Organizers: Danish Network for Cultural Memory Studies & Network for Migration and Culture Date: 6 – 7 December 2012 Venues: University of Copenhagen & Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj Deadline for applications: 1 st May 2012 The increasingly complex relationship between the local and the global, ‘the near’ and ‘the far away’, has emerged [...]

Date and venue: 5-6 March 2013,  University of Illinois Deadline for applications: 20th April, 2012 Organizers: Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Research Group  Pathways of Law in Ethno-Religiously Mixed Societies, funded by the German Research Foundation at [...]

Date: 5th-6th October 2012 Organizers: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University and Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), Nanyang Technological University Deadline for applications: 16th April 2012 Memory studies has emerged as a growing field of research in recent years, attracting scholars from various countries in diverse disciplines. [...]

Guest editors: Ludmila Cojocari, ProMemoria Institute of Social History, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova & Jennifer R. Cash, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Salle, Germany Deadline for abstracts: 6th April, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS As historical studies have shown, the socialist state attempted to mobilise citizens to make new nations, as well as construct of [...]

Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen/ Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna is offering multiple fellowships for students and young and visiting scholars. We would like to draw Your attention to some of fellowships offered:

Special Issue: PARTICIPATORY MEDIA AND PUBLIC MEMORY Deadline: April 2nd, 2012; Language: English/German TRANSIT, a multidisciplinary online journal dedicated to the critical inquiry of travel, migration, and multiculturalism in the German-speaking world, will devote its forthcoming issue to “Participatory Media and Public Memory.” For this special issue, we are soliciting submissions that consider the nexus [...]

Date and venue: 20th-22nd September, 2012, Aarhus, Denmark Deadline for applications: 15th April, 2012 For the inaugural seminar of Mnemonics: Network for Memory Studies, a newly established international collaborative initiative for graduate education in memory studies, we invite paper proposals from graduate students on the relations between the aesthetics and ethics of memory. Aesthetics and [...]

German-Czech-Polish Summer School „Memory Cultures in Central Europe. Poland and Czech Republic – Prague / Szczecin 2012 Date and venue: Szczecin and Prague, 9th-23th September, 2012 Deadline for applications: 15th May 2012 Even two decades after the demise of the socialist regimes in East Central Europe, debates about the past are still provoking irritation and [...]

Deadline for applications: 30th April, 2012 Date and venue: 24th-26th October, 2012; University of Helsinki, Finland The link between competition and good society has seldom been extensively discussed on any international academic forum. Since the 1980s there has been vivid political discussion of and rivalry among the varieties of capitalist models. The ongoing Western economic [...]

Date and venue: 22nd-23rd June, Durham University Deadline for proposals: 31st March 2012 The German diaspora can be found in most Eastern and Central European states as well as in some of the successor states of the former Soviet Union. Ethnic German minorities have lived – and albeit in much reduced numbers still live – [...]