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Информационный бюллетень № 316
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Информация для гуманитариев: гранты, стажировки,
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FELLOWSHIPS / СТАЖИРОВКИ И СТИПЕНДИИ
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  David Library of the American Revolution residential fellowships
Location: Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-03-07
Description: To promote advanced scholarship, the David Library of
the American Revolution offers short-term Resident Research
Fellowships for conducting research in its collections. DLARs
rich resources in microfilm and print on virtually every aspect
of the era of the American Revolution (1750-1800) are fully
...
Contact:  [email protected]
URL:  www.dlar.org/fellowships.htm
Announcement ID: 219683
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219683
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Call for Applicants to Indigenous Writers Fellowship at the School for Advanced Research
The School for Advanced Research (SAR), with the generous support of the Lannan Foundation, is seeking applicants for the Indigenous Writer-in-Residence fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to advance the work of an indigenous writer pursuing their creative project while enabling them to interact with local scholarly, artist, and Native communities. The fellowship runs from mid-June to early August and is open to writers indigenous to the United States or Canada.  The fellow is provided with a $6,000 stipend, on-campus housing, studio space, supplies allowance, library support, and travel reimbursement to and from SAR.
The deadline to apply is Monday, February 16.  For more information, please visit  sarweb.org  and click on the Programs link or call Maria Spray at 505-954-7237. 

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CONFERENCES / КОНФЕРЕНЦИИ
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22 мая 2015 г. в РГГУ состоится международная конференция «"Стены и мосты - IV": междисциплинарные и полидисциплинарные исследования в истории»

К участию в IV научной конференции приглашаются историки, социологи, политологи, психологи, лингвисты, обращающиеся в своих исследованиях к исторической проблематике. 
В 2015 г. к обсуждению в рамках конференции предлагаются следующие сюжеты:
1. Развитие идеи междисциплинарных и полидисциплинарных исследований в истории отечественной и зарубежной гуманитаристики: исследовательский опыт отдельных ученых, научных центров и лабораторий.
2. Современные подходы и методы в междисциплинарных и полидисциплинарных исследованиях.
3. Практика междисциплинарных и полидисциплинарных исследований.

Заявки на участие в конференции и тексты для публикации принимаются строго до 12 апреля 2015 г. по электронной почте [email protected]: (с пометкой в поле «тема» «ФИО_Конференция»). 

В заявке участника необходимо указать следующие данные: ФИО, место работы, ученая степень и звание, e-mail. 
Оформление текста статьи:

Текст в формате doc MS Word 00-10, объемом до 0,5 печатного листа (до 20 тыс. печатных знаков) шрифт – Times New Roman, кегль 14 (для сносок – 12), интервал одинарный, все поля по 2,5 см. Отступ первой строки - 1,25, устанавливается автоматически. Текст должен быть литературно отредактирован и вычитан. Сноски – концевые автоматические.
К статье прилагается аннотация (будет опубликована со статьей). Схема аннотации: 1) автор, название статьи; 2) цель статьи; 3) характеристика проблемного поля; перечень основных проблем затронутых в статье; 4) ключевые слова (не более 10 слов). Объем не более 700-800 знаков с пробелами.
При оформлении текстов просьба: не набирать заголовок в режиме Caps Lock, не пользоваться стилями MS Word, не устанавливать отступов табуляцией или пробелом, не пользоваться специальными шрифтами. Сноски концевые, в автоматическом режиме. 

Вопросы по поводу участия можно адресовать секретарям оргкомитета Кириловой Ксении Владимировне, Мельниченко Борису Михайловичу по указанной эл. почте. 

Все участники получат от оргкомитета по электронной почте в срок до 1 мая 2015 г. индивидуальное письмо-приглашение, предварительный вариант программы. 

Организационный комитет оставляет за собой право отбора заявок. Работы не рецензируются. 

Члены организационного комитета:
Д.и.н., проф., член-корр. РАН Пивовар Ефим Иосифович
Д.и.н., проф. Ершова Галина Гавриловна
Д.и.н., проф. Кром Михаил Маркович
Д.и.н., проф. Логунов Александр Петрович
Д.и.н., проф. Миронов Борис Николаевич
Д.и.н., проф. Савельева Ирина Максимовна
Д.и.н., проф. Шкуратов Владимир Александрович 

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 http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219491
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CROSSOVERS: GENDER, GENRE, GEOGRAPHY
Call for Papers Date: 2015-03-31
Date Submitted: 2015-01-15
Announcement ID: 219491
Our proposed collection aims to explore the meanings of crossover in the eighteenth century. The concept of crossover grew out of the uneasy reconcilement between the era’s belief in the absoluteness of taxonomical categories and its paradoxical insistence on the potential malleability and manipulability of the same. Sweeping changes in the cultural scene challenged the seeming discreteness between conceptual kinds, and unleashed the possibility of transcending boundaries of all sorts. For instance, the spurt of popular interest in humanoid automata (Jaquet-Droz’s The Writer and Kemplen’s The Turk), animalistic humans (the natural man, the freak, or wild children) and anthropomorphic animals (talking parrots, the Ourang-Outang, or horses with human-like intellect such as the Houyhnhnms in Swift’s  Gulliver’s Travels ) was part of larger intellectual debates about the hybridity, blending, and dissolving of physical categories. Interestingly, rather than confining the term to corporeal transformations alone, the eighteenth-century opened out the interpretive possibilities of the idea by applying it to other cultural discourses as well. Transgression of gender norms, blurring of generic types, and traversing of geographical boundaries were quite prolific, and have begun to attract scholarly attention across disciplines in recent years. An examination of the representations of such ‘crossing over’ during 1700 – 1800 thus can offer a new perspective for interrogating and upholding the limits of essentialist classificatory schemas. We seek papers from academics interested in discussing eighteenth-century texts or cultural moments that cross gender, generic and geographical borders. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
*  Gender : women crossing the private-public divide (professional writers, teachers, stage actresses, musicians, shop-girls, prostitutes); new masculine identities such as fops and the ‘man of feeling’; homosexuals in Molly houses (Mother Clap’s) and cross-dressers (Mary Hamilton, Fielding’s  The Female Husband ); bluestockings,  femme fatales,  and Amazons
*  Genre : mixing of realism, horror and romance in Gothic literature; ballad operas (Gay’s  The Beggar’s Opera) ;interplay between verbal and visual in fiction (Sterne’s  Tristram Shandy)  and antislavery writings; epistolary novels; science fiction; mock-epics; urban eclogues and georgics; texts combining poetry, prose and engravings (Blake’s  Marriage of Heaven and Hell ); essays metamorphosing into periodicals ( Tatler / Spectator )
*  Geography : transnational mobilities (emigrants, explorers, missionaries, merchants, slaves, mercenary soldiers); the Grand Tour; notions of noble savage and ‘going native’; intra-national journeys by post chaise, stagecoaches, wagons, mail coaches; peregrinating picaros (Defoe’s  Moll Flanders , Smollett’s  Roderick Random ); nomadic gypsies; literary forms moving across national borders (French melodrama, Italian opera); theatre companies travelling on regular circuits between markets and towns
Please send an abstract of about five hundred words, along with a brief bio-note to Sonia Sahoo ([email protected]) and Ramit Samaddar ([email protected]) before 31 March 2015. 
Sonia Sahoo and Ramit Samaddar 
Centre for Advanced Study in English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Email:  [email protected]; [email protected])

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http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/birtha/events/imagining-europe/call-for-papers/ 
Imagining Europe: Cultural Models of European Identity, 1814-2014
Wednesday 15th July 2015, University of Bristol, UK
Birtha Research Programme Scheme 2014
Since the economic crisis of 2008, there have been calls to revisit the European project. The history of this project reveals, however, that there have always been tensions between competing visions and conceptions of European identity. Indeed, many of the current calls for revision draw upon these tensions. The original model of the Franco-German axis may seem inappropriate in the light of enlargement, for example, but it has always been contested by alternative international and transnational models founded on politico-cultural factors rather than the economic pragmatism of the former.
            ‘Imagining Europe’, a one-day international conference, will explore these older and more deeply entrenched forms of European identity, mapping a history of their development from the Napoleonic Wars, and the first international attempt to create a stable Europe at the Congress of Vienna, to the present. It will privilege cultural imaginings of European identity drawn from a broad range of sources, examining the extent to which these cultural imaginings contribute to the articulation and circulation of a range of transnational and international concepts as well as the expansionist agendas of individual nations across existing borders. (These include Latinity, pan-Germanism, pan-Slavism, and the internationalism of the radical left among others.) The conference will consider the extent to which these alternative politico-cultural imaginings of Europe are underpinned by factors such as race, religion, regional and national identities, as well as the ways in which they cross and redraw borders through culturally generated and imaginary maps. It will also explore the tensions that exist between national and regional stakeholders within such concepts and necessarily include the study of states currently outside the European Union.
In so doing, it seeks to reach a fuller understanding of the cultural limits of a range of putative European identities, but also of transnationalism and internationalism as concepts. How far are these cultural constructs and the products of cultural elites, alien abstractions in the eyes of the European masses? Or, conversely, how far are they a reflection of a certain cultural reality for sections of the European population at particular moments in European history? To what extent do they remain the unrealised imaginings of cultural producers? Or do they offer viable, alternative models and paths for genuine international and transnational exchanges in a Europe where borders have often been porous?
Proposals for twenty-minute papers may relate to one or more of the following areas:
*  literary representations (from poetry to travel writing and science fiction);
*  journalism (from the explicitly political to reportage and sports coverage);
*  film and the visual arts (considering film production as a locus for international co-operation, for example);
*  music (an art form that transcends national languages, but which has so often been called upon to support national identities);
*  extra-governmental international movements and bodies from Save the Children to the PEN Club.
Proposals on other areas are also welcome.
Proposals of no more than 300 words should be e-mailed to the conference organiser Dr Martin Hurcombe at  [email protected]  no later than Friday 13 th  March 2015.
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 http://www.washjeff.edu/international-conference-arts-and-humanities

Bridges Across Culture s
Hosted at The International Studies Institute in Florence
Located in the historic Palazzo Rucellai
Florence, Italy 
July 2, 2015 - July 5, 2015
Conference Details
This is the first  Bridges Across Culture:   An International Conference on Arts and Humanities  to be held in Florence. The “Bridges” conference provides an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities-related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. This conference will serve as a place for scholars and experts with cross-disciplinary interests related to arts and humanities to meet and interact with members within and outside of their own particular disciplines.
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract for papers in English. All areas of arts and humanities are invited, but of particular interest are papers in the following fields: American Studies, Art History, Ethnic Studies, Film, History, World Literature, Popular Culture, Postcolonial Identities, Religion, Theatre, Visual Arts and Cross-disciplinary areas of arts and humanities.
Please provide the following by email:
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A 200-word abstract
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A cover letter listing name (last, first), academic affiliation, title of the paper, telephone number, address & email
Please send submissions to H.J. Manzari at  [email protected]  (mention area of your paper in the subject line). Reading time for papers is limited to 20 minutes. All papers MUST be in English. The deadline for submissions is Feb. 15, 2015.

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TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS IN SOCIETY

London, UK
Imperial College London
22-24 July 2015

Dear Delegate,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee and the International Advisory Board, we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Tenth International Conference on the Arts in Society and the Call for Submissions to The Arts Journal Collection.

The 2015 Arts in Society Conference will be held in London, UK from 22-24 July at Imperial College London. Proposals for paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, focused discussions, or colloquia are invited to the conference, addressing the arts through one of the following themes:

THEMES
- Theme 1: Arts Education
- Theme 2: Arts Theory and History 
- Theme 3: New Media, Technology, and the Arts
- Theme 4: Social, Political, and Community Agendas in the Arts
- Special Focus: The Work of Art in the Age of Networked Society

PLENARY SPEAKERS
- James Bridle-Artist, Writer, and Publisher, London, UK
- Ruth Catlow-Co-founder and Artistic Director, Furtherfield; Head, Writtle School of Design, London, UK

Presenters also have the option to submit completed papers to one of the fully peer-reviewed journals in The Arts Collection. If you are unable to attend the conference, you may still join the community and submit your article for peer review and possible publication, upload an online presentation, and enjoy subscriber access to the journal.

Proposals are reviewed on rolling deadlines. The final submission deadline for in-person presentations is 19 MAY 2015 (title and short abstract). Proposals submitted after this day will be accommodated in non-themed sessions at the conference or are eligible for community membership registrations (no attendance at conference required with community membership presentations).

For more information and to submit a proposal visit:  www.ArtsinSociety.com/London-2015

Enquiries: [email protected]
Web address:  http://ArtsinSociety.com/London-2015
Sponsored by: The Arts in Society knowledge community / Common Ground Publishing  
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  Modes of Silence in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
Anglo-American World
Date: 2015-04-24
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SOCIÉTÉ
DÉTUDES ANGLO-AMÉRICAINES DES XVIIe ET XVIIIe SIÈCLES (SÉAA
XVII-XVIII) 15-16 JANUARY 2016 Université Paris Diderot Paris
7 (Exact location to be specified) Modes of Silence in the
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World
Defining silence ...
Contact:  [email protected]
Announcement ID: 219760
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219760

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 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) invites you to participate in the Second European Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy (ECERP2015) and enjoy the beautiful seaside city of Brighton, UK. 

Held alongside the Second European Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (ECP2015), at the Thistle Hotel from July 6 - 8, 2015, join us as we discuss this year's conference theme, "Power" along with ECERP Keynote speaker Dr. George D. Chryssides, ECP featured speaker Dr. Mervat Abdel Nasser, conference chairs Professor Dexter Da Silva, Professor Stuart D.B. Picken, and more.

ECERP2014 welcomed delegates from more than 35 different countries last year and we look forward to continuing this international event in 2015. To submit an abstract for presentation or participate as an audience member, please visit the website or contact us for more information.

Submit an abstract:  http://iafor.org/cfp
Visit the conference website:  http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/ecerp2015/
Enquiries:  [email protected]

Join IAFOR at ECERP2015 to:

- Deliver your own research findings to a global audience
- Have your work published in the conference proceedings and considered for peer-reviewed, open access IAFOR Journals
- Benefit from IAFOR's interdisciplinary focus by hearing the latest research in both Psychology and Ethics, Religion and Philosophy
- Participate in a truly international, interdisciplinary and intercultural event
- Participate in interactive audience sessions
- Access international networking opportunities

- Discounts on registration fees are available for those able to pay registration fees early. Please see the registration page for details:  http://iafor.org/iafor/ecerp2015-registration
- If you have attended an IAFOR conference within the past year, or belong to an affiliated university or institution, we offer a 10 percent discount in appreciation of your support.
- See the full schedule of our conferences in Japan, Dubai, and the UK at  http://iafor.org/events

The 2015 conference theme is "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? Is power itself, as some have claimed, neutral? Can its exercise ever be neutral? Can there be an unconscious use or abuse of power? If so, how does it function?

This selection of problems and themes call for perpetual reflection, and we are confident that this theme will excite a number of new research avenues, and we look forward to this being an intellectually stimulating, enlightening and "powerful" event.

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

IAFOR looks forward to welcoming you to Brighton, UK.

ECP/ECERP 2015 will be part of a series of events taking place in Brighton, UK from July 1-16. These events are international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary and will cover topics such as psychology, education, business, sustainability, literature, media and more. 

Please visit the UK events page of the IAFOR website for details:  http://iafor.org/iafor/conferences/european-conferences/

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  World Congress on Education
Date: 2015-11-10
Description: World Congress on Education (WCE-2015): Call for
Submissions!Kindly email this call for papers to your
colleagues, faculty members and postgraduate students.Call for
Papers, Extended Abstracts, Posters, Tutorials and
Workshops!

Contact:   [email protected]
URL:   www.worldconedu.org/
Announcement ID: 219651
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219651

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 Центр источниковедения НИУ ВШЭ приглашает принять участие в 
семинаре
«ГРАМОТНОСТЬ И ОБРАЗОВАННОСТЬ КАК ЯВЛЕНИЯ И ПОНЯТИЯ В РОССИИ 18 ВЕКА». 
В рамках семинара планируется обсудить следующие вопросы: 
понятия грамотности и образованности в 18 веке применительно к 
ключевым социальным слоям; градации грамотности и 
образованности; источники для изучения грамотности и 
образованности в 18 веке; уровень грамотности и образованности в 
ключевых социальных группах, его изменение во времени; 
компаративная перспектива. 
Запланированы доклады о грамотности и образованности среди 
дворянства (А. Захаров, НИУ ВШЭ; А .Феофанов, ПСТГУ; И. 
Федюкин, НИУ ВШЭ, Е. Корчмина, НИУ ВШЭ), духовенства (Е. 
Кислова, МГУ; А. Кравецкий, ИРЯ РАН), крестьянства (А. 
Голубинский, РГАДА), старшины Левобережной Украины (Л. 
Посохова, ХНУ им. В.Н. Каразина), учеников Академической 
Гимназии (А. Костин, ИРЛИ РАН). Программный комитет – Е. 
Кислова, А. Костин, И. Федюкин. 
Желающим принять участие в семинаре предлагается направить 
заявки, которые будут рассмотрены программным комитетом. 
Организаторы особенно заинтересованы в докладах, освещающих 
грамотность и образованность среди посадского населения, 
старообрядцев. Заявки, объемом не менее 500 слов, просьба направлять 
до 1 марта. 
Формат семинара предполагает представление участниками текстов 
докладов, освещающих основные темы семинара на конкретно-
историческом материале, не позднее 10 апреля.
Семинар будет проходить в открытом режиме. По итогам семинара планируется 
подготовка публикации. 
Время и место проведения – 25 апреля 2015 г., Петровка 12, Москва. 
Направлять заявки на участие в семинаре с докладом, а также 
сообщать о своем желании посетить семинар в качестве слушателя просим Наталье Немцевой по адресу  [email protected]

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 Life and Work 
The Work and Life Project 

Saturday 11th July - Monday 13th July 2015 
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 

Call for Presentations: 
The project considers whether work is something integral to what we are as persons or whether this is something we have become over the centuries. Is work inherent in what makes us human (like the ants and the bees) or is it something which has been evolved into us by the way society has been shaped. With technological advancements, would a utopian society include work? 

Work has become such an integral part of human existence that individuals often assume identity through the work they do. Is everything individuals do in life, work? 

The project begins with the present conditions and an understanding of the current situation faced globally by many individuals in relation to life and work. There have been significant challenges globally due to changes in the nature and availability of work in the 21st century. A measured international response from governments, private sector and non-government organisations has been to embrace financial prudence and focus on efficiency of the labour force of their operations, resulting in downsizing and loss of work status. 

The workplace globally has also been influenced by countless changes that threaten the underlying features of living. The over-valuing of work and the consequences of this for people's personal lives (stress, work/life balance, quality of life) as well as the way it started to change both the way society itself works (blurring of the boundaries between workplace and everything around it), the economy, politics etc. 

For those who are out of work, the moral, psychological and social stigma attached to being unemployed is taking a toll. If life itself was defined through work any loss of employment in the work-life span has devastating effects irrespective of age(young, middle aged and old) gender (male and female) and skill levels (skilled or unskilled). 

This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together people from all walks of life - practitioners, labour unions, teachers, career counsellors, managers, administrators, politicians, and academics from a wide range of disciplines to focus on a fundamental aspect of life span and work relationships. 

This conference seeks to gain an in depth understanding of whether there is anything to life other than work? When, how and in what way did the boundaries between work and life become blurred? As increasing number of people are choosing to work from home what impact is this having on life and living conditions? 

The conference aims to specifically focus on the nature of work itself and the unambiguous nature of its impacts on the individuals, families and communities in both developing and developed economies. It also seeks perspectives and understanding that breaks from the logic of how young are preparing for work, how work is often done and how people are preparing for life time work and how jobs are being created over life time span. In particular what are the possibilities of work that contributes to human well-being, and the idea of striking a work-life balance? It also seeks to investigate the relationship of work to leisure and friendship. 

Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes: 

1. Differentiating between Work and Living: 
-Defining and understanding work in past and the present and the vision of what work will be in the future 
-Impact of age, class, gender, ethnicity and nationality on perceptions and experiences of work, work environments and the work-life balance 
-Critiques of the value of work 
-Shifting attitudes toward particular types of work and their impact on worker psychology, employment patterns and economies 
-First-hand accounts of experiencing work as a labourer, professional, artist, etc. 
-Shifting contexts and the spread of work through technological advancements and technical revolutions 
-Implications for career counsellors and educators 

2. Healthy Work: 
-Effects of micromanagement on workers, working hours, and stress 
-Creating a psychologically healthy workplace 
-Coping with unemployment 

3. Excellence at Work 
-The idea of craftsmanship 
-Spirituality and excellent work 
-Learning challenges and opportunities for contemporary work 
-Excellence and meaningful work 
-Apathy, negligence, the 'work to live' mindset and other forms of resistance against strong work ethics 
-Application of ethical values in challenging work environments, such as nursing, social work, psychological, psychiatric treatment, defence and police work. 
-Rotary ideals of work 

4. Influence of Media on Life and Work: 
-Representations of work, work environments and worker behaviour in TV, film, theatre, music, the visual arts and literature 
-How have the media influenced the way work is understood and valued in societies? 
-Devaluing of media and the arts as a form of work 

5. Social Connections at Work and the Role of Social Media: 
-Understanding forms of friendship at work 
-Fostering a friendly work environment 
-Personal recognition and social capital 
-Reaching out to the world through being alienated from work 

6. Work and Leisure: 
-How can both work and leisure complement and enhance each other? 
-What is the contribution of voluntary work? 
-Working in retirement 

7. Work and Social Justice: 
-Impact of state, national and international regulation of work and work environments (e.g. working time directives, anti-discrimination provisions, disability and compensation allowance, harassment provisions) 
-Activism related to work and work environments (unions, sanctions, consumer boycotts over unfair conditions, etc.) 
-Challenges and strategies associated with ensuring employer compliance 
-Global responses to sweatshops, child labour and other social justice issues 
-Strategies for tackling problems related to workers and workplaces 

8. Work and Culture: 
-Differences in the meaning of work and workplace 
-Cultural constructs of work and workplace 
-Work attitudes 
-Cross cultural aspects of exploitation of work, child workers 
-Worker remuneration 

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

What to Send: 
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word 
proposals should be submitted by Friday 13th March 2015. If a proposal 
is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 22nd May 2015. Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: 

a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract. 
E-mails should be entitled: WORK4 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: 
Rob Fisher and Ram Vemuri:  [email protected]

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

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

For further details of the conference, please visit: 
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/work-and-life/call-for-presentations/  

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 Call for Papers: Do-It-Yourself! Subversive Practices and Informal Knowledge
by  Jan Surman
Call for Papers: Do-It-Yourself! Subversive Practices and Informal Knowledge
Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School “History, Knowledge, Media in East Central Europe”
19-20 November 2015
Venue: The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg
Organizers: Sarah Czerney, Jan Surman, Ina Alber
 
The idea of doing-it-yourself, tinkering and bricolage can be found at all times and everywhere: dissidents print their samizdat publications on re-designed washing machines, do-it-yourselfers spend hours in cellars and sheds, amateur inventors hope for their creations to breakthrough, technicians supplement their laboratory equipment with everyday materials or combine different instruments, scientists search for alternative forms of academic exchange in BarCamps. In order to re-arrange the objects and to bring them together in new ensembles - to give them new purposes and functions - one needs innovation and virtuosity. In this way new objects and new forms of knowledge develop in the shadowy corridors of doing it yourself. But can this kind of knowledge make its way into the daylight?
“Do it yourself” is a cultural practice that transcends societies and times. In times of shortages doing it yourself offers alternatives to official resources. During the last years the idea of “do it yourself” has served as critique towards capitalism as well, for instance when producing new things out of recycled waste. In each of these ways do it yourself functions as an anti-pole to the officially regulated and controlled administration of resources. But it can also be politically instrumentalized and become part of mainstream culture like Zrób-to-sam or the Do-It-Yourself movement in the 1970s in East and West. Hollywood sitcoms like Home Improvement turned these developments into popular culture and profit. Does such affiliation mean do-it-yourself-knowledge loses its subversive potential?
Our conference focuses on these heterogeneous forms of do-it-yourself and bricolage, and analyzes both the practices and the knowledge that are being produced by them: What was done in such way in different times and contexts and how was it done? What materials and media were combined? What does one do by him/herself? How can the concept of informal knowledge be used to understand such phenomena and what is its relation to formal and regulated knowledge? And who decides what is formal and informal here? How can a do-it-yourself-knowledge be subversive? Under what conditions can such a knowledge be socially relevant?
We open these questions to scholars of different epochs and disciplines, as well as activists, who are all invited to join us in the project of doing-it-together. We are interested in case studies from different fields and regions as well as personal accounts of subversive do-it-yourself activities.
 
Abstracts may be submitted in English or German; the conference will be bilingual and there will be no simultaneous translation. The organizers expect that the participants will be able to follow the papers in both languages, longer bilingual abstracts will be provided in advance. Travel and accommodation costs for the speakers will be covered. Please send your abstract (maximum of 2,000 characters) as well as a short CV with details of your current research interests and recent publications by 28 February 2015 to Ina Alber (  [email protected] ). Accepted speakers will be notified by 15 April 2015.
For further inquiries, please contact the managing director of the Leibniz Graduate School, Ina Alber.
 
Contact:
Dr. des. Ina Alber
Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung -Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg, GERMANY
Tel:   +49 6421 184-122
Fax:   +49 6421 184-194
Mail:   [email protected]
www.herder-institut.de ,   www.facebook.com/HerderInstitut

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 Call for Papers: The Making of Law in the Ottoman Space, 1800-1914
Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques (CETOBAC, UMR 8032), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, Paris.
between the 26th-29th of May 2015, to be announced later
Deadline: 15/02/2015
This 2-day workshop will bring together historians, anthropologists and linguists working on the making of law in the Ottoman space. The aim of the workshop is to problematize the legal phenomena from a multidisciplinary aspect and beyond the normative and descriptive dimensions of laws and legislations. Considering law as a multi-layered dynamic process, presentations may include but will not be limited to the following topics:
a) Law as a social process: we intend to explore here the complex relationship between law, legal institutions and social dynamics ranging from culture to religion and from community to the wider society. We aim to problematize law within the social landscape and the particular cultural settings in which it emerges within a multi-ethnic imperial context. This aspect also includes the investigation of law in relation to a variety of social actors (lawyers, judges, jurists, bureaucrats, diplomats, consuls, scholars, intellectuals, journalists, etc.).
b) Law as an epistemological process: normative approaches investigating Ottoman law only understand it within the context of legal reforms and are far from reflecting the public debate and the epistemological process, which preceded the final textual production. Without leaving aside the making of state laws and other forms of normativity, the epistemological dimension of the workshop aims to focus on law in all its variety, in the form of ideas, ways of reasoning, doctrines emerging in textbooks, erudite journals or monographs and to analyze the role of education in the development of legal thought in the Ottoman space.
c) Local laws/universal discourses: local laws often refer to universal ideals in order to gain more prestige in the eyes of the people they rule as well as in the international arena. The relationship between local laws/universal discourses implies to investigate how local actors make sense of universality in their statements. This relationship also necessitates the investigation of legal transfers and cultural translations in the Ottoman space in relation with global contexts without neglecting the contemporary legal culture of the surrounding geography (Russia, Iran, the Balkans, etc.).
d) Local laws and global contexts: this aspect of the workshop will highlight the impact of global movements (such as constitutionalism), diplomatic turning points, dynamics of imperialism, revolutions, etc. on the making of Ottoman law.
e) Studies of legal language: Law is not only what legal authorities communicate to us as directives. Departing from the relationship between language and legal philosophy, we intend to investigate the role of language in articulating a certain understanding of law beyond its authoritative statements. Our objective is to explore the ways in which language and political terminology frame the terms and spirit of legal codification, reflect references to time and modernity, the ideologies and emotions of lawmakers and their political culture. By examining the making of law as a linguistic process as well as a social process, we aim to highlight the changing equivalents of legal concepts in accordance with particular cultural settings as bearers of a certain legal philosophy. We also aim to approach the issue of vagueness in normative frameworks and how linguistic ambiguity gives way to new negotiations, interpretations and compromises between legal authorities and the various segments of the society.
Practical Information
The languages of the workshop will be English and French. Please email proposals of approximately 300 words with updated CVs for a 20-minute paper to Aylin Koçunyan (  [email protected] ) no later than February 15 th , 2015. E-mails should be entitled “Making of Law Submission”. Proposals should be in Word format with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in the program, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract.
Participants will be notified of the Steering Committee’s decision in early March. The Steering Committee is composed of the following members: Nathalie Clayer (Centre d’Etudes Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, EHESS, Paris), Benjamin Fortna (SOAS, University of London), Bernard Heyberger (Centre d’Etudes Interdisciplinaires des Faits Religieux, EHESS, Paris), Huricihan İslamoğlu (Bosphorus University, Istanbul), Dina Khoury (Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University), Laurent Mignon (Oriental Institute, Oxford University), Avi Rubin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Kent Schull (Binghamton University, SUNY, New York), Michel Tissier (University Rennes 2-Centre de Recherches historiques de l'Ouest/Collegium of Lyon).
We intend to publish selected papers from the workshop as a themed-hard copy collective volume. Consequently, if an abstract is accepted for the workshop, a full draft paper should be submitted by May 15 th , 2015.
Limited help with travel funding is available on application to postgraduate students and early career researchers, who will submit a paper. If you would like to be considered for funding, please inform us when you submit your abstract.
The workshop is a part of the project entitled “Trans-acting Matters: Areas and Eras of a (post-)Ottoman Globalization”, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-12-GLOB-003) and supervised by Marc Aymes (CNRS, CETOBAC, Paris). To know more about the project, see   http://cetobac.ehess.fr/index.php?1257 

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 Департамент культуры Ярославской области
Государственный литературно-мемориальный музей-заповедник
Н.А. Некрасова «Карабиха»
Ярославская областная универсальная научная библиотека 
имени Н.А. Некрасова
 
при участии
 кафедры истории русской литературы 
филологического факультета
Московского государственного университета имени М.В. Ломоносова
 
    2-3 июля 2015 года проводят научную конференцию « Некрасов в контексте русской культуры ».
Задача конференции заключается в том, чтобы, обсуждая как общие вопросы, так и конкретные проблемы, связанные с творчеством Некрасова, осмыслить, в каком состоянии находится сейчас изучение жизни и творчества поэта, начатое в работах Андреевского, Эйхенбаума, Тынянова, Чуковского, и каковы возможные перспективы исследований (какие темы и области должны быть пересмотрены или введены в научный оборот). Особо значимой в этой связи представляется проблематика «некрасовской традиции»: что эта традиция собой представляет в историко-литературной и общекультурной перспективе, какие институции и как участвуют  в сохранении этой традиции и ее актуализации.
В соответствии с этой общей задачей мы предлагаем поставить в центр внимания следующие вопросы и положения:  
1.Что мы не понимаем в текстах Некрасова: проблемы интерпретации произведений Н.А. Некрасова.
2.”Некрасов — сложная и живая историко-литературная проблема”: проблема места Некрасова в истории русской литературы.
3. “Некрасов был больше гражданин, чем поэт”: жизнь и творчество Некрасова в общественном и политическом контексте.
4.«Он представлял собой действительно чрезвычайно яркий  тип <…> ярославца»: Н.А. Некрасов и Ярославская литература.
5. «По Некрасову я понял религиозную сущность русской общественности»: “некрасовское начало” в литературе  XX -го века.
6.«Споры вокруг Некрасова умолкли; он признан, по-видимому, окончательно»: роль литературной экспозиции в сохранении и обновлении традиции чтения классической литературы, литература в музее, место мемориального музея в процессе сохранения культурной памяти.
 
Приглашаются как специалисты по творчеству Некрасова, так и все в целом занимающиеся историей русской литературы и культуры.
 
Требования к текстам докладов:
·                    Принимаются оригинальные работы, имеющие научное и прикладное значение, соответствующие обозначенным направлениям дискуссии и не опубликованные где-либо ранее.
·                    Объем не более 10 тысяч знаков (с пробелами);  RTP ; шрифт  Times New Roman 12; интервал 1,5; все поля 2 см.
 
Оргкомитет оставляет за собой право отбора тезисов.
 
Участникам конференции предоставляется место в общежитии. В перерывах между заседаниями организовывается кофе-брейк. Расходы на проезд и проживание оплачиваются самостоятельно.
 
Координатор конференции Елена Вадимовна Яновская (4852)434181;
[email protected].
 
Заявка на участие в научной конференции
«Некрасов в контексте русской культуры»
(обязательна для заполнения).
 
1.                  Фамилия, имя, отчество (полностью).
2.                  Название доклада.
3.                  Наличие материалов, предоставляемых для печати.
4.                  Организация, которую Вы представляете.
5.                  Должность, звание.
6.                  Почтовый адрес.
7.                  Телефон (с указанием кода города).
8.                  Факс (с указанием кода города).
9.                  e-mail .
10.              Необходимость технического сопровождения доклада.
11.              Необходимость поселения (музей организовывает поселение в общежитии департамента культуры/бюджетный вариант); в другие гостиницы города участники заселяются самостоятельно. 
 
       
 
 Директор  музея                                                                    А.А.Ивушкин

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 Publishing “Differently":
Small Publishers, Independent Journalists, and Bloggers in Russia 
 
International Conference - Paris, 1-2 October 2015
 
Since the first decade of the 2000s, political and economic change in Russia has favoured the concentration of editorial and media resources into a few major groups (holding companies) linked directly or indirectly to the government. The production from these operators (major television channels, print press, major publishing companies), intended for the general public, dominates Russian public space. But facing them are alternative media in journalism (independent radio stations and newspapers), with the development online of web publications and blogs that help to diversify sources of news. In book publishing a host of small and midsized “independent” companies are energising the publishing world. In Russia they speak of the difference between the “big” ones with the resources, supported by the government and broadcasting a consensus mass culture, and the “little” ones, often on a shoestring, producing dissident cultures on and off the Internet. This division, which is not specific to Russia, is part of the professionals’ common discourse and enables them to construct their differences in the current state of Russia.
 
The purpose of the conference entitled “Publishing ‘differently’: Small publishers, independent journalists and bloggers in Russia”, to be held in Paris on 1-2 October 2015, is to analyse these independent, critical channels of publication in present-day Russia. Who produces this different material? What civic and political alternatives do they represent? What conflicts and compromises exist between them and the dominant players? To answer these questions, we invite contributions that seek to document and analyse alternative publishing channels in Russia, in journalism, publishing or blogs. The aim is to analyse not only their break with the dominant patterns but also the compromises and hybrid situations that arise from their mutual relationship. Contributions with a historical dimension, examining the emergence of alternative publications since the final decades of the Soviet Union, are welcome, in order to trace the family tree of current developments.
 
Contributions are invited under four major headings :
 
1 - Differentiation and resistance
This involves documenting alternative media practices that relate differently to economic rules (by looking for production models other than the market one), institutions and legal norms (by escapism and informal relations), government-backed political models (whatever the ideological background to these alternatives), technical constraints by the new or alternative use of technology (how to invent, fabricate and legitimise a “quality” cultural content able to resist the digital), dominant gender relations (what influence do feminism and the LGBT movement have on publishing?), and culture (what about “fanzines”, for example, and other forms of publishing linked to particular aesthetic values and artistic genres and how these are connected to, or indeed form the foundation of, fan/activist circles?)
 
2 - Sociability and meanings of communication
In addition to alternative publishing channels, there are the players in these channels, their biographies, trajectories and divergences. Papers might address how they belong to wider networks and collectives, the places (editorial teams, “independent” bookshops, book shows) and forms of cooperation (from informal mutual support to professional “unions”) that help create environments extending beyond local settings and state borders. How much is individual emancipation reshaping the ways in which social bonds are created in contemporary Russia? Can these players be defined as producers of new meanings, alternative political, ethical and aesthetic meanings? Addressing these questions may include the genesis of new forms of subjectivation and even the construction of a new subject in an era of communication changes based on the Internet and, not least, social media.
 
3 - Conflict, compromise and hybridisation
Conflicts between the competing models of dominant and alternative players and also the forms of compromise and hybridisation that arise between opposing practices will be studied. Are there movements back and forth, borrowings and mutual influences between the “giants” and the “independents”? How are the technical, economic, political and legal constraints that bear upon editorial choices taken on board, or evaded? Papers might examine the dynamics of innovation and hybridisation engendered by new independent channels that are moving into the dominant media.
 
4 - Historicity of independent editorial practice
The conference title harks back to those who “thought differently” during the dissident period. This section resituates current changes within their historical context, traces the family tree of the arts of publishing differently in Russia, and analyses breaks and continuity with the Soviet past. The current book-publishing world may be seen both as breaking with and following on from that of the Soviet period. How did the shift to current publishing conditions occur? Did the “independents” present themselves as successors to samizdat, and do they still do so? All questions that examine the influences and bridges between past and present.
 
Proposals, length 5,000 characters, should be sent to   [email protected]  by 1st March 2015 at the latest , together with a brief author biography. Authors will be notified of the outcome on 15 April 2015. Selected authors will be required to send in the full text of their papers by 1st September 2015.
 
The organisers will do their utmost to refund travel expenses for speakers from outside France, as far as the conference budget allows.
Working languages: English, French, Russian.
 
International scientific committee : Olga Bronnikova (U. Paris-Sorbonne / Eur’Orbem), Françoise Daucé (EHESS / CERCEC), Ilya Kiria (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Bertrand Legendre (U. Paris 13, LabSIC), Cyril Lemieux (Institut Marcel Mauss/EHESS/CNRS), Markku Lonkila (U. Jyväskylä, Finlande), Svetlana Pasti (U. Tampere, Finlande), Bella Ostromooukhova (U. Paris-Sorbonne / Eur’Orbem), Vlad Strukov (U. Leeds, United Kingdom), Alexandra Zapolskaya (Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Anna Zaytseva (U. Paris-Sorbonne / CERCEC).
 
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 Лаборатория исторической, социальной и культурной антропологии (Саратов)
 
проводит 2 ‒ 4  июля  2015  года   в   Саратовском   государственном   университете   XII I   Пирровы чтения . Тема чтений: « Человек как проект: интерпретация культурных кодов ». Конференция традиционно является междисциплинарной, к участию приглашаются специалисты в области исторической, социальной и культурной антропологии, истории, литературоведения, теории культуры, социологии, искусствоведения и других смежных гуманитарных дисциплин. По итогам конференции планируется выпуск книги из серии «Интерпретация культурных кодов».
 
Построение проективных реальностей – наряду с культурными способами накопления, хранения и передачи информации – является одной из базовых характеристик и одним из основных эволюционных преимуществ вида  Homo sapiens sapiens . Предлагая подобную тему, мы хотим попристальнее присмотреться к тем способам, которыми человек представляет сам себя как на уровне индивидуально значимых «реальностей», соотносимых с прошлым, будущим и настоящим его частной жизни, так и с «проектированием человека» в более общих смыслах, соотносимых с реальностями микро- и макрогрупповыми – а также к тем способам, которыми он кодирует и декодирует транслируемую таким образом информацию.
 
В ходе обсуждения предполагается выйти на следующие тематические области:
 
·         Педагогическое проектирование: перспективный образ человека (конкретного и «человека вообще»), способы совмещения подобных проекций с «реальностью», культурные коды, обслуживающие педагогические проекты и практики их реализации.
·         Политическое проектирование: обстоятельства и способы формирования позитивных и негативных проектов человека, прагматических с политической точки зрения («идеальный гражданин» и «враг народа»).
·         Социальное проектирование: конструирование коллективных идентичностей и способы совмещения оных с индивидуальными и микрогрупповыми «проектами» (социальные роли, манипуляция и т.д.).
·         Философские и идеологические проекты человека: их ситуативная обусловленность, их прагматический (манипулятивный) потенциал
·         Фиктивный персонаж как проект: способы и прагматика формирования фиктивных персонажей; способы взаимодействия индивидуальных проективных стратегий с фиктивными персонажами.
·         Авто-проектирование: формы и способы проектирования самого себя в прошлом (реконструкция), настоящем (самопрезентация) и будущем.
Регламент доклада – 20 мин.
Заявки на участие принимаются по адресам:  vmikhailin @ yandex . ru  (Вадим Юрьевич Михайлин, директор ЛИСКА),  e . s . reshetnikova @ gmail . com  (Екатерина Сергеевна Решетникова, научный сотрудник ЛИСКА),  avnesterov @ gmail . com  (Антон Викторович Нестеров,   научный сотрудник ЛИСКА) до 1 апреля 2015 года. В заявке необходимо указать тему доклада, а также сведения о себе, и приложить аннотацию доклада объемом порядка 1 страницы.
К сожалению, мы не сможем оплатить участникам конференции проезд и проживание, но постараемся подыскать в Саратове жилье, максимально комфортное с точки зрения баланса цены и качества  ‒   для   тех ,  кто   заранее   сообщит   о   необходимости   такового . С участников взимается оргвзнос в размере 300 рублей.

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  Pilgrimage to the Heart of the Sacred 
The Sacred Journeys: Pilgrimage and Beyond Project 

Friday 3rd July - Sunday 5th July 2015 
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 

Call for Presentations: 
Pilgrimage is a cross-cultural phenomenon that facilitates interaction between and among diverse peoples from countless cultures and walks of life. In the 2nd Global Conference, we will continue to explore the many personal, interpersonal, intercultural, and international dimensions of this profound phenomenon. 

Among the key issues that emerged from Sacred Journeys I: Pilgrimage and Beyond, were: 

1. Definition of Pilgrimage: 
'Travel for transformation' embraces the sacred journey as a potential turning point in one’s life. Witness the avalanche of books by pilgrims who have experienced the Camino, or those who have been influenced by the transformation of others, like Malcolm X. After his experience of the Hajj pilgrimage, the activist was stirred to reevaluate his lifelong journey in search of justice and reconciliation as well as his thinking regarding race relations in the United States. Questions arise as to how and when a journey becomes 'sacred' and how and when pilgrimage devolves into a mere tourist endeavor. Does tourism merely observe the authentic in others, whereas pilgrimage seeks it for oneself? 

2. Reinforcing the Vision of the Ultimate Unity of Humanity: 
Pilgrimage scholar George Greenia's insight that 'pilgrimages generate the least violent mass public gatherings [that] humankind has designed for itself' inspires the question: In what ways can the concept of the sacred journey lend itself to envisioning a world united in difference? We can reflect, for instance, on the sacred journey to Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a site of interfaith and intercultural pilgrimage interpreted differently by various pilgrim sects. For Buddhists, a sacred footprint in a rock formation is said to belong to Buddha, whereas for Hindus, it is deemed to be Shiva's footprint, and for Muslims and Christians, it is thought to be Adam's. This pilgrimage site provides a powerful example of interfaith cooperation. 

3. Pilgrimage and Globalization: 
The global playing field is leveling and technology is impacting pilgrims in innumerable ways. In Mecca, for instance, telephone 'apps' assist Hajj pilgrims searching for animals for sacrifice; in Lourdes, another 'app' provides details on miraculous healings, proudly declaring, 'A miracle could happen' during the pilgrim's visit. Infrastructural and support services are also improving, and journeys once thought to be too difficult or challenging, such as that to Amarnath in India, are now within reach of vast numbers of pilgrims. Will modern conveniences alter traditional experiences, create entirely new ones, or both? 

4. Modernization and the Global Trend Towards the Dissolution of Traditional Ways: 
Pilgrims cling to what they ascertain as familiar and reaffirm what they believe to be 'true' at local levels. There may be a growing awareness that 'the world is one' and that we must work together to deal with our common ecological, political, and security problems, but in the interest of cultural survival, primordial standard-bearers like nation, tribe, and race have been reified and re-energized; for instance, journeys of all persuasions are now being undertaken along ancient pathways that have been rediscovered and/or redeveloped. What kinds of trends along these lines might we forecast for the future? 

5. Secular Pilgrimage: 
Major secular pilgrimage sites, such as to Abbey Road in London, or to Elvis Presley's home 'Graceland', or Jim Morrison's (The Doors) grave site in Paris, attract astonishing numbers of 'pilgrims'. What are the similarities and differences between sacred and secular pilgrimages? More and more we are living in a 'global village' and the 'pilgrimage in my front room' phenomenon is facilitated by video and satellite links. These changes raise the question: must pilgrimages, whether sacred or secular, always involve a physical journey 'in league' with others? Virtual or alternative pilgrimages are important topics for consideration; so, too, are related online experiences that recreate the pilgrimage or tourism experience in a virtual world. 

In light of our broad exploration, and these new directions, we would also welcome proposals that might take into consideration the following: 

- New definitions of sacred and secular pilgrimage, and the question of authenticity. 
- How historical perspectives on the meaning(s) of pilgrimages and motives for travel are changing over time. 
- The metaphor of 'the journey' as explored by writers, artists, performers and singers, including humanists, agnostics, atheists and musicians. 
- The notion of journeying toward 'salvation'. 
- Pilgrimage and 'miracles' and the related topic of thanksgiving. 
- The post-pilgrimage experience (which can be non-religious and/or secular, involving, for instance devotional exercises, meditation practices, mental journeys, etc). 
- 'Dark' pilgrimages to sites of remembrance and commemoration (i.e., the Hiroshima Peace Museum, the Irish National Famine Museum, Rwanda genocide memorials, etc.). 

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

What to Send: 
Proposals will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 13th March 2015. If a proposal is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper of no more than 3000 words should be submitted by Friday 22nd May 2015. Proposals should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; proposals may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: 

a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of proposal, e) body of proposal, f) up to 10 keywords. 
E-mails should be entitled: Sacred Journeys 2 Proposal Submission. 

All abstracts will be at least double blind peer reviewed. 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 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: 
Ian McIntosh:  [email protected]
Eileen Moore Quinn:  [email protected]
Rob Fisher:  [email protected]

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

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

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

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COMPETITIONS / КОНКУРСЫ
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Конкурс на соискание премий Правительства Санкт-Петербурга за выдающиеся достижения в области высшего и среднего профессионального образования в 2015 году13.01.2015 Образование

Комиссией по присуждению премий Правительства Санкт-Петербурга 29 декабря 2014 года объявлен конкурс на соискание премий за выдающиеся достижения в области высшего и среднего профессионального образования в 2015 году. 

Учреждено двадцать ежегодных премий в размере 300 000 рублей каждая. 

Конкурс проводится в целях развития образовательного потенциала Санкт-Петербурга, создания эффективных технологий обучения. 

Премии присуждаются по следующим номинациям: 
  развитие инновационной деятельности в образовательном учреждении – 4 премии;
  организационные решения по повышению качества подготовки специалистов – 3 премии;
  научные достижения, способствующие повышению качества подготовки специалистов и кадров высшей квалификации – 3 премии;
  учебно-методическое обеспечение учебного процесса, направленное на повышение качества подготовки специалистов – 3 премии;
  в области интеграции образования, науки и промышленности – 3 премии;
  в области воспитательной работы со студентами, развития их профессиональных навыков – 3 премии;
  за особые успехи в области подготовки творческих работников для организаций культуры и искусства – 1 премия.
В конкурсе могут участвовать граждане Российской Федерации из числа профессорско-преподавательского состава учебных заведений, работников научных организаций, промышленных предприятий, инновационно-технологических центров и технопарков, расположенных на территории Санкт-Петербурга, а также авторские коллективы в составе до 3-х человек. 

Перечень документов, представляемых на конкурс: 
  решение ученых советов учебных заведений, президиумов Совета ректоров вузов Санкт-Петербурга и Совета директоров средних профессиональных учебных заведений Санкт-Петербурга (далее – выдвигающая организация) о выдвижении кандидата (авторского коллектива),
  представление руководителя выдвигающей организации о выдвижении кандидата (Приложение 1),
  сведения о кандидате по установленной форме (Приложение 2),
  список основных опубликованных научных трудов кандидата,
  не менее двух отзывов от учебных заведений и/или научных организаций, промышленных предприятий, инновационно-технологических центров или технопарков (не допускается предоставление отзывов от выдвигающей организации),
  работы и материалы, свидетельствующие о выдающихся достижениях кандидата на соискание премий в области высшего и/или среднего профессионального образования,
  описание вклада в развитие высшего и среднего профессионального образования.
Перечень документов, представляемых на конкурс, и предъявляемые к ним требования содержатся в распоряжении Комитета по науке и высшей школе от 19.03.2012 № 15 «О мерах по реализации постановления Правительства Санкт-Петербурга от 23.05.2006 № 609», которое размещено на сайте Комитета по науке и высшей школе  http://knvsh.gov.spb.ru/ в разделе «Документы». 

Информацию о порядке проведения и условиях конкурса можно получить в Комитете по науке и высшей школе по телефону: 576-61-75. 

Срок окончания представления документов на соискание премий: 16.00 по московскому времени 6 марта 2015 года. 

Документы на соискание премий принимаются в Комитете по науке и высшей школе по адресу: Санкт-Петербург, набережная канала Грибоедова, д.88-90, пом. 208-7 в соответствии с предварительной записью по телефону 576-61-75. 

Текст объявления конкурса и прилагаемые документы представлены на сайте Комитета по науке и высшей школе:  http://knvsh.gov.spb.ru/contests/view/117/

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Российский научный фонд начал прием заявок на получение грантов для проведения исследований с привлечением молодых кандидатов наук.
Гранты выделяются на осуществление научных исследований в 2015 – 2017 годах с последующим возможным продлением срока выполнения проекта на один или два года.
Научное исследование должно предусматривать участие в нем на постоянной основе не менее 2 приглашенных молодых (до 35 лет включительно) кандидатов наук, защитивших диссертационную работу не ранее 1 января 2012 года.
Гранты предоставляются научному коллективу через российские научные организации и образовательные организации высшего образования, находящиеся в любом субъекте Российской Федерации за исключением г. Москвы, Московской области, г. Санкт-Петербурга, Ленинградской области, на базе которых будут выполняться проекты. 
Размер одного гранта составит от 5 до 8 миллионов рублей ежегодно.
Срок подачи заявок до 2 марта 2015 года. Результаты конкурса будут объявлены Фондом до 15 мая 2015 года.
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GRANTS & AWARDS / ГРАНТЫ&ПРЕМИИ
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http://www.collegeart.org/meiss/
Millard Meiss Publication Fund
ABOUT THE GRANT
Background
MIT Press received a Meiss grant in fall 2005 to help publish Darby English’s book,  How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness  (2007)
Twice a year, CAA awards grants through the Millard Meiss Publication Fund to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of art, visual studies, and related subjects that have been accepted by a publisher on their merits, but cannot be published in the most desirable form without a subsidy. Thanks to the generous bequest of the late Prof. Millard Meiss, CAA began awarding these publishing grants in 1975.
Books eligible for a Meiss grant must currently be under contract with a publisher and be on a subject in the arts or art history. The deadlines for the receipt of applications are March 15 and September 15 of each year. Please review the  Application Guidelines  and the  Application Process, Schedule, and Checklist  for complete instructions.
Recent Winners
The nine Millard Meiss Publication Fund grantees for fall 2014 are:
*  Amy R. Bloch,  Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise”: Humanism, History, and Artistic Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance , Cambridge University Press
*  Elena Boeck,  Imagining the Byzantine Past , Cambridge University Press
*  Palmira Brummett,  Mapping the Ottomans: Sovereignty, Territory, and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean , Cambridge University Press
*  Robert DeCaroli,  Image Problems: The Origin and Development of the Buddha’s Image in Early South Asia , University of Washington Press
*  Lisa Pon,  Printed Icon: Forlì’s Madonna of the Fire in Early Modern Italy , Cambridge University Press
*  Maggie Popkin,  The Architecture of the Roman Triumph: Monuments, Memory, and Identity , Cambridge University Press
*  Stephanie Porras,  Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination , Pennsylvania State University Press
*  Mary Roberts,  Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists, and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture , University of California Press
*  Freek Schmidt,  Passion and Control: Dutch Architectural Culture of the Eighteenth Century , Ashgate
Read a list of all  recipients  of the Millard Meiss Publication Fund from 1975 to the present. The list is alphabetized by author’s last name and includes book titles and publishers.
Contact
Questions? Please contact  Sarah Zabrodski , CAA editorial manager, at 212-392-4424.

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  Международный департамент Министерства образования и науки Российской Федерации доводит до Вашего сведения, что согласно статье 17 Соглашения между Правительством Республики Болгария и Правительством Российской Федерации о сотрудничестве в области культуры, образования и науки болгарская сторона выделяет стипендии для участия в ежегодных международных летних семинарах по болгарскому языку, литературе и культуре для иностранных болгаристов и славистов. 

Высшим учебным заведениям, желающим направить для этих целей  студентов, аспирантов и докторантов , необходимо представить следующие документы кандидатов для последующего отбора: 
*  в 53-ом семинаре, организованном Софийским университетом имени Св. Климента Охридского ( http://slav.uni-sofia.bg/index.php/summer-seminar ), который состоится в период с 12 июля по 01 августа 2015 г. - 4 места;
*  в 38-ом семинаре, организованном Великотырновским университетом имени Св.св. Кирилла и Мефодия ( http://www.uni-vt.bg/1 ) в период с 20 июля по 09 августа 2015 г. - 4 места. Болгарская сторона обеспечивает участникам семинаров бесплатный пансион - питание и проживание, а также учебную и культурную программу. Транспортные расходы до места проведения семинаров и обратно, а также медицинская страховка - за счет участников семинаров или оправляющей стороны. 

Документы должны быть направлены в адрес Министерства образования и науки Российской Федерации: 115093, г. Москва, ул. Люсиновская, д. 51 (16- Международный департамент Минобрнауки России, т.  +7 495 788 65 91)  до 20 апреля 2015 г. 

Кроме документов для болгарской стороны (см. приложение ) необходимо представить письмо-представление от университета за подписью ректора или проректора и биографическую справку. 

Контактное лицо от Минобрнауки России: 
Полещук Ольга Дмитриевна, 
тел: (495) 788-65-91, 
e-mail: [email protected].

Полная информация и формы заявок опубликованы на сайте   http://www.russia.edu.ru/information/met/info_rus_st/7601/

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  В соответствии с международными договорами Российской Федерации с зарубежными странами в 2015/2016 учебном году осуществляется прием на обучение за рубежом российских студентов, аспирантов и научно-педагогических работников для включенного и полного курсов обучения, языковой, научной стажировок и научной работы, преподавания русского языка (количественные квоты приема странами кандидатов указаны в приложениях). 

Высшим учебным заведениям, желающим направить для этих целей в зарубежные страны студентов, аспирантов и научно-педагогических работников, необходимо представить следующие документы кандидатов (на русском языке) для последующего отбора Международным департаментом Минобрнауки России: 
>1. Письмо-представление высшего учебного заведения, подписанное ректором или проректором. 
>2. Биографическую справку кандидата (справка - объективка) с указанием фамилии, имени, отчества, даты рождения, места рождения, данных российского внутреннего паспорта, домашнего адреса, контактного телефона и e-mail, с приклеенной фотографией 3x4 см. 
>3. Справку о знании иностранного языка (для всех категорий кандидатов, за исключением преподавателей, рекомендуемых на языковую стажировку). 
>4. Выписку из зачетной книжки (для студентов) за последний учебный год. 
>5. Копию диплома с вкладышем (для кандидатов, имеющих высшее профессиональное образование). 
>6. Копию загранпаспорта (первый лист с фотографией).  Каждый из перечисленных документов должен быть заверен печатью вуза (кроме п.6). 

Помимо перечисленного, кандидаты должны учесть все требования принимающих стран по предоставлению необходимых документов, включая документы, заполненные на соответствующих сайтах этих стран на требуемом принимающей страной языке (требования и адреса сайтов указаны в приложениях). 

Документы, требуемые Международным департаментом Минобрнауки России, и документы, требуемые принимающей страной, включая заполняемые на сайтах, присылаются на бумажном носителе. 

Документы кандидатов необходимо направить по адресу: Люсиновская ул., д. 51, г. Москва, 115093 (16 - Международный департамент Минобрнауки России), тел. 8-495-788-65-91, 8-499-237-53-57. 

Срок предоставления документов  до 12 марта 2015 года  (необходимо уточнять сроки предоставления документов по каждой стране). 

Исходя из ограниченного количества предоставляемых странами-партнерами квот стипендий, желательно, чтобы от вуза количество рекомендуемых кандидатов на одну страну и по каждому виду командирования не превышало одного человека. 

Преимущественным правом пользуются кандидаты, ранее не участвовавшие в аналогичной форме обучения за рубежом. Окончательное решение о приеме кандидатов выносит принимающая страна-партнер. 

Расходы по проезду до места стажировки (учебы) и обратно и по оплате консульских сборов при получении виз несет учебное заведение или командируемый. 

Телефоны для справок: 
>По странам: Болгария, Бруней - Даруссалам, Исландия, Италия, Китай (включая Гонконг), Кувейт, Македония, Оман, Польша, Румыния, Сербия Словакия, Словения, Таиланд, Франция, Чехия, Шри-Ланка. 
>>8-495-788-65-91 (тел.),  [email protected]
>>Полещук Ольга Дмитриевна  По странам: Австрия, Бельгия (Французское сообщество, Фламандское сообщество), Венгрия, Вьетнам, Дания, Египет, Монголия, Норвегия, Турция. 
>>8-499-237-53-57 (тел.),  [email protected]
>>Софронова Елена Евгеньевна  Оперативная информация по вопросам, связанным с процедурой оформления документов, будет размещена в Интернете по адресу 
http://www.russia.edu.ru/information/met/info_rus_st/  . 
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PUBLICATIONS / ПУБЛИКАЦИИ
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 The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review

The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review is inviting papers for a special issue that aims to explore an interplay of the social, cultural, and economic factors in history of the Soviet Union and Russia of the 20th and 21st century. 

Ideally, the editors are looking for conceptual works that explore an impact of the economic decisions and reforms on the social and cultural development, and  also the ways  the cultural and social developments affected economy.  The editors ‘s goal is to start a cross field as well as interdisciplinary dialogue of the social, cultural, and economic  scholars of all generations,  including the Ph.D. students at the final stage of their dissertation work. The journal issue is scheduled to be published this year.

Those interested should submit their abstracts (250 words) by February 15 to  Anna Krylova (Duke University) and Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina) at  [email protected] and  [email protected]

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 Call for Papers
Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures & Civilizations
ISSN: 2333-5882 (Print) 2333-5890 (Online)

(This journal is published in various languages as per the 
choice of the author)

Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures & Civilizations an 
international peer-reviewed journal published by American 
Research Institute for Policy Development. The journal 
aims at publishing the most innovative peer-reviewed 
articles from the discipline of international studies, as well 
as original thinking from elsewhere in the social sciences
 with an international dimension. Interdisciplinary and 
wide-ranging in scope, the journal provides a forum for 
discussion on the latest developments in the theory of 
international relations, welcoming innovative and critical 
approaches.

The journal is published by the American Research 
Institute for Policy Development that serves as a focal 
point for academicians, professionals, graduate and 
undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing 
research throughout the world.

The interested contributors are highly encouraged to 
submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor 
via e-mail at [email protected]. Please indicate the name 
of the journal (Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures & 
Civilizations) in the cover letter or simply put ‘Journal of 
Foreign Languages, Cultures & Civilizations’ in the subject 
box during submission via e-mail. 

The journal is Abstracted/Indexed in CrossRef, CrossCheck, 
Cabell's, Ulrich's, Griffith Research Online, Google Scholar, 
Education.edu, Informatics, Universe Digital Library, 
Standard Periodical Directory, Gale, Open J-Gate, EBSCO, 
Journal Seek, DRJI, ProQuest, BASE, InfoBase Index, OCLC, 
IBSS, Academic Journal Databases, Scientific Index.

E-Publication FirstTM
E-Publication FirstTM is a feature offered through our journal 
platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have 
been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior 
to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely 
access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published 
online within one week after the completion of all necessary 
publishing steps.

DOI® number
Each paper published in Journal of Foreign Languages, 
Cultures & Civilizations is assigned a DOI® number, which 
appears beneath the author's affiliation in the published paper. 

JFLCC is inviting papers for Vol. 3, No. 1. The online 
publication date is June 30, 2015. Submission Deadline: 
March 31, 2015.

You may view the complete list of journals of the institute:
http://aripd.org/browse/alljournals

For any additional information, please contact with the 
executive editor at   [email protected]
Regards,
Dr. Lucia Galleno, Queens University of Charlotte, USA.
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures & Civilizations

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0-oTyEkvMW82h9_zKr23UwdP7kLbttjc20sU-Hf7AU/edit?usp=sharing
 
Call for book chapters on scandal
 
Scandal in an age of (self) surveillance  will explore the way our interconnected and digitized culture – marked by social media, over-sharing, self-promotion and staged photos – impacts both our consumption of scandal and the dimensions of these titillating events. This book, an interdisciplinary project, will examine the “anatomy” of scandal and how we all maneuver through a world where every moment, no matter how intimate or illicit, is potentially recorded and shared with potentially disastrous effects.
 
The phenomenon of scandal – whether sexual, financial or political – is big business. It’s as if we’re waiting, online and off, for people to trip up so that we can read about the storyline and consequences. Media coverage of elites behaving badly can occupy as much as 25 percent of  all  news stories, according to the Pew Research Center. That’s a lot of attention paid to bad behavior, which ranges from minor peccadilloes to outright crimes.
 
But it’s not just power-players that can get caught in a scandal. We all exist in a state of near-constant (self) surveillance, of unrelenting posing, posturing and posting. Besides death and taxes, there seems to be one more guarantee to our lives: There is someone/something nearby with a connected device ready to capture and share behavior that breaks norms and transgresses, where private activity is now shared in public.
 
What makes scandal so titillating, so sensational is that it is often laced with delicious schadenfreude, and sometimes horror, yet we also know that we can just as easily get caught up in a scandal. We are all vulnerable. But we feel that elites should know better. These elites, who are often men, have excelled in their field but have succumbed to temptation and have given into impulse that is illegal, illicit or illogical. The consequences of such bad behavior can be ruinous (See former Clippers owner Donald Sterling star, running back Ray Rice; politicians Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer; former CIA Director David Petraeus; former NASDAQ Chairman Bernie Madoff).
 
Scandal represents “breach of virtue exposed” (Markovits & Silverstein, 1988, p. vii).
John Thompson (2000), a political scientist, offers more depth in his definition by listing scandal’s five qualities:
1.         Scandals involve the breach of norms.
2.         Scandals involve secrecy or covert activity.
3.         People disapprove of scandal’s moral breach.
4.         People publicly express this disapproval.
5.     The “offending” individual/s risk a damaged reputation
 
The book’s editors, Hinda Mandell (School of Communication, RIT) and Gina M. Chen (School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin), invite submissions to this volume, which will include academic studies, cultural criticism, robust essays, creative works and illustrations that engage with the dimensions of  Scandal in our age of (self) surveillance .  Written submissions should range from 4,000-9,000 words and can emerge from any academic field. Submissions that explore contemporary scandal in the fields of politics, finance, sports, entertainment, celebrity culture, education, legacy media, social media and business are welcome. Submissions that also examine scandal on the micro, personal level - including issues surrounding sexting and revenge porn - are welcome as well.
 
Submissions can take a global or American-focused perspective on the themes of scandal and (self) surveillance.
 
Chapters will be considered for a book proposal that will be submitted to a university of academic publishing house in early 2015.
 
All scholarship and submissions should be previously unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere, and can use any rhetorical or critical/cultural approach to focus on the manifestations of our scandal culture today. Above all else we prize writing that is accessible and highly readable. Submissions using a quantitative approach should be written for a general audience.
 
Please email Hinda Mandell (  [email protected] ) by February 23, 2015, with the following information:
 
Your name and title
Institutional affiliation
Abridged CV
Completed chapter manuscript in Microsoft Word
Questions? Please get in touch with Hinda Mandell (  [email protected] ).
 
Those interested in submitting work but needing additional time past February 23 should still get in touch!
Works cited
Markovits, A.S. & Silverstein, M. (1988).  The politics of scandal: Power and process in liberal democracies . New York: Holmes & Meier.
Thompson, J.B. (2000).  Political scandal: Power and visibility in the media age . Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.  

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Yale University - Librarian for Slavic & East European Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50483  
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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/university-of-antwerp/2015/temporary-academic-staff-area-artistic-research-specifically-field-music-performing-arts/49638/

Temporary academic staff in the area of Artistic Research, more specifically in the field of Music and Performing Arts
Within the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) is the point of contact with the Schools of Arts of the Association and it contributes to the development of artistic research.
ARIA is seeking to fill the following  part-time (30 %)  vacancy:   temporary academic staff in the area of Artistic Research, more specifically in the field of Music and Performing Arts
Job description
*  You will develop, in close collaboration with the Antwerp Schools of Arts, scientific research in the area of the arts, more specifically Music and the Performing Arts; an inter- and transdisciplinary approach is expected;
*  You will acquire and manage external funding (national and international);
*  You will supervise PhD-students in the Arts and will actively contribute to the training of PhD-students in the Arts;
*  You will offer scientific services: you will play an active role in the communication with the artistic field, and in maintaining the dialogue between university, Schools of Arts and the broader world of Art and Culture;
*  You will contribute to the national and international visibility of ARIA as a centre for artistic research.
Profile and requirements
*  You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in the Arts or in another relevant discipline;
*  You have experience with artistic research generally, and research in and on Music and the Performing Arts more specifically;
*  You have several years of experience in a position of postdoctoral researcher or equivalent;
*  Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the  university’s policy  and you are willing to collaborate intensively with the Antwerp Schools of Arts;
*  You have an international and diverse network of experts in the artistic field and in the field of artistic research;
*  You have leadership skills;
*  You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;
*  You can meet the statutory language requirements for both the knowledge of the teaching language and the administrative language, Dutch. The University of Antwerp provides the necessary support.
We offer
*  A part-time position as a lecturer (or higher, depending on academic qualifications and professional experience) for a period not exceeding 3  years. The appointment is renewable after positive evaluation;
*  The date of appointment will be  1 October 2015 ;
*  A full time gross monthly salary ranging from € 4.009,52 till € 5.910,19;
*  A dynamic and stimulating work environment.
How to apply?
*  Applications may only be  submitted online , until the closing date  March 31, 2015 ;
*  A pre-selection will be made from amongst the submitted applications. The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection panel;
*  The interviews of the candidates, preselected by a selection panel, will take place on May 8, 2015;
*  More information about the application form can be obtained from Ben Daems (Tel.  +32 (0)3 265 31 51 ;
*  For questions about the profile and the description of duties, please contact Prof.Henk de Smaele,  +32 (0)3 265 4281  or   [email protected] 

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http://academicpositions.eu/ad/university-of-antwerp/2015/temporary-academic-staff-area-artistic-research-specifically-field-visual-arts-applied-arts/49636/
Temporary academic staff in the area of Artistic Research, more specifically in the field of Visual Arts and Applied Arts
Within the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) is the point of contact with the Schools of Arts of the Association and it contributes to the development of artistic research.
ARIA is seeking to fill the following  part-time (30 %)  vacancy:  temporary academic staff in the area of Artistic Research, more specifically in the field of Visual Arts and Applied Arts
Job description
*  You will develop, in close collaboration with the Antwerp Schools of Arts, scientific research in the area of the arts, more specifically the Visual and Applied Arts; an inter- and transdisciplinary approach is expected;
*  You will acquire and manage external funding (national and international);
*  You will supervise PhD-students in the Arts and will actively contribute to the training of PhD-students in the Arts;
*  You will offer scientific services: you will play an active role in the communication with the artistic field, and in maintaining the dialogue between university, Schools of Arts and the broader world of Art and Culture;
*  You will contribute to the national and international visibility of ARIA as a centre for artistic research.
Profile and requirements
*  You hold a doctorate degree (PhD) in  the Arts or in another relevant discipline;
*  You have experience with artistic research generally, and research in and on the visual arts/applied arts more specifically;
*  You have several years of experience in a position of postdoctoral researcher or equivalent;
*  Your academic qualities comply with the requirements stipulated in the  university’s policy  and you are willing to collaborate intensively with the Antwerp Schools of Arts;
*  You have an international and diverse network of experts in the artistic field and in the field of artistic research;
*  You have leadership skills;
*  You are quality-oriented, conscientious, creative and cooperative;
*  You can meet the statutory language requirements for both the knowledge of the teaching language and the administrative language, Dutch. The University of Antwerp provides the necessary support.
We offer
*  A part-time position as a lecturer (or higher, depending on academic qualifications and professional experience) for a period not exceeding 3  years. The appointment is renewable after positive evaluation;
*  The date of appointment will be  1 October 2015 ;
*  A full time gross monthly salary ranging from € 4.009,52 till € 5.910,19;
*  A dynamic and stimulating work environment.
How to apply?
*  Applications may only be submitted  online , until the closing date  March 31, 2015 ;
*  A pre-selection will be made from amongst the submitted applications. The remainder of the selection procedure is specific to the position and will be determined by the selection panel;
*  The interviews of the candidates, preselected by a selection panel, will take place on May 8, 2015;
*  More information about the application form can be obtained from Ben Daems (Tel.  +32 (0)3 265 31 51) ;
*  For questions about the profile and the description of duties, please contact Prof. Henk de Smaele,  +32 (0)3 265 4281  or   [email protected] 

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 UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI University Lecturer, general history, especially modern history
The Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki, invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER for an open-ended appointment as of 1 August 2015, or as agreed. The field of the position is general history, especially modern history. There is a four-month trial period for the position.
Publication date:  January 15, 2015 Application deadline:  February 16, 2015   http://academicpositions.eu/ad/university-of-helsinki/2015/university-lecturer-general-history-especially-modern-history/48730/

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Indiana State University - Chair Multidisciplinary Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50417

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International Institute of Social History - 3 Senior Researchers
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50425  

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https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=50425
 International Institute of Social History, Research Department

3 Senior Researchers
As of March 1st, 2015, there will be an opening in the research department of the IISH for
Three Senior Researchers (m/f)
(4-5 days a week)
(4 years, with possibility of tenure)
 
Job description:
Developing, carrying out, publishing and supervising global labour history research at a high academic level, contributing to the development of the institute’s research program and it’s leadership in the field
Acquiring external funding for research
Contributing to the institute’s value to society by taking part in public discussions, writing for a non-academic audience, etc.
Requirements

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

Essential
PHD in History or Social Sciences
Significant research experience in an area relevant to our research program
Demonstrable success in producing research of the highest standards as evidenced in publications in high ranking journals in the relevant fields
Demonstrable knowledge of scholarly literature and theoretical approaches to global labour history, including regional, transregional  and transcontinental comparisons and connections, and application of this knowledge to personal academic research
Experience with data-based methods and computer analysis, and application of this knowledge to personal academic research
Experience in research on non-European regions
Demonstrated ability to write successful research grant applications
Desirable

Knowledge of advanced digital humanities methodologies
Networks in one or more non-western regions
For one of the three positions: expertise on labour and labour relations in the Netherlands after 1945 in a comparative perspective
Skills and abilities

Essential
High level of proficiency in English, sufficient to undertake research, to present results and to communicate effectively with colleagues
Demonstrated ability to write for and talk to a non-academic audience
Good oral and written communication skills
Ability to work well within international teams and networks
Ability to work well with co-workers like software developers, administrators etc.
Ability to supervise other researchers
Desirable

Proficiency in one or more non-European languages
Good project-management skills
Ability to communicate to a non-academic audience
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.

Our research program Global Labour History, as we define it, is not a theory but a field of scholarly interest. It concerns the history of all those people who through their work have built our modern world – not only wage labourers, but also chattel slaves, sharecroppers, housewives, the self-employed, and many other groups. The program focuses on the labour relations of these people, as individuals but also as members of households, families, clans and other networks and contexts. Global Labour History covers at least the last five centuries and, in principle, all continents. It compares developments in several parts of the world and attempts to reveal intercontinental connections and interactions.

Appointment and salary:

The gross salary ranges from € 3.950,- to € 5.070,- (scale 12 CAO-Dutch Universities) based on a full working week (38 hours) and depending on relevant work experience.

The IISH offers an extensive package of fringe benefits, such as 8,3% year-end bonus, 8% holiday pay, a good pension scheme, 6 weeks holiday on an annual basis and the possibility to buy or sell vacation hours.

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HES Professor-coordinator at the CCC Research-Based Master Programme
Geneva University of Art and Design invites applications for a HES Professor-coordinator at the CCC
Research-Based Master Programme Critical Curatorial Cybermedia
The CCC Research-Based Master Programme develops art practices embedded in the fields of critical
theory and cultural studies and transmits curatorial and cybermedia skills as main disseminating
media. Research training is at the core of the pedagogical objectives. Scientific research projects are
initiated to foster students’ professional developments and relevant artistic inventions. The Programme
publishes academic papers and research reports in a long-term relationship with its national and
international networks.
Starting date : 01.09.2015
Application deadline : 28.02.2015

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   Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian,
Sewanee-The University of the South

The University of the South invites applications for
a three-year visiting position (with the possibility
of renewal) in Russian language and literature, to
begin in fall 2015.

Teaching load is three courses per semester. Ph.D.
in hand at time of appointment desired; ABD
considered. We seek a dynamic, energetic
colleague with native or near-native fluency in
Russian and English, demonstrated scholarly
promise, and strong evidence of effectiveness in
teaching. Interest in and ability to contribute to
interdisciplinary programs is highly desirable, as
is willingness to assist in planning co-curricular
and extracurricular activities essential to our
flourishing Russian program. Please visit our
website, russian.sewanee.edu, for more
information about the department.

http://hr.sewanee.edu/job_postings/
visiting-assistant-professor-of-russian

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  Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern European
History, Amherst College

The Department of History at Amherst College
invites applications for a full-time, three-year
visiting assistant professor position in modern
European history, excluding Britain and Russia.
The field of research specialty is open, and we
encourage applications from those working in
all fields of modern continental European
history, broadly defined. When crafting sample
syllabi, applicants should consider how their
course offerings will complement and expand
upon the current strengths in our department,
which include twentieth-century intellectual,
social, and transnational history, and the history
of the European empires.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id =50400

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   Assistant Professor, Comparative History,
Central European University

The Department of History at Central European
University (CEU) invites applications for an
assistant professor position in Comparative
History. Candidates must have the capacity to
develop a convincing and innovative
methodological program for research and
teaching in Comparative History. While the
topical focus is open, candidates must be able
to connect to focus areas of the department.
In keeping with the Department's strong
emphasis on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
studies, we seek applicants whose research and
teaching accommodate contemporary approaches
in social, political, gender, intellectual or cultural
history. Applicants must hold a PhD degree or
provide documentation that they will receive a
PhD by August 2015.

http://hro.ceu.hu/vacancies/
assistant-professor-in-comparative-history

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