MiReKoc International Summer School
Migrants and States: The Case of the Mediterranean Basin
Istanbul, Turkey
July 1-13, 2012
The Migration Research Center at Koç University, MiReKoc is organizing
its second Summer School Program on July 1-13, 2012. Designed as a
summer school in the premises of Koç University's main campus in
Sarıyer, Istanbul, the program aims at high-level, research-oriented,
interdisciplinary and innovative academic courses on migration as well
as workshops on related policy issues for professional development.
Lectures and discussions given and led by a distinguished
international faculty will also be combined with field trips within
Istanbul involving seminars given by policy-makers and implementers.
While applications from all over the world are encouraged, only a few
number of applicants admitted on merit will be eligible for full
scholarship. This year while five scholarships will be available for
candidates from the Central and Eastern Europe, other partial
scholarships will also be granted based on merit. The summer school
will be conducted in English; readings will also be in English.
Acertificate will be provided upon successful completion of the
program.
Course offerings will take into account the various needs of academic
and professional development in the field of international migration
across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology,
demography, economics, political science, sociology, and international
relations. The program seeks to bring together groups of interested
individuals coming from an enormously varied geographical, cultural
and academic background to study intensively. The courses will be
taught by a team of well-known academics in the field who will also
represent a wide range of countries in an effort to match the
diversity of the student body. Such a multi-cultural composition will
provide a stimulating environment for engaging participants and
faculty in an inspiring and enriching dialogue during the summer
school on migration-relation issues.
The 2012 MiReKoc International Summer School is a joint effort of the
Koç University, the IMISCOE Network, the Turkish Migration Research
Group at Oxford University (TurkMis), and the Erste Foundation.
For more information, please visit:
http://miss.ku.edu.tr/
For further inquiries, please contact:
Dr. Deniz Şenol Sert
MiReKoc
(Migration Research Center at Koç University)
Rumeli Feneri Yolu 34450 Sarıyer-Istanbul
Phone: +90 212 338 1696
Fax: +90 212 338 1642
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USHMM Seminar for Facult - Teaching the Gendered Experience of the Holocaust, Washingston DC, 4-15 June 2012
USHMM Seminar for Faculty: Teaching the Gendered Experience of the Holocaust, June 4-15, 2012
2012 CURT C. AND ELSE SILBERMAN SEMINAR FOR FACULTY
CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES, UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
TEACHING THE GENDERED EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLOCAUST
JUNE 4-15
Applications due February 27, 2012
The Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the 2012
Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for college and university faculty
from all relevant disciplines who are teaching or preparing to teach
Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses.
Designed to equip faculty with the knowledge base and pedagogical
techniques required to teach this complex topic and address the
questions that arise most frequently in the classroom, the seminar
models and encourages approaches that integrate a wide range of
disciplines, sources, and perspectives. Daily sessions consist of a
combination of presentations, discussions, and group activities.
This year’s seminar will deepen participants’ understanding of the
Holocaust through the perspective of gender. The seminar will explore
and compare the points of convergence and divergence between male and
female experiences in a variety of circumstances, including early
persecution, refugee life, concentration camp life, life in hiding,
separation and reunion of families, and survival in the postwar era.
Through an interdisciplinary lens that combines historical, literary,
archival, and visual sources, participants will also analyze the
experiences of gays and lesbians; how gendered perspective is
reflected in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, and art; the gendered
experiences of perpetrators and their postwar representation; and
other topics.
SEMINAR LEADERS
The seminar will be co-led by Atina Grossmann, Professor of History,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York, and Dorota
Glowacka, Professor of Humanities and Director of the Contemporary
Studies Programme, University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada.
Professor Atina Grossmann has written extensively on gender,
survivors, and displaced persons before, during, and after the
Holocaust. Her numerous publications include After the Racial State:
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (with Rita Chin, Heide
Fehrenbach, and Geoff Eley, 2009); Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close
Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007); and Reforming Sex: The German
Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform 1920–1950 (1995). In
2012 she will serve as the Center’s Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow.
Professor Dorota Glowacka has published extensively on Holocaust
literature and gender and received awards for excellence in teaching.
Her publications include the forthcomingDisappearing Traces: Holocaust
Testimonies, Ethics, and Aesthetics and “Philosophy in the feminine
and the Holocaust witness: Sarah Kofman and Hannah Arendt” in Gender,
Religion, and the Holocaust (2010). She also co-edited Imaginary
Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust
(2007) and Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries
(2002).
MUSEUM RESOURCES
The Center will introduce participants to resources that may be used
in teaching and research about the Holocaust, including the Museum’s
library, document archives, memoir collection, photo archives, oral
testimony collection, film and video archive, and Holocaust survivor
database, as well as the International Tracing Service (ITS)
collection of more than 100 million Holocaust-era documents. The ITS
records relate to the fates of more than 17 million people who were
subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement during World
War II.
Participants will also have the opportunity to consult and interact
with Museum staff and visiting fellows. To learn more about the
Museum’s collections, please visit
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/<http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/>.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Seminar applicants must be faculty members at accredited,
baccalaureate-awarding institutions in North America. Applications
must include: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a statement of the
applicant’s specific interest and needs in strengthening his or her
background in Holocaust history for the purpose of improving teaching;
and (3) a supporting letter from a departmental chair or dean
addressing the applicant’s qualifications and the institution’s
commitment to Holocaust-related education. Applicants should also
include the syllabi of any Holocaust-related courses they have taught.
Syllabi will be distributed at the seminar to facilitate discussion of
successful teaching strategies.
The Center will select a maximum of 20 participants, without regard to
age, gender, race, creed, or national origin. For non-local
participants, the Center will (1) cover the cost of direct travel to
and from the participant’s home institution and Washington, DC, and
(2) provide lodging for the duration of the seminar. Incidental, meal,
and book expenses must be defrayed by the candidates or their
respective institutions. All participants must commit to attend the
entire seminar from June 4 to15.
Applications must be postmarked or submitted electronically no later
than Monday, February 27, 2012. Send to:
University Programs
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Fax: 202.479.9726<tel:202.479.9726>
E-mail: university_programs@ushmm.org<mailto:university_programs@ushmm.org>
Please direct questions to Dr. Dieter Kuntz at dkuntz@ushmm.org<mailto:dkuntz@ushmm.org> or
202.314.1779<tel:202.314.1779>. The Center will notify accepted applicants by Monday,
March 19, 2012.
ABOUT THE SILBERMAN FOUNDATION
The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman
Seminar for University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else
Silberman. The Foundation supports programs in higher education that
promote study of the Holocaust and protect and strengthen Jewish
values in democracy, human rights, ethical leadership, and cultural
pluralism.
Emil Kerenji, Ph.D. Applied Research Scholar 202.488.0442
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126
Fax 202.479.9726
2012 CURT C. AND ELSE SILBERMAN SEMINAR FOR FACULTY
CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES, UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
TEACHING THE GENDERED EXPERIENCE OF THE HOLOCAUST
JUNE 4-15
Applications due February 27, 2012
The Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies announces the 2012
Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar for college and university faculty
from all relevant disciplines who are teaching or preparing to teach
Holocaust or Holocaust-related courses.
Designed to equip faculty with the knowledge base and pedagogical
techniques required to teach this complex topic and address the
questions that arise most frequently in the classroom, the seminar
models and encourages approaches that integrate a wide range of
disciplines, sources, and perspectives. Daily sessions consist of a
combination of presentations, discussions, and group activities.
This year’s seminar will deepen participants’ understanding of the
Holocaust through the perspective of gender. The seminar will explore
and compare the points of convergence and divergence between male and
female experiences in a variety of circumstances, including early
persecution, refugee life, concentration camp life, life in hiding,
separation and reunion of families, and survival in the postwar era.
Through an interdisciplinary lens that combines historical, literary,
archival, and visual sources, participants will also analyze the
experiences of gays and lesbians; how gendered perspective is
reflected in Holocaust diaries, memoirs, and art; the gendered
experiences of perpetrators and their postwar representation; and
other topics.
SEMINAR LEADERS
The seminar will be co-led by Atina Grossmann, Professor of History,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York, and Dorota
Glowacka, Professor of Humanities and Director of the Contemporary
Studies Programme, University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada.
Professor Atina Grossmann has written extensively on gender,
survivors, and displaced persons before, during, and after the
Holocaust. Her numerous publications include After the Racial State:
Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (with Rita Chin, Heide
Fehrenbach, and Geoff Eley, 2009); Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close
Encounters in Occupied Germany (2007); and Reforming Sex: The German
Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform 1920–1950 (1995). In
2012 she will serve as the Center’s Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow.
Professor Dorota Glowacka has published extensively on Holocaust
literature and gender and received awards for excellence in teaching.
Her publications include the forthcomingDisappearing Traces: Holocaust
Testimonies, Ethics, and Aesthetics and “Philosophy in the feminine
and the Holocaust witness: Sarah Kofman and Hannah Arendt” in Gender,
Religion, and the Holocaust (2010). She also co-edited Imaginary
Neighbors: Mediating Polish-Jewish Relations after the Holocaust
(2007) and Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries
(2002).
MUSEUM RESOURCES
The Center will introduce participants to resources that may be used
in teaching and research about the Holocaust, including the Museum’s
library, document archives, memoir collection, photo archives, oral
testimony collection, film and video archive, and Holocaust survivor
database, as well as the International Tracing Service (ITS)
collection of more than 100 million Holocaust-era documents. The ITS
records relate to the fates of more than 17 million people who were
subject to incarceration, forced labor, and displacement during World
War II.
Participants will also have the opportunity to consult and interact
with Museum staff and visiting fellows. To learn more about the
Museum’s collections, please visit
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/<http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/>.
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Seminar applicants must be faculty members at accredited,
baccalaureate-awarding institutions in North America. Applications
must include: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a statement of the
applicant’s specific interest and needs in strengthening his or her
background in Holocaust history for the purpose of improving teaching;
and (3) a supporting letter from a departmental chair or dean
addressing the applicant’s qualifications and the institution’s
commitment to Holocaust-related education. Applicants should also
include the syllabi of any Holocaust-related courses they have taught.
Syllabi will be distributed at the seminar to facilitate discussion of
successful teaching strategies.
The Center will select a maximum of 20 participants, without regard to
age, gender, race, creed, or national origin. For non-local
participants, the Center will (1) cover the cost of direct travel to
and from the participant’s home institution and Washington, DC, and
(2) provide lodging for the duration of the seminar. Incidental, meal,
and book expenses must be defrayed by the candidates or their
respective institutions. All participants must commit to attend the
entire seminar from June 4 to15.
Applications must be postmarked or submitted electronically no later
than Monday, February 27, 2012. Send to:
University Programs
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024-2126
Fax: 202.479.9726<tel:202.479.9726>
E-mail: university_programs@ushmm.org<mailto:university_programs@ushmm.org>
Please direct questions to Dr. Dieter Kuntz at dkuntz@ushmm.org<mailto:dkuntz@ushmm.org> or
202.314.1779<tel:202.314.1779>. The Center will notify accepted applicants by Monday,
March 19, 2012.
ABOUT THE SILBERMAN FOUNDATION
The Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation endowed the Silberman
Seminar for University Faculty in memory of Curt C. and Else
Silberman. The Foundation supports programs in higher education that
promote study of the Holocaust and protect and strengthen Jewish
values in democracy, human rights, ethical leadership, and cultural
pluralism.
Emil Kerenji, Ph.D. Applied Research Scholar 202.488.0442
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126
Fax 202.479.9726
Scholarship: PhD Fellowships, American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria
ARCS plans to offer three fellowships for the Fall term program, three for the Spring term program, and one for the nine-month program. The fellowships include a monthly stipend ($600/month), housing in Bulgaria, language instruction, travel expenses within the academic program, and up to $1,000 for travel expenses between North America and Bulgaria.
Graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern Bulgaria or the Balkan peninsula, in any field of the humanities and social sciences, are eligible for all three programs. The Fall term and Spring term programs are also open to advanced undergraduate students with similar research interests. Non-U.S. applicants are expected to maintain an affiliation with an educational institution in the United States or Canada. School and university faculty may apply to be admitted for the Fall term or Spring term program, but are ineligible for ARCS fellowships. The American Research Center in Sofia does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to its programs.
A complete application consists of: the ARCS application form (available at the bottom of this page); a project proposal describing how participation in the ARCS academic program will serve your research interests (not to exceed three double-spaced pages); a current cv; academic transcripts; and two letters of reference from scholars familiar with your work. These materials must be submitted by email to Professor Kevin Clinton (kmc1@cornell.edu), Chair of the ARCS Fellowship Committee, by February 15, 2012. ARCS expects to notify applicants of the decision of the Fellowship Committee by April 1, 2012.
Please direct any questions about ARCS academic programs, fellowships, or application procedures to Professor Denver Graninger (graninger.arcs@gmail.com), Director of ARCS.
For application form see: http://arcsofia.org/en/page/8-Fellowship-Competition
Graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern Bulgaria or the Balkan peninsula, in any field of the humanities and social sciences, are eligible for all three programs. The Fall term and Spring term programs are also open to advanced undergraduate students with similar research interests. Non-U.S. applicants are expected to maintain an affiliation with an educational institution in the United States or Canada. School and university faculty may apply to be admitted for the Fall term or Spring term program, but are ineligible for ARCS fellowships. The American Research Center in Sofia does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to its programs.
A complete application consists of: the ARCS application form (available at the bottom of this page); a project proposal describing how participation in the ARCS academic program will serve your research interests (not to exceed three double-spaced pages); a current cv; academic transcripts; and two letters of reference from scholars familiar with your work. These materials must be submitted by email to Professor Kevin Clinton (kmc1@cornell.edu), Chair of the ARCS Fellowship Committee, by February 15, 2012. ARCS expects to notify applicants of the decision of the Fellowship Committee by April 1, 2012.
Please direct any questions about ARCS academic programs, fellowships, or application procedures to Professor Denver Graninger (graninger.arcs@gmail.com), Director of ARCS.
For application form see: http://arcsofia.org/en/page/8-Fellowship-Competition
Natinonal Identity: Time, Place, People. Riga, 15-17 March 2012
Subject: CFP: NATIONAL IDENTITY: TIME, PLACE, PEOPLE March 15-17 2012 Riga
NATIONAL IDENTITY: TIME, PLACE, PEOPLE. International conference for students of Social Sciences
If you are a student and you have done independent research and discovered something really interesting that you want to share with others, this is the opportunity right for you – University of Latvia International conference for students of Social Sciences!
The Conference will take place on March 15-17, 2012, at the University of Latvia Faculty of Social Sciences, in Riga.
The Conference will be a scientific platform where students will be able to present their work. The students will be experts, presenting they research outside of their university and even internationally. The Conference will provide an opportunity to debate about their ideas, results of research, and their interpretation.
The main aim of the Conference is to promote students’ interest in research, by involving them in scientific communication and by placing the students’ research in the academic and public space. The significant position of the conference is to develop interdisciplinarity by developing communication between students from different social sciences and different academic levels of studies. To achieve that, it is planned to develop mutual communication between young researchers for achieving common aims. Unlike most student conferences, interdisciplinary groups will be arranged in this conference. Besides that, the conference aims to develop communication between students, researchers, the teaching staff and practitioners (municipalities, nongovernmental organizations etc.), thus developing an interdisciplinary dialogus for research of different social issues.
Since the borders of social sciences in many cases amalgamate with other disciplines, every student can participate in the Conference, if he can present one of the themes:
Identity
• Community
• Belonging
• Culture and language
• Experience
Time
• History
• Memory
• Evidence
Place
• Environment and space
• City, countryside, regions
• Place of residence
People
• Communication and cooperation
• Power
• Legal capability
.
The academic program of the Conference will be supplemented by different social activities. You can see the program here.
Apply for the Conference if you want to participate, to gain experience in presenting your ideas in conference and to find new professional and personal contacts!
To apply you have to upload your abstract (200-300 words) about the planed presentation. You can do it here. We will wait for your application until December 29th.
You can get assistance and instructions for making the application here.
The results of the selection of abstracts will be announced on January 10th.
A competition of full papers will take place in parallel to the conference . Three best papers will be awarded. the best 30 papers will be published in an electronic publication that will be publically available at the Faculty of Social Science webpage. The submitting of papers is open until February 18th. Your paper you can uploaded here.
Each participant of the Conference will receive a certificate for participation in the Conference.
Follow us in the social networks:
http://twitter.com/LU_SZF_StudKonf
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/313367868680661/
In case of question write to evija.zaca@lu.lv
NATIONAL IDENTITY: TIME, PLACE, PEOPLE. International conference for students of Social Sciences
If you are a student and you have done independent research and discovered something really interesting that you want to share with others, this is the opportunity right for you – University of Latvia International conference for students of Social Sciences!
The Conference will take place on March 15-17, 2012, at the University of Latvia Faculty of Social Sciences, in Riga.
The Conference will be a scientific platform where students will be able to present their work. The students will be experts, presenting they research outside of their university and even internationally. The Conference will provide an opportunity to debate about their ideas, results of research, and their interpretation.
The main aim of the Conference is to promote students’ interest in research, by involving them in scientific communication and by placing the students’ research in the academic and public space. The significant position of the conference is to develop interdisciplinarity by developing communication between students from different social sciences and different academic levels of studies. To achieve that, it is planned to develop mutual communication between young researchers for achieving common aims. Unlike most student conferences, interdisciplinary groups will be arranged in this conference. Besides that, the conference aims to develop communication between students, researchers, the teaching staff and practitioners (municipalities, nongovernmental organizations etc.), thus developing an interdisciplinary dialogus for research of different social issues.
Since the borders of social sciences in many cases amalgamate with other disciplines, every student can participate in the Conference, if he can present one of the themes:
Identity
• Community
• Belonging
• Culture and language
• Experience
Time
• History
• Memory
• Evidence
Place
• Environment and space
• City, countryside, regions
• Place of residence
People
• Communication and cooperation
• Power
• Legal capability
.
The academic program of the Conference will be supplemented by different social activities. You can see the program here.
Apply for the Conference if you want to participate, to gain experience in presenting your ideas in conference and to find new professional and personal contacts!
To apply you have to upload your abstract (200-300 words) about the planed presentation. You can do it here. We will wait for your application until December 29th.
You can get assistance and instructions for making the application here.
The results of the selection of abstracts will be announced on January 10th.
A competition of full papers will take place in parallel to the conference . Three best papers will be awarded. the best 30 papers will be published in an electronic publication that will be publically available at the Faculty of Social Science webpage. The submitting of papers is open until February 18th. Your paper you can uploaded here.
Each participant of the Conference will receive a certificate for participation in the Conference.
Follow us in the social networks:
http://twitter.com/LU_SZF_StudKonf
http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/313367868680661/
In case of question write to evija.zaca@lu.lv
How to End a Revolution? Harvard, 12-14 April 2012
"How to End a Revolution?" - CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE: JANUARY 31st, 2012)
The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States
April 13-14, 2012
How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask: How to end a revolution?
The end of a revolution is not something inherently given, but a process in the making that serves different perspectives and interests. At the same time, the phase of transition characterized by chaos and instability very often opposes and challenges the attempts of making an end - from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Is an end of a revolution even possible if history is understood as a constant process based on a linear definition of time and temporality? What challenges does the idea of a leaderless movement pose towards traditional views of political authority and authorship? What happens when unity and cohesion break apart and many different individual interests and powers evolve? What comes after the revolution?
The ongoing revolutions and uprisings in the Arab world highlight both the challenges of making a (constructive and collective) end, as well as the significance and timeliness of these questions to be addressed at the conference. Drawing upon contemporary and historical examples like the Arab Spring and the French Revolution, we invite you to examine the complex, multifaceted and mutable discourse that is shaped by historians who define, politicians who declare, writers who narrate and lawyers who legitimate the end of a revolution. In what violent and non-violent ways have people tried to stop, use or influence a revolution? Which strategies, tools and techniques are employed to end a revolution and how are they determined by underlying concepts of time, history and change? Through our collective inquiry - by analysing how people deal and dealt with moments of transition and by comparing their strategies, interests and narratives - our goal is to
better understand the phenomenon of social and political change. With this approach we hope not only to expand the knowledge of revolutions but also to develop new ideas and strategies that will potentially prove to be practically important and relevant.
We seek rich, rigorous graduate student contributions from the humanities, social and political sciences (in particular from the following disciplines: law, literature, history, philosophy, political sciences, sociology), and even natural sciences if relevant.
Discussion themes may include, but are not restricted to:
* What is an End? Thinking About and Representing the End
* The End Versus Ending - Revolution as Process or Given?
* Controlling the End - Controlling the Power. Attempts of Overtaking the Protest
* Temporality, Change - and Order? How to Transform Chaos into Stability
* New Beginnings. Manifestos and Literary Narratives
* The People, the Media or the Military? Authorship of Revolution
* Continuity of Power. How to Deal with the Old Structures?
* Circular Revolution, Linear Progress and Permanent Evolution?
* Arts, Religion and Empathy. Lessons to Unite the People
* Trials, Constitutions and Elections. The Role of Law in Transitional Periods
We ask prospective participants to submit a short curriculum vitae and a 500 word abstract that outlines the paper's topic, methodology and argument, as well as how the prospective participant's research interests relate to the theme of the conference more generally. Participants will be notified by mid-February whether their paper has been accepted into the conference. Please note that participants can apply for a limited number of travel grants.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: TUESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 2012
For more information and submission details, please visit:
http://isites.harvard.edu/revolution2012
For further questions, please contact the coordinators by e-mail:
hcconfer@fas.harvard.edu
Conference coordinators:
Eike Hosemann, Harvard Law School
Scott Liddle, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Matthias Meyer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Ani Nguyen, Chemical Biology Graduate Program, Department of Systems Biology
The Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States
April 13-14, 2012
How to begin a revolution is a question that has received much attention from many great thinkers. The goal of the 2012 Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the Mahindra Humanities Center is to reverse that perspective and ask: How to end a revolution?
The end of a revolution is not something inherently given, but a process in the making that serves different perspectives and interests. At the same time, the phase of transition characterized by chaos and instability very often opposes and challenges the attempts of making an end - from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Is an end of a revolution even possible if history is understood as a constant process based on a linear definition of time and temporality? What challenges does the idea of a leaderless movement pose towards traditional views of political authority and authorship? What happens when unity and cohesion break apart and many different individual interests and powers evolve? What comes after the revolution?
The ongoing revolutions and uprisings in the Arab world highlight both the challenges of making a (constructive and collective) end, as well as the significance and timeliness of these questions to be addressed at the conference. Drawing upon contemporary and historical examples like the Arab Spring and the French Revolution, we invite you to examine the complex, multifaceted and mutable discourse that is shaped by historians who define, politicians who declare, writers who narrate and lawyers who legitimate the end of a revolution. In what violent and non-violent ways have people tried to stop, use or influence a revolution? Which strategies, tools and techniques are employed to end a revolution and how are they determined by underlying concepts of time, history and change? Through our collective inquiry - by analysing how people deal and dealt with moments of transition and by comparing their strategies, interests and narratives - our goal is to
better understand the phenomenon of social and political change. With this approach we hope not only to expand the knowledge of revolutions but also to develop new ideas and strategies that will potentially prove to be practically important and relevant.
We seek rich, rigorous graduate student contributions from the humanities, social and political sciences (in particular from the following disciplines: law, literature, history, philosophy, political sciences, sociology), and even natural sciences if relevant.
Discussion themes may include, but are not restricted to:
* What is an End? Thinking About and Representing the End
* The End Versus Ending - Revolution as Process or Given?
* Controlling the End - Controlling the Power. Attempts of Overtaking the Protest
* Temporality, Change - and Order? How to Transform Chaos into Stability
* New Beginnings. Manifestos and Literary Narratives
* The People, the Media or the Military? Authorship of Revolution
* Continuity of Power. How to Deal with the Old Structures?
* Circular Revolution, Linear Progress and Permanent Evolution?
* Arts, Religion and Empathy. Lessons to Unite the People
* Trials, Constitutions and Elections. The Role of Law in Transitional Periods
We ask prospective participants to submit a short curriculum vitae and a 500 word abstract that outlines the paper's topic, methodology and argument, as well as how the prospective participant's research interests relate to the theme of the conference more generally. Participants will be notified by mid-February whether their paper has been accepted into the conference. Please note that participants can apply for a limited number of travel grants.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: TUESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 2012
For more information and submission details, please visit:
http://isites.harvard.edu/revolution2012
For further questions, please contact the coordinators by e-mail:
hcconfer@fas.harvard.edu
Conference coordinators:
Eike Hosemann, Harvard Law School
Scott Liddle, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Matthias Meyer, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Ani Nguyen, Chemical Biology Graduate Program, Department of Systems Biology
1st International Conference of Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, 24-25 March 2012, Tirana, Albania
1st International Conference of Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, 24-25 March 2012, Tirana, Albania
We are pleased to renew our call for papers announcing that the 1st International Conference of Greek-Albanian Studies will be held in Tirana, Albania, in 24-25 March 2012.
There is a vast bibliography on Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, several meetings have been held up to day, yet not a comprehensive event has been organized. This Conference aims to make a recapitulation of the studies made so far, and to trace the main trends in the field research.
Conference Topics. All topics relevant to Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, especially new and innovative areas of research are welcome.
The organizers seek contributions in the form of papers and panels that will continue to examine the interaction between Greek and Albanian culture, folklore, language, and literature. Aspects of Greek-Albanian and Albanian-Greek translation can be presented. Special sections / panels will be dedicated to the literature of the Ethnic Greek Minority in Albania and to the Albanian Immigrants in Greece.
The conference will be organized by the Albanian-Greek Association of Philology in co-operation with the Department of Slavic and Balkan Languages (Sector of Greek Language), School of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana.
Keynote speakers from Europe and USA will address the conference at keynote and plenary sessions. We mention among them Brian D. Joseph, Francesco Altimari, Bardhyl Demiraj, while other distinguished professors are due to confirm their presence.
The call for papers and organized panel proposals is already open up to 30 December 2011 (We cannot accept abstracts after December 30th, 2011).
Announcement about acceptance: before January 31st, 2012.
Submission of full text papers - before February 29th, 2012 (this will impact the sooner publishing of the proceedings).
Abstracts and papers must be sent to the following e-mail addresses:
aristotlespiro@gmail.com, albanian_greek@yahoo.com, kyrdoris@lit.auth.gr
Participation fee: 30 euros (coffees, refreshments, snacks, and proceedings expenses included).
The participants must care for their travel and stay expenses. Anyway, economic hotels and restaurants can be find and anywhere in Tirana. The organizers can make every possible effort to ensure reduced prices for the participants. Feel free to contact us in the above mentioned addresses.
One or two dinners are foreseen for the participants. The detailed program will be announced before February 29th, 2012.
Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends! We look forward to seeing you in Tirana in 24-25 March 2012!
Since its inception in 1997 in Elbasan, Albania, the Albanian-Greek Association of Philology has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion on the Albanian-Greek Studies. Its journal Albanohellenica has become a major international tribune where scholars of the relevant fields publish their research, views and insights.
Looking forward to hearing and seeing you.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
The Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference of the Albanian-Greek / Greek –Albanian Studies
Aristotle Spiro, PhD
Sector of Greek Language
Department of Slavic and Balkan Languages
School of Foreign Languages
University of Tirana
ALBANIA
We are pleased to renew our call for papers announcing that the 1st International Conference of Greek-Albanian Studies will be held in Tirana, Albania, in 24-25 March 2012.
There is a vast bibliography on Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, several meetings have been held up to day, yet not a comprehensive event has been organized. This Conference aims to make a recapitulation of the studies made so far, and to trace the main trends in the field research.
Conference Topics. All topics relevant to Greek-Albanian/Albanian-Greek Studies, especially new and innovative areas of research are welcome.
The organizers seek contributions in the form of papers and panels that will continue to examine the interaction between Greek and Albanian culture, folklore, language, and literature. Aspects of Greek-Albanian and Albanian-Greek translation can be presented. Special sections / panels will be dedicated to the literature of the Ethnic Greek Minority in Albania and to the Albanian Immigrants in Greece.
The conference will be organized by the Albanian-Greek Association of Philology in co-operation with the Department of Slavic and Balkan Languages (Sector of Greek Language), School of Foreign Languages, University of Tirana.
Keynote speakers from Europe and USA will address the conference at keynote and plenary sessions. We mention among them Brian D. Joseph, Francesco Altimari, Bardhyl Demiraj, while other distinguished professors are due to confirm their presence.
The call for papers and organized panel proposals is already open up to 30 December 2011 (We cannot accept abstracts after December 30th, 2011).
Announcement about acceptance: before January 31st, 2012.
Submission of full text papers - before February 29th, 2012 (this will impact the sooner publishing of the proceedings).
Abstracts and papers must be sent to the following e-mail addresses:
aristotlespiro@gmail.com, albanian_greek@yahoo.com, kyrdoris@lit.auth.gr
Participation fee: 30 euros (coffees, refreshments, snacks, and proceedings expenses included).
The participants must care for their travel and stay expenses. Anyway, economic hotels and restaurants can be find and anywhere in Tirana. The organizers can make every possible effort to ensure reduced prices for the participants. Feel free to contact us in the above mentioned addresses.
One or two dinners are foreseen for the participants. The detailed program will be announced before February 29th, 2012.
Please forward this message to your colleagues and friends! We look forward to seeing you in Tirana in 24-25 March 2012!
Since its inception in 1997 in Elbasan, Albania, the Albanian-Greek Association of Philology has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion on the Albanian-Greek Studies. Its journal Albanohellenica has become a major international tribune where scholars of the relevant fields publish their research, views and insights.
Looking forward to hearing and seeing you.
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
The Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference of the Albanian-Greek / Greek –Albanian Studies
Aristotle Spiro, PhD
Sector of Greek Language
Department of Slavic and Balkan Languages
School of Foreign Languages
University of Tirana
ALBANIA
Euroacademia International Conference ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’, Paris, 15 - 17 March 2012
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 International 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
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<mailto: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/
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 20th of January 2012. Your confirmation of attendance will be expected until 25th of January 2012, and until the 1st 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 15th 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<http://www.euroacademia.eu/>
Euroacademia
Schüttelstraße 57/22
1020 Vienna, Austria
Phone:+43 699 10 555 248
Email: office@euroacademia.eu
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 International 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
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<mailto: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/
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 20th of January 2012. Your confirmation of attendance will be expected until 25th of January 2012, and until the 1st 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 15th 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<http://www.euroacademia.eu/>
Euroacademia
Schüttelstraße 57/22
1020 Vienna, Austria
Phone:+43 699 10 555 248
Email: office@euroacademia.eu
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