Информационный бюллетень № 328

Дорогие коллеги! Успехов и процветания в Новом году!
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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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САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГСКИЙ ЦЕНТР ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ
ОБЩЕСТВО ИСТОРИИ ИДЕЙ В САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЕ
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Информационный бюллетень № 328
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Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
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Председатель Общества: Татьяна Владимировна Артемьева
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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  https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52359
New-York Historical Society
Fellowships at the New-York Historical Society
Institution Type:   Other
Location:   New York ,  United States
Position:   Fellow
The deadline to apply for the New-York Historical Society’s prestigious fellowship program for the 2016–2017 academic year is  January 5, 2016 . Designed to encourage and promote the use of New-York Historical’s extraordinary collections of documents, artifacts, and works of art detailing American history from the perspective of New York City, the fellowships are open to scholars at various times during their academic careers. Details about applications, residency, stipends, and past fellows are available by visiting  http://www.nyhistory.org/library/fellowships .

The following fellowships available for the 2016–2017 academic year include:  

Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Women’s History
To celebrate the opening of its groundbreaking  Center for the Study of Women's History , the New-York Historical Society is inaugurating a new fellowship devoted exclusively to the study of women’s history. This program will support the Center’s vision and enrich its intellectual network to include a diverse group of dedicated fellows and scholars. Together with New-York Historical staff, the selected fellows will explore the four centuries of New York women’s history, offering a vibrant series of scholarly talks, rotating exhibitions, and new research opportunities.

Complementing the existing suite of research fellowships currently offered at New-York Historical, the three new Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Women's History will be specifically focused on the field of public history. Through this initiative, New-York Historical enriches its public reach by engaging a community of eminent scholars who serve as advisers and collaborate with curators and historians. We work with college and university faculties nationwide to produce and incorporate the latest scholarship in our programs and exhibitions for general audiences.

Applicants for the Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship must be enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the humanities and be on track to completing their degree. Two Pre-doctoral Fellows will be in-residence between September 1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, with a stipend of $15,000 per year.

Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowships
Offered jointly with Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, two Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellowships are open to scholars who will have completed the Ph.D. in History or American Studies before the end of the 2015–2016 academic year. Fellows will teach one course each semester for the academic year at Eugene Lang College and also will carry on research projects in residence at the New-York Historical Society. These fellowships carry a stipend of $60,000 per year and full benefits. Fellowship will begin September 1, 2016, and end June 30, 2017.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships
Two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who have held the Ph.D. for three to five years. Research projects may include the conversion of a dissertation into a publishable manuscript or the initiation of new research, based on the resources of the New-York Historical Society. The ten-month residency will carry a stipend of $60,000, plus benefits. Fellowship will begin September 1, 2016, and end June 30, 2017.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
One academic-year fellowship supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities will be offered for research at the New-York Historical Society. The fellowship is available to individuals who have completed their formal professional training and have a strong record of accomplishment within their field. There is no restriction relating to age or academic status. Foreign nationals are eligible to apply if they have lived in the United States for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. The ten-month residency will carry a stipend of $42,000, plus benefits. Fellowship will begin September 1, 2016, and end June 30, 2017.

Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowships
Two or more Patricia and John Klingenstein Short-Term Fellowships will be awarded to scholars at any academic level working in the Library collections of the New-York Historical Society. Research is to be conducted for two to four weeks for a stipend of between $1,500–$2,000. 

New-York Historical offers fellowships to scholars dedicated to understanding and promoting American history. Fellowship positions at the New-York Historical Society are made possible by the generous support of Bernard and Irene Schwartz, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sid Lapidus, The Lehrman Institute, and Patricia and John Klingenstein. All fellows receive research stipends while in residency.

 
Contact:
New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West at Richard Gilder Way (77th St)
New York, NY 10024
(212) 873-3400
[email protected]
Website:  http://www.nyhistory.org

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 PIIRS Visiting Fellowships, (3–4 positions), 2016–17
 
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) invites applications for 3 to 4 visiting fellowships for the 2016–17 academic year (10 months), beginning September 1, 2016. The fellowships are open to outstanding scholars in the social sciences or humanities engaged in research on an issue of global importance from an international, comparative, societal, or cultural perspective. Visiting scholars are expected to be in residence at PIIRS for the entire academic year and to participate actively in a PIIRS regional studies program, research community, or research initiative. For more information on PIIRS regional studies programs, research communities, and research initiatives, see the  PIIRS website .
 
These positions are aimed specifically at scholars on sabbatical leave from their home institutions. The fellowship can provide up to one-half of the scholar’s academic year salary (depending on the successful candidate’s salary, and subject to a cap of $90,000).
 
To apply, visit  Princeton's website  and reference requisition number 1500532.
 
Applications should include:
*  A cover letter (please indicate current salary and the amount of support requested from PIIRS)
*  A statement of research plans and their relation to PIIRS regional studies programs, research communities, or research initiatives (max. 5 pages)
*  A current curriculum vitae
*  Names and email addresses of two persons who can provide confidential letters of recommendation (to be included in cover letter)
*  One writing sample (article- or chapter-length).
Application deadline: January 15, 2016,  11:59 PM EST.
 
Questions about the application process for these positions may be directed to  Beate Witzler .   
 
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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  https://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/kennan-institute-summer-research-scholarships

Kennan Institute Title VIII Summer Research Fellowships
Scholars who conduct research in the social sciences or humanities focusing on Russia and the other countries of Eurasia, and who demonstrate a particular need to utilize the library, archival, and other specialized resources of the Washington, D.C. area should consider applying for the summer research fellowship.  The summer research fellowship must be used for two consecutive months between May-September 2016, and applicants are required to hold an MA degree or higher.  The Summer Research Scholarships will provide a stipend of $6,400 for 62 days ($103.22/day), research facilities, computer support, and some research assistance.  Travel and accommodation expenses are not directly covered by this fellowship. 
Applicants are required to submit a concise description (700-800 words) of his or her research project, curriculum vitae, a statement on preferred dates of residence in Washington, D.C., and two letters of recommendation specifically in support of the research to be conducted at the Institute.  All of these materials may be submitted via email to   [email protected] . (Letters of recommendation may also be sent by email as scanned, signed letters.)  Applicants must be U.S. Citizens.  Closing date is January 15, 2016.
Application
Type:  Program Scholarship
Open:
Sep 15, 2015  to  Jan 15, 2016
Deadline:   Jan 15, 2016 - See more at:  https://www.wilsoncenter.org/opportunity/kennan-institute-summer-research-scholarships#sthash.I75EUj5B.dpuf

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Apply at   http://jobs.princeton.edu
 
The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is currently inviting applications for the 2016-17 academic year. We welcome applications for year-long Mellon Fellow positions and one semester-long Senior Mellon Fellow positions from individuals who will actively engage in the Initiative's theme, "Cities of the Americas: Architecture, Society, Policy, and Culture."

Princeton University invites applications from scholars, writers, critics and practitioners of exceptional promise to pursue projects related to architecture, urbanism, and the humanities, specifically in the context of North and South America. Mellon Fellows may be from any discipline. We seek applicants with outstanding intellectual, literary, and visual talents, who demonstrate an abiding interest in multi-disciplinary work.

Senior Mellon Fellows will be selected for their capacity to widen the Program's intellectual horizons at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities, and to offer accomplished figures the chance to take part in Princeton's singular scholarly, teaching, and social community. Mellon Fellow positions are for early career scholars, writers, critics, and practitioners of exceptional promise to pursue projects at Princeton University related to the Initiative themes. 

For complete details on eligibility,  requirements, and compensation, please see Job Requisition No. 1501028   >>>

The Princeton-Mellon Initiative is made possible with support from  The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  and the  Princeton University School of Architecture . Additional information about the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities can be found at   http://arc-hum.princeton.edu/   
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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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Empathy
The 3rd Global Meeting of the Empathy Project

Call for Participation 2016

Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford

Empathy, the will to understand or to attempt to understand others by imagining what it might feel like to be them – how it might feel to experience the world from inside their skin, underpins much of our lives. It is present in the ways in which people relate to and care for one another within families and in other groups, both large and small – from global to local level. It is present, also, in the ways in which we communicate with one another through literature, art, film, advertising and digital media. Many professions – from nursing, counselling psychotherapy, social care and medicine, to teaching, product design, architecture, advertising and stand-up comedy, depend at least partly, on empathic skill.

Though some people form the idea that empathy has something to do with having prior knowledge of and perhaps experiencing ‘fellow feeling’ with or even liking those towards whom empathy is exercised, we can empathise just as well, both with whom we have had no contact and with those we do not like. We can empathise with others whose lives are very different from our own, and because empathy involves the use of the imagination, we can empathise with people in experiences that we are unlikely ever to have, even in experiences that we will never be able to have. Though empathy is often viewed through ‘rose-coloured spectacles’, as if it is always a good thing, some would argue that it can be put to bad uses, for example by bullies and torturers, who use empathic skill to work out how best to harm their victims. Some uses of empathy – for example, by spin doctors, PR advisors and those whose work involves advertising products rather than people, may be viewed by one set of people in a a positive way, while others view exactly the same use of empathy more negatively.

Some people believe that everyone who is aware of others has the ability to empathise, at least to some extent; others disagree, believing, rather, that some individuals, including those who may be referred to as ‘psychopathic’, have no ability to empathise. Others again believe that empathy is both a gift and a skill that can be developed. They note that while some people seem to empathise naturally, others don’t, and argue that given the right experiences, most people can develop empathic ability.

Like Empathy 1 and Empathy 2, Empathy 3 will provide a space in which academics as well as practitioners and professionals for whom empathy is centrally important, can explore the part this most important attribute plays in human life. It will provide a place for reflection on empathy’s significance for practitioners in health and social care; education; architecture and town planning; politics; the police; advertising; media of all kinds; the news industry in all its forms; film, theatre, and the fine arts, including the work of artists and those who work in museums and art galleries.

Between them IDNet’s first two Global Meetings on Empathy included philosophical, ethical, neurological and psychological discussions of the meaning and origins of empathy, as well as presentations about, for example, empathy in literature, theatre, the visual arts, and cinema; about empathy in news, social media and online communication; about the ways in which considerations of empathy influence character and plot development in TV drama, and about the development of empathy in children and in professionals, including social workers and health care staff.

For Empathy 3, abstracts are invited for individual contributions and for symposia of three closely related papers that address the place that empathy has to play in any area of human life, including:

Empathy in storytelling of all kinds, including novels and short stories, theatre; narrative and documentary film, and digital storytelling.
Empathy in the creative and performance arts.
The communications industry, including print and digital journalism; advertising; public relations, television and radio.
The place of empathy in education; politics; business; health and social care; the law; policing and the armed forces.
Explorations of empathy in academic research, by, for example, psychologists, philosophers, theologians, nurses, counsellors, teachers and literary theorists.

Abstracts might, for example, address questions such as:

Is empathy a natural ability, or a learned and practiced skill?
What is the relationship between empathy and sympathy?
Is empathy always a good thing? In other words, do those who have empathic skill necessarily display helpful, caring and considerate behaviour towards others?
How does empathy arise in human beings?
What, if anything, can neuroscience tell us about empathy; its development and its absence?
What role does empathy play in education? Could an un-empathic person be a successful teacher?
What part does empathy play in the narrative arts of literature, theatre and film?
Does social networking increase or diminish empathy in those who use it?
How does empathy make itself known in the work of architects, designers, advertisers, lawyers, theologians, journalists, town planners; business people; TV presenters; politicians; prison officers; doctors; nurses; therapists; school teachers; priests; artists; entertainers of all kinds?
What part, if any, does empathy play in the creation of digital media and perhaps, especially, in the creation of computer games?
Is empathy present, to any degree, in animals?
Is bullying a result of an empathy deficit and do those who engage in torture necessarily lack empathy? Or does well developed empathic ability informs bullying behaviour and allow the best torturers to decide how best to hurt and terrorise their victims?
How important for ethical living, is the ability to empathise?

In addition to the presentation of conference papers, we welcome the submission of short workshops and accounts of professional practice, as well as other contributions, including performances, films and digital stories. It particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

Further details and information are available at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/empathy/call-for-presentations/

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Empathy project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Torture and another project on Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between 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: Empathy Abstract Submission

Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:

Organising Chairs:
Susan Fairbairn:   [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.

A number of publications are in press and/or in process rom previous meetings of this project. 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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Seventh International Conference on the Image - A Common Ground Conference  

Conference  

1st to 2nd September 2016  
Liverpool, United Kingdom  

Website:   http://ontheimage.com/2016-conference/call-for-presenters  
Contact person:  Common Ground Publishing  

This interdisciplinary conference and its companion journal invite scholars, artists, educators, designers, historians, philosophers, and practitioners to examine the nature and functions of image-making and images.  

Organized by:  Common Ground Publishing  
Deadline for abstracts/proposals:  1st August 2016  

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International Conference on Social Science, Arts and Education  

10th to 11th August 2016  
Boston, United States of America  

Website:   http://americanhealthcare.wix.com/boston-august  
Contact person:  Dr.Samah  

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 July 2016  

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 Persons and Sexualities
Call for Participation 2016

A Sexuality Project
9th Global Meeting

Sunday 10th July – Tuesday 12th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford

The project seeks to develop a space for discussion and debate about the interplay of identities, orientations, desires, pleasures, taboos, relations, behaviours and practices of sex and sexuality in a global context and across a range of critical, contextual and cultural perspectives. Exploring the relationship between sexuality and personhood, specifically, we seek to understand how sex and sexuality shape citizenship, belonging, identity, and expression. The project looks beyond social constructions and practices of gender, sex, and sexuality to focus on notions of embodiment. That is, what does it mean to embody sexuality?

We welcome traditional papers, panels, workshop proposals and other forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums and seek submissions on any of the following themes:

1. Being/Desiring/Doing – Fluid or unfixed sexualities and identities; the efficacy of static sexualities; legitimacy and recognition of sexual identities; acts, interactions, representations, and embodiment; modern sexual ethics, including non-monogamous ethics; mapping desire; moving beyond privileging the orgasm; troubleshooting sexual identities; theories of sexuality, such as queer, crip, affect, social constructionism, etc.

2. Sexual and Embodied Practices – Depictions of sexual and embodied practices in erotica and/or pornography; trading sex and engaging in sex work; sex as economic, social, and symbolic capital; sexual consumption and consumerism; purchasing sex, sexuality, sex toys, sex images; sexual embodiment and disability, intersex, or trans identity; fat studies and sexual embodiment; sexual identity versus sexual expression.

Sexual Time/Space – Public sex and the politics of public versus private sexuality; cybersex and online dating; the body as sexual space; nonbinary bodies and sex/sexuality; casual sex, hook-ups, and cruising; pre-modern, modern, and post-modern sexualities and expressions; sex tourism, trafficking, and global sex trades; nature and sexuality.

(A)sexual Affect and Relationships – Asexual affectionality and romanticism; age of consent / cross-generational relationships; sexual identity politics and trans relationships; nameless, unlabellable sexualities and relationships; polyamorous relationships, ethics, and negotiation; virtual, phone, and cyber relationships; online dating/cruising; marriage and the sexual politics of assimilation/accommodation.

Narrative, Aesthetic and Creative Representations of Sexuality – Pornography and depictions of sexual acts and sexualities; representations of body, body hair, labia, foreskin; the role of art, pornography, and erotica in sexual exploration; depictions of sexual violence; eroticising violence for consumption; dichotomous representations of virgin/whore sexualities; urban/rural representations of sexuality; depictions of sexuality and nature.

(A)sexual Citizenship: Belonging and Activism – Asexual citizenship in a predominantly sexual world; intersex and transgender sexual citizenship; troubleshooting sexual identities; sexual citizenship for religious figures/clergy; disability and/or crip sexualities; sexuality and the environment; sexual respectability and assimilation politics; (a)sexuality and other forms of citizenship (global, national, state, ecological, cultural, etc.); sexiness and sexual participation based on size, race, class, ability, etc.

Uncomfortable Territories – BDSM; taboo sexualities and sexual desires/fantasies; sex games and sexual play; eroticising sexual violence, abuse, and abjection; sexual objectification; bestiality and sex with animals; incest and sex/desire within kinship structures; fetishes; disassociated sex; asphyxiation and other physiological sexual desires.

Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/persons-and-sexualities/call-for-papers/

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Persons and Sexualities project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Madness and another project on Storytelling. We welcome submissions which cross the divide between 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: Persons and Sexualities Abstract Submission

Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:

Organising Chairs:
Kristopher Shultz:   [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.

A number of eBooks and paperback volumes have already emerged from the work of this project. 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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Visual Literacies as Visual Imageries
8th Global Meeting of the Visual Literacies Project

Call for Participation 2016

Wednesday 6th July – Friday 8th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford

Concepts like picture, visual art, and realism circulate in newspapers, galleries, and museums as if they were as obvious and natural as words like dog, cat, and goldfish.
- James Elkins

Human societies of all kinds have throughout history always generated their own distinctive visual cultures. However, with the possible exception of art historians this sense of immense diversity and rich historical precedence has been somewhat ignored. Everyday discussions in all forms of media appear to suggest that ours is the visual generation, when this is clearly not the case. Indeed, the term ‘visual literacy’ has crept into our general language use indicating that there is a code for interpreting visual texts of all kinds. This notion in itself has become a source of discussion in many areas and forms one of the key topics for this conference. This project seeks to place a reflective pause in the busy lives of the delegates who attend, and the visual bombardment we all encounter with the aim of unpacking how the visuals in the respective professional and personal worlds represented actually create meaning. As Sherwin (2014: xxvi) suggests, its time that we all “retool our minds” in this digital-visual age in order to “judge well how we judge.” Or to put it another way, one of the key focal points will be the reimagining of how the visuals we deal with on a day to day basis generate understanding

Hence, this project aims at generating an interdisciplinary forum in which the notion visual literacy can be explored and expanded by a range of delegates from all walks of life. The conference as a whole could be of interest to a spectrum of delegates ranging from those who are simply interested in how visual frames create a sense of meaning in social media, everyday encounters as well as those interested in art history, advertising, drawing and doodling, comics, movies, museum curation and painting. As stated, in particular one of the key discussion points of this event is the reimagining of where the visual field as whole could move into in the future. In considering this overall domain and future directions, Gretchen Bakker (2015:205) begins her critique of this overall area with the statement: “Let us imagine ourselves.” Bakker’s comment reveals the shift in thinking across several fields related to visual literacy who would appear to have begun to question how visual elements actually create meaning. This project offers the time and space for these individual fields to describe not only how meaning is made within their field or daily walk, but future directions for their fields.

Thus, this project will seek to take this statement as a core theme, asking accepted delegates to not only imagine how their work could evolve beyond their current interests and understanding, but also imagine how their work connects to those working in other fields. There are numerous concurrent and intersecting fields at this current time.

Looking to encourage innovative inter- and transdisciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers, narratives, presentations, artwork, or performances from all disciplines, professions, and vocations which grapple with issues related with visual literacies and visual imageries. These may be related to, but not limited by, any of the following themes;

1. Visual Literacy as a Focus and Framework
~ Is there such a thing as visual literacy in your experience and/or discipline?
~ What are the current debates in your experience and field?
~ What are the various elements that are a part of visual literacy in your experience?
~ What are the modes and nodes of interdisciplinary connections to visual literacy in your field?
~ How will the concept of visual literacy be described in the next decade in your discipline?

2. Visual Literacy as Practice
~ What are the forms of representation and realization of visual literacy in your field?
~ What are the current debates and issues around the notion of ‘practice’ in your field?
~ What are the current ‘tools, approaches and applications’ of visual literacy in your field?
~ What are the current interdisciplinary connections to the ‘tools, approaches and applications’ of visual literacy in your field?
~ What are the ‘insiders views’ visual literacy? (That is from the perspective of artists, taggers, digital natives, digital or visual immigrants)

3. Visual Literacy as Analysis
~ What are the modes of visual literacy analysis in your field?
~ What are the ‘tools’ of visual literacy analysis in your field?
~ What are the current debates around analysis in your field?
~ What are the current debates and forms of analysis in the areas of art history, fine arts, creative arts, multimodality, cinema, television, drama and IT?

Further details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Visual Literacies as Visual Imageries project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Diaspora. 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: Visual Literacies as Visual Imageries Abstract Submission

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

Organising Chairs:
Phil Fitzsimmons:   [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.

A number of publications publications have emerged from the work of the project. 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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 2016 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science - Summer Session (ISESS-Summer 2016)
Kyoto, Japan 
July 12-14, 2016
http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/

2016 International Symposium on Economics and Social Science - Summer Session (ISESS-Summer 2016) is to be held in Kyoto, Japan, on July 12-14, 2016. The aim of this conference is to provide a platform which focuses on important topics of Economics and Social Science. Since more than 20 different countries are typically represented, presenting at this conference is a great way to get feedback from researchers with different perspectives. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the conference website (  http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/ ).

We sincerely invite your participation for this important academic event. Please submit full paper or abstract by April 15, 2016. All submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. All accepted manuscripts will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISSN reference, on CD-ROM support.

Kyoto is Japan's capital for more than 1,000 years. Kyoto was the center not only for politics, but religion, philosophy, art, culture, and cuisine. Gion Matsuri is one of the oldest festivals in Japan and one of the greatest. Traditional rituals and events related to this amazing festival are held throughout the month of July in Kyoto. We believe that you will enjoy your stay in Kyoto. If you need any assistance, please feel free to contact us.

Conference Website:   http://science-techs.org/isess-summer/
Online Submission:   http://175.99.76.113/ISESS-summer/
Enquiries:   [email protected]
Submission Deadline: April 15, 2016

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Writing As Spaces
4th Global Meeting of the Writing Project

Call for Participation 2016

Saturday 2nd July – Monday 4th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin

Writing as Spaces is open to anyone who writes or who is interested in any aspect of writing. We welcome papers and presentations dealing with writing, writing workshops, interactive demonstrations and panel explorations of what it means to ‘be a writer’, ‘taste writing in the moment’ and ‘realizing what writing is through reflection’. However, this project is just not limited to exploring these aspects, as writing can also be a social or cultural voice or voices, that are global, visual in nature and layered through multimedia connectivity. In what could be a polar opposite to this, writing can also be writing with a stick in the sand on a beach. Ultimately, writing is in a place, on a place and for another place.

Linked to the last point, another set of critical ideas that this conference seeks to develop is the idea in the shifting nature of what writing means. The idea of what constitutes writing in a very practical sense has begun to move through a change in perspective in recent times. Even the most cursory glance at the internet, a quick walk through a book shop (if you can find one) or meander through any newspaper reveals that writing has taken on numerous forms and purposes. Indeed, many writers now use all of the previous tools, process and media to create a single pastiche of writing formats with a multiplicity of purposes.

No matter the form or process through which it was created, writing is also mediated or filtered through a set of what has been termed ‘spaces’. Spaces can mean external or internal spaces where writers find support for their imaginings and creations. These ‘spaces’ can be hubs of activity or escapes into solitude where the writer finds connection to transcendent experiences. This conference is also interested in delegates who can unpack, explain and explore writing in regards to the personal and social spaces and places they, or others find them in. Thus, sites of writing, cultural perspectives and cross-cultural lenses could also become a set of frameworks through which writing could be explored. To this end, delegates may wish to submit abstracts for this conference as well as the project related to this theme.

Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on, but not limited to any of the following focus areas:

How do various spaces influence the process of writing as a whole?
How do physical and psychological spaces influence the writing of fiction and non-fiction?
What are the origins of writing?
What are the personal and interpersonal relationships between creativity and writing?
How do various spaces engender or inhibit the creative or inspirational drivers for writing?
How is effective and creative writing developed and nurtured?
How do various disciplines understand the pragmatic elements of writing and the thought processes and concepts of space that underpin writing?
In regard to the related research disciplines what are the similarities/differences in understanding of writing and the spaces of writing?
How can creative writing be fostered in a world dominated by measurement, outcomes and benchmarks?
How do authors in all the forms of writing actually write?
Is there a space for pen and paper writing in a world dominated by technology?

Further details can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/writing/call-for-papers/

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Writing as Spaces project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Humour and another 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: Writing as Spaces Abstract Submission

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

Organising Chairs:
Phil Fitzsimmons:   [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.

A number of publications have emerged from the work of the project. 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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Interculturalism: Cultures and Identities
Announcement  published by  Robert Fisher  on Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
July 18, 2016  to  July 20, 2016
Location: 
United Kingdom
Subject Fields: 
Anthropology, Cultural History / Studies, Social Sciences, Sociology, Contemporary History
Interculturalism: Cultures and Identities
Call for Participation 2016
 
A Cultures, Traditions, Societies Project
9th Global Meeting
 
Monday 18th July – Wednesday 20th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Interculturalism stands at the interface between the individual, local groups, societies and cultures. These compete, conflict, co-exist and trigger reactions and responses on a number of levels including the social, the economic, the political and the personal. These are reinforced through language, the media, cultural events, social institutions and migration policies. Amidst all these dynamic and static forms of interaction, identities are built and consolidated.
 
The previous meeting of this project recognised that identity is not something which is fixed and predetermined but rather is continuously created and recreated from the day-to-day flow of living in communities. With mobility not simply a commonplace factor in society but continuing to rapidly expand, people are faced with challenges to and changes in their own identity as a result of encounters with new cultures, new ways of living and new ways of thinking. People find themselves forging and reforming their identities through integration, assimilation, disintegration, reintegration…and so the pattern continues.
 
A key focus to be explored is the use of models emerging out of intercultural models of thinking, working practices and daily life. Previous meetings of this project clearly identified the need for discussions about how to create working platforms within varied professions such as medical professions, nurses, doctors etc. or social workers, teachers, local administrative and so on. The 2016 conference will build on the work of previous meetings in this series and examine the meaning and parameters of Interculturalism, how it is studied and what it means. How can we talk meaningfully of interculturalism? What role does hybridity play in understanding the way cultures morph, adapt and become suited to their context?
 
A significant theme for debate will be assess the changing and continually morphing relationship between cultures and identities, looking particularly at theories of cultural sensibility and its practical aspects. The conference encourages people working in multicultural environments to describe, analyse and reflect on their experiences in the field.  Indicative themes to be considered include:
 
    Cultural sensibility? What is it in practice?
    the various relationships between ‘interculturalism’ and ‘multiculturalism’
    How does understanding of cultural signifiers assist in studying interculturalism?
    Recent criticism has emphasized the problematics of identity and meaning associated with globalization, diaspora and modernity; how so and why?
    What are the implications of processes adopted to consider the centre-periphery?
    How do the immersion, absorption and the intersection of cultures promote a better understanding of individual and group identities?
    Is “Transculturalism” possible in disputes over resource use?
    How can “Transculturalism” be taught more effectively to professional field workers, such as nurses, teachers, aid workers, psychologists etc?
    What can one learn from and about significance of Cross Cultural Psychology and Interculturalism, as well as Autism and Interculturalism and cultural manifestations of identity, Citizenship and Diaspora?
    Are patterns of cognition governed by acculturalisation?
    Is intercultural experience therapeutic or problematic in respect of mental health?
    Fear of the other. What society should do in order to overcome these feelings of fear?
    interculturalism in an educational context
    religious issues and interculturalism
    interculturalism in art, literature and film
    the philosophy of interculturalism
    interculturalism and the politics of the academy i.e. interculturalism and interdisciplinarity
    interculturalism and language
    resistance to interculturalism through monoculturalism
    race, ethnicity and interculturalism
    racism, violence and interculturalism
    interculturalism and sexuality
    interculturalism and politics
 
Presentations will also be considered which deal with related themes.
 
Furthjer details and information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/cultures-traditions-societies/research-streams/interculturalism/call-for-papers/
 

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Interculturalism project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Suicide. 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: Interculturalism Abstract Submission
 
Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:
 
Organising Chairs:
Efrat Tzadik:   [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.
 
A significant number of eBooks and paperback volumes have already emerged from the work of this project. 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.
Contact Info: 
Rob Fisher
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel:  +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax:  +44 (0)870 4601132
Contact Email: 
[email protected]
URL: 
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/cultures-traditions-societies/research-streams/interculturalism/call- ...
   
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Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners
A Cultures, Traditions, Societies Project

The 7th Global Conference
Call for Participation 2016

Thursday 14th July – Saturday 16th July 2016
Mansfield College, Oxford

Strangers: in tattered clothes, in masks, in dark alleys or migrating across frozen fields...
Aliens: living next door, just arrived, long-time residents, trying to stand out or trying to fit in...
Foreigners: in desperate need, invited in or kept out, scapegoated, used, necessary...
Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners: All of us, you, me, your family, your history, everyone is a stranger to someone, an alien in some country, a foreigner abroad or at home...

The Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners research project invites you to explore the crucial place that “outsiders” have for the constitution of self, communities and societies. In particular, the 2016 conference seeks to assess world transformations brought about by new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact they have on the conceptions we hold of self and other.

Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers, narratives, presentations, artwork, or performances from all disciplines, professions, and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge a sense of self in rapidly changing contexts where it is no longer possible to ignore the importance of strangers, aliens, and foreigners for our contemporary nations, societies and cultures.

Spanning 7 years, the project has, through five previous conferences and multiple publications, addressed diverse topics including:

Imagining Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners
Acquiring and Gendering Strangeness
Place and Strangeness
Work, Migration and Emotion
Representing and integrating Foreigners
Integration Challenges
The Weight of History
Political Imagination

The sixth meeting of this global project on Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners will examine the important issue of migrants and the representation of foreigners in politics and culture. Recent refugee crises in Europe, Africa, Australia and elsewhere have highlighted the critical issue of the response to “strangers” and the willingness or unwillingness to of citizens to integrate strangers into society. More importantly, the view of the “strangers” themselves and how they are created as alien to society will be explored. In exploring these issues, we will necessarily look to history and the theoretical conception of the “other” in considering the present and future of strangers, aliens, and foreigners.

The focus of the conference will be on the creation of and uses for foreignness (by institutions, culture, media, education, etc), migrations, and the impact of strangers on the self and society:

Demarcating Strangers, Aliens, and Foreigners
The experience of and creation of alien spaces and strangeness
The language of “Alien-ness”: how strangers are described in the media and how this shapes the perception of foreigners
Depictions of Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners in art, film, videogames, online forums, political speech, advertising, and other media
Nationalism and how nationalism is used to create fear or acceptance of strangers
How humour, literature, and performance are impacted and enhanced by the concept of foreignness
The needs of foreigners and the creation of new communities
How to mediate and defuse tensions in communities affected by strangers
Mapping strangeness: the cartography of alien landscapes
Acceptance / rejection of otherness
Cultures of strangeness: food, family, music
Migration and its effects on self-conception
Narratives, recordings, discourses of otherness

Presentations which deal with related themes will also be considered.
For further details and information please visit the conference website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/cultures-traditions-societies/research-streams/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/

Call for Cross-Over Presentations
The Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners project will be meeting at the same time as a project on Torture and another project on Empathy. 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: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners Abstract Submission

Where to Send
Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs with listed emails:

Organising Chairs:
Jonathan Gourlay:   [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.

A number of eBooks and paperback books have emerged from the work of the project. 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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JOB/ ВАКАНСИИ
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  Aarhus University - Associate Professorship in Cognitive Science
793639
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52366
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  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen - Doctoral Fellow in History,
Theology, Jewish Studies or Religious Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52370
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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/ghent-university/2015/4-academic-positions-focus-research-erc-consolidator-grantees/71400/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Job+alerts
 4 Academic Positions with a focus on research for ERC Consolidator Grantees

Last application date: Feb 02, 2016 23:59
Contract: Statutary
Occupancy rate: 100%
Vacancy Type: Autonomous academic staff

Ghent University (Belgium) announces vacancies for 4 full-time professorial posts (“ZAP” level), starting 1 February 2017 at the earliest. The positions are open to candidates who do not yet hold a full-time professorial post (ZAP post) at Ghent University and will be taken up in the rank of assistant professor, associate professor or (senior) full professor.

These posts may be filled in any field of study.

These positions are funded by the Special Research Fund and are granted in renewable periods of 5 years until retirement. The new academic staff members will be granted the privilege of focusing primarily on research. The teaching load will be limited to no more than 8 ECTS credits per semester on average over a period of 3 years.

Depending on the achieved level of excellence by the selected candidate, the rank of (senior) full professor, associate professor or assistant  professor will be granted.

A full-time position at the entry level of associate professor or (senior) full professor implies a tenured position, although an initial probationary period may be required in accordance with article V.28 in the Codex of Higher Education.

A full-time position at the entry level of assistant professor implies a five-year temporary appointment in a Tenure Track system. If the university board positively evaluates the performance of the person involved, the position may lead to a tenured position in the rank of associate professor.

The University Board has the possibility to change the appointment of assistant professor into a tenured position, either immediately or in due course, based upon similar academic performances in another university of research institution.

At Ghent University, the possibility of promotion in the rank of assistant professor and associate professor is conditional upon the timely achievement of predefined personalized goals.

Profile

candidates must have been selected for funding of an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council as a result of the call ERC-2016-CoG (launched on the ERC website on 15 September 2015) with Ghent University acting as a host institution;
candidates do not yet hold a full-time professorial post (ZAP post) at Ghent University
candidates should hold a PhD degree with doctoral thesis or a degree recognized as equivalent;
candidates are required to have at least two years of postdoctoral experience on the starting date of the ZAP post;
candidates must have carried out outstanding scientific research in the field of study concerned, which is proven by research output of a high level in peer-reviewed international publications (journals and/or books);
candidates must have experience in heading up research projects and coaching PhD students;
having experience in international mobility, amongst others through participation in research programs at research institutions not linked to the university where the highest degree was obtained, is recommended; ,
candidates are required to possess the necessary didactic skills to realize academic competencies with university students;
having positively evaluated experience with procured and/or organized education on an academic level, is recommended;
professionalization of education is recommended.
Applicants at the entry level of assistant professor or associate professor are required to participate in the basic training for Assistant Professor.

Ghent University provides free Dutch and English language courses to professors who are non-native speakers in order to support them in their teaching activities.

Candidates must submit their application for an ERC Consolidator Grant on time to the European Research Council by 2 February 2016.

This eligible ERC application simultaneously serves as application for the Academic position. The Call for proposals and application forms are available on  http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/1120-erc-2016-cog.html

Further information with regard to these vacant positions can be requested from the Research Coordination Office of the Department of Research Affairs. Phone nr: 32-9-264 32 36; e-mail: [email protected].
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http://www.au.dk/en/about/vacant-positions/scientific-positions/stillinger/Vacancy/show/793679/5283/
The School of Culture and Society, Department of Global Studies at Aarhus University invites applications for a position as assistant or associate professor of  Russian studies with a special focus on Soviet and post-Soviet socio-political trends in Russia.
If an assistant professor is appointed, the position  will be a three-year probationary position, and subject to the availability of funding,  an associate professorship in the same field will be announced in open competition at the end of the three-year term. If an associate professor is appointed, the position will be a permanent, full-time position.

The position will commence on 1 April 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The position
We are seeing to engage a candidate with broad expertise in Soviet and post-Soviet society and the ability to address key contemporary issues. The position involves research based in any relevant field, including sociology, political science, history, anthropology, international relations or area studies. Commitment to and experience of interdisciplinary research, as well as the ability to place Russian developments in their broader European, Eurasian and/or global contexts, will be considered an advantage.
Applicants must be willing to participate in consolidating and expanding the field in terms of both teaching and research. The Russian studies programme is closely integrated with other area studies programmes as well as with European and International studies. The successful candidate is expected to have sufficient language proficiency in the Russian language in order work in a language-based area studies programme.

As part of the School of Culture and Society, the Department of Global Studies has a focus on regional and trans-regional research, and aims to provide a distinct approach to and understanding of the conditions of our contemporary globality. By combining cutting-edge area studies with history and the social sciences, the Department of Global Studies offers degree programmes and research which combine unique language-based area studies with state-of-the-art research in the emergent field of global studies. Please consult the department  website  for more information.

Research  
We are seeking a researcher with a strong research profile in contemporary Russia (20th and 21st centuries). In order to be considered for the position of associate professor, the key criteria of the assessment will be the quality of the research output, which is expected to meet international standards, and successful teaching experience at the university level. The successful applicant will be expected to develop new research projects with immediate relevance to the field. 

The School of Culture and Society places emphasis on research of a high international standard, including interdisciplinary collaboration, participation in collective research projects and the attraction of external research funding.

Teaching
The successful applicant must be prepared to teach survey courses on Russian history and seminars on contemporary issues in Russia at all levels, i.e. the BA and MA degree programmes in Russian studies and other relevant area studies programmes, including contributions to courses in the broader field of global studies as well as auxiliary theoretical and methodological courses in these programmes.
He or she will also be expected to participate in the further development of a new interdisciplinary MA in global studies with a focus on Russia, and to contribute to the department’s academic environment, including collaboration with other relevant academic programs.

Participation in the daily life of the programme is a high priority, and we emphasise the importance of good working relationships, both among colleagues and with our students.

Talent development  
The successful applicant will be expected to develop his or her supervision capabilities at both BA and MA levels. For an applicant qualified for the position of associate professor, he or she will also be expected to supervise PhD students as well as teaching and developing PhD courses.
Knowledge exchange
It is expected that the successful applicant will engage in knowledge exchange as described in the strategy for the Faculty of Arts, for instance in research cooperation with private companies, government consultancy, cooperation with civil society actors or public dissemination of knowledge. Applicants should document any prior experience within the field of knowledge exchange.
Qualifications
Applicants must have a PhD degree or equivalent qualifications in history, political science, anthropology, sociology or related fields. 

If an associate professor is appointed, applicants must be able to document the following qualifications and competences:
• A relevant research profile at international level
• A relevant and high-quality list of publications
• Experience of working in major national and international research networks
• Experience of (and success in) attracting external grants
• Interest in and experience of teaching at a broad university level, and preferably experience of interdisciplinary teaching and the development of new forms of instruction
• The ability to teach in English at university level
• Interest in and experience of supervision related to talent development.
Applicants for the assistant professorship must be able to document experience of or interest in the points mentioned above at PhD level at a minimum. Applicants for the associate professorship must be able to document competences corresponding to the completion of an assistant professorship.
If an assistant professor is appointed to the post, he or she will be obliged to complete a course in university teaching devised especially for assistant professors.

For further information about the position, please contact Associate Professor Rósa Magnúsdóttir, email   [email protected] .
The application must be submitted in English.
If the successful applicant is not fluent in Danish, he or she will be expected to learn Danish within a period of approximately two years.
For more information about the application, please contact HR supporter Marianne Birn, email   [email protected]

The School of Culture and Society
At the School of Culture and Society, the object of research and teaching is the interplay between culture and society in time and space:
-  From the traditional disciplines of the humanities and theology to applied social research
-  From Antiquity to the issues facing contemporary societies
-  From familiar Danish cultural forms to other very different worlds
-  From local questions to global challenges.
The school’s goal is to produce compelling research with an international resonance, as well as offering teaching and talent development of high quality. The school has a broad cooperative interface with society, both in Denmark and abroad, and contributes to social innovation, research communication and further and continuing education.
For a more detailed description of the School of Culture and Society, please see this website   http://cas.au.dk/en/
Formalities
·          Faculty of Arts refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities   (the Appointment Order) .
·          Appointment shall be in accordance with the  collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations   .
·          Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the  Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities .
·          Further information on the application and supplementary materials may be found in  Applicant Guidelines .
·          The application must outline the applicant's motivation for applying for the position, attaching a curriculum vitae, copies of relevant degree certificates, and (if relevant for the position) a teaching portfolio. Please upload this material electronically along with your application. When you submit your application for the assistant professorship, please upload a maximum of five samples of your scholarly output. When you submit your application for the associate professorship, please upload a maximum of eight samples of your scholarly output. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal bagground.
Deadline
All applications must be made online and received by:
01.02.2016 
Please apply online here      http://www.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/ApplicationForm.cfm?VacatureID=793679&PortalID=5283
Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts is one of four main academic areas at Aarhus University.
The faculty contributes to Aarhus University's research, talent development, knowledge exchange and degree programmes.
With its 500 academic staff members, 260 PhD students, 12,500 BA and MA students, and 2,500 students following continuing/further education programmes, the faculty constitutes a strong and diverse research and teaching environment.
The Faculty of Arts consists of the School of Communication and Culture, the School of Culture and Society, the Danish School of Education, and the Centre for Teaching Development and Digital Media. Each of these units has strong academic environments and forms the basis for interdisciplinary research and education.
The faculty's academic environments and degree programmes engage in international collaboration and share the common goal of contributing to the development of knowledge, welfare and culture in interaction with society.
Read more at  arts.au.dk/en  

Aarhus University is a modern, academically diverse and research-intensive university with a strong commitment to high-quality research and education and the development of society nationally and globally. The university offers an inspiring research and teaching environment to its 44,500 students and 11,500 employees, and has an annual budget of EUR 830 million. Over the course of the past decade, the university has consolidated its position in the top 100 on the most influential rankings of universities world-wide. Learn more at   www.au.dk/en .
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Professor, Middle Ages, University of Graz

The Institute of History at the Faculty of Arts
and Humanities is seeking to appoint a
Professor (f/m) of Middle Ages (40 hours per
week; permanent employment according to
the Austrian Law on Salaried Employment
(AngG); expected starting date October 1st 2
016)

The professor (f/m) will respresent the
subject Medieval History in research
and teaching considering the relevant
curricula. A distinctive international
research profile and a focus on regional
history are desirable. In addition, we
expect gender mainstreaming competence.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id =52282  
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  Assistant Professor, Modern European and
World History, Florida International University

The Department of History at Florida
International University is hiring a tenure-
track Assistant Professor in Modern Europe
and the World beginning fall semester, 2016.

We welcome candidates able to offer courses in
modern French and European history. The
teaching load will be two courses per semester.
The person hired would not only contribute to
our transnational PhD program with emphasis
in Atlantic Civilizations, but also interface with
the Wolfsonian-FIU, The European and
Eurasian Studies Program, and The Spanish
& Mediterranean Studies Program in the
Steven J. Green School for International and
Public Affairs.

The selected candidate must demonstrate
commitment to service to the department,
college, and university; to teach
undergraduate and graduate courses; to direct
graduate research; to direct dissertations, MA
reports and honor theses; and to publish
actively.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id =52227
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  Mississippi State University - History of Modern Europe and
Science/Technology/and/or Medicine.
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52252
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  Aarhus University - Assistant or Associate Professor in
Danish/European Medieval History 700-1500 AD - 791363
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52295
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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-kit/2015/w3-professorship-philosophical-anthropology/70914/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Job+alerts
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
W3-Professorship of philosophical anthropology
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is a public university of Baden-Württemberg and a national research centre in the Helmholtz Association. Its three strategic fields of research, teaching and innovation are united by KIT to be its mission.
The Institute of Philosophy of the KIT Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Division II) and the Institute of Technology Futures (ITZ) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is inviting applications for the position of
W3-Professorship of philosophical anthropology
The main research and teaching focus of the professorship is philosophy of the mind. Candidates should have done significant research in questions which are relevant for the major topic areas at KIT. Examples of these topic areas include the present and the future of human-machine interactions, the increasing substitution of technology for human beings, and anthropological perspectives on communication networks. The successful candidate should also be willing to enter into joint research projects involving the philosophy of technology and theory of science at the KIT faculty and at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) as well with the technical disciplines at KIT, in particular the areas of robotics and information technology
It is also be expected that in addition to the subject area of philosophical anthropology the successful candidate will have the qualifications and the willingness to teach courses in the history of philosophy, in particular in the Euklid programme of studies. Additional requirements for the successful candidate are contributing to the development of the Institute of Technology Futures, interdisciplinary cooperation in teaching and research, and international experience. We are looking for an individual that has a doctoral  and  a habilitation degree, or an equivalent qualification, in philosophy together with a distinguished record of scholarly publication in the relevant research fields.
Conditions of employment are in accordance with § 47 LHG (state legislation governing universities).
We seek to increase the proportion of female professors at KIT and therefore encourage suitably qualified women to apply for this position. Severely disabled candidates with the same qualification profile are preferentially employed.
Please send your application together with the relevant documentation including your prior and projected research and teaching projects in both written and electronic form (as a pdf file) by  20 January, 2016  to the  Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), Office of the Dean, KIT Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, email:   [email protected] .
For further information please contact: Frau Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand (phone:  +49 (0) 721/608-26450 , email:   [email protected] ).
Since 2010, the KIT has been certified as a family-friendly university.
KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association
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