17.5.2013
10:00 - 18:00
FSS MU (Joštova 10, Brno), miestnost U 32



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After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto
Edited by Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin

Although the neoliberal economic settlement is unravelling, its political underpinning remains largely unchallenged. Our manifesto calls into question the neoliberal order itself, and argues that we need radical alternatives to its foundational assumptions.

After Neoliberalism: The Kilburn Manifesto
The manifesto will be published in instalments over the next 12 months.
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/manifesto.html

Department of Anthropology,
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts,
University of West Bohemia
announces the course
SUMMER SCHOOL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMMAKING

JULY 15 - 27, 2013 ŽLUTICE, CZECH REPUBLIC
http://www.antropologie.org/cs/akce/summer-film-school

Trochu mladej iniciatívy od susedov.
http://www.anthropictures.cz/
https://www.facebook.com/Anthropictures

Dear colleagues,


Please forgive any cross-posting.


We would like to invite you to a conference "Listening to the Wind of
Change": Popular Culture and Post-Socialist Societies in East-Central
Europe held 18 - 19 October 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.


We invite researchers to share their papers and panel proposals related to
the conference theme, including but not limited to such topics as:

Culture Transfer: Westernization and Commodification of the "East",
Culture of the Post-Socialist New Rich: Continuities with Late State
Socialism and Neoliberalism,
Re-traditionalization, Nationalism, Exclusion and Mobilization in Popular
Culture,
Fostering Free-market Ideology through Popular Culture,
Conflicting Memories of Anti-/Post-communism in Popular Culture,
Reflections of Sexuality and Gender in Popular Culture,
Exploitation Culture as Reply to Fast Changes in Post-Socialist Societies,
Visual Culture of Post-Socialist Societies of East-Central Europe,
Popular Culture in East-Central Europe as Commodity,
Travelling Cultural Theory (East West).


Deadline for abstracts is 15 May 2013. Deadline for panel proposals is 15
April 2013.

niekto tu hladal knizku o (mimo ineho) Sosonoch a zbierani orechov od slavneho antropologa Murphyho - http://www.uloz.to/x1bZoSW/murphy-robert-f-uvod-do-kulturni-a-socialni-antropologie-pdf

School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary, University of London
Postgraduate Studentships 2013
The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR) at QMUL offers a number of generous studentships for students commencing their doctoral studies in September 2013. The deadline for consideration for funded places is 31st January 2013. Candidates whose applications are received after this date may be considered for admission, but not for funding.
Applications are welcome in all the fields and disciplines for which we provide expert supervision. A full list of research interests in SPIR is available by following the links here.
This year applications in the following subject areas are particularly encouraged:
• Civil society/social movements
• European public policy and governance
• Political transition in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America
• Critical approaches to the theory of international relations and practice of foreign policy
• Political theory and the history of ideas
Before applying, you are encouraged to make informal contact with a potential supervisor to establish whether we can provide you with expert supervision. Make sure you include a draft research proposal with any enquiry to a potential supervisor – academic members of staff are unable to respond to general, undefined queries about research degrees. If you would like general information on the research degree programmes, please contact the Research Manager (see below for email).
QMUL Principal’s Studentships
The School will be eligible to apply for up to four of these awards.
Queen Mary Principal’s studentships are open to UK, EU and international students. They cover tuition fees and a maintenance allowance of around £15,590 per year for up to three years. Candidates will normally be expected to have a good first degree and a Masters degree in Politics, International Relations, or a related subject.
Economic & Social Research Council: Doctoral Training Centre (London Social Science) Studentships
The School of Politics & IR is part of a prestigious ESRC-funded Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), London Social Science, with QMUL and Goldsmiths, University of London. The DTC will provide funding for up to two PhD studentships in SPIR for entry in 2013.
Studentships cover up to four years of tuition fees and provide a standard maintenance grant of £15,590 per year. PhDs with a particular emphasis on quantitative research may receive an additional Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) stipend of £3,000. Successful applicants will be offered a variety of flexible models of combined PhD study and research training: either a 1 + 3 model (i.e. 1 year doing an MRes in advanced research training, plus 3 years of PhD) or a model where the research training is completed throughout the course of the 4 years of the studentship. Students who already hold a Masters degree with sufficient training can also apply for the standard 3-year funded PhD.
Please note that you need to complete an additional ESRC application form to be considered for funding through the DTC. Further details and guidance on how to apply are below and available here: http://www.londonsocialscience.org.uk/index.html.
Candidates must adhere to the current residential eligibility rules as laid out in the ESRC Postgraduate Funding Guide available here.
How to Apply
Please read these details carefully.
i) For QMUL Principal’s Studentships, apply via the standard PhD application process, indicating in your application that you wish to be considered for funding. Applications can be made online here. Further details on how to apply are here. Hard copies of the application form are also available.
ii) For ESRC 1+3 Studentships, apply for a relevant MRes here and complete the additional ESRC application form, which is available to download from here: http://www.londonsocialscience.org.uk/index.html (under Studentships). This additional form should be emailed directly to politics-pgresearch@qmul.ac.uk - ensure you include ‘ESRC DTC Funding Application – Your Name’ in the subject line of your email. Alternatively, you can send a hard copy to the School of Politics & IR, QMUL, London, E1 4NS for the attention of ‘The Research Manager.’
iii) For ESRC 3-year and +4 Studentships, apply via the standard PhD application process here and complete the additional ESRC application form, which is available to download from here: http://www.londonsocialscience.org.uk/index.html (under Studentships). This additional form should be emailed directly to politics-pgresearch@qmul.ac.uk - ensure you include ‘ESRC DTC Funding Application – Your Name’ in the subject line of your email. Alternatively, you can send a hard copy to the School of Politics & IR, QMUL, London, E1 4NS for the attention of ‘The Research Manager.’
iv) Applications to both College and ESRC-funded studentships must consist of the following:
• A research proposal which should include a hypothesis, key questions to be addressed by your research, methodology and an indicative bibliography. Further advice on writing a research proposal is
here. Please note that the research proposal word length for a studentship application is max. 1500 words. • You should have a 2:1 or equivalent in your first degree and if your first language is not English you must be able to provide recent evidence that your spoken and written command of the English language is adequate for the programmes for which you have applied. You need to provide evidence of an English language test score or intend to take a test before your studies. Information about English language entry requirements can be found here. • Transcripts from previous degrees • 2 academic references • A full curriculum vitae (CV) • A supporting statement (1 page A4), which explains why you want to take the programme. This should address the following: previous academic and other experience relevant to your proposed research; why you wish to undertake this research at Queen Mary; what research training and professional preparation you have already received, and what further training you think you will need; any ethical issues you will need to consider in undertaking your research.
Your complete application must be received in the Admissions Office no later than midnight on 31st January 2013. ESRC DTC funding forms must also be received by this date. Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that academic references are also received by this date. Applications without references will be considered incomplete and will not be processed further.
Candidates whose applications are received after this date may be considered for admission but not for funding. Candidates will be interviewed for a place in February 2013. Those shortlisted for funding will be passed to a selection panel for final assessment. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application from mid-March 2013.
General enquiries about making a formal application can be addressed to the Research Manager by email politics-pgresearch@qmul.ac.uk, or call +44 0207 882 5829.
Adam Fagan
Professor of European Politics
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
020 7882 8602
www.politics.qmul.ac.uk/staff/fagan/index.html

Call for Papers

Topographies of Popular Culture

25–26 October 2013

University of Tampere, Finland


From the venues of rock festivals and theme parks to the back alleys of Gotham City and the cinematic version of Hogwarts, popular culture contributes to collective perceptions of spatiality and recreates powerful imaginary topographies. Topographies of Popular Culture offers a forum for multidisciplinary discussions of popular culture and space in contemporary American, European and Russian contexts. The conference seeks to explore representations of space as constructed in popular literary and visual genres and digital culture.

We invite presentations that examine how space and various popular genres are mutually constitutive in producing “popular” places (physical, social, and imagined) in the cultural and geographical settings of the USA, Europe, and Russia. We are especially interested in discussions and comparisons of “Western” and “Eastern” approaches to space as shaped by discourses of popular culture. In this kind of analysis, space is to be seen as a social construct that still exerts an active, emphatic influence: it both reflects socio-cultural processes and sets conditions for emerging hierarchies, standards, and values.

Topographies of Popular Culturewill focus on the relations between popular culture and dynamic spatial practices. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- the formation of space(s) in popular culture
- space as an interconnected field between popular culture and instances of power (economic, political, symbolic, etc.)
- geographies and archaeologies of space including Orientalism and Occidentalism; colonial, national and imperial space
- gendered and queer popular spaces
- the spaces and places of popular production and consumption
- interrelations between the local and global in popular culture
- connections between literary topoi and spatial topoi in popular fiction
- spatial categories in popular genres (e.g. the fantastic worlds of fantasy; exotic worlds of romance; criminal spaces of detection; monstrous spaces of horror fiction)
- new sites of action in contemporary literary, visual and digital texts
- the “internationalization” of space in popular texts
- utopian and dystopian spaces
- heterotopias and rhizomatics
- the language and semiotics of space and place

The conference languages are English and Russian. Prof. Eliot Borenstein (New York University), Prof. Birgit Neumann (University of Passau), and Prof. Shelley Streeby (University of California, San Diego) will act as keynote speakers.

Proposals for twenty-minute papers in English or Russian are invited from researchers working in cultural, literary, language and translation studies and other disciplines. Please submit an abstract of 250–350 wordsas a Word file with the author’s name, affiliation, and contact details by 15 March 2013. Contributors can expect confirmation of their papers’ acceptance by 8 April 2013.

The organizers intend to put together a themed volume, in which selected papers will be published as full-length articles.

Contact: Arja Rosenholm (arja.rosenholm@uta.fi) Markku Salmela (markku.salmela@uta.fi) Irina Savkina (irina.savkina@uta.fi)


Organizers

Research program Spaces of Language and Literature School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere

Research group Empires of the Popular
School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies, University of Tampere

Research group Kult-tovary: Tendencies and Changes in Contemporary Russian Culture Russian Language, Culture and Translation, University of Tampere Department of Contemporary Russian Literature, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg Faculty of Philology, Ural Federal University, Jekaterinburg

These studies, including a synthesis report and studies of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia may be of interest to subscribers to the list:







The study “Social Impact of Emigration and Rural-Urban Migration in Central and Eastern Europe” (VT/2010/001) has been elaborated by the Gesellschaft für Versicherungswissenschaft und –gestaltung e.V. (GVG) on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.



The study provides an analysis of the social impact of international and internal migration in Central and Eastern Europe in the past two decades, offering a knowledge base on effects on labour markets, human resource development, poverty and social exclusion and social cohesion. On the basis of an analysis of the recent trends and patterns of migration, it looks at linkages to the labour market and education structure in the sending countries focussing on specific challenges like health care mobility, brain drain, skill matching, and labour market reintegration of returnees. The situation of those regions which are above average affected by migration is assessed separately. The reports further identify the scope and use of remittances and analyses their impact on labour market participation of the family members left behind, and on poverty and inequality. A separate chapter is dedicated to the social security of migrants and their family members left behind. Last but not least the reports discuss the impact of migration on different vulnerable groups such as children, elderly, Roma and post-conflict IDPs and returning refugees.



The results of the research are compiled into a Synthesis Report, which is based on 25 Country Reports elaborated by expert teams of the respective countries in the period from November 2010 until April 2012. It encompasses the 10 countries of Central and Eastern Europe which joined the EU in 2004 and 2007, the Enlargement Countries and the Countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. Greece and Turkey have been included into the study as reference countries which have been confronted with high levels of emigration as well as internal movements in the 60s and 70s.



The synthesis report draws special attention to existing policy measures responding to the challenges of migration and provides policy recommendations to political key actors summarised in a Policy Brief. In order to allow for better comparability and taking into account the geo-political location and the different legal frameworks, policy orientations and financial instruments available to the EU, the 25 countries have been grouped into three different country clusters, namely the EU Member States, the Enlargement Countries and the EAP region.



All Country Reports, the Synthesis Report incl. Executive Summary and the Policy Brief can be downloaded under:
http://ec.europa.eu/social/keyDocuments.jsp?pager.offset=0&langId=fr&mode=advancedSubmit&policyArea=0&subCategory=0&year=0&country=0&type=0&advSearchKey=EmigrationMigrationCentralEasternEurope&orderBy=docOrder

Contact at GVG: Birgit Garbe-Emden, b.garbe-emden@gvg.org

toto by podla organizatorov a keynote speakers malo byt dobre, hlavne ked vas zaujima ta tema aspon trochu.

Ethnographies of higher education: researching and reflecting “at home”
CALL FOR PAPERS
22-24 May 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

Keynote speakers:

Wesley Shumar (Drexel University); Paul Trowler (Lancaster University); Susan Wright (Aarhus University)


In recent years there has been a surge of interest in ethnographic studies of higher education. Not only are anthropologists turning their attention to the study of higher education but also higher education researchers from various theoretical and methodological backgrounds are employing ethnography as a valuable approach to studying multiple facets, sites, and themes of higher education, be it the formation and enactment of governance and policies, knowledge practices, learning and teaching, identities, or academics’ and students’ lives. At the same time, the conference recognizes significant changes in the field of higher education today that are globally transforming not only the social, material and technological conditions and institutional frameworks of knowledge production, transmission and translation, but also affecting the very modes of knowing. We believe ethnographic approaches are a key research strategy for understanding these changes.
The conference aims to bring together researchers interested and actively involved in qualitative, primarily ethnographic, research on higher education institutions, policies and practices, and to provide space for critical discussion and debate. We also aim to prepare a publication or series of publications to bring these insights to the broader academic public.
We propose three major foci – and welcome more.

1. Politics, positionality and engagement
“Reforms” of, and changes in, higher education may be discussed, questioned, fought for and against, or they may take place in a more invisible manner. What are the possible roles of higher education research in that dynamic? How is ethnographic participation linked with policy and politics, activism and engagement? How are the roles of researchers, experts, and activists played out in different times and different settings? And from the other end, how do the multiple positions higher education researchers simultaneously occupy in the field (such as students, teachers, administrators, parents etc.) influence the framing of education research?

2. Diversity of the field and comparative practices
The field of higher education is diverse – in terms of disciplines, qualities, institutional forms. As such it is subject to various types of comparisons and rankings, made by agencies, ministries, media, students, academics, higher education institutions, and ultimately by us, higher education researchers. Since we are often critical of such comparisons and rankings, we need to examine explicitly our own epistemic practices of comparing in theoretical framing or field study designs. What role does (Western) social theory play in studying higher education in different parts of world? How do we deal with heterogeneity of the field during the course of a study and in textual representations?

3. Ethnographic effects
In a special strand we propose to reflect on and debate ethnography as an epistemic approach to the study of higher education: its possibilities (and possible limits), politics and practices. This will have a format of a special methodological workshop within the conference. We welcome short contributions (2 to 10 minutes) on various topics related to fieldwork (reflexivity, ethics, access, being/going native etc.). The aim of the workshop is to share and discuss field experiences and explore potential intersecting topics emerging in the course of the discussions.

Conference fees
Conference fees include registration, welcome reception on Wednesday evening, and lunch and snacks on Thursday and Friday.
Standard: EUR 100
Students and doctoral candidates: EUR 50
It is possible to waive the fee for participants from lower-income countries and/or for participants in lower-paid positions without access to other sources of funding. To request a waiver, please send a letter (300-500 words) to the organizers explaining why you are not in a position to cover the fee.

The conference programme board
Jana Baćević (Central European University)
Manja Klemenčič (Harvard University / University of Ljubljana)
Jan Nespor (Ohio State University)
Petr Pabian (University of Pardubice)
Tereza Stöckelová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Practical information
Travel and accommodation: Prague airport serves direct flights from all European capitals and many other European cities. Within Central Europe, Prague is also easily reachable by train. As a popular tourist destination, Prague offers a wealth of accommodation opportunities from budget hostels starting below 20 € per night up to luxury hotels. More information will be available on the conference website.

Conference venue: The conference will take place at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University.
Programme framework: The conference will start with an evening public lecture on Wednesday, May 22. Thursday and Friday programme will start with a plenary keynote, followed by paper presentations. The Friday afternoon will be dedicated to the methodological workshop.

See conference website http://www.ethe.cz for further information.
The conference is supported by the Czech Science Foundation within the research project “Ethnography of University Departments: Mass Higher Education in Institutional Settings” (http://www.csvs.cz/ETUDE).

Dr Jana Bacevic

Visiting Professor
Department of Public Policy
Central European University, Budapest

rozhovor s Chomskym - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/

It's worth remembering that with regard to cognitive science, we're kind of pre-Galilean, just beginning to open up the subject. We don't know what we're looking for anymore than Galileo did, and there's a lot to learn from that. So for example one striking fact about early science, not just Galileo, but the Galilean breakthrough, was the recognition that simple things are puzzling.

Von 8. bis 10. November 2012 findet an der Universität Wien eine internationale Konferenz zu den Kriegen und Nachkriegsordnungen in Südosteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert statt.

Die von Philipp Ther, Professor am Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte der Universität Wien, in Zusammenarbeit mit Alexander Korb von der University of Leicester organisierte Tagung befasst sich mit der ethnischen Homogenisierung Südosteuropas nach den Balkankriegen von 1912/13, während der 1940er Jahre sowie in den 1990er Jahren. Die amerikanische Historikerin Theodora Dragostinova hält einen öffentlichen Keynote-Vortrag, der sich damit beschäftigt, wie Minderheiten mit staatlicher Bevölkerungspolitik und Assimilationsdruck umgegangen sind.

link - http://medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/artikel/internationale-konferenz-balkankriege-und-ethnischen-saeuberungen/
program - http://iog.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_osteurop_geschichte/Dateien_Newsmeldungen/Programm_Konferenz_SOE_11_2012.pdf

Extended Deadline


Call for Papers
International Conference “Crisis and Mobilization since 1789”
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, February 22-24, 2013

organized by the
International Scholars’ Network “History of Societies and Socialisms”
(HOSAS)/H-Socialisms

Organizers of the 2nd HOSAS conference, to be held in Amsterdam in
February of 2013, welcome proposals from all fields of the social
sciences and humanities from around the world that consider socialism
and its relation to the conference theme –Crisis and Mobilization since
1789.

The political Left—mainstream socialists above all, but also anarchists,
communists, feminists, and others—has played a central role throughout
modern history in giving access to democracy and its benefits to ever
widening portions of society. Socialists—especially those organized in
Marxist-oriented European social democratic parties—proved adept at
mobilizing popular support during political, economic, and other crises
to push forward agendas aiming to combat the social inequalities created
by industrial capitalism, to broaden citizenly enfranchisement in order
to include formerly excluded groups (for example, wage-earning workers
and women), and to pursue many other reformist or revolutionary goals.
Geoff Eley’s landmark study Forging Democracy (2002), is among the
strongest recent arguments for the importance of the socialist Left in
shaping and democratizing modern European history, particularly through
its capacity for mobilizing in response to crisis. We are pleased that
Eley will be present at the conference to give a key-note address and
engage in a discussion of his theses.

Alongside impressive successes, resounding defeats and setbacks have
characterized socialism’s record in modern Europe and around the world.
But until the late 1960s, conventional socialist or social democratic
parties stood at the center of this drama and self-consciously led the
European Left, while more revolutionary variants held sway in the
“developing” world. Since the late 1960s, however, the socialist Left
has declined in influence due to the rise of identity and one-issue
movements (for example, feminist and environmentalist movements), the
changing geographies and modalities of the global economy and labor, the
concomitant weakening of trade unions that had constituted socialism’s
traditional base of support in many countries, the final discrediting
and collapse of Soviet-style “real existing socialism” in Eastern
Europe, the growing power of neo-liberalism as the ideology of the
political mainstream, and other structural and contingent changes. These
developments have challenged conventional socialist politics’ claims to
leadership of the political Left and have led many to question
socialism’s very relevance.

Since the 2008 onset of the current economic crisis, critiques of
capitalism—many of them invoking Marx and/or the socialist mobilizations
of previous eras—have re-entered mainstream political debates in Europe
and around the world. Scholarly discussions about this legacy and its
contemporary relevance have also profited from a surge in interest. Not
least, socialist parties have won some significant electoral contests,
as they recently did in France. Yet in many places, conventional
socialist or Leftist political parties still remain on the defensive and
some of the most recent popular mobilizations that challenge the
political and economic status quo (for instance, the Occupy Movement)
generally reject alliances or identification with established socialist
politics.

In this climate, we think it timely to consider the historical
trajectory of socialism—in all its diverse forms—through crisis and
mobilization. We understand crisis in the broadest sense of the word,
encompassing not just economic downturns, but also political, social,
cultural, and environmental crises as well as war, famine, natural
disasters, and other disruptions. Crises vary in scale too, from the
global or continental level down to the local. By bringing together
scholars from multiple disciplines who specialize in various time
periods and places across the globe, and by opening broad temporal,
comparative, and transnational vistas, we hope to update and enrich the
scholarly conversation about socialism(s). Among the core questions that
we aim to address are:

- How have socialist politics developed historically as a response to
crisis, broadly defined, and through mobilization?
- Why have certain people and movements in history self-identified as
“socialist,” and which theories and concepts have they drawn on?
- How and what did these people and movements learn from their activist
experiences, and what are the memories and legacies of mass mobilization
in times of crisis?
- What lessons – if any – do present-day activists and movements draw
from the past, and how are various memories and myths appropriate to
current debates and actions?
- To what extent have socialist mobilizations that respond to crisis
displayed unique characteristics in the non-European/western or
developing world?
- What have socialist mobilizations accomplished (or not accomplished)
in attempting to redefine the relationships between the state and
society and between society and capitalism?
- How has the recent economic crisis contributed to, or changed,
socialist politics as well as our understanding of socialism as an
aspect of European or global modernity?
- How have socialists (of any sort) stood in relation to other Leftist
political groupings and/or non-Leftists in responding to crisis, both
historically and today?
- To what extent does “socialism” remain a useful category for
animating/galvanizing or studying mobilizations of a certain kind?

In addition to papers that address one or more of these questions, we
invite papers or panels dealing with any of the following broad thematic
areas in any part of the world that have relevance to the central
conference theme:

I. Capitalism in Crisis: Experiences, diagnoses and solutions, past and
present
II. Riots, Revolts & Revolutions: Violent reactions, street activisms,
and their outcomes
III. Parties & Movements: Organisations, networks, and institutions
IV. Ideas & Programs: Analyses, ideologies, and remedies
V. Rebels & Leaders: Who is in charge, why and how?
VI. Elites & Masses: Interests, alliances, and encounters

We invite both junior and senior scholars to present results of
research, works-in-progress, or polished papers concerning these issues
and others related to the general workshop theme. We are interested in
receiving individual paper proposals and proposals for panel sessions.
The organizers will consider publishing some of the contributions
following the conference. Conference presentations will be 15 minutes
in length. Unfortunately, we cannot provide travel funding.
Please email your proposal (250-300 words) along with a brief (100 words
max.) academic bio,
to H-SOCIALISMS@H-NET.MSU.EDU by October 10, 2012.

Keynote speaker:
Geoff Eley (University of Michigan): Forging Democracy: On the history
of the “Left”, 1850-2000

The organizers are:
Giovanni Bernardini, German-Italian Historical Institute - FBK, Trento,
Italy
Christina Morina, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Germany
Jakub S. Beneš University of California, Davis, USA
Kasper Braskén, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Stefan Müller, Universität Duisburg-Essen

For more information on HOSAS/H-Socialisms, visit:
www.h-net.org/~socialisms/

Call for Applications

Theme: 'On a Road to Nowhere?'
Subtitle: Nationalism and Multiculturalism in a Diverse World
Type: PhD Course
Institution: Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
Location: Copenhagen (Denmark)
Date: 13.–14.12.2012
Deadline: 26.10.2012

__________________________________________________


What is the relationship between national history and the history of
nationalism? Is it possible to detach the history of nationalism from
that of the nation-state? How ‘global’ is nationalism, and does
nationalism still matter? Can we talk about the ‘death of
multiculturalism’? Are we living in an age of diversity? How can we
conceptualize the dialectic between similarity and difference, and
how can we cope with (increasing?) diversity? Where and how do
immigration and Islam come into picture? Straddling the line between
the historical and the contemporary, and making a case for the
importance of comparative approaches, this course will cast a
critical eye over these, and many other, questions and explore the
intimate relation between nationalism and multiculturalism in today’s
‘omniphobic’ world.

Lecturers:
- John Breuilly (London School of Economics)
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo)
- Umut Özkirimli (Lund University and CEMES Honorary Professor at KU)

Venue:
Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Requirements:
Mandatory readings and active participation in seminar discussions.
Participants are further encouraged to present some of their work in
the seminar (10-15 pages essays and 15 minutes oral presentations are
expected).

ECTS:
3 ECTS for preparation and participation with paper presentation and
1,5 ECTS for preparation and participation.

The course is free of charge. Participants will be selected on the
basis of their application file and field of research. The selected
participants are asked to organize travel and accommodation at their
own expense. Meals and coffee will be provided free to all
participants.

Deadline for submission of applications (letter of motivation, CV and
paper/PhD abstract) is 26 October 2012 to: oluf@hum.ku.dk

JOHN BREUILLY is Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of
Nationalism and the State (2nd edn, 1993). Recent publications
include ‘Max Weber, Charisma and Nationalist Leadership', Nations and
Nationalism (2011); ‘Austria, Prussia and the Making of Modern
Germany, 1806-1871’ (2011), and ‘On the Principle of Nationality', in
The Cambridge History of 19th Century Political Thought, edited by
Gareth Stedman Jones & Gregory Claeys (2011). He is editor of The
Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (forthcoming, 2013) and
is currently writing a global history of nationalism for Oxford
University Press.

THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Oslo. He is the author of Ethnicity and Nationalism:
Anthropological Perspectives (3rd, 2010) and Small Places, Large
Issues(3rd edn, 2010). Recent publications include ‘Xenophobic
Exclusion and the New Right in Norway’,Journal of Community and
Applied Social Psychology (2012), ‘Living in an Overheated World:
Otherness as a Universal Condition’ (2012), and ‘Ethnicity’, in The
Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer (2012). He is
currently directing two research projects on ‘Inclusion and Exclusion
in the Suburb’ (based on fieldwork in a suburb of eastern Oslo) and
‘Overheating: An Anthropological History of the Early 21st Century or
The Three Crises of Globalization’.

UMUT OZKIRIMLI is Professor of Contemporary Turkey Studies at The
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University and Honorary
Professor in Europe, Nationalism and Globalization at CEMES,
University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Theories of
Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (2ndedn, 2010; 3rd edn,
forthcoming 2013) and Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and
Turkey(with Spyros A. Sofos, 2008). Recent publications include ‘And
People’s Concerns Were Genuine: Why Didn’t We Listen More?
Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Recognition in Europe’, Journal of
Contemporary European Studies (2012), ‘From Pater Familias to Homo
Nationalis: Understanding Nationalism in Turkey’ (with Pinar Uyan
Semerci), Ethnicities (2011). He is currently editing a book series
on ‘Islam and Nationalism’ for Palgrave Macmillan with Spyros A.
Sofos and working on a series of articles on the ‘Kurdish question’
in Turkey and an article on nationalism in post-Oslo/Utøya
Scandinavia with Bo Petersson.

Contact: oluf@hum.ku.dk

Ústav evropské etnologie Filosofické fakulty Masarykovy University
a
Východoevropské vzdělávací a kulturní centrum (EEECC)


Vás srdečně zvou k účasti na

Mezinárodní studentské vědecké konferenci:

Když výzkum, tak kvalitativní! Serpentinami bádání v terénu

Pod institucionální záštitou Ústavu evropské etnologie a Východoevropského
vzdělávacího a kulturního centra (EEECC) proběhne ve dnech 12. - 13. 11. 2012
studentská vědecká konference, která se pokusí o reflexi rozličných podob kvalitativního
výzkumu a zkušeností badatele spojených s pobytem v terénu. Je-li totiž něco, co dělá
etnologii etnologií, tak je to právě důraz na nakročení badatele do neprošlapaných zákoutí
skrytých významů sociálního jednání zkoumaných, k jejichž porozumění v duchu sociálních
věd dojde pouze díky perspektivě „ze zdola“. Ač by se proto zdálo, že terénní výzkum a
prezentace jeho výsledků je něčím samozřejmým, z různých důvodů tomu tak není.
Vstoupit do prostoru zkoumaných a jejich reality, a následně o tom podat svědectví, je
jednou z hlavních cest legitimizace našeho snažení.

Prezentované příspěvky by v celkové koncepci konference měly vyjadřovat různorodost
výzkumných témat, užitých metodických nástrojů a badatelských perspektiv a následně
vést k porozumění současným epistemologickým podobám etnologie i dalších příbuzných
oborů, vycházejících z kvalitativních metod sběru a analýzy dat.

Konference je určená pro studenty bakalářského, magisterského i doktorského studia, pro
něž může být vítanou možností prezentovat svůj odborný zájem a v následných debatách o
něm diskutovat se svými kolegy.

Tematická otevřenost dává prostor zejména etnologům, antropologům, folkloristům,
sociologům, vizuálním antropologům, archeologům a dalším. Očekáváme příspěvky
splňující základní požadavek konference – prezentace založené na kvalitativních
technikách/metodách sběru empirických dat v rámci terénního výzkumu. Tematická,
metodologická i teoretická pestrost je vítaná.

Uvítáme příspěvky na následující subtémata:

1. Teoretické a metodologické aspekty terénního výzkumu
2. Výzkumnická sebereflexivita
3. Etnografie jako překlad obrazu do textu
4. Setkání s jinakostí
5. Narativní konstrukce reality
6. Problémy (s) interpretací
7. Etika terénního výzkumu

Požadavky na účastníky konference:

. Termín zaslání abstraktů (max. 300 slov): 30. září 2012
. Posílejte na kontaktní adresu: konferencevbrne@seznam.cz
. Délka příspěvku nesmí přesáhnout 15 minut.
. Jednacím jazykem konference bude čeština a angličtina.
. Doporučenou formou příspěvku je powerpointová prezentace.
. Za účast na konferenci nebude vybírán žádný poplatek.
. Mimobrněnským účastníkům bude hrazen nocleh.
https://www.facebook.com/events/440279922669282/

Kontakty:

Ústav evropské etnologie FF MU

Mgr. Michal Pavlásek
tel.: (+420) 724 003 663
Jaselská 18
602 00 Brno
Česká republika
tel.: (+420) 549 49 5761 sekretariát
fax: (+420) 549 49 1520
mail: konferencevbrne@seznam.cz

Alebo:

Východoevropské vzdělávací a kulturní
centrum, o. p. s.

Mgr. Josef Oriško
tel.: (+420) 603 878 744
http://www.eeecc.org/en/

Pozvánka na prednášku v rámci 4 Social Anthropology Group na tému:

Experimental Anthropology: Mixed Methods in the Study of Extreme Rituals

Prednášať príde
Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas
Director, LEVYNA Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion, and Associate Professor, Department for the Study of Religion, Masaryk University,

Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Society, and Religion, Cognition and Culture research unit, Aarhus University.

Abstract
Anthropological work on religion at the interface of cognition and culture raises methodological and epistemological dilemmas regarding the benefits and shortcomings of divergent paradigms, the main debate being that of laboratory versus field studies. Rather than advocating for one over the other method, this presentation will discuss examples of an integrative approach, which entails incorporating experimental methods in ethnographic fieldwork. Case studies include the use of economic games and biometric measurements during the performance of some of the modern world's most extreme rituals. In addition, I will discuss the advantages, limitations, and challenges of introducing laboratory methods into ethnographic fieldwork, and some of the methodological implications of such an endeavour for the study of culture.

Dátum a miesto konania: 2.5. (streda) o 18:30, miestnosť B 029, FSEV UK, Mlynské luhy 4.

Mary Douglas
http://kyberia.sk/id/6605782
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
http://kyberia.sk/id/6627081

Call for Applications

Theme: Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural
Differences
Type: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Institution: Graduate Center, City University of New York
Location: New York, NY (USA)
Date: 2012-2013
Deadline: 12.4.2012

__________________________________________________


The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D.
granting institution of CUNY, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for
the academic year 2012-13 in the Political Science and/or Philosophy
Ph.D. Program. The fellow’s area of research should be broadly related
to the Mellow Sawyer Seminar Series to be held at the Graduate Center
during that academic year on the theme “Democratic Citizenship and the
Recognition of Cultural Differences.”

The Sawyer Seminar Series, to be directed by Professors Carol Gould,
Ruth O’Brien, Richard Wolin, and Omar Dahbour, will address the
question of how democratic societies can be inclusive of a wide range
of cultural practices and forms of expression while maintaining a
commitment to respecting a secular public sphere, universal human
rights, and women’s equality. It is expected that the postdoctoral
fellow will help to organize and lead the seminar series and will
bring a relevant background in political theory, social and political
philosophy, feminist theory, American political thought, and/or
cultural studies. The fellow will also have ample opportunity to
pursue individual research related to one of the fields above.

The position will begin on September 1, 2012. Candidates must have a
Ph.D. in one of the disciplines in the humanities or humanistic social
sciences. Candidates who received the Ph.D in 2009 at the earliest, or
who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application
deadline, are eligible to apply.

To apply, please email a letter of application, curriculum vitae, one
sample publication or dissertation chapter, and the names and contact
information for at least three references to:
sawyerpostdoc@gc.cuny.edu

The deadline for receipt of applications is April 12, 2012.

Salary: $59,608 plus benefits.


Contact:

Prof. Carol C. Gould, Director
Center for Global Ethics & Politics
Ralph Bunche Institute
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 5203
New York, NY 10016-4309
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 817-1940
Fax: +1 (212) 817-1565
Email: sawyerpostdoc@gc.cuny.edu
Web: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/ralphbuncheinstitute/cgep/

Anthropologist Michael Taussig (Columbia University) talks about the relationship between writing, culture and time.
Friday 27 January 2012, 6pm
Goldsmiths New Academic Building, Lower Ground 02 (see here for directions to Goldsmiths: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/) "I began doing fieldwork in 1969, I have returned every year" says Mick Taussig. His writing has spanned a wide range of issues including the commercialisation of peasant agriculture, the popular manifestations of the working of commodity fetishism, the impact of colonialism (historical and contemporary) on "shamanism" and folk healing and the making, talking and writing of terror.

His most recent book, I Swear I Saw This (University of Chicago Press, 2011) records reflections on the fieldwork notebooks he kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. Taussig considers the fieldwork notebook as a type of modernist literature and the place where writers and other creators first work out the imaginative logic of discovery.

This lecture is part of the Real Time Research project, sponsored by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. No booking required - all are welcome.
http://realtimeresearch.posterous.com/pages/event-two

Philosophy & Social Criticism
1 January 2012; Vol. 38, No. 1
The below Table of Contents is available online at:
http://psc.sagepub.com/content/vol38/issue1/?etoc
________________________________________
Articles
________________________________________
Critical systems theory
Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 3-23

Revenge and Nostalgia: Reconciling Nietzsche and Heidegger on the
question of coming to terms with the past
Bradley Bryan
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 25-38

Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
Chris Fleming and John O?Carroll
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 39-57

Resisting Agamben: The biopolitics of shame and humiliation
Lisa Guenther
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 59-79

Games without frontiers? Democratic engagement, agonistic pluralism
and the question of exclusion
Robert W. Glover
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 81-104

Terror, torture and democratic autoimmunity
Leigh M. Johnson
Philosophy Social Criticism 2012;38 105-124

Dear colleagues,

we would like to bring to your attention the latest special issue of
the open-access Russian-language webjournal

"Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury" (vol. 8, no.
1, 2011) available at:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/inhaltruss15.html

This issue, the previous four, and the next issue of the "Forum" are
devoted to anti-Western ideologies in contemporary Russia and their
historical roots.

Please, find below the latest issue's transliterated list of contents:
----------------------------

Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury 8:1 (2011)

I. Antizapadnye ideologicheskie techeniia v postsovetskoi Rossii i ikh
istoki (5)

I.1. Istoricheskie korni sovremennogo russkogo ul'tranatsionalizma

Frank Gruener
Bor'ba Rossii protiv "chuzhdogo elementa": paradigma
anti-kosmopolitizma v rossiiskoi i sovetskoi ideologii, p. 7

Mikhail Suslov
Krizis messianstva i vopros o budushchem Rossii vo vzgliadakh Sergeia
Sharapova (1855-1911), p. 40


I.2. Variatsii antiliberalizma v segodniashnem rossiiskom obshchestve

Oksana Pakhlevska
Neoevrazizm, krizis russkoi identichnosti i Ukraina (Chast' pervaia), p. 49

Markus Mathyl
Vozniknovenie natsionalisticheskoi kontrkul'tury v postperestroechnoi
Rossii 1990-1998 gg., p. 87

Martin Mueller, Irina Trotsuk
Proekt sil'noi Rossii v elitnom obrazovanii putinskogo perioda:
vzgliad s pozitsii poststrukturalistskoi teorii diskursa, p. 105


I.3. Ksenofobiia i konspirologiia

Michael Kirkwood
Poniatie ideologii v tvorchestve Aleksandra Zinov'eva, p. 121

Boris Stepanov
Kak sdelan "Gospodin Geksogen": literaturnaia konstruktsia
ideologicheskogo radikalizma i ee retseptsiia, p. 130

Nikolai Sainkov, Il'ia Iablokov
Teorii zagovora kak chast marginal'nogo diskursa (na primere
sozdatelei Novoi khronologii N.A. Morozava i A.T. Fomenko), p. 148


II. Sovetsko-germanskaia voina: k 70-letiiu napadeniia Gitlera na
Sovetskii Soiuz

Leonid Luks
"Pervaia" sovetsko-germanskaia voina i ee predistoriia - ot soiuza
Stalina s Gitlerom do bitv pod Moskvoi i Stalingradom, p. 159

Juergen Zarusky
"Zhizn' i sud'ba" Vasiliia Grossmana: k vozniknoveniiu i kontseptsii
romana veka , p. 191

Boris Khavkin
Nemetskoe soprotivlenie i graf Schulenburg, p. 216


III. Istoriia kul'tury

Ekaterina Dais
Gnosticheskie motivy v sovremennoi russkoi literature, p. 231


IV. Esse

Boris Khazanov
Kogda bogi udalilis' na pokoi: Marguerite Yourcenar, p. 245

Andreas Umland
Dzhinn natsionalizma i budushchee putinskoi Rossii, p. 249


V. Retsenzii, p. 255

Martin Müller, "Making Great Power Identities in Russia: An
Ethnographic Discourse Analysis of Education at a Russian Elite
University" (Andreas Umland)

Svetlana Chervonnaia, "Sovremennoe islamskoe iskusstvo narodov Rossii"
(Mieste Hotopp-Riecke)


VI. Nekrolog

Andreas Umland
K probleme "nedoissledovannosti" postsovetskogo russkogo
ul'tra-natsionalizma: po povodu smerti Galiny Kozhevnikovoi
(1974-2011), p. 261


VI. Korotko ob avtorakh, p. 267
---------------------------

We have some more papers on Russian anti-Western ideologies, and are
preparing a last special issue of the "Forum" on this topic, in March
2012. Please, note that we are still accepting submissions for this
issue. The final deadline for additional papers for the last special
issue has been extended until 15 February 2012 - although we prefer
earlier arrival of texts.

We are planning to continue the discussion on Russian fascism in
section II. of this issue
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/inhaltruss14.html , at some
point, in 2012/13. We also accept submissions (papers, rebuttals,
review essays....) for this section.

Some technical details for such submissions can be found in this - by
now dated - Call for Papers:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/CallForPapersRu.html

or, in English,
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/CallForPapers.html

Please, use as a model text concerning the formal style for all
accepted papers this document:
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forum/docs/forumruss14/7Shekhovtsov.pdf

The "Forum" is published by the Eichstaett Institute for Central and
East European Studies in Upper Bavaria, Germany. Previous issues are
available at
http://www1.ku-eichstaett.de/ZIMOS/forumruss.html

We shall be delighted to receive your submission for, and be grateful
for any comments on, our special issues and the journal "Forum."

Thank you.
Prof. Leonid Luks, Dr. Andreas Umland, Antonina Zykova
The "Forum's" editors
http://www.ku-eichstaett.de/forschungseinr/zimos/mitarbeiter/

Dear all

Our Call 2012 for regional research projects in on-line now!
Deadline for submissions: 31 March, 2012

Topics:
Beyond ethnicity:
1. Social and economic change and the challenges of (new) social disparities
2. States, networks and informality
http://www.rrpp-westernbalkans.net/calls


Please forward to anyone who might be interested.

Please also note that the results of the RRPP latest Call, 2011, will be available online within the next couple of days.

Online journal Re-public has just published the 2nd part of the special issue titled "The politics of fear and the rise of far-right extremism in Europe". The articles explore the dynamics of the contemporary European far-right and critically assesses the anti-racist practices devised to address its influence. Contributions include:


Paul Jackson – Reflections on developing the far right research agenda through public facing encounters

Tad Tietze – Language, violence and politics

Xavier Casals – The new extreme right: A messenger of the future?

Christoforos Vernardakis – The versatility and the contradictions of the extreme right under conditions of political crisis

Nikolai Brandal and Dag Einar Thorsen – Social democracy and the far right

Kostas Maronitis – The politics of fear as the fear of politics: Social democracy and the importance of emotions

Mare Stijntje Visser – Consequences of the PVV: An immigrant perspective

Fabian Virchow – The rationality of racist terror

Carles Viñas – The skinheads as a rennovating element of the Spanish extreme right

Andrianos Tesas – Extreme political positions and actions

Ana Dinescu – How far is the Hungarian far-right from power?
http://www.re-public.gr/en/

CALL FOR PAPERS

for 28th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM),


Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe


28th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), which will take place from 19 to 23 September 2012 in Ljubljana,
Slovenia and will be hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and the Institute of Ethnomusicology
of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

DEADLINE: March 1, 2012

NATIONAL PAST IN MUSIC/NATIONAL MUSICAL PAST

Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe





Music has a strong capacity to evoke, embody and narrate the past, that is, it can serve is a repository of cultural memory which is “retained either through cultural formation (text, rites or monuments) or through institutional commemoration (recitation, practice, observance) [...] and formalized through ceremony” (Assmann 1995). Commemorative ceremonies, red-letter days and other public rituals are distinguishable from other events as they “possess a characteristic of ritual re-enactment, which is central to the shaping of collective memory” (Whitehead 2009). Musical performance, as an inseparable element of public practice, represents an important element in the construction of historical past in public realm. Therefore, it is employed to narrate collective remembrance and used in the embodiments, interpretations and representations of the past.

This year’s ESEM meeting aims to approach this topic from two aspects: by exploring the ways in which current musical forms address the past events and by investigating the strategies of reshaping and renarrating the musics from the past in the dominant discourses of the present. The focus on the post-1989 national pasts is intentional: the processes of EU integration, the collapse of socialist regimes and cultural transformations in post-1989 Europe have influenced the renarrativisation of the past and the related changes in memory cultures. In this respect, music plays a significant role and is used in contemporary European memory landscapes to question, transgress and legitimize the dichotomies and hierarchies between national and transnational, ‘eastern’ and ‘western,’ public and private, collective and individual, official and unofficial.

Therefore we are interested in sonic representations of the national past: musical genres, performance settings, musicians, spectators, organizers and all actors involved in the musical event. Thus we hope to shed light on the ways that cultural memory has entered the sphere of the popular through the most conspicuous branches of (musical) ‘memory industry’ (Klein 2000:127).



Papers are invited addressing one or more of the following topics:



• music in commemorations, public rituals and celebrations in post-1989 Europe

• music, conflicting remembrance and traumatic past

• musical past in post-socialist transformations and processes of EU integration

• musical past and new media

• musical performance in the construction of historical past in public realm

• music and memory industry



We will also consider including selected free papers in order to allow dissemination of important recent achievements in the field. Abstracts related to the central set of topics will have priority. We invite proposals for individual presentations, which must not exceed 20 minutes in length, panels and round tables of up to 90 minutes. We also welcome poster presentations and video projections.



SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 2012.

Proposals including 300-word abstract, your full name, affiliation and contact details (as attachment) should be submitted to:

ahofman@zrc-sazu.si

Mojca.kovacic@zrc-sazu.si



Programme committee

Slawomira Kominek (Poland), s.kominek@uw.edu.pl

Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria), Ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at

Ana Hofman (Slovenia)(chair), ahofman@zrc-sazu.si

Mojca Kovačič (Slovenia), Mojca.kovacic@zrc-sazu.si



--
Dr Ana Hofman
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities
Novi trg 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
http://sir.zrc-sazu.si

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Cargo – Journal for Cultural
and Social Anthropology: (Re)producing Medical Anthropology in Central
and Eastern Europe

Medical anthropology today is one of the most dynamic and vibrant
fields within the anthropological enterprise, contributing
substantially to the enhancement of anthropological theory and a
better understanding of crucial social processes in the contemporary
world. The significance of topics such as the impact of the new
genetics, the role and effects of new medical technologies, public
health measures in transitional economies, the influence of the
pharmaceutical industry on the scientific enterprise and medical
treatments, and a wide range of bioethical (and many other) issues
have attracted the close attention of anthropologists worldwide. In
spite of the considerable international recognition reflected in the
extensive amount of work on these and similar topics, the relevance of
medical anthropological research is insufficiently recognized on the
local level by academic communities in Central and Eastern Europe,
where social and cultural anthropologists prefer to pursue different
topics.

Cargo, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Association for
Social Anthropology (CASA), is now accepting submissions for the 2011
special issue on medical anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE), broadly defined. The goal of this issue is to bring together
contributions that address diverse topics relevant to medical
anthropology in the region, written both by international as well as
local scholars, and provide a platform that could shape directions
medical anthropological scholarship in CEE will take.

We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers that address a wide
range of topics relevant to medical anthropology and its institutional
and disciplinary genealogies. In this regard we substantially build on
intellectual debates that were part of the conference, “Health in
transition: (Bio)Medicine as culture in post-socialist Europe,” held
in Prague in 2011. With a strong regional focus, we welcome
contributions from a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:

contemporary forms of biomedical governance
the impact of EU regulations on pre- and new accession states
traditional/alternative healing
new biomedical technologies
patterns of medicalization and disease
gender and health
migrant and ethnic health
poverty and unequal access to health
bioethics
state-ownership/privatization of health care
the institutional backdrop of medical anthropological research
local communities of medical anthropologists and their research interests
disciplinary history(ies) of medical anthropological scholarship

Please send an expression of interest in the form of an abstract of up
to 350 words, together with the author’s institutional affiliation, to
the editor via email by December 20th 2011. The issue is slated to be
published in June 2012.

Authors are requested to submit their full manuscripts for
consideration to: ehresano@kss.zcu.cz by February 29th 2012. The
manuscripts should be up to 63.000 characters long, preferably in MS
Word, and written in English.

We also invite short commentaries, book reviews, and brief reports
relevant to the topic.

Cargo is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Czech Association
for Social Anthropology (CASA). Cargo contains texts in Czech, Slovak,
and English.

The journal Cargo is listed in the European Reference Index for the
Humanities (ERIH), section C.

Information on peer-review, the editorial board, forthcoming issues,
and details on manuscript format, are available at:
www.casaonline.cz/cargo
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Interdisciplinary and Comparative

Approaches to Ethnic Conflict:

An International Symposium



Call for papers



The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabanci University, Istanbul and the Marie Curie Action “Sustainable Peace Building” funded under the EU’s 7th Framework Programme invite contributions to Ethnic Conflict: An International Symposium on 5-6 May 2012.



This interdisciplinary conference is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the debates around the causes of ethnic violence, the impact of ethnic tensions and violence on different groups, and the challenges of regulating ethnic conflict on both a global and local scale.



We invite papers around a wide range of themes:

-Ethnicity, Conflict and the Diaspora

-Ethnicity, Media and Violence

-Ethnicity and Civil War

-Ethnicity, Conflict and Religion

-Ethnicity, Violence and Gender

-Ethnic Conflict, Reconstruction and Democratization

-International Regulation of Ethnic Conflict



Date and Venue:

5‐6 May 2012; Sabanci University Karakoy

Communication Center, Bankalar Caddesi No. 2. Karaköy, Karakoy District, European Side, Istanbul.

Organizing committee:

Ayşe Betül Çelik, Tessa Diphoorn, Victoria Araj







Submission of Papers:

In the spirit of providing a widely inclusive platform

for debate, we invite

abstracts for papers adopting a variety of critical approaches to the study of ethnic conflict. However, comparative research analyzing the challenges of accommodation in the Post-Ottoman societies and the successor states are highly welcome. Please send your CV and a 500 word maximum abstract of an unpublished paper by 1 February 2012 to bcelik@sabanciuniv.edu.

Successful applicants will be notified by 15 February 2012. Limited funding is available for some participants. Some papers will be selected for submissions to an edited book/journal.

18th Congress of the European Anthropological Association

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

With great pleasure, we invite you to participate in the 18th Congress
of the European Anthropological Association, which will convene in
Ankara, Turkey from September 3rd to 6th, 2012.

Our website at http://www.eaa2012turkey.org details travel,
accommodation, social activities and paper submission policies. We
cordially invite you to register for this conference and submit your
abstracts for oral and poster presentations before May 1, 2012.

We gratefully wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous
New Year. We look forward to receiving your submissions, and hope to
meet you in Ankara.

Best regards,

Prof. Erksin Güleç

President of the Organizing Committee

Links:
www.eaa2012turkey.org

Call for Papers: The Anthropology of East Europe Review (AEER) is now
accepting submissions for the Spring 2012 issue.

The Special Issue section theme for the Spring 2012 issue is ?The
?Chernobyl Syndrome?. The Disaster?s legacies in Postsocialist Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union.?

Deadlines: February 5, 2012 (abstracts due); March 16, 2012 (drafts of
selected papers due).

Chernobyl has become a buzzword in 2011 ? not only because of the 25th
anniversary of the disaster, but even more due to the international
focus on the recent damage to the Japanese nuclear power plants in
Fukushima. As early as the 10th anniversary of the disaster, the
Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich declared that Chernobyl had
already become ?a metaphor, a symbol?. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear
accident has indeed become a manifold metaphor for many issues ?
whether directly related to the disaster or not. At the heart of these
issues lies a deep uncertainty, undermining belief in technological
progress, our ability to control risky technologies and the relative
security of everyday life. But even 26 years after the disaster
scholarship on the societal and political consequences of Chernobyl is
still marginal. In this special issue section we welcome all
submissions relating to the social and political effects of Chernobyl
in Postsocialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Of
particular interest is research on reactions and perceptions of
different communities, identity and citizenship formation processes
after Chernobyl, memory and commemoration, perceptions of risk,
health, certainty and security, as well as depictions of the disaster
(literature, music, games, movies etc.), and political and societal
commitment after Chernobyl.

Please send in electronic form (preferably MS Word), an abstract of no
more than 250 words and a short (one paragraph) biography by February
5 to Dr. Melanie Arndt: arndt@zzf-pdm.de. Those authors selected to
submit complete papers (up to 6,000 words) will be asked to do so by
March 16.

The Anthropology of East Europe Review (AEER), a publication of the
East European Anthropology Group, is a biannual edited journal of
scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, the Balkans, and Central Asia.
Our mission is to showcase fresh, up-to-date research and to help
build a community of scholars who focus on the region.

Dear Colleagues,

please see the attached job descriptions for two new positions in
anthropology at Heidelberg. We are particularly interested in
candidates who have completed their PhD, and are focused on one or
more of the following fields.

- Asia
- Oceania
- Human-Nature interactions, Ecology
- Heritage, Performance, Media Anthropology and Anthropology of Art
(especially practical aspects)
- Islam

I am especially personally interested in Performance Studies and
Islam, and would strongly support qualified candidates in those
fields.

Teaching and administration are central to this position and
therefore, although we will consider candidates with limited skills
in German, they will be distinctly disadvantaged in comparison to
German-speakers.

Please do encourage qualified candidates to apply. The deadline is
very soon: February 10th!

with best wishes,
bo
--
Prof. William S. Sax, PhD
Head, Department of Ethnology
South Asia Institute
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
D-69120 Heidelberg

Leader, Project C3, "Asymmetrical Translations: Mind and Body in
European and Indian Medicine"
in the research cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/research/areas/c/projects/c3

Co-Leader (with Hans Harder), Project A8, "Border Rituals"
In Special Research Area 619 Ritualdynamik
http://www.ritualdynamik.de/ritualdynamik/organisation/projektbereichA/a_8.php?navanchor=1110061

Co-Leader (with Marcus Nuesser), DFG Project NU 102/10-1 Changing
Strategies of Resource Use: The "Bhotiyas" in the High Mountain
Border Region of Uttarakhand, India

Co-Leader (with Axel Michaels), Project B14 "Staging Religion"
in the research cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/research/areas/b/projects

Co-Leader (with Wolfgang Eckart), Project C5 "The Concept of Stress
and Stress-Relief in a Transcultural Perspective: an
ethno-epidemiological Study." in the research cluster Asia and
Europe in a Global Context
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/research/areas/c/projects

"For those who have abandoned tradition, there is no hope of
returning to being "traditional." Because the essential condition of
being traditional is to be unaware of the fact that one has a
tradition." -- Al Ghazali (1058-1111)

Aleksanteri Institute Visiting Scholars Programme

ALEKSANTERI INSTITUTE VISITING FELLOWSHIPS 2012-2013

The Aleksanteri Institute is pleased to invite applications for Aleksanteri Visiting Fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year from scholars holding a PhD degree and pursuing research that relates to the Institute's research agenda.

The Fellowship carries a monthly stipend of 2500 euros to cover all the expenses related to the research visit that can range from two to three months. The Visiting Fellowship scheme is intended for scholars who reside outside of Finland. The deadline for applications is 24 February, 2012.

The Aleksanteri Institute is the Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European studies and an independent institute of the University of Helsinki. Starting in 2012, the Institute is also coordinating a Centre of Excellence funded by the Academy of Finland, titled ?Choices of Russian Modernisation?.

For more information on the fellowships and on the Aleksanteri Institute and its research agenda, please visit
http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/english

THE SEMIOTICS OF AUGUST IN THE 20th CENTURY


Dear colleague,

I am delighted to invite you to participate in a special edition of the New Literary Observer, currently featuring the working title ?The semiotics of August in the 20th century?.

This special edition is a continuation of a large-scale NLO project that aims to apply an anthropological perspective in rethinking the processes of transformation of modern societies, to formulate new interdisciplinary approaches to studying human history, and to work up a new scientific paradigm capable of stimulating the development of up-and-coming practices in the humanities

The edition will investigate the extent to which the life of the private individual has fundamentally changed as a result of the global cataclysms of the 20th century: the world wars, intellectual, social and scientific-technological revolutions and the geopolitical reshaping of the world.

The ?short? 20th century, according to Eric Hobsbawm, opened in August 1914 and ended in August 1991. Upon closer inspection, we see that in the last century August constituted a deeply symbolic time (especially for Russia) ? many events of profound importance, which determined abrupt turning-points in history, took place in that very month. With reference to well-known dates, we can present a basic periodicisation of the 20th century as follows:

1. August 1914 (beginning of the First World War) ? August 1939 (beginning of the Second World War) 2. August 1939 ? August 1945 (end of the Second World War) 3. August 1945 ? August 1968 (invasion of Soviet tanks into Czechoslovakia, student unrest in Europe) 4. August 1968 ? August 1991 (disintegration of unified Communist space)

While acknowledging the conditional character of such a periodicisation, we nevertheless believe it to be a useful tool to use in realising the basic aim of the investigation. Our task lies in testing the validity of the generally accepted opinion, that the beginning of the First World War marked the end of the belle epoque and a radical break with the existing value system, way of life and goal-setting of modern European society of the previous period.

Our particular interest in Augusts as the high points of social bifurcation in the 20th century was dictated by our belief that it is precisely at such moments of the collapse of civilisation that the hidden carcass of culture reveals itself, that is, the whole multiform system of customary lifestyle and values-based practices hit hardest by the change. In his attempt to re-establish the disintegrated sense of continuity, the private individual tries to reconstruct the traditional order of things, while at the same time inevitably reformulating and transforming tradition itself.

We propose to analyse how, in the midst of the elemental process of the normalisation of life at key moments in the world cataclysms of the 20th century, the private individual gave meaning to and recreated his existence in the totality of personal and social ties. For instance, we will examine modifications in:
* relationships between friends, lovers, family members, professionals and partners;
* everyday practices, lifestyle, habitat;
* the selection of beliefs, ethical values and behavioural models;
* the boundaries between the public and private sphere;
* individual and collective memory;
* forms of social stratification and mobility;
* individual and collective identity:
* intellectual and artistic reflection (scientific discoveries and the concept of the human being, the value of human life, the boundaries between nature and culture, etc.) .

From the point of view of the anthropological approach, each of the above-mentioned historical periods and overall:
* in which spheres of the private individual's life did the most radical changes take place?
* where did the customary framework for existence remain unchanged despite global catastrophes and revolutionary discoveries?
*what is the correlation between ?loss? and ?gains??
* what are the differences in the new life experience of people living in ?open? and ?closed? societies?
* how traditionally do the documents from this period being used by the researchers reflect the depth and essence of the changes?

Articles should be submitted no later than 15 April 2012.


Respectfully yours,

Irina Prokhorova
Editor-in-chief
New Literary Observer

From: Serguei A. Oushakine

We are pleased to announce a new publication:

Urban Spaces after Socialism. Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities, edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Wolfgang Kaschuba and Melanie Krebs,
Frankfurt/Main: Campus Verlag, 2011 ? 325 pages ? ISBN 978-3-593-39384-1

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery. Urban Spaces after Socialism offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space in the region's cities. Presenting case studies from Tashkent, Yerevan, Gumri, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi, Baku, and Osh, the book examines the way that different groups, from Christians and Muslims to ardent reformers and Soviet apologists, assign meaning to public spaces and deploy them in attempts to construct-and even control-the way the history of their cities is understood.
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/U/bo12251838.html

Contents:
Tsypylma Darieva and Wolfgang Kaschuba, Sights and Signs of Postsocialist Urbanism. An Introduction

Part I: Contours and Places

Artyom Kosmarski, Grandeur and Decay of the »Soviet Byzantium«: Spaces, Peoples and Memories of Tashkent
Gayane Shagoyan, The Second City as the First City: The Development of Gyumri from Anthropological Perspective
Madlen Pilz, Symbolic Transformation of Urban Landscape: Tbilisi City Maps
Melanie Krebs, Maiden Tower Goes International? Representing Baku in a Global World
Levon Abrahamian, Yerevan Sacra: Old and New Sacred Centres in the Urban Space
Tsypylma Darieva, A Remarkable Gift in a Postcolonial City. The Past and Present of the Baku Promenade

Part II: Places and Voices

Oleg Pachenkov, Every City has the Flea Market it Deserves. The Phenomenon of Urban Flea Market in St.-Petersburg
Zaza Shatirishvili and Paul Manning, Why are the Dolls Laughing? Tbilisi between Intelligentsia Culture and Socialist Labour
Sergey Rumyansev and Sevil Huseynova, Between Jazz Centre and the Capital of Muslim Culture. Some Insights into Baku?s Public and Everyday Life
Shorena Gabunia, Gay Culture and Public Places in Tbilisi
Paul Manning and Zaza Shatirishvili, The Exoticism and Eroticism of the City: The Kinto and his Tbilisi
Stefan Kirmse, »Nested Globalization« in Osh, Kyrgyzstan: Urban Youth Culture in a »Southern« City

Alaina Lemon, Afterword to Urban Socialisms