Seminars

HIA - Senior Fellows Seminar Week in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Learning project management - Changing your society - Finding friends from all over the Balkans

 A SEMINAR in Sremski Karlovci (Serbia) - APRIL 19-25
Antwortadresse: Balkans - Let's get up!<get_up@THEODOR- HEUSS-KOLLEG. DE>
** APPLY TILL 20th MARCH 2010 at
http://theodor- heuss-kolleg. de/get_up/ index.html **

WHY GET UP?

Corrupt politicians, boring lectures at university, empty plastic
bottles on the riverside, people who care just about themselves " are
you familiar with these problems? We are convinced that everybody can
change something in his or her society, because we experienced it.
But who is going to do that? The answer we suggest: Every single one
of us!

DURING THE SEMINAR¦

¦you are going to discuss the problems of your societies with other
young people from the Balkans. Boring?! We use creative, sometimes
crazy, certainly practical methods. You will learn the basics of
project management and intercultural communication and develop your
own small project. Depending on further funding you will receive a
scholarship for realising your project.

The seminar is run by four young, international and experienced
trainers.

CONDITIONS
* 18 - 27 years old
* able to discuss in English (not necessarily fluent)
* citizen of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania or Serbia.

FEES
5 EUR, all costs are covered, travel expanses will be refunded.

LIKE TO PARTICIPATE?
Apply with a letter of motivation until 20th March 2010 online:
http://theodor- heuss-kolleg. de/get_up/ index.html

QUESTIONS?
get_up@theodor- heuss-kolleg. de

OUR SUPPORTERS

* Association MitOst: International network for cultural exchange:
www.mitost.org

* Theodor-Heuss- Kolleg: A program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and
MitOst:
Supporting young people´s civic engagement:
www.theodor- heuss-kolleg. de

* Foundation Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung:
www.fes.rs

* Schueler helfen Leben: www.schueler- helfen-leben. de

--
Balkans, let´s get up!
c/o Theodor-Heuss- Kolleg
Schillerstr. 57
10627 Berlin
Germany
+49 30 315 174 - 80

REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES - -Training for Journalists from SEE-

Mediacentar Sarajevo and EuroConsult Mott MacDonald are announcing

Call for Applications

REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUEs

-Training for Journalists from SEE-

Mjesto: MEDIACENTAR Sarajevo, Organizator: MEDIACENTAR Sarajevo, No Comments
Rok za prijavu:20/03/10 

Training content

In spite of their importance, environmental issues in the SEE region are not sufficiently recognized and discussed publically. Media have one of the key roles with regard to this - monitoring and reporting on environmental problems, creating and adjusting environmental policies to the European standards, as well as raising public awareness on these issues.

Therefore, the aim of this training is to increase journalists’ knowledge and awareness of important environment topics and problems, and to provide them with long term support in their continuous work on these subjects. The training will take place in Mediacenter Sarajevo, from April 12 to April 17, 2010 (6 working days in total). The following areas will be discussed from theoretical and practical aspects:

- EU Acquis Communitaire
- Water  and Water Management in SEE Countries
- Waste  and Waste Management in SEE Countries
- Sustainable Development (with the focus on tourist development in SEE countries and environment protection)
- Climate Change

Application for the training must include synopsis of the participant’s story (in English, no longer than 500 words) that has to be related to one of the areas mentioned above. Working language of the training is English.

Training methodology
The training will combine theoretical workshops providing basic information about the EU policies with regards to the specific topic, institutions, legislatives, case studies and technical background information, and practical mentoring for the participants on their own investigative stories that have to be related to the areas mentioned above.

Who can apply?
Journalists with experience in working on the environmental issues (all media included); young journalists with up to 5 years of working experience (all media included); and journalism students in their final year of undergraduate studies. Applications from the following countries are eligible - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia.

Application requirements

Obligatory application documents are following:

- Filled application form you can find here
- CV with the detailed list of published articles, broadcasted radio or TV reports, essays from the University
- Short presentation of your topic for the investigative story that you will be developing during the training, no longer than 500 words, in English, containing the following information - sources, importance of the story for the local community, main questions that you would like to explore

Results

During the training, participants will develop/finalize their own story, having investigated the  selected topic related to the areas mentioned above. All finalized stories will be published on MC Online and other interested web portals in the region.

Expenses

The organizers of the training will cover full accommodation expenses. As for travel expenses, they will be covered as following: up to 50 EUR for participants from Serbia and Montenegro; up to 300 EUR for participants from Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo; and up to 30 EUR for participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Please send us your application until March 20, 2010 on the following e-mail address trening@media.ba. For any additional information, please contact us via e-mail  ljilja@media.ba  or telephone number +387 33 715 840.

Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration!

Student Theatre Activism, Zagreb, 24-26.3.2010

Call for Papers and Participants!

The Regional Conference "Student Theatre and Political Activism"
Student Centre of the University of Zagreb
March, 24th to 26th, 2010
Zagreb(Croatia)

During the last two decades
the demand for active social and political engagement in art has become one of the most urgent ones. Reasons are many and diverse, from the ecological to antiglobalist ones, but they successfully summon artists from various fields. However, while conceptual, performance and video artists demonstrate strong political awareness and readiness, most of the theatre artists yield to the inertia of their field, reacting slowly, if at all. Can students change this? This conference seeks to provide a forum for the exchange of practices and experiences relating to social and political activism among student theatre groups at the university. Our aim is to analyse recent initiatives and reveal innovative approaches to theatre as a vehicle of social change and political statement.

The questions we ask are simple:
Does theatre has the power to make a change?
If so, do students recognize it?
Are they willing to use it?
Is there a need to use it?
What can we learn from other artistic practices?

The Conference will be held during Test!0 - International Student Theatre and Multimedia Festival (22nd - 27th March). It is open to all theatre practitioners and
theoreticians (for example in the following fields: theatre studies, art history,
sociology, film and media studies) who work with university students, university
students and other participants eager to contribute to the development of social
and political awareness among students at the university.

Please submit your presentation abstract (in Slavic languages and/or English, 250 words) and CV to: testzg.conference@ gmail.com

Accommodation and travel info upon demand.

Look for more info on the festival at www.test.hr

Unity and Plurality in Europe, Mostar, 1-3.8.2010

International Forum Bosnia, in cooperation with and with support from a number of other organisations from Bosnia and abroad, will be hosting the Fifth International Conference on Unity and Plurality in Europe. The conference will be held in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the 1st to the 3rd of August, 2010.

The programme will be conducted according to three thematic areas: 1) Religion, Identity and Society, 2) The Role of the University in the New Europe, and 3) The Conditions of Coexistence.

More details about the conference may be found at www.ifbosna.org.ba

Organizational board

International Forum Bosnia

Sime Milutinovica 10, 71000 Sarajevo, BiH

Phone:++ 387 (0) 33 217 665, 217 670, 217 680

Fax:++ 387 (0) 33 206 484

E-mail: ifbosna@bih. net.ba

Web: www.ifbosna.org.ba

The Issue of the (Post) Other - Postmodernism and the Other, Zadar University

Re-thinking Humanities and Social Sciences
1st International Conference
University of Zadar
10 - 12 September 2010


Conference Topic: The Issue of the (Post)Other: Postmodernism and the Other

Every questioning of the term postmodernism generates a new reading or a new addressing of its origin, namely its relation to the modernism. Is postmodernism just a continuation or an unfinished project of modernism, or is it something entirely new? A similar dilemma, even more radical and enigmatic, concerns questions about the Other: is the Other, ultimately, radical alterity, irreducible in its uniqueness, or is it possible to incorporate the Other in some order of the Same?

This oscillation between two poles vibrates throughout various currents of postmodernism. Perhaps the easiest way to conceive of the Other in postmodernism is to associate it with some monstrous form: the living dead, zombies, psychopathic extraterrestrials, alien objects and creatures, androids, disgusting slimy beings invading our bodies, multiplying in our wombs; from horror to science fiction, all those uncanny, unfathomable appearances beyond (or beneath) the very category of Œthe human¹. A different approach to the Other in postmodernism, in a crude and simple way, could be summed up under the credo: the Other is produced by a discourse; various regimes of power make the Other visible, until it assumes the more concrete shape of the neighbour. Instead of the monstrous forms and the invasion of the uncanny, we have instead different aspects of the neighbour: Orientalism, imaginary cartography, the clash of civilisations, the stranger, the migrant, the national, the ethnic, the minority others and various symphonies of hybridism in a globalscape.

From this postmodern dilemma arise crucial questions: how do we answer to the call of the Other? Is the alterity which calls us, sheer otherness, the uncanny presence, the unnamable obstacle to representation, or is it possible to love Œthy neighbour¹ the Other? And finally, are we entering a phase in which it is possible to talk about the post-Other?

The goal of this conference is a multidisciplinary questioning of the concept of the Other from radical theorising in the context of the latest debate on the Same and Difference to vivid case studies refreshed and invigorated by Œnew examples¹. We picture the conference traversing a variety of theoretical concepts and topics, bringing together scholars of diverse backgrounds and interests.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

· The other "Other" and the otherness of "Otherness¹ are we entering the stage of "post-Other"?

· Indivisibility of discursively produced (and thus discursively tamable) "Other"

· "Taming¹ the "Other¹ by disclosing sedimented discourses of power or by resisting productive subjugation to bio-power

· The "Other¹ in literature (in different literary genres; the "Other¹ as the subject¹s constitutive element in various narratives)

· Fear of the unknown and the construction of the "Other¹ (monsters, beasts, mass murderers)

· (Re)presentation of the "Other¹ in film

· Conspiracy theories and the construction of the "Other¹

· National, ethnic, gender and minority "Others¹

· Post-socialism and the "Other¹

· Global production of the local ŒOther¹ and vice versa local production of the global ŒOther¹

· Literary translation as the "Other¹ original

· Literature as non-art

· The "Other¹ in language when metaphor becomes methodology

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Eric L. Santner, Philip and Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, Professor of Germanic Studies, The University of Chicago.

Stipe Grgas, Department of English, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb


Call for Papers:

Proposals are invited from scholars from different fields and disciplines of humanities and social sciences for individual papers (30 minutes including discussion time).

Please send proposals (no more than 300 words in length) to rhss@unizd.hr by June 1st 2010. Selected papers will be published online.

Abstracts should be in Word or RTF formats and include the following: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) e-mail address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract. Please use plain text (Times New Roman 12, Single Spacing, Justify) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).

E-mails should be entitled: Postmodernism and the Other Proposal

We acknowledge receipt and reply to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us within a week from your submission, you should assume we did not receive your proposal; in that case we suggest trying an alternative electronic route or resending.

The conference language is English.


Registration:

Full rate: 80 Euros. Postgraduate/ Unwaged: 40 Euros
Late registration fee is 100 Euros i.e. 50 Euros for postgraduate/ unwaged.

Dates:

Proposal submission deadline is June 1st 2010.
Registration deadline for all conference participants is July 1st 2010.
Final conference announcement and the program will be published August 15th
2010 on the conference website: http://www.rhss-conference.com


Additional Information:

The conference will take place at the University of Zadar (www.unizd.hr), Croatia. Additional information about travel arrangements, accommodation, and other practical details will be posted soon
on the conference website: http://www.rhss-conference.com

Or you can contact the organizers directly at rhss@unizd.hr

Twenty Years of Democracy: Perspectives on Post-comunism in Central and Eastern Europe

Call for Proposals
Student Conference:
Twenty years of democracy
Perspectives on post-communism in Central and Eastern Europe
The 16th -17th of April, 2010
Political Science Department, University of Bucharest
Deadline for abstract submission: the 10th of March, 2010
http://fspubconference.wordpress.com/

In Central and Eastern Europe, the fall of communism opened the path to democracy, a choice acknowledged - in Pierre Manent's words- as the unique universal "political religion". The communism represented in this region one of the most complicated projects of readjustment of the political, social, economic and cultural values. As a consequence, its demise involved a complex "reinvention of politics"; (Tismaneanu) : from the shift toward new principles and rules to the reconfiguration of the social and political paradigm.

The struggle to move form a single party system to a multiparty party one, the restructuring of the civil society, the institutional state reform, the uncertainties regarding the foundations of the democratic legitimacy, the protection of human rights and the difficulties that ethnic, cultural and religious minorities have to deal with - are all issues that continue to generate fierce theoretical debates.

The process of democratization was interpreted in various ways. Some political scientists set the limits of this process to a rather "technical" evaluation by applying a set of criteria included in an index of democracies elaborated by different international bodies. Others, like Dahrendorf, insist on the time span necessary to build an authentic democracy; he considers that the economic and political changes within the system insufficiently strengthen a democratic state in the absence of a civic society. Moreover, authors like Rupnik emphasize the fact that the transition from totalitarianism to democracy cannot be considered irreversible and that the presence of extremism in Central and Eastern Europe can actually undermine the democratic political construction.

The student conference organized by the Political Science Department, University of Bucharest, and by the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (CEVIPOL), Université Libre de Bruxelles, aims to encourage a multidisciplinary approach of the above mentioned issues related to the process of democratic consolidation in Central and Eastern European two decades after the first free elections that took place after the fall of communism. The organizers are particularly interested in individual or collective papers, theoretical or empirical, based on original researches that will generate an interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the following issues:

- The evolution of the partisan phenomenon in ex-communist states;
- Institutional reforms of the ex-communist countries;
- Governance and (new/old) political elites;
- (Re)emergence and development of the civil society;
- Integration of post-communist states in the European space; public policies and "europeanization" ;
- Consolidation of the rule of law and human rights protection;
- Redefinition of the political community: recognition of minorities rights, migration, diasporas;
- Economic reforms and welfare
- Political and academic reevaluation of the communist past.

The conference is addressed mainly to students currently enrolled in the final years of a Bachelor degree, as well as the ones attending a Master program, from different fields of social sciences and humanities: Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Law.

The conference will take place at the Institute for Political Research, 8 Spiru Haret str., 010175, Bucharest 1, Romania.

In order to attend the conference, please send an abstract of 300 words max, in addition to a short CV, until the 10th of March 2010, to the following e-mail address: fspubconference@ fspub.ro. Please specify in the e-mail if you request the partial reimbursement of the transport expenses or of the accommodation (please note that for the moment our resources are very limited)

The selected participants have to send the final paper (20 000- 25 000 characters) by April 10th, 2010. The conference languages are English and French but the abstract, as well as the final paper, can be written in Romanian, English or French.

The conference is organized in partnership with Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie - Bureau Europe Centrale et Orientale and The Policy Center for Roma and Minorities, Bucharest.

Damiana OTOIU
CEVIPOL - ULB
Institut de Sociologie
44, Avenue Jeanne
1050, Bruxelles
Tél: +32(0)26503449
+32(0)486604730

Come to SEE Youthpass! - Training Course for Youthpass for organisations in South East Europe

 The overall aim of the training course is to improve the quality of Youth in Action Projects involving organisations from South East Europe, by raising the participants' awareness on the principles of non-formal learning and its validation, and training them to implement Youthpass in their future projects (EVS, Youth Exchanges and Training Courses).

The objectives of the training course are:
- To create possibilities for sharing experience among youth leaders from different countries in SEE and develop expertise in non-formal education;
- To explore the concept and exchange practice of non-formal learning in youth work, especially in the context of South East Europe;
- To raise awareness on the potential and educational value of youth work in the frame of eight key competences for life-long learning;
- To promote and deepen the understanding and knowledge of Youthpass as a tool for recognition and validation of non-formal learning in youth work;
- To raise awareness of the wider recognition context of non-formal education and learning through reflection on recent developments in youth and education policies in the region;
- To provide the participants with a possibility to experience Youthpass by integrating self-assessment of competences and issuing of the certificates in the programme of the training course;
- To train the participants on the technical use of Youthpass and facilitation of self-assessment of competences, with the aim of enabling them to issue Youthpasses for participants in their future projects under the Youth in Action Programme (EVS, Youth Exchanges and Training Courses);

Participants' profile:
- The training course is targeting practitioners (youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, EVS mentors) from South East Europe with prior experience in the field of youth and non-formal education, specifically within the Youth in Action Programme;
- The participants should have some experience on Youth in Action Programme´s Actions open for the Neighbouring Partner Countries (Action 2 and / or 3.1) and have interest in realising further projects with a special focus on the learning dimension and its recognition;
- The participants should have interest in exploring the concept of non-formal learning, its validation and applicability in youth work;
- Prior experience in implementing Youthpass is not required, however, the participants should be interested in integrating the Youthpass instrument and the Youthpass process in their future projects under the Youth in Action Programme;

Training Course for Youthpass for organisations in South East Europe.

Activity date: 2010-04-18 - 2010-04-23
Activity type: Training course
Target group: Project managers, Youth leaders, Youth workers

For participants from: SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
Group size: 30
Venue place, venue country: Serbia

Application to
Apply online: Come to SEE Youthpass!

SALTO SEE RC, SALTO T&C RC, National Agencies: France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia
Maija Lehto
SALTO South East Europe Resource Centre Dunajska 22, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: + 386 1 430 47 47
Fax: + 386 1 430 47 49
E-mail: maija.lehto@mva.si
www.salto-youth.net/see

Come to SEE Youthpass! - Training Course for Youthpass for organisations in South East Europe

 The overall aim of the training course is to improve the quality of Youth in Action Projects involving organisations from South East Europe, by raising the participants' awareness on the principles of non-formal learning and its validation, and training them to implement Youthpass in their future projects (EVS, Youth Exchanges and Training Courses).

The objectives of the training course are:
- To create possibilities for sharing experience among youth leaders from different countries in SEE and develop expertise in non-formal education;
- To explore the concept and exchange practice of non-formal learning in youth work, especially in the context of South East Europe;
- To raise awareness on the potential and educational value of youth work in the frame of eight key competences for life-long learning;
- To promote and deepen the understanding and knowledge of Youthpass as a tool for recognition and validation of non-formal learning in youth work;
- To raise awareness of the wider recognition context of non-formal education and learning through reflection on recent developments in youth and education policies in the region;
- To provide the participants with a possibility to experience Youthpass by integrating self-assessment of competences and issuing of the certificates in the programme of the training course;
- To train the participants on the technical use of Youthpass and facilitation of self-assessment of competences, with the aim of enabling them to issue Youthpasses for participants in their future projects under the Youth in Action Programme (EVS, Youth Exchanges and Training Courses);

Participants' profile:
- The training course is targeting practitioners (youth workers, youth leaders, project managers, EVS mentors) from South East Europe with prior experience in the field of youth and non-formal education, specifically within the Youth in Action Programme;
- The participants should have some experience on Youth in Action Programme´s Actions open for the Neighbouring Partner Countries (Action 2 and / or 3.1) and have interest in realising further projects with a special focus on the learning dimension and its recognition;
- The participants should have interest in exploring the concept of non-formal learning, its validation and applicability in youth work;
- Prior experience in implementing Youthpass is not required, however, the participants should be interested in integrating the Youthpass instrument and the Youthpass process in their future projects under the Youth in Action Programme;

Training Course for Youthpass for organisations in South East Europe.

Activity date: 2010-04-18 - 2010-04-23
Activity type: Training course
Target group: Project managers, Youth leaders, Youth workers

For participants from: SOUTH-EAST EUROPE
Group size: 30
Venue place, venue country: Serbia

Application to
Apply online: Come to SEE Youthpass!

SALTO SEE RC, SALTO T&C RC, National Agencies: France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia
Maija Lehto
SALTO South East Europe Resource Centre Dunajska 22, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Phone: + 386 1 430 47 47
Fax: + 386 1 430 47 49
E-mail: maija.lehto@mva.si
www.salto-youth.net/see

2nd Intl Conference "The Economies of Balkan and Eastern Europe

The EFC AGA and Conference Scholarship Programme

The deadline is 12 March.

The scholarship programme is generously supported by:

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, EVKAF, Fondazione CRT, the Global Fund for Women, Realdania and Robert Bosch Stiftung.

This scholarship fund has been generously funded by EFC members and is aimed at foundation staff worldwide, with special emphasis on participants whose attendance can be directly linked to the conference theme.

Eligibility and Application Conditions 

The eligibility criteria required to apply for the scholarship is as follows: 

• The organisation should be unable to cover the costs of attending the conference
• Transparent finances and activities
• Capacity to qualify for EFC membership
• Attending the whole AGA and Conference
• Only one application per organisation
• Priority will be given to those aged 35 years and under

The scholarship programme is intended to cover one or more of the following:

•  Registration fee for the AGA and Conference  - Registration covers conference participation, meals (where indicated in the programme), social events and a conference bag of materials (including the Delegates List) distributed when registering onsite
• Travel expenses (participant’s own arrangements, economy rates only) - Any transfers, meals, visas or other travel-related costs are exempt and these must be covered by the individual
• Accommodation expenses  (two nights in a single room selected by the EFC Secretariat) - Hotel incidentals such as phone calls, room service, pay-for-view tv etc are exempt and are the responsibility of the individual upon checking out of the hotel

Please note that we need to receive the applicant’s organisation’s annual report to process the application.

 Download Application Form

http://www.efc.be/AgaConference/Pages/AGAScholarshipProgramme.aspx

5th Doctoral Conference, South East European Research Centre

The South East European Research Centre will be holding the 5th Doctoral Conference in Thessaloniki on September 13th/14th 2010.

This conference is aimed at attracting doctoral students from around the South East European region and beyond who are doing their theses on areas of interest for South East Europe. Participants will present their doctoral work, at whichever stage they are, to an expert discussant and group of their peers, and will receive feedback and advice on their work.

There are four areas of interest - business, technology, politics/education and psychology. I am attaching a detailed call for papers and will cut and paste below those areas of particular interest for this list in democratic governance, education and society (research track 3).

Abstract submission by 15th March 2010

Please forward any queries to rt3@seerc.org.

Thank you

Democratic Governance, Education and Society

* Politics

o EU Policy and Integration,

o International Relations,

o Migration,

o Public Administration,

o Nations and Nationalism,

o Conflict and Peace,

o Geo-Politics,

o Regional Development,

o Environment

o Parties and Party Systems

Sociology

o Religiosity,

o Ethnicity, Identity,

o Social Policy,

o Genocide Studies,

o Post-Socialist Transformation,

o Europeanisation,

o Family and Community Life

Language Policy and Practice

o Intercultural Communication,

o Ethno-linguistics,

o English as a Lingua Franca,

o English-Only Europe,

o The EU and Language,

o Language Testing,

o Language Teaching

* Media and Journalism

o Media Representation in the Balkans,

o Media Interaction and Globalization,

o Media Governance,

o Media Commercialization,

o War Reporting: Archiving of War Crimes,

o Media Freedom,

o Media Corruption

Sara Hannam, Senior Lecturer,
Director
English Language Support Unit
Humanities and Social Sciences Division
City College
International Faculty of the University of Sheffield
Stein Building

2 Kalopothaki Street
54624
Thessaloniki
Greece
Tel: + 30 2310 224026/224080 ext: 113
Fax: + 30 2310 224061
email: hannam@city.academic.gr
website: http://www.city.academic.gr

http://sjhannam.edublogs.org/

Assistant Director of Doctoral Programme
South East European Research Centre
SEERC
24 Proxenou Koromila
54622
Thessaloniki
Greece
Website: http://www.seerc.org

Email: shannam@seerc. org

CfP: 6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences, 16-18 April, 2010, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences
Social Science Perspectives on Global Transformations and Social Change
16-18 April, 2010
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
www.ceu.hu/polscijournal

We encourage graduate students and young faculty to apply with papers to one of the following panels.

Panel 1: Politics 2.0: Politics and Political Science in the Information Age
Panel 2: Blurry Lenses? Perceptions of the Past after Two Decades
Panel 3: Changing boundaries of political membership
Panel 4: Are They Drifting Into Adulthood? Past, present and future of New European Democracies
Panel 5: Roles, Functions, and Organization of Political Parties in New Democracies
Panel 6: Political Participation in a Comparative Perspective
Panel 7: Social Consequences of Economic Crisis
Panel 8: Economic Nationalism in Europe
Panel 9: Six years after, twelve members more: The impact of the Eastward Enlargements on the Policy-Making Process and Political Dynamics of the EU
Panel 10: Political Behavior
Panel 11: Quantitative Research Methodology
Panel 12: Parliaments in Crisis: Why and Where to?

Applications consist of the paper abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV/resume (max. 2 pages) to be sent directly to the panel chair (e-mail address is provided on the website). Deadline for paper applications: March 1, 2010. Results are available after March 4. However, applications may end earlier, as soon as the panel chairs are satisfied with the composition of their panels.

Details and panel descriptions are available at www.ceu.hu/polscijo urnal

The Editorial Board
CEU Political Science Journal
www.ceu.hu/polscijournal
Nador ut. 9, 1051 Budapest,
Hungary

CfP: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2010), London, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

London International Conference on Education (LICE-2010), September 6-8, 2010, London, UK (www.liceducation.org)

The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in LICE-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education

IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: March 01, 2010
Research Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: March 30, 2010
Proposal for Workshops: February 15, 2010
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejectio n: February 15, 2010
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress)
Acceptance/Rejectio n: March 15, 2010
Notification of Research Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance
/Rejection: April 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: June 01, 2010
Participant( s) Registration (Open): January 2010
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 31, 2010
Late Bird Registration Deadline: September 06, 2010
Conference Dates: September 06-08, 2010

For further information please visit LICE-2010
at www.liceducation.org,
September 6-8, 2010, London, UK
(www.liceducation.org)

The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2010 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in LICE-2010 include but are not confined to the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education

IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: March 01, 2010
Research Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: March 30, 2010
Proposal for Workshops: February 15, 2010
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejectio n: February 15, 2010
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress)
Acceptance/Rejectio n: March 15, 2010
Notification of Research Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance
/Rejection: April 15, 2010
Camera Ready Paper Due: June 01, 2010
Participant( s) Registration (Open): January 2010
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 31, 2010
Late Bird Registration Deadline: September 06, 2010
Conference Dates: September 06-08, 2010

For further information please visit LICE-2010 at www.liceducation.org

European Financial Seminar

Ženeva , Švajcarska
Trajanje: 18-22.4.2010.

The European Financial Seminar is a 5-day working session that was established in 1990. The 19 th edition of the annual seminar will be held from Sunday, April 18 th until Thursday, April 22 nd , 2010 at the P&G European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Travel and accommodation expenses for all participants will be paid by P&G.
During these 5 days, you and other excellent students from around the world will run a multinational business, developing your management and financial skills by working in teams and interacting with experienced P&G executives. The EFS is an opportunity for you to learn within P&G.
The EFS will expose you to a real life business case study, which challenges you to develop strategies and drive decisions together with top students from all over the world.

Način konkurisanja:

Please attach your CV and motivation letter in English language to your online application - thanks!

http://www.joinPG.com/efs
Rok za konkurisanje: 07.02.2010.

Workshop on Europeanisation and Enlargement, Bucharest, 11-12.6. 2010

Workshop on Europeanisation and Enlargement

jointly organized by

LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, European Institute, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

and

The Center for European Studies, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.

11-12 June 2010, Bucharest, Romania

With this Workshop, we seek to draw together scholars in order to connect the developing literature on 'Europeanization' to the recent realities of the domestic transitions underway in south-east Europe. The region exhibits an exceptional diversity of conditions in this respect: between recent entrants, applicant states, pre-accession states, a special strategy for the newly-defined 'Western Balkans', and
countries coming under the 'European Neighbourhood Policy'. We seek to extend and update earlier research, with a longer temporal perspective and a greater cross-comparison according to type of EU-status. There is much scope here for illuminating research and discussion.

We welcome papers within political science, political economy and international relations, whilst being open to papers on these themes in cognate disciplines. We seek papers that focus on public policy and/or institutions within a relevant domestic setting. Comparative analyses and single case studies are welcome. All papers delivered will be made available online via the CSE and LSEE.

Those interested in submitting papers are requested to send an abstract of 3-500 words by email to: cse@snspa.ro. The deadline for abstracts is 10th February 2010 and acceptance of paper proposals will be communicated by 1st March 2010. Papers may be submitted in English or French, but the language of the conference will be English.

A limited number of bursaries will be available to paper givers, though these will not cover the full cost of travel and accommodation. Requests for such funding should be indicated at the time of submission of abstracts and decisions will be made at the time of the acceptance of papers.

Organisers:
Prof. Kevin Featherstone - Co-Chair of LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE European Institute, London
and
Dr. Claudiu Craciun - CSE, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration,
Bucharest

If you do not wish to receive information about LSEE events and activities in the future please send a message to Euroinst.Lsee@ lse.ac.uk and ask to be removed from the mailing list.

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComplianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm

CfP: Workshop on Europeanization and Enlargement LSE/SNSPA, Bucharest, Roumania

Call for papers

Workshop on Europeanization and Enlargement

jointly organized by

LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, European Institute,

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

and

The Center for European Studies, NATIONAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL STUDIES AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Bucharest.

11-12 June 2010, Bucharest, Romania

With this Workshop, we seek to draw together scholars in order to connect the developing literature on "Europeanization" to the recent realities of the domestic transitions underway in south-east Europe. The region exhibits an exceptional diversity of conditions in this respect: between recent entrants, applicant states, pre-accession states, a special strategy for the newly-defined "Western Balkans", and countries coming under the "European Neighbourhood Policy". We seek to extend and update earlier research, with a longer temporal perspective and a greater cross-comparison according to type of EU-status. There is much scope here for illuminating research and discussion.

We welcome papers within political science, political economy and international relations, whilst being open to papers on these themes in cognate disciplines. We seek papers that focus on public policy and/or institutions within a relevant domestic setting. Comparative analyses and single case studies are welcome. All papers delivered will be made available online via the CSE and LSEE.

Those interested in submitting papers are requested to send an abstract of 3-500 words by email to: cse@snspa.ro. The deadline for abstracts is 10th February 2010 and acceptance of paper proposals will be communicated by 1st March 2010. Papers may be submitted in English or French, but the language of the conference will be English.

A limited number of of bursaries will be available to paper givers, though these will not cover the full cost of travel and accommodation. Requests for such funding should be indicated at the time of submission of abstracts and decisions will be made at the time of the acceptance of papers.

Organizers:

Prof. Kevin Featherstone - Co-Chair of LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, LSE European Institute,

London

and

Dr. Claudiu Craciun - CSE, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration,

Bucharest

CfP: International conference: Europe After the Lisbon Treaty, 21 May 2010, Skopje, Macedonia

Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2010.

The University American College Skopje is organizing its fifth international conference on European integration - Europe After the Lisbon Treaty on 21 May 2010 in Skopje, Macedonia. We seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the ratification of this treaty and its consequences for the future of European integration. We welcome proposals from scholars, professionals and graduate students from any discipline including but not limited to international relations, economics, law and political sciences, sociology, philosophy, and regional and cultural studies. The call for papers and other important information can be found on our website: http://www.uacs.edu.mk/conference/index.html

Please follow the abstract guidelines available from this link http://www.uacs.edu.mk/conference/absguid.html, and send us your abstracts to conference@uacs. edu.mk Also, please feel free to circulate this message to whomever is interested.

Sincerely,

The Organizing Committee

Dr Clarisse Molad, UACS Vice Dean

Dr Stevo Pendarovski

Dr Ivan Dodovski

Jean Monnet Summer Seminar

*Jean Monnet Summer Seminar 2010 (7th edition)
SIENA and ROME, 28 June - 16 July 2010*

We are thrilled to announce that the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Siena are currently organizing the 7TH EDITION of the JEAN MONNET INTERNATIONAL EU SUMMER SEMINARS, to be held in Siena and Rome from the 28 June to the 16 July 2010. The summer seminars will be made up by three different modules each to be taken individually.

EU INSTITUTIONS AND DECISION MAKING AFTER THE LISBON TREATY

The 1st module will focus on the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty in the EU institutions and decision making procedures. It will also perform a first assessment of the new EU High Representative and the EU President. The module will take place in Siena from the 28th June to the 2nd of July, 2010 under the direction of Prof. Luca Verzichelli, Dean of the Faculty of Political Science of University of Siena. It will be an exciting hands-on course analyzing the changes introduced by the Lisbon Treaty both from a theoretical and practical point of view. Among the themes that will be treated:
- The Council and the European Council
- The EU President and the European Council after Lisbon
- Cooperation and Rivalry in the EU Internal Dynamics
- EU Governance
- The EU Multilevel Governance after the Lisbon Treaty
- The EU Regions in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty
- EU Parliament
- Regulatory Policies and Regulatory Institutions in Europe
- Is European Parliament the Looser after Lisbon?

THE EU FOREIGN AND DEFENCE POLICIES UNDER THE LISBON TREATY

The second module will focus on the EU Foreign and Defence Policies under the new Lisbon Treaty. It will take place in Rome from the 5th to the 9th of July 2009 under the direction of Prof. Federiga Bindi, Jean Monnet Chair at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. As usual, it will have a hands-on approach thanks to the participation of the best scholars and decision makers in the field. Among the themes that will be
treated:
- The EU Foreign Policy
- The EU Defense Policy
- The EU, the US and Russia
- The State of the Union after Lisbon

THE FRONTIERS OF EUROPE

The third module is titled "Frontiers of Europe". It will take place in Rome from the 12th to the 16th of July 2009 also under Prof. Bindi's leadership. It will focus on the debated question of the frontiers and the border regions of Europe (Mediterranean and Nordic dimensions included); such issues will be analyzed by the top international scholars and decision makers in a challenging thematic way. Among the
themes that will be treated:
- The State of EU Negotiation and Enlargement Prospects
- A New Security Architecture?
- Sustainable Economy and Development
- Energy Policies: Between Environment and Power Politics
- Immigration
- Democracy and Rule of Law
- Where does Europe end? A view from the outside

WHY THE SIENA-ROME JEAN MONNET EU SUMMER SEMINARS ARE UNIQUE?
The Jean Monnet Summer Seminars are unique not only for the venue - why spend the summer in rainy Brussels when the best specialists are in sunny Italy? - but also for the way they are thought and organized. Some 50 world class speakers - scholars and decision makers - are foreseen at the sessions. Among them: Giuliano Amato, Former Italian Prime Minister and former Vice President of the European Convention; Franco Frattini, Italian Foreign Minister and former EU Commission Vice President, Andrew
Moravcsik, Professor, Princeton University; Martin Holland, Jean Monnet Chair University of Canterbury New Zeland; Simon Hix, Professor, London School of Economics; David Andrews, Professor, Scripps College, Cleremont CA; Gary Marks, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Liesbet Hooghe, Professor, North Carolina University at Chapel Hill; Amy Verdun, Jean Monnet Chair University of Victoria Canada; and many others, including diplomats, academicians, journalists,
EU officials...

WHO SHALL APPLY?
The Summer Seminars address primarily to PhD students and young professionals, but they can be particularly useful also for other graduate students, as well as for people working in NGOs, national administrations, interest groups, medias etc. Exceptionally skilled senior undergraduate students can be accepted on an individual base. The Jean Monnet Seminars are highly selective and intensive, with 30 teaching hours each week. Admission is subordinated to the proof of previous knowledge about the EU. In the past editions, approximately 35% of the applicants have been accepted. Prospective students can choose to enroll one, two or all three modules.CREDITS: Each module will award 4 ECTS/2 US credits.

TUITION FEES:
The tuition fee is of 600€ per week. The participation to all three modules is highly encouraged, thus reduced cumulative fees are foreseen: 1000€ for two weeks and 1250€ for all three weeks. Thanks to the generous support of the European Commission - Jean Monnet Action, 3 full scholarships and 3 partial scholarships are available and will be awarded on the basis of merit and need.

HOUSING:
Housing fees and lodging fees are not included in the tuition fee, though organizers will be glad to help with low cost housing. On some days free refreshments will be served, too. Please inquiry for further details.

DEADLINES:
The deadlines are *28 February 2010* for grant requests and 30 May 2010 for full-tuition paying participants. Acceptance will be notified within one month after each deadline.

SPONSOR & PARTNERS
The Seminars are organized with the financial support of the European Commission, Jean Monnet Action, in collaboration with the Center for American Studies in Rome and they come under the patronage of prestigious local and international institutions.

CONTACTS:
For further information and on-line application, please go to http://www.eusummerseminar.uniroma2.it/ or email to
eu.summer.seminar@ uniroma2. it

International Law and Human Rights

This International Law and Human Rights program is taught in English and run by AIM Overseas' partner in the beautiful Czech town of Brno, Masaryk university.The town of Brno, in the east of the Czech Republic, is a stunning little town at the cross-roads of Europe: Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and many other destinations are just a few hours away.The course is a great mix of lectures, sites visits and fieldtrips making for a very dynamic program. Over 3 weeks, you will attend classes for a total of 36 hours and visit relevant sites such as the Ombudsman's office or the Constitutional Court in Brno.The program also includes some fantastic overnight trips to the Czech Capital, Prague, as well as to Budapest in Hungary and Vienna in Austria to visit the United Nations office.The program will conclude on the 7th of February, but you have the possibility to stay on and join the ski trip organised by Masaryk University' sporting club from 8th to 12th Feb. Please note the ski trip is not included in the program price; the final price for the ski trip is yet to be confirmed but we expect it to be around $700.http://www.aimoverseas.com.au/Short_study_programs_overseas/Entries/2010/1/18_International_Law_&_Human_Rights.html