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ST. PETERSBURG CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN ST. PETERSBURG
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Information for scholars: grants, fellowships, conferences, job
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Информационный бюллетень № 327
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Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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Deadline extended: Harley Trust Map Fellowships call for proposals: new deadline 8 January 2016
 
Sarah TYacke's picture Announcement published by Sarah TYacke on Monday, November 30, 2015
Type:
Grant
Date:
January 8, 2016
Location:
United Kingdom
Subject Fields:
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Colonial America, Early Modern History and Period Studies, European History / Studies, Geography
Deadline extended: Harley Map Fellowships call for proposals: new deadline 8 January 2016
 
The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography
 
The Harley Fellowships - the only one of their kind in Europe - provide support of up to four weeks (normally at GBP 400 per week) for those, from any discipline, doing the equivalent of post-graduate level work in the historical map collections of the United Kingdom.  Web site:  http://www.maphistory.info/harley.html
 
For the period 2013-2016, in addition to the normal J. B. Harley Fellowship awards open to anyone pursuing advanced research in the history of cartography, there are also Harley-Delmas Fellowships for research in the history of cartography during the European Renaissance to the Enlightenment c.1400-c.1800, kindly funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation (at the equivalent to GBP 600 per week). All applicants should apply for a J. B. Harley Fellowship; eligibility for a Harley-Delmas award will be decided by the Selection Committee of the Trustees.
 
 The extended closing date for applications is 8 JANUARY 2016.  The Fellowship website has an Application page that should provide all the necessary information as well as answering many frequently asked questions:
 
<  http://www.maphistory.info/application.html >.
 
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Smart Loire Valley Programme – Research Fellowships
LE STUDIUM finances several research awards to welcome experienced international researchers in the region for a one-year residency in a high level host laboratory of the region Centre-Val de Loire of France. In parallel, LE STUDIUM leads scientific animation, which allows cross-disciplinary exchanges and the creation of long lasting relationships between international research teams.
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Research Fellowship: European Patrimony
The Center for Superior Studies of the Renaissance (CESR) is the Education and Research Unit (UFR) University François-Rabelais of Tours and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) 7323 affiliated with the CNRS. In 1996 the CESR re-affirmed its commitment to interdisciplinary research into key themes of European patrimony (including musicology, art history and the history of the book), in an accord with the French Ministry of Culture, the CNRS and University François-Rabelais of Tours.
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Short-Term Fellowship Program
The NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia Short-Term Fellowship Program is designed to facilitate research in local collections, expose visitors to the intellectual life of the Russian field at NYU and in the greater New York community, and acquaint faculty and graduate students at NYU with the most recent world-wide trends in the study of Russia.
The fellowship program is geared toward scholars who have earned their doctoral degrees or equivalents. Fellowships can be awarded for use during any period of the year, lasting up to a maximum of one month. Candidates should supply a one-page written description of their current research and demonstrate their need to conduct research and open professional contacts in the New York area; a CV; a list of at least three referees; and up to three preferred time-periods for a proposed visit.
Stipends of up to $5,000 may be used for travel, housing, or daily expenses and a detailed budget explaining intended use of requested funds should be submitted. Awardees will be expected to participate in the activities of the Jordan Center and to present their work to colleagues and graduate students. Awardees will be given an NYU affiliation, shared office space, and access to NYU libraries. The Jordan Center does not secure housing.
Application Deadline:   May 1, 2016
Application and detailed instructions can be found here:   www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52714
For more information please contact   [email protected]  
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John Marshall Visiting Research Fellow 2016-17,
Jepson School of Leadership,
University of Richmond
 
The John Marshall International Center for the Study
of Statesmanship at the Jepson School of Leadership
Studies at the University of Richmond is accepting
applications for the position of John Marshall
Visiting Research Fellow for 2016-17. 
 
The Marshall Fellow will pursue his or her own
advanced research in political economy as it
relates to the theory and practice of statesmanship,
and be in residence during academic terms at the
Jepson School actively contributing to the
intellectual life of the School and University
through meaningful interactions with faculty and
participation in Marshall Center programs. 
Educational requirements: Ph.D. program in
economics, history, philosophy, or political science.
Candidates who are ABD will be considered, but
must have completed the Ph.D. in one of these
fields by August 1, 2016.
 
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52113
 
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Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
During the academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies will focus on the topic of “Risk and Fortune.” Notions of risk have been important to human societies for centuries. Soothsaying, insurance, medical prognostication, financial investment, and gambling all contend with—or try to contain—possible losses. Conversely, good fortune has had its talismans and theorists throughout history. How have different cultures tried to tame chance, or comprehend its whims? To what degree have the practices of commerce relied upon, or alternatively reified, risk? Do technological systems generate hazards they are not capable of controlling? This two-year seminar will bring together scholars working on risk and fortune in historical societies around the world in all time periods, on topics including (but not restricted to) economics, science, religion, industry, statistics, and agriculture.
The Center will offer a limited number of research fellowships for one or two semesters, running from September to January and from February to June. Early career scholars must have their doctoral degrees in hand at the time of the application. Fellows are expected to live in Princeton in order to take an active part in the intellectual interchange with other members of the Seminar. Funds are limited, and candidates are, therefore, strongly urged to apply to other grant-giving institutions as well as the Center if they wish to come for a full year.
To apply please link to:   http://jobs.princeton.edu , requisition #1500396.
The deadline for receipt of applications and letters of recommendation for fellowships for 2016/2017 is December 1, 2015. Please note that we will not accept faxed applications. Applicants must apply online and submit a CV, cover letter, research proposal, abstract of proposal, and contact information for three references. For further information about the Davis Center, please go to  http://www.princeton.edu/dav  .
 
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer. 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.
 
Angela N. H. Creager
Director, 2016–2020
 
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IASH Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships in UK, 2016
by   Scholarship Positions   on  October 31, 2015  in   February Scholarships ,  International Fellowship ,  Research Scholarships ,  UK Scholarships
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The Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) awards visiting research fellowships of between two and four months. These fellowships encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of visiting research fellows with a specific focus on the Environmental Humanities. Fellows are expected to be resident in Edinburgh throughout the tenure of their Fellowship and to play a full part in the activities of the Institute. A bursary of up to £1,000 will be offered to successful candidates to contribute towards travel and subsistence costs. The application deadline is 28 February 2016.
Study Subject(s):  Fellowships are awarded in the area of Environmental Humanities.
Course Level:  This is a two and four months fellowship programme.
Scholarship Provider:  The Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, UK
Scholarship can be taken at:  UK
Eligibility:  Candidates for Fellowships will hold a doctorate or equivalent professional qualification. Consideration will be given to the academic record and the publications of all applicants and their capacity to disseminate their views among a community of like-minded people. Candidates should give evidence of any contact they have made with researchers at the University of Edinburgh, and of proposed collaboration during and beyond their visit to Edinburgh; those who do make such contact before submitting their applications will be at an advantage. Competition for Fellowships is intense and preference may be given to applicants who have not previously held a Fellowship at the Institute or an equivalent institution.
Scholarship Open for International Students:  Applicants of all nationalities are eligible to apply for these visiting research fellowships.
Scholarship Description:  Applications are invited for IASH Environmental Humanities visiting research fellowships of between two and four months. These visiting fellowships are intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of visiting research fellows with a specific focus on the Environmental Humanities. Fellows will be expected to contribute to furthering the work of the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities network, to explore where possible collaborations with academic staff in Edinburgh Environmental Humanities network, and to take an active part in IASH interdisciplinary events. Fellows will be expected to give two presentations about their research during their stay, one at IASH and one to Environmental Humanities colleagues.
Number of award(s):  Not Known
Duration of award(s):  The minimum tenure for a Fellowship is two months; applications for less than two months will not be considered.
What does it cover?  A bursary of up to £1,000 will be offered to successful candidates to contribute towards travel and subsistence costs.
Selection Criteria:  Not Known
Notification:  Applications received after that date will not be considered. Successful candidates will be notified by email by the end of April 2016 with a formal letter of confirmation to follow; please ensure that you supply a valid email address so that you can be contacted quickly after decisions are made.
How to Apply:  The application form is the same as the standard Visiting Research Fellowships, though candidates should clearly indicate their interest in being considered for the Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship in their application. The form can be completed on or offline:
-Online application form for Visiting Research Fellowships
-Download the Word Document, and email it when completed to iash-at-ed.ac.uk.
Online Application
Application Form
Scholarship Application Deadline:  The application deadline is 28 February 2016.
 
Read more:  Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships Scholarship Positions 2015 2016  
http://scholarship-positions.com    
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International Research Scholarships at University of Brighton in UK, 2016
 
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University of Brighton is inviting applications for  international  research scholarships. In order to be eligible for the scholarship, you must be a new, full-time international research student with an unconditional place for 2016 entry.  Full tuition fee for each year of your research programme (for up to a maximum of three years) are available to outstanding international research students in all areas of study.Applications for research scholarships are considered at three points during the academic year: usually in February, June and October.
Study Subject(s):   Scholarships are provided to learn any of the courses offered by the University of Brighton in UK.
Course Level:   Scholarships are available for pursuing research program at University of Brighton in UK.
Scholarship Provider:  University of Brighton, UK
Scholarship can be taken at:  UK
Eligibility:  In order to be eligible for the scholarship, you must be a new, full-time international research student with an unconditional place for 2016 entry.
Scholarship Open for International Students:  International Students can apply for these scholarships.
Scholarship Description:  A minimum of two international research scholarships worth the full tuition fee for each year of your research programme (for up to a maximum of three years) are available to outstanding international research students in all areas of study.
Number of award(s):  Two international research scholarships are offered.
Duration of award(s):   Scholarships are offered for up to a maximum of three years.
What does it cover?  Full tuition fee for each year of your research programme (for up to a maximum of three years) are available to outstanding international research students in all areas of study.
Selection criteria:  The criteria for awarding University of Brighton international research scholarships are:
-academic merit (including English language ability)
-full fee-paying international student status and
-acceptance onto a research programme at the University of Brighton.
Notification:  The decision of the research scholarship committee will be communicated to applicants soon after each of the meetings and that decision is final. Accompanying documentation will not be returned.
How to Apply:  Email internationalscholarships-at-brighton.ac.uk with your applicant number in the subject line and we will send you a scholarship application pack. Application forms will only be sent to students holding unconditional offers for a full-time place with us. Your application should be returned to the International Office to allow consideration at the appropriate scholarship committee meeting prior to your intended start date.
Scholarship Application Deadline:   Applications for research scholarships are considered at three points during the academic year: usually in February, June and October.
 
Read more:  International Research Scholarships in UK, 2016 Scholarship Positions 2015 2016  
http://scholarship-positions.com  
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Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the Library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the Library's rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings. In addition, the Library offers a joint fellowship award with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to support up to eight weeks of research in both collections.* Scholars pursuing postdoctoral or advanced research, as well as doctoral candidates at work on a dissertation, are encouraged to apply. 
 
Recipients are expected to be in residence at the Library, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and to focus their research on the Lewis Walpole Library's collections. Fellows also have access to additional resources at Yale, including those in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. 
 
Residential fellowships include:
 
• the cost of travel to and from Farmington
• accommodation for four weeks in an eighteenth-century house on the Library's campus (eight weeks for the joint LWL/BRBL Fellow)
• a per diem living allowance
 
Travel grants cover
 
• transportation costs to and from Farmington for research trips of shorter duration
• on-site accommodation
The joint LWL/BRBL Fellowship is administered by the Lewis Walpole Library. Decisions are based on a number of factors, including the merits of the project and fit with the collections. 
 
*Please note for your own planning purposes that the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library will be closed completely during the month of August 2016. 
 
http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/research/visiting_fellowships.html
 
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Call for Applicants: Research Travel Grants for Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University  [discussion]
by  Kelly Wooten
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, announces the availability of Mary Lily Research Grants for research travel to our collections.
Details:   http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham/grants
The Sallie Bingham Center documents the public and private lives of women through a wide variety of published and unpublished sources. Collections of personal papers, family papers, and organizational records complement print sources such as books and periodicals. Particular strengths of the Sallie Bingham Center are feminism in the U.S., women's prescriptive literature from the 19th & 20th centuries, girls' literature, zines, artist's books by women, gender & sexuality, feminists of faith, and the history & culture of women in the South.
Anyone who wishes to use materials from the Bingham Center’s collections for a project related to women’s history or the history of gender and sexuality is eligible to apply, regardless of academic status. Writers, creative and performing artists, film makers and journalists are welcome to apply for the research travel grants. All applicants must reside beyond a 100-mile radius of Durham, N.C. Research travel grants support projects that present creative approaches, including historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films, or other multimedia products and artistic works. 
Grant money may be used for: transportation expenses (including air, train or bus ticket charges; car rental; mileage using a personal vehicle; parking fees); accommodations; and meals. Expenses will be reimbursed once the grant recipient has completed his or her research visit(s) and has submitted original receipts.
The deadline for application is January 29, 2016 by 5:00 PM EST. Recipients will be announced in March 2016. Grants must be used between April 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.
Contact:
Kelly Wooten
Research Services and Collection Development Librarian
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
Phone: 919-660-5967
E-mail:   [email protected]
Website:   http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/bingham  
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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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Torture
Call for Participation 2016
 
Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
From early accounts of witch-burning to more recent media coverage of punishments carried out by ISIS, we are confronted by constant reminders of the tendency of human beings to be cruel to one another. While it is easy to condemn beheadings, systematic rape of prisoners and other acts of torture as barbaric, the existence of tacit or explicit support among some members of the public for capital punishment, lynchings and the use of torture to extract information from suspected terrorists reveals the complexities and inconsistencies that shape debates on this topic. What counts as torture? Why do human beings torture one another? Can acts of torture ever be justified? Why do some acts of torture trigger condemnation, while others fail to generate the same level of outrage? Do fictional portrayals of torture in videogames, films and television series affect the way we consider real life torture? How can torture be prevented?
 
In an attempt to provide answers to these and other relevant questions, the Torture research and publishing stream offers a platform for inter-, cross- and multi-disciplinary dialogue involving participants from across the disciplinary spectrum. The event provides valuable opportunities for knowledge exchange between individuals with an interest and expertise in the topic, including policy and legal experts, representatives from NGOs and philanthropic organisations, activists, medical and clinical professionals, social workers and caregivers, educators, artists, business people, journalists, victims and perpetrators of torture, historians, and researchers. It is intended that the deep inter-disciplinary engagement facilitated by the event will foster greater understanding of torture, awareness of its effects on victims, perpetrators and society and action in the areas of prevention and caregiving.
 
Proposals are invited for presentations, workshops, panels, interactive round tables, performances, readings, screenings, or installation on any aspect of torture, and its use and effects throughout history and in contemporary societies, from liberal democracies to totalitarian states. The use of torture has grown in recent times, alongside the growth in attempts worldwide to reduce, or abolish torture, and the attempts at reduction, limitation and abolition will form a key part of conference study. Submissions may deal with any aspect of torture, including but not limited to:
 
Defining Torture
Definitions, such as that contained in the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment and Punishment, and the debate around the usefulness and accuracy of definitions as a basis for formulating treaties and improving practice. Issues around torture and:
Sex
Race
Sexual orientation
Asylum seekers
Children
Persons with disabilities
Animals
War
Genocide/ethnic cleansing
 
Causation
Norms and expectations within police, prison and army personnel; international relations, manifestations of political power within national states and ideological groups struggling to achieve statehood.
 
Issues of Practice
Interrogation and its legitimacy, setting boundaries in state practice, exposure of the way that torturers are psychologically prepared and trained, the sites of torture such as prisoner of war camps, state-run detention centres, prisons, within civilian communities against persecuted minorities and in areas of the world where genocide is being systematically practiced.
 
History of Ideas
Influence of the Enlightenment, humanitarian ideals, varying political ideologies, the rule of law; torture and cultural relativism, histories of torture’s use and effects.
 
Torture and the State
Powerful institutions within states; institutions such as the CIA and their reach, values and power within a society; debates over extraordinary rendition, accountability across borders, information sharing between bodies within states.
 
Prevention, Reduction and Accountability
Treaties such as OPCAT and problems with implementation and accountability; aspects of implementation of appropriate legal frameworks across borders; information sharing; the usefulness of independent inspection regimes in places of detention; installing penalties in places of detention and/or instilling cultures of prevention through training and support; linking progress to overseas aid; domestic and international criminal prosecutions and civil suits seeking remedies against torturers and/or governments; work by NGOs, charities and philanthropic organisations.
 
Survivors
Effects on survivors, both medical, psychological, social; the documentation of effects such as by The Istanbul Protocol in 1999, work by organisations such as Amnesty International, The Red Cross and very many human rights organisations; discussion and documentation of psychological consequences such as the loss and regaining of trust, the hard task of forgiveness.
 
Perpetrators
Medical, social and psychological effects of torture on perpetrators
Societies that condone or tolerate torture
Punishment, retribution and rehabilitation of perpetrators
 
Torture and Medicine
Medical experimentation and torture
Ethical applications of knowledge gained through torture
Participation by medical professionals in acts of torture (e.g. capital punishment)
Torture and mental health: psychological profiles on victims and perpetrators
 
Torture and Religion
Torture narratives in religious/spiritual traditions
Torture carried out in the name of religion
Religion and spirituality as path to rehabilitation
 
The Business of Torture
Technologies and producers that support torture
Companies that do business with perpetrators of torture
Companies that engage in torture
Technologies and producers that assist in preventing torture
Designing and administering spaces of torture
Boycotts and ethical responses to corporate support for torture
 
Torture and Tourism
Dark tourism and the commodification of torture sites
Pilgrimages to sites of torture
The appeal of torture museums and sites associated with torture
 
Torture and the Arts
The literature and memoirs of survivors, both historical and contemporaneous
Creative practice as means of coping with effects of torture
Depictions of/engagements with torture in art, music, television, film, literature, drama, poetry, video games, graphic novels, etc.
 
Torture and Pedagogy
Strategies for teaching age-appropriate lessons
Challenges and strategies for researchers
Using the right language to talk about the issues
 
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/torture/call-for-participation/
 
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Torture project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.
 
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 29th January 2016.
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 12th February 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
 
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: Torture Abstract Submission
 
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:
 
Organising Chairs:
Diana Medlicott:  [email protected]
John Parry: Jeffrey Bain Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, USA
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
This event is an 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.
 
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.
 
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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 Humour
 
Call for Participation 2016
 
Saturday 2nd July – Monday 4th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
This inclusive interdisciplinary event is aimed to explore the mechanisms of humour, its elements of surprise and contradiction that appeal to human nature, circulating sameness and otherness altogether: through the agency of positive disposition, the inside(r) finds external expression, just the same as the outside(r) is incorporated within.
 
Among the typical human universals, humour is a stratagem of establishing relationships and achieving integration, a method to enter discourse and dialogue. Numerous questions of identity are dealt with humour and its almost instant consequence, laughter, as both codify a mode of self-expression and facilitate human interaction, providing an emotional context for communication and communion. Socially and politically, humour is a strategy employed to approach serious topics, a weapon authorising the exploitation and explosion of exclusive structures. Pointing to the inappropriate codifications of human behaviour, it is intended to undermine prevailing patterns, to expose and challenge stereotypes, to mock cliches.
 
Mixture of sublime and ridiculous, humour is an entirely subjective experience, decided by personal taste, education and culture, geographical and historical context. Incompatible images, unsuitable circumstances, behavioural inconsistency and last but not least the mastery of language generate a variety of types (verbal/visual/physical, intentional/unintentional, implicit/explicit, real/surreal, etc.) and forms (badinage, banter, clowning, derision, cynicism, farce, flippancy, irony, mockery, parody, raillery, ridicule, sarcasm, sardonicism, satire, scorn, etc.).
 
Often ambiguous and difficult to decode, humour is a unique human feature based on wit, cleverness and intelligence, and requires a certain inner structure capable of dealing with the situational incongruities that occur between appearance and essence.
 
Submissions and contributions to the discussion of humour and its various forms of manifestation are invited. They may include but are not limited to several core issues:
 
From theory of humours to theories of humour
The archaeology of humour and laughter: from ancient times to the new Millennium
Perceptions of humour: essentialism vs existentialism
Humour as a strategy of survival
The places and spaces of humour
The restorative function and therapeutic values of laughter
The language of humour
Laughter – the universal panacea
Smiles, grins, smirks and smugs
Clowns and comics, pranksters and jesters
Genderised versions of humour
Humour in popular culture: cinema, television and radio
Humour – levels of acceptance in science, business, politics, religion, architecture, gastronomy, etc.
Borders of humour: dark humour, horror humour, crude humour, toilet humour, off-colour humour
The English sense of humour: understatement, euphemism, self-effacement
Globalisation of humour: traceability and translatability
The future of humour
 
Please visit the conference website for further details and information:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/humour/call-for-presentations/
 
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Humour project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Love Letters. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.
 
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 29th January 2016.
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 12th February 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
 
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: Humour Abstract Submission
 
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:
 
Organising Chairs:
Elena Nistor:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]
 
This event is an 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.
 
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.
 
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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Borders and Crossings: 
 
International and Multidisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing
September 12-14, 2016
Hosted by the Jan Kochanowski University’s Department of Modern Languages (Kielce, Poland)
Conference language: English
Deadline for abstracts: May 1, 2016
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2016
 
We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the Borders and Crossings Conference.
 
Proposals for 20-minute papers and for full panels are sought from scholars working in all areas of travel writing, including literary studies, book history, geography, art history, translation studies, anthropology, history and media studies.
 
Paper proposals from any time period or geographic context are warmly welcome as are proposals from established scholars, early career researchers, graduate students and independent scholars.
 
Topics may include, but are not limited to
• Representations of travel through Poland and Central/Eastern Europe
• Travel writing and autobiography
• Travel writing and intertextuality
• Travel writing in translation
• Travel writing and women
• Representations of travel and the new media
• Travel illustration and multimedia
• Narratives of pilgrimage
• New directions in travel writing research
• Teaching travel writing
• Writing travel and/in minoritised languages
• Travel and ecology
• Borders and checkpoints
Please send proposals of approximately 250 words for a single paper or up to 500 words for a panel proposal, complete with a short bio note and your academic affiliation to
 
Magdalena Ożarska:  [email protected]
or  Agnieszka Szwach:  [email protected]
 
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Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you to the international conference "Trauma as cultural palimpsests: (post)communism against the background of comparative modernities, totalitarianisms, and (post)coloniality", Wroclaw, Poland 2-3 June 2016.
 
We hope to see you at the conference. 
 
Best regards,
Mateusz Świetlicki
 
Research Center for Postcolonial and Posttotalitarian Studies, Faculty of Philology, Wrocław University, 
Trauma as cultural palimpsests: 
2-3 June 2016 Call for papers 
 
The trauma inflicted on societies under communist regimes and post- traumatic symptoms manifesting themselves across the whole spectrum of public discourses remains one of the most painfully under-researched problems in the study of Central and East European (CEE) cultures. The conference aims to investigate the multiple forms of totalitarian trauma and of the (post-)traumatic transition period in the region. The assessment of the totalitarian pasts has been the object of divisive and partial political debates, themselves, at times, no more than post-traumatic symptoms at the discursive level. The conference aims to investigate the seriality of trauma in the recent history of CEE (from ghettos to gulags to globalization, from Holocaust to communist and postcommunist mass killings, from concentration camps to immigration camps etc.), as well as the palimpsestic interplay between the different historical and experiential layers of cultural distress. 
 
We encourage potential participants to propose inter-/trans-disciplinary approaches and to devise comparative frameworks which may accommodate trauma studies, transition studies, postdependence studies, postcommunist studies, and postcolonial studies. We welcome transhistorical and transregional accounts of massive traumas of the 20th century in CEE and elsewhere, such as the extermination of the Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey in 1915, the Holocaust and Nazi extermination policies in WW2, the Indian Partition, the Balkan War, or the Rwandan genocide, to name but a few. Attention may be given to the ideological foundation of the breakthroughs of 1989/1991, including the role, contribution and importance of oppositional socio-cultural movements and the emigration (for instance, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Polish October of 1956, the intellectual movements of the 1960s generation in USSR, the Prague Spring, 1968 in Poland (with the ensuing mass eviction of the Polish citizens of Jewish nationality under the umbrella slogan of purging the Party from the Zionist element), the strikes of Polish workers in December of 1970 and June of 1976, Helsinki Accords of 1975, “Solidarity” [“Solidarność”], the announcement of glasnost and perestroika in the USSR in 1985, the Polish Round Table Talks in 1989, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and so on). 
 
Suggested Themes: 
• Hidden/forgotten/silenced discourses: topics prohibited or manipulated by the communist regime of /in the official political-social-cultural space including the colonization of Eastern Borderlands (Kresy Wschodnie) by the Second Polish Republic; the politically designed famine in the Ukrainian SSR; the extermination of intelligentsia in the Soviet Union in the 1930s; the Gulags; 1939 and the Second World War confronted with Nazism and Stalinism; collaboration with the Nazis; Stalinist and Nazi crimes; the UPA (The Ukrainian Insurgent Army) from the Ukrainian and Polish perspectives; the post-war massive repatriations/resettlements/expulsions of local populations of diverse ethnicities in the name of mono-national state (and the especially traumatic eviction of the German minorities); the Operation “Vistula”; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the Berlin Wall and the political division of Germany; the post-war collaboration of intellectuals with the communist regime; repressions of the Church and religious organizations; 
Mass-media vs. the simulacral totalitarian reality; 
Post-memory: spectral returns of the past in inter-generational transfer; 
Geopolitics of memory and trauma; 
Postcommunist remembrance between reenactment and recovery of 
cultural trauma; 
• Psychological/Psychoanalytical accounts of postcommunist PTS – Pros 
and Cons;
• Traumarbeit;
• The role of empathy, solidarity, identification, projection in 
postcommunist trauma cultures;
• Complications of cultural trauma: anachronism, anatopism, and 
multidirectional memory [Rothberg], triangular suffering, traumatized perpetrators; 
• Eastern Europe as a site for double/multiple colonization; 
• Layers of historical and structural trauma, traumatic loss (event- generated) vs. traumatic absence (environment-conditioned); 
• Everyday affections and experience in (post-)traumatic societies; 
• Epistemological violence and the colonization of critical discourse in Postcommunism/postcommunist studies; 
• Cultural interference, interpolation, crossways in post-traumatic communities; 
• Postcommunist hollow (wo)men; 
• Silence and verbosity in posttraumatic discourse; 
• The cultural language(s)/discourse(s) of trauma; 
• Trauma storying and the narratology of trauma recounting; 
• Victim and perpetrator cultural profiles; 
• Trauma deviance: trauma queens, the melotraumatic, victimization and conspiracy fixations. 
 
Application: Submit a 250-300 word proposal with keywords for an unpublished paper and a bio-note by 31 January 2016. You will be notified by 15 February 2016. 
 
Conference language: English and Polish
Conference fee: 250 PLN/50 EUR (does not include the hotel accommodation, 
information on the bank account and accommodation will follow) 
E-mail for abstract submissions:  [email protected]  Organizing 
 
Committee: 
Prof. Bogdan Stefanescu (English Studies, Bucharest University)
Prof. dr. hab. Agnieszka Matusiak (Ukrainian Studies, Wrocław University) Dr. Dorota Kołodziejczyk (English Studies, Wrocław University)
Dr. Dorota Żygadło-Czopnik (Bohemia Studies, Wrocław University) 
Conference Secretary: 
Aniela Radecka (PhD Student, Wrocław University), Jędrzej Olejniczak (PhD Student, Wrocław University). 
 
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 Love Letters
Call for Participation 2016
 
A Letters and Letter Writing Project
3rd Global Conference
 
Saturday 2nd July – Monday 4th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford
 
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
 
Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/letters-and-letter-writing/love-letters/call-for-participation/
 
Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Love Letters project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Humour. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between both project areas. If you would like to be considered for a cross project session, please mark your submission “Crossover Submission”.
 
What to Send
300 word abstracts, proposals and other forms of contribution should be submitted by Friday 29th January 2016.
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 12th February 2016.
If your submission is accepted for the conference, a full draft of your contribution should be submitted by Friday 3rd June 2016.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 on Social Science, Literature and Education  
 
Conference  
 
11th to 12th April 2016  
Boston, United States of America  
 
Website:   http://americanhealthcare.wix.com/soc-boston-2016  
Contact person:  Dr.Samah khalil  
 
This conference is for those, who are interested in presenting papers in all fields of social science, education, Technology and Arts and to publish their papers in the Canadian International Journal of Social Science and Education.  
 
Organized by:  Ontario College for Research and Development  
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  30th March 2016    
 
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5th International Symposium: Otherness, Agency and Belonging
19th to 21st May 2016
Barcelona, Spain
 
This project explores the unfolding dynamic of the bond between self & other enacted in our experiences of being known or strangers, residents or foreigners, rooted or uprooted, and in new forms for establishing belonging and engagement with others.
 
Enquiries:   [email protected]
Web address:
http://www.alternative-academia.net/ocs-2.3.5/index.php/BCN2016May/OAB-5-3/schedConf/cfp
Sponsored by: International Network for Alternative Academia
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 Редакция журнала "Новое литературное обозрение" и Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, исходя из общей заинтересованности в продвижении нового гуманитарного знания и в целях поддержки и развития международных академических связей, договорились об учреждении серии ежегодных международных конференций.
 
Первая конференция  пройдет   28–29 мая 2016 года в Европейском университете в Петербурге. 
Тема конференции :  Ложь как фактор социальной жизни: практики   и   тексты  ( Lie   and   Lying   as   a   Factor   of   Social   Life :  Practices   and   Texts )
 
В роли  key - note   speakers  согласились выступить Карло Гинзбург и Бруно Латур.
 
Философы прошлого противопоставляли  ложь  –  правде , оценивали ее с точки зрения права, справедливости и нравственности, бестрепетно выводили свои рассуждения о лжи из соображений разумности. Вот, например:  "Ложь обозначает сознательное и потому нравственно предосудительное противоречие истине" ( Владимир Соловьев , статья  Ложь  в Словаре Брокгауза).  Или:  "…когда отдельный человек употребляет слово для выражения неправды ради своих эгоистических… целей, то он нарушает права других… и вредит общей жизни. <…> требование правдивости имеет двоякое нравственное основание: во-первых, в человеческом достоинстве самого субъекта и, во-вторых, в справедливости, т. е. в признании права других не быть обманываемыми мною, поскольку я сам не могу желать, чтобы меня обманывали. Все это прямо вытекает из разума и не заключает в себе ничего сомнительного." (Владимир Соловьев.  Оправдание добра ).
 
Не только история 20 века, но и развитие гуманитарной мысли последнего столетия продемонстрировали нам, что все далеко не так просто. Ложь оказалась чрезвычайно сложным понятием. Есть мнение – скорее всего, справедливое, – что вся человеческая культура в некотором смысле стоит на лжи. Да и ответ на знаменитое пилатовское "что есть истина?" в век, когда идеи социального конструктивизма овладели массами, не более очевиден, чем ответ на вопрос "что есть реальность?"
 
Планируемая конференция посвящена, впрочем, не философским или моральным аспектам лжи и не попыткам оценить, оправдать или заклеймить ложь как вид индивидуального поведения. Нам интересны именно социальные аспекты проблемы: каковы социальные функции лжи? каковы социально допустимые (дозволенные) пределы лжи в том или ином обществе? в ту или иную эпоху? для каких обществ или периодов истории можно говорить о "превращении жизни по лжи в социальную норму" (В. Я. Гельман)? Каковы исторические причины и социальные последствия такого превращения? Нам интересен и логико-лингвистический аспект лжи: действительно ли следует противопоставлять "ложь" – "правде", или точнее, как это делает Ю. Левин применительно к тоталитарному дискурсу, говорить о снятии оппозиции "истинный / ложный" и замене ее оппозицией "правильны / неправильный" или "уместный / неуместный"?
 
Оргкомитет конференции объявляет  call   for   papers . Просьба прислать название доклада и краткие тезисы на адрес  fedorova @ eu . spb . ru   до 25 декабря 2015 года.
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RED   ON   RED :  A   Symposium   on   Post-Socialist   Art   and   Critical   Theory
 
Organizers:   Marijeta   Bozovic,   Julia   Chan,   Fabrizio   Fenghi,   Marta   Figlerowicz April   8-9,   2016,   Yale   University,   New   Haven,   CT
 
A   discernable   boom   in   politically   engaged,   leftist   art   practices   and   critical   theory   is   underway   in Russia,   China   and   Eastern   Europe,   as   well   as   in   post-socialist countries   of   the   Global   South.   This   boom   defies   all   expectations,   emerging   after   the   depoliticizing   “transition”   to   capitalism   in   the   1990s   and   the seeminglyreactionary   historical   moment.   Activists   as   well   as   art   collectives;   critics;   poets;   grassroots filmmakers;   video,   performance,   and   digital   artists   of   all   stripes   are   seekingalternative   spaces   for   engaged aesthetic   experimentation.   In   many   cases,   these   aesthetic   producers   return   to   the   emancipatory   promises   of earlier   political   andaesthetic   experiments,   reimagining   them   for   the   digital   age.
 
Setting   in   conversation   researchers   in   Slavic,   East   German,   East   Asian,   and   Global   South   Studies   at   Yale   and   elsewhere,   Red   on   Red   seeks   to   establish   a   deeperand   more   transnational   understanding   of   these   recent   aesthetic   and   political   developments.   While   the   aesthetic   movements   we   will   discuss   frequently   have   a strongmedia   presence   in   their   native   countries,   they   tend   to   be   poorly   known   in   other   areas   of   the   post-   socialist world   or   in   an   international   academic   context.  By   fosteringsuch   cross-linguistic   dialogue,   this   project   fills   out   a   gap   in   these   various   movements’   awareness   of   each   other,   as   well   as   in   their   interdisciplinary   study as   a   worldphenomenon.   Rather   than   merely   apply   Western   analytic   frameworks   to   these   movements,   Red   on Red   develops   new   kinds   of   critical   and   aesthetic   theory   that   areinherently   grounded   in   a   post-socialist   context.   Taking   its   cue   from   Dipesh   Chakrabarty’s   Provincializing   Europe ,   it   asks   what   alternatives   the   utopian   and   dystopianspaces   of   post-socialist   art   can   provide   to   traditional   Western   notions   of   progress,   freedom,   and   history.
 
We   welcome   a   wide   range   of   theoretical   and   non-theoretical,   comparative   and   more   focused   papers.   Please   submit   250-300-word   abstracts   to   Julia   Chan   at  [email protected]   no   later   than   December   15,   2015.
 
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The 2016 International Symposium on Culture, Arts, and Literature (ISCAL) is to be held in Sapporo, Japan, on June 24-26. 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.
 
Conference Website:
http://iainst.org/iscal/
Online Submission:
http://iainst.org/iscal/on-line-submissions/
Enquiries:   [email protected]
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2016
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 XIV  Пирровы чтения
« Доминирование и контроль: интерпретация культурных кодов »
  Лаборатория исторической, социальной и культурной антропологии
 
30 июня  ‒  2  июля  2016  года  
Саратовский   государственный   университет
 http://bit.ly/1Nj1r2w
 
Конференция традиционно является междисциплинарной, к участию приглашаются специалисты в области исторической, социальной и культурной антропологии, истории, литературоведения, теории культуры, социологии, искусствоведения и других смежных гуманитарных дисциплин.  По итогам конференции планируется выпуск книги из серии «Интерпретация культурных кодов».
Способность человека к прогнозированию тех ситуаций, в которые он так или иначе оказывается включен, есть одна и тех основ, на которых держится любое социальное взаимодействие.  Эта же способность диктует нам необходимость предугадывать возможные действия и изменения состояний других участников ситуации, будь то участники «одушевленные» (наделенные способностью действовать по собственному почину) или «неодушевленные» (способные изменяться в результате внешних воздействий или внутренних процессов): иными словами, необходимость контролировать происходящие изменения. Доминирование представляет собой такой способ ситуативного контроля, который предполагает право актора на монопольное (единоличное или в составе доминирующей группы) регулирование ситуации, исходя при этом прежде всего из собственных интенций и только во вторую очередь учитывая интенции других участников. Это одна из базовых разновидностей контроля  ‒   но   отнюдь   не   единствен но возможная.
В ходе обсуждения предполагается выйти на следующие тематические области:
*  Доминирование и контроль: когнитивные, социальные, политические, психологические и этологические аспекты.
*  Языки доминирования и контроля: вербальные, телесные, предметные, пространственно-ориентированные и другие культурные коды.
*  The size matters: режимы доминирования и контроля в широких политических пространствах и узких социальных средах.
*  Отношения доминирования: индивидуальные и групповые стратегии.
*  Оружие слабых: механизмы социального и психологического контроля, свойственные подчиненным статусам.
*  Гендерные аспекты контроля.
*  Практики избегания сторонних режимов контроля.
*  Практики подчинения и сопротивления.
*  Взросление как расширение зон контроля.
*  Иллюзия контроля.
*  «Вассал моего вассала»: ступенчатые режимы контроля.
*  Стратегии и механизмы опосредованного контроля через создание проективных реальностей и наборов когнитивных диспозиций, удобных для партнера по социальному взаимодействию (художественное творчество, риторика, пропаганда и т.д.)
Регламент доклада: 20 мин. + 5 мин. на уточняющие вопросы. Обсуждение докладов в конце каждой секции, по итогам дня и по итогам чтений.
Заявки на участие принимаются по адресу:   [email protected]  (Вадим Юрьевич Михайлин, директор ЛИСКА). Просьба копии заявки направлять одновременно еще по двум адресам:  [email protected]  (Екатерина Сергеевна Решетникова, научный сотрудник ЛИСКА),   [email protected]  (Антон Викторович Нестеров,  научный сотрудник ЛИСКА) до 1 апреля 2015 года. В заявке необходимо указать тему доклада, а также сведения о себе, и приложить аннотацию доклада объемом порядка одной страницы.
К сожалению, мы не сможем оплатить участникам конференции проезд и проживание, но постараемся подыскать в Саратове жилье, максимально комфортное с точки зрения баланса цены и качества  ‒   для   тех ,  кто   заранее   сообщит   о   необходимости   такового . С участников взимается оргвзнос в размере 400 рублей.
 
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 МОСКОВСКИЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ им. М.В.Ломоносова.
Филологический факультет.
Кафедра истории зарубежной литературы
Адрес: 119899, Москва, Воробьевы Горы, МГУ, 1-ый учебный корпус, филологический факультет, кафедра истории зарубежной литературы, ауд. 970.
Уважаемые коллеги!
    24-26 марта 2016 года кафедра истории зарубежной литературы филологического факультета МГУ им. М.В.Ломоносова проводит  IX Международную научную конференцию по  XVIII веку:  “Х V III век как зеркало других эпох;   XVIII век в зеркале других эпох”.
Предполагается обсудить следующий круг проблем:
Античные сюжеты и образы в литературе и искусстве XVIII столетия
Средневековье в культуре Просвещения
Наследие Ренессанса в литературе и философии Просвещения
Просвещение в трактовке писателей романтической эпохи
Фабулы, образы, мотивы литературы XVIII века в произведениях XX столетия
XVIII век и постмодернизм: диалектика притяжения и отталкивания.  
 
Приглашаем принять участие в нашей конференции филологов, историков, искусствоведов (научных сотрудников, преподавателей, аспирантов) - специалистов по изучению Х VIII столетия. К сожалению, оргкомитет вынужден возложить расходы на поездку, так же как  и оплату общежития  на самих участников конференции .  Обращаем также внимание, что сборник статей по материалам конференции печатается  также  за счет средств авторов. Плата за публикацию – 1000 руб. Размер статьи – 0,5 п.л. (20 000 п.зн.). 
Заявки на участие в конференции принимаются до 15 января 2016 г.
 В заявке просим указать:
Ф.И.О., ученую степень и звание, место работы или учебы, электронный адрес, телефон, тему доклада или сообщения.
Электронные адреса для корреспонденции:  zarubezh @ philol . msu . ru (оргкомитет конференции) либо:  natapa @ mail . ru (Н.Т. Пахсарьян); Телефоны для контактов: 8 (495) 939-27-84 (кафедра истории зарубежной литературы) либо 8 (495) 621-80-90 (Пахсарьян Наталья Тиграновна).
 
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http://rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/290/238612.php
ХIII грантовый конкурс программы «Меняющийся музей в меняющемся мире»
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17.11.2015 культура
 
16 ноября 2015 стартовал  ХIII грантовый конкурс программы «Меняющийся музей в меняющемся мире» . Старейшая и одна из самых известных программ  Благотворительного фонда В. Потанина  в музейной сфере способствует продвижению новых профессиональных стандартов, развитию партнерских отношений музея, поиску новых проектных решений.
Конкурс проводится  по четырем номинациям .
*  В номинации « Музейный дизайн » поддерживаются проекты, направленные на развитие визуальной коммуникации (дизайнерские решения экспозиций, передвижных выставок, публичных зон музея, фирменного стиля, сувенирной продукции и т.п.).
*  Номинация « Музей и местное сообщество » направлена на поддержку социально значимых проектов, реализующихся при активном участии населения.
*  Весомой помощью в процессе создании нового музея может стать грант в номинации « Музейный старт ».
*  В номинации « Открытая коллекция » рассматриваются исследовательские, экспозиционные, издательские, просветительские и другие проекты, связанные с коллекциями, не представленными в основных фондах музея.
Общий грантовый фонд конкурса составляет  25 миллионов рублей .
Заявки принимаются в электронном виде  c 16 ноября 2015 по 31 января 2016 . Ознакомиться с условиями конкурса, подать заявку можно на главной странице сайта  fondpotanin.ru  и  museum.fondpotanin.ru  .
Дополнительная информация: по тел.  +7 (495) 974 3017  или электронной почте  [email protected] .
 
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   http://rsci.ru/grants/grant_news/275/238606.php
Гранты 2016 года для работы над исследовательскими проектами во Франции
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16.11.2015 гуманитарные; социальные;
 
Дом наук о человеке (The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, FMSH) и Центр франко-российских исследований (the Centre d’Etudes Franco-Russe, CEFR) предлагают гранты для краткосрочных (до трех месяцев продолжительностью) поездок во Францию молодым исследователям из России, Беларуси, Молдовы и Украины, защитившим кандидатскую диссертацию (PhD thesis) после 2008 года.
Заявки на участие в конкурсе принимаются  до 1 декабря 2015 года . Поездки участников программы во Францию состоятся в период с февраля по декабрь 2016 года. В рамках программы предоставляется ежемесячная стипендия в размере 1 500 €. Организаторы программы обеспечивают визовую и иную поддержку стипендиатам (помощь в размещении, сопроводительные письма в библиотеки и пр.).
Участниками программы могут стать граждане Беларуси, Молдовы, России и Украины, специализирующиеся в социальных и гуманитарных научных дисциплинах (антропология, литература и искусство, история, география, философия, политология, социология и т.д.), являющиеся сотрудниками вузов или исследовательских институтов в одной из указанных стран. Программой не предусмотрены возрастные ограничения для соискателей.
Заявки на участие в программе подаются онлайн с использованием формы заявки на   http://calls.msh-paris.fr  . Все поля формы следует заполнить на английском или французском языке.
Онлайн-заявление необходимо сопроводить  следующими документами в pdf-формате:  
*  Автобиография (максимальный объем – 2 страницы);
*  Копия PhD диплома;
*  Два рекомендательных письма (одно – из принимающей лаборатории);
*  Презентация максимальным объемом до 10000 знаков (включая пробелы), содержащая:
*  Цель и задачи исследовательского проекта;
*  Библиографию;
*  Детальную программу поездки (перечень учреждений и персон, планируемых к посещению).
Дополнительную информацию можно получить по запросу на адрес  [email protected]
Результаты конкурсного отбора будут опубликованы  29 января 2016 года .
Информация о программе на сайте Дома наук о человеке:   http://www.fmsh.fr/en/c/7914
Перевод сообщения выполнен сотрудниками ИК "НТ-ИНФОРМ" (  www.rsci.ru ). 
При использовании перевода обязательна гиперссылка на данную публикацию в "НТ-ИНФОРМ".
 
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   Lecturer III, Russian,
University of New Mexico
 
The successful candidate will contribute to the
pedagogical goals of a department seeking to
strengthen its offerings in critical languages
and in the internationalization of our campus
and programs. We currently have a tenure-
track Assistant Professor of Russian with
whom this Lecturer will work closely in
enhancing course offerings in Russian and in
strengthening the Russian program.
 
The position will involve teaching a base load
of twelve credits a semester. The successful
candidate will teach undergraduate courses in
Russian language, and will develop and teach
courses in classical and modern Russian culture
in translation. He or she will interact with other
language/literature/culture programs in the
department.
 
This position requires the following minimum
qualifications: the completion of a Ph.D. with a
specialization in Russian language/culture by
August 1, 2016; native or near-native fluency
in written and spoken Russian; native or near
native fluency in written and spoken English;
and evidence of teaching Russian language at
a North American University.
 
Applications must be submitted online at
https://unmjobs.unm.edu .
 
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   Assistant Professor, Russian Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University
 
The Department of Modern Languages
invites applications for an assistant professor,
tenure-track position in Russian Studies
beginning in August 2016. Successful
candidates must have an earned Ph.D.,
demonstrated excellence in interdisciplinary
research and teaching, and expertise in one or
more of the following areas: technology-
enhanced learning, learning sciences, digital
humanities, language assessment, translation
studies, literary and cultural studies, global
studies, transnational studies. Candidates
should have advanced level proficiency in
Russian, interest in teaching a full range of
courses in the curriculum, and experience in
culture-driven, content-based,
communicatively oriented instruction.
Teaching load is 2+2.
 
https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/
details.cfm?JobCode=176164329&Title
=Assistant%20Professor%20of
%20Russian%20Studies
 
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  Yale University
Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies
 
Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut.  Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music.
 
Position Focus:  The Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies is the subject specialist who supports the research and teaching mission of a multi-disciplinary academic program at Yale.  In a collaborative arrangement between Yale and Brown University Libraries, s/he also provides services for Brown, through both in-person visits and virtual communication. 
 
The librarian develops strong working relationships with faculty, students, and affiliated researchers across departments at both institutions, taking initiative to identify and meet their expectations for collections and services. S/he provides advanced reference and research consultations, maintains online research guides, offers library instruction, and may also have opportunities for involvement in outreach, instruction, and exhibits relating to archival and special collections and participation in digital initiatives.  The librarian is responsible for selection of Slavic and East European imprints and publications in the field published outside the region.  Collection development responsibilities include budgeting and fund management, approval plan oversight, selection of materials in all formats, gift review, and electronic resource acquisition.
 
In support of the library public services mission, the Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies participates in research education and outreach, such as instruction, orientations, and tours. The librarian contributes to department strategic planning, participates in library committees, task forces, and programs, and is active professionally through service in library organizations, research and publishing, or other means.
 
The Slavic & East European collection at Yale was formed in 1896 with the donation of the private library of Joel Sumner Smith.  Since that time, it has developed into a rich collection of materials in all formats; it has significant holdings in most Slavic and East European languages, with primary strengths in Russian, Polish, Hungarian, and the languages of the former Yugoslavia.  Materials in Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and the Baltic languages are well represented.  There is also a wealth of archival and special collections related to the region in Yale’s collections.
 
The librarian reports to the Director of International Collections & Research Support, a department with nine area studies librarians. The librarian is a Yale employee, based at Yale, with on-site services at Brown required up to two working days per semester.
 
Required Education, Skills and Experience: 
 
Master’s degree from an ALA-accredited library school and an advanced degree (M.A. or Ph.D.) in an area of Slavic and East European studies. Alternatively, candidates may offer an advanced degree in the subject and relevant library experience.
Qualified individuals new to the library profession are welcome to apply. 
Excellent communications skills (reading, writing, speaking) in Russian.
Knowledge of current trends in scholarly research related to Slavic and East European studies.
Familiarity with major bibliographic tools (printed and electronic) and research methods for Slavic and East European studies.
Yale University assigns ranks to librarian positions based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments (see range assigned to this description as noted in the posting position title). Librarian ranking information can be found at:   http://www.library.yale.edu/about/departments/lhr/rank.html
 
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Doctorate in a field of Russian studies; excellent reading knowledge of additional Slavic and East European languages; experience teaching in a library or academic setting; experience with software for citation management and creation of web content; experience using archives or libraries in Russia and Eastern Europe; interest in learning emerging technologies and web applications.
 
The University and the Library
 
The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including around 12.8 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and digital collections. Housed in eighteen buildings including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Bass Library, it employs a dynamic and diverse staff of approximately five hundred who offer innovative and flexible services to library readers. For additional information on the Yale University Library, please visit the Library's web site at   www.library.yale.edu .
 
Salary and Benefits:
 
We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, rewards and excellence of a career at Yale University. One of the country's great workplaces, Yale University offers exciting opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. Our benefits package is among the best anywhere, with a wide variety of insurance choices, liberal paid time off, fantastic family and educational benefits, a variety of retirement benefits, extensive recreational facilities, and much more.
 
 
How to apply: Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications, consisting of a cover letter, resume, and the names and contact information of three professional references should be submitted by applying online at   http://www.yale.edu/jobs . The STARS req. ID for this position is 34668BR. Please be sure to reference 34668BR in your cover letter.
 
Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
 
Website:  http://www.yale.edu/jobs
Primary Category: Eastern Europe History / Studies
Secondary Categories: None
Posting Date: 11/02/2015
Closing Date 01/31/2016
 
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   http://pps.hse.ru/1st2016/
Конкурс на замещение должностей профессорско-преподавательского состава НИУ ВШЭ в 2016 году
 
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Colby College - One-Year, visiting assistant professor, Russian/Soviet History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52083
 
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European University at St. Petersburg - Soviet History - Open Rank
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52079
 
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 Instructorship in Russian Film
Wheaton College, Mass.
 
Wheaton College in Massachusetts is looking for an
instructor to take on ONE course in the spring, on
Russian Film.
 
The course is currently scheduled for Monday
afternoons, 2-4:50, and it would be nearly
impossible to move it. (There is a separate time
dedicated to film showings, for the students.)
 
Russian Film is taught in English, primarily to non-majors.
 
Key details:
Ph.D or ABD in Russian Lang/Lit/Culture
preferred, MA accepted.
Experience in American institutions is crucial.
The course pays $5000.
 
Wheaton College is a small (± 1,660) liberal arts college

We're situated in Norton, Mass, between Boston
and Providence, right off the intersection of 95
and 495.  http://wheatoncollege.edu/
 
The Russian department is vibrant and select,
and tiny: we currently have an exceptionally small
enrollment. Our teaching kollektiv includes one
prof in Lang/Lit/Culture, aided by an Assistant
from Russia, from Magnitka; plus profs in Russian
History and Russian Politics, and relevant courses
in Religion and Econ.
http://wheatoncollege.edu/russian/
http://wheatoncollege.edu/russian/major/
Please send digitally: a letter of application, and
two letters of recommendation.
We have a basic syllabus, but welcome relevant
syllabi from the applicants, as well as evidence
of teaching successes. 
 
There is no official deadline, but we'll be
processing applications *immediately* and
hope to have someone hired by December 20.
Please send applications to:
Barbara Curtis, executive assistant.
[email protected]
 
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