PhD: Post-doc fellowship, National Bank of Greece & Hellenic Observatory, LSE‏

NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

HELLENIC OBSERVATORY (EUROPEAN INSTITUTE)

Salary: £32,148 - £38,887 pa incl.

Fixed term post for 12 months starting in September 2012.

The purpose of the fellowship is to enable a post-doctoral researcher to propose and carry out a project of relevance to the Hellenic Observatory (part of the European Institute). It has been made possible by the generosity of the National Bank of Greece.

You are eligible to apply if you have successfully completed your PhD [see ‘Job Description’ for details] within the last two years; do not currently hold a tenure-track academic position; have a good knowledge of Greece; and possess academic qualifications relevant to the intended research project. Candidates are invited to propose a research project relevant to the Observatory and able to be completed within 12 months; this will be part of the selection criteria.



This is a fixed term post for 12 months starting in September 2012.

To apply for this post please go to www.lse.ac.uk/JobsatLSE and select "Visit the ONLINE RECRUITMENT SYSTEM web page".

If you have any queries about applying on the online system, please call 020 7955 7859 or email hr.jobs@lse.ac.uk quoting reference 1235153. Click here for the link to HR website.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 23.59 (UK time) on Monday 23rd April 2012.

Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications received after this date.

Internship: Albanian Centre for Socio-Economic Research, Tirana‏

ACSER Internship in Tirana, Albania
From 1 April to 30 September, 2012

The Albanian Centre for Socio-Economic Research – ACSER welcomes university students, both undergraduates and graduates, to apply for a 6-months period internship. A very good knowledge of English and a good background in Economic or Political Studies are required. Knowledge of Econometrics and Statistical Softwares (STATA, R, etc) is required but not compulsory.

This internship position consists in assisting ACSER Fellows with regards to current projects initiated in the framework of Regional Research Promotion Programme for the Western Balkans (RRPP) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The intern will have the possibility to attend several trainings and similar events in the Balkan region related to the RRPP projects.

This call expires on 31 March 2012. Interested applicants should send CVs and motivation letters to info@acser-albania.org

The interviews will take place in the first week of April. For any question, please contact us at info@acser-albania.org and for more information on the projects visit our webpage:
http://www.acser-albania.org

Conference: Political Theories and Electoral Practices in a Changing World, Oradea, Romania, 24-25 May 2012‏

The Department of Political Science and Communication Studies of the University of Oradea, Romania organizes, between 24-25 May 2012, the International Conference POLITICAL THEORIES AND ELECTORAL PRACTICES IN A CHANGING WORLD


The main topics of the conference are:
I. The dynamics of party systems
II. The determinants of vote and political partisanship
III. Political communication and electoral campaigns
IV. Electoral impact of public policies

Official language of the conference: English

Proposal submission: Proposals (including a paper title and a 250-300 words abstract of the proposed paper) and a short CV (1-2 pages) should be submitted by email as MS Word attachments to Assist. Prof. Marius Tatar mtatar@uoradea.ro or to Assist. Prof. Dan Apateanu dapateanu@uoradea.ro, until 15th of April, 2012. A selection of the conference papers will be published in an edited volume, in six months after the conference.

Fees:There is no participation fee for the conference, but the travel and accommodation costs are to be covered by the participants. For accomodation inquiries please contact: Assist. Prof. Simona Fer (simonag_1976@yahoo.com).

Workshop: Certificate in Peace & Conflict Studies Program, İstanbul‏

The Peace and Conflict Studies Department of Hacettepe University is pleased to announce a Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies in Istanbul, Turkey.

The goal of the Certificate in Peace & Conflict Studies Program is to develop your skills in critical thinking and to teach you to analyse conflicts, their underlying causes, and how to transform and manage them in a peaceful and ethical way.



The Certificate program is one semester long. Students and faculty will live communally, and concepts and theories learned in the classroom are actualized in the multicultural living environment. Your motivation to promote peace and create a global society of peace and justice is further developed through an immersion in a culture of peace. Visiting professors are among the best peace scholars and practitioners in the world, and you will benefit from their vast experience and dedication.



Hacettepe’s main campus is in Ankara, Turkey’s capital city. However, the site of the Certificate in Peace and Conflict Studies will take place in Istanbul. Istanbul offers you the opportunity to do your peace research in a city rich in cultural diversity, history and beauty. Increasingly, Turkey seeks to act as a stabilizing and mediating force in the region, and offers the peace scholar a unique view into the dynamic forces shaping our world.



Entry Requirements: Applicants must hold a 4- year bachelors degree from an accredited institution and have fluency in English. In order to apply students must send a copy of their transcript, a detailed CV, and proof of English fluency.



Turkish applicants are required to provide proof of fluency in English with a minimum score of 80 from ÜDS or its equivalent in TOEFL or IELTS. Also required is proof of a minimum score of 50 on the ALES.



Costs:

3000 Euros

300-600 per month living expenses



For application and information please contact: http://www.peace@hacettepe.edu.tr or

peace@hacettepe.edu.tr



Application deadline is 15 September 2012

Master: MA in Peace & Conflict Studies Program, İstanbul‏

Study Peace in Istanbul.

The International Relations Department of Hacettepe University is pleased to announce a new Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Studies in Istanbul, Turkey.

The goal of the MA in Peace & Conflict Studies Program is to develop your skills in critical thinking and to teach you to analyze conflicts, their underlying causes, and how to transform and manage them in a peaceful and ethical way. The program’s inter-disciplinary nature will enhance your ability to work in an academic manner while learning the necessary analytical skills for peace studies in the following areas: psychology, media, civil society, education, human rights, and more.



In this program, students and faculty will live communally, and concepts and theories learned in the classroom are actualized in the multicultural living environment. Your motivation to promote peace and create a global society of peace and justice is further developed through an immersion in a culture of peace scholars.Visiting professors are among the best peace scholars and practitioners in the world, and you will benefit from their vast experience and dedication.



Hacettepe’s main campus is in Ankara, Turkey’s capital city. However, the site of the MA in Peace and Conflict Studies will take place in Istanbul. Rich in cultural diversity, history, and beauty, Istanbul acts as a bridge between Europe and Asia, and symbolizes peacebuilding goals in bringing people and cultures together. Increasingly, Turkey seeks to act as a stabilizing and mediating force in the region, and offers the peace scholar a unique view into the dynamic forces shaping our world.



Program begins October 1, 2012.



Entry Requirements: Applicants must hold a 4- year bachelors degree from an accredited institution and have fluency in English. In order to apply students must send a copy of their transcript, a detailed CV, and proof of English fluency.



Turkish applicants are required to provide proof of fluency in English with a minimum score of 80 from ÜDS or its equivalent in TOEFL or IELTS. Also required is proof of a minimum score of 50 on the ALES.



Costs:

6,500 Euros

300-600 per month living expenses



For application and further information please contact: http://www.peace@hacettepe.edu.tr or peace@hacettepe.edu.tr



Application deadline is 15 September 2012

Scholarship: Grants for world history curriculum reform (British Council and the Social Science Research Council)‏

Our Shared Past: A collaborative grants program offered by the British Council and the Social Science Research Council

The British Council and the Social Science Research Council are pleased to announce the launch of Our Shared Past, a collaborative grants program to encourage new approaches to world history curriculum and curricular content design in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. The next deadline is May 31, 2012. To learn more, visit the program webpage at: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/our-shared-past/.

Our Shared Past is premised on the notion that many of the categories used to frame and teach world history -- civilizations, nations, religions, and regions -- occlude as much as they reveal. Although there have been successful attempts at incorporating recent historical scholarship in world history writing, the core of world history instruction continues to be shaped by civilizational, national, and regional narratives that emphasize discrete civilizations and traditions frequently set at odds with one another at the expense of historical and material connections and continuities.

Our Shared Past grants will promote the development of international scholarly communities committed to analyzing history curriculum and reframing the teaching of world history through the identification of new scholarship and the development of new curricular content that illustrate shared cultural, economic, military, religious, social, and scientific networks and practices as well as shared global norms and values that inform world history and society.

Our Shared Past is a program of the British Council and the Social Science Research Council with support provided by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Eligibility
Grants will be made to research teams or research centers on US university campuses, including, but not limited to, Title VI National Resource Centers. While we especially encourage research teams/consortia that include partner institutions from the United Kingdom and/or the Middle East/North Africa region, the principal investigator must be based at a US university.

Funding Priorities
Funds are available to projects that develop robust networks of faculty who possess the expertise to study existing world history curriculum (K-14, i.e., at pre-collegiate and collegiate levels) in a specific national or regional setting and who are positioned to propose alternative curriculum design based on that scholarship.

Priority consideration will be given to applicants with a demonstrated ability to reform curriculum design and identify partner organizations/individuals that can help to put scholarly content or specific recommendations in the hands of educators and policymakers who can influence curriculum reform at national and local levels. In the case of public events, this may include identifying non-university partners who can successfully draw appropriate audiences to the theme as well as partners who will disseminate research findings strategically.

Application Process
Applications must be submitted online through the SSRC application portal, which is accessible at: http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/our-shared-past/. No hard copies will be accepted. All applications are due by May 31, 2012.

Additional Information and Questions
For further information, please contact the program directly at osp@ssrc.org. This Program is directed by Thomas Asher, Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, and Emmanuel Kattan, Program Manager at the British Council.

Conference: Europeanisation after EU accession: Transformation, reform and compliance in recent EU member states, Nice, 23-24 March 2012‏

Europeanisation after EU accession: Transformation, reform and compliance in recent EU member states

Conference organized by L'Europe en Formation. Journal of Studies on European Integration and Federalism; Institut Européen·European Institute, Nice; CERI-Sciences Po Paris, CoesioNet.
Dates: 23rd and 24th March 2012
Place: Nice, France

Programme
Introduction by Matthias Waechter, Institut Européen·European Institute, Nice and François Bafoil, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris

Opening session

Regulatory quality in the new European Union member states by Ferran Brunet Cid, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona The Greek Tragedy and Europe: Lessons for new members?, by George Tzogopoulos, Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy, ELIAMEP, Athens Is the current financial crisis also a crisis of the Europeanisation model? Evidence from Poland, by Justyna Schulz, University of Bremen The crisis and the rise of Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe (provisional title), by Laszlo Benedek Flamm, Budapest Corvinus University

Workshop I: Compliance, Implementation, Application of EU Norms

Compliance with EU law in Central and Eastern Europe by Dimiter Toshkov, Leiden University Compliance after accession: analysis of infringement cases in new member states, by Nikoleta Yordanova, University of Mannheim, and Asya Zhelyazkova, Utrecht University Competetion among peers. Overcoming shortcomings of conditionality in EU accession, by Christian Altfuldisch, European Stability Initiative, Berlin Compliance leaders and laggards within the EU-8, by Daniela Chodorowska, Free University Berlin

Workshop II: Regionalisation, the strengthening of administrative capacities and the effects of sectoral policies in recent member states

Accelerating or Back-pedaling? Administrative capacities and post-accession compliance in Central and Eastern European Member states, by Aron Buzogany, German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer The impact of the structural funds in the process of transformation in new EU member states, by Ancuta Popa, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Environment, Bucharest, Romania Macroregional approaches from the EU: the European Strategy for the Danube region (EUSDR), by Jürgen Dieringer and Johann-Jakob Wulf, Andrássy University, Budapest The challenge of regionalisation for the Romanian administration: strengthening vs. hindrance, by Romana Salageanu, University Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Romania and University Otto-von-Guericke Magdeburg The politics of alternative energy resources. A stepwise comparison of the Estonian and Polish telecommunications and energy, 1994-2011, by Alvin Almendrala Camba, University College London

Workshop III: Fighting corruption after conditionality

Reassessing the effectiveness of EU-conditionality at fighting corruption, by Nikos Papakostas, Institute for Security and Defence Analysis, Athens Corruption in the Czech Republic: An EU-conditionality problem? by Nicole Gallina, University of Fribourg, Switzerland The limits of europeanisation. Post-accession anti-corruption record in Romania and Bulgaria, by Cosmina Tanasoiu, American University in Bulgaria and Mihaela Racovita, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Workshop IV: National identity and European identity

National identity of the political parties in the Visegrad region and their European dimension, by Jan Husák and Michal Vit, Masaryk University, Brno Bulgarian public opinion with regard to the EU in the context of the current crisis, by Anna Dimitrova, ESCE, Paris Euroscepticism and the return to nationalism in the wake of accession: Unfortunate normalcy in the European Union, by Katrin Böttger, Institute for European Politics, Berlin A Polonisation of the EU? by Dagmara Paciorek, University of Hamburg

Workshop V: The protection and political representation of minorities after EU accession

Institutional representation policies and instruments for ethnic and national minorities, by Zoltán Alpár Szász, University Babes-Bolyai Europeanisation of national minority groups: Revaluating the EU's role beyond the power of conditionality and the rationale of protection, by Tamara Jovanovic, Roskilde University Exploring conditions for the revocation or restriction of minority protection rules in new EU member states, by Guido Schwellnus, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Liudmila Mikalayeva and Lilla Balázs, both ETH Zurich.
Perspectives on European citizenship: Roma and integration, by Neil A. Cruickshank, Algoma University, Sault Sainte Marie, Canada Lost in Transition? Europeanisation and the Roma in Romania and Bulgaria, by Melanie H. Ram, California State University, Fresno

Closing plenary session:
Challenges and Opportunities for Europeanisation Concluding remarks from the rapporteurs of each workshop

For detailed information please refer to: http://www.cife.eu/UserFiles/File/colloques/Programme%20Europeanization.pdf

Venue:
Hotel Splendid
50, Boulevard Victor Hugo
F-06000 Nice


Contact:
Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE) Institut européen - European Institute (IE-EI) 10 avenue des Fleurs 06000 Nice
tel: ++33 (0) 493 97 93 70
Fax: ++33 (0) 493 97 93 71
Email: conference2012@europeenformation.eu[mailto:conference2012@europeenformation.eu]