Faculty Position in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Sabanci University, Istanbul‏

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

FACULTY POSITION IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, invites applications and/or nominations for a faculty position in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The position is open as of September 2012, to mid-career candidates as well as candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are near completion (Professor, Associate Professor and/or Assistant Professor).



Further specialization in one or more of the following areas is desirable: peace psychology; scientific study of peace and conflict; dynamics of cooperation; theories of applied conflict resolution; social psychology; political psychology; self and identity; social cognition; decision making.The successful candidate must have a strong record and potential for top quality scholarly publication, as well as promise of outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.



Sabanci University is a private, department-free, innovative academic institution located in one of Europe’s largest and oldest cities, Istanbul. The university is strongly committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To meet this challenge, the faculty is organized around multi-disciplinary degree programs including Conflict Analysis and Resolution (MA), Cultural Studies (BA, MA), Economics (BA, MA, PhD), European Studies (MA), History (MA, PhD), International Studies (BA), Political Science (MA, PhD), Public Policy (MA), Social and Political Sciences (BA), Turkish Studies (MA), Visual Arts & Communication Design (BA, MA). The medium of instruction is English. Faculty members are provided with excellent support, including housing facilities on its modern campus if available or a housing stipend.



Applicants are asked to complete an online application form through the university website:



http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/eng/?aday_calisanlar/akademik_is_basvurulari.html



Additionally, a curriculum vitae, a clear statement of current and planned research and teaching activities, and at least three letters of reference should be sent via email to:



Mehmet Bac, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, bac@sabanciuniv.edu

cc: Inci Ceydeli, Faculty Administrative Manager, inci@sabanciuniv.edu.

Orient-Institut Istanbul, PhD Research Grant 2012‏

Research Grant Announcement 2012

The Orient-Institut Istanbul offers a research grant for PhD students.
Grants are available to support research in the Humanities and Social
Sciences on the region, its history, culture, languages and contemporar
affairs. The award consists of a monthly stipend of € 1000 for the duration
of up to a maximum of one year.

Prospective applicants are expected to hold an M.A. degree in a Middle
East-related discipline. The proposed research project should have a
regional focus on, either, Turkey, the Balkans, the Volga or Caucasus
region as well as Central Asia. The complete application should specify
the necessity of conducting research in Istanbul, or Turkey, respectively,
and include a detailed time frame for the envisioned research.

A basic command of German and Turkish is expected of all applicants.
Participation in colloquiums at the institute is expected. Research
stays outside of Istanbul have to be coordinated with the director.

Applications must be submitted by January 15, 2012, to the:

Director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul
Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika
Susam Sokak 16-18, D. 8
34433 Cihangir – Istanbul
Turkey

We also request that applications likewise be submitted by e-mail,
please, to:
<oiist@oidmg.org>

Applications must include the following documents:

(1) Cover letter
(2) CV
(3) Outline of the proposed research
(4) Letter of recommendation written by an academic supervisor
(5) Copy of the M.A. diploma
(6) Documentation of Turkish language skills


--
Dr. Sara Nur Yıldız
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Orient-Institut Istanbul
Susam Sokak 16-18 D.8
Cihangir 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul, Turkey
office: +90 (212) 293 6067/120
saranuryildiz@gmail.com

Conference: Alevi-Bektashi Communities in the Ottoman Realm, Bogazici University, 13-15 Dec 2011‏

ALEVI-BEKTASHI COMMUNITIES IN THE OTTOMAN REALM: SOURCES, PARADIGMS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Program:

13.12.2011 (Tuesday)

Opening: 10:30-11.00

SESSIONS

1) The Medieval/Pre-Ottoman Background

Discussant: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University

Panelists:

11.00-11.30 Ahmet Karamustafa, Washington University in St. Louis, "Sofu, Abdal, Dede: Kaygusuz Abdal and Vernacular Islam in Medieval Anatolia"

11.30-12.00 Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary, "The Vefa'iyye, the Bektashiyye, and Genealogies of ‘Heterodox Islam' in
Anatolia: Rethinking the Köprülü Paradigm"

12.00-12.30 Coffee Break

12.30-13.00 Sara Nur Yıldız, Orient-Institut Istanbul, "Historicizing Sufi Communities in Medieval Anatolia: Reconsidering the Dominant Paradigms of Syncretism,Heterodoxy and High/Low Islam"

13.00-13.30 Mark Soileau, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, "The Folk Among the Wonders: Finding Alevis in Bektashi Hagiographies"

13.30-15.00 Lunch

2) The Safavids and the Early Modern Context of the Kizilbash/Alevi Movement

Discussant: Derin Terzioğlu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi.

Panelists:

15.00-15.30 Cornell Fleischer, University of Chicago, "The Common Parlance of Messianism and Millenarianism in Islamdom in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"

15.30-16.00 Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, "Seeing Red: The Kizilbash as Image and Rhetoric in Persianate Literature"

16.00-16.30 Vural Genç, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "The Battle of Chaldiran in Iranian Sources"

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California Riverside, "Shah Isma‘il Safavi in Persian, European and Ottoman Myths"

17.30-18.00 Ferenc Csirkés, University of Chicago, "The Safavid and Ottoman Reception of the Poetry of Shah Isma‘il Hatayi"

14.12.2011 (Wednesday)

3) Tekkes and Dergâhs

Discussant: Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University

Panelists:

10.00-10.30 Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University, "Dutlug Bolsun: Amidst Stone and Soil at the Convent of Seyyid Ali Sultan (a.k.a. Kızıl Deli)"

10.30-11.00 Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, University of Oxford, "Haji Bektash, His Shrine and the Ottomans"

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.00 Mahir Polat, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "Lost or Imaginary? Looking for the Cemevi in Ottoman Architectural History"

12.00-12.30 Frances Trix, Indiana University,"Survival Strategies for Bektashi Tekkes in the Western Balkans: Ergeri (Albania), Kalkandelen (Macedonia), Gjakova (Kosova)"

12.30-14 :00 Lunch

4) Under the Shadow of Empire: Kizilbash/Alevi and Bektashi Communities' Relations with the Ottoman and Safavid States

Discussant: Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary

Panelists:

14.00-14.30 Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan, "The Waning of the Kizilbash in Iran Revisited"

14.30-15.00 İbrahim Kaya Şahin, Tulane University "Towards an Ottoman Sunnism: Perceptions of Bektashis/Alevis/Shi‘is/Safevis in Chronicles from Aşıkpaşazade to Celalzade"

15.00-15.30 Derin Terzioğlu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, "How to Conceptualize Ottoman Sunnitization: A Historiographical Discussion"

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.30 Erdal Küçükyalçın, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, "Janissary-Bektashi Relations Revisited: Religious Symbolism in Janissary Banner-signs"

16.30-17.00 Alişan Akpınar, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "The Ottoman State's Perception of the Alevis during the Hamidian Era"

17.00-18.00 Buffet

18.30-20.00 Social Program

Dertli Divani Baba (Veli Aykut), Keynote Speaker/Performer Narrative Performance: "The Language of Alevi Hymns"


15.12.2011
(Thursday)

5) Memory, History and Construction of Identity

Discussant Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Panelists:

10.00-10.30 Markus Dressler, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, "Rewriting Kızılbaş Alevism and Bektashism: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges"

10.30-11.00 Ulaş Özdemir, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, "History Through Sacred Words: The Presence of Haji Bektash Veli in Ahl-i Haqq Lore"

11.00-11.30 Erdal Gezik, Independent Researcher, Holland, "Beyond the Limits of Writing: Construction of the Religio-Cultural Memory of Dersim Alevis"


11:30-12:00 Coffee Break


12.00-13.00 Roundtable

13.00 Closing Remarks & Visit to the Tekke of Nafi Baba (optional)

EASA 2012 - (W029) Violence and Resilience in South-Eastern Europe, Paris, 10-13 July 2012‏

Violence and Resilience in South-Eastern Europe. We invite all interested scholars in the topic to submit their paper proposal via online form on the EASA website by November 28, 2011.

With best wishes,

Hanna Kienzler (McGill University) hanna.kienzler@mail.mcgill.ca<mailto:hanna.kienzler@mail.mcgill.ca>
Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi (University of Montréal) enkelejda.sula@umontreal.ca<mailto:enkelejda.sula@umontreal.ca>


Workshop abstract
In South-Eastern Europe, political and structural violence go beyond death, disease, trauma and anxiety, to include the pervasive effects of the destruction of the economic, political and social fabric of society. This workshop invites papers that explore the consequences of such violence by tracing them in individual biographies, life trajectories, collective memory and communal strategies for coping with and being resilient to violence, adversity and uncertainty. In particular, the papers should describe and analyse the situated, manifold and complex interconnections between violence, larger social forces and individual suffering and ways in which they affect individual and collective perceptions of reality, identity and expectations for the future.
Expanding on the work of other anthropologists who have tried to make sense of different forms of violence, we argue that violence is pervasive, ancient, infinitely various and a central fact of human life, but also poorly understood in general. At the same time and despite these "conceptual uncertainties", it is, among other things, "a cultural problem" which requires attention to the details of its meanings and enactments by social actors in particular contexts. Adopting Sherry Ortner's notion of "serious games", the workshop emphasizes the social aspects of violence through different case studies by arguing that it is shaped, maintained and appeased through the expression of personal and subjective experiences in connection with larger social actors such as the state, international organizations, transnational flows of finances, and the global media.

Proposal submission: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1285
Call for papers: http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm

OSI/University of Oxford is inviting applications for the scholarship program 2012-13‏

Open Society Foundations/University of Oxford Seek Applications from Students of Select Countries for the Scholarship Program 2012-13

Open Society Foundations in association with the University of Oxford is inviting applications for the scholarship program 2012-13 to provide outstanding students an opportunity to pursue one-year taught postgraduate courses of study at the University of Oxford in subjects relevant to the needs of their countries.

Funded by the OSF and the University of Oxford, these scholarships are a great opportunity to students who have potential to become leaders, decision makers and opinion formers in their home countries.

Scholarship Provision

Each award will provide for payment of academic tuition fees, college fees, a monthly stipend for living expenses sufficient for a single student, and other agreed allowances including one return economy airfare. No financial support or special provisions are provided for dependants or family members.

Eligibility Criteria

• Selected one year taught master’s courses within the University of Oxford’s Social Sciences and Humanities Divisions.
• Any scholarship awards are conditional upon you being offered a place to study at Oxford, and meeting all the conditions of that offer (e.g. obtaining the required score in English language proficiency).
• Applicants will be required to have passed an English proficiency test before being offered a scholarship. The minimum requirement for study on the eligible courses at Oxford is IELTS 7.5 (with minimum 7.0 in each component) or TOEFL – 630 (minimum Test of Written English score – 5) or Computer based TOEFL – 267 (minimum essay writing score – 5) or Internet based TOEFL – 109 or Cambridge Certificate of proficiency in English – B. Local representatives of Open Society Foundations will arrange tests for short-listed candidates after the interviews, if applicants have not already successfully taken a test in the 2 years prior to the interview.
• All applicants must have completed at least three years of BA course (in the Bologna system) or four years of university study and have obtained, or expect to obtain, the appropriate degree(s) not later than September 2012.
• Applicants must be citizens of and resident in one of the following countries during the academic year in which they apply for the award: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Georgia, and Montenegro. Applicants who are temporarily out of the country (for a total period of less than three consecutive months) may be treated as being resident.
• Applicants should be planning to return to their home country at the end of the period of study.
• Applicants should have a proven track record of success or excellence in their professional life distinguishing them from their peers and contemporaries and clear commitment to open society goals.

Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously studied in Western universities.

Please note that if you have applied, or are applying, for other grants, fellowships or scholarships with the Open Society Foundations you should alert to this in your application.  While you may apply under more than one scheme simultaneously, you can be awarded only one Open Society Foundations scholarship or grant for a given period.

Selection Process

Short-listed applicants will be invited for an interview and an English language test in their home country in April 2012. Interviews will be carried out by representatives of OSF–London—in certain cases, there may also be a panel member representing the interests of the University. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of the scholarship competition in May/June 2012.

Please note that successful applicants will be invited to attend a one-month Academic Writing School organized by Open Society Scholarship Programs in Istanbul in August 2012.

Last date for submitting the applications is January 20, 2012.

For more information, visit this link.

Conference: Reducing complexity: transformation of capital cities (W129) EASA Nanterre, 2012‏

Just twenty years ago half of Europe hastily jumped from socialism towards capitalism. Reinforcing nationalism was one of the ways to overcome the transitional anxiety. The European version of cosmopolitan supra-national identity had and still has to compete with particular nationalist representations in the 'new' countries of a united Europe.
As most revolutions happen in capital cities, we seek for ethnographic accounts, that reveal the discrepancy between the imposition of the governmental symbolic order in the public space of capital cities, and creation of everyday lived spaces. Considering the symbolic power that capitals pose, the transformations of the public space in these cities can reveal the aspirations of the political elites in these countries. This panel will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation of European capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis, and constant threat of recession and economic downfall. We are interested both in the nation-state abuse of the idea of capital cities, and the production of appropriate political subjects. Following this, we will look at the resistance produced by ordinary citizens, artists, and other actors who exercise their right to create a public space that is an inclusive open democratic space.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1360

Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012‏

Call for Papers for the Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS)

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012

The SRS is an international inter-disciplinary academic organization based in North America

For information about SRS visit www.society4romanianstudies.org

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is a sponsoring partner

Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World

More than two decades after the fall of communism and several years after Romania’s accession

to the European Union, Romanians, whether at home, in a growing diaspora around the world, or

by virtue of international economic and cultural networks, are continuing to find themselves

integrated into increasingly interconnected European and global institutions and practices. This

gradual process of integration into international networks and interaction with foreign powers

has been underway for centuries. States that occupied the territory of contemporary Romania and

Moldova came under the influence of more powerful neighbors, and stood at the crossroads of

both warlike and peaceful migrations. At one point most Romanian boyars spoke Greek, and in

the 19th century Romanian students often studied abroad as they are again doing today. In the

1920s and 30s, ethnic and religious diversity contributed both to Europeanization and to

domestic and international tensions. Then, the Soviet model played a major role in the imposition

of communism. The proposed focus of the 2012 SRS conference encourages historical, cultural

and contemporary inquiries into the place of Romanians and Moldovans in European and global

structures, while pondering the implications of these trends for the future.

Keynote Speakers:

· Dr. Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the

Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

· Dr. Bogdan Murgescu, Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest,

Romania

We welcome proposals for papers, panels and round-tables coming from young and established

scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, philosophy, law,

linguistics, economics, business, religious studies, theater, literature, cinema studies, music, and

education.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

· Romania and the European Union

· “Europe’s,” Russia’s, and Romania’s roles in the Republic of Moldova

· The social, political, and ideological implications of globalization in Romania and

Moldova

· Migration and diaspora within Europe, North America, etc.

· Consequences of EU accession

· Challenges to European and global integration

· Romanian writers abroad

· Romanian literature in translation

· The global reception of Romanian cinema, literature and art

· The Romanian/Jewish avant-garde in Zurich, Paris, Berlin

· Multinational enterprises in modern Romania and Moldova

· Minority cultures in Romania and Moldova (Roma, German, Hungarian, Jewish, Russian,

Ukrainian, Gagauz et al.)

· The construction of a European memory

· Romanian and Moldovan culture in the digital age

· The Romanian language mass media system in the panoply of world media models

· Journalism and political parallelism

· New and old forms of censorship and self-censorship

· Romanians’ and Moldovans’ historical encounters with “others”

· The image of the Roma/Jew/Hungarian/German among Romanians

Paper proposals should include the title of the presentation, a brief abstract of up to 500 words, a

short c.v., and the contact information of the presenter. They should be sent in a single attached

Word or PDF document by December 1, 2011, to Matthew Ciscel at CiscelM@ccsu.edu

Proposals for 2-hour panels including 3-4 papers, one chair, and 1-2 discussants should provide a

description of the panel topic, abstracts of papers, short c.v.’s and contact information for all

participants. Panel participants should be drawn from at least two different universities. 2-hour

round-tables of 3-5 participants will also be considered. The conference languages are English

and Romanian. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by January 30,

2012.

In order to assure that the conference is accessible to scholars from across the Atlantic region and

to those from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the conference fees will be quite modest.

For scholars from North America, the fee will be 40 USD; for those from the Eurozone and other

world regions, 40 Euros, and from Romania, Moldova, and post-Communist realms, 40

Romanian Lei. Graduate students will be exempt from this fee. SRS membership will also be

required and additional for those paying in USD and Euros, but included for those paying in Lei.

Postdoc Fellowships 2011/12 in Berlin, Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship‏

5 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/13
(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 10 January 2012)

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for 5 postdoctoral fellowships for the research project
ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP

Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research project that aspires to support research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself. The project takes as its point of departure the increasingly growing concern with the global significance of philology and the potential of philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.

The project endeavours to promote and emphasize primary textual scholarship beyond the classical humanistic canon by a critical recuperation of philology. In an age of advanced communication, intellectual specialization and unprecedented migration of knowledge and people, the discipline of philology assumes new relevance. The project draws on the recent calls for a return to philology as particularly emphasized by Sheldon Pollock and the late Edward Said.

The title “Zukunftsphilologie” is inspired by the 1872 polemic between the classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Friedrich Nietzsche on the method and meaning of classical studies. The project draws on recent calls for a return to philology as particularly emphasized by Sheldon Pollock in his essay “Future Philology?” and the late Edward Said’s essay “The Return to Philology”.

In order to promote historically-conscious philology, the project will encourage research in the following areas: the genealogy and transformations of philological practice, philology’s place in the system of knowledge (e.g. its relation to science, theology, and jurisprudence), philology and the university, and philology and empire. Zukunftsphilologie aims to examine the role mobility, calamities, expulsions, and natural catastrophes play in the dissemination and globalization of knowledge. How does the mobility of scholars, books, and manuscripts bring about scientific innovation (e.g. in tenth-century Baghdad, during the European Renaissance, or during the Ming dynasty)? What kind of knowledge systems are also displaced by these processes of reorganization? What transformations and translations accompany such mobilizations?

The project Zukunftsphilologie is associated with and located at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Zukunftsphilologie is directed by Angelika Neuwirth, Manan Ahmed and Islam Dayeh (all Freie Universitaet Berlin).

CANDIDATES

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of the major linguistic and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe (for example, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish), whose research explores linguistic practices and disciplinary entanglements in intellectual and literary history, comparative linguistics, philology, religion and the history of science. The fellowships are intended for scholars who currently reside outside Berlin and who wish to carry out their research projects in the framework of the initiative Zukunftsphilologie in Berlin. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows are given the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice, provided the topic falls within the research agenda of the project. In the overall context of the project Zukunftsphilologie, they will participate in regular working meetings of the project group as well as in lectures, conferences and summer or winter academies, organized by the project and by the Forum Transregionale Studien.

PROJECTS

Individual research projects should fall within the thematic framework of Zukunftsphilologie. Projects should have a comparative perspective, whereby the plurality of textual practices, polyphonic textuality, and the trajectories and genealogies of philological traditions since early modernity are examined.
Research projects focusing on intellectual debates, polemics, correspondences, and transregional encounters are especially welcome. In revisiting important philological debates, the goal is not to merely evaluate the argumentative worth of these debates, but to reflect on the wider cultural and political context in which these debates emerged and how they have shaped our knowledge of the past. Moreover, an examination of philological debates will shed light on marginal philological traditions and undocumented intellectual positions as well as the ways in which canonical positions were consolidated and normalized.

FELLOWSHIPS

start October 1, 2012, and will end on July 31, 2013. Shorter fellowship terms can be considered. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of € 2.250 plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided. Successful applicants will be fellows of the project Zukunftsphilologie at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Associate Members of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies. Through this association they will be integrated into the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and will have access to an academic milieu of literary and philological studies as well as to libraries and other research facilities.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

To apply, please send the following documents in English exclusively by e-mail as separate word or PDF files:

— a curriculum vitae
— a project description (no longer than five pages), stating what you will work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship
— a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter)
— a letter of recommendation from one academic faculty. It can be sent as a separate e-mail.

The application should be submitted in English and should be received by 10 January 2012, addressed to:

zukunftsphilologie@trafo-berlin.de

Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstraße 19, D-14193 Berlin / Germany

Institutional Framework

The Forum Transregionale Studien is a new research platform of the Land of Berlin designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural or regional frames. The Forum works in tandem with established institutions and networks engaged in transregional studies and is supported by an association of the directors of universities, research institutes and networks mainly based in Berlin. It supports four research projects: Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison, Global Prayers: Redemption and Liberation in the City, and Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe. The Forum Transregionale Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin.


INFORMATION

For more information on the Forum please see
— www.forum-transregionale-studien.de

For more information on Zukunftsphilologie please see
— www.zukunftsphilologie.de
— www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel/

Small Cinemas Conference, West University of Timisoara, 1-3 June 2012‏

Small Cinemas
Promotion and Reception
Timisoara, Romania, 1-3 June 2012

Organizing Institution: Center for Eastern European Film and Media Studies, West University of Timisoara, Romania, contact email: ceefms@gmail.com

Plenary Speakers: Dina Iordanova, Professor of Film Studies and Provost, St. Leonard’s College, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Janina Falkowska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

The third annual international conference, Small Cinemas, brings together scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss the regional, national and international reception and promotion of small cinemas. We are interested in papers focusing on the status and the particularities of small cinemas’ audiences, film criticism, film scholarship, governmental support, festival participation, marketing strategies, and media outlets. The conference organizers understand the notion of “small cinemas” to be fluid and plural, including both documentary and fiction, from the cinemas of small nation-states to the small “postage stamp” films of mobile devices; from the cinemas of ethnic and religious minorities to the productions of minors and so-called “minor” authors.

Presentations are invited on any aspect of the reception and promotion of small cinemas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· The theorizing of styles, genres, new waves, and auteurship of small cinemas

· Journals, scholarly studies, collections, blogs

· Films in schools

· Stars and glamour

· Racial, ethnic, universal informed reception

· Internet, television and print media promotion

· Communal, regional, national, supra-national promotion

· Distribution, transmission, diffusion

· DVD sales and rental

· Dubbing and subtitling

· Co-productions, exports, imports

· Public and private financing

· Globalization and miniaturization

· Festivals

300-word abstracts and a short bio should be sent to Constantin Parvulescu, ceefms@gmail.com. Submission deadline: 1 February 2012.

Transforming Gender Orders - Intersections of Care, Family and Migration, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 18-20 January 2012‏

Transforming Gender Orders: Intersections of Care, Family and Migration
18-20 January 2012, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Deadline for the registration 9 January 2012
URL: www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/genderorders

This international conference takes up the controversies about the
transformation of gender relations in the course of globalization
processes. It is organized in four panels covering three main areas:
care, family, and migration. These provide the background against which
the questions of whether gender relations and orders are shifting, how
they are shifting and in what direction will be debated.

Programme

Wednesday, 18 January 2012. 18.00-20.00

Opening Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Intersections of Care, Family and Migration – transformations of gender
relations (University of Southern California)

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Panel I: Changes in the Welfare State – Changes in Care Regimes

10.00-12.00

Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger (University of Hamburg)
The role of migrants’ care work in different types of gender arrangement

Prof. Dr. Fiona Williams (University of Leeds)
Intersectionality and geo-politics in the analysis of migrant care and
domestic labour in Europe

Prof. Dr. Sonya Michel (Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington, D.C.)
State Compliance and Complicity? A Liberal Care Regime and
Anti-Immigration Forces in the United States

Chair: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher (CGC)
Discussant: Dr. Nicola Piper (University of Freiburg)

13.30-15.30

Prof. Dr. Sarah van Walsum (VU Amsterdam)
Exploring the dynamic between labour migration law and the labour rights
of domestic workers. A comparative perspective

Prof. Dr. Lise Widding Isaksen (University of Bergen, Norway)
Nordic Care- and Gender Regimes: Between Old Dependencies and New
“Independencies”?

Prof. Dr. Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University, London)
Caring Professions, Welfare and Immigration Regimes in Europe

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ute Sacksofsky (CGC);
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheiwe (Uni. Hildesheim)

Panel II: The Role of Women in Maintaining and Reproducing Repressive
Gender Orders

16.00-18.00
Prof. Dr. Anna C. Korteweg (University of Toronto)
Representations of Mothers in Media Reporting on Honour Killing:
Racialization and the Reinforcement of the Dominant Gender Order

Dr. Alice Szczepanikova (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
When Gender Order Comes under Strain: Chechen Refugee Women in Europe

Prof. Dr. Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller (Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre
la Défense)
Relying on Gender Order and Challenging it from Within

Chair: Prof. Dr. Uta Ruppert (CGC)
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Ilse Lenz (Ruhr University, Bochum)

18.30 Dinner reception for all Participants

Friday, 20 January 2012

Panel III: The Role of Men in the Transnational Division of Domestic Work

9.00 -11.00
Dr. Rosie Cox (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Gender identity/national identity: Narratives of home repairs and being
a ‘good Kiwi bloke’

Dr. Majella Kilkey (University of Sheffield)
Gender Orders in a Divided Europe: Towards an international division of
male domestic work

Dr. Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow and CNRS, Paris) & Dr.
Ester Gallo (University of Edinburgh)
Men of the Home - Interrogating Masculinity in the International
Division of Care

Chair: Prof. Dr. Heather Hofmeister (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (University of Göttingen)

Panel IV: Change and Continuity in Intra-family Relations in the
Migration Process: Transnational Motherhood and the Families Left Behind

11.15-13.15

Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz & Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck (Goethe University,
Frankfurt)
The Care Curtain of Europe. The Global Care Chain Concept from a
European Perspective

Prof. Dr. Oded Stark (Universities of Klagenfurt, Bonn, Vienna and Warsaw)
Gender differentiation in care giving within the family, and migration
outcomes: a hypothesis

Dr. Bartłomiej Walczak (University of Warsaw)
Parental Roles in the Transnational Family: Transformation or Hibernation?

Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Opfermann (CGC)\
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Ursula Apitzsch (CGC, Frankfurt)

14.15-15.45

Dr. Cinzia Solari (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Between “Europe” and “Africa”: Building the New Ukraine on the Shoulders
of Migrant Women

Dr. Kyoko Shinozaki (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
In the Absence of Mothers: Fathers' On-Site Parenting in the Global Care
Chains and their Dependent Migration from the Philippines to Germany

Chair: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick (CGC)
Discussant: Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)

Final remarks: 15.45-16.00

Contact and Registration
transforminggenderorders@gmail.com
www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/genderorders

Deadline for the registration: January 9, 2012

Conference organisers

Prof. Helma Lutz
Dr. Alice Szczepanikova
Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck
Women and Gender Studies
Goethe-Universität
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Gesellschafts- und Politikanalyse
Robert-Mayer-Str. 5
60054 Frankfurt am Main

Euroacademia International Conference, ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’, Paris, 15 - 17 March 2012‏

Call for Papers: The Euroacademia International Conference ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’

15 - 17 March 2012, Paris, France

Deadline for Panel Proposals: 15 December 2011

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 January 2012

http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/

Description:

Historically, the EU is both curious and controversial: it is hard to explain from a state-centrist view the delegation of sovereignty and the fragile agreement on the gradual extension of the EU powers together with externalizations of the decision making to a polity that can be described, as Jacques Delors expressed it, as an unidentified political object. However, in the last 60 years, the European Union absorbed increasing amounts of intellectual and political energies that attempted to singularly or complementary explain the nature of the ‘beast’ and the logic of the processes unfolded within. A large amount of theoretical assumptions, methodological choices and explanatory techniques were imported from different fields of research to constitute what gradually took the shape of the EU studies. Still today, the European Union is seen as a unique project of regional integration that is unsettled and unfinished and yet a particular scientific vocabulary takes shape and influences research and policy making. The Euroacademia conference aims to take into account the enormous creative energies invested in understanding and shaping the project of the European Union from the limited competences granted at the creation of the European Economic Community till the current formulation of the post-national understandings of its evolution.

From neo-functionalism to constructivism as IR theoretical imports to the EU seen as a political system in itself or as a post-national order, an overwhelming variety of puzzles and controversies animate the arena of the EU studies and bring partial agreements, alternative explanations, mutually exclusive proposals and unpredicted consequences regarding vital factors that shape the EU as a polity. Even the explanatory models often considered outdated prove to be resourceful in confronting determined policies, processes or institutional choices inside the EU. The innovation together with constant reevaluation, reformulation and revisiting of the past accounts seem to be the trademark of the EU studies. The plurality of approaches stands as the optimal choice in dealing with the diverse, multileveled, multitiered and multicentered reality of the European Union. Yet the advantage of plurality was also often used to blame the epistemological weaknesses and inaccuracies resulted from fragmentation and limited empirical applicability of particular trends inside European studies. The excessive conceptual imports from other fields and the limited methodological creativity were also established as skeptical positionings towards the European studies seen as a cohesive field of research and scholarship.

The Euroacademia International Conference ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’ aims to bring openly on the floor of debate and discussion both the past and the contemporary trends in the study of the European Union trough the use of the magnifying glasses. The conference seeks to create an opportunity for evaluative accounts of essential developments within the study of the European Union. These accounts are to be understood as creative moments for articulating current concerns in the frame of disciplinary dialogue and methodological constrains or opportunities provided by the established traditions in the field of European studies. It is an opportunity for revisiting and assessing the persistent epistemological challenges in the field, the inheritances and their creative potential, the orthodoxies but also heresies.

The conference welcomes panel and paper proposals dealing with one or multiple traditions, trends and methodological choices within the arena of European studies. The panels and papers are expected to provide a critical assessment or a comprehensive valorization of one of the central or out of the mainstream approaches applied to the European Union. Papers that address new puzzles, alternative theoretical choices or methodological corrections/innovations are welcomed. Both theoretical and empirical enquiries are equally considered.

Panels:

The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following panels:

Before the European Union: The Initial Assumptions and the Historical Choices Revisited

Neo-Functionalism and the Persistence of Spill-over Effects

The EU Studies and IR Conceptual Imports: An Assessment

The Regulatory Theory and EU efficiency

Intergovernmentalism and Pursuing State Interest inside the EU

Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Methodological Virtues and Limits

Constructivism: The New Kid of IR

Addressing the European Identity: Where and How to Measure It?

The Lessons of Enlargements

EU as a Political System

EU as a Normative Power

Working Hard to Find a European Demos

Policy-making inside the EU and the Logic of the fait accompli

Cosmopolitanism and the EU as a Post-National Order

The Effects of Crises on the EU

Debating Epistemological Choices When Studying the EU

Propose a Panel:

By 15 December 2011 we welcome panel proposals. Each panel may contain a maximum of 5 speakers and a chair that will act also as a discussant. You can propose a panel by using the electronic application form available on the website of the conference.

Participant’s Profile

The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest in European Union from all parts of the world. As the nature of the conference is intended to be multidisciplinary in nature different academic backgrounds are welcomed.

Post-graduate students, doctoral candidates and young researchers are welcome to submit an abstract. Representatives of INGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and activists willing to present their work with impact on or influenced by specific understandings of the European Union are welcomed as well to submit the abstract of their contribution.

A specific spot in the conference program will be dedicated to social networking and therefore all the participants interested in setting or developing further cooperation agendas and prospects with other participants will have time to present and/or promote their project and express calls for cooperation. A specific setting for promotional materials connected with the topic of the conference will be reserved for the use of participants. Books authored or edited by the participants can be exhibited and promoted during the whole period of the conference and can also be presented within the conference package based on prior arrangements.

Selected papers will be published in an electronic volume with ISBN after the confirmation of the authors and a double peer-review process based on an agreed publication schedule. All the papers selected for publication should be original and must not have been published elsewhere. All participants to the conference will receive a copy of the volume.

Paper Proposals

Deadline: 15 January 2012

The 300 words abstracts and the affiliation details should be submitted in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

1) author(s), 2) affiliation, 3) email address, 4) title of abstract, 5) body of abstract 6) preferred panel

The abstract and details can be sent to application@euroacademia.eu with the name of the conference specified in the subject line or submitted directly through the On-line Application Form available at http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/  

We will acknowledge the receipt of all proposals. Abstracts will be reviewed and the participants are selected based on the proven quality of the abstract. The submitted paper for the conference proceedings is expected to be in accordance with the lines provided in the submitted abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES: If your paper was accepted a notification of acceptance will be sent to you by 20^th of January 2012. Your confirmation of attendance will be expected until 25^th of January 2012, and until the 1^st of February 2012 the payment of the participation fee through bank transfer is requested. No paper will be introduced in the program without confirmation and payment of the participant fee. By 15^th of February 2012, the full paper is to be sent according with the style standards provided to the accepted participants by organizers. All papers will be uploaded on the website as drafts available for consultation for other participants and the public.The conference will be held in English and will focus on the discussion of 5,000–6,000-words, pre-circulated papers.

Euroacademia is a non-profit organization, founded in Vienna (Austria), aiming to foster academic cooperation, networking and a platform for dissemination and valorization of academic research results, trends, and emerging themes within the area of concern for European studies, political science, critical studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, social psychology, semiotics, philosophy, sociology and wider and inclusive interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches that contribute to a better understanding of the ‘self-organizing vertigo’ (Edgar Morin) of the European realm. Euroacademia’s goal is to become a hub for academic interaction on and about Europe .

For more information visit www.euroacademia.eu

Euroacademia

Schüttelstraße 57/22

1020 Vienna, Austria

Phone:+43 699 10 555 248

Email: office@euroacademia.eu

Paris, France

Deadline for Panel Proposals: 15 December 2011

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 January 2012

http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/

Romanis in Europe, Passau, 3-5 September 2012‏

The UACES Collaborative research network "Romanis in Europe" (http://romanis.eu/) is calling for papers on Romani migration for the UACES Annual Conference in Passau, September 3-5 2012 (See below). Papers on all aspects of migration, interaction between host/sending communities and Romanis, as well as on (the limits of) integration of migrant Romanis are welcome. The CRN is spüecifically interested in Romani issues, but we also welcome contributions on push and pull issues involving Traveller communities. Case, country and disciplinary comparisons are particulartly welcome.

Powder Kegs, Iron Curtains, and Velvet Revolutions seminar, Brown University

American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting at Brown University  March 29th to April 1st, 2012: "Collapse/Catastrophe/Change."

Seminar:

Powder Kegs, Iron Curtains, and Velvet Revolutions: Eastern European and Eurasian Literatures and Cultures in Discourse(s) of Crisis

Paper proposals due by November 15 (see details below)
Seminar Organizer(s):

• Marina Antic (University of Wisconsin – Madison)

The “powder keg” of Europe, defenestration, balkanization, virulent nationalism, revolutions and counterrevolutions, totalitarianism, the Iron Curtain, Fall of the Berlin Wall, the End of History (or its repressive Return), the Transition – these are but a few tropes in the discourse of crisis that has defined Eastern Europe and Eurasia in modern times.
This seminar continues the discussion from previous ACLA meetings on postcoloniality and literatures and cultures of the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Prior sessions have examined “old world” empires, the question of Soviet domination, the “othering” of and within Eastern Europe, the postcolonial present and its cultural products, encounters with internal and external others, as well as cultural, literary, and physical crossroads and contact.
This year we invite papers that address figures and tropes of the language of crisis, catastrophe, collapse, (or “transition”) that have defined Eastern Europe and Eurasia for many years.  How does the discourse of crisis (and its famous inversion in “the end of History”) affect the cultures and literatures of Eastern Europe and Eurasia?  How do these literatures participate in such discourses and how do they escape redundancy or incommensurateness?  Does Eastern European experience with discourse of catastrophe (of history) have something to teach us about the current discourse of crisis gripping the Western world? Conversely, is there a space in Eastern Europe and Eurasia for “revolutions” or the discourse of progress, a beyond crisis/catastrophe/collapse? Papers on any aspect of Eastern Europe/Eurasia within the conference theme are also welcome.

Please use the ACLA's website to submit paper proposals.
Go to http://acla.org/acla2012/ and choose "Propose a paper or seminar" on the menu to the left. When submitting you will have a chance to choose this seminar as the one your paper is for.

American Institute on Political and Economic Systems-AIPES / AIPES summer program in Prague!

WHEN? July 4-25, 2012
VENUE: Prague, Czech Republic

The American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (AIPES) is an academic program designed to

explore the political, economic and cultural issues of the world as it grows under democratic principles.

AIPES embodies diversity and culture as its cornerstone to educating future leaders.

lectures on US and European government systems and their economic practices/conditions.

The economic lectures center around the theory and practical benefits of a free market society.

The institute also sponsors a number of prominent guest lectures from the region. Topics of these

guest lectures can range in politics, economics, international relations, law, and government in the media

ELIGIBILITY: Students must be currently enrolled in university in either an undergraduate or graduate level of study. Students must also be citizens of the United States, Europe and/or former states of the Soviet Union.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: On-line application. Applicants must submit one letter of recommendation, resume, personal statement, analytical essay (500 words), transcripts, scholarship essay (not required).

DEADLINE: Early deadline: January 31 2012, late deadline: March 15 2012.

CONTACT PERSON: Ms. Brigit Moore, bmoore@tfas.org

Experience Prague this summer in a unique educational environment with 100 students from more than 25 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the United States. The American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (AIPES) is an academic program designed to explore the political, economic and cultural issues of the world as it grows under democratic principles. AIPES embodies diversity and culture as its cornerstone to educating future leaders. Over 1500 alumni have attended AIPES since its founding in 1993.

Students gather in the historical and cultural capital of the Czech Republic to study the basic foundations of a free society. Students are encouraged to apply these concepts to the transitions already taking place in their home countries. Students from a wide range of nationalities, religions and ethnicities have a chance to interact, learn and share their experiences in ways that can benefit their educational and professional development.

American students are given an opportunity study abroad with their European/Central Asian counterparts comparing and contrasting languages, customs and cultures while forming freindships that can last a lifetime.

Students who complete AIPES graduate into a network of over 11,000 TFAS alumni who live in over 100 countries around the globe. Graduates of our eleven institutes have discovered this vast network opens doors never that have lead to life changing opportunities in various corners of the world.

Come join us for this once in a lifetime opportunity this summer!

Application Deadlines: Early Deadline: 31 January 2012

Final Deadline: 15 March 2012

American Institute on Political and Economic Systems
The Fund for American Studies
1706 New Hampshire Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20009
United States of America
Tel: 001-202-986-0384
Fax: 001-202-315-3880 For Specific AIPES questions, please contact:
Mr. Matthew Kwasiborski
European Institutes Director

For Recruitment and Application Information, please contact:
Ms. Brigit Moore
International Programs Admissions Manager

Artists’ Residency Exchange Programme at Open Care studios Location: Milan - Italy DL: 9 December 2011

Organized by Italian collectors association Artegiovane, the programme aims to create an inspiring cultural exchange between Italy and twenty other countries participating in the Milano Expo 2015 Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.
» Age limit: 35
» Be a citizen of Turkey or have legally resided in Turkey for at least two years
» Speak and write English fluently
» Start Date: January 2012
Selected artists are invited to spend two months at the Open Care studios in Milan, where they will receive the support required to undertake research and produce a work on the Expo’s themes of healthy and adequate nutrition, the environment, ecologically compatible energy and eco-architecture.
Participating artists are granted free working and living space, coverage of production costs up to 3.000 euros and an enabling bursary of 2.500 euros for out-of-pocket expenses.
http://www.caravansarai.info/index.php?/residencies/global-art-programme-milano-expo-2015/

Scholarships at Tehran University of Medical Sciences Location: Tehran - Iran DL: 31 December 2011

The Chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the President of the International Campus are pleased to announce their first round of scholarships to foreign students who are interested to pursue their studies at TUMS-IC.  The details of these generous scholarships are:
 
Name of the Scholarship: Tehran University of Medical Sciences International Scholarship Program for Academic Year 2012

Scholarship Description:  TUMS Scholarship Program is a scholarship program set up by TUMS-IC to encourage international students and scholars to pursue their studies and research at TUMS-IC. The scholarship aims to increase the mutual understanding and scientific exchange of scholars and students of Iran, and scholars and students from other parts of the world. TUMS is the best university in the field of medical sciences in Iran and it has been ranked the second-best medical university in the Middle East. The value of the scholarship varies from 3,000 to 15,000 US$.  The scholarship covers students’ first transport from the airport, housing, partial food plans, computer labs, sports and student union membership, library, and Internet access.

Scholarship Taken at: International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran,

Levels of Studies
Undergraduate Levels
- M.D. or Doctor of Medicine
- D.D.S. or Doctor of Dental Surgery
- Pharm.D. or Doctor in Pharmacy
- B.Sc.

Graduate Levels
- M.Sc.
- Ph.D.
- Subspecialty
- Fellowship
- Specialty

Hosting Schools
1- School of Medicine
2- School of Dentistry
3- School of Pharmacy
4- School of Advanced Technology in Medicine
5- School of Allied Health Sciences
6- School of Public Health
7- School of Nursing and Midwifery
8- School of Rehabilitation



Fields of Study: The prospect recipients of the Scholarship are welcome to study in one of these areas:

1. School of Medicine: Anatomy, Anesthesiology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cardiology, Community Medicine, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, ENT, Forensic Medicine, General Surgery, Genetics, Geriatrics, Histology, Immunology and Biology, Internal Medicine, Legal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Ethics, Medical Physics, Microbiology, Molecular Medicine, Neurology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Occupational Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Parasitology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology, Physiology, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Psychiatry, Pulmonary Medicine, Radiology, Radiotherapy, Reproductive Biology, Social Medicine, Sport Medicine, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Urology, Virology

2. School of Dentistry: Community Oral Health, Dental Laboratory Technology, Dental Materials, Endodontics, Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral Medicine and Oral Diagnosis, Orthodontics, Pediatric Dentistry, Periodontics, Prosthodontics

3. School of Pharmacy: Biotechnology, Drug and Food Control, Medical Chemistry, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacotherapy, Radiopharmacy, Toxicology and Pharmacology

4. School of Advanced Technology in Medicine: Medical Biotechnology, Medical Informatics, Medical Nanotechnology, Molecular Medicine, Neurosciences, Tissue Engineering and Cell Therapy

5. School of Allied Health Sciences: Anesthesia Technology, Health Care Management, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Medical Library and Information Sciences, Medical Records, Operation Room Technology, Practical Hematology, Radiology and Radiotherapy Technology

6. School of Public Health: Environmental Health Engineering, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Health Education and Promotion, Health Services, Management Sciences and Health Economics, Medical Entomology and Vector Control, Medical Parasitology and Mycology, Nutrition and Biochemistry, Occupational Health Engineering, Pathobiology

7. School of Nursing and Midwifery: Community Health Nursing, Medical-Surgical Nursing, Mother and Child Health, Nursing Management, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatric Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Reproductive Health

8. School of Rehabilitation: Audiology, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy

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Qualifications:
- For undergraduate level of studies: the applicant must have finished high school.
- For graduate level of studies: the applicant must have obtained an undergraduate degree in the field related to her/his desired field of study.

Language Proficiency: The teaching language will be in English.  The applicant need to have proof of English language ability to write, read, and understand. Our official language is Persian/Farsi and we will assist those who wish to pursue their education in Persian/Farsi.

Eligibility: The scholarship is only for non-Iranian citizens.

How to Apply
- Applicants must complete our online Application Form.  http://ic.tums.ac.ir/en/page-4293.htm
- Once the application has been submitted successfully, our Scholarship Coordinator will contact the prospective student and give instructions for submitting further documents.

Application Deadline: 31 December 2011

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The Process
1. You will apply online.  The link, as mentioned above, is: http://ic.tums.ac.ir/en/page-4293.htm.
2. We will send you an email informing you that we have received your application.
3. We will ask you to submit supporting documents.
4. We will gather all of your documents and will create a profile for you.
5. Your profile will be taken to the Selection Committee. In the Selection Committee meeting, representatives of departments will review your profile and will decide about your candidacy. Please note that the Selection Committee meeting takes place once per week.  All profiles are reviewed one by one and with seious attention. Your gender and country of residency are not important.  Your grades, publications, letter of motivation, work experience, letters of recommendation are important to the Selection Committee.  The level of your English language is also important.
6. Once the Selection Committee has reviewed your profile we will notify you about your status. A letter of admission (acceptance) or a letter of refusal will be sent to you.



Contact
Due to a high volume of calls and emails we are unable to answer your questions promptly. Please read all relevant pages with attention, before contacting us.

Office of International Affairs, International Campus, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
One Poursina Avenue, Tehran 14176-53861, Iran
Tel.: (+ 98 21) 81 63 42 04
oia-ic@sina.tums.ac.ir    
http://ic.tums.ac.ir

M.Phil/Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of London Location: London DL: 8 May 2012

The Department of History is inviting applications for 2 three-year bursaries, open to incoming students, tenable from 24 September 2012. Bursaries will be initially offered for one year and will be renewed annually, subject to satisfactory progress reports.
Deadline for applications: 5pm, Tuesday 8 May 2012
The department will waive the full-time Home/EU tuition fees otherwise payable by the student. This award is open to applications from incoming students who have been awarded a full-time place on the MPhil/PhD programme in the History department commencing in September 2012.
We also welcome applications from international students – however, the award will not exceed the home/EU fee per annum. In this instance, the bursaries will comprise fee-discount awards rather than full fee waivers.
Bursaries will be awarded on the basis of academic excellence. Consideration will also be given to allocation of awards across the spectrum of subjects studied within the department. For more details on the existing expertise in the department, see: http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/staff/
The award cannot be held in combination with an award from a Research council or similar body.
The deadline for applications is 5pm Tuesday 8 May 2012. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews on Wednesday 6 June.
In order to apply you should fill out and e-mail the PhD bursary application form to Ms Kerstin Feurle, the History Department Postgraduate Coordinator, at k.feurle (@gold.ac.uk). Please mark your e-mail with the subject heading BURSARY APPLICATION.
NB You must have first been awarded a place on MPhil/PhD programme in History before applying for a bursary.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/history/news-events/eventtitle,29788,en.php

Erasmus Mundus Transcultural European Outdoor Studies at Philipps-Universitaet Marburg Location: Marburg - Germany DL: 16 December 2011

Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme

TRANSCULTURAL EUROPEAN OUTDOOR STUDIES (TEOS)

offered jointly by (subject to validation)

http://www.uni-marburg.de/fb21/ifsm/teos?language_sync=1

Vacancies at Local Governments for Sustainability Location: Bonn - Germany

CLEI invites passionate and qualified individuals interested in working in a dynamic and challenging international environment to apply for employment with us. ICLEI welcomes diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.


There are several opportunities to work for ICLEI:

Regular positions: Positions related to projects or services of an ICLEI office are normally linked from the front page of www.iclei.org and/or on the website of regional ICLEI offices.
Pool of interested applicants: We encourage people with interesting profiles and specific work experience in ICLEI’s fields of interest to send us their CV and provide a precise proposal for short or mid-term collaboration. Please contact the ICLEI World Secretariat at: jobs.bonn@iclei.org
Internships: Internships normally last six months and are offered for core programs or projects. A modest internship salary is paid. Positions are posted on www.iclei.org or on websites of regional ICLEI offices. Unsolicited applications may be submitted as well but will usually not be answered. They are only encouraged for applicants with a specific profile.
Self-financed internships: These are possible when paid internships are not available. Therefore, young academics with their own bursaries, grants, fellowships, etc. can send their application to the ICLEI office of their choice or to the ICLEI World Secretariat with precise information about interest and availability.
Academic placements: The ICLEI World Secretariat offers academic placements within an ICLEI office or an ICLEI Member city, normally not paid and with variable duration. More information is available here.
Academic internships for “Local Renewables”: Young academics who are interested in working at an ICLEI office or ICLEI Member city in the field of renewable energy may contact the ICLEI World Secretariat for help with identifying possible projects.
Trainee of an ICLEI Member city: ICLEI offices host trainees from ICLEI Member cities. Durations and expectations of traineeships are established on an individual basis. For more information, contact the ICLEI office of your region or: jobs.bonn@iclei.org.

Internship at the International Council on Human Rights Policy Location: Geneva - Switzerland DL: 15 November 2011

Interns will assist in translating short texts on human rights issues to be posted online at www.ichrp.org or communication materials. Texts will be provided in English and will need to be translated into French. Students will gain exposure, practical experience and insights into the workings of an international research institution focusing on human rights.
QUALITIES REQUIRED
 Student in 3rd year of undergraduate programme or further, trained to translate from English into French.
 Excellent attention to detail.
 Some knowledge of international relations, and possibly of human rights terminology.
 Computer literacy and familiarity with commonly used software (i.e., Microsoft Office, Internet applications).
 A high level of motivation, a responsible attitude and good organisational skills, along with the ability to work as a member of a team.
INTERNSHIP DURATION
Internships are offered for a period of eight months from mid-November 2011, early December at the latest.
CONDITIONS OF SERVICE
 In general, texts will be submitted once per week and will need to be translated within 48 hours after submission. Average length per week is 1000-1500 words.
 Confidential and unpublished information obtained during the internship may not be used by interns without the written authorisation of the Executive Director.
 Internships are not remunerated. (Remunerated assignments may occasionally arise. These would be subject to a separate contract.)
 Possibility to attend meetings related to the research programme at the Council.
 Interns will telecommute.
PROCEDURE FOR APPLYING
To apply for an internship, please send your CV, a translation sample and a motivation letter in French or English to Ms Axelle Devun at devun@ichrp.org (include in the subject line of your email “Translation Internship”). The deadline for applications is: 15 November 2011 by noon, Geneva time.
Please note that only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

Internship at Girls Not Brides Location: London DL: 16 November 2011

Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage is seeking a talented and enthusiastic intern to boost the impact of its global drive for a world without child marriage. Girls Not Brides is a new global partnership initiated by The Elders that brings together a broad range of organisations from across the world working to tackle child marriage at the grassroots, national and global levels. The intern will be part of a small secretariat based in The Elders’ office in London that coordinates, supports and promotes the Girls Not Brides partnership. The internship will be for four months and would ideally start as soon as possible. This is an excellent opportunity for a talented graduate to be part of the establishment and growth of an exciting new initiative.
Applicants must be well-organised and have excellent research, writing and administration skills. He or she should have a proven interest in gender issues and human rights, as well as a demonstrable affinity with the work of Girls Not Brides. The intern will: assist the Secretariat with research on key issues relating to Girls Not Brides work; assist with contact and information management; and provide logistical/organisational support to the team.
Essential qualifications include a relevant bachelor or master’s degree, excellent written and spoken English (fluency in French would be a significant advantage), some work experience in a similar area and a keen eye for detail. A modest allowance will be offered to cover daily expenses. UK or EU university graduates and post-graduate students are welcome to apply; non-EU candidates must present a visa that permits student placement.
To apply, please send your CV as soon as possible (and before Wednesday 16 November) to Marianna.Brungs@GirlsNotBrides.org clearly stating “Application for internship” in the subject line. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis and the position will be filled as soon as possible. We regret that due to the large number of expected applications, only short-listed candidates will be contacted.