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http://www.daad.ru/?m=1.5&seite=1_5_1a&id=17
 Научно-исследовательские стипендии DAAD
Заявки подаются через DAAD-портал/
 
1.Полное название:  Научно-исследовательские стипендии 
(Forschungsstipendien) 

1.1 Типы и длительность стипендий:  
* краткосрочные и долгосрочные научно-исследовательские стипендии  
Данный тип стипендии дает возможность аспирантам и молодым ученым из российских вузов и подразделений Российской академии наук (РАН) реализовать собственный исследовательский проект в одном из вузов или научно-исследовательских центров Германии. 
В зависимости от исследовательского проекта и плана работы соискателя длительность стипендии, как правило, составляет от 1 до 10 месяцев:
* для реализации исследовательских проектов, рассчитанных на период от 1 до 6 месяцев, предоставляется  краткосрочная  стипендия ( Forschungsstipendien-Kurzstipendien ); 
Длительность стипендии определяется отборочной комиссией. Открытие краткосрочной стипендии возможно не ранее 01.07.2015.
* для реализации исследовательских проектов, рассчитанных на период от 7 до 10 месяцев, предоставляется  долгосрочная  стипендия ( Forschungsstipendien-Jahresstipendien ). 
Стипендии, длительностью от 7 месяцев и выше, как правило, назначаются с 01.10.2015. 

Краткосрочные и долгосрочные стипендии не продляются. Одобренные комиссией сроки пребывания стипендиата в Германии являются  обязательными и не могут быть изменены впоследствии.
* стипендии для обучения в аспирантуре  
Стипендия предоставляется для обучения в аспирантуре при немецких вузах и исследовательских центрах (в том числе, и в рамках структурированных программ для аспирантов Graduate School) с целью защиты диссертации в Германии ( Forschungsstipendien-Promotionen in Deutschland ). Длительность стипендии для обучения в аспирантуре в немецком вузе, как правило, составляет максимум три года. Изначально стипендия назначается на 10 месяцев с 01.10.2015 до 31.07.2016 г. Решение о продлении стипендии принимается только по заявлению стипендиата. Основанием для решения является оценка того, насколько успешным было обучение стипендиата в течение первого года. 
Обучение в аспирантуре в Германии допускает - в случае если это необходимо для успешного осуществления работы над диссертацией - возможность реализации отдельных частей исследования вне Германии. Планируемые в рамках реализации проекта пребывания в других странах должны быть внесены в рабочий и временной планы работы над диссертацией уже на этапе подачи заявки и по своей длительности не могут составлять более одной четверти всего времени финансирования.

1.2 Целевая группа:  
К участию в конкурсе на получение краткосрочной, долгосрочной научно-исследовательской стипендии, а также стипендии для обучения в аспирантуре допускаются: 
* выпускники российских вузов , получившие диплом специалиста или магистра не ранее, чем шесть лет назад,
* аспиранты , начавшие обучение в аспирантуре российского вуза или подразделения РАН, не более трех лет назад,
* в исключительных случаях студенты выпускного курса российского вуза, которые на момент возможного открытия стипендии получат диплом специалиста, магистра или бакалавра
* Кандидаты наук  допускаются к участию в конкурсе только на получение краткосрочной или  долгосрочной научно-исследовательской стипендии. При этом,
* кандидаты наук, защитившиеся не ранее, чем два года назад, могут подавать заявку на участие в конкурсе на получение краткосрочной или долгосрочной стипендии;
* кандидаты наук, защитившиеся не ранее, чем четыре года назад, могут подавать заявки  исключительно  на получение краткосрочной стипендии.

Для медиков действуют особые правила, ознакомиться с которыми можно  здесь .  

Соискатели, уже находящие в Германии , допускаются к участию в конкурсе при условии, что длительность их пребывания на момент подачи заявки не превышает  15 месяцев . 

Подача документов на участие в конкурсе для  соискателей, уже однажды становившихся стипендиатами DAAD  по программе «Научно-исследовательские стипендии для молодых ученых», возможна не ранее, чем спустя  три года с момента назначения данной стипендии!  

1.3 Размер стипендии:  
Сумма стипендии составляет порядка 1000,- евро. 

1.4 Языковые знания и их оценка:  
Представители  гуманитарных, социальных и юридических специальностей  должны, как правило, хорошо владеть  немецким и/ или английским языком . 

Представители  естественнонаучных и инженерных специальностей  с хорошими знаниями английского языка могут подавать заявку  на английском языке , если в приглашающем немецком учреждении рабочим языком является английский. По решению отборочной комиссии некоторым стипендиатам, срок пребывания которых в Германии составит более 7 месяцев, перед началом стажировки предоставляются бесплатные курсы немецкого языка продолжительностью 2 месяца. Посещение этих курсов является обязательным. 

Уровень языковых знаний –  в зависимости от требования немецкой стороны  – должен быть подтвержден сертификатом международного образца (напр., TestDaF или TOEFL) или каким-либо иным документом (напр., формуляром  Sprachzeugnis für ausländische Bewerber/ Language certificate for foreign applicants , заполненным преподавателем немецкого или английского языка российского вуза). 

1.5 Порядок подачи заявки: 
Процедура подачи заявки включает в себя следующие этапы: 

* формирование электронной версии заявки на DAAD-портале  (подробное описание   здесь ),
* формирование бумажной версии заявки: 

* распечатать с DAAD-портала pdf-файл «Bewerbungszusammenfassung» / «Application summary», сгенерированный системой после завершения подачи электронной версии заявки;
* сложить составляющие файл документы в следующем порядке (вне зависимости от нумерации страниц внутри файла!):  

* документ «Deckblatt/ Cover sheet»
* online-формуляр заявки
* автобиография (максимальный объем – 3 стр.)
* список публикаций (при наличии)
* подробное описание проекта (Proposal) и изложение уже проделанной исследовательской работы (максимальный объем – 10 стр.). 

Проект должен быть согласован с принимающей стороной и одобрен ей!
* календарный план работы над проектом.

При подаче заявки на получение  стипендии для обучения в аспирантуре следует учитывать, что описание проекта и календарный план работы должны охватывать весь срок обучения в аспирантуре (3 года).
* согласие немецкого профессора (Prof. Dr. или PD) на руководство заявленным соискателем проектом  или  диссертационным исследованием. 

В тексте согласия на руководство немецким профессором должны быть указана тема проекта соискателя и даты его планируемой реализации, коротко обоснован интерес к проекту соискателя, дана общая оценка проекта, а также гарантия предоставления всех необходимых для работы над проектом условий. 

* Соискатели стипендии для прохождения  индивидуальной аспирантуры  (традиционная форма обучения) дополнительно  предоставляют  подтверждение немецкого университета/ факультета о соответствии соискателя требованиям , предъявляемым данным вузом к будущим аспирантам. Если получение такого документа невозможно, то свое мнение о степени подготовки соискателя и возможности его зачисления в аспирантуру немецкого вуза выражает в своем приглашении немецкий профессор.
* Соискатели стипендии для обучения в рамках  структурированных аспирантских программ  (Graduate Schools, Graduiertenkollegs, Doktoratskollegs, а также internationale Promotionsprogramme)  вместо приглашения  немецкого профессора предоставляют а)  допуск к обучению  по выбранной программе или  какое-либо подтверждение немецкого вуза/ научно-исследовательского центра о возможности зачисления, или, как минимум, участия в выбранной программе ,    b)  подтверждение контакта  с координатором выбранной аспирантской программы (копии переписки), а также c)   распечатку описания   структурированной аспирантской  программы  с сайта немецкого вуза/ научно-исследовательского центра, содержащую условия участия в данной программе. 
Для поиска научного руководителя или выбора структурированной программы обучения, а также получения расширенной информации о возможностях проведения исследований и обучения в аспирантуре для молодых ученых и аспирантов можно воспользоваться следующими ссылками:
* https://www.daad.de/deutschland/promotion/de
* http://www.research-in-germany.de/dachportal/de.html
* http://research-explorer.dfg.de/research_explorer.de.html
* две рекомендации российских профессоров (доступ к бланку  здесь ). Формуляр заполняется на немецком или английском языке, просьба  не подавать рекомендации в запечатанных конвертах!  

Аспиранты предоставляют  две  рекомендации, одна из должна быть от научного руководителя, вторая от профессора, который хорошо знаком с соискателем и его исследованиями и может дать объективную оценку научного потенциала последнего)
* копии и переводы  всех  свидетельств об образовании ( диплома вуза, школьного аттестата, диплома кандидата наук ) 

Студенты выпускных курсов вместо диплома предоставляют копии и перевод зачетной книжки!
* копия и перевод справки с места учебы/ работы, подтверждающая статус соискателя
* языковой сертификат
* адресный листок (доступ к бланку  здесь ). 
Адресный листок на Портал не загружается!
* отправка двух  полностью сформированных  комплектов заявки , каждый из которых включает в себя перечисленные выше документы –  предпочтительным  способом оформления заявки является пробивание каждого комплекта документов дыроколом и скрепление его скоросшивателем- полоской  (см.  здесь ), – по почте / курьерской службой доставки на адрес Московского представительства DAAD.

1.6. Сроки и место подачи заявки:  
Электронная версия заявки  подается через DAAD-портал строго  с 01.10. по 01.12.2014 (портал открыт для подачи заявки до 24 часов 01.12.2014 по центральноевропейскому времени). Бумажная версия заявки (два экземпляра) в этот же период (01.10. – 01.12.2014 по почтовому штемпелю)  должна быть отправлена в Московское представительство DAAD  по почте или курьерской службой доставки. 

Неполные заявки (т.е. включающие не весь комплект документов), а также заявки, отправленные позже указанного срока, к рассмотрению не принимаются! Ответственность за полноту комплекта документов заявки и предоставляемую в документах информацию несет соискатель. 

Документы заявки, поступившие в DAAD, не возвращаются. Обработка и хранение данных соискателей стипендии DAAD осуществляется в соответствии с германским Федеральным законом по защите данных. 

1.7. Сроки рассмотрения заявки: 

Об  итогах рассмотрения поданных заявок  все соискатели будут проинформированы непосредственно  через DAAD-портал до конца мая 2015 года . 

Куратор программы:  Нуждина Ольга Леонидовна ([email protected])

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The Mellon Fellowship Programme

You might find this broadly focused fellowship programme interesting.
London School of Economics and Political Science - The Mellon
Fellowship Programme at LSE in Cities and the Humanities
< http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48332 >

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University of Bristol,  UK
  Institute for Advanced Studies
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/ias/fellowships/meakers/

Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorships
The Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship (BMVP) scheme was founded in 1976 from a bequest from the estate of the business man Mr. Benjamin Meaker. It is open to application from any University Department/School or Faculty.  The purpose of these awards is to bring distinguished researchers from overseas and elsewhere in the UK to Bristol in order to enhance the research activity of the University. The award covers travel, accommodation and subsistence (£800 per month) costs.
The Meaker awards take three forms:
* ‘Medium-term’ visits of 1-3 months.
* ‘Fast-track’ visits  of up to three weeks.
* Colston Research Fellowships, tenable for 2 months. Historically, the Colston Fellowships have been awarded to visitors pursuing a collaborative topic having particular relevance to the city/region of Bristol. We remain open to highest-quality bids of this kind, but in practice the Colston award is normally incorporated into the two Meaker schemes.
Conditions of award
* Award holders are given the title  IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor  (IAS BMVP) or  IAS Colston Research Fellow  during their stay and should be referred to as such in all publicity. The Institute would be grateful for its logo (downloadable from the bottom of the left navigation) to be included in all publicity where possible.
* All awards are made on the basis of single continuous visits, with no provision for partners or children, or additional travel whilst based in Bristol.
* All insurance and visa requirements are the responsibility of the Visitor and/or UoB Host Department/School, and the latter will also normally be expected to provide space for the BMVP. Please see  visa application process  for further information.
* The award holder will be allocated accommodation at the IAS's  Principal's House , a comfortable and serviced accommodation located just 5 minutes walk away from the IAS at the Royal House on the  Central University Precinct . There may, however, be occasions when this is not possible due to non-availability of suites and we will work with the award holder to identify alternative accommodation.For further information, please contact  [email protected] .
* ‘Fast-track’ Meakers  will  not  be considered solely for the purposes of conference attendance, though conference attendance and delivery can legitimately form part of a rather larger programme of activities with Bristol staff and students
* Please note:  As a condition of award, BMVPs are expected during their visits to give lectures/talks to relevant audiences beyond their immediate specialist collaborators. We are also keen to expose a range of postgraduate students to the Visitor’s expertise, for example by way of seminars or ‘master classes’ (which may be held in IAS). We also have video-conferencing facilities at IAS which enable the delivery of virtual seminars with external institutions. These events will be widely advertised in the University by the Host Department/School to allow a broader University audience to learn about the work being conducted by the Visitor.  Details of all BMVP seminars and lectures should be forwarded to [email protected]  for the  IAS events diary .
Criteria for award
These are not fixed in stone, but normally include some or all of the following:
* intrinsic academic interest/importance of the proposed enquiry
* standing of the proposed visitor
* quality of the submitted proposal, and its anticipated synergies
* interest of the visit to a range of researchers and postgraduates
* interaction proposed in addition to the specialist research undertaken
* likelihood of significant outcomes - external funding, joint publications, potential long-term benefits
* relevance to University of Bristol priority research themes
* contribution to the University’s international research profile
* balance of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity across the spread of Meaker awards
How to apply for funding
Medium-term Meaker Professor and Colston Research Fellow applications
Flowchart  (Word, 35 KB) to illustrate the medium-term Meaker nomination process.
Nominations must be submitted by the Head of Department/School using the  BMVP nomination form  (MS Word, 131 KB), to be received by the  IAS Research Development Officer,  Conny Lippert   at the IAS by 5pm Friday 27 February 2015 , for visits in 2014/15.  Please note: An electronic copy of nominations must be submitted to  [email protected]  in addition to one original hardcopy plus 6 photocopies.
Decisions are made by a panel that is chaired by the Director of IAS and composed of members of the  IAS Academic Advisory Board  and Faculty Research Directors. Outcomes of medium-term nominations will be announced mid-April 2014.
For visits of up to three weeks please apply to the  Fast-track Meaker Scheme .
Feedback
Award holders  must  complete a  BMVP report form  (Word, 99KB) at the end of their visit and forward this to their Head of Department/School for comment before submitting electronically to  [email protected] 

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 The Dedalus Foundation’s Senior Fellowship
New York, USA
Scholarship / Financial aid: fellowship stipends of maximum $30,000
Date: 2014 intake
Deadline: September 15, 2014
Open to: writers and scholars, citizens of United States
Website:  http://www.eastchance.com/anunt.asp?q=2138,us,sch&issue=20140831&utm_source=eastchanceMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20140831

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Momenta Art Open Call 2015/16
New York City, US
Scholarship / Financial aid: N/A
Date: September 2015 – June 2016
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Open to: individual artists, collaborative teams and collectives

Website: http://www.momentaart.org/momenta-art-proposal.html
Email: 

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The Fellowship for Utopian Practice
New York City, US
Scholarship / Financial aid: honoraria for the project of $500+fiscal sponsorship+access to resources
Date: 2014/15
Deadline: September 22, 2014
Open to: artists and other professionals working in any discipline 
Website: http://culturepush.org/?q=node/25316

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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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Berlin, Germany
XIIIth IADA Congress
Date: 12-16 October 2015
Venue: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2014
Submit here: [email protected]
The congresses of the International Association of Book and Paper 
Conservators (IADA) have provided a quadrennial forum for the presentation of 
research and development in the field of paper and book conservation since 
1967.
IADA's XIIIth Congress covers the full range of topics in the conservation, 
preservation and research of the World's Paper Heritage and related 
disciplines. It provides an ideal forum for international professional exchange.
Presentations focusing on latest developments in the profession such as 
conservation decision making, collection risk management, sharing positive and 
negative outcomes of conservation and scientific research projects, art 
technological studies and ethical considerations in conservation, are particularly 
welcome. Papers presenting a certain method or product should include an 
unbiased description and discuss both pro sand cons. 
Submissions are selected for presentation by an international Technical 
Committee on the basis of their applicability, relevance, novelty, and quality to 
the field. 
Deadline for the submission of abstracts is November, 15th 2014. Please 
download and use the abstract template at www.iada-home.org. Abstracts must 
be written in English. Selected papers of presentations are eligible for 
publication in the ‘Journal of Paper Conservation’ after peer review.

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 8th Global Conference: Visual Literacies

Wednesday 18th March – Friday 20th March 2015
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:
In a relatively short space of time, the concept of visual literacy has grown from seedbeds of ideas in a small subset of disciplines into a movement of thinking and practice that touches nearly all fields of research. The exponential growth in the digital world in only one example of how visual literacy has become an integrated component of modernity. This interactive inter-disciplinary conference seeks to examine, explore and make multi-disciplinary connections to all issues surrounding visual literacy in regard to current theory and praxis. Perspectives are sought from those engaged in fields such as popular culture, architecture, cinema, youth culture, education, semiotics, art history, visual arts, fine arts, literature, philosophy, psychology, critical theory and theology. These disciplines are indicative only as papers are welcomed from any area, profession and vocation in which visual literacy plays a part.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops are invited on issues related to, but not limited by, any of the following themes;

1. Visual Literacy as Theory
~What are the theoretical constructs of your discipline?
~What are the current debates and directions of your field?
~What are the various forms of socio-cultural reactions and realizations of visual literacy?
~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?
~How does the concept of ‘framing’ fit with visual literacy in your field?

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?

4. Visual Literacy as an Interdisciplinary Overlap
~How is visual literacy connected to visual rhetoric and/or visual thinking: overlaps, questions and differences?
~How is visual literacy related to sensory perception?
~How is curriculum design in, or across disciplines connected to and through Visual literacy?

The Steering Group welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

What to send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are at least double blind peer reviewed. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: VL8 Abstract Submission.

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

Organising Chairs:
Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar: [email protected]
Rob Fisher: [email protected]

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

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

For further details of the conference, please visit:
www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/visual-literacies/call-for-papers/

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

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 Call for Papers: Consuming/Culture: women and girls in print and pixels
rosoffn@ARCADIA


Abstracts are due on 1 October for the Consuming/Culture: women and girls in print and pixels conference to be held at Oxford Brookes University on 5 and 6 June 2015. The conference is sponsored by Oxford Brookes University, the University of East Anglia, and Arcadia University.

Further information can be found at http://openbrookes.net/consumingculture/

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 Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives
An interdisciplinary, international conference
at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
March 26-28, 2015
 
Call for Papers
 
Contemporary Russia has been described as a “country of broken links,” where much of the financial and intellectual wealth of the country is centered in Moscow and Moscow Region (with a population of nearly 20 million), while the rest of the country (another 123 million people) remain unheard and underestimated. At first glance, Russia’s regions often appear to mimic Moscow in all sorts of ways—politically, visually, architecturally, and intellectually… Until they don’t—for example, in the 2010 census thousands of Siberians protested the impact of the center by self-identifying as “Sibiriak.” Blogs, tweets, as well as conventional hard-copy writing, challenge overly centralized power and resources. Legal challenges to maltreatment from Moscow have arisen in the South Russian-North Caucasus region.  Ethnographers, literary scholars, cultural historians, political scientists, anthropologists—all are finding that many people in Russia’s regions are taking initiative and articulating their particular identities and interests.
 
Proposals for “Centrifugal Forces” will resist “Moscow-centric” perceptions of Russia and, through various disciplinary approaches to studying the Russian provinces, strive to hear voices from the regions instead of allowing views and opinions from Moscow to dominate.  They will consider ways in which people on the peripheries engage in cultural, economic, and political processes; how they represent themselves culturally, artistically, and socially; how self-perception is developing in various regions; and, importantly in the 21 st  century, how the Internet impacts the very notions of center and periphery.
“Centrifugal Forces” will be a three-day conference offering broad interdisciplinary perspectives on approaching regional study. Panels will blend historical and contemporary perspectives on being peripheral. Talks will deal with a broad array of regional experience, in relatively “hot” regions such as the North Caucasus, as well as other areas in European and Asiatic Russia; and addressing activity in rural areas, as well as regional cities.
The organizers invite 20-minute papers from scholars from all relevant disciplines. Please submit a 250-word abstract by December 1, 2014 to:  [email protected]
Themes might include but are not limited to contemporary or historical themes that characterize aspects of regional cultures that show local and regional initiative:
• Distinctive cultural groups, organizations and institutions (museums, theaters, film-making and music initiatives, literary groups)
• Political organizations that support regional rights and interests
• Religious organization and expression showing regional initiative
• Defining or distinctive regional/local rituals and events
• City or rural regional “branding”
• Uses of the Internet (e.g. to help regional people communicate, bond, and organize)
• Distinctive local/ regional imagined geographies
For more information please visit our website:  http://www.russiasperipheries.com .
Organizers: Edith Clowes (Brown-Forman Professor, Slavic, Univ. of Virginia; [email protected])
Gisela Erbslöh (Radio journalist, SWR, DLF, deutschlandradiokultur, Germany;  [email protected] )
Ani Kokobobo (Assistant Professor, Slavic, University of Kansas;  [email protected] )

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http://eseh.org/event/upcoming-conference/call-for-proposals/

The  European Society for Environmental History (ESEH)  is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individual papers, roundtables, posters and other, more experimental forms of communicating scholarship for its 2015 biennial conference. The  University of Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines  will be hosting the conference in  Versailles, France , from  30 June to 3 July 2015 .
Environmental history has the ambition of changing not only the way we interact with the natural world, but also the ways we are writing and practicing history. In this conference we aim to create conversations about the results of environmental history research and about the process and methods of that research. Through an emphasis on disciplines, methods, and questions, we hope to encourage dialogue with all types of history, other humanities and social sciences, and the natural sciences. Where are we coming from as disciplinary specialists, and how are we organizing the relationships between society and environment? How, as environmental historians, are we changing the way history is written and historical objects interpreted? What is the future of environmental history and the humanities at a time when we are confronted with environmental and climate challenges that could push to reframe the divide between natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences?
The Program Committee welcomes contributions that address the environmental history of any period or place, and the conference is open to scholars from all disciplines and backgrounds. In particular, we hope to see a large number of submissions from graduate students and early career scholars. Because of the conference’s focus on disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, we are also interested in receiving proposals that directly address methods and approaches, and that could launch fruitful conversations across disciplines. We will have regular paper sessions, roundtables, a poster session, and the opportunity to apply for “experimental” format sessions.
Finally, we encourage the submission of papers and sessions that can connect our discussions more directly to the landscape and history of our location, and to current concerns. Our setting in Versailles encourages discussions of the pre-modern past, and connections between landscape and political and royal power, and recent extreme events in Northern Europe suggest that discussions of hydrology, flooding, and resilience and fragility of natural and human systems could yield fruitful discussions. The connection of Versailles to multiple attempts to restructure Europe also invites discussions of modern political bodies and their impact on environmental practices and infrastructures. Finally, this conference will take place in France during the centennial of WWI, and the committee is especially interested inviting papers that address the environmental contexts of that conflict. We encourage both panels and individual paper proposals dealing with all aspects of the relationship between the war, landscape, power, and the environment.
Deadline for submissions:  Proposals are due no later than  October 1, 2014
Submitting a Proposal
Please submit your proposal through  the forms available on this website .
All questions about proposals should be sent to  conference [at] eseh.org
The conference language is English. Submissions and presentations in other languages cannot be accepted.
*Note—due to a limited number of sessions, individual scholars can only submit in one category (paper, roundtable, or poster) though individuals can appear as chair (not commenter) of a second session. This is to ensure diversity and breadth of participation.
Presentation formats
Paper Sessions
Sessions will be 90 minutes, and can thus consist of either three papers of not more than 20 minutes each, or four papers of not more than 15 minutes each. Note: in this context, formal comments count as papers, and all sessions should include sufficient time for general discussion. Session proposals should include the proposed session title, a list of contributors and a chair, and individual paper titles. Decisions about sessions will be based not only on the strengths of individual papers but also on the cohesiveness and energy of the entire session. Sessions will be accepted either in their entirety or not at all.
Roundtables
Scholars can also propose 90-minute roundtables, which differ in form and goal from regular paper sessions. Roundtables are panels ranging from 3-6 people and a chair who speak to a common question or theme. Successful roundtables involve interaction between the panelists, the active involvement of the chair in shaping the conversation, and ample time for the audience to interact with the panel and pose questions.
Individual Papers
We are also accepting proposals for individual papers (of 20 minutes each), which will be combined into sessions of three papers in case of acceptance. The scientific committee would like to encourage scholars who do not have a full session assembled or who are interested in engaging with new partnerships and connections to submit individual paper proposals, which will be given equal consideration as full sessions.
Posters
Posters will be on display during the conference and authors will have an opportunity to introduce their research in brief (approx. three minute) oral presentations in a special plenary session.
Experimental
We also welcome sessions that explore new ways of communicating research findings and alternative formats that involve a more interactive element, along with a higher level of audience involvement, than conventional sessions.
Program Committee
Ellen Arnold, USA (Chair)  conference [at] eseh.org
Federico Paolini, Italy
Bo Poulsen, Denmark
Kathleen Pribyl, UK
Martin Schmid, Austria

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4th Global Conference: Communication and Conflict

Wednesday 18th March – Friday 20th March 2015
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:
Our ability to communicate successfully affects so many aspects of our lives. Difficulties, indeed failures, or breakdowns in communication can play a major role in hostility, conflict and war. Communication problems can thwart the successful realisation of desirable outcomes lead to personal frustration and systemic entropy.

The framework of human communication raises broad contextual issues that concern relationship, learning and knowledge exchange, and the fundamental nature of humanity. How can we negotiate understanding where those involved have quite different modes of communication, language, specialisations and world views? How can conflict be avoided when disagreement is based upon history, culture, and perception? How might we begin to consider and even appreciate views that are strikingly divergent from our own, and how does communication effectively bridge such difficult conceptual chasms? How are good decisions made and tasks accomplished in an environment where communication is so difficult?

Conflict, the outcome of communication difficulties and entrenched positions, as it activates deeply held values and emotions also challenges individuals, groups and entire nations to embrace change. In this context how communication and conflict are perceived and negotiated will influence how opportunities to establish useful reciprocity are used. In the cut and thrust of everyday life being able to recognise, track, and respond to different levels of communication can be challenging. It may require an appreciation of knowledge and the realities of differences that are alien to our own. Communication in conflict may often force its participants into uncharted territory and the journey to find a common ground upon which to stand is necessarily complicated by competing human agendas.

This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and create dialogue about communication and conflict. We seek submissions from a range of disciplines including communication studies, journalism, public affairs, public relations, philosophy, psychology, literature, management, business studies, information technology, science, the visual and creative arts, music, politics and also actively encourage practitioners and non-academics with an interest in the topic to participate.
We welcome traditional papers, preformed panels of papers, workshop proposals and other forms of performance recognising that different disciplines express themselves in different mediums. Submissions are sought on any aspect of Communications including the following:

1. Non-violent, or Compassionate, Communication
- Honest expression of needs (e.g. language, texts, performance making, and art)
- Empathy (e.g. understanding and client/patient-centred approaches)
- Spiritual connections (e.g. intercession, forgiveness, and meaning-making)
- Active listening (e.g. interpersonal skills and conflict resolution)
- Compassion (e.g. connection with the self and others)
- Managing power and facilitating change (e.g. resistance and receptivity, defensiveness and openness, violence and passivity)

2. Communication, Disputes and Conflict
- Workplace
- Domestic
- International relations and a world context
- Cultural
- Spiritual
- War
- Terrorism
- Cyber-space

3. Communication Breakdowns and Breakthroughs
- Breakdowns (e.g. language and gender differences, misinterpretations, mental illness, failure to notice, to listen, effects of complexity, and disagreements)
- Breakthroughs (e.g. reactive responses through music, drama, literature, art, and humour)

4. Dehumanising Communication
- Reification (e.g. news and social media)
- Alienation (e.g. from self and as a means of oppression and social control)
- Portraying and/or representing (e.g. memories of strangers, enemies, and the other)
- Effects of technology (e.g. electronic communication and gaming)

5. Dialogue
- Friendship
- Philosophy
- Dialogical Relationships
- Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Teaching (formal and informal)
- Respect and recognition

6. Communication in Health and Illness
- Stories and symptoms
- Communicating meaning
- Role of communication in treatment
- Communicating identity and experience
- Communicating care

7. Communication and Decision Making
- Role of communication in making decisions (e.g. in avoidant, problem-solving or -seeking strategies)
- Conflicting opinions and views (e.g. communication and reconciliation)
- Approaches to decision making (e.g. rationalised conformity of groupthink)

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are at least double blind peer reviewed. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: CC4 Abstract Submission

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

Organising Chairs:
Peter Bray: [email protected]
Rob Fisher: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Probing the Boundaries programme of research projects. 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.

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

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/hostility-and-violence/communication-and-conflict/call-for-papers/

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

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XVI I  межвузовская научная конференция 
"БОГ. ЧЕЛОВЕК. МИР" 
18-19 декабря 2014 г. 
(к 25-летию Русской христианской гуманитарной академии)

XVII ежегодная конференция молодых ученых  «Бог. Человек. Мир»  проводится с целью обсуждения актуальных проблем в области исследования вопросов, связанных с изучением социокультурных, духовно-нравственных аспектов существования современного человека, а также формирования объемного видения феномена религии.
                В 2014 году исполнилось 25 лет с момента образования Русской христианской гуманитарной академии и конференция "Бог.Человек.Мир"  станет завершающим научным мероприятием, что проводились в РХГА  в течение 2014 года. Пленарное заседание и работа ряда секций конференции будут посвящены актуальным вопросам религиоведения, философии религии, психологии, богословия и философии образования.    
           Междисциплинарность конференции, актуализация проблем стоящих перед миром и обществом, создание единого пространства для совместного творческого поиска историков, философов, богословов, религиоведов, психологов, филологов, культурологов – все это делает конференцию «Бог. Человек. Мир» уникальным событием в научной жизни Санкт-Петербурга. Благодаря участию в совместных дискуссиях на конференции создаются условия для творческой активности, самостоятельности молодых исследователей в их научной деятельности, расширяется научное сотрудничество между вузами, устанавливаются межличностные и межвузовские контакты. В рамках работы конференции происходит диалог светской и религиозной мысли, осмысляются вопросы взаимосвязи науки и религии, религии и образования, межкультурной и межрелигиозной коммуникации, обсуждается роль и место религии в современном обществе.

К участию в конференции приглашаются студенты, аспиранты, соискатели, молодые ученые, преподаватели вузов, научные сотрудники.  

В рамках конференции пройдут пленарное и секционные заседания, семинары. 

Направления работы (примерные темы секций и семинаров): 

Религиоведение: теоретические и прикладные проблемы. 
Богословие и библеистика: история и cовременные исследования. 
Богословие и философия образования. 
Религия в современной культуре. 
Богословская, философская и психологическая антропология. Проблемы психологии и биоэтики. 
История отечественной и мировой философской мысли: актуальные вопросы. 
История и теория культуры. Историческая культурологии. 
Язык. Культура. Коммуникация. Проблемы языкознания и литературоведения. 

Рабочий язык конференции русский.

Время выступления на пленарном заседании: 25 минут (+5 минут вопросы) на секционных заседаниях и семинарах – 10 минут (+5 минут вопросы) 

Оргвзнос – 300 руб., оплачивается при регистрации. 
Участники конференции, оплатившие орвзнос, получают 1 экз. сборника материалов конференции бесплатно. 
Участники конференции, не выступающие с докладами и сообщениями, регистрируются без оплаты оргвзноса. 

Студенты (бакалавриат, специалитет, магистратура) всех форм обучения освобождены от оргвзноса. 

Заявки и аннотации докладов принимаются оргкомитетом  до 25 ноября 2014 г.  

В файле заявки должны быть указаны следующие сведения: 
1. ФИО: 
2. место работы/учебы: 
3. Ученая (кандидат, доктор) или академическая (бакалавр, магистр) степень: 
4. ученое звание: 
5. должность (для студентов – факультет и курс), место работы (учебы): 
6. контактный тел.: 
7. электронный адрес: 
8. тема доклада: 
9. для аспирантов и студентов – данные о научном руководителе: Ф.И.О., звание, должность, место работы. 

К заявке отдельным файлом прилагается аннотация (Word, TimesNewRoman 11, межстрочный интервал 1, отступ красной строки 5 знаков) на русском языке, объемом до 1500 знаков. Образец аннотации – в приложении.  К началу конференции будет издана аннотированная программа. 

Лучшие доклады будут представлены к публикации в научном журнале РХГА «Acta eruditorum». 

Заявки просим направлять по адресу: 
[email protected]

(812) 571 50 48 доб. 218 
Наб. р. Фонтанки, 15. Санкт-Петербург, 191023

Приложение. Образец № 1 оформления аннотации
Семенова Ангелина Михайловна, 
доктор исторических наук, профессор 
Пензенский государственный университет 
[email protected]

ПРОБЛЕМА ИМЕНИТЕЛЬНОГО ПАДЕЖА В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ М.Ю.ЛЕРМОНТОВА: АКСИОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ АСПЕКТ

Текст аннотации до 1500 знаков.
Приложение. Образец № 2 оформления аннотации

Иванов Иван Семенович, 
cтудент 
Русская христианская гуманитарная академия 
[email protected]

ПРОБЛЕМА ТВОРИТЕЛЬНОГО ПАДЕЖА В ТВОРЧЕСТВЕ Н.А. НЕКРАСОВА: ЦЕННОСТНЫЙ АСПЕКТ
Текст аннотации до 1500 знаков.
 
www.rhga.ru
Владимир Александрович Егоров 
+7 921 559 7460 
   
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The Fifth Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2015
26th to 29th March 2015 - Osaka, Japan

ACERP2015 Conference Theme: Power Power, used or abused, conceptually brings together several central philosophical questions of ethics and religion. What is power? What conditions make its exercise legitimate? How is illegitimate use to be defined?

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address:  http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/acerp2015/
Sponsored by: IAFOR - The International Academic Forum

ACERP2015 Conference Chairs

Professor Frank S. Ravitch
ACERP2015 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker
Professor of Law and Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law

Professor Ravitch has published a number of law review articles addressing U.S. and Japanese constitutional law, law and religion, and civil rights law in leading journals. He has written a number of amicus briefs addressing constitutional issues to the United States Supreme Court. In 2001, Professor Ravitch was named a Fulbright Scholar and served on the Faculty of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, he directs the Michigan State University College of Law Japan Summer program. Professor Ravitch regularly serves as an expert for print and broadcast media, and speaks on topics related to U.S. Constitutional Law, Japanese Law, and Israeli Law to a wide range of national, international and local organizations. He speaks English, Japanese, and Hebrew.

Professor Stuart D. B. Picken
ACERP2015 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker
Order of the Sacred Treasure, M.A. (Hons), B.D., Ph.D. (Glasgow), F.R.A.S.
IAFOR International Advisory Board Chair

Stuart D. B. Picken is the founding chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130 articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to scholarship in Japan, notably as a professor at the International Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining and Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines.

Conference Theme and Streams
Please submit your abstract through the online submission system found on the "Call for Papers" page of the conference website.

Conference Theme: "Power"
The conference theme is "Power" and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, including the following streams:

Philosophy:
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophy and the Arts
Philosophy and Public Policy
Philosophy and Technology
Philosophy and Culture
Philosophy and Education
Philosophy and Peace Studies
Comparative Philosophy
Linguistics, Language and Philosophy

Ethics:
Medical Ethics
Business and Management Ethics
Ethics in Education
Ethics, Law, and Justice
Ethics and Globalization
Ethics and Science
Comparative Ethics
Linguistics, Language and Ethics

Religion:
Theism and Atheism
Feminism and Religious Traditions
Religion and Education
Religion and Peace Studies
Mysticism, Faith, and Scientific Culture
Interfaith Dialogue
Comparative Religion
Linguistics, Language and Religion

Interdisciplinary:
Conflict Resolution and Mediation Studies

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 8th Global Conference: Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity

Saturday 14th March – Monday 16th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:
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 very important topic to be discussed in the 2015 conference is the use of interculturalism models in daily life. The previous conference, the one of March 2014, exhibits the need of 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 2015 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?

The 2015 conference encourages people, not necessarily academics, working in multicultural environments, to describe their experiences in the field. The first interests would be theories of cultural sensibility and its practical aspects. The focus of the 2015 Interculturalism conference will be on meeting between cultures and identities:

-Cultural sensibility? What is it in practice?
-How does understanding of cultural signifiers assist in studying intercultrualism?
-Recent criticism of literature has emphasized the problematics of identity and meaning associated with globalisation; 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 asas 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?

Presentations will also be considered which deal with related themes.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
E-mails should be titled: Interculturalism 8 Abstract Submission

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

Joint Organising Chairs:
Efrat Tzadik: [email protected]
Ram Vemuri and Rob Fisher: [email protected]

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

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

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/interculturalism/call-for-papers/

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

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7th Global Conference: Hope

Saturday 14th March âАУ Monday 16th March 2015
Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Presentations:
When Pandora's box emptied all of its ills that would plague the world, one small winged creature still remained: HOPE. This project inquires into the nature of this gift. Is hope, in fact, a good, encouraging us to do or be good? Or is it an evil; an illusion, perhaps an impossible fantasy? How does hope manifest itself in the world, in language, literature, and the arts? How should hope be encouraged? Is hope individual or collective in nature? Or both? What does hope contribute to individual or national identity?

This inter- and multi-disciplinary research, practice and publications project explores the multi-layered ideas, actions, and cultural traditions regarding hope. We invite therapists, community organizers, social workers, clergy, active change agents, scholars and teachers; in other words, anyone who has actively engaged with others to foster a sense of hopeful possibility in any walk of life.

We seek presentations about the nature of hope, its relationship with other emotions or movements, and its manifestation in the actions of individuals, cultures, communities and/or nations. We seek presentations, papers, performances, reports, works-in-progress and workshops which consider the history of hope, its cultural and artistic representations, its meaning(s), and/or its philosophical or scientific 'legitimacy'.

Some possible proposals could address one or more of the following topics (although we invite other approaches as well):

-Theories of Hope
-Pedagogies of Hope
-Hope in Literature/Literature as Hope
-Hope in Art/Art as Hope
-Hope in Music/Music as Hope
-Hope and Religious Teaching
-Hope and the Beginning of Life
-Hope and Despair
-Hope and Reconciliation
-Hope and Personal Growth
-Hope and Community Organizing
-Hope and Illness
-Hope and Loss
-Hope and the Beginning of Life
-Hope and the End of Life
-Hope and Oppression
-Consciousness and Hope
-Between Hopelessness and Hope
-Hope vs. Illusion
-Hope and Media
-Psychologies and Hope
-Philosophies of Hope
-Hope and Forgiveness
-Remarriage Following Divorce: 'The Triumph of Hope over Experience'
-Love and Hope
-Good Works as Hope

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

What to Send
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: HOPE7 Abstract Submission.

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

Organising Chairs:
John L. Hochheimer: [email protected]
Rob Fisher: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Persons programme of research projects. 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.

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

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/hope/call-for-papers/

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

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1st Global Conference: Happiness

Saturday 14th March âАУ Monday 16th March 2015
Lisbon, Portugal 

Call for Presentations:
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to explore one of the most basic and universal human desires: happiness. Aristotle spoke of happiness as the only phenomenon which is an end in itself. The nation of Bhutan has established a system that attempts to quantify happiness: the Gross National Happiness Index. Each culture and age interprets the nature of happiness differently, and every art form of every era finds different ways to express and capture it.

The conference will inquire into the place of happiness in our lives, its possible meanings, ways in which it is interpreted, promoted, articulated and shared.

This project seeks submissions that look at how our understanding of happiness reveals something about the nature of persons, the relationship between persons and their bodies, the relationship between persons and their communities, and/or the place of "spirit" in the lives of individuals.
Furthermore, we will explore how the concept of happiness is used in the fields of medicine, mental health and social welfare.

Submissions in the form of papers, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes:

I. What is happiness?
-Defining "happiness." Is it an emotion? A neurological/biochemical response?
-Is happiness unique or exclusive to human beings?
-Non-human happiness
-Categories of happiness: Joy; euphoria; ecstasy; contentment; satisfaction

II. The origins of happiness
-Happiness as universal; as international; as national; as local; as particular
-Happiness and/as/in history
-The contexts and conditions of happiness
-Producing happiness

III. The meaning of happiness
-Happiness and meaning
-Happiness and language
-What is at stake when dealing with happiness?
-The "limits" of happiness
-The dangers of happiness

IV. Explaining happiness
-Happiness and explanation: can happiness really be explained?
-Theories of happiness: philosophical, anthropological, sociological, psychological, economic, physiological

V. Happiness and Practice
-Engendering happiness
-Practices causing and prolonging happiness
-Happiness, hope and optimism
-Meaning, happiness and action
-Happiness and self-efficacy
-Case studies

VI. Happiness and Religion/Spirituality
-Happiness from the perspective of religious traditions
-Happiness and sacred texts
-Portraits of happiness
-Happiness and "redemption"
-Happiness and atheism

VII. Happiness and Well-Being
-Happiness and physical wellness
-Happiness and mental health
-Happiness and healing
-Case studies

VIII. Representing happiness
-Happiness and representation
-Happiness in literature
-Happiness in the media
-Happiness in tv, film, theatre and radio
-Happiness and cyberculture

The topic of happiness provides a fertile ground for the intersection of theory and praxis from a variety of disciplines. As we explore the manifold aspects of this concept, we encourage participants to think outside the limits of their own discipline, to explore the implications for practice in the theories which they represent. Our intention is to unlock the ivory tower for the benefit of all, not merely the academy.

The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals.

In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between two and possibly all three groups âАУ and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Hope and/or Interculturalism and/or Happiness.

What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 31st October 2014. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 23rd January 2015. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract f) up to 10 key words
E-mails should be entitled: HAPPI1 Abstract Submission.

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

Organising Chairs:
Nancy Billias: [email protected]
Rob Fisher: [email protected]

The conference is part of the Tranquility and Well-Being programme of research projects. 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.

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

For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/tranquillity-studies/tranquillity-well-being/conferences-events/happiness/call-for-presentations/

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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http://www.ruthenia.ru/document/551857.html

13–14 февраля 2015 года кафедра теории литературы Тверского государственного университета проводит конференцию  «Литература и власть: польско-российские соответствия» .
Цель конференции — поиск сходств и различий во взаимоотношениях литературы и власти в Польше и в России с начала XIX века по настоящее время. Материалом для исследования может стать:
* мифология власти в Польше и в России;
* лики власти: от вахтёра до президента;
* коммуникация с властью и структура текста;
* образ власти в литературе: поэтика и риторика;
* творческая судьба и эстетическое поведение писателя;
* литература и цензура;
* феномен «внутреннего редактора»;
* художник и власть в жанровой проекции;
* как стать фаворитом власти?
* власть литературы: миф или реальность?
Срок подачи заявки (тема доклада, аннотация в объеме 2–3 предложений, сведения об участнике) — до  1 декабря 2014 года .
Электронные адреса:  [email protected]  ( Александр Геннадьевич Степанов ), [email protected]  ( Светлана Юрьевна Артемова ).

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GRANTS & AWARDS / ГРАНТЫ&ПРЕМИИ
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http://www.collegeart.org/travelgrants/edwards
Travel Grants

CAA TRAVEL GRANT IN MEMORY OF ARCHIBALD CASON EDWARDS, SENIOR, AND SARAH STANLEY GORDON EDWARDS

About the Grant
CAA is pleased to announce a new travel grant for emerging women scholars presenting as speakers at the Annual Conference. Established by Mary D. Edwards with the help of others, the CAA Travel Grant in Memory of Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards will support the costs of roundtrip travel (plane, train, and ground transportation) and accommodation for the CAA Annual Conference and for conference registration fees to women who are emerging scholars at either an advanced stage of pursuing a doctoral degree (ABD) or who have received their PhD within the two years prior to the submission of the application. The applicants must be presenting research papers at an art-history session at the conference, with a strong preference for papers on any topic pertaining to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe from 400 to 1400, or Europe and North America from 1400 to 1950.

Conference session chairs will identify and nominate appropriate candidates and facilitate the submission of the applications to CAA.

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VACANCIES /ВАКАНСИИ
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The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track) in modern Russian literature with an expected start date of July 1, 2015.
The Department seeks candidates whose primary specialization is in twentieth century Russian literature and culture (the long twentieth century: 1890s to the present). Interest in late-Soviet and post-Soviet literature and culture is welcomed. Interdisciplinary interests and ability to teach courses in other historical periods are preferred.
Basic qualification: the completion of all Ph.D. (or equivalent degree) requirements except the dissertation by the time of application.
A completed Ph.D. or equivalent is required by the appointment’s start date.
Additional qualifications: demonstrated research, teaching, and administrative ability; near native competence in Russian and English.
Duties include teaching, research, and service.
All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality ( http://apo.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html ) prior to submitting their letters.
Applications must be received by November 3, 2014. Please direct questions to  [email protected] .
Interviews will be conducted at the annual conference of the AATSEEL, January 8-11, 2015, in Vancouver, Canada. Applicants invited for interviews will be notified in advance.
 
The University of California is interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research, and service. The University is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status. For the complete University of California nondiscrimination and affirmative action policy see:  http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct .
LEARN MORE
More information about this recruitment:  http://slavic.berkeley.edu
REQUIREMENTS
DOCUMENTS
·          Cover Letter, including research statement and summary of teaching experience
·          Curriculum Vitae
·          A Brief Sample of Research (article-size; published or unpublished)
REFERENCES
3 letters of reference required
The Link for the application is  https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00521
 
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 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, 
Russian Literature, University of 
California-Berkeley

The Department of Slavic Languages and 
Literatures at the University of California, 
Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time 
faculty position at the Assistant Professor 
level (tenure track) in modern Russian 
literature with an expected start date of 
July 1, 2015.

The Department seeks candidates whose 
primary specialization is in twentieth century 
Russian literature and culture (the long 
twentieth century: 1890s to the present). 
Interest in late-Soviet and post-Soviet 
literature and culture is welcomed. 
Interdisciplinary interests and ability to 
teach courses in other historical periods are 
preferred.
Basic qualification: the completion of all Ph.D. 
(or equivalent degree) requirements except 
the dissertation by the time of application.
A completed Ph.D. or equivalent is required by 
the appointment’s start date.
Additional qualifications: demonstrated 
research, teaching, and administrative ability; 
near native competence in Russian and English.
Duties include teaching, research, and service.
All letters will be treated as confidential per 
University of California policy and California 
state law. Please refer potential referees, 
including when letters are provided via a third 
party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to 
the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality 
(http://apo.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html) prior 
to submitting their letters.
Applications must be received by November 3, 
2014. Please direct questions to 
[email protected].
Interviews will be conducted at the annual 
conference of the AATSEEL, January 8-11, 2015, 
in Vancouver, Canada. Applicants invited for 
interviews will be notified in advance.

The University of California is interested in 
candidates who will contribute to diversity 
and equal opportunity in higher education 
through their teaching, research, and service. 
The University is committed to addressing the 
family needs of faculty. The University of 
California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative 
Action Employer. All qualified applicants will 
recorigin, disability, age or protected veteran 
status. For the complete University of 
California nondiscrimination and affirmative 
action policy see: 
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/NondiscrimAffirmAct.
LEARN MORE
More information about this recruitment: 
http://slavic.berkeley.edu
REQUIREMENTS
DOCUMENTS
Cover Letter, including research statement 
and summary of teaching experience
Curriculum Vitae
A Brief Sample of Research (article-size; 
published or unpublished)
REFERENCES
3 letters of reference required

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 Lecturer, Russian, University of Glasgow

To undertake high-quality research and 
research supervision, to make an active and 
high level contribution in the School of Modern 
Languages and Cultures in the College of Arts 
to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate 
level in Russian, and to undertake 
administration as requested by the Head of 
School.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJN257/lecturer-in-russian/

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 Senior Lecturer/Reader, Russian Politics, 
University of Bath

The University of Bath is making a major 
strategic investment in the Department of 
Politics, Languages and International Studies 
(PoLIS). PoLIS wishes to enhance its position 
as a leading research department by making 
the by making this appointment in Russian 
Politics, along with 3 other academic 
appointments in French and British Politics.
We welcome applications from scholars 
working in any area of Russian Politics. You 
should have a track record of high quality 
publications and be able to provide evidence 
of the ability to generate research income.
If appointed, you will be encouraged to build 
links with the University of Bath Institute for 
Policy Research (http://www.bath.ac.uk/ipr/)
If you wish to make an informal and 
confidential enquiry about this post, please 
contact the Head of Department, Prof. Charles Lees. 
Email: [email protected].

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJN340/senior-lecturer-reader-associate-professor-in-russian-politics/

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 Full Professor, Religious Studies, 
Stanford University

The Department of Religious Studies at 
Stanford University invites nominations and 
applications in the area of early Christianity 
and/or Christianity in late antiquity for the 
Teresa Hihn Moore Professorship. 
 
We seek a senior scholar of distinction in the 
field, with an outstanding record of research 
and scholarship and a demonstrated 
commitment to excellence in teaching and 
advising students at both graduate and 
undergraduate levels.
 
The appointment will be at the full professor 
level, but scholars at the advanced associate 
level are also encouraged to apply.
 
For full consideration, applications must be 
received by October 31, 2014. The term of 
appointment would begin September 1, 2015
or as soon as practicable thereafter
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49413

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