LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme, October/November 2011‏

We are pleased to present the schedule for the LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme for the coming Michaelmas Term.
As always, our seminars are free and open to all and entry is on a first come, first served basis.
We would also like to draw particular attention to this year's first seminar, a lecture by Professor Richard Caplan, Oxford University, organised by LSEE and LSE Government's Conflict Research Group. Please see below for more details.

We look forward to seeing you!

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As with all of the LSEE Vising Speaker Programme seminars, this event is free and open to all with entry on a first come, first served basis

LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme

"Exit Strategies and Lessons Learned: From the Balkans to Afghanistan"

Venue: New Theatre, East Building
Date: Tuesday 4 October
Time: 6.45pm

Speaker: Professor Richard Caplan, Oxford University
Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova, LSE

Currently leading a research project on `Exit Strategies and Peace Consolidation', Professor Richard Caplan will analyse the lessons of the past for an exit strategy in Afghanistan

For further information please contact Ivan Kovanovic, LSEE Administrator (email: EuroInst.LSEE@lse.ac.uk) or visit our Forthcoming Events page:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/Events/Home.aspx

For help finding your way around the LSE Campus:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx

Tuesday 18 October, 6.15pm
Room COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
"Resolving a Frozen Conflict: Prospects of a
Settlement for Transnistria"
Professor Stefan Wolff, Birmingham University

Tuesday 1 November, 6.15pm
Room COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
"What does 'Coming to Terms with the Past'
Mean? The Serbian Public and War Crimes"
Dr Jelena Obradoviæ-Wochnik, Aston University

Tuesday 15 November, 6.15pm
Room COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
"The Political Economy of Statebuilding in Kosovo"
Dr Dominik Zaum, Reading University

Tuesday 29 November, 6.15pm
Room COW1.11, First Floor, Cowdray House, LSE
"Socialisation and the Inclusion/Exclusion of
Romanian Migrants in Britain"
Dr Radu Cinpoes, Kingston University London

LSEE – Research on South Eastern Europe is part of the LSE's European Institute, a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

ISVS-6 Sixth International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements, Famagusta, North Cyprus, 19-21 April 2012

The International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements (ISVS) is pleased to announce the ISVS-6; the sixth ISVS Conference in Famagusta, hosted by the Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus between the dates 19-21 April, 2012. 

ISVS aims to promote awareness and research on vernacular traditions by organizing seminars focused on important aspects of vernacular every two years in specifically chosen places across the globe. The last seminar, ISVS-5 held in Colombo, Sri Lanka focused on Vernacular Futures provided a great opportunity to explore the future of the vernacular traditions resulting in a suggestion that the survival and continuity of vernacular traditions may lie in ordinary informal buildings which are usually not regarded as vernacular. Building upon this insight, ISVS-6 in 2012 is delighted to lead the debate on vernacular traditions of contemporary societies and their building and settlement forms which display the same characteristics of the conventionally conceptualized 'vernacular'. This does not mean that the 'historical vernacular' is out of the conference scope. Instead juxtaposition of 'historical vernacular' and the 'contemporary vernacular' is expected to be explored in such a way that the nuances of their makings, and relevance in today's world could be understood thoroughly.

Under this scope, ISVS-6 is delightfully announced on the theme - 'Contemporary Vernaculars: Places, Processes and Manifestations' - to incite and welcome interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners from around the world working in the disciplines of architecture, art & architectural history, urban studies, city & regional planning, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology and environmental studies for proposing papers and meeting in North Cyprus in April 2012. ISVS-6 also expects to attract young researchers involved in postgraduate studies on contemporary vernaculars and offers a scientific platform to present and discuss their hypothesis and arguments, understandings and approaches, and methods and models with the scholars participating in the seminar. 

Please, note that submision of abstracts for all sessions is before 30th September, 2011. Once approved by the end October, final papers are due on 30th January 2012.

ISVS considers publication and expansion of knowledge and experiences on Vernacular traditions as one of its key objectives. With this purpose in mind, ISVS-6 has negotiated with the prestigious OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL (Vol 37, No. 3 September Issue, 2012), journal to publish 3 selected papers which will meticulously deal with the themes of ISVS-6. Once chosen, the authors of the selected papers may have some revisions to be made upon the suggestions of journal's editorial board.

The venue of ISVS-6, Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and houses different building traditions; testimony to rich living patterns and complex interactions between different Mediterranean communities and cultures over successive generations from Asia Minor, the Middle East, Africa and Europe for three millennia. Evidently, natural and built environments strongly reflect this cultural complexity of the island. As the home of several civilizations and different geographic characteristics, the vernacular architecture of Cyprus undeniably exhibits a variety of building forms and traditions. However, they are now struggling to survive under the present day circumstances as in other parts of the world in different ways and modes on which this conference will focus. The conference participants will have a unique opportunity to visit and experience for themselves some of the unique vernacular traditions, and built forms of North Cyprus in the company of those who care and cherish those traditions.

We invite you to send your abstract for a paper presentation and join us in North Cyprus in April 2012 for an enjoyable and unique opportunity to explore the vernacular of the contemporary world.

For more details and abstract submissions please visit the seminar web-page:
http://isvs-6.emu.edu.tr,  isvs-6@emu.edu.tr

Bucharest International Summer Seminar, Myths, Heroes and Identities Dead Line 11-18 May

Asociatia Studentilor la Istorie DACIA/ ISHA Bucharest is
pleased to announce you that from 4th to 10th of July
2011 will take place
Bucharest International Summer Seminar
“Myths, Heroes and Identities”.
The subscription period begins on 6th May and
ends on 11th May 2011 with the possibility to be postponed for
another one week and the participation fee is 70 €.
For details check ISHA Bucharest’s web page (http://ishabucharest.asid-ub.ro/)
where you can also find and download the application form which you may send
back to bucharestseminar2011@asid-ub.ro.
The seminar will be attended by a number of 60 participants
– history and other connected sciences students that will be divided into 6
workshops (10 participants per workshop): 1. Heroes and founding myths; 2.
Popular beliefs, superstitions and urban legends; 3. National identity in
European politics; 4. Homo sapiens sapiens – a gender breakthrough; 5.
Minorities and international conflicts; 6. Cultural identity and globalization.
For additional informations check: http://ishabucharest.asid-ub.ro/

Summer seminars at the Institute for Economic Studies, Germany and Bulgaria

Summer seminars at the Institute for Economic Studies, Germany and Bulgaria

Interested in exploring the ideas of Liberty? Spending a week of great experiences, intercultural exchanges, discussing and thinking about freedom? Learning from top professors and making new friends from all over the world ?  

IES Europe offers you an opportunity to learn about classical liberal ideas and explore them with insights from our faculty into the study of history, economics and philosphy! 

Choose between Germany and Bulgaria, join us this summer and deepen your understanding of ideas that allow humans to flourish and prosper.

 Apply now 

Gummersbach, Germany (July 31- August 06, 2011)

Beklemeto, Bulgaria (August 15 - August 21,2001)

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