PhD - Master: Scholarships for African, European and ACP Countries – MUNDUS ACP II Project

Scholarship Title: MUNDUS ACP II Project Scholarships in Europe

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 January 2012.

Subject Fields of Study:01 Agriculture Sciences 02 Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning 03 Art and Design 04 Business Studies, Management Science 05 Education, Teacher Training 06 Engineering, Technology 07 Geography, Geology 08 Humanities 09 Languages and Philological Sciences 10 Law 11 Mathematics, Informatics 12 Medical Sciences 13 Natural Sciences 14 Social Sciences 15 Communication and Information Sciences 16 Other Areas of Study


Scholarship Open for International Students: Yes

Countries: European and several ACP Countries

Scholarship Description:

The Erasmus Mundus 2009-2013 Programme is a cooperation and mobility programme in the area of Higher Education, implemented by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). In case of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 – Strand 1 (EMA2 – STRAND 1), under which the MUNDUS ACP II Project is being developed, the management is carried out under the supervision of the Directorate General EuropeAid (DG Aidco).

EMA2 – STRAND 1 main goals are to promote the European Higher Education, to encourage the reinforcement and improvement of students’ career perspectives and to favour the intercultural understanding through the cooperation with third countries, in harmony with the EU external policy objectives, in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the third countries’ Higher Education. This strand includes partnerships between European and third countries’ Higher Education Institutions, exchange and mobility in several Higher Education levels, and also a scholarship system.

The MUNDUS ACP II Project is the MUNDUS ACP Project renewal which implementation began in the 2010/2011 academic year. The Project comprises European and several ACP Countries‘ Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and HEIs Associations, and was implemented within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus, Action 2 – STRAND 1, Lot 15, ACP Countries.

How to Apply?

Details of eligible candidates can be found here.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

PhD - Master: CEU History Department offers fellowships for graduate students‏

CEU History Department offers fellowships for graduate students

The History Department at CEU Budapest offers competitive fellowships for MA and PhD programs.


Central European University in Budapest, Hungary is the only international English-language graduate school in Europe that is accredited both on our continent (in Hungary) and in the United States. The History Department focuses on early modern and modern history, with a number of regional concentrations, including Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the former territories of the Ottoman and Russian Empires. Comparative perspectives on Western Europe and the Middle East are encouraged in both teaching and research. Furthermore, it is possible to concentrate on a number of special subjects such as Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Ottoman Studies, History of Science, or Religious Studies. The affiliated Source Language Teaching unit offers courses in Arabic, Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Latin, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hungarian, Russian, Syriac, and Turkish.


The curriculum is comparative, interdisciplinary, and relates to current theoretical discussions in the field and beyond. The department offers courses in the following fields:


Historical Studies: Historiography, Theories, Methods, Skills
Social and Political History
Religious, Cultural, and Intellectual History
Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism and Empires



Students may earn certificates in Jewish Studies and Religious Studies. In addition to coursework, conferences, workshops, and guest lectures are held throughout the year to enrich the curriculum and the academic life in the department.


The History Department is a cosmopolitan place of learning, a site of transnational academic socialization where sophisticated scholarship is combined with a relaxed, collegial atmosphere. Faculty come from a variety of countries, including Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States. See www.history.ceu.hu for more information on faculty research interests and contact information.


In recent years the department has admitted students from over thirty countries in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The majority receive grants, fellowships, and other forms of need- and merit-based financial assistance. Many of our MA graduates have been accepted into high-ranking American and European PhD programs, and our alumni teach in universities around the world or have taken leading positions in government, business, and international organizations.



The department invites applications for the

1) one-year MA program, designed for students who have completed at least a four-year Bachelor’s degree;

2) two-year MA program, designed for those who have completed a three-year Bachelor’s degree;

3) PhD program.



All academic programs start in September 2012. The application deadline is January 25, 2012. Apply at www.ceu.hu/admissions. Early applications are encouraged.

For inquiries about the department, the programs, the funding schemes, and the admission process, or for any other questions related to our department, please contact Ms. Agnes Bendik: BendikAg@ceu.hu

Conference: Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies, Princeton University, 4 May 2012‏

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

International Graduate Student Conference

"Crisis and Innovation in Modern Greece"

Princeton University, May 4, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University announces our fourth International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies.

Submissions are invited from doctoral candidates at the final stages of their dissertation work. We seek proposals for papers that explore the interplay between moments of crisis and processes of innovation in modern Greece. Our primary aim is to discuss these two concepts, to explore their relationship and indicate their role in Greek social, political, and cultural life from the early modern period to the present. Possible research areas include institutions, policies, practices, discourses, and identities. We welcome submissions from various disciplines, such as anthropology, art history, film studies, economics, history, literary criticism, political science, and sociology. Comparative or interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Papers should be in English, and must not exceed 30 minutes.

Please submit abstracts of approximately 350 words no later than February 3, 2012. All Greek words should be transliterated. Each abstract should be accompanied by a cover letter, including (i) a curriculum vitae; (ii) a brief statement how the proposed paper connects with the dissertation-in-progress; (iii) the applicant's contact details (name, current affiliation, postal and e-mail addresses; tel. nos.); (iv) the names and e-mail addresses of two academic referees, including the dissertation supervisor and one other person familiar with the candidate's current research.

Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged. The applicants will be notified by February 24, 2012, whether their submissions have been accepted. Participants will be expected to submit the full text of their papers by April 13, 2012. Papers will be precirculated among conference speakers, chairs, and respondents.

The Center for Hellenic Studies will cover participants' travel expenses to Princeton, and will offer shared (double-occupancy) accommodation (up to four nights), as well as some meals on the days of the conference.

Submissions should be e-mailed to: hellenic@princeton.edu and nmichail@princeton.edu

Conference: Power, Representation, and Identity: Narratives by, about, and around refugees and forcibly displaced persons, 20-21 April 2012, York University, Toronto‏

2012 Centre for Refugee Studies Graduate Student Conference
Power, Representation, and Identity: Narratives by, about, and around refugees and forcibly displaced persons

April 20-21, 2012

The Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) Student Caucus is pleased to announce that the Annual Student Conference will take place on April 20th and 21st, 2012 at York University, Toronto, Canada. This event offers graduate and upper year undergraduate students from across disciplines, as well as practitioners, with a keen interest in migration and refugee issues the opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students, academics, professionals, frontline practitioners, researchers, scholars and all those interested in forced migration issues.

The definition of refugeehood laid out in the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees is inextricably linked with narrative. Legally, a refugee is a person whose life comprises a particular story or plotline that includes flight as a result of feared persecution on the basis of certain grounds: race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion. Thus, refugeehood, in its strictest definition, is tied up with individual identity and life story. However, the contexts in which narratives surrounding refugees are constructed vary widely in their purposes and power relations. For example, refugees often must compile a narrative that emphasizes their own victimhood in order to meet the conditions required by assistance agencies or status determination systems. In other situations, refugees may decide to portray the ways in which they have enacted agency and resilience. Currently, many state governments construct a narrative around refugees in their public statements and legislations that labels asylum seekers as “bogus” or “queue jumpers”, or at worst potential terrorists. Media sources, in turn, reinforce this negative perception of refugees in the public imagination. On the other hand, in speaking to potential resettlement states, donors, and the public, UNHCR and non-governmental assistance organizations often employ a discourse that underlines the need to protect certain “vulnerable” groups, such as women, children, and the elderly. Furthermore, academic research about displaced persons encounters dilemmas of narrative, including whether the ‘voice’ of the refugee is being truly heard beyond the researcher’s own agenda as well as issues of ownership and usage of the findings.

Therefore, the goal of this conference is to explore the multiple contexts, motivations, and power relations inherent in this vast array of narratives by and about displaced persons. We hope to exchange research and ideas in order to better understand the complex and multi-faceted experiences of displaced persons and to reposition these narratives from the margins of vulnerability into our broader understandings of human life. This overarching theme seeks to embrace a comprehensive and interdisciplinary discussion of (forced) human migration. We welcome you to submit proposals on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

· Life stories about refugees

· The use of narratives in the Refugee Status Determination process· Intersectionality of oppression and refugee narratives/claims (gender, race/racialization, class, sexual orientations, etc.)



· Discourse analysis of different sources of refugee portrayal, i.e. government legislation, international agency funding appeals, media stories

· Artistic and literary representations of the forced migration experience

· Methodological and ethical issues when doing research with refugees and displaced persons

· Settlement challenges and services in the host society

· ‘Refugees’ vs. other experiences of forced and/or ‘irregular’ migration

A selection of strong papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed journal, REFUGE. If you are interested in having your submission considered for publication, please adhere to the REFUGE author guidelines, requiring papers no more than 7,500 words, double-spaced and formatted according to the newest version of the Chicago Style Manual. More details about author guidelines and the journal can be found at www.yorku.ca/refuge.

Submissions that fall under the category of visual, audio, and performing arts
are also welcome. All acceptable art submissions will be exhibited at the
conference location. Group/panel submissions are also invited.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Individuals or groups wishing to participate in the conference MUST submit a
250-word abstract by February 28th, 2012.


Abstract submissions MUST be accompanied by the following:

1. Name(s) of presenter(s)

2. Key presenter e-mail address

3. Title of abstract

4. A short personal profile (no more than 150 words)

5. Indication of whether the presentation will be made by a panel or an
individual

6. Indication of the type of audio-visual aids needed (i.e., projector,
laptop, DVD player etc.)


Abstracts should be submitted electronically to crsconference2012@gmail.com by February 28th, 2012.

Presenters who wish to be considered for publication in REFUGE must their completed papers to crsconference2012@gmail.com by April 20th, 2012.

For more information about presenting at the conference please contact crsconference2012@gmail.com.

For more information about registering for the conference and event details,
please refer to our website, which will be available in late January 2012.

Post-Doc: 2012-13 fellowship competition, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM, Washington DC‏

2012–13 FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
Applications due February 17, 2012

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is now accepting applications for the 2012-13 fellowship competition.

The Center awards fellowships to candidates working on their dissertations (ABD), postdoctoral researchers, and senior scholars. Applicants must be affiliated with an academic and/or research institution; the Center will also consider immediate post-docs and faculty between appointments.



The specific fellowship and the length of the award are at the Center’s discretion. Individual awards generally range up to nine months of residency; a minimum of three consecutive months is required. Fellowships of five months or longer have proven most effective. Stipends range up to $3,500 per month for the purpose of defraying local housing and other miscellaneous living expenses. Residents of the Washington, DC–metropolitan area receive a reduced stipend of $1,750 per month.

All applications and supporting materials must be submitted electronically and in English by February 17, 2012. The Center will announce its decisions in May 2012.



To learn more about the fellowships, go to ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/.



To apply or read the complete competition guidelines, go to ushmm.org/research/center/fellowship/application/.

If you have additional questions, please e-mail vscholars@ushmm.org

Conference: Intellectual Property in Modern Europe, Leipzig, 1-3 November 2012‏

Call for Papers - International Conference

GWZO - University of Leipzig, Germany (1-3 November 2012)



International Conference



Intellectual Property in Modern Europe – Tracing the Expansion of a Concept



Date: 1-3 November 2012

Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe

Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO)



The concept of intellectual property has developed into a major institution governing the national, international and transnational traffic and exchange of knowledge and (cultural) goods in the modern world. Framed at the intersection between the private and public sphere, the development of intellectual property rights reflects the diachronic wrangling to balance and regulate the access, distribution and diffusion of information and knowledge in modern societies. By the end of the 19th century, the leading Western European states had devised national legislations and partook in international organizations for the protection of intellectual property, whereas the majority of the newly created Southeast, East and East Central European states started to create domestic protection systems and got incorporated into the international system of intellectual property protection only at the dawn of the 20th century. Taking this observation as our starting point, the conference will examine the introduction and institutionalization of intellectual property (copyrights and patents) in Modern Europe from a comparative perspective.



By including a perspective of and from East Central and Southeast Europe, the conference seeks to develop a new comparative analytical framework for exploring the history of intellectual property in Modern Europe. The development of intellectual property in Southeast and East Central European States was initially shaped by growing international conformity pressure during the inter-war period. The establishment of socialist legal systems and cultures that followed after World War II promoted the abolishment of private property. Since 1989/1990 states in these regions and their societies are again under extreme transformation, adaptation and innovation pressure to (re-)individualise the protection of (intellectual) property. The (re-)establishment of a legal system that protects copyrights and patents, is not only seen as part of a legal and political transformation process but also as a necessary pre-condition for catch-up modernisation and a trigger for innovation.



The conference is organised by the project group “Legal Culture(s) of East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries” / “Rechtskulturelle Prägungen Ostmitteleuropas in der Moderne” at the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe / Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas e. V. an der Universität Leipzig (GWZO - www.uni-leipzig.de/gwzo).

The project group investigates the legal culture(s) of East-Central Europe focusing on the history of material and immaterial property rights in agriculture, industry, culture and science. Legal culture is being analyzed by devoting special attention to land ownership, copyrights, patents and brands which are particularly controversial in the modernization processes since the late 1800s. The project is directed jointly by professors Dr. Stefan Troebst and Dr. Hannes Siegrist of the University of Leipzig. The project’s participants explore respectively the significance of the category “landownership” (Dr. Dietmar Müller), the protection of industrial property (Cindy Daase, M.A.) and the function and relevance of copyright (Dr. Augusta Dimou) in East Central Europe in the twentieth century. The group examines intellectual and industrial property rights focusing on processes of internationalization, transnational appropriation and local adaptation of legal doctrines, norms and institutions. Special attention is paid to the interplay between national, regional, transnational and global actors and institutions in the creation of normative orders.



We invite scholars working in the broader field of the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies and literature, legal scholars, experts in media and communication studies, economic historians as well as historians of science and technology to contribute to this conference with case and/or comparative studies as well as with theory focused papers. The call is open for established as well as young scholars and PhD students at an advanced stage of their PhD. We especially encourage scholars from Southeast and East Central Europe to submit paper abstracts. We envision the publication of selected contributions in an individual volume.



Proposed papers could address but are not limited to the following topics:
The transfer of legislation, concepts, norms and international standards and their “domesticization” in new contexts
The effect of intellectual property rights in modernisation and industrialisation processes, esp. on cultural and scientific developments

3. Law and its context: How do political, social, cultural and economic developments affect processes of legalization?
Formal and informal practices: What is the relationship between normative prescriptions and actual practice?
The role and connection of experts and/or lobby groups/associations in the institutionalization, popularization and enforcement of norms and standards on a national and international level (authors, publishers, international organizations, inventors, business associations etc.)
Framing and staging public discourses and debates on intellectual property
Philosophical and theoretical elaborations of the notions of “labour” and “property” and alternative conceptualizations regarding the “protection of ideas”
Real Socialism: Ideology and Intellectual Property, a change of doctrine and definitions of intellectual property?
Post-Communism and transformation: The end of ideology in the protection of intellectual property?
East – West comparison: Was the transfer of international (legal) norms to East Central and Southeast Europe a one-way street or were there cross references, reciprocal influences, and/or backslashes?
Intellectual property at a critical junction – new media / new inventions: Shifts in habits, marketing techniques, tastes and legislation
Standardization and Institutionalization: their role in the internal regulation of society and the state as well as in the regulation of international relations and transnational group interests



The conference will take place from 1st to 3rd November 2012 in Leipzig. Conference language is English.



Please send an abstract of not more than 500 words and a short biographical note of not more than 250 words not later than 20 February 2012 to Augusta Dimou (dimou@uni-leipzig.de) and Cindy Daase (cindy.daase@uni-leipzig.de). Successful candidates will be informed by 30 March 2012.

Please note: The conference papers will be due on 1st October 2012.

Travel costs and accommodation of the admitted panellists will be fully covered by the conveners.

Conference: Health, Culture and the Human Body, Istanbul, 13-15 September 2012‏

The 2nd international and interdisciplinary conference on Health, Culture and the Human Body Epidemiology, ethics and history of medicine, perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 September 2012

Demographic
change in a globalized world raises not only social and economic issues but also ethical problems within the medical system of aging societies.
Medical
care for elderly people cannot be conceptualized and organized without considering a cultural understanding of aging and the economic and social circumstances of a given society. In this regard this conference will focus on ethical, historical and epidemiological perspectives of aging in a global world, including issues such as health care research and health-related knowledge, attitudes and practices of elderly people. Further subjects of the conference are the beginning of life and sexually transmitted diseases, which will also be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.
This
conference will focus on the selected cases from Turkey, Germany, and other countries which for the last 50 years have been closely connected by substantial migration processes, as they had been earlier through medical scientific exchanges and common clinical practice. After the well received first round held in Germany (Mainz) in 2010, the aim of this second conference is to establish a discussion platform for different ethical considerations among historically connected countries, applying an interdisciplinary “medicine studies” approach to selected sample cases from
Turkey, Germany and other countries with comparable relationships.
The chosen
thematic areas are:
· Aging, culture
and medicine (aging and culture, aging and perception of the body, medical care and geriatrics, geriatrics and ethics, hospice systems)
· Sexually
Transmitted Diseases (e.g. AIDS,
syphilis, gonorrhea; the social perception of venereal diseases and medicine, politics-ethics and the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases)
· Beginning of
life and ethics (Assisted Reproductive Technologies, abortion,
religion-medicine and the beginning of life)
· Migration
and Health
Abstracts (max. 250 words) of proposed
conference papers should be submitted by 29
February 2012, to the attention ofHakan Ertin MD PhD,E-Mail:
hakanertin@gmail.com Istanbul
University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of History of Medicine and Ethics.
Tel: +90 532 321 71 77 Fax: +90 212 414 22 86 Publication of selected papers is envisaged.
Venue:Istanbul University Doctorate Halls –Beyazıt, Istanbul, Turkey
Organisation:
Hakan Ertin MD, PhD (Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey) Rainer Brömer PhD (Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey) Ilhan Ilkilic MD, PhD (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany) Hajo Zeeb MD, PhD (BIPS – Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Bremen, Germany)

Conference: Medworlds 4- "Domino Effects and Hybridization of the Mediterranean", 29 Mays University, Istanbul, 5-7 Septermber 2012‏

An interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Department of History, 29 Mayis University, in collaboration with The Mediterranean Seminar and Research Centre of Trans-Mediterranean Studies, University of California; Bern University, Department of the History of the Art, TransMediterraneanStudies.

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There are countless discussions and publications, case studies and unresolved questions, and eventually, research projects on “histories in and the history of the Mediterranean”, which all underline the commonalities and differences between the cultures and histories of the region. One issue should be kept in mind when considering these: It is no doubt very easy to be captivated by delightful similarities, overlooking diversity or, on the other extreme, to see insurmountable differences under the spell of modern national or global theories. However, the Mediterranean, a place of constant flux, should be more accurately described as ‘hybrid’: Frontier societies and particularly shores share an amalgam of cosmopolitan socio-economic and political structures.

One example process that brings about hybridity is migration and its domino effect-style repercussions. Although classical historiography highlights the region as one ‘source’ for many ideas, species, social organizations and religions, it is also a perennial destination for outsiders. This can be evidenced by the salient immigrations of people from all directions towards the Middle Sea, not restricted to ‘Völkerwanderung’. One can easily describe these waves of arrivals as multiple ‘domino effects’ which had corollary effects on the region in diverse localities. Shifts of ideas, modes of production, methodology, science, religion, language are among dynamics brought about successively by the various influxes to the region and yield hybrid outcomes. The dislocation of substances, structures, hierarchies, languages, religions and traditions in a domino effect facilitates the re-emergence of these social elements in the new location in novel and ingenious ways. In time, their imported or suspended character takes on a more permanent and assimilated character – a hybrid is born.

We hope that our rubric of 'Mediterranean Worlds' is broad enough to encompass the work of scholars conducting research across the whole range of elements of Mediterranean culture and history, while at the same time highlighting this year's special topic of 'domino effects and hybridization.’

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Suggested panel presentations comprising 3-4 presenters and chairperson (please submit 3/4 x 250-word abstract and a short rationale for the panel theme). 250-word abstracts for twenty-minute papers that broadly address the above themes, and that may address, but not be limited by, the following topics:

• Hybridity as an Aberration
• Incorporation and Reproduction of Liminality in institutions
• History of the “the Other” in the Mediterranean
• Language variation, multilingualism, language contact and contact
languages in the Mediterranean
• Reverse Processes: Modernity?
• Oral Tradition and Artistic Performance as Means of Intercultural
Communication
• Hybridity in Mediterranean Art and Architecture
• Hybridization of Land Settlement Patterns
• Saints, Pilgrims and Missionaries: travels in the Mediterranean hybridity
• Hybrid Methodologies
• Hybridity in Byzantine Archaeology



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