The International Space University offers scholarships for international applicants of Europe,United States ,Canada, ISU Affiliates, developing countries and other countries to pursue MSc programs (MSS & MSM), 2012/13 France
Study Subject(s):Science
Course Level:Masters
Scholarship Provider: The ISU Funding Committee
Scholarship can be taken at: France
Eligibility:-Applicants from all backgrounds (technical or non-technical) are eligible.
-To hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (involving a minimum of 3 years of full-time study)
-To present a proof of English proficiency (except for native English speakers or those who have completed a degree program in an English-speaking university).
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Open for Students of Following Countries: Europe(Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom),United States and Canada, ISU Affiliates, developing countries,other countries
Scholarship Description: The International Space University is provided funding from industry and government agencies to help support MSc students who are unable to cover all of their tuition fees. This aid is available to selected applicants, and covers a portion of their fees. It is paid directly to ISU by the sponsoring organization.Financial aid is granted on the basis of:academic and professional merit,demonstrated efforts in personal fund-raising,demonstrated financial need.3 full scholarships for MSS 2012-2013 and 3 full scholarships for MSM 2012-2013. These scholarships cover all tuition fees but do not include living costs or travel to and from Strasbourg . Applicants may only apply for MSS or MSM scholarships, not for both.
How to Apply: Online
Scholarship Application Deadline: March 15, 2012
Further Scholarship Information and Application
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Scholarship: University of Canterbury Political Science MA Scholarships, New Zealand 2012
Master’s Scholarships in Peace-building in the Pacific at University of Canterbury, New Zealand 2012
Study Subject(s):Peace-building in the Pacific
Course Level:Master’s
Scholarship Provider: University of Canterbury
Scholarship can be taken at: New Zealand
Eligibility:
Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree in Political Science Successful applicants should meet the academic requirements for enrolment in the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Canterbury and should take up the scholarship
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Description: Three MA scholarships are available on the topic “Peace-building in the Pacific” tenable at the Philosophy and Political Science Department of the University of Canterbury. These scholarships are part of the Marsden-funded project, Building Sustainable Peace in the Pacific, initially developed by the late Professor Jacob Bercovitch. This project aims to examine the post-conflict experiences of Pacific states: to understand why peace settlements and negotiations break down and violent conflict resumes: and to consider how best to achieve the foundations of long-lasting justice and reconciliation so as to create sustainable and durable peace. This project will consider a wide range of factors, including the role played by security forces and the judiciary; the role of development aid and economic restructuring; the part played by civil society and democratic institutions in fostering peace; the role of mediation in achieving peace; and the role of international organisations in conflict management.
How to Apply: Post
Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2012
Further Scholarship Information and Application
Study Subject(s):Peace-building in the Pacific
Course Level:Master’s
Scholarship Provider: University of Canterbury
Scholarship can be taken at: New Zealand
Eligibility:
Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree in Political Science Successful applicants should meet the academic requirements for enrolment in the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Canterbury and should take up the scholarship
Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes
Scholarship Description: Three MA scholarships are available on the topic “Peace-building in the Pacific” tenable at the Philosophy and Political Science Department of the University of Canterbury. These scholarships are part of the Marsden-funded project, Building Sustainable Peace in the Pacific, initially developed by the late Professor Jacob Bercovitch. This project aims to examine the post-conflict experiences of Pacific states: to understand why peace settlements and negotiations break down and violent conflict resumes: and to consider how best to achieve the foundations of long-lasting justice and reconciliation so as to create sustainable and durable peace. This project will consider a wide range of factors, including the role played by security forces and the judiciary; the role of development aid and economic restructuring; the part played by civil society and democratic institutions in fostering peace; the role of mediation in achieving peace; and the role of international organisations in conflict management.
How to Apply: Post
Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 Mar 2012
Further Scholarship Information and Application
Conference: Culture, Power, and Policy in the New Europe: Refocusing the Anthropological Purview, AAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 November 2012
Session at the American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA
14 - 18 November, 2012
“Culture, Power, and Policy in the New Europe: Refocusing the
Anthropological Purview”
At a time when European integration faces many challenges and hurdles
in the form of financial, economic, democratic and political crises,
the efficacy of public policies that are decided in Brussels, and in
member state capitals, for managing the everyday lives of average
Europeans acquires dramatic importance and demands scrutiny. For this
session we welcome paper proposals that address issues of culture,
power, and policy from different vantage points, such as those which
engage the drafting, negotiation, and implementation of policies that
are created by the EU, by member state governments and by local
authorities at different scales of governing, or those that focus on
citizen and non-citizen responses to those policies, or those which
consider and/or gauge consequences and effects of policies that are
manifested in everyday life. Papers that expand the anthropological
purview on policy or those that take a comparative outlook on public
policies in various areas in Europe are also welcome. This session
will contribute to the burgeoning scholarship on the anthropology of
European integration and policy-making from the perspectives of
reconfigurations and reevaluations of culture and power in the new
Europe.
The endeavor to study public policies from within anthropology
acquired greater significance and visibility when the EU project
became an ever encroaching, or intrusive, aspect of human life. From
local levels of city and province, to policy arenas of agriculture and
fisheries, to the cultural and regional policies of European
integration, Europeanists studying policy-making have so far attested
to the fact that policy-makers act within a cultural interpretative
framework. Anthropological scholarship of policy-making in Europe, with
its attention to the lived experiences at the bottom, as well as to
governing practices at the top, has opened up avenues to account for
the fact that public policies are often contested and negotiated by a
variety of agents, actors and enactors during the twin processes of
policy-making and policy implementation. In adopting an interpretative
approach to public policies, ethnographers studying the role of
policy-workers—such as bureaucrats and consultants in policy
processes—have suggested that researchers focus on the “ritual[s] and
[the] production of meaning” in these processes “rather than [the]
production of effective policies per se” (Blom Hansen and Stepputat
2001:17). Here bureaucrats, consultants and other policymakers are
meaning-producing actors and agents, thereby cultural performers,
“whose product should not be judged in terms of its supposed practical
ends” (Stirrat 2000:43). In this session we welcome proposals that can
bridge the rituals of policy work as meaning-making processes with
their meaning-making “ends”, such as the establishment of legitimacy
and accountability.
The power of the EU, and its pervasiveness in the lives of peoples and
states in Europe, has often been taken for granted as a normative
phenomenon by scholars investigating European integration from within
anthropology and cognate disciplines. This session will query how, and
to what extent, the normative power of the EU reaches into everyday
life, and in doing so, will illuminate those moments when power is
perhaps more relative than it at first appears.
Those interested should send an abstract of no more than 250 words to
Bilge Firat (bfirat@itu.edu.tr),
San Francisco, CA
14 - 18 November, 2012
“Culture, Power, and Policy in the New Europe: Refocusing the
Anthropological Purview”
At a time when European integration faces many challenges and hurdles
in the form of financial, economic, democratic and political crises,
the efficacy of public policies that are decided in Brussels, and in
member state capitals, for managing the everyday lives of average
Europeans acquires dramatic importance and demands scrutiny. For this
session we welcome paper proposals that address issues of culture,
power, and policy from different vantage points, such as those which
engage the drafting, negotiation, and implementation of policies that
are created by the EU, by member state governments and by local
authorities at different scales of governing, or those that focus on
citizen and non-citizen responses to those policies, or those which
consider and/or gauge consequences and effects of policies that are
manifested in everyday life. Papers that expand the anthropological
purview on policy or those that take a comparative outlook on public
policies in various areas in Europe are also welcome. This session
will contribute to the burgeoning scholarship on the anthropology of
European integration and policy-making from the perspectives of
reconfigurations and reevaluations of culture and power in the new
Europe.
The endeavor to study public policies from within anthropology
acquired greater significance and visibility when the EU project
became an ever encroaching, or intrusive, aspect of human life. From
local levels of city and province, to policy arenas of agriculture and
fisheries, to the cultural and regional policies of European
integration, Europeanists studying policy-making have so far attested
to the fact that policy-makers act within a cultural interpretative
framework. Anthropological scholarship of policy-making in Europe, with
its attention to the lived experiences at the bottom, as well as to
governing practices at the top, has opened up avenues to account for
the fact that public policies are often contested and negotiated by a
variety of agents, actors and enactors during the twin processes of
policy-making and policy implementation. In adopting an interpretative
approach to public policies, ethnographers studying the role of
policy-workers—such as bureaucrats and consultants in policy
processes—have suggested that researchers focus on the “ritual[s] and
[the] production of meaning” in these processes “rather than [the]
production of effective policies per se” (Blom Hansen and Stepputat
2001:17). Here bureaucrats, consultants and other policymakers are
meaning-producing actors and agents, thereby cultural performers,
“whose product should not be judged in terms of its supposed practical
ends” (Stirrat 2000:43). In this session we welcome proposals that can
bridge the rituals of policy work as meaning-making processes with
their meaning-making “ends”, such as the establishment of legitimacy
and accountability.
The power of the EU, and its pervasiveness in the lives of peoples and
states in Europe, has often been taken for granted as a normative
phenomenon by scholars investigating European integration from within
anthropology and cognate disciplines. This session will query how, and
to what extent, the normative power of the EU reaches into everyday
life, and in doing so, will illuminate those moments when power is
perhaps more relative than it at first appears.
Those interested should send an abstract of no more than 250 words to
Bilge Firat (bfirat@itu.edu.tr),
Bill Pavlovich (pavlovich@binghamton.edu),
or James Verinis (jverini1@binghamton.edu)
no later than March 16, 2012.
no later than March 16, 2012.
Sumer School: Central Europe: Unity in Diversity? Krakow, 15 June - 6 July 2012
Central Europe: Unity in Diversity?
June 15 - July 6, 2012
8 ECTS points (4 US credit hours)
The Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University is happy to announce its 2012 Summer School Program. Entitled, "Central Europe: Unity in Diversity?", this year's 3 week program will focus on issues of integration processes and cooperation in the region as well as its experiences with diversity.
We warmly invite undergraduate students to join us in learning about minority issues, transatlantic relations, the role of Central Europe in the European Union, and many other topics covered in our classes. We look forward to providing students with a unique academic and cultural experience, as they learn about the theories and ideas informing the transformations going on around them in Central Europe. Participants will be able to also enjoy local excursions and study trips as well as the lively cultural and social life of Kraków.
Format
The Summer School is comprised of two modules, focusing on Central Europe in history and today, respectively. A comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the region and its conceptualization, is introduced during lectures, while seminars allow the students to partake in provoking and challenging discussions with experts in the field.
Module A. Central Europe in History
1. History of the Idea of Central Europe
2. Minority issues in countries in the Visegrad group
3. Jews in Central Europe
4. Communism in Central Europe
5. Central Europe in Literature
Module B. The Central Europeans Today
1. Business in Central Europe
2. The Central European States and Transatlantic Relations
3. Central Europeans in the EU
4. The Visegrad Group - Regional cooperation in CEE
Study Trips
In addition to lecture classes, CES organizes weekend excursions to Budapest, Prague and the Polish Tatra mountains as well as a day-trip to Aushwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Social integration evenings and a walking tour around Krakow are also planned.
Application
Please send the following by email (as a scanned attachment) to jochym@ces.uj.edu.pl or by fax (+48 12 429 6195) by March 16, 2012:
A completed Summer School application form
Your CV (résumé) in the Europass format
Proof of language proficiency (if applicable).
All application materials are available on our website: http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/undergraduate/summer-school
Contact
For more information, please visit our website http://www.ces.uj.edu.pl/undergraduate/summer-school or email Justyna Jochym at jochym@ces.uj.edu.pl.
Summer School: Turkish Language and Culture, Işık University, Istanbul, 2-27 July 2012
The International Office at Işık University, Istanbul, Turkey, invites applicants for its Summer Program 2012. The four-week program, July 2 - 27, 2012, offers exclusive Turkish language and cultural courses (i.e. Turkish cuisine, the evolution of Turkish Republic, Ottoman language, music, dance and arts).
Program Curriculum:
This program offers:
* Grammar instruction of basic sentence structures and patterns of Turkish language.
* Integration of grammar with four basic skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking.
* Controlled vocabulary activities relevant to basic communicative needs of the students.
* A foundation tool to apprehend Turkish culture and society.
Teaching Program:
Number of teaching hours:
* 2 hours of integrated teaching of grammar with four skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking per day.
* 10 teaching hours in total per week.
* Weekends are off for extra-curricular activities including tours and excursions.
* Conversation hours are held with teachers every day.
* Class size is limited to approximately 15 students.
* Classes are held on weekdays-Monday to Friday/10 am- 12 am
Cultural Courses
* Introduction to Basic Ottoman Language
* Turkish traditions (feasts, greetings, etc.)
* Turkish-Ottoman fine arts (i.e. weaving techniques, calligraphy, tile techniques, etc.)
* Turkish music
* Percussion and rhythm
* Folkloric dance
* Turkish cuisine
* History
* Cultural Courses are held on weekdays-Monday to Friday/2 pm-4pm
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
* Weekly cultural and historical tours
* Weekly talks by guest speakers specialized in their fields about Turkish culture and society related topics such as economy, cinema, fine arts and the Ottoman Empire.
* Showing of a successful Turkish movie every week.
International Office
Isk University
34980 Şile, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: 0090 216 528 70 26
Fax: 0090 216 712 14 69
http://en.isikun.edu.tr/
Please contact Şebnem Kişmir if you are interested in applying
<sebnem.kismir@isikun.edu.tr>, <international@isikun.edu.tr>
Program Curriculum:
This program offers:
* Grammar instruction of basic sentence structures and patterns of Turkish language.
* Integration of grammar with four basic skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking.
* Controlled vocabulary activities relevant to basic communicative needs of the students.
* A foundation tool to apprehend Turkish culture and society.
Teaching Program:
Number of teaching hours:
* 2 hours of integrated teaching of grammar with four skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking per day.
* 10 teaching hours in total per week.
* Weekends are off for extra-curricular activities including tours and excursions.
* Conversation hours are held with teachers every day.
* Class size is limited to approximately 15 students.
* Classes are held on weekdays-Monday to Friday/10 am- 12 am
Cultural Courses
* Introduction to Basic Ottoman Language
* Turkish traditions (feasts, greetings, etc.)
* Turkish-Ottoman fine arts (i.e. weaving techniques, calligraphy, tile techniques, etc.)
* Turkish music
* Percussion and rhythm
* Folkloric dance
* Turkish cuisine
* History
* Cultural Courses are held on weekdays-Monday to Friday/2 pm-4pm
EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
* Weekly cultural and historical tours
* Weekly talks by guest speakers specialized in their fields about Turkish culture and society related topics such as economy, cinema, fine arts and the Ottoman Empire.
* Showing of a successful Turkish movie every week.
International Office
Isk University
34980 Şile, Istanbul, Turkey
Phone: 0090 216 528 70 26
Fax: 0090 216 712 14 69
http://en.isikun.edu.tr/
Please contact Şebnem Kişmir if you are interested in applying
<sebnem.kismir@isikun.edu.tr>, <international@isikun.edu.tr>
Conference: European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkans”, University of Zagreb, 3-4 May 2012
The Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb and the Department of Educational Research of the University of Oslo have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the conference “European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkans”, taking place in the Rectorate of the University of Zagreb, 3-4 May 2012.
The conference is part of the 3-year project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council through its NORGLOBAL programme, “European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkans,” of which the Knowledge Base is also a part.
The conference will gather researchers and policy makers from Croatia and other countries of the Western Balkans and will focus on the current state-of-the-art with respect to data and knowledge about systems of higher education and research, data and analysis needs on the side of policy makers as well as key research topics and related theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference will also be an opportunity for researchers from the region to present their work and explore possibilities for collaboration with colleagues from the region and Norway.
The call for papers and further information on the event can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.herdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Open-conference-1-Zagreb.pdf
The conference is part of the 3-year project, funded by the Norwegian Research Council through its NORGLOBAL programme, “European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkans,” of which the Knowledge Base is also a part.
The conference will gather researchers and policy makers from Croatia and other countries of the Western Balkans and will focus on the current state-of-the-art with respect to data and knowledge about systems of higher education and research, data and analysis needs on the side of policy makers as well as key research topics and related theoretical and methodological approaches. The conference will also be an opportunity for researchers from the region to present their work and explore possibilities for collaboration with colleagues from the region and Norway.
The call for papers and further information on the event can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.herdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Open-conference-1-Zagreb.pdf
Workshop: Translating Transformations: Hermeneutics of Change in the Balkan Cultures and Beyond, The University Of Manchester, 16 March 2012
The University of Manchester
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUSTICS AND CULTURES
Institute for Transnational Studies in association with Centre for
Russian and Eurasian Studies
presents the workshop:
Translating Transformations:
Hermeneutics of Change in the Balkan Cultures and Beyond
March 16, Friday 2012, 9.30-17.30 Zochonis Lecture theatre D, The
University of Manchester
The workshop examines the hermeneutics of changes in the cultural and
political landscape of the Balkans – a region in Europe that has
undergone most drastic geo-political and socio- cultural changes
during the last two centuries. Scholars from University College
London, Trinity College Dublin, University of Essex, University of
Nottingham and the University of Manchester will discuss the ways in
which these changes were translated into artistic reflections,
intellectual discourses and cultural practices. How were the Western
European models translated into the Balkan cultural discourses? How
did policies and politics transform the religious and ethnic fabrics
of Balkan societies? Do we need to redefine ethical boundaries and
moral codes to understand the changes in the Balkan cultures?
The award-winning neo-noir film Zift (dir. Yavor Gărdev, 2008) will be
viewed and discussed as a part of the workshop.
All are welcome!
Programme:
March 16, Friday 2012, Zochonis Lecture theatre D, The University of Manchester
9:30–9:40 Welcome
9.40:00-10:40 Panel I. Hermeneutics of religious and ethnic
interactions in the Balkans
Key Address: Dr Ina Merdjanova (Trinity College, Dublin) Islam and
Politics in the Balkans: Understanding Two Decades of Change
Ksenija Kolerovic (The University of Manchester) Serbs towards Nation,
Vlachs towards 'Other': Shifts in Representations of Vlachs in Serbian
Discourses (1800-1914)
10:40-10.45 Break
10:45-11:45 Panel II. Hermeneutics of cultural production in the Balkans
Dr Sanja Bahun (University of Essex) Balkan, Bidirectionality,
Transformation: Modernist Objects (and How We Translate Them)
Alex Boican (University College London) The Dictionary and the Lost
Soul: Articulating Dislocation in the Work of Mircea Horia Simionescu
11:45-11.50 Break
11:50-12:50 Panel III. Translating social and cultural transformations
Key Address: Dr Zoran Milutinovic (University College London),
Spontaneous Common Culture and Yugoslav Cultural Policy after 1955
Piotr Goldstein (REES, University of Manchester) Neither Yugoslavia
nor Yugosphere: ‘The region’ and beyond for NGOs of Mostar and Novi
Sad
12:50-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.30 Hermeneutics of destruction and trauma
Dr Vladimir Zoric (University of Nottingham), City and Death: From the
Yugoslav Necropolis to the Post-Yugoslav Urbicide
Dejan Levi (The University of Manchester) TBA
Dr Adelina Angusheva (The University of Manchester), The Multiple Ends
of the Balkan Histories (with an introduction to the film viewing)
14:40-17.05 Film viewing and discussion (Zift, dir. Yavor Gărdev, 2008)
17.05-17.25 Final discussion. Concluding remarks by Prof. Stephen
Hutchings (The University of Manchester)
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LINGUSTICS AND CULTURES
Institute for Transnational Studies in association with Centre for
Russian and Eurasian Studies
presents the workshop:
Translating Transformations:
Hermeneutics of Change in the Balkan Cultures and Beyond
March 16, Friday 2012, 9.30-17.30 Zochonis Lecture theatre D, The
University of Manchester
The workshop examines the hermeneutics of changes in the cultural and
political landscape of the Balkans – a region in Europe that has
undergone most drastic geo-political and socio- cultural changes
during the last two centuries. Scholars from University College
London, Trinity College Dublin, University of Essex, University of
Nottingham and the University of Manchester will discuss the ways in
which these changes were translated into artistic reflections,
intellectual discourses and cultural practices. How were the Western
European models translated into the Balkan cultural discourses? How
did policies and politics transform the religious and ethnic fabrics
of Balkan societies? Do we need to redefine ethical boundaries and
moral codes to understand the changes in the Balkan cultures?
The award-winning neo-noir film Zift (dir. Yavor Gărdev, 2008) will be
viewed and discussed as a part of the workshop.
All are welcome!
Programme:
March 16, Friday 2012, Zochonis Lecture theatre D, The University of Manchester
9:30–9:40 Welcome
9.40:00-10:40 Panel I. Hermeneutics of religious and ethnic
interactions in the Balkans
Key Address: Dr Ina Merdjanova (Trinity College, Dublin) Islam and
Politics in the Balkans: Understanding Two Decades of Change
Ksenija Kolerovic (The University of Manchester) Serbs towards Nation,
Vlachs towards 'Other': Shifts in Representations of Vlachs in Serbian
Discourses (1800-1914)
10:40-10.45 Break
10:45-11:45 Panel II. Hermeneutics of cultural production in the Balkans
Dr Sanja Bahun (University of Essex) Balkan, Bidirectionality,
Transformation: Modernist Objects (and How We Translate Them)
Alex Boican (University College London) The Dictionary and the Lost
Soul: Articulating Dislocation in the Work of Mircea Horia Simionescu
11:45-11.50 Break
11:50-12:50 Panel III. Translating social and cultural transformations
Key Address: Dr Zoran Milutinovic (University College London),
Spontaneous Common Culture and Yugoslav Cultural Policy after 1955
Piotr Goldstein (REES, University of Manchester) Neither Yugoslavia
nor Yugosphere: ‘The region’ and beyond for NGOs of Mostar and Novi
Sad
12:50-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-14.30 Hermeneutics of destruction and trauma
Dr Vladimir Zoric (University of Nottingham), City and Death: From the
Yugoslav Necropolis to the Post-Yugoslav Urbicide
Dejan Levi (The University of Manchester) TBA
Dr Adelina Angusheva (The University of Manchester), The Multiple Ends
of the Balkan Histories (with an introduction to the film viewing)
14:40-17.05 Film viewing and discussion (Zift, dir. Yavor Gărdev, 2008)
17.05-17.25 Final discussion. Concluding remarks by Prof. Stephen
Hutchings (The University of Manchester)
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