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Информационный бюллетень № 323
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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 http://radcliffe.onlineapplicationportal.com/misc/guidelines/
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program at Harvard
Posted on July 6th, 2015 • Comments (0)

 
Deadline: 23 September 2015 / 15 October 2015
Open to: scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment from across the United States and throughout the world, including developing countries
Fellowship: up to USD 75,000 (around EUR 67,000) for one year with additional funds for project expenses

Description
The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program is a scholarly community where individuals pursue advanced work across a wide range of academic disciplines, professions, and creative arts. Radcliffe Institute fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists, and writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment who wish to pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. The Radcliffe Institute encourages applications in all disciplines and on any topic in recognition of Radcliffe’s historic contributions to the education of women and to the study of issues related to women, the Radcliffe Institute sustains a continuing commitment to the study of women, gender, and society.

Eligibility
Candidates from across the United States and throughout the world, including developing countries, are encouraged to apply. The Radcliffe Institute Fellowship Program annually selects and supports 50 leading artists and scholars who have both exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishments. Check the list of disciplines supported.

Applicants may not be students in a degree program at the time of application submission.

Fellowship
Stipends are funded up to USD 75,000 for one year (around EUR 68,000) with additional funds for project expenses. Some support for relocation expenses is provided where relevant. Fellows receive office or studio space and access to libraries and other resources of Harvard University during the fellowship year, which extends from early September 2016 through 31 May 2017.

Visual, film, and video artists may apply to come for either one or two semesters. If they come for one semester, the stipend is USD 37,500 (around EUR  34,ooo). 

Since this is a residential fellowship, they expect fellows to reside in the Boston area during that period and to have their primary office at the Institute so that they can participate fully in the life of the community.

How to apply?
The deadline for humanities, social science, and creative arts is 23 September 2015.
The deadline for natural science and mathematics is 15 October 2015.

You must register online  and complete the application.

If you have any questions send e-mail to [email protected] (humanities, social sciences, and creative arts)
 or  [email protected]

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https://www.dur.ac.uk/imems/research/funding/fellows/slater/
Slater Fellowship
Each academic year,  University College  in association with IMEMS offers the Slater Fellowship for senior academics from other universities.
The Fellowship is designed to enable the postholder to carry out research in Durham for a period of one term, during which fellows are offered full board and accommodation at University College, with up to £200 available towards travel expenses.
During tenure, fellows are expected to engage in academic work within their subject, to participate fully in the life of the College and the Institute, and to deliver a public lecture or seminar hosted within College and organised jointly with IMEMS. Both the College and IMEMS must be acknowledged in any resulting output form the Fellowship.
Fellows will be entitled to full use of Durham University's Library collections, including the archives and special collections held at  Palace Green Library . They will also be able to access the  Durham Cathedral Library  collections and others in the region. Limited workspace may be available at IMEMS on request and subject to availability.
IMEMS proposes potential candidates but the final decision rests with the Master of Univeristy College. Informal enquiries should be directed to  Professor John O'Brien , Director of IMEMS.
How to apply
Applications are now closed, but will reopen next year.
Applicants should submit a CV and a brief summary of what they propose to work on during their time at Durham (maximum one side of A4). They must demonstrate how their proposed research complements or ties in with existing  IMEMS research strands , or the research of individual  members of the Institute .
Proposals for projects involving Durham staff or postgraduate students and those which are interdisciplinary in nature are particularly welcome. Proposals for research using primary source material in the collections held in Palace Green Library, Durham Cathedral Library and Ushaw College Library are also encouraged.

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https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51044
 Cornell University, Society for the Humanities

Society Fellowships, 2016 - 2017, focal theme "SKIN"

Institution Type:   College / University
Location:   New York, United States
Position:   Post-Doctoral Fellow

Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with the Director of the Society for the Humanities, Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, an international research center on new media. The Senior Scholars in Residence will be Anne Cheng, Professor of English and of the Center for African American Studies, Princeton University, Mary Flanagan, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities, Dartmouth College, Cristina Malcolmson, Professor of English, Bates College, and Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard University.  Senior Scholars in Residence will spend one week on campus during the 2016 - 2017 academic year.

 
FOCAL THEME 2016-17: SKIN

The Society for the Humanities at Cornell University seeks interdisciplinary research projects that reflect on philosophical, aesthetic, political, ecological, religious, psychoanalytical, and cultural understandings of skin. Thinking skin calls upon cultural horizons, religious traditions, flesh, haptics, signs, texts, images, biopolitics, screens, sounds, and surfaces. From the earliest writings on medicine and religion to more recent theories of race, sexuality, gender, class, and ethnicity, how might thinking or making skin inform the global cultural experience from North to South, East to West, South to South. We invite research projects across historical periods, disciplinary boundaries, geographic territories, and social contexts.

For classical traditions, skin plays a role in representing the breadth of mythological empowerment, from the Occidental classics and Ancient Egypt to Navajo culture. Theoretical and philosophical approaches might dwell on the contrasts between tactility and opticality or skin as a membrane of intersubjective and global connectivity. Psychoanalysis theorizes skin as the figure of touch, desire, trauma, and “the skin-ego,” while theorists of affect and haptics might study configurations of aging, sexuality, gender, queer and transgender studies.

Also welcome are biopolitical considerations ranging from torture and subjugation to race, eugenics, and genomics whose representations have been central to the arts. Scholars of the arts and technology might emphasize tattooing, surface architecture, technoskins, prostheses, nanotechnologies, and the touch of mobile devices, connectivity, gaming, and mobile media.

Scholars of “medical humanities” might study questions of the complex place of skin in disease, contamination, and contagion, just as these problematics are important in the history of travel literature, geopolitical tensions, and literary and artistic fascinations with the viral.

The David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future co-sponsors one fellowship to support scholarly work addressing TIME as it relates to energy, the environment or economic development. For more information about the Atkinson Center, please visit  http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/ .

Qualifications
Fellows should be working on topics related to the year’s theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2015. The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants must also have one or more years of teaching experience, which may include teaching as a graduate student.


Application Procedure
Applications are accepted only through Academic Jobs Online:  https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5588
Please submit the folowing application materials via AJO:
1. A curriculum vitae and a copy of one scholarly paper no more than 35 pages in length.
2. A one-page abstract in addition to a detailed statement of the research project the applicant would like to pursue during the term of the fellowship (1,000 - 3,000 words). Applicants are also encouraged to submit a working bibliography for their projects.
3. A brief (two-page) proposal for a seminar related to the applicant’s research. Seminars meet two hours per week for one semester (fourteen weeks) and enrollment is limited to fifteen graduate students and qualified undergraduate students.
4. Two letters of recommendation from senior colleagues to whom candidates should send their research proposal and teaching proposal. Letters of recommendation should include an evaluation of the candidate’s proposed research and teaching statements. Please ask referees to submit their letters directly through the application link. Letters must be submitted on or before October 1, 2015.

For further information: phone: 607-255-9274 or 607-255-4086 email:  [email protected]

Awards will be announced by the end of December 2015.

Note: Extensions for applications will not be granted. The Society will consider only fully completed applications. It is the responsibility of each applicant to ensure that all documentation is complete, and that referees submit their letters of recommendation to the Society before the closing date.

Society for the Humanities

The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell University in 1966 to support research and teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation, and a continuing society of scholars. The Society and its Fellows have fostered path-breaking interdisciplinary dialogue and theoretical reflection on the humanities at large.

Fellows include scholars from other universities and members of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive $50,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible for an additional $2,000 to assist with travel costs.

Fellows spend their time in research and writing, participate in the weekly Fellows Seminar, and offer one seminar related to their research. The seminars are generally informal, related to the Fellow's research, and open to graduate students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members. Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the content and the method of their courses.

Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We are a recognized employer and educator valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

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http://www.hdr.mq.edu.au/information_about/Scholarships/schol-opportunities/hdr_scholarships_domestic_and_international
 2015 Mid-Year Scholarship Opportunities
Macquarie University has a mid-year Scholarship Allocation of 30 iMQRES (for international) and 20 MQRES (for Domestic) scholarships available to newly commencing PhD candidates only.
You must meet Macquarie's direct PhD admission and scholarship criteria.
International candidates must submit their applications before 30 September 2015*.
Domestic candidates must submit their applications before 31 October 2015*.
Successful candidates must commence by 15 December 2015.
Applicants are encouraged to Apply Now and required supporting documentation needs to be provided at application stage to avoid processing delays. 
*These scholarships will be offered to the first approved 30 international and 20 domestic PhD offers and allocations may be consumed before these indicated dates.

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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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http://standrews.ru/rus/news/novaya-konferenciya-bbi.html
МЕЖДУНАРОДНАЯ КОНФЕРЕНЦИЯ

БИБЛЕИСТИКА И ПЕРЕВОД БИБЛИИ НА ПОСТСОВЕТСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ
приуроченная к выходу Библии в современном русском переводе
и 25-летию ББИ св. апостола Андрея
24–27 сентября 2015, Москва, Россия

Библеистика – одна из наиболее активно развивающихся на постсоветском пространстве областей академического богословия. Большой интерес к христианству и к Библии как его основному письменному источнику стал причиной появления в последние 25 лет большого количества переводов на русский язык современной западной научной литературы  по библеистике (признанный лидер в этой области – Библейско-богословский институт св. апостола Андрея). Именно библеистику выбрали и продолжают выбирать в качестве своей специализации многие начинающие исследователи.

Данная область, особенно в ее практическом приложении – переводе Библии, стала в полной мере экуменической. Современные западные и русские переводы Библии часто делаются совместными усилиями ученых из разных традиций и предназначены для читателей, принадлежащих к разным христианским конфессиям и к разным религиям. Такой экуменический подход способствует развитию межконфессионального и межрелигиозного диалога – как на Западе, так и на постсоветском пространстве.

Однако существует потребность в более тесном сотрудничестве между теми, кто занимается переводом Библии, в совместном обсуждении принципов перевода Библии и вопросов межкультурной и межденоминационной коммуникации. Переводчики нередко расходятся во мнениях относительно используемых методов, предпочтительной лексики, интерпретации тех или иных мест Библии и т.п. В связи с этим представляется важным собрать вместе западных и российских библеистов и переводчиков для обсуждения актуальных вопросов, касающихся перевода Библии на различные языки, а также новейших достижений в области библеистики. Цель предстоящей конференции – инициировать такую дискуссию и создать подходящую атмосферу для выработки новых подходов к решению существующих проблем.

Конференция приурочена к двум важным событиям 2015 года: публикации перевода Библии на современный русский язык, подготовленной межконфессиональным кол­лективом переводчиков из Института Перевода Библии (Заокский), и 25-летию Библейско-богословского института св. апостола Андрея, одного из первых вузов в современной России, работающих в сфере академического богословия, особенно в области библеистики. 

ДОКЛАДЫ И ПУБЛИКАЦИЯ
Желающие сделать доклад должны до 1 августа 2015 г. прислать в ББИ содержательные тезисы объемом не более 500 слов в электронном виде. Оргкомитет конференции осуществляет отбор тезисов и рассылает приглашения предполагаемым докладчикам. Полные тексты отобранных докладов должны быть представлены до 1 сентября 2015 г. Помимо докладчиков, предусмотрено участие слушателей. Рабочие языки конференции – русский и английский.

Доклады рассчитаны на 20 минут. Некоторые из докладов будут напечатаны в журнале «Страницы: богословие, культура, образование». Тезисы и тексты докладов следует направлять ученому секретарю конференции по следующему адресу:

Михаил Толстолуженко
Библейско-богословский институт св. ап. Андрея
ул. Иерусалимская, д. 3, Москва, 109316, Россия
Тел./Факс: (495) 670-22-00; (495) 670-76-44
E-mail: [email protected],  [email protected]

ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ И РАЗМЕЩЕНИЕ
Начало конференции – вечером в четверг 24 сентября. Рабочие дни конференции – 25 и 26 сентября. Отъезд иногородних участников – утром в воскресенье 27 сентября.  Иногородним докладчикам могут быть предоставлены место в гостинице и питание, а также компенсированы транспортные расходы. 

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http://lomonosov-msu.ru/rus/event/3098/

Международная научная конференция «Эпоха Ренессанса и начала наций в Европе»

Даты регистрации
8 Мая 2015 — 10 Авг 2015
Даты проведения
13 — 14 Окт 2015
Россия, Москва, МГУ

Отрасли конференции
Иностранные языки Искусствознание История Культурология Регионоведение Филология
Описание

Комиссия по культуре Возрождения Научного совета РАН «История мировой культуры», Кафедра истории Средних веков и раннего Нового времени Исторического факультета Московского государственного университета имени М.В.Ломоносова, Германский исторический институт в Москве приглашают вас принять участие в Международной научной конференции «Эпоха Ренессанса и начала наций в Европе», которая состоится 13-14 октября 2015 г. на историческом факультете МГУ имени М.В.Ломоносова. В рамках конференции предполагается обсудить следующие сюжетные и тематические линии: 

нация в эпоху Возрождения: дискуссия о понятии;
значение античности для национальной самоидентификации;
гуманистические программы национальной древности и их инструментализация политическими и религиозными институтами эпохи Возрождения;
национальные мифологемы эпохи Возрождения;
ренессансная латынь и становление современных национальных языков;
национальные герои, символы, места памяти в искусстве и литературе эпохи Возрождения;
национальное своеобразие и национальные школы в искусстве и литературе;
 ренессансная культура и национальное самосознание.
Организаторы

Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова, Исторический факультет, Кафедра истории средних веков
Об организаторах

Комиссия по культуре Возрождения Научного совета РАН «История мировой культуры», Кафедра истории Средних веков и раннего Нового времени Исторического факультета Московского государственного университета имени М.В.Ломоносова, Германский исторический институт в Москве

Контактная информация
Адреса для приёма заявок:  [email protected] (председатель Комиссии Брагина Лидия Михайловна);  [email protected] (секретарь Комиссии Кирьянова Елена Анатольевна) 

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https://icla2016.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICLA 2016
Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée/
International Comparative Literature Association
XXIst Congress, July 21 – July 27, 2016
University of Vienna, Austria
CONGRESS THEME
The many languages of comparative literature
The comparison of literary texts from different cultural spheres and in different languages was at the origin of comparative literature. Even after comparatist paradigms have changed and developed, and after comparative criticism has expanded considerably, the crossing of borders between languages is still essential to the discipline.
For the first time, the theme of a congress organized by the International Comparative Literature Association will be "language" – language in all its meanings and embedded in various contexts: as a "national" idiom, the basis of literary texts: as source-language and target-language in literary translation: as the set of languages forming "world literature" in its literary manifestation (and as the canon of languages that "world literature" is actually concentrating on). And language – both written and spoken – is not just the self-evident medium of all the objects of comparative literature, but also the indispensable meta-language of scientific discourse and literary terminology. The multilingualism of comparative literature is both a challenge and an opportunity: from its beginnings, the polymorphous diversity of world literature has constituted the attraction and wider reach of comparatist reading; on the other hand, even the most accomplished polyglot comparatist can master only a relatively small range of languages. This fact conditions the discourse more than might be apparent in a scholarly culture increasingly influenced by the English language. 

The congress will also focus on language in its broadest sense: the usage of language by social and ethnic groups as vectors of literature, the language of themes and discourses, language as a literary subject, language as the expression of central problems and ideas negotiated in the various literatures of the world, and even in its metaphorical sense, as "languages" of styles and forms. As an infinite code with constant need for decryption, the international sign system of literature perpetually reproduces the myth of the confusion of tongues and sets new tasks to multilingual humanity in coming to terms with literature and its criticism.
 
CONGRESS SECTIONS
A.
The arts as universal code Languages of form and genre
Languages of style
Language in the 2nd degree – quotation, intertextuality and metareference
Comparing the arts: art as a universal language
Language and literature – general semiotics
Different media, different expressions
B.
Language – The essence of world literature The Tower of Babel: myths about language
Languages as a literary topic
Languages of the world – languages of world literature – world language?
Nation and language
"Translational" literature
"Major" vs. "minor" languages
The comparison of languages – one origin of literary comparatism
Expressing regionalism
The language of power – the language of resistance
Literary translation: histories, methods, markets
C.
Many cultures, many idioms Language and culture
Cultural images and their linguistic representation
The language of the "others"
Language and identity
Multilingualism as a traditional phenomenon
Multilingualism as a contemporary phenomenon
Multilingualism – problem or opportunity
Who is speaking? Comparatism and the social sciences
Hybridity and comparatism
Crossing cultural borders
D. 
The language of thematics How to speak about themes? Terminology of Thematics
Meaning – interpreting texts in a comparatist framework
The renaissance of metaphor studies
Language of the sexes – languages of gender
The languages of emotion
The language of concern – international ecocriticism
E.
Comparatists at work – professional communication The knowledge of literary criticism and its various codes 
The evaluation of literature – the language of criticism
Comparatism as a verbal procedure – how to compare with words?
Speaking about: The metadiscourse of literary historiography
Digital humanities
Analytical philosophy and logic in the critical discourse
Spoken and written discourse
The multilingual library of comparative literature
The comparatist’s dictionary: International terminology
 
PROPOSALS
Individual proposals may be submitted for congress sessions (one session = 3 papers = 90 min.).

All the topics presented above may be considered as suggestions for further elaboration. Congress sessions will be organized according to the number and variety of proposals. In general, two types of proposals are possible:
1) individual proposals for papers to be presented in congress sessions,
2) proposals to organize group sections.

1) Individual proposals may be submitted for congress sessions. They will be assessed by an international committee and, if accepted, assigned to a particular congress session.
2) Individuals may also submit proposals for group sections (such as seminars, workshops, round tables). If the group section is accepted, the group section applicant will independently invite individuals to submit proposals and participate in these group sections. Group section applicants will chair their respective groups. Large group sections may require several meetings, scheduled by the congress organization, possibly on different days.
Individual proposal submission due (congress sessions):    August 31, 2015
Acceptance notice due: December 31, 2015
Group section proposal submission due: May 31, 2015
Group section acceptance notice due: June 30, 2015
Individual proposal submission due (group sections) August 31, 2015
Acceptance notice due:    December 31, 2015
Proposals must be written in English, German, or French.

Please submit your proposals online via the ICLA 2016 website  http://icla2016.univie.ac.at/
 
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Sixth Annual RefoR Conference 2016 Copenhagen : Call for Papers.
The Sixth Annual RefoRC Conference 2016 will be held May 26-28, 2016 and will hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Theology. The theme of the plenary papers is: 'Church' at the time of the Reformation - Invisible community, visible parish, confession, building….
The Sixth Annual RefoRC Conference 2016 will be held May 26-28, 2016 and will hosted by the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Theology. Short paper proposals and registrations can be submitted via the online registration form. Short paper proposals are welcome before February 15, 2016. Contact Email:   [email protected]
URL:   http://www.refo500.nl/rc/pages/600/sixth-reforc-conference-20166-copenhagen.html

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The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures – Russian Studies at McGill University
The Russian Provinces in Film
Montreal, on October 22-24
 
We invite papers on the subject of the Russian provinces as addressed by Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, i.e., films set in the provinces, and films and TV series about attempts by provincials “to make it” in Moscow. In addition to a number of panels, this small, tightly-focused conference will include film presentations and discussions with Birgit Beumers, Nancy Condee, and Mark Lipovetsky.
 
Context:  In the last decade, a large body of research has created the new field of provincial studies, which Otto Boele describes as a “new and promising direction in Russian scholarship that studies the provinces ( provintsiia ) both as an object of ideological reflection and a distinctive semiosphere producing its own discourses and texts.” In mass culture, the traditional privileging of the center over the backward provinces gives way to the view of the provinces as a repository of the national tradition and moral strength. Conversely, high literature and art-house films provide an alternative, harshly critical image of the provinces. These shifts in hierarchies and meanings are especially apparent in TV and film, because these are the most “powerful tools of the central control of meaning” (Beumers, Hutchings, Rulyova). Because cinema relies both on governmental financial support and on popular approbation, it is a major field for constructing national cultural discourses. The provinces of myth, just like the Gogolian provinces, remain “the emptiness” that can be filled by any ideological content.
 
Some of the topics to be addressed :
- recurring motifs and tropes in representations of the provinces and provincials;
- differences and similarities in cinematic representations of the provinces in Soviet and Post-Soviet film;
- the chronotope of the post-Soviet provinces; 
- construction of the character of the ‘provincial’ and the cultural discourses these constructions employ and reveal;
- the provinces as a symbolic locale for alternative discourses and political opposition
 
Please submit a page-long abstract of your paper and a short CV to Prof. Lyudmila Parts at   [email protected] .  The deadline to submit your materials is August 10 th .  

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Love Letters
3rd Global Meeting of the Letters and Letter Writing project

Call for Participation 2016

Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016
London, United Kingdom

This is not a love letter
“I read over your letters again and again, and am continually taking them up as if I had just received them; but alas! They only serve to make me more strongly regret your absence: for how amiable must her conversation be, whose letters have so many charms?” Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 6.7 (Translation William Melmoth 1915)

Is this a love letter? Or is it something else entirely?

It might have started out as a communication from Pliny to his young wife Calpurnia. However, he included it in a collection destined for public consumption. How much did he rewrite the letter for his new audience? And did he give a public reading of this letter as was common at this time, before circulating it? Was this letter ever delivered to Calpurnia in person, or only publicly, as a new literary genre?

What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture to another? Is a song, the words of which adopt the conventions of epistolary communication, a letter? Or a love poem in an envelope? Or a greeting card?

This conference provides a rare opportunity for a global community to come together and discuss both traditional and alternative love letters. This community could be made up of those in the creative arts, writers, academics or non-academics, in other words anybody with an interest in this area that is willing to share and participate. This conference forms part of a specific focus research stream and continues dialogues started as part of the Letters and Letter Writing project that began two years ago. Its aim is to enrich current research, inspire new ideas and approaches and take this discussion farther both in terms of creating new networks and encouraging cross disciplinary projects that could find their form in either events or publications. It might interest those in the fields of literature, history, film studies, gender studies, political science, linguistics, musicology, creative writing, life-writing to name just a few.

The Advisory Group welcomes the submission of proposals for short workshops, practitioner-based activities, performances, papers and pre-formed panels. We particularly welcome short film screenings; photographic essays; installations; interactive talks and alternative presentation styles that encourage engagement. Submissions should be no more than 300 words and are invited on these or cognate themes for any historical period or geographical location;

~ Breakup letters
~ Love poems in letters
~ Letters leading to betrothal or marriage
~ The role of scribes in writing love letters or expressing intimacy and love (platonic, erotic or otherwise)
~ Love letters in the visual arts
~ Love letters in fiction, poetry, biography (including fiction and poetry written as love letters)
~ The valentine industry and its effects on personal relations, including between children
~ Expressions of love in valentines or other greeting cards, from standard to bizarre
~ Artists’ valentines
~ Between gay, lesbian, transgender or bisexual partners
~ Platonic friendship expressed in epistolary form
~ Parental love expressed in epistolary form
~ Love of church, god, country and nature in epistolary form
~ Lack of love where it was expected/love letters and stalking
~ Discussion of love in letters between writers, philosophers or thinkers
~ Love letters sent from or to prison, POW camps or mental health institutes
~ Love letters in opera, country and western songs, and other musical genres
~ The past, present and future of the love letter, and the factors that have shaped changing social attitudes toward this mode of communication
~ How love / affection / desire is expressed (vocabulary, explicitness, symbolism, imagery)
~ Etiquette and ‘art’ of letter writing
~ Love letters as political communication
~ Letters of admiration to a famous dead person
~ Online love letters
~ Love letters as historical/genealogical documents (issues of reliability, archiving/preservation)
~ Influence of gender on the writing and reception of love letters
~ Clinical perspectives on the impulse to write and the pleasures associated with writing and receiving love letters
~ Multicultural perspectives on love letters
~ Critical strategies for analysing love letters as a writing genre

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Love Letters project will be meeting at the same time as two other projects: Exploring Sexuality and Spirituality and Exploring The Erotic. All three groups will share at least one creative workshop in common led by a poetess who writes sensual and erotic poetry. In addition we welcome submissions which cross the divide between two or even all three project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.

Workshop
As part of the conference, there will be an opportunity for those who wish to participate in an afternoon workshop focusing on “Reading Erotic Poetry“. The workshop is an ongoing project within the Exploring the Erotic project. You will explore the ways in which poems can accommodate the erotic, moving from subtle erotic love expressions over blunt eroticism to hard pornographic features in erotic poetry. The workshop will address other forms of writing, including letters and letter writing.

Further details and information can be found here:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/call-for-participation/

What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 14th August 2015.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed.

You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 28th August 2015.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 11th December 2015.

Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad 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: Love Letters Abstract Submission

Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:

Organising Chairs:
Linda McGuire:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]

This event is part of a new emerging inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project which overlaps projects working in the areas of Writing, Letters, Graphic Novel, Storytelling. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting of the Love Letters stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting itself.

Ethos
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. 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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Evil Spaces, Wicked Places
The Geographies and Architectures of Evil

Call for Presentations 2016
Special Focus: London

Monday 18th January – Wednesday 20th January 2016
London, United Kingdom

This inclusive interdisciplinary project explores the relationship between evil, spaces and places. From the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno to the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda, from crumbling sanatoria to gothic haunted houses and basements of imprisonment and sexual oppression, evil has many geographies and inhabits a wide array of accidental or designed architectures. Places become defined as evil; spaces are made evil by the actions of people or acquire the atmosphere and presence of evil. Whether real or imagined, these spaces and places speak to us of unease, fear, menace, dread, horror, the supernatural and something beyond what is human. Evil. This project seeks to map and explore the relationship between persons, evils, spaces and places.

For 2016 the project will focus specifically on London as a locus of evil spaces and places. Described in The Guardian newspaper as “the dark heart of Britain, the place where democracy goes to die, immensely powerful, equally unaccountable”, London is the home of Jack the Ripper, Sweeney Todd, and Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. The city has cringed before the Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt; it has seen kings and queens crowned and beheaded; it has gawked at Shakespeare’s Wyrd Sisters, the Great Fire, cholera, and the Great Stink that led to the creation of one of the first modern sewer systems. It is full of hauntings and ghosts and things that go bump in the night.

London is all these and more, which prompts the question of how its history, geography and architecture reflect all these aspects of the city’s identity, even as they interact and continue to create the monstrosity that is the city known as “London?”

Topics for possible presentation include, but are not limited to:

Evil and London Landmarks

Tower of London in history and fiction
Westminster Palace and London in fiction as a centre of black magic and plots for world domination
St. Paul’s Cathedral hovering over London rising from its own ashes
The London Underground
The Marble Arch, Newgate Prison, The Clink, and other sites of execution or punishment
The Old Bailey and legal aspects of evil
Real and imagined evils in the British Museum
Art and evil in the collections of the National Gallery, Tate Gallery, Tate Modern
Madame Tussauds
Houses of Parliament as source of evil, target of evil acts, and defence against evil
Monuments and evil: war memorials, the Marble Arch/Tyburn, etc.
Architecture and evil

Evil in the Boroughs

Whitechapel and the East End
Representations of evil in Greater London (ex. Southwark, Westminster) in fiction and folklore
City traders as perpetrators of social evils
Soho and the sexual underground as a playground of Evil OR as escape from evil, mundane world

London’s Real-life Evil Figures

Jack the Ripper and other famous serial killers: “Vampire of London” (John George Haigh), “Camden Ripper” (Anthony Hardy), “Lambeth Poisoner” (Thomas Neill Cream)
Celebrity evil-doers (real and imaginary killers, “mad” scientists, political revolutionaries)
Mobs and gangs of the past and present
Royal figures that either keep evil at bay or that invite evil in
Press coverage of evil acts and their perpetrators

London’s Evil Spaces in Fiction, Theatre, Television, Film, Music, Graphic Novels

Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty
Doctor Who, James Bond and others as the nemesis of Evil
Peter Pan and Captain Hook: British children, childhood, and Evil or Wickedness
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

London and the Other-worldly Evils

Monsters, human and non-human, in the shadows of London
London’s role in the occult revival
Haunted locations
Witches in London

London and Worldly Evils

War in London: ancient, medieval, modern
Plagues, both metaphors and illnesses, in London
London as exploitation/human trafficking capital
Evil and immigrant communities: scapegoating, victimisation, etc.
Economics of Evil: London as Dark Tourism Destination

Submissions and contributions are invited which deal with evil spaces and places both generally as well as in relation to the specific focus of London.

We hope to be able to make time to visit the new crime museum and possibly visit other places of interest.

What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 14th August 2015.
All submissions be minimally double reviewed, under anonymous (blind) conditions, by a global panel drawn from members of the Project Team and the Advisory Board. In practice our procedures usually entail that by the time a proposal is accepted, it will have been triple and quadruple reviewed.

You will be notified of the panel’s decision by Friday 28th August 2015.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 11th December 2015.

Abstracts may be in Word, RTF or Notepad 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: Evil Space/Place Abstract Submission

Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs:

Organising Chairs:
Stephen Morris:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]

This event is part of the Evil inclusive interdisciplinary research and publishing project. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

It is anticipated that a number of publishing options will arise from the work of the project generally and from the meeting of Evil Spaces, Wicked Places stream in particular. Minimally there will be a digital eBook resulting from the conference meeting. Other options, some of which might include digital publications, paperbacks and a journal will be explored during the meeting itself.

Ethos
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. 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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 International Conference Of Silk, Sugar and Spices: New
Directions in East-West Cooperation
Date: 2015-11-11
Description: International Conference Of Silk, Sugar and Spices:
New Directions in East-West Cooperation. Conference venue:
ISCAP, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal.11 to 13
November 2015 This Conference will gather Eastern/Western
professionals, from academic and research institutions, to
describe and eva ...
Contact:   [email protected]
URL:   www.iscap.ipp.pt/cei/
Announcement ID: 223328
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=223328

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Call for Papers 
Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism: The Practice of Intellectual History and Conceptual History
 
A Civic Constellation II Workshop 
 
in Cooperation with St Andrews Institute of Intellectual History 
and Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
 
3–5 September 2015  
 
Over the last few decades, the aims and approaches for the study of the history of ideas have been under close scrutiny and constant redefinition. Either as part of a deliberate reflection or in the course of research on different topics, the meaning and goals of the history of ideas have been critically reviewed and questioned. As a result, the contours of the field remain fluid; plurality and interdisciplinarity are the most prominent features of both intellectual and conceptual history, the two most prominent branches of the history of ideas as currently practised. 
 
Within intellectual history and conceptual history interdisciplinarity is frequently used as a catchword instead of a methodological engine of meaningful research. As such, the practice and contingency of interdisciplinarity in research and teaching challenge an otherwise sound theoretical justification of historical practice. From this perspective, some scholars have viewed the heterogeneity and diversity that define intellectual and conceptual history as weaknesses, and therefore as reasons to strengthen the frontiers between approaches and academic disciplines. 
 
This workshop seeks to reflect on the role that interdisciplinarity and methodological pluralism play in the practice of intellectual and conceptual history, with the aim of intensifying the debate between them and exploring their relevance to the practice of other disciplines. Ultimately, this also opens up new paths for curricular innovation. Hence we welcome proposals addressing these issues either specifically or as part of broader research agendas in intellectual history and in conceptual history, from political theory and philosophy to international relations. 
 
Deadline for submitting proposals (titles and up to 150-word abstracts): 5 August 2015 
 
Keynote Speakers 
 
Prof Kari Palonen (University of Jyväskylä) 
Prof Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) 
 
Organisers
 
The Civic Constellation II: Debating Democracy and Rights,   www.uma.es/civicconstellation    
Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews, < a title="http://www.intellectualhistory.net
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Concepta: International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, 
www.concepta-net.org     
 
Convenors
 
Dr Rosario López, Universities of St Andrews and Málaga ([email protected])
Prof José María Rosales, University of Málaga ([email protected])
   
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Открытый конкурс на предоставление государственной поддержки ведущим университетам Российской Федерации в целях повышения их конкурентоспособности среди ведущих мировых научно-образовательных центров
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10.07.2015 Образование

Открытый конкурс на предоставление  государственной поддержки ведущим университетам Российской Федерации в целях повышения их конкурентоспособности  среди ведущих мировых научно-образовательных центров проводится в соответствии с пунктами 2 и 4 Правил распределения и предоставления субсидий на государственную поддержку ведущих университетов Российской Федерации в целях повышения их конкурентоспособности среди ведущих мировых научно-образовательных центров, утвержденных постановлением Правительства Российской Федерации от 16 марта 2013 г. № 211. 

Организатором конкурса является Министерство образования и науки Российской Федерации. 

Организационно-техническое и информационное обеспечение проведения конкурса осуществляет подведомственное Минобрнауки России федеральное государственное автономное научное учреждение  «Центр социологических исследований»  (ФГАНУ «Социоцентр»). 

Участниками конкурса могут быть образовательные организации высшего образования  (за исключением казенных учреждений), соответствующие перечню требований к отбору вузов для получения ими государственной поддержки, рассмотренному Советом по повышению конкурентоспособности ведущих университетов Российской Федерации среди ведущих мировых научно-образовательных центров и утвержденному приказом Минобрнауки России от 22 апреля 2013 г. № 296  (зарегистрирован Министерством юстиции Российской Федерации от 16 мая 2013 г., регистрационный № 28433) с изменениями, внесенными приказом Министерства образования и науки Российской Федерации  от 22 июня 2015 г. № 607 (зарегистрирован Министерством юстиции Российской Федерации 3 июля 2015 г., регистрационный № 37893). 

Предоставление субсидий вузам, отобранным по результатам конкурса,  осуществляется в пределах бюджетных ассигнований, предусмотренных в федеральном законе о федеральном бюджете на соответствующий финансовый год и плановый период и лимитов бюджетных обязательств, утвержденных Минобрнауки России на эти цели. 

Распределение субсидий между вузами-победителями рассчитывается в соответствии с подпунктом «ж» пункта 4 Правил, при этом с 2016 года общий объем субсидий распределяется между вузами-победителями конкурсов 2013 и 2015 годов. 

Конкурсная документация размещена в информационно-телекоммуникационной сети «Интернет» на официальном сайте Минобрнауки России (www.минобрнауки.рф) и на специализированном сайте ФГАНУ «Социоцентр» ( www.5top100.ru ), доступна для ознакомления всем заинтересованным лицам без взимания платы. 

Требования к содержанию, оформлению и порядку представления заявок на участие в конкурсе, критерии отбора и порядок оценки заявок на участие в конкурсе, порядок и сроки определения результатов конкурса указаны в конкурсной документации. 

Доступ к заполнению в интерактивном режиме форм заявки на участие в конкурсе будет открыт  с 30 июля 2015 г.  на персональной странице в личном электронном кабинете участника конкурса в Единой информационной системе обеспечения деятельности Минобрнауки России (http://cabinet.mon.gov.ru). 

Заявки на участие в конкурсе принимаются по адресу: 125993, Москва, Тверская ул., д. 11, Минобрнауки России, в срок  с 24 августа 2015 г. до 17 часов 00 минут московского времени 7 сентября 2015 года . 

Заявки, полученные организатором конкурса по истечении установленного срока, к участию в конкурсе не допускаются. 

Вскрытие конвертов с заявками на участие в конкурсе состоится 8 сентября 2015 г. в 10 часов 00 минут московского времени по адресу организатора конкурса. 

Победители конкурса будут определены в срок до 30 октября 2015 г. в порядке, установленном конкурсной документацией. 

Минобрнауки России вправе отказаться от проведения конкурса в течение первой половины установленного срока подачи заявок в случае сокращения лимитов бюджетных обязательств федерального бюджета, выделенных Минобрнауки России для предоставления субсидий, выявления необходимости уточнения условий конкурса, а также в иных, предусмотренных конкурсной документацией, случаях. 

Полный текст объявления конкурса на сайте Минобрнауки РФ:  http://минобрнауки.рф/новости/5934
 
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КНВШ. Конкурс на предоставление субсидий на подготовку и выпуск научных, научно-образовательных и научно-популярных периодических изданий
Комитет по науке и высшей школы объявляет конкурс на предоставление субсидий на подготовку и выпуск научных, научно-образовательных и научно-популярных периодических изданий.  Субсидии предоставляются на безвозмездной и безвозвратной основе юридическим лицам ( за исключением государственных (муниципальных) учреждений) , имеющим место нахождения в Санкт-Петербурге, являющимся субъектами научной и(или) научно-технической деятельности и(или) социально ориентированными некоммерческими организациями, осуществляющими деятельность в соответствии с пунктом 9 статьи 3 Закона Санкт-Петербурга от 23.03.2011 № 153-41 «О поддержке социально ориентированных некоммерческих организаций в Санкт-Петербурге» (далее - претенденты на получение субсидий), в целях финансового обеспечения (возмещения) затрат, возникших в 2015 году, в связи с подготовкой и выпуском научных, научно-образовательных и научно-популярных периодических изданий (далее - издания) в целях популяризации научных знаний (далее - затраты).
 
Максимальный размер субсидии составляет 100 тыс. рублей.
Субсидии предоставляются победителям конкурсного отбора на предоставление в 2015 году субсидий на подготовку и выпуск научных, научно-образовательных и научно-популярных периодических изданий (далее - конкурсный отбор).
Условиями предоставления субсидий являются:
-научная, научно-образовательная или научно-популярная направленность издания, подготовку и выпуск которого осуществляют претенденты на получение субсидий;
-документальное подтверждение затрат, возмещаемых за счет субсидий;
-возврат получателями субсидий в бюджет Санкт-Петербурга в сроки, определенные договорами о предоставлении субсидий (далее - договоры), остатков субсидий, не использованных в установленные договорами о предоставлении субсидий сроки;
-наличие согласия получателей субсидий на осуществление Комитетом по науке и высшей школе и Комитетом государственного финансового контроля Санкт-Петербурга обязательных проверок соблюдения получателями субсидий условий, целей и порядка предоставления субсидий (далее – проверки), предусмотренного договорами о предоставлении субсидий;
-отсутствие у получателей субсидий задолженности по уплате налогов в бюджеты всех уровней и государственные внебюджетные фонды;
-отсутствие иных бюджетных ассигнований на возмещение затрат.
Срок подачи заявок : до 20 июля 2015 года. Более подробная информация на сайте Комитета  http://www.rscf.ru/ по адресу:  http://knvsh.gov.spb.ru/contests/view/133/
 
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GRANTS & AWARDS / ГРАНТЫ&ПРЕМИИ
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http://www.rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/290/238190.php
Международная премия имени Елены Ивановны Рерих за 2015 год
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26.06.2015 культура

Благотворительный Фонд имени Елены Ивановны Рерих  объявляет приём заявок на соискание Международной Премии имени Елены Ивановны Рерих за 2015 год. Премия впервые присуждается по пяти номинациям: 
*  За лучшую научную работу в области Живой Этики - философии Космической Реальности;
*  За лучшее исследование в области художественного наследия Рерихов;
*  За вклад в защиту наследия Рерихов;
*  За вклад в развитие Музея имени Н.К.Рериха;
*  За лучшее исследование научной деятельности Рерихов. Заявки принимаются с 10 июня  по 31 октября 2015 года включительно . 

Ежегодный размер Премии в каждой номинации составляет сумму  пять тысяч евро в рублевом эквиваленте . 

Премия в каждой номинации присуждается соискателю однократно. 
Для приема и рассмотрения заявок формируется оргкомитет и жюри Премии, состоящие из квалифицированных специалистов. 
Документы, составленные не по форме или поступившие после указанного срока, не рассматриваются. 
Поступившие на конкурс научные работы не рецензируются и не возвращаются. Переписка с авторами не ведется. 
Работы, не прошедшие по конкурсу, могут быть выдвинуты на соискание Премии не более трех раз. При этом оформление документов производится заново. 
Кандидатуры соискателей Премии обнародованию не подлежат. 
При отсутствии надлежащих работ Премия не присуждается. 

Информация о Премии опубликована на сайте Фонда:   http://www.found-helenaroerich.ru/programs/prize/

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PUBLICATIONS / ПУБЛИКАЦИИ
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Russia – Culture of (Non-)Conformity: From the Late Soviet Time to the Present
Special Issue of the Journal  Russian Literature , 2017
Guest Editors: Klavdia Smola, Mark Lipovetsky
 
Over its history Russia’s political system has created and fostered a culture of (non-)conformity. Since the 1960s, one can observe a rapidly growing sphere of cultural underground. Its institutions and practices are studied as well as those within official culture of the period. Less explored is the sphere situated in-between the official and non-official cultures as well as transitions between them. This stratification became established in the late Soviet period and continues to “do its job” today. During its development it has passed through several periods of transformation, undergone important modifications, and experienced a lengthy interruption in the 1990s.
This special issue of  Russian Literature  will look at shifts in Russian culture along the continuum from conformity to non-conformity between the 1960s and the present day. Our focus is to analyse the structures and mechanisms of culture divided between the spheres of official/non-official/ and semi-official. The relevance of this approach is especially obvious in current political situation in Russia, when the growing ideological homogenisation of the public sphere and the resulting practices of (semi)tabooisation are today once again breaking the Russian intellectual domain up into the these three realms. Comparison between these spheres in late Soviet period and today are especially significant for our project. Paper may tackle either the trajectory of cultural assimilation or of dissent, as well as oscillations between these spheres. Attempts to place the phenomenon of (non-)conformity in the context of cultural development and change since the late Soviet era to today’s split between conformist and countercultural practices are particularly welcome.
The editors of this issue would like to encourage submissions in the fields of Russian cultural studies, literary studies, history of art, theatre and film studies, and book and publishing research. Interdisciplinary work straddling the boundary between cultural studies and social and political science is likewise warmly encouraged. Papers addressing the topic from within a single discipline are however equally welcome.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
1.        The cultural public sphere and its transformation from Khrushchev to Putin
2.        Borders between the official and non-conformists: literature, art, theatre
3.        Protest art and action art in the face of prohibition
4.        Cultural practices and mechanisms of conformity/non-conformity in arts
5.        Between conformity and non-conformity: spaces of cultural autonomy
6.        Epideictics and panegyrics vs. subversion and satire
7.        Conformity and non-conformity in the (human) sciences
8.        Books and publishing (conformist and non-conformist)
9.        Museums and exhibitions (conformist and non-conformist)
10.     The cultural public sphere and cultural policy (awards and funding)
11.     Censorship: strategies, impacts and transformations/development during the period under consideration
12.     The Aesopian language of culture: smuggling the forbidden into the public domain
Submissions must be in English. Interested parties are asked to submit details of their proposed topic in an abstract (max. 2,000 characters), by email to   [email protected]  and   [email protected]   by 30 September at the latest.  After approval of abstracts, the deadline for articles will be 10 January, 2016.
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JOB/ ВАКАНСИИ
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San Diego State University , Classics & Humanities
Global Humanities for the 21st Century
Institution Type:   College / University
Location:   California ,  United States
Position:   Assistant Professor
San Diego State University’s Department of Classics and Humanities invites applications for a new tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in  Global Humanities for the 21st Century . We seek a well-rounded cultural historian with expertise across media, geography, languages and literature. The ideal candidate's research will focus on geographic regions beyond Europe and America, and could include humanities of Latin America, Africa, Asia and/or the Pacific Rim. The position calls for traditional fluency in languages, literatures, and cultural production, as well as supplementary strengths in the use of digital media, social networks, and/or collections of trans-global texts, archives, and databases.
The candidate’s research agenda should include the digital treatment, archiving, quantification, curating translating and/or interpretation of texts, broadly construed, for the purpose of recording and assessing cultural movements. We seek someone capable of providing a narrative of the history of humanities (especially non-Western) by demonstrating the interrelatedness of local and global perspectives and tastes. Areas of specialization are open as to historical period, cultural context, generic focus, or theoretical approach; teaching assignments will allow for course creation and curriculum development to reflect the integration of humanities and digital technology. The teacher/scholar we seek will excel at demonstrating new interpretive strategies to account for and appraise the explosion of the new media of humanities as a result of the digital revolution.
Qualifications include demonstrated skills in teaching undergraduates. Candidates must possess a strong commitment to teaching excellence and demonstrate promise for continuing research and publication. A Ph.D. in Humanities or related field must be in hand at time of appointment.
SDSU is a large, diverse, urban university and Hispanic-Serving Institution with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence. Our campus community is diverse in many ways, including race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, pregnancy, medical condition, and covered veteran status. We strive to build and sustain a welcoming environment for all. SDSU is seeking applicants with demonstrated experience in and/or commitment to teaching and working effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and members of underrepresented groups.
Applicants must apply via Interfolio at   http://apply.interfolio.com/30163 . Applicant screening will begin  September 15, 2015  and the position will remain open until filled. Applications will be accepted until a suitable candidate is found.
 
The person holding this position is considered a “mandated reporter” under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.
 
San Diego State University is a Title IX, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, marital status, age, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, or covered veteran status.
 
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https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51063
Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Associate Director will supervise and implement Center programs   and projects; serve as the Co-PI for the Department of Education
Grant; and collaborate in establishing and reviewing policies of the   Center.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Supervise and implement Center's programs and projects

• Co-PI for the Department of Education Grant; manage all grant   projects and programs: prepare grant proposals, narratives and
budgets; supervise and implement grant projects and programs; manage   and supervise preparation of grant reporting; Advise in planning of
evaluation of grant-related programs; attend with the director   meetings with federal agencies and grant officials

• Oversee the Center’s budget and financial policy

• Supervise Center staff and student assistants: hire, train,   assign/review work, conduct performance evaluations, address work
issues, set work schedules and goals

• Collaborate with the director in establishing and reviewing   operating policies for the unit

• Oversee and administer the Center’s FLAS fellowship program; advise   fellowship committee on FLAS policies and priorities; Serve as liaison   with the Graduate College Fellowship Office and the U.S. Department of   Education concerning fellowships; obtain approvals for students'   overseas programs

• Serve as the academic advisor for REEES BA majors and minors:   monitor students' progress toward graduation, both REEES and general  U niversity requirements; interpret University policy as it pertains to   students and their programs; serve as liaison between students and   campus offices, including Study Abroad

• Work with College and University development officers to obtain   gifts and endowments: research potential funding sources, develop
relationships with donors, manage database of REEEC donors

• Advise and support the director in the development of proposals for   new courses and curricula

• Assist the Center director with management of the Center's MA   Program: supervise completion of admission, graduation, and student
petition paperwork; coordinate with Director on student assistantship   funding

• Act as liaison to campus and university departments and represent   the director as needed

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:
• Master's degree;
• Strong organizational and communication skills;
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously without supervision;
• Strong computer skills (Microsoft Office and databases)

Preferred:
• PhD in a humanities or social science discipline with a   concentration in Russian, East European, or Eurasian studies;
• Administrative experience, including budget management;
• Experience with U.S. Department of Education Title VI grants, grant   writing, and program evaluation;
• International experience;
• Advanced proficiency in Russian or another language of the region;
• Interdisciplinary and creative orientation;
• Knowledge of UIUC organization, policies, and procedures.

SALARY AND APPOINTMENT INFORMATION

This is a full-time, academic professional position appointed on a   12-month service basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible
after the closing date. Applicants may be interviewed before the   closing date; however, no hiring decision will be made until after
that date. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND DEADLINE INFORMATION
To apply for this position, please create a candidate profile at    http://jobs.illinois.edu  and upload your cover letter and resume by
July 17, 2015. Online application will require names and contact   information including email addresses for three professional
references. Full consideration will be given to complete applications   received by the closing date.

For further information regarding application procedures, you may   contact Linda McCabe at   [email protected]
Illinois is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants   will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,
religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender   identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified
individual with a disability. Illinois welcomes individuals with   diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value
diversity and inclusivity. (  www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu ).  

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 Visiting Professor, Political Science and
International Affairs, John Cabot University (Rome, Italy)

John Cabot University, a four year, fully-
accredited American liberal arts college in
Rome, Italy, invites applications for a visiting
faculty position in political science and
international affairs at the assistant or associate
professor rank. We seek candidates with a Ph.D.
in Political Science, demonstrated excellence in
teaching and research, and commitment to
academic service. The candidate will be expected
to teach introductory and advanced undergraduate
courses in political science and international
relations. The ideal candidate should be a graduate
of an American university or have experience in
the American liberal arts educational tradition.
The search is open to all subfields.

http://www.apsanet.org/jobs_listing.asp?id=1192

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 Chair in Social and Political Change, European
University Institute

SPS6
The Department of Political and Social Sciences
seeks to fill a Chair in Social and Political Change.
We are looking for a social scientist with proven
expertise and excellence of research in the area
of social and political change in Central and
Eastern Europe. The successful candidate will
have a strong record of empirical research, an
interest in theory and research methods and a
commitment to excellence in postgraduate
teaching. The chair is open to candidates at
all levels of seniority.

Interested applicants should consult
www.eui.eu/vacancies for Further particulars.
Deadline for receipt of applications:
15 September 2015.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALL372/
chair-in-social-and-political-change-sps6/
 
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 Russian Language Coordinator, Queen Mary,
University of London

The School seeks to appoint a member of staff to
participate in, and co-ordinate the language
teaching in its department of Russian. Candidates,
who should be proficient speakers of Russian,
should have experience of Russian language
teaching at undergraduate level and/or a
qualification in the teaching of Russian as a
foreign language, as well as a flair for
administration.

The post is full-time and permanent. The
successful candidate should ideally be able to
take up his or her appointment from 1 September
2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. The salary
will be in the range £43,888 to £48,996 per
annum inclusive of London Allowance. Benefits
include 30 days annual leave, defined benefit
pension scheme and interest-free season ticket loan.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ATW032/russian-language-co-ordinator/

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Assistant Professor, 20th Century Continental
European History, Trinity College Dublin, The
University of Dublin

The School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity
College Dublin is looking to appoint an Assistant
Professor in 20th-century continental European
History from 14 September 2015. This position
is available for nine months and arises following
the award of externally-funded research leave
for Professor Alan Kramer. The post holder will
be expected to maintain a research interest in any
area of twentieth-century continental European
history. The successful applicant will be expected
to co-ordinate and teach a large second-year
survey module on twentieth-century European
history. In addition the post-holder will be
expected to teach a year-long Honours module
on any aspect of twentieth-century continental
European history and to contribute to other
undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as
appropriate. Supervision of appropriate
undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations
may also be expected.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALI437/assistant-professor-in-20th-century-continental-european-history/

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Teaching Fellow, Twentieth Century European
History, University College London
 
UCL Reference: 1471096
The Department seeks to appoint a Teaching Fellow
to cover the following modules during the 2015-16
session:
Violence in the European Age of Extremes: To
deliver a programme of weekly seminars over the
two teaching terms. The module is taught over 10
weeks with two groups of 15 students in term one
and one group of 15 students in term two.
Globalization in the Twentieth Century: A graduate
module which is taught over 20 weeks
(cohort of c 12 students)
Other duties and responsibilities include
dissertation supervision and marking for a cohort
of both BA and MA students; and acting as a
Personal Tutor to c20 undergraduates.
The appointment is funded for twelve months,
in the first instance, from 01 September 2015
on a 0.60 FTE basis.
Candidates must have a PhD in a relevant field.
They must also have experience in
undergraduate and graduate teaching and assessment.
 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALK754/teaching-fellow-twentieth-century-european-history/
 
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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/free-university-of-bozen-bolzano/2015/contract-professor-subject-theory-media-cultural-consumption/59370/
Contract Professor for the subject “Theory of media and cultural consumption”
The Faculty of Design and Art, for the Bachelor in Design and Art – Major in Design, invites applications for nr. 1 teaching post to be assigned for the academic year 2015/16 through a remunerated freelance contract.
The complete advertisement with all information and attachments – in English, German and Italian – concerning job content, qualification requirements, application, appointment procedure, salary and conditions of employment is available through the following link:
http://www.unibz.it/en/organisation/vacancies/contractprofessors/default.html
Location : Italy
Application deadline : July 20, 2015

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