> 1. Konf. Demokratie, Koper, Slowenien, 4.-6.12.08
> 2. Konf. Ethnologie, Craiova 26.-29.11.08
> 3. Konf. Kulturgesch./Russland, Rendsburg 5.-7.09.08
> 4. Konf. Migration, Southampton 1.-3.04.09
> 5. Konf. Klima-/Energiepolitik, Skopje 03.09
> 6. Konf. Eur. Integr./Demokratie, Belgrad 15.-21.09.08
> 7. Konf. Globalisierung/Indentitaet, Luxemburg 15.07.09

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>
> 1. Konf. Demokratie, Koper 4.-6.12.08
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Ich möchte auf die internationale Konferenz zum Thema
> Freiheit und Demokratie: europäische Perzeptionen, europäische
> Perspektiven aufmerksam machen, die vom 4.-6. Dezember 2008 in Koper
> stattfinden wird.
> Folgende Themen sollen in englische oder deutscher Sprache behandelt
> werden:
> - Hermeneutics of freedom and democracy in modern Europe
> - Treaties of the European Union: political and philosophical aspects
> - EU institutions (courts, parliaments, executives, bureaucracies)
> and the understandings of freedom, responsibility and/or democracy in
> their respective contexts
> - Eastern Europe (1989-91) and political philosophy
> - Southeast Europe, Turkey and the European Union
> - A European ethos and the concept of European civil society
> - Social solidarity, integration and conceptions of European
> citizenship
> - The European Union as a liberal legal order
> - Freedom, justice, democracy and capitalism(s) in Europe
> - Migration, borders and the new territories of multiculturalism:
> political, legal and social aspects
> - Comparative issues (for example, the EU and the USA)
> Einreichfrist für das Abstract ist der 1. September 2008.
> Weiter Informationen finden Sie im Anhang oder unter
> http://www.fhs.upr.si/index.cgi?lang=2.
> Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich bitte an tomaz.grusovnik@....
> Elisabeth Marka
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>
> 2. Konf. Ethnologie, Craiova 26.-29.11.08
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> It is our great pleasure to let you know that, from 26 to 29 of
> November 2008, it will take place in Craiova the Third International
> Conference in Ethnology and Anthropology AnthropoEast: The
> Europenisation of Balkans The Balkanisation of Europe".
> Organised by the The Museum of Oltenia The Department of
> Ethnography, The University of Craiova and the Centre for Studies in
> Folklife and Traditional Culture of the County of Dolj with the
> support of the County of Dolj Council, our conference's aim is to
> create a debate framework for academics both from Romania and from
> abroad, who are concerned with the (re)defining of the epistemological
> limits of the research field each of them cover.
> Several themes should be taken into consideration:
> I. (Multi)Cultural Europe. Rhetorics and Practice of Diversity
> Migrations and the Construction of Ethnic Groups in the New Europe
> Rituals, Narratives, Discourses and Material Culture
> Negotiating Identity in the New Europe
> Interpreting Religious Diversity: Conversion, Syncretism and Religious
> Practice
> II. A New Europe A New Anthropology ?!
> My Home, Your Country, Our Museum". Migration Flow and Museums
> Poetics and Politics in the New Anthropology
> Without having any intention to cover the entire problems of the
> anthropological research in the South-Eastern Europe, the conference
> we organise is intended to be only a simple X-raying of the
> discipline as it looks like at the beginning of the Century.
> Papers will be given in English and they are not to exceed 20 minutes
> of time.
> In order to improve communication we are going to edit and publish the
> volume of the conference, Symposia. Studies in Ethnology and
> Anthropology, issue no. 1/2008 in advance, so that each participant
> should have it in its conference portfolio. That is why the papers to
> be presented during the conference, the in extenso copy, should be
> submitted to our editorial board by September 15, 2008.
> The submitters should send the papers to the publisher at the
> following address:
> - Mihai Fifor, general manager
> - Lavinia Coaje, project coordinator
> The Museum of Oltenia
> 8 Popa Sapca Street, 200422 Craiova - Romania
> Tel: 0040 251 411906
> Fax: 0040 251 419435
> E-mail: muzeulolteniei@...
> The papers should be original and should not be under consideration
> elsewhere.
> Articles should not exceed 15 pages. On a different sheet of paper you
> are to write the author's name and academic affiliation and also the
> title of the paper.
> All contributions should be clearly typed or printed on one side of an
> A4 paper or American Quarto, one and a half spaced and with wide
> margins throughout (including footnotes and bibliographical references).
> Footnotes should be kept at a minimum. Essential notes should be
> presented in a typed list at the end of the article, one and a half
> spaced.
> Bibliographical references should be given in parentheses in a
> standard author-date form in the body of the text: (Thomas 1991: 123)
> A complete list of references cited, arranged alphabetically by
> author's surname, should be typed at the end of the article:
> Thomas, K. 1991. Religion and the Decline of Magic. London: Penguin Books.
> Declich, F. 2000. 'Sufi experience in rural Somali. A focus on women',
> Social Anthropology 8, 3 : 295-318.
> Lash, S. and Friedman, J. (eds.) 1996. Modernity and Identity. Oxford:
> Blackwell.
> Quotations. Single inverted commas should be used except for
> quotations within quotations, which should have double inverted
> commas. Quotations of more than 60 words should be set off from the
> text with an extra line of spacing above and below, and typed without
> inverted commas.
> Spelling. British English (not American English) spelling should be
> used in English articles except in quoted matter which should follow
> the original. Use -ise not -ize word endings.
> Participation expenses. All the expenses, excepting the travel costs
> from your country to Bucharest and from Bucharest back home, will be
> covered by the organisers.
> Therefore, we would kindly invite you to take part in our conference,
> your presence being a real guaranty for our reunion success.
> Looking forward to hearing from you,
> prof.dr. Mihai Fifor
> researcher
> Manager of the The Museum of Oltenia
> THE PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
> Wednesday, November 26, 2008
> 17.00 Arrival
> 19.30 Dinner
> Thursday, November 27, 2008
> 08.00 Breakfast
> 09.30 Official opening of the conference
> 10.30 Coffee break
> 11.00 Plenum
> 14.00 Lunch
> 16.00 Workshops
> 17.30 Coffee break
> 17.45 Workshops
> 20.00 Dinner
> 21.00 Ethnologic Film Show
> Friday, November 28, 2008
> 08.00 Breakfast
> 09.00 Workshops
> 10.30 Coffee break
> 11.00 Workshops
> 12.30 City Tour
> 14.30 Lunch
> 16.00 Workshops
> 17.30 Coffee break
> 18.00 Workshop reports
> 20.00 Farewell Party
> Saturday, November 29, 2008
> 08.00 Breakfast
> 09.00 Workshops final reports in plenum
> 10.00 Coffee break
> 11.00 Conference final conclusions
> 12.00 Departure.
> prof.dr. Mihai Fifor
> general manager of The Regional Museum of Oltenia
> 8 Popa Sapca Street, 200422 Craiova, Romania
> tel: +40 251 411906
> fax: +40 251 419435
> e-mail: mihai_fifor@...
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>
> 3. Konf. Kulturgesch./Russland, Rendsburg 5.-7.09.08
>
> Liebe Osteuropa-Freundinnen und -Freunde,
> über Russlands Kulturgeschichte ist viel bekannt, wenig jedoch über
> das Funktionieren und die Probleme der gegenwärtigen russischen Kultur
> und des russischen Kultursystems.
> Aus diesem Grunde veranstaltet das Nordkolleg Rendsburg
> (Schleswig-Holstein) vom 5. bis 7. September 2008 eine Tagung unter
> dem Titel "Mit dem Verstand ist Russland nicht zu begreifen?".
> Eingeladene Referenten sind Hermann Krause (Leiter des
> ARD-Hörfunkstudios Moskau), Kerstin Holm (FAZ-Korrespondentin Moskau),
> Simone Baumann (LE Vision Filmproduktion Leipzig/Moskau/Peking),
> Alexander Trunk (Uni Kiel), Birgit Menzel (Uni Mainz), Rosalinde
> Sartorti (FU Berlin), Isabelle de Keghel (Uni Konstanz), Uwe Krzewina
> (Nordkolleg Rendsburg).
> Im Rahmenprogramm wird am 5.9. der Film "Spurwechsel" gezeigt, der aus
> Mitteln des "Grenzgänger"-Projekts von der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung
> unterstützt wurde. Außerdem wird am Abend des 6.9. eine Lesung mit
> Viktor Jerofejew stattfinden.
> Nähere Informationen zur Tagung samt einer Anmeldemöglichkeit finden
> sich auf der Internetseite
> http://www.nordkolleg.de/kalender/seminar_info.php?seminarid=575.
> Die Tagungsgebühr beträgt 103,50 Euro, für Student/inn/en 53,50 Euro.
> Hinzu kommen Kosten für die Unterbringung im Doppelzimmer und für die
> Vollverpflegung in Höhe von 66,50 Euro.
> Anmeldeschluss ist der 15. August 2008.
> Anbei sende ich die offizielle Tagungsankündigung mit dem genauen
> Programm.
> Mit besten Grüßen
> Uwe Krzewina
> Uwe Krzewina
> c/o Nordkolleg Rendsburg GmbH
> Am Gerhardshain 44
> D-24768 Rendsburg
> Germany
> T: +49.(0)4331.843544
> M: +49.(0)179.3251024
> E: uwekrz@...
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>
> 4. Konf. Migration, Southampton 1.-3.04.09
>
> Coming home? Conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe
> An International conference hosted by the Department of Modern
> Languages, University of Southampton, and supported by the AHRC
> 1-3 April 2009
> Call for papers
> The question of return has long been thought to be central to an exilic
> discourse and yet relatively little is known about how return
> migration is actually experienced and subsequently remembered by
> exiles and also by migrants more widely. In order to mark the 70th
> anniversary of the
> 'official' end of the Spanish Civil War and the start of the Second
> World War, events which led to the mass displacement of refugees, this
> conference seeks contributions for papers on the broad theme of
> conflict and return migration in twentieth-century Europe. We welcome
> individual papers or panels in English that focus on any exile, refuge
> or migrant return episode that has Europe as its point of arrival or
> departure. We are particularly interested in addressing the
> experiences, memories and conceptual issues of return in relation to
> the following questions:
> What were the motivations for returning? How did institutions,
> political and social networks influence return? How was return organised?
> What strategies did migrants adopt to deal with the impossibility of
> return?
> How were migrants received, perceived and represented by the
> authorities and communities upon their return?
> To what extent were attitudes and post-return daily practices (e.g.
> rituals, cultural practices, language etc.) influenced by the
> experience of migration? In what ways, if at all, did migrants
> re-construct questions of home and homeland upon their return?
> How does return relate to the wider migratory process? To what extent
> does return signify the end of exile, diaspora, and the closure of the
> migration cycle?
> How has return been remembered at an individual and group level? Does
> this vary between different categories of migrants?
> How has return been represented in literature, art and film? What are
> the epistemological and ontological implications of these
> representations? Does an adequate representation or performance of
> return exist?
> Keynote speakers
> Alicia Alted Vigil, Professor of History, UNED, Madrid
> Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, Historian and Director of the BDIC, Paris
> Franziska Meyer, Associate Professor of German Studies, University of
> Nottingham
> Organisers
> Organised with The Exilio Network: Research into Refugees and other
> Migrations, which is supported by the AHRC, and Outcast Europe.
> Submitting a proposal
> A selection of papers will be considered for publication after the
> conference. Please send abstracts (250 words) before 1 September 2008
> to:
> Dr Alicia Pozo Gutiérrez
> Email: apg@...
> Dr Scott Soo
> Email: ssoo@...
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>
> 5. Konf. Klima-/Energiepolitik, Skopje 03.09
>
> We would be very grateful if you could pass this information to any
> post-graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral student.
> The team of Analytica, a Think-Tank and policy analysis institution from
> Skopje would like to announce its First International Postgraduate
> Student Conference on Energy and Climate Changes Southeast Europe in
> focus to be held in March 2009.
> The conference is of a multidisciplinary nature and we invite papers
> which look at the issues of energy security, energy efficiency and
> climate changes, from the field of political, social and natural
> sciences and environmental studies.
> The Conference will provide a forum for the ideas and concepts of
> postgraduate and post-doctoral students from a variety of disciplines
> which are concerned with Energy Security, Energy Efficiency and
> Climate Changes in the region of Southeast Europe, European Union and
> the wider area.
> Our aim is to attract approximately thirty speakers, young
> professionals, working in the related fields and to enable young
> researchers to explore their ideas and develop practical research
> related skills useful for paper presentation and publication. The
> Conference will provide participants with the opportunity to meet and
> develop contacts with young scholars from their own and other related
> fields of study. A selection of the papers will be published in a
> special edition of our E-Journal "Analytical" dedicated to Energy and
> Climate Changes.
> The Conference will be held in Skopje (the place of the conference to be
> announced) on 21st March 2009. The deadline for submitting of paper
> abstracts is 20 August 2008.
> For further details, please find attached the call for papers.
> Best wishes,
> On behalf of the Conference Committee
> Hroneska Natasa,
> Research Fellow
> Analytica,
> Dame Gruev 7-8/3
> 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
> Tel/Fax: + 389 (0) 2 312 1948
> http://www.analyticamk.org
> nhroneska@...
> Energy and Climate Changes Southeast Europe in focus
> First International Postgraduate Student Conference
> Analytica Think-Tank, Republic of Macedonia
> 21st March 2009
> For the past two decades the climate changes and the energy impact on
> the environment has been in the focus of the international community.
> The changes of the climate in different parts of the world have been
> seen as a direct outcome of the uncontrolled and inefficient use of
> the energy resources. Thus, providing energy security and sustainable
> development nowadays is tightly connected to the protection of the
> environment and the climate changes. This is particularly important
> for the developing countries and their capacities to provide economic
> development parallel to sustaining high environmental standards. This
> conference will focus on the South East Europe as a specific region
> including both developed and developing countries, the prospects of
> implementation of environment
> protection mechanisms, while keeping the pace with the implementation of
> energy sustainable policies.
> Whilst, our aim is to represent a wide spectrum of disciplines and
> approaches, we strongly encourage comparative and multi-disciplinary
> perspectives, and welcome proposals using new research methodologies.
> The conference invites graduate and postdoctoral students in
> Humanities, Social and Natural Sciences, as well as young
> professionals with sound academic backgrounds, to submit original
> research papers including but not limited to the following themes:
> - IR, Security Studies, Geopolitics of Energy, Regionalism,
> Administration
> and Institutions, International Organizations, United Nation, EU Energy
> Policy, Energy Security and stability, Energy Security in Southeast
> Europe.
> - Biopolitics, Social Policy, Sustainable Development, Urban Development.
> - Climate Change and GHG Emission, Kyoto Protocol, UNFCCC, Alternative
> Sources of Energy, Renewable Energy Sources (wind, solar, hydropower,
> geothermal), Sustainable Energy Development, USA Environmental policy,
> Global Oil Crisis.
> - New Technologies for exploitation of alternative energy sources,
> Eco-vehicles, Systems for Purging Stations and Collector Systems, New
> technologies for power generation, Carbon Capture and Storage.
> We strongly encourage cross-cultural, cross-national and
> multi-disciplinary perspectives, with entries on new research
> methodologies welcomed.
> Paper abstracts of up to 500 words and a resume should be sent with full
> contact details (E-mail, Telephone, Postal Address) to
> nhroneska@... and/or to First International Postgraduate
> Student Conference on Energy and Climate Changes Southeast Europe in
> focus, Analytica Think-Tank, Dame Gruev 7/8-3, 1000 Skopje, Republic
> of Macedonia. Presented papers should not exceed twenty minutes in
> length. A selection of papers will appear in a separate Conference
> E-Journal. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20th August 2008
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>
> 6. Konf. Eur. Integr./Demokratie, Belgrad 15.-21.09.08
>
> Slobodan Markovich <slobamarkovich@...>
> The Anglo Serbian Society is glad to announce:
> The South-East European Summer School for Democracy
> Entitled
> Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy in the Balkans
> to be held in Belgrade, Serbia
> from 15st till 21st September 2008
> Organisers
> The School is organized by the Hellenic Observatory of the London
> School of Economics and Political Science and the Anglo-Serbian
> Society, Belgrade, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of
> Democracy of the University of Westminster, and the Institute for
> Strategic Research, Belgrade.
> The co `Directors of the School are: Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, Faculty of
> Political Science, Belgrade and Dr. Spyros Economides, Hellenic
> Observatory, LSE, London.
> The School's Council is composed of two co-directors and additional five
> members: Prof. Margaret Blunden, former Provost of the University of
> Westminster, Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic, Corresponding member of the
> Serbian Academy, Dr. Simon Joss, Director of the Centre for the Study
> of Democracy, Prof. Christopher Coker, London School of Economics and
> Dr. Slobodan Markovich, Executive Director of the Summer School.
> The Background of the Idea
> The School was established in 1998 and was originally organised by the
> Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade and the
> University of Westminster. This annual summer school has been held since
> 1998. The School was originally called The Yugoslav-British Summer
> School for Democracy, but was later re-named The International Summer
> School for Democracy. Due to the repressive Bill on Education enacted
> during the reign of former Yugoslav dictator Slobodan Milosevic, the
> School was placed under organisational control of the Anglo-Yugoslav
> Society and the Centre for the Study of Democracy, who have directed
> it since 1999. The AYS and the CSD co-organised the Summer School till
> 2007. In 2004 the Anglo-Yugoslav Society changed its name to the
> Anglo-Serbian Society. Since 2005 scholars from LSE have lectured at
> the School and since 2008 the School has been co-organised by the
> Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and the
> Anglo-Serbian Society under a new name and a modified format.
> The 1998 course was: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE,
> The 1999 course was: MODERNITY AND THE STATE - EAST, WEST
> (CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE),
> The 2000 course was: THE DEMOCRATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH-
> EASTERN EUROPE,
> The 2001 course was: GOOD GOVERNANCE - GLOBALISM AND LOCALISM,
> The 2002 course was: CONSOLIDATION OF NEW DEMOCRACIES
> The 2003 course was: DEMOCRACY, GLOBALISATION AND SECURITY
> The 2004 course was: GLOBALISATION, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE WESTERN
> BALKANS
> The 2005 course was: CULTURAL IDENTITIES AND DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE AND
> IN THE BALKANS
> The 2006 was: NATIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY
> The 2007 course was: TRANSITION, ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY
> The 2008 course is: EUROATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN THE BALKANS
> The 2009 course will be: CHALLENGES OF EU ENLARGEMENT IN THE WESTERN
> BALKANS
> Participants and Lecturers
> The main target group of participants are junior faculty, young
> political and NGO activists. There will be up to 30 participants
> altogether. Fifteen participants are to be selected from Serbia and an
> equal number will come from elsewhere in the region of South-Eastern
> Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hellenic
> Republic, (F.Y.R.) Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia).
> Participants should have at the very least a BA degree, and preferably
> an MA degree in the social sciences or humanities. All other nationals
> are welcome to apply but the organisers can contribute only partially
> to their transportation costs.
> All transportation and accommodation costs for participants selected
> are covered by the School through donations.
> The course lecturers (resource persons) are professors and associates
> from the Hellenic Observatory of London School of Economics, from the
> Centre for the Study of Democracy and from the University of Belgrade,
> and occasionally professors from other SEE countries, Western Europe,
> and the United States.
> Time and Place
> The School lasts one week and is organized in Belgrade from September
> 15, till September 22.
> Lecturers
> - Prof. Margaret Blunden, Formerly Provost at the University of
> Westminster
> - Prof. Christopher Coker, London School for Economics and Political
> Science
> - Dr. Spyros Economides, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
> - Prof. Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE
> - Mr. Tim Judah, The Economist, London
> - Dr. Slobodan G. Markovich, Institute for European Studies, Belgrade
> - Prof. John Owens, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of
> Westminster, London
> - Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Political
> Science, Belgrade
> - Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
> - Ivan Vejvoda, Balkan Trust for Democracy
> - Dr. Eric Beckett Weaver, Budapest Afternoon Worshops Co-ordinators
> - Dr. Eric Beckett Weaver, Budapest
> - Dr. Slobodan Markovich, Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade Format
> There will be three morning lectures every day from 10.00 till 13.30
> with a lunch break till 15.00. In the afternoon times Afternoon
> Workshops will be held from 15.00 till 17.00.
> All lectures are divided in half-an-hour to 45-minute introductions to
> the topic and the remaining time is dedicated to debates and questions
> for the lecturers.
> Afternoon Workshops
> All the selected participants are expected to prepare a either short
> presentation (15 minutes long) or an essay (3-5 pages) dealing with
> one of the following topics:
> - The state of Euro-Atlantic Integration in my country
> - The state of democracy in my country
> Presentations and essays can be either descriptive or analytical
> depending on preferences.
> For presentations al technical equipment is available including: power
> point presentations, over-head projector and flip charts.
> The organizers will attempt to publish all adequately prepared essays
> and presentations in the Proceedings of the Summer School that are
> regularly printed in English.
> Accommodation and Transportation
> The Summer Seminar will be held in hotel Majestic (accommodation is in
> double rooms) in the very centre of Belgrade, Serbia.
> (http://www.hoteli-srbije.co.yu/hoteli-beograda/majestic-e.htm)
> The organisers will cover adequate transportation costs to Belgrade
> from the region in agreement with the organisers. Travel costs of
> applicants
> applying outside of the region of SEE may not be covered, but applicants
> from countries outside of SEE are very welcome to apply.
> Arrival Day
> All the participants should arrive to Belgrade on Sunday, September
> 14, 2008, in afternoon or evening hours.
> Rooms in Hotel in down town Belgrade are double. The hotel is situated
> in the very heart of down town Belgrade.
> Departure Day
> All the participants should depart from Belgrade on Sunday, September
> 21, 2008, in afternoon hours.
> IMPORTANT NOTE: All the participants are expected to attend all the
> lectures. Organisers are not in a position to offer places to
> participants who will be able to attend only part of lectures or who
> will not be able to be present at the summer school during the whole
> duration of the school.
> VISA REGIME: Nationals of the following countries do not need visas
> for Serbia: EU nationals (including European zone), nationals of (FYR)
> Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the Republic of
> Croatia.
> Citizens of Albania and Turkey need visas for Serbia and the Anglo
> Serbian Society will send to selected participants appropriate letters
> of invitation and will offer all other technical assistance should it
> be needed.
> DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS:
> Application may be sent in the period from July 5, till August 3, 2008
> By August 5, 2008 the Selection Committee will have selected applicants.
> Selected applicants will receive e-mails and will be asked to confirm
> their participation and will be informed what transportation costs the
> organisers can cover. After confirming their participation they will
> receive official letters of invitation.
> REQUIREMENTS:
> 1. Applicants should have at the very least a BA degree, and
> preferably an MA or PhD degree in the social sciences or humanities.
> Applicants without completed BA degrees will not be taken into
> consideration.
> Applicants should be researchers or lecturers. They can also be
> political or NGO leaders in their community.
> 2. All participants should be proficient in English since all the
> lectures are in English.
> 3. Participants should preferably be nationals or residents of SEE
> countries or other neighbouring countries. Nationals of other
> countries can also apply but the organisers can not guarantee that
> they will be able to cover all their travel costs.
> All transportation and accommodation costs for selected participants
> from SEE are covered by donors of ISSD.
> APPLICATION PROCESS:
> All prospective applicants are expected:
> 1. To send their CVs.
> 2. To send a short letter of motivation explaining in up to two
> hundred words why they wish to be participants of the School
> 3. To send a letter of recommendation written by a university lecturer
> or a researcher.
> 4. To fill in the application form available at www.ays.org.yu
> All the applications should be sent in digital form only to:
> Ms. Sladjana Gligoric,
> Programme Assistant
> e-mail: angloserbiansociety@...
> phone: +381-11-3629-734
> fax: +381-11-2686-471
> Address: Kraljice Natalije 21,
> 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia
> CONTACT PERSONS:
> Dr. Slobodan Markovich,
> Executive Director of the School
> phone: +381-11-3629-734
> e-mail: slobamarkovich@...
> Address: Kraljice Natalije 21,
> 11 000 Belgrade, Serbia
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 7. Konf. Globalisierung/Indentitaet, Luxemburg 15.07.09
>
> University of Luxembourg, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious
> Minorities (Oslo), Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD,
> Amsterdam), Luxembourg
> 15.07.2009, University of Luxembourg
> Deadline: 15.09.2008
> There has been a growing awareness of ongoing processes of
> globalization, economic as well as cultural, over the last years. The
> increasing interrelatedness of social relations and cultural
> expressions and practices appears to have led to a blurring of
> traditional identities, values and orientations. Since these processes
> may be experienced as frightening and alienating, there have been
> serious counter-reactions to and rejections of them.
> The local seems to play an ambivalent role within these ongoing
> struggles for "rooted" identities, as it is connected to direct
> geographic experiences. However, the meaning and functions of the
> local are undergoing dramatic changes in the process of globalization.
> Local memories can represent the attempt to repel the threats of
> structural changes caused by anonymous agents. The local can be
> figured as a guarantee for social, normative and existential
> reassurance. But local memories can also be a mediator, which gives
> access to changing perceptions of the wider world order as well as to
> discourses of global change and their universalistic interpretations.
> This conference will discuss how cultural practices of representing
> and interpreting the past are being reshaped by interrelated processes
> of globalization, de/re-nationalization and localization in the long
> term. It will seek to address historical (dis)continuities concerning the
> connection of local memory cultures and global world orders throughout
> the 19th and 20th centuries.
> The relation between the local and the global still awaits further
> theoretical investigation: what is "the local" or the "locality"?
> Likewise, the "global" is very much a container term: what exactly is it
> that confronts the "local"?
> Researchers from all disciplines are invited to participate: women and
> gender studies, museum studies, media and cultural studies, political
> sciences, philosophy, sociology, geography and history. Presentations
> of concrete case studies (especially from Norway, the Netherlands and
> Luxembourg) are welcome, as are more theoretical approaches of
> cultures of remembrance caught between the local and the global.
> The conference will be held at the University of Luxembourg, the
> travel expends of accepted speakers will be covered.
> Please send proposals of up to 250 words for 20 minute duration papers
> to sonja.kmec@...
> Accepted formats are Word and PDF. Please include also the following
> information: name, affiliation, contact details, and technical
> requirements.
> Abstract submission deadline is 15th of September 2008.
> Paper acceptance notification will be sent out by the 1st of October
> 2008.
> Organizers:
> Claudia Lenz, senior researcher at the Center for Studies of Holocaust
> and Religious Minorities, Oslo, Norway
> Madelon de Keizer, senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for
> War Documentation (NIOD)
> Sonja Kmec, assistant-researcher at the University of Luxembourg,
> Research Unit IPSE (Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces),
> Luxembourg
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