The Konitsa Summer School organising committee is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 7th "International Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans".

The deadline for the submission of applications is May 15, 2012.

Key lectures will be delivered by Prof. Keith Hart and Prof. Ulf

1. ///Albanian Culture and Society in Ethnographic and Anthropological Analysis: A Critical Perspective/
2. ///Rituals, Symbols and Identities in Rural and Urban Contexts: Approaches from Folklore and Anthropology/
3. ///Doing Fieldwork: Theory, Method and the Production of Anthropological Knowledg/
4. /Ethnographic Research in Border Areas /(fieldwork exercise in Albania and Greece)
6. ///Soundscapes of the Balkans: Flocks and Local Feasts, Rock-Bands and Radio Waves/
7. ///The Anthropology of Dance/

For more, have a look at the following link:

http://www.hist-arch.uoi.gr/SUMMERSCHOOL/index.html

3rd Young Scientists* Forum on Central and South East Europe
6 – 8 December 2012, Vienna, Austria

CALL FOR APPLICATION
(In-)Equality -Political, Economic, Social, Spatial and Gender Aspects

The Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), Vienna,
is organizing
The 3rd Young Scientists Forum (YSF) on Central and South East Europe

Aims:

-Promoting and encouraging young scientists to engage in the regions of Central and

South East Europe;
-Presentation of innovative research to a wider public;
-Exchange between young and more advanced researchers on topics, methods, sources

and results;
-Networking;
-Furthering mobility within the region;
-Publication of contributions and results.

Target group:

Young scientists dealing with Central and South East Europe in the fields of cultural studies,
history, European ethnology, media studies, political sciences, geography and sociology.

Date and venue:

The symposium will take place 6 -8 December, 2012 in Vienna.

Programme:

-Presentation of research papers/projects by high level experts and young scientists;
-(Plenary) discussions;
-Social and cultural programme.

Applications:
Applications for participation may be handed in by e-mail by May 15, 2012 and have to include a
full academic CV and an abstract (max. 1 page) of the research project/paper that shall be
presented and discussed at the symposium.

Costs for travel expenses and accommodation will be reimbursed by the IDM.

Language: English and German (German speaking applicants can submit their applications
also in German language).

Please send applications to:

Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM)
Mag. David Zuser
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phone: +43-1 319 72 58-21

Potential partners and sponsors: bfi Wien, ISR -Institut für Stadt-und Regionalforschung,
City of Vienna, Lower Austria.

* Young scientists up to 35 years

3rd Young Scientists* Forum on Central and South East Europe
2012, Vienna, Austria

General Topic: (In)Equality – Political, Economic, Spatial, Social and Gender Aspects

Inequality has increased in Central and South East Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain and during
transformation. While Communist regimes laid some emphasis on disparity equalisation – thus also
overburdening in this way their economies and promoting their breakdown – post-communist countries
were rather inclined to apply liberal and neo-classical political concepts, relying on the forces of the free
market much more than e.g the social market economies of West Central Europe such as Germany and
Austria. Inequalities appeared and became more and more significant in a vertical as well as in a
horizontal (spatial) and gender dimension. Questions arise such as:

· whether such inequalities were unavoidable in a period of transformation,
· whether they are sustainable or will lead to fragmented societies, social and political conflict,
· whether they can be seen as inefficient use of socioeconomic capacities and resources
· and what is to be done to balance and compensate inequality.
Another important issue and task in this context is, of course, to question how to document inequality
precisely in a scientific way.

The following list of potential subtopics can stimulate ideas, but is by no means exclusive:

(1) Social disparity equalisation as an political agenda item Central and South East European
countries
-Redistributive effects of tax systems

-The effects of administrative decentralization on social disparities

-The party system in relation to social disparity equalisation

(2) The socio-economic NW-SE gap in Europe – can a secular phenomenon be changed?
-Relative economic performance of countries by macro-economic indicators

-Reasons for a macroregional gap

-Documented and expected effects of European integration like

-cohesion and regional development policies,

-Common Agricultural Policy,

-adaptation to a Western European legal and societal system,

-TEN-T corridors,

-ceding powers to European institutions,

-trust in European versus domestic institutions.

-Europeanization – pros and cons

(3) Urban/rural and other spatial disparities in Central and South East Europe
-Reasons for urban/rural socio-economic disparities

-Characteristics of rural development

-Characteristics of urban development

-Domestic migration

-Regional development policies and programs

-Tourism as a driving force of regional development

-The roles of local and regional governance in spatial disparity equalisation

-Space-related identity building as an ingredient of regional development

-The role of trans-border cooperation on the regional and local level for regional development

(4) The widening social gap in Central and South East Europe
-Social polarization and its reasons

-Socially disadvantaged groups (e.g. Roma)

-Emigration as a way out?

-Consequences of emigration

-Brain drain

-Demographic decline

-The ambivalent role of emigration (negative and positive effects: remittances, reduced

unemployment, better opportunities for the people at home)

-The role of the educational system

-Who works against the social gap? The role of the state, civil society institutions, churches…

(5) Gender equality in Central and South East Europe?
-Gender (in)equality related to cultural groups

-Gender (in)equality in education

-Gender (in)equality in the economy

-Gender (in)equality in politics

-Measures of equality enforcement taken

-The influence of the Western model

Dear colleagues,

from 19 to 21 April, the conference „Physical Violence in Late Socialism: (Dis-)Entangling Statehood, Labor, and the Nation” will take place at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. For further information, please consult www.physicalviolence.eu.
Best regards, Sabine Rutar


International Joint Research Project
“Physical Violence and State Legitimacy in Late Socialism”

First Annual Conference
Physical Violence in Late Socialism:
(Dis-)Entangling Statehood, Labor, and the Nation

Institute for East and South East European Studies (IOS)
Landshuter Str. 4, 93047 Regensburg, Room 319 (3rd floor)
in cooperation with the
Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam
19 - 21 April 2012

Programme
Thursday, 19 April
17.00
Welcome Address
(Ulf Brunnbauer, Jan C. Behrends, Sabine Rutar)

17.30
Key Note Speech
A. Jan Kutylowski, University of Oslo
Patterns of Violence and Legitimacy under Communist Rule.
Theoretical and Empirical Considerations with a Comparative Viewpoint

Reception / buffet at the Institute

19.45
Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile)
(Romania 2007, 113 min., director: Cristian Mungiu)


Friday, 20 April
9.00 - 10.15
Panel 1: Legacies and Remembrance
Constantin Parvulescu, West University of Timişoara
From Gulag to the Everyday. Representations of Violence in Nicoale Marginean’s Bless You, Prison and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Katrin Boeckh, IOS Regensburg
Beyond Systemic Divides: Experience and Remembrance of Physical Violence in Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine

Chair: Jan C. Behrends, ZZF Potsdam

Coffee

10.45-12.30
Panel 2: Ethnic Interferences with the "Classless, Internationalist State"
Claudiu Petru Rusu / Mihai Mureșan, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Between Ethnic Violence and Social Integration: the Status of Minorities in Communist
Romania

Nadège Ragaru, CERI-Sciences Po, Paris
Time(s) of Violence: Cinema and the Forced Assimilation of Muslim Minorities in Late
Socialist Bulgaria

Constantin Katsakioris, University of Athens
Aggressing Third World Students in the USSR. Exploring the Soviet Violence against the Darker Guests, 1960-1991

Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer, IOS Regensburg

Lunch

14.00 -16.15
Panel 3: Politics of the Body (and the Mind)
Dumitru Lăcătuşu, IICCMER, Bucharest
Psychiatry as Political Violence in Communist Romania

Jennifer Rasell, ZZF Potsdam
Lost to the State: Whoever that Might Be. Violence in State-Run Children’s Homes in Late
Socialism

Corina Doboş, University College London / IICCMER, Bucharest
Biopolitics beyond Stalinism: Elements of Violence in Ceausescu’s Pronatalism

Ondřej Cinkajzl, Charles University, Prague
Involuntary Sterilization of Roma Women – Continuities and Changes

Chair: Michal Kopeček, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague

Coffee

16.45 - 18.00
Panel 4: Heroes of Work? Strikes, Riots, and the Police
Sabine Rutar, IOS Regensburg
The Role of Violence in the Public Sphere of Late Socialist Croatia: Workers Milieus and Social Identity Constructions in Rijeka

Călin Morar-Vulcu, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Violence and Agency in the Industrial Milieu in Late Socialist Romania

Chair: Natali Stegmann, University of Regensburg

Dinner


Saturday, 21 April
9.00 - 10.45
Panel 5: Male Social (Mis-)Conduct
Brian LaPierre, University of Southern Mississippi
Soviet Hooliganism as a Category of Ordinary, Intimate, and Empowering Violence

Gleb Tsipursky, Ohio State University at Newark
Worker Youth and Everyday Violence in the Late Soviet Union, 1953-1970

Jeff Hayton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
‘Krawall in der Zionskirche’: Skinhead Violence and Political Legitimacy in the GDR

Chair: Claudia Kraft, University of Siegen

Coffee

11.15 - 13.30
Panel 6: Forging the Nation
Jens Boysen, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Forcing the Workers to Feel as the Nation: The Polish Army as an Agent of Ambiguous Nation-Building in Late People’s Poland (1976-1989)

Rasa Baločkaitė, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
The Soviet Militia in Lithuania: Violent Intermediaries of State Legitimacy

Isabel Ströhle, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
Dealing with Violent Transgressions and “Deformations” in the State Security Apparatus. The League of Communists of Yugoslavia and the SAP Kosovo

Robert Lučić, ZZF Potsdam
Printing the Conflict – A Casestudy of the Serbian Town Valjevo 1990/1991

Chair: Michal Pullmann, Charles University Prague


Concluding Statements


Departure

The International Research Training Group „Religious Cultures in 19th and 20th century Europe“ (LMU Munich/Charles-University Prague in cooperation with the Collegium Carolinum/Munich) invites applications for eight PhD scholarships. Applications are accepted until 31 May 2012.
The Research Training Group examines religion and its entanglements with secular systems in European modernity. The scholarships are awarded for two years, starting 1 October 2012 and can be extended for another 12 months depending on the progress of the research project. Scholarship payments correspond to the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) maximum rate (i.e. approx. 1365 € plus material costs).
Admission requirements: Applicants should have a master’s degree in History, Theology, Study of Religions or Jewish Studies.
For further information on admission requirements and on the procedure of application see: http://www.igk-religioese-kulturen.uni-muenchen.de/bewerbung/ausschreibung/index.html
Please notice: Applications are accepted only via our online application-tool: https://www.graduatecenter-lmu.de/religioese-kulturen/

Contact:
Laura Hölzlwimmer, M.A.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Historisches Seminar
Schellingstraße 12, Raum 523
80539 München
Telefon: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 5544
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Dear all,

On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committee of the International Conference „Architecture and Ideology“, to be held on September 28–29, 2012 in Belgrade (Serbia) we are pleased to invite you to participate and give scientific and professional contributions to the aims of the Conference.

Please find attached all necessary information about ongoing Conference. You are kindly asked to forward this invitation to colleagues within your institution.

More information on the Conference (Application Form, Submission of abstracts, registration fee) you can find on web site: www.arh.bg.ac.rs

Kind regards,

Marko Nikolic | Milena Vukmirovic
Members of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference „Architecture and Ideology“
Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade
Blvd. Kralja Aleksandra 73/II
Belgrade, Serbia
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Call for Papers: Migration, transnationalism and development in the Balkans and South-East Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-29 August 2012

The fall of the Berlin Wall more than 20 years ago marks an important point in time in terms of migratory movements within Europe, often characterised by such terms as ‘Post-Wall migration’, ‘East-West mobility’ etc. The Balkans and South-East Europe (SEE) region[1] made
up of a group of mainly small countries situated at the continent’s eastern and, especially, south-eastern margins have experienced particularly intense migratory flows. The unfolding dramatic new migration trends that took place in the last 20 years in this region often built on older histories of migration stretching back into the early postwar decades, and earlier in some cases. Yet, this Post-Wall migration is different in many ways. Many of these countries have rates of emigration which are amongst the highest not only in Europe, but the world, and moreover have a dependency on migration (measured through the financial impact of remittances) which is also often extremely high. Particularly within the post-communist countries, powerful currents of internal migration (previously tightly controlled) have been unleashed, which are often combined
and interrelated in complex ways with external migration, including return. Peripheral to the main European core of advanced economies, this set of countries is – with some exceptions – economically less developed and fragile. Hence the relationship between (internal and international) migration and transnationalism on the one hand, and development on the other, becomes a focus of analysis, both for scholarly research and policy-makers. Finally, the region presents a laboratory for examining EU migration policies over time, comprising as it does of ‘old’ EU member countries (Greece), new EU members with full rights (Slovenia and Cyprus), new EU members with limited rights (Bulgaria and Romania), as well as other countries at different stages in the path to becoming EU members (Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Kosovo in that order of distance to accession) and a country where the EU accession is not an option in the
near future (Moldova).This aspect is particularly relevant considering that migration policy is an important influencing factor on development. This workshop is thus a timely counterpoint to the main thrust of IMISCOE thus far, which has been the perspective of the ‘mature’ immigration countries of Western Europe.

Objective and scope
As the title makes clear, the workshop is concerned with the relationship between migration, transnationalism and development in the Balkans and SEE. Possible themes to be explored in the papers can include analyses of how economic and social development interacts with international migration; transnationalism; return migration; the links between internal and international migration especially through return from abroad; financial and social remittances to produce gendered development; forced migration; and EU migration policy particularly within the framework of enlargement. We invite contributions that are based on empirical research (surveys, primary and secondary data analysis) in the region, or address questions of migration-development theory or policy in the region. Papers which compare the experiences of two or more countries are particularly welcome. The primary objective of the workshop is to act as a forum for scholars from, and
working on, the Balkans and SEE to discuss and exchange their research in order to enable a better understanding of these development processes in the region.

Expected contribution
Those accepted to present at the workshop are required to submit full-length papers by the relevant deadline (see below). These papers will be circulated in advance to workshop participants in order to efficiently use the discussion time.

Format and costs
Abstracts of around 500 words, in English, including applicant’s name, affiliation and contact details should be sent to Julie Vullnetari < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. &gt.

Some support will be available towards the cost of accommodation and/or travel and the conference fee, according to need.

Context and host
The workshop will take place during the Ninth IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) Research Network's Annual Conference, 28-29 August 2010 at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It is co-sponsored by IMISCOE as part of its Research Initiatives strand, the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR) of the University of Sussex and the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) of Malmö University. Workshop conveners are Russell King at SCMR and MIM and Julie Vullnetari at SCMR.

Timeline
• 1 May 2012: Deadline for submission of abstracts
• 20 May 2012: Notification of acceptance decisions
• 1 August 2012: Deadline for submission of full papers
• 29 August 2012: Workshop

Registration
All conference delegates, including workshop presenters, must register for the conference. For information on how to register please visit the conference website: www.imiscoeconferences.org

We expect to receive more submissions than can be accommodated at the workshop. A selection will be made on the basis of quality and relevance, as well as a realistic expectation to submit a full paper by the relevant deadline. It is anticipated that a selection of papers, suitably revised, will be published as a special issue in a relevant academic journal.

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Dr Julie Vullnetari
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
School of Global Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9SJ, UK

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