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CEU Professorial and CEU Visiting Research Fellowships 2010-2011

CEU Research Fellowship is a program for teachers and researchers holding Ph.D. or equivalent, working in Central and Eastern Europe (except EU), former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. Fellows are supported for a research period of one to six months, depending upon the type of research being undertaken. 
The Fellowship program supports two types of Research Fellows: CEU Visiting Research Fellows and CEU Professorial Research Fellows (For academics holding a full professorship). Both types of Fellowship cover travel costs to/from Budapest, accommodation in CEU's Residence Center during the period of the Fellowship, insurance and a monthly stipend. 
This program is publication-oriented and promotes original research. You can find the relevant fields of research, the application requirements and more information on the Special and Extension Programs Website: http://www.ceu.hu/sep/spo/fellowships.html 
The deadline for application is: January 5, 2010

 

CEU Budapest Summer University online application form launched

We are glad to inform you that our online application system has been
launched. It can be reached at
https://apply.embark.com/NonDegree/CEU/10/ 
The Application form and its attachments are to be submitted online.
The general application deadline is February 15. More details can be
found on the specific course web pages.

Best wishes,the SUN-team

CEU Summer University
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9, Hungary
http://www.summer.ceu.hu
e-mail: summeru@ceu.hu
tel: (36 1) 327 3811
fax: (36 1) 327 3124 
 

 

Report of the Program Coordinator, Professor Giorgio Dominese,

to the Presidency of YICGG 2009, 3nd Edition

 “Global Governance: Growth and Innovation 2020”

Ilia Chavchavadze State University

Tbilisi, July 12-18

 The 3nd Edition of the YICGG-Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance took place in Tbilisi, as a joint initiative of Tor Vergata University, Fudan University and the Politecnico di Torino, following the MoU signed between the hosting Ilia Chavchavadze State University and the Rome Tor Vergata University, providing also - for exceptional reasons as the YICGG does not provide funding to hosting universities - a financial grant. A previous MoU on YICGG was signed in Shanghai on March 12 by the Representatives of the Rectors of Tor Vergata, Fudan Universities, Politecnico di Torino and by the Coordinator of the CEEUN-Transition World Research Network also on behalf of the Ca’ Foscari Venice, Udine and LUISS Rome Universities.

Attracting considerable international attention because of its unique character and the approach adopted involving and selecting the participants, the aims and scope of the initiative - establishing the research main issues with the partners, evaluating the appropriate format of the YICGG 2009, under the Chairmanship of  the former Coordinators from the Tor Vergata and Fudan Universities, in cooperation with Ilia Chavchavadze State University, with the Coordinator 2009  Nini Gogiberidze

 (http://www.iliauni.edu.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=295&info_id=446 ), under the Chairmanship of the Rector Professor Gigi Tevzadze - were fully achieved.


Visiting Fellowship Program

 Sharing with you a call for Visiting Fellowships which is intended to enable young, bright researchers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Russia to team up with European think tanks and work on joint policy projects related to the EU’s Eastern Partnership.

 It is part of the Policy Think Tank Bridging Initiative the Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI) of the Open Society Institute (OSI) which is seeking applications for one year fellowships aimed at ensuring that decision making and negotiation processes in the EU vis-à-vis the EaP countries is informed and influenced by independent civil society researchers from EaP countries. 

Under the Visiting Fellowship Program Fellows from independent policy institutes in the six Eastern Partnership countries and Russia will connect with well-established think-tanks in EU countries with a track record of working on EU external relations and a clear interest in Eastern Partnership countries.

·         Every fellowship will be tailor-designed around a specific issue under the Eastern Partnership priority list (people-to-people contacts/visa liberalization, trade and economic policy, cross border cooperation, good governance and democratisation, energy security, environmental sustainability and conflict resolution).

·         Fellows will receive a stipend (see details in the attached call) intened to cover up to 12 months as well as the travel and living costs associated with a 2 month stay at a policy think tank in the EU (Brussels and Member States). The deadline for applications for the Fellowship component (attached call for proposals) is January 29th.

The Policy Think Tank Bridging Initiative (PTTBI) is expected to fill the gap in independent and professional policy analysis on the issues identified as priorities in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) component of the European Neighbourhood Policy. It is designed to raise awareness of EaP country civil society and reform needs among EU institutions, EU decision makers, and governments and policy-making circles in the EU member states. This Fellowship is one of three components of the initiative, the other two being 1) a Policy Research component which will target policy think tanks rather than individual researchers and 2) a Networking and Training component, which will utilise the funds to support the work of policy experts and think tanks involved in the initiative.

 For further information please see the attached Call, budget form and supporting document.

Download Budget  Requirements

 

 

Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies


CONF./CFP– ACES Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Indiana U., March 6, 2010

Posted by: ACES <aces@indiana.edu>

Submission Deadline: 10 December 2009

ACES invites panel and individual paper proposals for the Seventeenth
Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference to be held Saturday, 6
March 2010 on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University.

Graduate students, professors, and independent scholars are cordially
invited to submit abstracts of papers addressing all topics pertaining
to Central Eurasian Studies.  Central Eurasian Studies is defined for
the purposes of this conference as the study of the historical and
contemporary Afghan, Balto-Finnic, Hungarian, Mongolic, Persian,
Tibetan, Tungusic, and Turkic peoples, languages, cultures, and states.

The keynote speaker will be Professor Stephen Dale of Ohio State
University, author of 'The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and
the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India,
1483-1530' (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

Submission of pre-organized panels is strongly encouraged.  Individual
papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference
Committee to a suitable panel. All proposals will be subject to a
highly selective review procedure.  Past panel themes have included:
- Islam and Society
- Societies and Cultures of Xinjiang
- Politics, Cultural Identity, and the Intelligentsia in Buryatia
- Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond in Hungarian
   Literature, Culture, and the Arts
- Equality and the Economy in Central Asia
- Through the Eyes of the Oppressed: The Russian Imperial Experience
   in Central Asia
- Nationalism and Identity
- Market Building as Nation Building in Central Asia: Entrepreneurs,
   Markets and Morals

Submission Instructions:  Proposals may be submitted via the online
form accessible at: http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

ACES regrets that it cannot provide any funding to participants.

Applicants will be notified of their status before 1 January 2010.
Please remember that the submission of a proposal represents a
commitment on your behalf to participate in the conference.  Any
questions may be directed to the ACES Conference Committee at aces@indiana.edu.

Association of Central Eurasian Students
Goodbody Hall 157
Indiana University
1011 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7005
USA
Fax: (812) 855-7500
aces@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~aces

 


Call for Papers: Extended Deadline on 13 November 2009

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is
holding its 20th Anniversary Conference entitled "Nation and
Charisma", on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 13-15 April 2010 at the
London School of Economics and Political Science.

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in
the field:

Lord Desai: "Gandhi and Nehru: Reason and Charisma in Narratives of Nationhood"
Prof. MacGregor Knox: "Mussolini and Hitler: Charisma, Regime and Nationalism"
Prof. Erik Zurcher: "The Ataturk Cult in Turkey"
Prof. Lucy Riall: "Mazzini and Garibaldi"
Prof. David Martin: "Theory and Charisma: Examining Max Weber"
Prof. Elleke Boehmer: "Madiba Magic: Mandela's Outlier Charisma"

The conference will offer opportunities for young and established
scholars from various disciplines to examine the relationship between
nationalism and charisma in a series of panel sessions. Please see
Call for Papers attached for more information. Further enquires are
welcome at asen.conference@lse.ac.uk

Please see the ASEN website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ for
more information and to submit your proposal.

Kind Regards,

Margit Wunsch and Dr. Vivian Ibrahim
ASEN 2010 Conference co-Chairs

ASEN
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6801
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6218


CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) is
holding its 20th Anniversary Conference entitled "Nation and
Charisma", on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 13 - 15 April 2010 at
the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Must nations have 'founding fathers', and nationalist movements
charismatic leaders? Does nationalism differ in this respect from any
other mass movement? If nationalism is a species of secular religion,
is it also therefore a cult of the hero or heroine? How important is
leadership for the national cause, and what are its effects for good
or ill? These are some of the questions which the ASEN's 20th
Anniversary Conference seeks to address.

The conference will include keynote addresses from leading scholars in
the field, along with opportunities for scholars from various
disciplines to examine the relationship between nationalism and
charisma in a series of panel sessions. Suggested themes include:

* Charismatic Authority and Oratory
* Charisma, Cultural Nationalism and the Arts
* Religious Charisma and Secular Nationalism
* Iconography and Personality Cults
* Popular Mobilisation vs. Elite Manipulation
* Charismatic Leadership from Above and Grass-root Movements from Below
* Political Transformation of Charisma

The first day will explore the theoretical and historical relationship
between nations, nationalism and the concept of charisma. The second
day will address types of political leadership, ranging from right to
left; religious to secular; democratic to authoritarian. The third day
will explore how far charismatic nationalism is a movement from below
or above, and how it responds to the national vision of historians,
linguists, poets, musicians and other intellectuals. The conference
will adopt an interdisciplinary approach focusing on historical,
theoretical, and contemporary aspects of the theme.

The 2010 Conference Committee is now calling for papers to be
presented at the conference. The application is open to any researcher
who is interested in the study of nationalism, and PhD students and
young scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The abstracts of
the proposed papers should not exceed 500 words and are expected by
Friday, 13 November 2009.

Suggestions for panels and additional themes are also welcome. The
Committee will notify applicants with its decision in December 2009.

Please see the ASEN website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ASEN/ for
more information and to submit your proposal.

Papers submitted to the conference will be considered for publication
in a special issue of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN).
Please note that ASEN cannot cover travel and accommodation costs.

Presenters are expected to register for the conference. Further
enquires are welcome at

asen.conference@lse.ac.uk


The Association for the Study of Ethnicity& Nationalism (ASEN),
London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE.
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6801 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 6218
 

People To People Scholarships

People to People International offers up to four scholarships of 500 USD for participation in one of three summer courses organised by the Fund for American Studies (TFAS - www.tfas.org).

Applicants

Members and non-members may apply. (Membership in PTPI is preferred)

Applicants must have applied and been accepted to a Fund for American Studies Program when they apply for the scholarship.


TFAS Summer programs

American Institute on Political and Economic Systems, Prague (July 7-29, 2010);

International Institute for Political and Economic Studies, Greece;

Asia Institute for Political Economy, Hong Kong (July 9-31).

More information and deadlines
Please visit www.ptpe.org/tfas for detailed information and application form. Deadline for the scholarship is March 10. Please notice that the application deadline to the TFAS programs is January 31.

Lars Poignant
PTPI

People to People International (PTPI), with World Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri USA, was established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 11, 1956 to enhance international understanding and friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities involving the exchange of ideas and experiences directly among peoples of different countries and diverse cultures.  Today, as a NGO with a U.S., not-for-profit, [501 (c)(3)] tax rating, PTPI has a presence in 135 countries with more than 80,000 families and individuals actively participating in People to People International programs.   Please visit www.ptpi.org for more information
 

 

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