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Information for scholars: grants, fellowships, conferences, job
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Информационный бюллетень № 320
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Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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 Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities, Russian Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Technology (RIAS)

Contest for scientific works (grants) funding in 2015-2016

Russian Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Technology (RIAS)
Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities
is announcing the contest for scientific research funding (grants) in 2015-2016 in the following areas:

Interdisciplinary research in the field of social and humanitarian sciences including institutional analysis, political and economic research, research of the processes of forming personal and group identity, social communications research, integrated political, legislative, social, economic and historical research;
Social computing research and other fields of synthesis of socio-humanities and computing sciences (high-tech social network research, cyberpsycology, cyberpolicy, computing linguistics, pattern recognition, artificial intellect, IT in education, informative systems of management, new media environments);
Cognitive and neurosciences, experimental psychology (fundamental and applied aspects);
Research and development in various fields of social technologies (applications of socio-humanitarian and related knowledge), including political technologies, management technologies, marketing technologies, advertising and public relations, creative technologies, forecasting technologies, social, managerial and institutional design technologies, educational technologies, including educating and socialization of digital generation: pscyho-pedagogical features, etc .;
Research in the field of the synthesis of social-humanities and life sciences including ethology research, biopsychology, genetic and other biological factors influence on individual features and social behavior of a person;
Mathematical modeling of social, political, economic, neuropsycological, ecological and other complex systems and processes research;
Research in the Environment (environmental monitoring, energy efficiency and conservation, human ecology, study of the influence of factors of high-tech and media on people in towns and cities etc.);
Linguistic research (including social linguistics, computing linguistics, neurolinguistics, psychological linguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.)
Research in the field of synthesis of arts and sciences, including research in the field of creative industries, design and cultural studies.
RIAS TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

GRANT PROGRAMS DURATION -
10 months - October 01, 2015 - July 31, 2016 (5 grants)
6 months - October 01, 2015 - March 31, 2016 (2 grants)
3 months - October 01, 2015 - December 31, 2016 (5 grants)

Sholokhov University Support for international program participants comprises:

An official invitation;
 Medical insurance (standard medical policy);
Travel expenses cover (arrival at the beginning of the program and departure at the end of the program - by bus, rail or air flight (economy class);
 Accommodation in an individual comfortable room in a suburban complex RIAS Sholokhov University located in Moscow suburbs;
3 meals a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) on RIAS venue;
Foreign researchers have Sholokhov University visa issuing support;
Scholarship for the period of stay in RIAS -
   - Russian participants - 56,400 (fifty-sixth thousand four hundred)
     Russian rubles per month;
   - Foreign participants - 70,000 (seventy thousand) Russian rubles per month.
Program languages: Russian, English;

Applicants qualifying claims:
        - Academic degree – Candidate of Sciences/Doctoral degree (for foreign participants - PhD);
        - Publications in journals WEB of SCIENCE and / or SCOPUS

Russian and foreign experts participating in the project, will have a unique opportunity to carry out their research by a Sholokhov University grant, being a part of an international team working in a multidisciplinary scientific community.

RIAS provides all the necessary conditions for research, information and library support, opportunities for publications, as well as assistance in obtaining patents and inventions licenses.

Contact:
RIAS Director  Galina Kuznetsova

E-mail: [email protected]
Tel .: +7 (495) 915-5533
Address: 16-18 Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya, 109240, Moscow, Russia Sholokhov University
Russian Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Technology (RIAS)

Closing Date 07/15/2015

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  Call for Applications: Visiting Fellowships for 2016
       (Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies,
       University of Basel)
    Date: 2015-05-15
    Description: The Institute for European Global Studies, University
       of Basel, Switzerland welcomes applications for 3 Visiting
       Fellowships (three months in the academic year 2016, starting
       March or mid-September) within European Global Studies, with
       focus on the topic of Scaling Regions.The Institute for
       European ...
    Contact:  [email protected]
    URL:
https://europa.unibas.ch/aktuelles/nachrichtendetails/browse/1/article/call-for-applicatio ...
    Announcement ID: 221828
      http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=221828

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http://www.rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/302/237961.php
Гранты 2015-2016 г для проведения научно-исследовательских работ

Институт перспективных гуманитарных исследований и технологий (ИПГИТ) Московского государственного гуманитарного университета имени М.А. Шолохова объявляет конкурс на финансирование научных исследований на 2015-2016 год по следующим направлениям: 
*  Междисциплинарные исследования в области общественных и гуманитарных наук, в т.ч. институциональный анализ, политэкономические исследования, исследование процессов формирования персональной и групповой идентичности, исследование социальных коммуникаций, комплексные политические, правовые, социологические, экономические и исторические исследования;
*  Исследования в области социального компьютинга и других направлений синтеза социо-гуманитарных и компьютерных наук (исследования высокотехнологичных социальных сетей, киберпсихолгия, киберполитика, компьютерная лингвистика, распознавание образов, искусственный интеллект, информационные технологии в образовании, информационные системы управления, новые медиа и медийные среды и др.);
*  Когнитивные и нейронауки, экспериментальная психология (фундаментальные и прикладные аспекты);
*  Исследования и разработки в различных областях гуманитарных технологий (прикладного применения социо-гуманитарного и смежного знания), в т.ч. политические технологии, технологии управления, технологии в сфере маркетинга, рекламы и связей с общественностью, креативные технологии, технологии прогнозирования, технологии социального, организационного и институционального дизайна, педагогические технологии, в том числе, психолого-педагогические особенности обучения и социализации цифрового поколения, и др.;
*  Исследования в области синтеза социо-гуманитарных наук и наук о жизни, в т.ч. этологические исследования, биопсихология, изучение влияния генетических и иных биологических факторов на индивидуальные особенности личности и социальное поведение;
*  Исследования в области математического моделирования социальных, политических, экономических, нейропсихологических, экологических и иных сложных систем и процессов;
*  Исследования в области экологии (экологический мониторинг, энергоэффективность и энергосбережение, экология человека, исследование влияния высокотехнологичных факторов и сред на человека в условиях больших и малых городов и др.);
*  Исследования в области лингвистики, в т.ч. социолингвистика, компьютерная лингвистика, нейролингвистика, психолингвистика, когнитивная лингвистика и т.д.
*  Исследования в сфере синтеза наук и искусств, в т.ч. исследования в области креативной индустрии, дизайна, культурологические исследования; УСЛОВИЯ УЧАСТИЯ: 

Продолжительность грантовых программ – 
*  10 месяцев – с 1 октября 2015 г. по 31 июля 2016 г. (5 грантов)
*  6 месяцев – с 1 октября 2015 г. по 31 марта 2016 г. (2 гранта)
*  3 месяца – с 1 октября 2015 г. по 31 декабря 2016 г. (5 грантов) Поддержка участников в рамках международной программы со стороны МГГУ им. М.А. Шолохова составляет: 
*  Официальное приглашение;
*  Медицинская страховка (стандартный медицинский полис);
*  Оплата проезда (приезд в начале программы и отъезд по окончании программы - автобусом, железнодорожным транспортом или авиаперелет экономклассом)
*  Проживание в отдельном номере в загородном комплексе ИПГИТ МГГУ Шолохова в ближнем Подмосковье (пос. Заветы Ильича Пушкинского р-на);
*  З-х разовое питание (завтрак, обед и ужин) на базе ИПГИТ;
*  Для зарубежных исследователей – визовая поддержка. Стипендия на период пребывания в ИПГИТ – 
*  для российских участников – 56 400 (пятьдесят шесть тысяч четыреста) рублей в месяц;
*  для зарубежных участников - 70 000 (семьдесят тысяч) рублей в месяц. Рабочие языки программы: русский и английский; 

Квалификационное требование к заявителям:  
*  ученая степень – кандидат/доктор наук (для зарубежных участников - PhD);
*  наличие публикаций в журналах WEB of SCIENCE и/или SCOPUS Участвующие в проекте российские и зарубежные специалисты, получат уникальную возможность осуществлять исследовательскую деятельность за счет гранта МГГУ им. М.А.Шолохова, работая в международном коллективе в полидисциплинарной научной среде. 

ИПГИТ предоставляет все необходимые условия для исследований, информационно-библиотечную поддержку, возможности для публикаций, а также содействие в оформлении патентов на авторские изобретения. 

Требования к участникам международной программы: 
*  Публикации в журналах WEB of SCIENCE и/или SCOPUS (2 статьи каждые 3 месяца программы);
*  Преподавание спецкурса для студентов МГГУ Шолохова (для стипендиатов 6- и 10-ти месячных программ, тема спецкурса – по договоренности, объем спецкурса – 36 и 72 академических часов соответственно);
*  Проведение открытых лекций/семинаров по тематике проекта (для стипендиатов 3-месячной программе);
*  Организация не менее 1 (одного) семинара ИПГИТ и участие в программе междисциплинарных семинаров, организуемых на базе ИПГИТ;
*  Участие в написании конкурсных заявок на гранты российских и зарубежных фондов. СРОК ПОДАЧИ ЗАЯВОК:  до 15 июня 2015, 12.00 по московскому времени 

Заявка подается в электроном виде на сайте ИПГИТ (Серая кнопка справа «Принять участие в конкурсе»). 

Экспертная оценка заявок 

Экспертная оценка поданной заявки осуществляется экспертами ИПГИТ до конца июня. 

Результаты оценки будут опубликованы до 15 июля 2015 г. на сайте ИПГИТ  www.ipgit.mggu-sh.ru

Информация о конкурсе на сайте ИПГИТ:   http://ipgit.mggu-sh.ru/institut/competition-entries/call-for-applicants-2015-2016/
 
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http://www.historischeskolleg.de/stipendien/honorary-fellowships/?fs=big%27%22
 Kaulbachstr. 15  80539 München  FAX: 49 89 2866-3863  Tel.: 49 89 2866-38-0 Geschäftsführer 49 89 23031-1151  E-Mail: [email protected].

 New Honorary Fellowship at the Historische Kolleg The Historische Kolleg, an institute for the Advanced Study of the Historically Oriented Sciences, expands its future stipend program by one further fellowship. Highly qualified scholars are invited twice a year to live and work at the Historische Kolleg in the the immediate vicinity of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for a relatively short period of time (six months maximum).

One-time fellows, scholars from Germany and abroad who have already left their office at university, as well as active professors and assistant professors who wish to spend their sabbatical away from their own university are thus offered the opportunity to benefit from the inspiring working atmosphere at the villa erected by Gabriel von Seidl in the heart of Munich in order to complete a larger scientific project. This fellowship expands the existing program of the Historische Kolleg.

Since 1980 the Kolleg supports scientists by offering yearlong stipends (research grants as well as scholarships) in Munich in order to enable them to complete a book at the Kaulbach-Villa. Since then, more than 100 scholars have profited from these stipends.

The Honorary Fellow is a guest of the Historische Kolleg and may live and work at the KaulbachVilla. He or she is free to use the technical infrastructure of the house and to ask for the support by its staff. Allowances are not granted. Stipendiaries are expected to present their topic to a scientific audience in a speech or in another form during their stay at the Kolleg. Fellows are integrated into the Kolleg's daily scientific life (colloquia etc.) and profit from the great scientific opportunities that are offered by Munich as a center of science and research.

Fellows are selected by the curatorship during its periodic sessions at the beginning of July and November each year.

Please submit an informal application (project proposal, 5 pages maximum), stating the desired start and period of the fellowship, to the director of the Historische Kolleg: Dr. Karl-Ulrich Gelberg Historisches Kolleg / Kaulbachstr. 15 / 80539 München / GERMANY  [email protected] / 49 + 89 + 23031-1151

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The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars.
 
EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in life and exact sciences, provided that their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities and that it interfaces with humanities and social sciences. The diversity of the 16 participating IAS offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants may select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.
 
The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising young scholars as well as from leading senior researchers. The EURIAS selection process has proven to be highly competitive. To match the Programme standards, applicants have to submit a solid and innovative research proposal, to demonstrate the ability to forge beyond disciplinary specialisation, to show an international commitment as well as quality publications in high-impact venues.
 
For the 2016-2017 academic year, EURIAS offers 43 fellowships  (21 junior and 22 senior positions) .
 
All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of € 26,000 for a junior fellow and € 38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses.
 
APPLICATION
– Applications are submitted online via    www.eurias-fp.eu , where you will find detailed information regarding the content of the application, eligibility criteria, selection procedure.
– Applications period  April 9th → June 5th, 2015, 12 pm (noon) GMT . Late applications will not be considered.
 
SELECTION PROCEDURE
– Scientific assessment by two international referees
– Pre-selection by the EURIAS international Scientific Committee
– Final selection by the IAS Academic Boards
– Publication of results: January 2016
 
For further information on the Programme, please consult our website:   www.eurias-fp.eu
For further information on the IAS and their specific working conditions:   www.eurias-fp.eu/ias

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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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Monstrous Hungers and Desires 
Special Conference Stream within The Monsters and the Monstrous Project 

Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015 
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 

Call for Presentations: 
Humans can be consumed by desires; the need to possess and control, to hunger for more or to be different, to obtain or accumulate something or plainly satisfy an urge. Hungers and desires come from the “id” of the psyche; they are natural human urges. And yet, when allowed free reign they can be destructive both to ourselves and those around us. They can be playful or diabolical. They can pave a road to success or lead into the abyss of human existence. Many desires can also lead to addiction. Sometimes they cannot be explained; they just exist as relentless longings that demand to be gratified, up to the point of self-destruction or worse. Yet satisfaction after giving in to a craving may only be temporary before a hunger returns, stronger than ever, leaving behind withdrawal or painful memories. At the same time, suppressing a desire can be equally destructive and result in nightmares, identity crises, aggression or violence. 

The hunger for riches and power causes the greatest mayhem and the greatest number of victims. The allure to give in to desires, secret wishes, “the dark side of the force,” has created more than one Dorian Gray in the past, and fiction as well as historical records are full of characters that have fought and lost these battles over their darkest longings. Consequently, there are people and institutions who will always believe that mankind is not supposed to give in to its urges, that these need to be controlled. “Gluttony,” for example, is one of the Seven Sins in Christianity, and a number of societies strictly regulate sexual relations. 

Some desires create unmistakable monsters: the hunger for human flesh and blood of cannibals, vampires, werewolves and zombies for instance. But the lust to inflict pain, hunt and kill can also make beasts out of less “fantastic” beings, as we see in passionate murderers and torturers. To seek satisfaction in sex, fame or beauty has been associated with the monstrous too; for example, the wish for beauty can find an outlet in anorexia or painful body rituals. Sexual desires used to have their dark and gothic corners, but have increasingly become mainstream culture, not only since the publication of “Fifty Shades of Grey.” When desires are deemed pathological, unhealthy or disgusting by society, it regularly turns the “inflicted” into outsiders, even defines them as twisted or monstrous. The lust for fame can lure people into infernal actions and unspeakable deeds, often just to garner prominence in a YouTube video, but sometimes with the intention to wreak true havoc or to create a memorable albeit bloody legacy. Audiences, on the other hand, are relentless too when it comes to their own hunger for drama and sensationalism. Finally, one basic human driving force, love, is constantly leaving behind its own casualties in its wake. 

For this special stream within the 13th Global Meeting of The Monsters and the Monstrous Project invites presentations from academics, professionals and practitioners with specific insights, experience, practices or skills concerning the understanding of these kinds of monstrosities. 

Examples of the above can be seen in, but are not exclusive to, the following categories: 

1) Pathologies and Addictions: 
– Addictive personalities, drug and alcohol abuse; sex, food and other addictions 
– self-mutilation, pain addiction 
– eating disorders 
– monstrous acts out of withdrawal, suppressed desire, frustration, rejection, failure, impotence 
– suicide pacts, “extended suicides” 
– paedophilia, serial killings, kleptomania 

2) Power and the People: 
– abuse of power; monstrous leadership visions and models of society 
– manic desire for knowledge, cruel and dehumanizing experiments in the name of science 
– charismatic leaders, ideologies, capitalism, consumerism, globalisation 
– greed; violent and aggressive hunts for wealth, e.g. blood diamonds, ivory trade 
– traditions, institutions, religions, governments, laws, sanctions, punishments 

3) Sexuality, Love/Obsession: 
- pornography, deviant sexual practices, dominance, submission, popular pornographic novels such as “Fifty Shades of Grey” 
– stalking, rape, revenge porn 
– fetishism, objectophilia, bestiality, necrophilia 
– love madness, couple suicides, unfulfilled love, crimes of passion 

4) Beauty, Fame and Subcultures: 
– body enhancements, augmentation and rituals 
– identity crises, claiming individuality in the public eye 
– show business, celebrities, beauty and talent competitions 
– dangerous and bizarre publicity stunts and extreme fan behaviour 
– hunger for attention and community, sects 
– alternative lifestyles, religions, cults 

5) Literal and Metaphorical Manifestations: 
– vampires, revenants, zombies and hungry ghosts 
– werewolves, shapeshifters, dragons, and transformations 
– angels, demons, spirit possessions and poltergeists 
– cannibals, cannibalism and cultural hierarchies 
– witches, wizards, fairies, goblins and halflings 
– the above in literature, film, gaming, role play and transmedia entities 

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. 

What to Send: 
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 5th June, 2015. Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: 

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. 
E-mails should be entitled: Monsters13 Proposal Submission 

All abstracts will be at least double blind peer reviewed. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. 

Organising Chairs: 
Rob Fisher: [email protected] 
Petra Rehling: [email protected] 

The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. 

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. 

For further details of the conference, please visit: 
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/monsters-and-the-monstrous/call-for-papers/ 

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence.

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 Beyond the Café/Pub Split: Interlocking Urbanity and 
Rurality in the Popular Culture of East Central European 
Societies
Conference venue: Prague, Czech Republic
Period: October 30-31, 2015
Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 6, 2015

Description: The Centre for Study of Popular Culture is 
seeking papers which address the interconnectedness of 
urban and rural themes in the popular culture of East 
Central European societies. We encourage interdisciplinary 
approaches as well as applications from those who seek to 
incorporate audio-visual material into their presentations. 
The goal of this conference is to offer a space for discussion 
among the disciplinary discourses of history, anthropology, 
sociology, cultural geography, musicology, gender, 
subculture, youth, ethnic, nationalism, labour, literary, film, 
television, leisure, tourism, sports and food studies. It is 
intended as an event bringing together scholars from different 
backgrounds who focus their research interest on East Central 
Europe.

Given the specificity of nation-building processes in East 
Central Europe, the narrative axis of national movements 
has linked the city and the village. The linear process of 
urbanisation has relied on a logic that interlocks rural and 
urban spaces in this region. Both capitalist and state 
socialist modernisation brought an influx of rural migrants 
from the countryside to urban centres on the one hand,
and on the other, gave rise to numerous artistic and social 
movements which fostered an interest in rural space and 
culture (eg. folklorism, (agro-)tourism, rural sentimentalism). 
It is only from this point that we see the emergence of 
tensions between popular culture rooted in traditional folk 
culture, cultural activities stimulated by new technologies 
and the everyday life cultural strategies of urban 
communities and subcultures. Different political regimes 
during the 20th century brought to the fore either rural or
 urban segments of the population, which in turn had a 
significant impact on popular culture. After the fall of
 state socialist regimes, transition discourses under the 
heading of the Washington consensus in economic 
terms along with European Union accession policies, 
significantly restructured the interrelatedness of the city 
and the village.

Keynote speakers
Prof. Michał Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, 
Poznań, Poland / European University Viadrina, Frankfurt 
(Oder ), Germany
Dr. Stef Jansen, University of Manchester, United Kingdom


Eligible topicsThis conference will focus on a question of 
in-betweenness that might be dubbed “rurbanity” comprising 
challenging phenomena that go beyond the simple urban/rural, 
“café/pub” split.

There are numerous issues that can be addressed at this 
interface. The following list should not by any means be 
understood as exhaustive:

* Urban appropriation of rural cultures
* Spread of urban culture and subcultures throughout rural areas 
and their adaptations
* Cultures of migrant workers in urban space
* Political articulations of the rural/urban split vis-a-vis its 
overcoming in popular culture
* Images of rural areas in urban cultural production and vice 
versa
* Spaces of in-betweenness and their cultural expression
* Cultural, social and ecological movements and the escape 
from the city
* Images of villagers and urban dwellers in art and media
* Re-distributing inequalities, re-shaping social polarisation 
and cultural hierarchies
* New forms of social cohesion and/or fragmentation

Guidelines for submission
Conference deadlines
Submission of panel proposals 15 May 2015.
Submission of paper abstracts 10 June 2015.
Notification on acceptance 30 June 2015.
Conference registration will open 30 June 2015.
Full conference papers are due 15 September 2015.
Full version of papers for publication 5 December 2015.

Guidelines for Abstracts
Abstracts should be submitted by email to the contact below 
and should include:
Author, naAbstracts should not exceed 300 words.

Submission of Panel Proposal
In addition to the regular submission of paper abstracts we 
also welcome the submission of panel proposals. Maximum 
5 papers in English can be submitted in a panel proposal. If 
3 or more papers of the proposed panel pass the review
 process, the panel will be accepted.


Panel proposals should be sent by email and should include:
Panel title, name of proposing organisation / individual, 
name and full contact details of the contact person, name 
and affiliation of panel chair, panel abstract (between 200 
and 300 words in length) as well as title, author, affiliation 
of author and name of each paper to be presented in the 
panel.
Paper/panel submissions will be subject to peer review.
The organizers intend to put together a themed monograph, 
in which selected papers will be published as full-length 
chapters.

Submissions and contact email
All submissions must be made exclusively via email
[email protected] .

Conference Fees
20 € Early Bird (until 15 July 2015)
30 € Main Registration (until 30 August 2015)
50 € Late Registration (until 30 September 2015)
All payments will be paid via bank transfer (as identifier 
please put your family name).
Bank account number for international transfers (Eurozone):
IBAN: SK3983300000002900060868
BIC/SWIFT: FIOZSKBAXXX.
Czech domestic payments number: 2900060868/2010
Slovak domestic payments number: 2900060868/8330
Visitors/Accompanying Guests: 10 €/250 CZK (on spot)
The conference fee covers coffee breaks, conference 
materials and an ‘alternative’ city walk. It does not cover 
travel, meals, accommodation or insurance.

http://www.pecob.eu/Call-for-Papers-Beyond-the-Cafe-pub-Split

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 CALL FOR PAPERS - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMAGE
29-30 October 2015
University of California, Berkeley, USA
http://ontheimage.com/Berkeley-2015

On behalf of the Advisory Board, we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Sixth International Conference on the Image, held 29-30 October 2015 at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives and encourage faculty and students to jointly submit proposals, discussing the image through one of the following themes:

CONFERENCE THEMES
- The Form of the Image
- Image Work
- The Image in Society
- Special Focus - Media Materiality: Towards Critical Economies of "New" Media

2015 SPECIAL FOCUS
When speaking about "new" media, the claim to newness draws meaning from what is supposed to be the peculiar nature of digital technologies. This narrative is mirrored in the analysis of a historical shift from an industrial age, based in the logic of mass factory production and uniform consumption, to an information age centered on the production and communication of information. In an industrial logic "material" referred primarily to a critique of a political economy of real objects, whereas "immaterial" referred to a politics of identity and culture.

The conference will address this theme through a series of cascading questions. For example, could the lens of "media materiality" be a productive way to view the flows of political economy, identity, and sexuality in the context of a critical analysis of what is "new" in the new media? How can one address the intersection, co-dependency, and interplay of media materiality and immateriality? And, as this question pertains to the Image Conference, how do we understand the production, consumption, and distribution of images in an age of "new" compared to "old" media? How might we frame critical economies of "new" media in relation to the legacy, rebirth, and re-imagination of "old" media?

PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Jesse Drew, Cinema and Technocultural Studies, University of California, Davis, USA
- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Modern Culture and Media, History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, USA

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL
Presenters may also choose to submit written papers for publication to the fully refereed Image Journal. If you are unable to attend the conference in-person, you may become a member of the community to submit your article for peer review and possible publication, upload an online presentation, and enjoy subscriber access to the journal collection.

Proposals are reviewed on rolling deadlines. The final submission deadline for in-person presentations is 26 September 2015 (a title and short abstract). Proposals submitted after this day will be accommodated in non-themed sessions at the conference or are eligible for community membership registrations (no attendance at conference required with community membership presentations).

For more information and to submit a proposal visit: http://ontheimage.com/Berkeley-2015

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address: http://ontheimage.com/Berkeley-2015

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 The 2015 International Symposium on Culture, Arts, and Literature (ISCAL) is to be held in Fukuoka, JAPAN, on August 5-7. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on certain important topics of culture, arts, and literature. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the official website. We sincerely invite your participation for this event. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support.

We are glad to inform you that the Chikugo River Fireworks Display is scheduled to take place on August 5th. All registered participants will have VIP seats to watch the Chikugo River Fireworks Display. The event is over 350 years and is one of the largest in western Japan with roughly 18 thousand fireworks being let off. We are sure that all participants will enjoy the fireworks show.

Conference Website: http://soci-science.org/2015/fukuoka/iscal
Online Submission: http://soci-science.org/2015/fukuoka/iscal/OnlineSubmission.html
Enquiries: [email protected]
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015

Sincerely yours, 
Frances Lin, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Yusuke SAKATA, Kinki University, JAPAN

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Reflecting on Story's Place in our Lives 
The Storytelling Project 

Thursday 3rd September - Saturday 5th September 2015 
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Presentations:
Earlier meetings of the 'Storytelling: global reflections on narrative' project have brought together participants with both personal and professional interests in the unique role that storytelling plays throughout our lives - in shaping us as people and in allowing us to shape our societies, our cultures and our day to day activities. We have been challenged by philosophers, literary theorists, artists, psychologists, film makers, historians, teachers, psychotherapists, nurses and many others, into reflecting on the place that story plays in our lives and the ways in which we consciously and unconsciously employ it. We have also been engaged, entertained and challenged by traditional storytellers from Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, the Philippines, India and elsewhere as well as by theatrical and musical performances, digital stories, films and performance art.

For our 8th global meeting we invite participants to continue to reflect on and celebrate story in challenging ways, and especially welcome abstracts from those who bring together reflections from both professional and personal perspectives. 

Human life is conducted through story, because the telling of stories comes naturally to us. Almost every time we speak we engage in storytelling, and sharing stories is arguably the most important way we have of communicating with others about who we are and what we believe; about what we are doing and have done; about our hopes and fears; about what we value and what we don't. We make sense of our lives by telling the stories that we live; and we learn about other lives by listening to the stories told by others. Sometimes, under the influence of the culture in which we are immersed, we live our lives in ways that try to create the stories we want to be able to tell about them.

The importance of the stories we tell and the stories we hear is recognized in every culture. The work of many professions, including medicine, nursing, teaching, the law, psychotherapy and counselling, involves a great deal of time listening to and communicating through stories. 

Story is a powerful tool for teachers, because by telling stories they can help students to integrate what they are learning with what they already know, by placing what they learn in a context that makes it easy to recall. Story also plays an important role in academic disciplines like philosophy, theology, anthropology, archaeology and history as well as literature. Narrative methods for the collection of data are increasingly used in research in the social sciences and humanities, where the value of getting to know people in a more intimate and less distant way - almost as if we are getting to know them from the inside, is increasingly valued, and academics in many disciplines have begun to realise the value of storytelling as a model for academic writing. 

Most of us have lots of experience of relating to other lives through narrative forms, including the stories we encounter as children, the books we read and the TV programmes we watch - the dramas; the documentaries, and for those who will own up to viewing them, the 'reality' TV shows. When we are moved by a play, a movie or a novel, we are moved because we begin imaginatively to live the lives of the characters that inhabit them. If we are lucky we will encounter as we grow up, fictional stories that stay with us like old friends, that we will revisit again and again throughout our lives, as a way of coming to terms with and responding to the things we experience. 

Reflecting on Story's Place in our Lives, the 8th global meeting of the Storytelling project, provides a space in which stories about story can be told, and in which the use of stories in the widest possible range of aspects of human life, can be reported. Abstracts are invited for individual contributions and for symposia of three closely related papers. They may address any aspect of story or narrative, including, for example:

- Story as a pedagogical tool in academic disciplines such as history; anthropology, psychology, theology, cultural theory, medicine, law, philosophy, education, and archaeology. 

- Narrative and the gathering of stories of lived experience, as a research approach in any area of academic, professional and public life. 

- The place of story and storytelling in the practice of journalism; PR advertising; conflict resolution; architecture; religion; tourism, politics and the law, and in clinical contexts such as medicine, psychotherapy, nursing and counseling. 

- Finally abstracts may feature storytelling in any aspect of culture, including music (from opera to heavy metal, folk and sacred music); fine art; theatre; literature; cinema and digital storytelling. 

Alongside traditional conference papers, earlier conferences in the Storytelling: global reflections on narrative project have included a huge range of presentations, including traditional storytelling; the screening of award winning films; theatrical performances (including cabaret) and workshops aimed at engaging participants in active learning about story and its possibilities in, for example, research and therapy. This has enriched our conversations greatly, and so participants are encouraged to propose presentations of all kinds. 

What to Send: 
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2015. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 7th August 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: 

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. 
E-mails should be entitled: STORY8 Proposal Submission. 

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. 

Organising Chairs: 
Gavin J Fairbairn and Susan Fairbairn:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]

The conference is part of the Persons series of ongoing research and publications projects conferences, run within the Probing the Boundaries domain which aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore innovative and challenging routes of intellectual and academic exploration. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. 

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. 

For further details of the conference, please visit: 
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/storytelling-global-reflections-on-narrative/global-reflections-on-narrative-call-for-presentations/  

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 Making Sense of Beauty 
The Beauty Project 

Friday 11th September - Sunday 13th September 2015 
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 

Call for Presentations: 
We see beauty; we experience beauty; we think beautiful words, beautiful thoughts. It raises us up, comforts, inspires, thrills, takes us out of ourselves to the sublime and the sacred; it also challenges, disturbs, discomforts and brings us to the most unlikely and unexpected places of death and destruction. Some find no beauty in life, or claim they are unable to see the beautiful any more. It is many things to many people. But it is never neutral or detached and you cannot 'take it or leave it'; without fail, it elicits a response. 

What is beauty? The flickering shafts of light playing through the leaves of a tree, the nuanced strokes of an artist's painting, nature's rich abundance of animals, the interplay of light and shadow on a human face, the angles and curves of a building, the structure of a snow flake or (diseased) molecular cell, the simplicity of a mathematical formula, the manner of a death: all have been labelled beautiful. What is it - if anything - they share in common that allows us to call them beautiful? 

Is the word itself a problem? Are 'beauty' and 'the beautiful' the same thing? Or are we dealing with something which is literally in the eyes of a billion beholders, eliciting a billion reactions and consequently a billion unique definitions? 

Does it matter? Is preoccupation with beauty a distraction from other considerations, such as functionality, utility or practicality? Is beauty merely one of life's luxuries, or is it directly related - in both positive and negative ways - to health, happiness, well-being, sense of self and other essentials for survival? How does beauty inform the way we cultivate personal relationships and experience love and romance? How does it shape our values and our perceptions of the broad spectrum of human creativity? What is at stake when we talk about art, literature, film or music in terms of beauty? 

The Making Sense of Beauty conference seeks to explore these questions in an inclusive environment that welcomes participants from all disciplines, professions and vocations. As we come together to engage in a rich interdisciplinary conversation we will wrestle with issues that cross the boundaries of the intellectual, the emotional and the personal. The conference organiser's therefore welcome the submission of proposals for presentations that deal with any aspect of beauty, such as: 

1. Experiences and Representations of Beauty: 
- Beauty and the everyday 
- Beauty and social stratification: gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, age, etc. 
- Beauty specialists 
- Beauty disciples 
- Pursuit of beauty 
- Appropriations of beauty 
- Expressions of beauty 
- Appearance of beauty 
- Making beauty 
- Documenting beauty 
- Emotion and beauty 
- Beauty and seduction 
- Representing beauty in art, literature and popular culture 
- Visualising beauty 

2. Beauty and Nature: 
- Beauty and the natural world 
- Beauty and the Sublime 
- Beauty and desire 
- Science and mathematics of beauty 
- Medical aspects of beauty 
- Beauty and power 
- Symbolic beauty 
- Symmetry and beauty 

3. Beauty as Commodity: 
- Beauty and consumer culture 
- Beauty and cultural capital 
- Beauty professions and trades 
- Beauty cities 
- Beauty marketing and forecasting 
- Professional beauties (models, actors, celebrities, beauty pageants etc.) 
- Fashion and beauty 
- Glamour and beauty 
- Constructs of beauty

4. Beauty in Flux: 
- Beauty and transgression 
- Beauty and ugliness 
- Beauty and aging 
- Defiling the beautiful 
- Destroying the beautiful 
- Beauty and death 
- Beauty and decay, horror, the grotesque 
- Beauty subcultures - Enhancing the body beautiful: cosmetics, tattoos, piercings, surgical interventions, and other forms of body modification 
- The body in flux 
- Future bodies 
- Beauty across cultures 
- Historical perspectives on beauty 
- Are we haunted by our past beauty/reflecting on the past? 

5. Using Beauty: 
- Beauty and mental health 
- Beauty and clinical/rehabilitative/restorative practices 
- Beauty and engineering, urban planning and development 
- Beauty as vehicle for social/political/cultural critique 
- Beauty and education/learning 
- Beauty and public policy: legislation that preserves/neglects beautiful things 

Subsequently, as well as more traditional forms of presentation, we encourage submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, best practice showcases, how-to sessions, live demonstrations, performances, and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. 

What to Send: 
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 5th June 2015. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 7th August 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: 

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. 
E-mails should be entitled: Beauty5 Abstract Submission. 

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. 

Organising Chairs: 
Donna Louise Bevan:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]

The conference is part of the 'Ethos' series of research projects, which in turn belong to the Critical Issues programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All proposals accepted for and presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected proposals may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. 

Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation. 

For further details of the conference, please visit: 
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/beauty/call-for-papers/

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GRANTS & AWARDS / ГРАНТЫ&ПРЕМИИ
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http://www.rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/297/237976.php

Гранты 2015-2016 г для прохождения стажировок в университетах Италии (международная стипендиальная программа Правительства Италии)14.04.2015 естественные, технические, гуманитарные дисциплины

Правительство Италии объявляет Международную стипендиальную программу на 2015/2016 учебный год для прохождения стажировок в университетах Италии. 

Учебные стипендии предоставляются студентам, аспирантам, научным сотрудникам, преподавателям вузов сроком на 3, 6 или 9 месяцев, начиная с 1 января 2016 года. 

Каждый кандидат на получение стипендии может сделать запрос по своему усмотрению на обучение в педагогическом, художественном или научном вузе, в соответствии с критериями, установленными Положением об учебных стипендиях, предоставляемых Правительством Италии иностранным гражданам и итальянским гражданам, проживающим за рубежом, на 2015/2016 академический год. При отборе кандидатов на получение стипендии может учитываться наличие Соглашений между Министерством иностранных дел Италии и некоторыми университетами (список университетов, с которыми существует соглашение, приведен в Положении). 

По всем вопросам относительно подачи заявок на получение стипендии, сроков, способов и списка требуемых документов необходимо обращаться к Положению об учебных стипендиях, предоставляемых Правительством Италии иностранным гражданам и итальянским гражданам, проживающим за рубежом, на 2015/2016 академический год. 

Ссылка на итальянскую версию Положения: 
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Ministero/Servizi/Stranieri/Opportunita/BorseStudio_stranieri.htm?LANG=IT
Чтобы скачать положение, нужно нажать на надпись «SCARICA IL BANDO PER L’ANNO ACCADEMICO 2015 – 16», которая расположена в колонке справа. На той же странице можно найти много другой полезной информации. 

Ссылка на английскую версию Положения: 
http://www.esteri.it/MAE/EN/Ministero/Servizi/Stranieri/Opportunita/BorseStudio_stranieri.htm?LANG=EN

Общая информация о программе на сайте Итальянского института культуры в Москве: 
http://www.iicmosca.esteri.it/IIC_Mosca/Menu/Opportunita/Borse_di_studio/Per_nome_abitanti_in_Italia/ . 

Список документов, которые должны быть представлены в Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации: 
письмо-представление за подписью ректора или проректора на имя заместителя директора Международного департамента Министерства образования и науки Российской Федерации Бориса Валерьевича Железова
биографическая справка на русском языке, заверенная в университете.
Документы для российской стороны высылаются в электронном виде по адресу: е-mаil: [email protected]. 

Контактное лицо от Минобрнауки: Полещук Ольга Дмитриевна, тел. 8-499-788-65-91 

Анкета для итальянской стороны заполняется в режиме on-line. 

Согласно Положению об учебных стипендиях, предоставляемых Правительством Италии иностранным гражданам и итальянским гражданам, проживающим за рубежом, на 2015/2016 академический год, срок представления документов - до 13 мая 2015 года. 

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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
 
New Call for Proposals
 
Application forms are available on  e-GAP  https://egap.britac.ac.uk/
 
The British Academy is inviting applications from scholars for the BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme.
Applicants need to register in  e-GAP , and find full details by following the link to 'funding schemes' from the personal welcome page, and then follow the link to this scheme.
The British Academy offers awards co-sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust matching the public funding deriving from the grant made to the Academy via the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. In addition, the Academy continues to be able to offer some awards derived from funds generously donated by other funders, including the Honor Frost Foundation and the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and from endowments held by the Academy.
Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. The first recourse for funding should be to your own institution (where applicable). Applications will not be considered for less than £500. The maximum grant is £10,000 over two years.
Funds are available to facilitate initial project planning and development; to support the direct costs of research; and to enable the advancement of research through workshops or conferences, or visits by or to partner scholars. Applications for collaborative or individual research projects are equally welcome under this scheme. Applications from international groups of scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK-based scholar as lead applicant. Applications from international groups of scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK-based scholar as lead applicant.
Deadline for submission of applications:  6 May 2015 at 5pm (BST) 
Results expected:  end-July 2015  
Earliest Start Date for Research to begin:  1 September 2015

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PUBLICATIONS / ПУБЛИКАЦИИ
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 Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit proposals for articles 
to appear in a new edited volume on late Soviet Women's 
culture (1960s to the present).

Originally the volume was planned as "Women and Food," 
with late Soviet women's identity as related to food. Very 
quickly, however, it became clear that one cannot write 
about women without also writing about men and their 
relationship with food, as much as one cannot write about 
private life in the former Soviet Union without writing about 
public life and the government's efforts to regulate both.

This volume will be predicated on paradigms from everyday 
studies as well as cultural studies encompassing both 
quotidian and holiday rituals and practices. However, 
essays from any field are welcome, including but not limited 
to: literary studies, children's literature, film studies, cultural 
studies, history, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, 
food studies, art history, journalism, and social media.

Gender and food topics might be explored in published 
Soviet cookbooks, literary texts, art, advertisements, 
pop-culture, film, cartoons, women's and other journals, 
on the radio and TV, as well as on the web.

Topics for exploration can include: everyday food and 
gender roles, holiday food and gender roles; gender, 
official and private foodways; gender and deficit; 
personal and published cookbooks or women's journals; 
Soviet foodways in publications and in everyday life; 
gender, food and family/children; gender, food and 
intelligentsia; officially constructed and privately fostered 
gender roles as related to food and family; gender, food 
and consumerism; family history preservation through 
family food and traditions; women, food and medicine/
health/nutrition; gendered space and operations of 
everyday life related to food and cooking, gender and 
production of food; food, gender, social fabric and 
networks; gender and food subcultures.

Please submit a 500 word proposal indicating the 
topic, the approach, and tentative bibliography. Please 
also create a 100 word abstract with a working title for 
submission to the publishers and a 100 word author’s 
biography. Indiana University Press has expressed 
interest in a formal proposal.

- Please send abstracts by May 20
- Authors are notified of acceptance by June 15
- Authors submit full articles (6K-8K words) by end of July

Abstracts and proposals should be sent to:
Anastasia Lakhtikova  [email protected] and
Angela Brintlinger  [email protected]

Queries should be sent to: Anastasia Lakhtikova

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 Call for Papers on BOREDOM
    Date: 2015-06-30
    Description:  Call for Papers--Boredom: There's little left but to be
       bored or bore. Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIV: "Mieux vaut un
       désastre qu'un désêtre." Alain Badiou, Conditions, "Despair yawns."
       Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: "There seemed nothing to do but live."
       J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, "In Myxomatosis, ...
    Contact:  [email protected]
    URL: antaejournal.com/
    Announcement ID: 221696
      http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=221696

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IJAGUN JOURNAL OF HISTORY AND DIPLOMACY
    Date: 2015-05-20
    Description: Ijagun Journal of History and Diplomacy is calling
       for Articles in the Vol. 3, No.1 2015 Edition of the Journal.
       Manuscripts for publication should be sent in triplicate (along
       with the CD) to the Editor, c/0 The Head, Department of History
       and Diplomatic Studies, Tai Solarin University of Education ...
    Contact:  [email protected]
    Announcement ID: 221704
      http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=221704  

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JOB/ ВАКАНСИИ
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College Fellow in Russian language and literature, 
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 
Harvard University

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures 
is seeking applications for a College Fellow in Russian 
language and literature. Teaching duties will include 
teaching a combination of language and literature 
courses, two one semester and one the other semester, 
with 25% of the appointment reserved for the Fellow’s 
own research. The Fellow may also advise and evaluate 
senior theses. Candidates are required to have a Ph.D. 
or an equivalent terminal degree by the expected start 
date. The appointment is for one year, with the 
possibility of renewal for a second year. Detailed 
requirements and information, as well as a link to the 
online application, are available at 
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~facaff/cfp/. Complete 
applications, including letters of reference, must be 
submitted by May 8, 2015. Harvard is an equal 
opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will 
receive consideration for employment without regard 
to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability 
status, protected veteran status, or any other 
characteristic protected by law.
 
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 Early Modern European History Faculty Position
https://www.academia.edu/Jobs/6339/Institute-for-Advanced-Study/School-of-Historical-Studies/Early-Modern-European-History-Faculty-Position#apply
At:
Institute for Advanced Study ,  School of Historical Studies  
Location:
Princeton, New Jersey
The Institute for Advanced Study seeks to make an appointment in Early Modern European History, understood to include broadly the period from the Renaissance to the mid-19th Century and potentially including Atlantic history and European expansion. Only candidates with distinguished scholarly accomplishments will be considered.
Applications and nominations, including bibliography and  curriculum vitae , should be sent by July 15, 2015 by email to [email protected] or by mail to: Administrative Officer, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540.  All communications will be held in strict confidence.  The Institute is an equal opportunity employer.
Apply
Don't forget to mention Academia.edu when applying.
How to apply: Applications and nominations, including bibliography and curriculum vitae, should be sent by July 15, 2015 by email to  [email protected]  or by mail to: Administrative Officer, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

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 Early Modern European History Faculty Position
https://www.academia.edu/Jobs/6339/Institute-for-Advanced-Study/School-of-Historical-Studies/Early-Modern-European-History-Faculty-Position
At: Institute for Advanced Study ,  School of Historical Studies  
Location:
Princeton, New Jersey
The Institute for Advanced Study seeks to make an appointment in Early Modern European History, understood to include broadly the period from the Renaissance to the mid-19th Century and potentially including Atlantic history and European expansion. Only candidates with distinguished scholarly accomplishments will be considered.
Applications and nominations, including bibliography and  curriculum vitae , should be sent by July 15, 2015 by email to  [email protected] or by mail to: Administrative Officer, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey 08540.  All communications will be held in strict confidence.  The Institute is an equal opportunity employer.

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 Full-time Evaluator, International Education
Research Foundation (IERF) - California

International Education Research Foundation
(IERF) is seeking an analyst to research and
evaluate foreign academic credentials in terms of
the U.S. educational system. The evaluator will also
advise colleges and universities, state boards, and
related professionals on matters concerning
international education. (Training will be
provided.)
Russian or Arabic language proficiency

http://jobregistry.nafsa.org/jobs/7005551/full-time-evaluator 
 
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http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=103615

SENIOR ADVISER IN RESEARCH FUNDING
Position announced on:  Apr 8, 2015
Apply at latest on:  Apr 30, 2015 
Fixed-term:  Permanent 

Employer:
Central administration
Tutkimuksen toimiala
The Research Affairs sector of the University of Helsinki promotes the conditions of research at the University, is responsible for the University’s own research funding and provides expert research services. Research Services assists researchers in planning the exploitation of funding and research results and acquiring research funding, provides guidance related to intellectual property rights, and helps researchers prepare research contracts.
Research Funding Services invites applications for the position of
SENIOR ADVISOR IN RESEARCH FUNDING
for an open-ended contract.
The primary duty of the senior advisor in research funding is to support researchers in drafting research funding applications for international research funders. The duties include application training, personal guidance in the drafting of proposals, development of application-related processes, and cooperation with funders. The appointee will also be involved in strategic projects relating to research funding, in communications and planning, as well as other duties in research funding services, to be separately specified. The senior advisor will work on the City Centre Campus.
The person best suied to complete the duties of the position has experience of applying for research funding and providing advice on applications, as well as excellent oral and written proficiency in Finnish and English. The senior adviser must possess good social, presentation and cooperation skills. The appointee must hold a second-cycle (Master’s) degree. Additionally, a doctoral degree in one of the research fields of the City Centre Campus, knowledge of the academic world and research funders, especially of EU, administrative experience, strong IT skills and the ability to work in an international environment will be an asset.
The salary will be based on level 10 of the requirement level chart for personnel in other than teaching and research positions in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointee will receive a salary component based on personal work performance. There will be a four-month trial period.
Applications must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae. Applications addressed to Ritva Dammert, Director of Development, must be delivered together with the required enclosures to   [email protected] , by the closing date for applications: 30 April 2015 (The Registry closes at 15.45 local Helsinki time).
Further information about the position can be obtained from Pasi Sihvonen, Director of Research Services, tel.  +358 50 415 0236  , [email protected], and Floora Ruokonen, Head of Research Funding Services, tel.  +358 50 311 2534  , [email protected].

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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/university-of-turku/2015/professor-comparative-literature/54308/

Professor of Comparative Literature
The University of Turku is a world-class multidisciplinary research university which offers interesting challenges and a unique vantage point to national and international research and education.
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES OPENS THE POSITION
PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
This post is located in The School of History, Culture and Arts Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.
The employment contract will be permanent.
The salary is determined in accordance with the university salary system for teaching and research personnel. For professors the salary is at levels 8–10 on the job demands chart, where the task specific salary component is between on 4 617,75 – 5 885,99 euros per month. In addition, a personal work performance component will be paid.  The personal work performance component is a maximum of 46,3 % of the task specific salary component.
For more detailed information on the application and evaluation procedure, please see the  Appointment specification . Applications must be submitted by 4.5.2015 through the online application system. The link to the online application system is in the beginning of this Call for Application (”Apply for the job”). You can find the call for applications on the University web-page under  Open Vacancies  

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