fluent in English, knowledge of a second European language would be an advantage
interest in European foreign policy and EU politics

We offer
An exciting opportunity to gain work experience in a challenging, fast-paced environment with a diverse team.
A small stipend to cover transport and lunch costs.

To apply: Please send your CV and supporting statement about why you are applying for this role (with COMMUNICATIONS INTERN as the subject line) to: communications@ecfr.eu by 5 July 2012.

Internship: Paid Internship at European Democrat Group

Paid Internship - European Democrat Group
Purpose of the internship programme

1. An internship for graduate students is available at the European Democrat Group (EDG), a centre right-wing political group at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
This internship intends to:
a) increase the intern's understanding of current human rights issues at the international level and give them an insight into the work of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE); and
b) provide the EDG with the assistance and contribution of an outstanding graduate.
2. The relationship between the EDG and the intern is one of mutual benefit. He/she is involved, inter alia, in: researching human rights and political issues, drafting analytical papers and reports, providing technical, translation and interpreting servicing of small-scale meetings and general secretarial & administrative support.

Qualifications required
3. The intern shall be selected from graduate students in disciplines related to the work of the Council of Europe. Applicants must have an excellent command of Russian (native level) and a very good level of English. Knowledge of additional languages, in particular French, shall be considered as an asset. The intern must be able to work both independently and as part of a team and possess excellent research-skills. He/she must have proven ability to work in a multicultural working environment and must be able to multitask under pressure.

Internship dates and duration
4. The EDG will only employ one intern at any one time. The internship starts on September 17th 2012 and shall last till October 19th 2012 (5 weeks).

Conditions of service
5. According to the prevailing French legislation, asylum seekers are not permitted to seek any form of employment, whether paid or unpaid, including internship.
6. Interns are assigned to work with a supervisor who is responsible for providing him/her with a description of duties and a work plan.
7. Internships with the European Democrat Group are remunerated. The fixed remuneration is €1000 in total for the entire period. Weekend work and overtime (especially during the Assembly week) may be required. No additional payment shall be awarded. Interns are not considered officials or staff members of the Council of Europe. Travel costs arising from travelling at the start of the internship and returning at the end of the internship shall be refunded with a maximum of €250 if the intern comes from within the Schengen-area and €500 if the intern comes from out of the Schengen-area. The European Democrat Group is unable to assist you with acquiring a Schengen visa.
8. Living expenses in France must be covered by the remuneration proposed as outlined in point 7. Any additional costs must be covered by the intern him- or herself or by a sponsoring institution. Interns are themselves responsible for obtaining visas and for finding accommodation. In Strasbourg, interns are provided, upon arrival, with a Council of Europe
access pass and general information about the Council of Europe and PACE.
9. The European Democrat Group nor the Council of Europe accepts any responsibility for costs arising from accidents and/or illness incurred during an internship. Interns must have their own health insurance. In case of illness or other circumstances which might prevent the completion of the internship, interns will inform their supervisor.
10. There is no expectancy of employment at the end of the internship.
11. Interns are expected to work full-time and to carry out the duties assigned to them. They do not accrue annual leave during the period of the internship. Otherwise they are bound by the same duties and obligations as regular staff members; in particular, all confidential and (un)published information obtained during the internship may not be used by interns without the written authorization of the European Democrat Group.

Procedure for applying
12. Applicants should submit the following documentation:
· a covering letter in English stating the reason for applying to the internship programme and how the internship fits in his/her future career goals;
· a detailed curriculum vitae in English;
· a standard passport photograph and a copy of the picture page of the passport.
Please indicate in your application if you have or do not have a valid Schengenvisa for the period September-October 2012.
13. Incomplete applications shall not be considered.
14. Closing date for the application is July 18th 2012. Interviews shall take place in Strasbourg, France (dates TBC but probably 23-24 July). Travel costs to and from the place of interview can not be reimbursed.
15. Due to the large amount of applications, only selected candidates shall be contacted.

Address for applications
Tom VAN DIJCK
European Democrat Group - Council of Europe
Palais - Office 5117
F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex - FRANCE
Or by e-mail : tom.van-dijck@coe.int
Applications are preferably submitted electronically but should not exceed 2MB

Conference: Judicial reforms and and their implications in Central and Eastern Europe, Iasi, 25-26 October 2012‏

The Center for the Analysis of Reforms in Justice, Society and Politics (CARJSP) from Iasi, Romania, in collaboration with the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) of Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, are organising an international conference entitled Judicial Reforms and their implications in Central and Eastern Europe.
After the fall of communist regimes, and in the context of the accession to the European Union, the former communist countries have initiated an ample process of judicial reforms. The independence of the judiciary and the improvement of the functioning of legal institutions are indispensable to the establishment and the development of an European area of freedom, security and justice. The good functioning of the judiciary depends on the fairness, integrity and level of competence shown in the act of justice, as well as on appropriate financial resources and professional training. The European Commission continues to assess and monitor the implementation of these reforms in Romania and Bulgaria.
The judicial reforms carried out in EU Member States and the candidate countries are an important topic for politicians as well as for citizens and the academic community. Being, for decades, a privileged object of study for law specialists, lately, these reforms have become areas of transnational and multidisciplinary research. Political scientists, law specialists, sociologists of law, experts on European studies and legal anthropologists, have all examined the recent transformations of judicial institutions and their effects.
The organisers of this international conference aim to bring together specialists of this field of inquiry and to launch an ample debate with magistrates, decision-makers and academics concerning the objectives and the impact of the reforms recently implemented in the new Member States of the EU and the current candidate countries.

The main questions addressed by the organisers are the following :
► What are the current outcomes of judicial reforms in the region?
► What are the difficulties and obstacles encountered when these reforms are implemented?
► How and in what respects are the initiators of these reforms inspired by the reforms which are underway in other European countries?
► What is the situation of the legal reforms started in Romania compared to other countries of this region?
The independence, responsibility, fairness, and professionalism are the main topics of this conference.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit an abstract in French or English (300 words) by August 10, 2012.
Abstracts should be submitted, along with contact information (name, institutional affiliation, department, e-mail address), to Andrei Dumitrescu (andrei.dumitrescu@euroinst.ro), jurist, counselor at the European Institute of Iaşi, Romania.
A publication of the conference papers is planned.

Schedule

Abstract submission: August 10, 2012
Notification of ac ceptance: August 14, 2012
Final paper submission: September 15, 2012
The papers will be selected by:
Ramona Coman, professor assistant in political science, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Daniela Piana, professor assistant in political science, University of Bologna, Italy
Ole Hammerslev, professor, Head of Study, Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Liviu Drăgănescu, public prosecutor, Prosecutor’s Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, trainer of The National Institute of Magistracy, Bucharest, Romania
Vasilică-Cristi Danileţ, judge, Member of Superior Council of Magistracy, trainer of The National Institute of Magistracy, Bucharest, Romania
Mihail Udroiu, judge, Tribunal of Bucharest, trainer of The National Institute of Magistracy, Bucharest, Romania

Organizing Committee:

Ramona Coman, professor assistant in political science at Université Lib re de Bruxelles , Belgium (Ramona.coman@ulb.ac.be)
Daniel Şandru, professor in political science, president of the University Senate, “Petre Andrei” University, Iasi, Romania (danielsandru2005@yahoo.com)
Gianina Radu, counsellor for European Affairs within the National Institute of Magistracy, Bucharest , Romania(gianina.radu@gmail.com)
Andrei Dumitrescu, jurist, counsellor within the European Institute of Iaşi , Romania (andrei.dumitrescu@euroinst.ro)



"Judicial reforms and their implications in Central and Eastern Europe"

October 25 – 26, 2012, Iasi, Romania

http://conferinta.reformcenter.ro/

Summer School: Summer University Ramnicu Sarat, Romania, 20-26 August 2012‏

Summer University of Ramnicu Sarat, Romania, 6th edition, 20 – 26 of August 2012



Râmnicu Sărat is a former communist prison, presently administrated by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), well known for its extremely oppressive detainment regime. The former prison is to be turned into a Memorial of the victims of communism.

Considering the history of this place, the Institute took the initiative of organizing each year a summer university. During the summer university IICCMER organizes seminars, discussions, workshops on the history of European communism, with the focus on the repressive methods. Students attending the faculties of history, political science, sociology, journalism, letters and law universities represent the target group of the project (19-27 years old). The project aims to help students acquire a better knowledge of the period 1944-1989, and thus to make them reflect upon the illegitimate and criminal nature of the communist regime in Europe. The connection with the past will be achieved, on one hand, by means of face-to-face dialogue with those who were victims and witnesses of the repressive communist system, and, on the other hand, by the presence of well-known lecturers, namely important public figures of post-communist Romania, foreign and Romanian researchers specialized on communism.



The project accepts 25 persons, selected on the basis of an application submitted to tintariu_adelina@gmail.com and universitatea@iiccr.ro



The deadline for submitting the applications is 15th of July. The results of the evaluation will be given on 21st of July.



Participants will be provided with free room, meals and transportation in Romania. Participants must cover their own travel expenses to Romania.



For more information see: http://www.crimelecomunismului.ro/ or send an email to Tintariu Adelina at tintariu_adelina@gmail.com

Conference: HCNM 20 Years on, Flensborghus, 6 July 2012‏

Conference: "HCNM 20 Years On" takes place on 6 July at Flensborghus

http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/doc/ECMI_HCNM_Event_6_July_2012_FLYER.pdf
http://www.osce.org/hcnm


The HCNM 20 Years On conference takes place on Friday 6 July at Flensborghus, Flensburg, Germany. The conference is open to the public.

For further information about the event, please download the flyer. The conference is organized by ECMI in cooperation with the journal European Security.

The High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) as an institution delivers the occasion for holding the conference. The conference is organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the OSCE HCNM.

The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Knut Vollebæk, will take part in the conference HCNM 20 Years On where he delivers the keynote address.

Challenges ahead for HCNM

The Conference will seek to take stock through a historical overview of the role played by the HCNM in the conflicts and transitions in Europe in the 1990s.

The conference presenters will analyze the international circumstances that contribute to the further development of HCNM's work. They will also reflect on the future challenges that the Office of the HCNM will be called to address in advancing peaceful interethnic relations in the OSCE area.

Master: MA in Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul Sehir University‏

MA in Political Science and International Relations

http://sehir.edu.tr/en/Pages/Academic/GraduateSchoolOfHumanitiesAndSocialSciences/PoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations/Home.aspx?PageID=42&MenuID=1610

Istanbul Şehir University Political Science and International Relations Master Program aims to contribute to the production of academic knowledge in Political Science, particularly related to political theory, transformation of the international system, Turkish foreign policy, Middle East politics, neighboring regions, and other regional studies. Students will find opportunities to work with a dynamic and strong academic team of national and international educational background and experience.

The purpose of the MA program in Political Science and International Relations is to train its students as first-class researchers who successfully blend practical knowledge with theory, rigorously applies methodology of Social Sciences, and produce a comparative and critical exploration of national, regional and global politics.

The program has both thesis and non-thesis options.

The following application calendar applies to the thesis option.

Graduate Program Online Application Period

June 25 - July 6, 2012

Document Submission Deadline

July 9, 2012

Announcement of Short-listed Students

July 13, 2012

Interview Dates

July 16-20, 2012

For admission requirements, please click here.<http://www.sehir.edu.tr/en/Pages/Academic/GraduateSchoolOfHumanitiesAndSocialSciences/AdmissionRequirements.aspx?PageID=42&MenuID=174&>

Conference: Between Education, Commerce and Adventure. Tourist experience in Europe since the Interwar Period, Berlin, 26-28 September 2013‏

“Between Education, Commerce and Adventure. Tourist experience in Europe since the Interwar Period.”

Over the course of the twentieth century, tourism in Europe experienced a veritable earthquake: it ceased to be confined to the upper and middle classes and became increasingly accessible to the working class. This trend was certainly facilitated by the fact that national legislation in many Western European countries from the mid-1930s onwards granted the right to paid vacation for employees, in addition to rapidly rising standards of living in post-1945 Western Europe. Mass tourism took on many forms, among which commercial tourism featured prominently. According to Furlough and Baranowski, by the onset of the 1960s commercial tourism had created a “full-throttle global industry”. Still, numerous seemingly antagonistic models of mass tourism have emerged in Europe since the 1930s: social tourism undertaken by non-profit enterprises, state-sponsored tourism in Nazi Germany as well as in socialist European countries involved thousands of tourists and aimed at endowing their vacation with “purpose” and “meaning”. Moreover, the 1960s also witnessed the emergence of a mobile youth, appreciating both domestic and cross-border trips; some of these youths engaged in so-called “alternative” tourism, as opposed to mass and package tourism.

The aim of the conference is twofold: First, in order to better illuminate the diversity of tourist experience, it seeks to critically investigate the argument of the prevalence of commercial tourism. It intends to further scrutinize interconnections among the abovementioned and seemingly competing tourist models. A telling case is the growing appropriation of “alternative” tourist patterns by commercial tourism providers in West Germany in the late 1970s. Moreover, the conference aims to help rethread the scholarly analysis of a plethora of profound economic, social, cultural and political transformations that shaped Europe in the 20th century through the needle of mass tourism as a diverse phenomenon. It seeks to approach tourism from the perspective of the experiences of the tourists as well as of the discourses that tourists employed to lend meaning to these experiences. It intends to examine tourists of differing background with regard to social class, gender, age, nation and ethnicity, and to illuminate how travel was experienced and conceptualized by tourists who lived in various political regimes across Europe. It also wishes to closely examine the entanglements between tourism and other forms of cross-border mobility, such as migration and student exchange. Therefore, even though research investigating single countries may certainly be fruitful and is welcome, we would like to encourage the submission of papers which employ a transnational and/or comparative perspective. We would like to test the significance of Europe as a terrain, in which transnational mobility posed challenges to national borders.

Potential topics to be investigated in the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

· Cold War and tourism. Tourist mobility across the Cold War blocs.

· Tourism, gender and sexuality.

· Cross-border tourism and “European integration”.

· Tourism as a generational experience. Young tourists inside and outside commercial tourism. Youth hostels across Europe. Youth politicization and tourism in the 1960s and the 1970s.

· Tourism and migration in post-World War II Europe. Discourses and experiences of the immigrants as tourists. Interweavings of tourism and migration affecting consumer cultures in both the native and the host areas of the immigrants. Tourism, migration and the forging of transnational spaces.

Potential contributors are encouraged in their presentations to combine empirical data with reflections on theoretical and methodological issues. The conference aims to stir further interdisciplinary discussion on conceptual issues concerning the ways in which tourism was experienced and construed. It wishes to touch upon two issues in particular, albeit not exclusively: first, the concept of the “tourist gaze”, as introduced by John Urry and employed by various historians, sociologists and social/cultural anthropologists. Is a binary model, discerning between a “romantic” and a “collective” gaze, too simplistic, as Rüdiger Hachtmann has recently argued? How could the concept be employed in a more nuanced way? Moreover, we wish to address the mobilities paradigm, which has recently appeared and which tries to emphasize “complex interdependencies” – according to Buescher, Urry and Witchger – between diverse mobilities, such as the “corporeal travel of people”, the movement of objects and interaction via diverse means of communication. In discussing this paradigm, we wish to assign the importance of the primary sources that can be used in the scholarly analysis of tourism. Therefore, the conference welcomes interdisciplinary approaches in various fields of the humanities, including history, social/cultural anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and political theory.The conference is organized by Professor Dr Thomas Mergel and Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) as well as by PD Dr Maren Möhring (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam). It is scheduled to take place on 26-28 September, 2013 in Berlin and will be held in English and German. Proposals for a paper should be either in English or in German and should not exceed 400 words for presentations of an approximate duration of twenty minutes. Please send an abstract by 31 July, 2012 to Nikolaos Papadogiannis (papadogn@hu-berlin.de, npapadogian@gmail.com). A publication of the results is planned.

Conference: BASEES / ICCEES European Congres 2013, Europe: Crisis and Renewal, 5-8 April 2013, Cambridge‏

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
International Council for Central and East European Studies

European Congress 5-8 April 2013

'Europe: Crisis and Renewal'

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge UK

The processes of political, economic, and cultural change in Europe have had a particularly strong impact upon the countries of Eastern Europe and their neighbours in the east. It is timely to reflect on and debate the ways in which Europe and the former Soviet Union has experienced and coped with crisis in all its forms, past and present.

The process of change in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s, the accession of 10 Eastern European states to the EU and the continuing work of European integration in the former Yugoslavia make this an appropriate time to reflect on the experience of Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union. The congress theme 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal' provides a focus to allow reflection on contemporary challenges - political, economic and social - as well as on the history of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and the former Soviet Union.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Professor Jörg Baberowski (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)
Professor Richard Sakwa (University of Kent, United Kingdom)

Academic Conference Organisers:
Dr Matthias Neumann (m.neumann@uea.ac.uk)
Prof Peter Waldron (p.waldron@uea.ac.uk)
Dr Jonathan Oldfied (Jonathan.Oldfield@glasgow.ac.uk)
Prof Stephen Hutchings (Stephen.Hutchings@manchester.ac.uk)
Panel, roundtable and paper proposals on the congress theme and on other topics in Central and East European and Slavonic Studies are welcomed (we encourage proposals for full panels/roundtables). The deadline for panel/roundtable proposals is 1 October 2012, and 14 September 2012 for individual paper proposals.

Panels, roundtables and papers are welcome in the areas of Politics; History; Economics and Geography; Film and Media, Languages and Linguistics; Literatures and Cultures; Sociology. The congress especially welcomes participation by postgraduate research students and by young scholars.

Paper, roundtable and panel proposal forms are available for download:
Panel/roundtablel proposal form
Paper proposal form
Application for financial support

Proposals should be submitted to the appropriate subject group:

history@euroiccees2013.org
politics@euroiccees2013.org
sociology-geography@euroiccees2013.org
film-media@euroiccees2013.org
economics@euroiccees2013.org
languages-linguistics@euroiccees2013.org
literatures-cultures@euroiccees2013.org

The congress also welcomes proposals for postgraduate posters. The poster will be displayed throughout the conference. Please submit your proposal electronically as an attachment to the conference email address info@euroiccees2013.org AND the BASEES Postgraduate Liaison officer Dr Matthias Neumann m.neumann@uea.ac.uk by 1 DECEMBER 2012.
Download the poster proposal form

The congress will be based at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

General enquiries about the congress are welcome at info@euroiccees2013.org

Conference: ESF Conference, In Search of Peace - Dialogues between theories and practices, Linköping Väst, Sweden, 20-24 October 2012‏

The conference aims to foster and facilitate a dialogue between scholarly interrogations and the various experiments and experiences of peace beyond disciplinary and territorial borders. The conference aims to bring together, on the one hand, academic analyses and research innovations in the politics, histories, and discourses of peace from various disciplines. One the other hand to nurture these debates with the practical expertise and field experiences of civil society actors, activists, journalists, artists and policy-makers. During the conference we will seek out the differences and commonalities among the various experiments, discourses, narratives, practices and performances of peace. Given the timeliness of the issue and the urgency to engage in such dialogues, we expect a wide range of participants, including various actors from multiple backgrounds and generations.

Abstracts related to the general theme of the conference are welcome, and we particularly invite applications for papers, posters and photo-essays along the following themes:


•

Conceptualizing peace – moving beyond the liberal paradigm of peace
• Spaces of/for peace – theoretically imagined and/or practically experienced
• Actors of/for peace – voices involved in designing peace
• Peace narratives – practices awaiting theorization / theories awaiting realization
• Strategies of/for peace – from educational agendas to military interventions to artistic& intercultural projects
• Networks of peace – beyond and across disciplinary and territorial boundaries

Please direct preliminary queries and comments to the conference chair:
Dr. Daniela Vicherat Mattar : d.a.vicherat.mattar[at]luc.leidenuniv.nl

Master: MBA in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy

MBA in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy: Babes-Bolyai University in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy

The degree is offered and awarded by the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD).

Where: Germany: Berlin; Romania: Cluj-Napoca

When: Year Round

Overview: The MBA in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy is a two-year program consisting of two semesters in Berlin and two at the Babeş-Bolyai University.
Harnessing the potential of cultural diplomacy as a sustainable, responsible business strategy, the MBA in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy equips students with a comprehensive training in macroeconomic principles, business management strategy and marketing with an emphasis on a unique brand of diplomacy that furthers the social and cultural power of the private sector. This unique approach to international business ensures that the leaders of tomorrow are adequately prepared for the challenges of an ever-changing and increasingly interdependent world.

The Key Objectives of the Program are:
•To provide students with an in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of global economics and Cultural Diplomacy, as well as the basics and foundations of how the fields work together.
•To explore the historic and recent developments in international economics and cultural diplomacy and to prepare students for future developments in the evolving global economy.
•To analyze the developments in the field of cultural diplomacy and to create and apply strategies of how cultural diplomacy can further influence, support, and strengthen the activity of the private sector.
•To enable students to develop successful projects applying the practice of cultural diplomacy and international economics.
•To analyze the strategic and ethical foundations of corporate social responsibility programs and corporate philanthropy with regards to Cultural Diplomacy.

Setting Description:
The MBA program follows the conventional university structure of a two-year course divided into four different semesters.

Students are offered an array of optional courses to accompany mandatory courses, professional training semester and the final thesis. The first semester will be undertaken in Berlin, and the second in Romania. In the second year the students will begin the first semester in Berlin and will undertake a practical development and training semester at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy and then produce a final thesis on a related topic of choice.
These modules have been designed to provide a balance between historical, current and future perspectives of the Global Economy and Cultural Diplomacy. Topics range from Cultural Diplomacy at the corporate, strategic and management level. And focus on International Business and Communications, Globalization, and Crisis Management, as well as Economic Governance, International Organizations, and Contemporary Politics. Many of these courses will focus on the practical applications of Cultural Diplomacy and political economic thought and theory, as well as current transnational and international economic business activities.

This unique combination of study and work at two different institutions provides the crucial support and experience that an MBA student in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy needs in order to flourish in today’s globalized world.
The structure and geographical division of the courses provides students with access to different cultures that will enhance cultural awareness and understanding of different political and economic norms, as well as providing a useful platform on which to broaden the areas of study offered within the program.


Program Value:
•The program offers students a core curriculum in international business education, preparing the future leaders of tomorrow for the leadership, marketing and strategic skills they will need to build careers in economics or business.
•Students will have access to an expert faculty with experience in international economics and diplomacy, and will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in a changing global order.
•Students will obtain an expertise in cultural diplomacy, currently an underutilized but increasingly significant business tool.
•The curriculum and faculty prepare graduates for careers in academia, economic governance, advocacy and all branches of the international private sector.
•Students will be uniquely situated to create and implement their own programs of corporate cultural diplomacy.
•The program will allow students to study with distinguished and renowned faculties from around the world, enabling contacts with experts in organizations affiliated with international business and economics

Program Cost: Tuition for the MBA in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy is €3,000 per semester (and total of €12,000)

Subjects: Business Administration-Commerce and Management, International Relations

The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies

Conference: Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence, Budapest, 7-8 December 2012‏

Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence

Budapest, 7-8 December 2012

Young Researchers Conference

Central European University

Workshop organized in the framework of the Central European University-Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative

The 20th century was a century of wars, genocides, and other forms of political violence. It was also a century of feminist struggle and theorizing globally. At the peak of what is sometimes called the “memory boom,” this conference seeks to explore the different ways in which wars, genocides, and other forms of political violence are remembered through a gender lens. Central questions include (but are not limited to):

- How have wars, genocides and other forms of political violence been narrated and represented by men and women?
- How do women remember and narrate sexual violence in war?
- How do (written, oral or visual) testimonies challenge or reinforce the hegemonic accounts of wars and genocides?
- How are wars memorialized and gendered through monuments, museums, and other memory sites?
- What is the impact of the ethnicization/racialization of violence on the making of gendered memories?
- How is the relationship between the "personal" and the "public/national/political" (re)conceptualized in popular culture, film, literature, and (auto)biographical texts dealing with war, genocide, and other forms of political violence?
- How are "humanitarian interventions," post-conflict processes, and transitional justice gendered?
- How do women’s, feminist, and LGBTQ movements contribute to critical memory work on wars?
- What kind of impact has feminist scholarship had on war and militarism studies, genocide studies, and memory studies?
- What new concepts or theoretical frameworks (queer? postcolonial? critical race studies?) promise new openings in feminist analyses of memory work on wars and genocides?

Applications:
The working language of the conference will be English. Students working on their MA or PhD thesis, or recent graduates (up to one year), from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to papers that deal with Europe (in the largest sense of the term) or Europe’s connection to the discussed context, but other papers will also be considered.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) outlining the relevance and novelty of your contribution, together with a brief, 200-word résumé. Presenters will be required to submit their presentation in writing prior to the workshop (on 15 November the latest).

There are no registration fees. Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided for all participants and the CEU staff will assist in finding reasonable accommodation in Budapest. Sabancı University students are eligible for travel and accommodation funding. Please indicate your funding needs when you submit your application.

*The application deadline is 10 August 2012.*

To submit your proposal and for more information: wargenderstudent@ceu.hu

Master: International Master Program, Comparative Politics: Central and Eastern European Politics and Societies; Bruxelles, Bucharest, Wroclaw, Cluj‏

Comparative Politics: Central and Eastern European Politics and Societies



This International Master Program is jointly organised by the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Bucharest; the University of Wroclaw and the Babes Boyai University (Cluj)


BRIEF PRESENTATION
The two-year master program in comparative politics taught in English at the Political Science Faculty of the University of Bucharest is among the very few of its kind in Central, Eastern, and and South-East Europe. Our curriculum stresses both the theoretical and empirical dimensions related to the modern and contemporary evolution of politics and society in the region. The program is methodologically eclectic yet rigorous, with an emphasis on historical and political science approaches.
The master program is meant for students with a BA degree (180 ECTS) in political science, history, sociology, law, economics, philosophy, and philology, coming from Romania, Central and South-East Europe, EU and Non-EU coutries.
The courses focus on the historical roots of political processes, explore how can democratic institutions and practices be generated, challenged and sustained, recognize and cope with the particular features of the area, studying them in a wide comparative perspective.
The program looks for sophisticated analytical answers to such basic political questions as: 'why are some countries democratic while others are not?' 'why are some countries torn by ethnic conflict?' 'do constitutions matter?' 'what is the impact of global capitalism on state sovereignty?'
Addressing these and similar questions, the program offers courses in the fields of democratisation, nationalism and ethnicity, political elites and institutions, and constitutionalism. These processes are analyzed as embedded in their area- and country-specific particularities and contexts.
The program has been designated a political science resource by the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute.
The program is part of a Consortium that includes the University of Bucharest, Universite Libre Brussels, University of Wroclaw, and the Babes Bolyai University of Cluj. Further academic partnerships with European and North American higher education institutions are actively sought.
The duration of the program is 2 years.




ADVANTAGES
MCP students can be awarded two Master diplomas, one from the home (Bucharest), and one from the host University (Universite Libre Brussels, University of Wroclaw). In this sense they will attend the first year in the department of political science of University of Bucharest and continue the second year in another one of their choice (Universite Libre Brussels, University of Wroclaw). Studying abroad will be the most rewarding and eye-opening experience of university life. Besides the one year mobility, the Master program offers the opportunity to take part in a series of study trips in Poland and Belgium. A series of joint activities (conferences and seminars) will be organized in the partner universities.
The MA in Comparative Politics will provide students with an intellectually stimulating analysis of the key issues in regional and European politics, such as the changing dynamics of state power, the dimensions of regime change, and the challenge posed to states by ethno-nationalism and political radicalisms.
Students, many of them international and exchange, will take part in small graduate seminars and thus benefit from the direct guidance of the professorial body. The faculty/student ratio (currently approximately 1:3) meets the most demanding standards of higher education.
Courses will be taught by academics with solid credentials in their respective fields of expertise; all faculty members have had extensive exposure to the international academic world.
Students will benefit because they will gain from the opportunity to study a specialisation within a broader subject area.
The opportunity to study in a large, internationally renowned department in the only Romanian institution devoted solely to the social sciences.
A good preparation for further research work or for a career in media, political consultancy, international organisations, public administration or the private sector.




OPPORTUNITIES

With this Master program the graduates will be well prepared for various jobs opportunities requiring an in-depth knowledge of the political, economic and social issues at stake in Central and Eastern European Countries. The Master program prepares students for careers in academia, enterprises, public bodies, think thanks, NGOs, foundations, media, EU institutions and international organizations. Most of our graduates succeded in their pursuit for a successful career in a wide range of public and private institutions, in Romania and abroad.


STAFF AND COURSES
Central and Eastern European Politics, Damiana OTOIU (and invited lecturers)
Democratic Transitions, Cristina PETRESCU
Nationalism and Citizenship. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives, Victor RIZESCU
European Fascisms, 1919-1945, Mihai CHIOVEANU
Comparative Ethnopolitics, Cristina PETRESCU
Modern Political Thought in Eastern Europe, Victor RIZESCU
Comparative Post-communism, Dragos PETRESCU
20th Century Genocides, Mihai CHIOVEANU
Electoral Behaviour in Central and Eastern European Democracies, Gabriel SEBE
Political Representation of Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, Oana-Valentina SUCIU
Political Radicalism and Mass Democracy, Camil PARVU
Political Modernities in South Eastern Europe, Dragos PETRESCU
European Constitutionalism, Bogdan IANCU
A Comparative Approach to Political Elites, Alexandra IONASCU
Revolutions and Regime Change in Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Silvia MARTON
Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Claudiu TUFIS


ADMISSION/ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES


mcp@fspub.unibuc.ro


admiteremaster@fspub.unibuc.ro





Contact


Mihai CHIOVEANU (mihai.chioveanu@fspub.unibuc.ro)


Bogdan IANCU (bogdan.iancu@fspub.unibuc.ro)


Alexandra IONAȘCU (alexandra.ionascu@fspub.unibuc.ro)


Camil PÂRVU (camil.parvu@fspub.unibuc.ro)

Conference: Civil Society Transformations on the Way to the European Union, Zagreb, 17-19 April 2013‏

Call for Contributions: Civil Society Transformations on the Way to the
European Union

First call for contributions to the regional conference organized by TACSO
project (Technical Assistance to Civil Society organizations)
(More details: http://www.tacso.org/news/training-opp/?id=7445)

Civil Society Transformations on the Way to the European Union
Looking at the past, present and future

17 – 19 April, 2013, Zagreb, Croatia

The aim of this regional conference is to identify key challenges faced by
CSOs in the framework of the EU enlargement process and to present the
changes that CSOs and other actors in the field went through during that
process. The main objective is to articulate the lessons learned in the
course of the accession process, especially during the four-year presence
of TACSO in the region, and to assist CSOs in the Western Balkans and
Turkey to cope with the challenges that are ahead.

CSO representatives, activists, academics, practitioners and artists
involved with civil society issues in the Western Balkans and Turkey are
invited to submit a summary of their proposed contributions on the
following sub-themes:

Role and capacity of CSOs on the way to the EU
Networks/Partnerships
State vs. Civil Society

by 17 September 2012: euconference2013@tacso.org.

The summary may not exceed two pages (double spaced, Times New Roman font,
12 point) and it should briefly describe the content of the contribution,
presentation method to be used and technical equipment needed for the
presentation.

We encourage contributions in the following formats (though the
contributors are free to choose a different format as well):

Pecha Kucha (for details please consult
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha)
Poster presentations
Interactive workshops (discussing some of the conference sub-themes or
sharing specific experience/knowledge/skill with a group of up to 20
participants)
Short films

The official language of the conference is English. The contributions are
to be delivered in English and the authors are themselves responsible for
organising translation/interpretation if needed.

More details: http://www.tacso.org/news/training-opp/?id=7445

Conference: Civil society, International Aid and the State: Exploring Social and Political Change in Former Socialist Spaces after 1991, Tallinn, 31 August-1 September 2012‏

Civil Society, International Aid and the State:

Exploring Social and Political Change in Former Socialist Spaces after 1991


International Workshop, Tallinn University, Estonia

31 August - 1 September 2012


For more than two decades now, civil society promotion has been on the agendas of international aid organizations. Starting from the assumption that a vibrant civil society is positively correlated with democratic improvements, country assistance programmes from government and international agencies have progressively concentrated on civil society as a primary agent of change. This has had two main effects. On the one hand, it undoubtedly transformed the nature of domestic civil societies and played an important role in a number of transformation processes, such as the so-called “colour” revolutions. On the other hand, the considerable resources invested in civil society promotion have received considerable criticism - and even overt backlashes. Despite the emphasis on the role of civil society in political change witnessed in the former USSR (and, more recently, in the Middle East and North Africa), civil society has often been considered in isolation from other social forces as a stand-alone instrument. The vast literature on civil society, especially that generated in the aftermath of the colour revolutions, too frequently fails to explore the complex interplay between civil society and the other social and political dynamics. This workshop wants to fill this gap in the literature and study the interaction between civil society and the political forces operating at different levels of the state. In this respect our research aims at re-charting the relationships between civil society, international donors and the state in order to explore three questions:


1) What are the limits of international forces in democracy promotion strategies that target civil society as the main actor in the socio-political transition of a country?

2) What are the factors that allow civil society to play a role in the effective pluralisation and democratization of a country?

3) Is there any mechanism diffusing those factors across regions and continents and what are the reasons for a successful export of factors and strategies? Conversely what factors have been the most important in limiting this diffusion?



Technical details

This workshop is part of the Marie Curie Project (PIRSES-GA-2011-295232): Transition versus Transformation: comparing paths to democratic change in the former USSR using case study based evidence from civil society, international aid and domestic politics


We will have participants from all our partner institutions but we would be happy to hear from scholars outside the network who would like to present their research and to network with the prospect of a follow-up project in the coming years.


There is no registration fee; we are unable to cover travel costs but we can cover accommodation for some speakers from outside the network (those we can't cover, be aware that prices in Tallinn are very reasonable and we can help arranging a cheap accommodation).



Confirmed presenters include:

Prof Raivo Vetik, Tallinn University (Estonia)

Dr Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dublin City University (Ireland)

Prof Erhan Dogan, Marmara University (Turkey)

Dr Rajan Kumar, JNU University (India)

Prof Oxana Kharitanova, Higher School of Economics (Russia)

Mr David Jijelava GeoWel Research (Georgia)



If you want to participate please contact Abel at ap@tlu.ee<mailto:ap@tlu.ee>



Deadlines

* for speakers who need accommodation: 15 July (we do not guarantee that we can accommodate everyone but will try)

* for speakers who can cover their own accommodation: 31 July

* for those willing to attend without presenting: 20 August

Conference: Citizenship and voting in post-communist Europe, IMISCOE annual conference, Amsterdam, 29 August 2012‏

Citizenship and voting in post-communist Europe:A snapshot at practices in the enlarged EU and in neighbouring countries

MIGCITPOL workshop organised by Jelena Dzankic to take place at the IMISCOE annual conference in Amsterdam on 29 August 2012

Call for papers

A number of East European countries have made a move towards more inclusive citizenship after the fall of the Iron Curtain. While seeking to transform their political communities, post-communist countries established different mechanisms to ensure the participation of citizens in their political communities through voting rights. Some of these transitional states extended voting rights to nonresident citizens, which was largely justified through the moral argument of ‘correcting past wrongs’, i.e., that those who fled authoritarianism cherished democratic values and that they should have a say in the aspiring democracies. In addition, in the course of their transition most of these countries became countries of migration and thus external voting became a mechanism of retaining economic and political links with expatriates. Simultaneously, the post-communist countries were left with significant numbers of non-citizen residents, either due to regional migration or the initial determination of citizenry in the new states. The way in which the voting rights of this group are regulated varies from complete exclusion, to partial inclusion (local/regional elections), to full voting rights (elections at all levels).

In this context, the aim of this panel is to build on the previous IMISCOE workshops dealing with external voting, and also the research of the EUDO Citizenship Observatory. The papers, either case studies or comparative, would look at the changes in citizenship policies after the fall of communism and their effect on voting rights in 1) the new Member States in the EU, 2) candidate countries, and 3) European states covered by the EU’s neighbourhood policy. Such a classification of countries would allow the panel to explore how different transition routes and political contexts affect the definition of 'insiders' and 'outsiders' and how that shapes the future of the polity in transition.

Issues covered in the panel include the scope of inclusion (the subject of voting rights), the scope of representation (national or subnational polity), and the analysis of contextual elements that have affected the issues of external and non-citizen residents’ voting. The panel thus offers a novel approach to the growing literature on citizenship and external voting, while highlighting the way in which different countries sought to regulate the link between nationalism and liberalism in the postcommunist period thus also contributing to transitional literature.

Abstracts of papers (300 – 500 words) must be sent to the workshop organizer until 25 June 2012 (JELENA DZANKIC@EUI.EU<mailto:DZANKIC@EUI.EU>).

The authors of accepted proposals will be asked to submit full draft versions of their papers until 20 August 2012.

The IMISCOE Standing Committee on Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation (MIGCITPOL) will subsidize travel and/or accommodation of those participants who do not have any other funds
and could not attend the conference if their costs were not covered by us.

MIGCITPOL will not be able to cover the conference fees. For further information on the IMISCOE conference and for registration, please consult:
http://www.imiscoeconferences.org/

PhD: Theory and Empirics Applied to Women in the Top, Univ. of Amsterdam [DL: 10/07/2012]‏

PhD candidate 'CITE women: Changing Institutions – Theory and Empirics Applied to Women in the Top'
for 38 hours per week
vacancy number W12-122

This project aims to investigate how institutions come about and what makes them change. Point of departure are individuals wishing to change institutions like labour laws. The main research question is: How may individuals wishing to change institutions set about doing so and what determines their likelihood of success?

The project will develop a theory to address this question. This will focus on the intermediary role of meso-level organizations in attempts to change institutions. The theory will subsequently be submitted to an empirical test. The test focuses on a particular case of institutional change, to wit, employment quota for women in top labour market positions. For this empirical application, the project will consider firms as meso-level organizations that may intermediate in individual attempts to change institutions.

Female employment quota are an interesting case of institutions. This is because they vary a lot across countries, even though in most countries there are people that would like to support women’s participation in high positions through the development of new institutions. Though the importance of institutions on gender (in)equality is well-established, much less is known about their origin.

Following the tradition in analytical sociology the project focuses on the mechanisms underlying relations between: (i) micro-level individual decisions; (ii) meso-level organizational processes; and (iii) the macro-level institutional setup. The interest is in whether and how organizations mediate when individuals want to change institutions.

More in particular, the project will address the following questions:

* What explains the divergence in success when individuals try to change institutions?
* What mechanisms determine whether meso-level organizations mediate in individual attempts at institutional change?
* What mechanisms affect the likelihood that mediating organizations will succeed in changing institutions?

While the theory aims at applicability to a wide range of institutional changes, the empirical application on employment quota provides a suitable testbed. Three countries will serve as specific cases to test the theory’s predictions. For a stress-test, one country is chosen where institutions on women’s board representation have substantially changed (Norway), one with less change (the Netherlands), and one without change (Poland).

PhD Project: Micro-Meso-Macro Empirics
The main objective of this project is to study how the interaction between individuals in a firm affects the likelihood that the firm will mediate in attempts to change institutions. It will do so by looking at the relationships between individuals’ value orientations and firm’s social norms, and between these norms and the firm’s formal rules, in each of the three countries. This will be addressed by collecting and analyzing field survey data from employers and employees of randomly selected firms in each country e.g., using data banks of national chambers of commerce or branch organizations. These data will be used to explain cross-firm variations (per country) in the extent of mediation by cross-firm differences in the relationships between individuals’ value orientations and organizations’ social norms, and between these social norms and the organizations’ formal rules.

Possibly, the project will be extended to investigate how social mobilization between the firm and other organizations (e.g., trade unions, political parties, women lobby groups) affects the likelihood of successful institutional change. This will be addressed by combining the field survey data with in-depth interviews in each country with key informants from firms (e.g., female board professionals), unions, political parties, women’s lobbies, churches, etc.

Requirements

* Master’s or Research Master’s Degree in one of the social sciences (or expectation of completion before the starting date of the project);
* Affinity with quantitative and qualitative methods and techniques in the social sciences;
* Interest in interdisciplinary research;
* Willingness to give English-language presentations, to publish in the English language, and to teach in the Field of Social Sciences (in English as well);
* Language competencies in other languages than Dutch or English will be considered as an advantage.

Further information

Further enquiries concerning the project itself can be obtained from Dr. Klarita Gërxhani (k.gerxhani@uva.nl<mailto:k.gerxhani@uva.nl>).

For more information regarding the AISSR, see: http://www.aissr.nl

For more information regarding the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, see: http://www.fmg.uva.nl/sociology_anthropology

Appointment

The position will be on a temporary basis for the period of 3 or 4 years (12 months plus a further 24 or 36 months after a positive evaluation and depending on the preparatory training). The project will start in the fall of 2012. The gross monthly salary will be € 2,042 in the first year and € 2,612 in the fourth year in the case of a full-time position (38 hrs / week). Secondary benefits at Dutch universities are attractive and include 8% holiday pay and an 8.3% end of year bonus.

Job application

Applications, in the form of a motivation letter and a full CV (including the names and contact details of two references from which information about the candidate can be obtained) must be sent by e-mail to application-soca-fmg@uva.nl<mailto:application-soca-fmg@uva.nl> before 10 July, 2012. Emailed applications should bear the text: PhD research project “CITE women” in the subject line and should contain the documents as an attachment (pdf).

http://www.aissr.uva.nl/aissr_about/vacancies.cfm/B48679CE-3D7A-4CCF-BBCA4655ECC21B6E

Conference: Narratives of informality: alternative ways to challenge structural inequality, Naples, Italy, 10-14 September 2012‏

Narratives and practices of informality: alternative ways to challenge structural inequality

Convenors:
Abel Polese (Tallin University) & Marcello Mollica (University of Pisa)

At the heart of this panel lays the use of informal practices that both generate (re)distribution of welfare in countries marked by structural inequality and help coping with a-symmetric socio-economic relations or changing demographic patterns in divided societies. Complex and comprehensive informal practices may create, or contribute to create, a more equitable system functioning parallel to state-driven welfare distribution. This may be the case when a substantial number of actors engage systematically with them. The alternative system generated may be seen as persistent and unofficially reshaping central policies, especially when not tailored for context and place, or distinct categories of citizens.

Most studies on socio-political discontent concentrate on its visible mobilization, such as street protests or electoral preferences, whilst neglecting actions that do not overtly challenge both the real and the symbolic order a state is based upon. Starting from Scott's (1984) conceptualisation of the art of silent and non-organised resistance this panel aims to add on two interpretative frameworks. One is that silent resistance is not necessarily a temporary solution for a citizen-led (re)negotiation policy, for it may be seen as modifying that very policy in the medium or long term. The other is that once a new political measure acquires a more persistent nature it may be seen as a solution to structural inequalities and national (socio-economic) threats.

This panel is primarily intended to show the persistent and/or systemic nature of the informal sector. It will bring together empirically based accounts of and on its specific capability to prompt redistribution of welfare not only in low income countries but also in better off ones (including EU member states). The main aim is to suggest that informal practices are not necessarily depending on economic (under)development. Contributions that draw on ethnographically based accounts of informal practices are welcome.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCEISSUES OF LEGITIMACY:
Entrepreneurial Culture, Corporate Responsibility and Urban Development
Naples, Italy, 10-14 September 2012
Convened by:
IUAES Commissions on Urban Anthropology and on Enterprise Anthropology
With the Collaboration of:
University of Naples Federico II; University of Naples 2; Media Group Il Denaro;
Brazilian Anthropological Association; Centro de Investigationes y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico; China Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences; China Commission on Urban Anthropology; Colegio de Etnólogos y Antropologos Sociales, Mexico; Indian Anthropological Association; International Association of Southeast European Anthropology; IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Women.
General Outline
Over the last three decades, the crisis, and subsequent de-legitimization, of polarized political ideologies which had characterized international politics since the Second World War has apparently brought about the supremacy of economics over politics, and an acceleration of economic globalization. While it has became gradually clear that, cross-culturally, such supremacy and acceleration are not overarching phenomena and their predominance cannot be taken for granted, it has also become clear that in such a climate national policies struggle to take on board individual and corporate interests, demands from local communities and, most problematically, international regulations. To complicate matters further, all too often such international regulations prove to be inspired by concepts that are ambiguous, elusive, badly defined or impossible to apply, thus compounding on the perceived weak legitimacy of governance and the law in the broader society.
In today’s increasingly competitive global economic scenario, urban settings are a dominant form of associated life that encapsulate the socio-economic impact of increasingly significant international regulations and flows of capital and people. By and large, governance and the law have generally failed to meet constructively the challenge posed by the complexities and implications of this world-wide phenomenon, thus raising a critical problematic of both legitimacy and legitimation.
If our understanding of human beings in society is to share the responsibility of a complex view, we must take very seriously the interplay between personal morality and belief and civic responsibility, and between value and action. This requires, in the first place, an informed awareness of the vanity of the monist approach to the complex ways in which people merge social morality and personal choice into practices that observably recognize more than the self. We are invited to distinguish individual action that, motivated by selfish instrumentalism, has no civic value from individual action that fulfils personal interest on a practical and moral level. In this second case we must ask whether individual-oriented necessarily means individualistic. An astute answer to this question needs to steer well away from the cultural determinism of the conceptual opposition of the individual to society that forces the Hegelian concept of plurality — to be human is to be part of the human community, alone one is inexistent — into an ideological opposition between being in community (i.e., belonging to) and being cum community (i.e., being together with). This kind of strong perspectivism about morality and rational choice informs the dominant definition of membership of society and, classically, of non-membership, or indeed undeserving membership. It is based on a circular argument obnoxious to reason and observation — a begged question, in fact a succession of begged questions. Broadly recognizing that in today’s world individual action generally takes place in a context marked by imperfect competition, constraints and inequality, it would be difficult to argue that these conditions are pre-determined, through culture or formal location in terms of production and consumption; nor could they be described as fixed and self-perpetuating, may be with people’s unwitting complicity.
Anthropological analysis of diverse ethnographies has brought to light strong entrepreneurial cultures firmly rooted in the morality and ramifications, in practical life, of a strong continuous interaction between the material and the non material. A major task of this Conference will be to reflect on the significance, ramifications and impact, or potential impact, on the broader society of such an empirical sine qua non. The key role that the varied forms of individual and collective entrepreneurialism, and the attendant culture and social impact, have to play in such a scenario is much too often frustrated by the aforementioned perspectivism. Eschewing confusion between individuality and individualism, anthropologists have highlighted key aspects of entrepreneurialism that point to the naivety of the economic maximization view. They have demonstrated the moral and cultural complexity of individual action, bringing out the social value of entrepreneurialism. They have also demonstrated how misplaced or instrumentally selective moralities in policy and in the production and enforcement of the law both play a critical role in such a failure, encourage exclusion, and are key in the widening gap between governance and the governed across the world. It is critical, however, to move further.
Through empirically based analyses, this Conference will explore these complex issues widely, in Western and non-Western settings, in relation to five broad themes. They are:

1.
Access to Credit, Entrepreneurialism and the Law: Problematic Issues for Enterprise;
2.
Cross Cultural and Ethnic Business in Mixed Cities;
3.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Urban Development;
4.
Entrepreneurialism, Neo-Liberalism and Socio-Economic Policy;
5.
Women Entrepreneurs: Between Socio-Cultural Hindrance, Challenged Integration and Economic Success.

PhD: Biomimetic Nanosensor and Nanoelectronics PhD Position at Utah State University, USA

PhD Positions in Biomimetic Nanosensor and Nanoelectronics at Utah State University, USA

Highly self-motivated candidates are welcome to apply for PhD positions in the field of Biomimetic Nanosensor and Nanoelectronics at Utah State University, USA (with Graduate Assistantship and Health Insurance).

Preferred Backgrounds: Candidates with Bachelor and Master degrees in Engineering; with study/research background in electronic devices and/or bioengineering; with excellent GPA, GRE and TOFEL.

The position will start in either September 2012 or January 2013, and applications will be reviewed immediately till the positions are filled. Interested candidates should send a detailed CV and contact information of three references to yue.cui@usu.edu

Programmes & Policy Officer at the International Lesbian and Gay Association #ILGA Location: #Brussels #Belgium DL: 6 July 2012

Do you want to work with LGBTI issues and be responsible for coordinating capacity building / advocacy projects at regional and pan-European level for an international non-governmental organisation based in Brussels? Have a look here for a challenging and exciting job opportunity.

Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 6 July 2012 (17.00 CET)



The post holder will be responsible for coordinating capacity building / advocacy projects in specific areas of ILGA-Europe’s current priorities at regional and pan-European level. The post holder will organise events and trainings, empower the membership and other LGBTI organisations, represent ILGA-Europe at meetings and events at national and European level, lobby European institutions and maintain or develop partnerships and coalitions with other NGOs and relevant actors. The post holder will also identify opportunities for strategic litigation.

Are you strongly committed to working for this cause, and have competencies and experience?

If yes… then you can find more details and application pack here.

Traineeships: European University Institute EUI in San Domenico di Fiesole / Florence / Italy

Traineeships

From time to time the Institute offers traineeships to young people wishing to gain some professional experience in an international environment. The traineeships are filled according to the Institute's needs and its decision on awarding these traineeships is final.

Traineeships may occur in the Library, in the Computing Service or in one of the central administration services.

There are specific requirements for traineeships in the Library and traineeships at the Communications Service.



Conditions for Eligibility

May be considered for a traineeship, candidates who:

A) are studying for a first (post-secondary education) degree and are in the process of obtaining the qualification in which the training is part of the curriculum; OR

B) are involved in a vocational training programme; OR

C) have obtained the above (A or B) qualification, no longer than 18 months prior to the beginning of the traineeship; OR

D) are civil servants of a European Union Member State

Candidates must have a good knowledge of one of the EUI's official languages and a satisfactory knowledge of another language, taking into account that English, French and Italian are the main working languages at the Institute.

Type and Duration

The type and duration of a traineeship shall be:

A) non-remunerated traineeship for a period up to a maximum of 3 months, OR

B) remunerated traineeship for a period of a minimum of 3 months (a trial period) and a maximum of 12 months

The trainee will receive a grant (€1.200,-- per month from January 2012) and funds to cover the cost of one return trip from his/her place of origin during the period of the traineeship.



In both cases, health insurance is obligatory and can be obtained, upon request, through the Institute. The application form must be completed on-line.

Conference: Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room. Overcoming the Crisis of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans. Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, 9-11 November 2012‏

Leaving Europe’s Waiting Room.  Overcoming the Crisis of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans

Southeast European Dialogues

Centre for Southeast European Studies

University of Graz

9-11 November 2012

The Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz in cooperation with the European Fund for the Balkans, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik, Südosteuropa Gesellschaft and Europe Direct Steiermark will host a three day conference on the state of EU enlargement in Graz on the 9-11th November 2012. The goal of the conference is to reflect whether EU enlargement in the Western Balkans is in crisis and will include policy-led discussions on reinvigorating the EU enlargement process and academic panels on specific obstacles in the enlargement process. An edited collection of the best papers presented at the conference is planned for 2013.

This conference will discuss the obstacles and approaches to accelerate and reinvigorate the enlargement process. Instead of viewing enlargement as a state fullfilling formal criteria, the conference will focus on how and if the enlargement process can overcome “enlargement fatigue” and skepticism towards membership of the Western Balkans in the EU to key aspects that the enlargement process both hopes to overcome and which risk remaining an obstacle for EU membership. The conference in particular seeks to give room to young researchers who are able to contribute rich empirical work to the discussion. As an interdisciplinary event, the conference will include policy makers, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists and scholars from other disciplines. The working language of the conference is English.

The organizers invite paper proposal for the conference. Researchers interested in participating are asked to submit a 400 word abstract and CV by 20 July 2012 to the following email address: florian.bieber@uni-graz.at. Applicants are particularly encouraged to apply with papers on the following thematic areas:

· Enlargement Fatigue in the EU? Causes and how to build support for Enlargement.

· Making EU Enlargement Work--How to reinvigorate the accession process?

· EU Conditionality Before Membership: Membership Conditionality vs. Policy Conditionality

· How to Break the Deadlock of Bilateral Disputes in the Western Balkans

· Regatta or Big Bang Model of Accession?

· Closing Difficult Chapters: Rule of Law and Judiciary Regional Cooperation in the WB

· Global Economic Crisis and its Influence on the EU Enlargement

The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit draft version of their papers of 6,000 to 9,000 words for circulation among participants prior to the conference by October 20^th 2012. The organizers of the conference will cover accommodation and board as well as transport to and from Graz for invited participants, conditional on the submission of the draft paper by the deadline.

Centre for Southeast European Studies

The Centre for Southeast European Studies was founded at the University of Graz in 2008 as interdisciplinary forum for teaching and research, based on the university-wide Southeastern Europe focus. The Centre runs a Joint Degree MA program in Southeast European Studies and a PhD program in Diversity Management and Governance, as well as organizing regular events on the region. Its research focus in on contemporary Southeastern Europe, including Europeanization, interethnic relations and democratization. Its staff include political scientists, historians and lawyers and it collaborates closely with other researchers at the University of Graz and internationally. In 2012, among others, it is hosted a lecture by the Croatian president Ivo Josipović and is organising a workshop of the dynamics of social change in Southeastern Europe.

Website of the Centre for Southeast European Studies: http://www.suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/

Conference: PRIO Cyprus Centre Annual Conference, Cyprus, 26-27 October 2012‏

In the past few years, the question of governance has become a central feature of political debate across Europe. Debates about ideology appear to have given way to discussions about the ways in which political authorities exercise their power. Is that power truly used for the greater good, or is it, will fully or otherwise, narrowly focused on serving particular segments of society? Such debates have emerged throughout the EU. In Cyprus, political authority is confronted with the challenges of the global economic crisis, the crisis in the Eurozone, as well as internal social and political tensions as regards accountability and transparency. Greece is facing widespread social unrest as people challenge the mainstream political parties; likewise in Britain, wave upon wave of political scandal has brought public trust in politicians to an all-time low. Similar patterns of public concern and popular contestation about the very nature of government can be seen in almost every other European country. Indeed, the way in which the European Union itself is governed is increasingly called into question by those who feel that it has lost touch with the citizens of the Union.

Meanwhile, questions of good governance are increasingly being raised in and around Europe's neighborhood. In North Africa and the Near East, the Arab Spring has seen decades-old regimes challenged in ways that appeared all but unthinkable just a couple of years ago. In the Western Balkans, tackling corruption and building a truly effective rule of law, especially against the backdrop of ethnic tensions, remains a pressing concern. In Ukraine, the apparent immunity of those tied to the ruling class has come under increasing scrutiny.

Taking place in Cyprus, and coinciding with the Republic of Cyprus's presidency of the European Union, this conference seeks to examine the ways in which our understanding of good governance is being shaped in the contemporary era across the European Union and its neighborhood. At a theoretical level, we seek to question what is good governance in the era of the economic crisis. Is it about building a virtuous government, or is about ensuring effective and capable bureaucratic structures? Will “good governance” become an elusive panacea like “democratization,” or does it have other substantive qualities that we may use to define and identify it? And if “good governance” was initially a term applied in the development literature to refer to countries that should take Europe as their model, does the term continue to have meaning at a time when Europe itself is called into question? At the same time, we seek to explore the empirical evidence for changing patterns of governance. What lessons can be drawn from the pan-European experience and from the experience of specific regions and individual countries?

We call for papers that address these issues, both theoretically and empirically, in the European Union, the Western Balkans, the Caucasus, North Africa and the Near East. We are particularly interested in papers that link good governance with issues relating to social unrest and/or various forms of conflict, including themes such as:

--The role of “good governance” in the Arab Spring and its aftermath;
--Empirical and/or theoretical studies of governance in the EU crisis;
--Good governance, citizenship and practices of migration;
--Gender, equity and governance;
--The role of governance in regional conflicts and their resolutions;
--Empirical studies of governance in north and south Cyprus;
--The role of Internet and other media in governance today.

Please send a short biography and an abstract of no more than 250 words to Dr Rebecca Bryant, r.e.bryant@lse.ac.uk<mailto:r.e.bryant@lse.ac.uk>, by 20 June 2012. Only selected abstracts will be informed by 30 June. Participants may expect that part of their costs will be covered, with priority given to students and recent recipients of the Ph.D.

Submissions deadline: 20 June 2012
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Call for papers
Good Governance in Europe and the Neighbourhood
26-27 October 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus

Conference: The Real and the Imagined in Contemporary Balkans, NIAS, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, 19 June 2012‏

The Real and the Imagined in Contemporary Balkans



In lieu of completing their fellowship term (February 1st – June 30th 2012), the NIAS Theme Group The Real and the Imagined in the Contemporary Balkans will be giving a presentation of their research results, to be held on June 19th, 2012, between 10.00 and 18.00, at NIAS.


Programme



10.00 – 10.30 Opening

Welcoming word; Presentation of the Theme Group Research Results; Dubravka Zarkov

Welcoming word by NIAS Rector, Prof. Aafke Hulk;





Session One:

Chair: Frederiek de Vlaming (UvA)



10.30 - 11.15 Dino Abazovic:

Politics, Religion and the Problems of Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant: Catherine Cissé van den Muijsenbergh (IRHJ)



11.15 - 12.00 Marlies Glasius:

Expression of Justice or Political Trials? Discursive Battles in the Karadzic Case

Discussant: Wouter Werner (VU)



12.00- 12.45 Maria Koinova:

Diaspora and Contextualized Transnationalism: Bosnian Diaspora in the Netherlands

Discussant(s): Lee Seymour (Leiden University) and Erna Rijsdijk (NL Military Academy)





13.00- 14.30 Lunch break



Session Two

Chair: Erna Rijsdijk (NL Military Academy)



14.30-15.15 Dubravka Zarkov:

Cinematic Ontologies of War: Representing Bosnia and the (Inter)National Self

Discussant: Sunila Abeysekera (ISS)



15.15- 16.00 Vjekoslav Perica:

Nations vs. Generations: Symbolic Discourses of Heroism in post-Yugoslav States

Discussant: Andreja Lekić (UvA)



16.00 – 16.45 Mitja Velikonja:

Rock’n’Retro:New Yugoslavism in Contemporary Slovenian Music

Discussant: Maja Lovrenović (UvA)



16.45– 17.00 Closing



17.00- 18.00 Reception



If you are interested in attending the seminar, please contact Dubravka Žarkov for more information.

Scholarship: Funded studentship to research Pop Art in Eastern Europe, London‏

Funded studentship to research Pop Art in Eastern Europe
The Critical Writing in Art and Design programme at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and Tate in London seek to recruit a student to undertake a PhD by thesis on the history of Pop Art in Eastern Europe. Commencing in October 2012, this studentship is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme.

In 2015 Tate Modern will mount a major exhibition to explore the wide geographical reach of Pop Art in the 1960s and 1970s. It will provide a focus for new research into Pop's core themes - including the rise of consumerism and popular culture, and the languages, techniques and currency of reproduced images - in Northern and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan.

Working towards a PhD, the student will research the production of Pop Art in one or more countries under communist rule in the period as well as the reception of 'Western' Pop there. (Eastern Europe is defined here as the former Eastern Bloc states and Yugoslavia). The knowledge and insights gathered by the student will contribute to the selection of works for the Tate exhibition by the exhibition's curator and Tate supervisor, Jessica Morgan, as well as the programme of public events and related online and print publications. The student will also be supervised by professor David Crowley, a cultural historian specializing in Eastern Europe at the RCA. S/he will join the Critical Writing in Art and Design programme and benefit from the classes and resources available to all research students at the RCA.

Applicants will need to scope a research proposal within the broad parameters of the project. The doctoral student will be required to identify one or more national context(s) for detailed investigation through primary sources (original works of art, interviews, documentary records) and to develop an approach which allows for comparative investigation. Further details are available on request by emailing the RCA Research Office at research@rca.ac.uk.

The scholarship is for three-years, full-time study. It has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. The AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in the 2012/2013 academic year provides eligible students with a maintenance grant payment of £15,590 p.a. and fees of £3,732 p.a. Please note that this award also includes the Royal College of Art's contribution to the top-up fee. EU applicants without UK residency status can apply for this award but, if successful, will only be entitled to a bursary covering the fees. Further information on eligibility requirements is available from the AHRC website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk

The closing date for applications is 6 July 2012, and it is anticipated that interviews will take place in the week commencing 16 July 2012.

Online: E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy

The e-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy

The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies has developed the Distance Learning department in order to offer and enable different programs to individuals who are interested in the field of cultural diplomacy and related areas to have an opportunity to increase their knowledge and experience in this fascinating field. Each program includes four main courses, which are taught in our Masters and PhD programs. In addition, the program offers access to high profile guest lectures, reading material and professional networking opportunities to promote one’s own projects.

The e-Learning department has developed and offers the following programs:

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy & International Relations
The courses will provide insights into how modern cultural diplomacy can be practiced in a wide variety of settings and contexts around the world. The key objectives of the program are to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of cultural diplomacy within the contemporary interdependent world.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy in Africa
This program will emphasize how cultural diplomacy can be used as an increasingly useful tool for building cooperation both regionally and globally, and explores avenues through which this new form of diplomacy can be used as a driving force to foster good governance, development and the promotion of human rights through the African continent.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy in the Global Economy
As the move towards more socially responsible business practices gains momentum, the ability to understand and embrace the different values and needs of diverse cultures and societies becomes ever more important. This program will analyze the many reasons why private companies need to be aware of the differences between cultures in their strategic decision-making process and adopt cultural diplomacy models into their agenda. It is in recognition of these three trends: the growing importance of intercultural communication to the private sector, the increasing influence of national image to economics, and the opening up of the global economy, that the ICD has established the E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy in the Global Economy.

Distance Learning: e-Learning Courses in Cultural Diplomacy & the Media
The E-Learning Courses program in Cultural Diplomacy and the Media will focus on the media and its relationship to cultural diplomacy and the international community. The program will emphasize how cultural diplomacy can be used as an increasingly useful tool for bridging the gap between society and the Media, and the role cultural diplomacy can play in shaping the field of communications.

Certificate/Accreditation - All students will be awarded an official certificate accredited by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy’s academic board upon completion of the program. Each certificate will be signed by members of the ICD Academy and Advisory Boards, which include high-level politicians, leading academics and renowned experts, all of whom are responsible for assuring the academic quality of each of the courses as well as the individual intellectual experience of each student. For those student who implement specific projects of cultural diplomacy or write exceptional final papers for their e-learning course it is possible for the student to request letters of recommendation from the ICD to assist in their career development.

Financials - The tuition fee for the program is 600 Euros (including 4 courses) to be paid upon acceptance to the program. The payment instructions will be sent to students together with the acceptance letter.

Program Methodology & Course Descriptions
The courses have been designed in a flexible way to allow students to structure their instruction around their own schedules. Students will be required to do weekly readings and interact with fellow students and professors via the website; however, students can pace themselves according to their preferences. A final paper will be required, upon which the course grade will be based.

The program includes the following components:
• 40 hours of video lectures which students can watch at their convenience
• Reading material relevant to the course’s different modules;
• Online mentoring, discussion forums, and assessments;
• Networking access to other students and professionals enrolled in the e-Learning courses
• Final Paper to be completed within 90 days from the end of the course

The courses will be delivered via the e-learning platform module, a pedagogical tool designed to help participants meet the course's learning objectives through a self-paced study routine supported by multimedia, required and optional readings, discussion forums, assessment quizzes, and a wealth of other information. Adapted specifically to full-time professionals, participants will learn by absorbing (reading), doing (exercises), interacting (online forum) and reflecting (relating to personal experiences).

PhD: PhD Degree in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy

PhD Degree in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy: Babes-Bolyai University in Cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy


The degree is offered and awarded by the Babes-Bolyai University (BBU) in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD).


Where: Germany: Berlin; Romania: Cluj-Napoca




When: Year Round


Overview: The Doctoral studies represent the third cycle of studies offered by Babeş-Bolyai University (BBU) in partnership with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, with the purpose of expanding knowledge through original scientific research. They allow the acquisition of a level 8 qualification according to The European Qualifications Framework and to The National Qualifications Framework.

The Key Objectives of the program are:

• To provide students with an in-depth understanding of the theory and practice of global business.

• To educate students about how cultural diplomacy can be harnessed to improve relations with other corporate entities, governments, individuals and international institutions.

• To analyze the strategic and ethical foundations of corporate social responsibility programs and corporate philanthropy.

Setting Description: The degree is awarded by the Babes-Bolyai University in partnership with the ICD, with instruction entirely in English.

The doctoral studies of a doctoral student are planned for a period of 3 academic years (each composed of 2 academic semesters) and comprise:

A. a training program based on advanced academic studies, carried out in the BBU doctoral school; in Cluj, Romania.

B. an individual program of scientific research/artistic creation, carried out in the ICD- Berlin.

C. The doctoral studies end with the public defense of an original paper, called doctoral thesis, which is the result of the research activity or artistic creation carried out by the doctoral student during his/her doctoral studies. The title of doctor is granted or not granted on the basis of the doctoral thesis and its public defense. The doctoral thesis phase could be conducted anywhere.

Program Value:

•The program offers students a core curriculum in international business education, preparing the future leaders of tomorrow for the leadership, marketing and strategic skills they will need to build careers in economics or business.

•Students will have access to an expert faculty with experience in international economics and diplomacy, and will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in a complex global order.

•Students will obtain an expertise in cultural diplomacy, currently an underutilized but increasingly significant business tool.

•Students will be uniquely situated to create and implement their own programs of corporate cultural diplomacy.

•The curriculum and faculty prepare graduates for careers in academia, economic governance, advocacy and all branches of the international private sector.

•Career Service - Both the ICD and Babes-Bolyai University believe that supporting and assisting our students in acquiring the careers that they seek is an integral part of the PhD program. During the third semester of the program, with the support of our faculty, advisors, and our career services department, we will devise a strategy for how the student may best proceed from the PhD to the career of his or her choice.

•Finally, the program will allow students to study with distinguished and renowned faculties from Romania, Germany, the United States and throughout Europe, enabling contacts with experts in and organizations affiliated with international business and economics.

Program Cost: Tuition for the PhD program in Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Economy is €3,000 per semester (and total of €18,000).

Subjects: International Relations, Economy, Cultural Diplomacy

To apply: The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies