CAUCASUS INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (CISS)

8th – 12th July, 2013

The deadline for application is Monday, May 20th, 2013.

http://events.unitn.it/en/ciss2013

Since gaining independence from the Soviet Union, the region of Southern Caucasus has experienced a difficult transition towards constitutional rule of law and democracy, as dramatically represented by the occurrence of armed conflicts.

Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia committed themselves to liberal democratic principles and became members of the Council of Europe, but the results of their transition processes are still uneven. The strengthening of democratic institutions is challenged by many issues, including the permanence of de facto independent states as well as the presence of one million displaced people as results of the wars of the early 1990s.

Understanding the Caucasus today is of crucial interest to students of democratic transition, conflict transformation, international law and minorities’ rights. Students of international relations can approach an area around which gravitate the interests of the EU as well as of regional powers such as Russia, Turkey and Iran. Students of Caucasian studies have the opportunity to discuss their research with world leading regional experts.

The Caucasus International Summer School constitutes a unique opportunity for approaching, with high level international scholars from various disciplines, what makes the South Caucasus a priority in contemporary international studies. Not the least, the summer school takes place in the relaxed atmosphere of the Italian Alps surrounded by amazing mountain landscapes.

The Faculty is composed of leading scholars in Caucasian studies with high level scientific achievements and a wide personal experience on the field. The Faculty is invited to offer assistance to to participants’ research projects.

Leyla Alieva – president of the Center for National and International Studies (CNIS), Baku, Azerbaijan
Helge Blakkisrud – head of the Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo
Thomas de Waal – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
Aldo Ferrari – University of Venice and Vice-President of ASIAC
Sabine Freizer – director of the Europe Programme, International Crisis Group, Istanbul
Richard Giragosian – director Regional Studies Center (RSC) Yerevan, Armenia
Mikayel Hovhannisyan – Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia
Marina Muskhelishvili – Center for Social Sciences (CSS), Tbilisi, Georgia
Ghia Nodia – director of the International School of Caucasus Studies at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Natalie Sabanadze – Office of the Legal Advisor, OSCE/HCNM
Jonathan Wheatley – Zentrum für Demokratie, Aarau

Secretariat
Via Verdi 53 – 38122 Trento (Italy)
Fax 0461 281874
e-mail: ciss@unitn.it

22 July – 2 August, 2013

The Association Linguists is organising the fifth edition of the Summer School of the Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language this year.

The school lasts for two weeks, and consists of 40 classes of grammar and conversation. Additional activities include cooking and folklore workshops, translation classes, as well as a visit to a museum and a regional film screening. This year, instead of paying a visit to Mostar, we will travel to Travnik and Jajce, as a part of a one-day field trip.

In case you are interested in taking more than the 40 classes that the original Summer School offers, please let us know when you apply – this year we are organising the additional 20 classes (60 classes in total)! Our students will be able to opt for additional 5 days of learning BCS with us, from 5 to 9 August.

Students will be divided into small groups according to their proficiency levels, and several teachers will work with them on different aspects of language acquisition.

This year we will be organising the C2 level for those who have learned their grammar but still struggle with writing, as well as for those whose mother tongue is BCS, but who have never studied it in school.

Application process has already started, the price being 250 euro if you apply before 1 June.

If you apply later, the price is 300 euro.

We offer a discount for those who do not want to attend the additional activities and only wish to attend the classes (the price being 200 euro for two weeks and 300 euro for three weeks).

The accommodation is not included in the price.

For additional information, please visit: http://www.lingvisti.ba/bsc-school/bcs-summer-school/description-of-the-school

You can also check our e-magazines to find info about the previous summers:

http://www.lingvisti.ba/download/7dcbab9d-bc71-4329-b3ee-b94917127195.pdf,

as well as some photos:

http://www.lingvisti.ba/o-nama/foto-album/cetvrta-ljetna-skola

If you should have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

Flensburg, Germany
August 19 – 29, 2013
Application deadline: May 15, 2013

The combination of the border region studies and minority rights’ studies on the example of the Danish-German border region model makes the NMBR summer school unique and interesting for the wide range of young scholars and practitioners. Participants have chance to attend the lectures delivered by ECMI researchers and international guest scholars from various European countries as well as local and international practitioners with high expertise in the area.
Please visit the summer school website to review the draft programme: http://www.nmbr.de/courses/2013/
How to apply to the Summer School
Eligibility

MA Students, PhD Candidates, junior scholars and practitioners, media representatives and NGO workers interested or working in the related area.

Application Procedure

Please submit the online application form (with the letter of statement and the CV attached) here: http://www.nmbr.de/application/application/

Enrollment Procedure

After the deadline the successful applicants will be granted the admission. Upon the admission the participants are expected to transfer the study fee of 400EUR and fill in the registration form
here: http://www.nmbr.de/application/registration/

Organizer

European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)

Information & contacts

The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) conducts practice and policy-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. It serves European governments and regional intergovernmental organizations as well as nondominant groups throughout. The Centre co-operates with the academic community, the media and the general public through the timely provision of information and analysis. ECMI HQ, based in Flensburg, Germany, conducts the research whcile the regional offices in Kosovo and Caucasus conduct the field projects in the area of ethnic minority issues. ECMI Flensburg organizes the conferences, workshops, seminars and the annual summer school as part of it’s training activity.

The summer school contact person:
Ms. Tamari Bulia
Summer School Senior Coordinator.

email: bulia@ecmi.de
Tel.: 0049 4611 41490

Colloque interdisciplinaire et international organisé à Corte (Corse) par le Musée de la Corse les 19 et 20 juin 2014.

jusqu’au 31 octobre 2013

En 1914, la guerre entraîne des millions d’hommes vers des horizons nouveaux dont beaucoup ne reviendront pas. Composées en majorité de simples citoyens ayant endossé l’uniforme, des armées s’affrontent au nom de nations au sein desquelles résonnent et s’entremêlent différents modèles de patriotisme, de nationalisme et d’identités sociales. Si depuis quelques années, la recherche historique, aussi bien nationale qu’internationale, s’intéresse de plus en plus aux témoignages précieux de ces hommes ordinaires ballotés par le flux et le reflux d’événements qui les dépassent, l’attention sur les « groupes » (une notion à discuter) régionaux ou nationaux minoritaires, compris comme des entités conscientes d’elles-mêmes, construisant et véhiculant des identités socioculturelles et des expressions patriotiques singulières au sein de leur nation d’appartenance, demeure une clé de lecture aujourd’hui relativement peu étudiée. De fait, il apparaît important de mieux connaître ces groupes, dans leur double dimension sociale et politique, de comprendre leur vision de la guerre, leurs rapports à la nation, au nationalisme et à leurs identités plurielles, parfois concurrentes.

Dans un cadre très large, il s’agit d’éclairer les articulations structurant leur(s) identité(s) régionale(s) et/ou nationale(s), au sein de l’entité nationale étatique. D’abord, ces groupes forment-ils des entités sociales homogènes, au sens de repérables et d’objectivables par le sociohistorien ? Comment les individus composant ces groupes sont-ils saisis par la guerre ? Leurs groupes s’en retrouvent-ils renforcés ? Divisés ? Qu’en est-il des Corses mobilisés dans l’armée française ? Quid de la participation des Alsaciens-Mosellans à l’effort de guerre allemand ? Comment se comportent les Italiens du Trentin, les Tchèques, les Slovaques, etc., au sein de l’empire austro-hongrois en guerre ? Le conflit a-t-il été le grand moment de cristallisation du sentiment national ou bien seulement une étape supplémentaire du renforcement des États-nations ? Qu’en est-il d’une France aux identités régionales encore vivaces malgré la laborieuse mais relativement efficace affirmation de l’État ? De l’Italie, dont le processus national est loin d’être achevé en 1914 ? Ou encore des Québécois au Canada ? Comment l’Autriche-Hongrie a-t-elle géré ses minorités à l’arrière et sur le front ? Dans les empires coloniaux, quelles sont les répercussions de la participation à l’effort de guerre national – celui de la métropole coloniale – sur les constructions identitaires des colons et des colonisés ; portent-elles en germe la construction nationale d’États post-coloniaux ?

D’une manière générale, que produisent les expériences de guerre des groupes porteurs d’une identité régionale et/ou nationale différente de celle des États qui les mobilisent ? Participent-elles finalement au renforcement de la construction nationale de l’entité étatique ? Au contraire, sont-elles le lit de (nouvelles) résistances ? Comment cela s’exprime-t-il ? Par différentes échelles de solidarité, de la cohésion du groupe primaire de combat (renforcé au début de la guerre par le recrutement régional) aux solidarités régionale et nationale ? Comment ces solidarités interagissent-elles avec les solidarités de classe ou de condition ? L’analyse des constructions et interactions identitaires complexes propres aux diverses minorités engagées dans la Grande Guerre recèle de nombreuses pistes pour la compréhension de ces frontières intra-étatiques peu visibles, redessinées dans la diversité sociale et le brassage national des tranchées.

L’échelle nationale, à travers le rapport centre-périphérie, permet une première approche à partir d’axes distincts. Ainsi, sous les angles différents et complémentaires d’une histoire à la fois sociale, politique et culturelle, il s’agira d’étudier les processus de définition et d’autodéfinition des groupes identitaires (minorités nationales, identités régionales, etc.) dans le double cadre de la nation en guerre. Les contributions s’articuleront autour des problématiques suivantes :

Comment s’articulent identités régionales et identités nationales dans les processus de mise en guerre de l’État (« mobilisation » des corps et des esprits, expression patriotique, etc.) ?
Comment ces identités plurielles résistent-elles l’une à l’autre, se transforment-elles au contact l’une de l’autre, se fondent-elles l’une dans l’autre…, dans le contexte des brassages dans les tranchées, les hôpitaux, les hivernages, les chantiers, les usines, ou lors des permissions (pratiques, expressions, etc.) ?
Ces différentes identités renforcent-elles la ténacité des combattants ?
Le conflit a-t-il tenu un rôle dans l’apparition ou la structuration d’un sentiment de rejet du sentiment national entre 1914 et 1918 et après-guerre ? A-t-il joué en faveur d’un essor de nationalités jusque-là étouffées ? D’un repli sur les « petites patries » ?

Si le colloque porte essentiellement sur une vision « par le bas » du conflit, discuter l’essor ou le repli identitaire revient à évoquer la construction et la postérité politiques de ces identités prises dans la guerre :

Quels modes d’administration les États en guerre ont-ils développé vis-à-vis de leurs minorités ? Quelles stratégies identitaires de légitimation de la guerre et de l’État en guerre ont-ils employé ?
Comment les politiques étatiques, les élites sociopolitiques locales ou encore les médias régionaux ont-ils cherché, à l’arrière comme au front, à développer le sentiment national et niveler ou reléguer l’expression d’identités différentes ? Des discours aux pratiques, quelle fut l’efficacité réelle de ces procédés ?
Enfin, comment les États en conflit ont-ils tenté de jouer sur les identités régionales ou les minorités des nations rivales afin d’affaiblir leurs ennemis ?

L’objectif scientifique du colloque repose sur une approche comparée, internationale et interdisciplinaire, de la Grande Guerre.

Colloque interdisciplinaire et international organisé à Corte (Corse) par le Musée de la Corse les 19 et 20 juin 2014.
Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communications sont à soumettre en français à :

jean-paul.pellegrinetti@wanadoo.fr et sylvain.gregori@wanadoo.fr

Elles ne devront pas excéder 5 000 signes et devront comporter un bref descriptif des sources envisagées.

Le dépôt des propositions s’effectuera
jusqu’au 31 octobre 2013

Les candidats seront informés de la décision du comité organisateur au plus tard le 31 décembre 2013.
Comité scientifique

Sylvain Gregori (Musée de Bastia, chercheur associé au CMMC. Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Charles Heimberg (Université de Genève)
Michel Litalien (Direction de l’Histoire et du patrimoine, Ministère de la Défense nationale du Canada)
Julien Mary (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III)
Jean-Paul Pellegrinetti (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Frédéric Rousseau (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III).

Partenaires

CMMC (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
CRISES (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III)
CRID 14-18

Bibliographie indicative

Benedict Anderson, L’imaginaire national. Réflexions sur l’origine et l’essor du nationalisme, Paris, La Découverte, 2002 [Imagined communities, 1983]
François Bouloc, Rémy Cazals et André Loez, Identités troublées. 1914-1918 : Les appartenances sociales et nationales à l’épreuve de la guerre, Toulouse, Éditions Privat, 2011.
Rémy Cazals et André Loez, Dans les tranchées de 14-18, Pau, Cairn, 2008.
Jean-François Chanet, L’école républicaine et les petites patries, Paris, Aubier, 1996.
Jean-François Chanet, Vers l’armée nouvelle. République conservatrice et réforme militaire, 1871-1879. Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006
Christophe Charle, La Crise des sociétés impériales. Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne (1900-1940), Paris, Le Seuil, 2001.
Éric Hobsbawm, Nations et nationalisme depuis 1780, Paris, Gallimard, 1992.
Jules Maurin, Armée, guerre, société: soldats languedociens (1899-1919), Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1982.
Gérard Noiriel, État, nation et immigration. Vers une histoire du pouvoir, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
Panikos Panayi, Minorities in Wartime. National and Racial Groupings in Europe, North America and Australia during the Two World Wars, Oxford, Berg, 1993.
Odile Roynette, “Bons pour le service”. L’expérience de la caserne en France à la fin du XIXe siècle, Paris, Belin, 2000.
Anne-Marie Thiesse, La Création des identités nationales, Paris, Le Seuil, 1999.
Patrick Weil, Qu’est-ce qu’un Français ? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.

SUMMER SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Kyiv, Ukraine
Sept. 9 – 22, 2013
Deadline: May 25, 2013

COURSE ORGANIZATION:
The course is oriented towards advanced under-graduate students (2nd year and above), although graduate, post-graduate, and doctoral-level students are also encouraged to apply. The course focuses on political, economic and social issues, and is particularly suitable for students in the social sciences, humanities, and law, but open to all faculties. After completion of the course, students will be issued NaUKMA transcripts. The course combines in-class sessions (lectures and seminars, interactive presentations with discussion highly encouraged), a conference on Ukraine’s international relations, guest visits, joint discussions with local students, and tours to interesting sites in or around Kyiv.

COURSE AIMS AND CONTENTS:
Since its independence 20 years ago, Ukraine developed increasingly close co-operation with the West and the EU, but also never lost its ties to Russia. Whilst important events seemed to change the path towards one or the other direction – e.g. the Orange Revolution in 2004 – Kyiv’s orientation is still to both sides. It tries to sign a political association and free trade agreement with Brussels while, at the same time, entering a post-Soviet free trade zone and considering Moscow’s project of a Eurasian Union. How can one explain these balancing acts? Which were the critical transformations and events that determined the way in which Ukraine developed? What is specific for the Ukrainian culture and state, and where can we find typical traits of a post-Soviet society?

The summer school will introduce students to the analysis of these phenomena from different perspectives as the teaching will involve English-speaking political scientists, historians, economists, cultural scientists, and sociologists – mainly, but not only from National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”.

Topics treated that in one way or another will, among others, include:

- Post-Soviet Ukraine: Socio-Economic and Political Transformations
- Ukraine between Democracy and Authoritarianism
- The Origins of the Orange Revolution, and What Remains of It
- Ukraine’s Relationship to the European Union & Russia

In case of full attendance of, and active participation in, these lectures/seminars, students may obtain 2.5 ECTS points.

The participants will attend about two classes per work day, and can have further meetings and trips during the afternoons and at the weekend. They will meet and work with lecturers and students from National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. The Summer school is organized by the NaUKMA International Office.
Two classes of survival Ukrainian are included into the program and covered by the general school fee.

HOURS:
Around 60 in-class hours (lectures, presentations, discussions) plus about 30 hours for course visits, meetings, group projects, project presentations etc.

Facultative Ukrainian-Language Course Work:

Additionally in parallel to the program, the students will be offered the opportunity to take part in a non-obligatory intensive course of Ukrainian. The course values 1,5 ECTS, with one or two sessions per work day, i.e. 14 x 2 = 28 hours. One course will be offered for those with no previous knowledge of a Slavic language, and one course for those with previous knowledge of a Slavic language (Russian, Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Serbian,…). Additional fees for these language courses will be charged (170-245 Euro depending on the number of the students registered). Language classes will not overlap with the program classes.

Course Instructor(s):
As the school is designed to be a mixture of different types of activities. The main school lecturer will be Dr. Mychailo Wynnyckyj (Director of the NaUKMA Doctoral School, Head of the NaUKMA Master’s Program in Sociology, lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Business School). Other lecturers invited will be mainly professors and experts of the NaUKMA, but we also put a special focus on external speakers.
For details please refer to the preliminary program to be published in due time.

CONFERENCE WITHIN THE SUMMER SCHOOL:
This year’s school will, for the first time, include a large, international conference under the title “What Can Tempt Ukraine to Get back on the Democratization Path? Kyiv between the EU’s Eastern Partnership and Russia’s Eurasian Union” on 12-13 September 2013.
The conference will be held in English at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Institute of International Relations of Shevchenko University, and bring together leading Western, esp. German, and Ukrainian scholars engaged in the study of Ukraine’s domestic transformation and international relations.

How to apply to the Summer School
General Logistics

Arrival in Kyiv:
Students are expected to arrive in Kyiv on Monday on Monday, September 9. Pick-up service from Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv International Airport or Kyiv Railway Station can be arranged by the school organizers upon request for additional payment.

Departure is Sunday, September 22. Transportation to the airports or railway station can be arranged by the school organizers upon request for additional payment.

Place:
National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA) is located in the historic Podil neighborhood of Kyiv. The campus is located on 3 city blocks stretching from the Kontraktova Square to the Dnipro river.
The campus of NaUKMA is composed of a number of buildings, but most of the in-class sessions of the course will be held at the International Office classroom (8/5 Voloska vul., NaUKMA Building 5, Auditorium 5-313).

Accommodation:
School organizers will suggest the students these types of accommodation:
1. Private apartment
Apartments are usually located in walking (up to 15 minutes) distance from the University and from each other. The apartments have typically 2 bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet. All apartments are furnished, and include kitchen supplies, towels, utilities, and a local telephone (outgoing international calls are not allowed). It is recommended for two school participants to share one apartment. Apartments may cost (if to be shared by two participants!) – around 250-300 UAH per night per person, depending on the quality of the apartment.
2. Youth Hostel
Summer school students are advised to consider accommodation at the Dream House Youth Hostel. Hostel was opened in April 2012 and it claims to become one of the most modern hostels in Kyiv. It is located on famous Andriyvskyy Uzviz street and it takes about 5 minutes to get to NaUKMA from the hostel. This accommodation option is highly recommended!
Please note that the summer school students are responsible for their own reservations at the hostel, though the school organizers, upon getting permissions, can provide contact details of the selected school participants for the possibility to arranged shared rooms / apartments.
If preferred, you can arrange accommodation in Kyiv by yourself. We would recommend rent apartments either in the Podil district or close to it, in order to avoid using public transportation during the rush hours.

Meals:
Meals (but welcome and farewell event) will not be provided, but summer school students will be able to use the NaUKMA students canteen (25-30 UAH for lunch), the nearest Trapezna or Puzata Khata cafeterias (up to 50 UAH for lunches) and many other options available in the University neighborhood. A list of restaurants / cafes in Kyiv can be found on http://www.restaurant.ua/kiev/restoran/

Miscellaneous:
Applicants are asked to inform themselves extensively about living and traveling for foreigners in Ukraine. While Kyiv is not more dangerous than other cities in the region, we would like to alert you to occasional petty crime in public transportation, the presence of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine, and the necessity to boil tap water that you want to use for drinking or preparing meals. In the case of a medical emergency, Kyiv has high-class hospitals, but you should make sure you have sufficient health insurance that will cover any possible expenses. There are other things to observe. You can find in the relevant information in the major travel guides, or/and at your Kyiv embassy’s website.

Scholarships

German students may want to check the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) specialized stipend programme for the summer school attendance (1025 Euro per student).
See https://www.daad.de/ausland/studieren/stipendium/de/18756-go-east-sommerschulen-01/.

Please, note that those German students who wish to receive DAAD support have to apply separately and in parallel to the DAAD for this scholarship, before 25 May 2013. Note also that the DAAD has, unfortunately, only a limited amount of scholarships available for German students. Students who are able to cover their expenses and fees with other than DAAD funding or by themselves should indicate so in their application/s to the school, and DAAD.

Application Procedure

Those interested in participation should submit a competed application form ( http://dfc.ukma.kiev.ua/doc_new/2013/application_summer_course_NaUKMA_2013.doc) and other required documents (listed in the application form) by 25 May 2013 to the following e-mail address: larch@ukma.kiev.ua.
Students will be notified of participant selection results by 10 June, and should confirm their participation by 17 June 2013.
Course fee payments (partial) are due by 01 July 2013 (payment details will be provided upon receipt of confirmation of participation in the course).

Please, note that those interested in the DAAD stipend should apply for it separately, in parallel, directly to the DAAD, until the same deadline of 25 May 2013.

See https://www.daad.de/ausland/studieren/stipendium/de/18756-go-east-sommerschulen-01/

All questions about the course and the application procedure should be addressed to: Larysa Chovnyuk, larch@ukma.kiev.ua, tel. +38 0 44 425 77 70.

Organizer

National University of “Kyiv – Mohyla Academy

Information & contacts

Head of the Department for Foreign Cooperation Larysa Chovnyuk National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
Department for Foreign Cooperation

address: 2 Skovorody vul., Kyiv 04070, Ukraine
Tel: + 38 044 425 77 70
Fax: +38 044 425 50 16
email: larch@ukma.kiev.ua

Before the 1st of May 2013

Following the European seminar held in Tours on this topic in June 2012, the PY network invites young researchers in Social Sciences working on the post-Yugoslav space to submit articles for a forthcoming publication (in French or in English) in an influential European journal. The issue will be titled: “Dwelling/living in the Post-Yugoslav space”, focusing on the evolution of relations between space and people in former Yugoslavia. Our ambition is to offer a fresh view and a better understanding of political, economic, socially rapid and complex evolutions in the region and to participate more broadly to a better understanding of socio-spatial processes in our contemporary world. The objective is also to facilitate, to promote and to make visible research analysis of young researchers working on the post-Yugoslav area.

Synopsis

Understood as a way for the individual to be in an environment, dwelling is a complex phenomenon challenging to define/grasp due to its modes being both material and ideal arrangements of representations and practices of the world (Bailleul and Feildel, 2011). Put differently, the inhabitants of aspace –as a lived experience and as a place of life- physically and symbolically appropriate it (Vassart, 2006). These individual and social relations between human being(s) and space(s) rely on personal, collective and cultural dynamics, which generate a very rich variety of meanings of home places. Dwelling is for the human being a manner to define its possibilities to be in space and time.

In the context of the post Yugoslav space, the verbs to dwell and/or to live acquire a particular resonance. In 1993, Michel Sivignon pointed out the grim actuality of these words during the Yugoslav conflicts. People have fought to guarantee their rights to live (in a house, a village, and a valley) but also to prevent others from living (in the neighbouring house, village, and valley). Wars were about getting rid of certain inhabitants but also about denying and deleting the signs and the marks they left in space and time.

If the 1990s conflicts may be questioned through the concept of dwelling, it is also possible to use this latter to elaborate a renewed perspective on recent reconfigurations of societies and territories in the former Yugoslav space. Other phenomena should also be integrated in such an analysis, e.g. the end of the socialist regime, the emergence of new nation-states, of market economy and the effects of supranational processes such as European integration and globalisation. Those have led to the emergence and the multiplication of new actors producing norms and representations –groups or individuals, state(s) or international organisations. Doing so, one may develop an approach much less concentrated on conflicts and nationalisms but focusing also on other aspects of the recent changes that have impacted (or not) on the way people live and dwell in space and time. Private ownership for instance is one phenomenon that has modified the relation between people and ground / land. It may result in a new personification of space and in new processes of formalising practices and representations in space that used to be informal.

In this call for papers, we are mainly interested in 3 themes:
1/ to be inhabitant and citizen in post-Yugoslav States

The end of the socialist political and economic system, the emergence of new sovereign nation-states as well as the successive migration of people over the last 20 years question the evolution of the relation between inhabitants and their new state(s) –changes in regime(s), legal statuses, definition of membership to the citizenry, borders and boundaries, law– and with neighbouring states –e.g. multiple citizenships. As a result of multiple historical, social and political processes, post-Yugoslav citizenships and their vocabulary refer to different definitions and meanings through time and space in the area. Besides, it is necessary to take into account the practices they encompass without being too close to normative understandings of other “citizenships” – e.g. British or French. Thus, this theme aims at questioning the evolution of citizenship(s) and citizenship regimes through their implication in everyday life and ordinary acts in post-Yugoslav spaces. What does this evolution imply in terms of dwelling (e.g. access to housing or other resources and rights)?
2/ to dwell, to live, to move in the post-Yugoslav space

Many researchers in the French academic context have recently noted the emergence of polytopic ways of living. More precisely, they argue that society has evolved in a way in which inhabitants have become more mobile in their everyday life and along their lifetime (Bailleul et Feildel, 2011; Stock, 2006). To what extent does this general observation fit with the post-Yugoslav context?

Mobility should be perceived as a vector/vehicle in the construction of the meaning that individuals give to the space in which they live in. Hence, the question is: which information do the recent changes in individuals’ mobility and spatial identities in former Yugoslavia give about the ways people dwell/live in spaces? And reversely how are these ways of living/dwelling modifying spatiality, mobility and identities of individuals living in post Yugoslav spaces? We welcome contributions dealing with the evolutions of links between spatial and social reconfigurations. Different kinds of mobility may be treated: forced mobility (refugees/returnees), regular mobility (for familial, economic, social reasons…), and daily mobility, from local to international scales.
3/ to live and to remember in former Yugoslavia

Socio-political evolutions in the (post-)Yugoslav space have been going hand-in-hand with an evolution of historical reference frames in spaces and societies. From the former socialist regime to the rising of nationalisms in the 1980s, the affirmation of new nation-states and local reconfigurations in the 1990s, the historical references in which societies take root seem both to proliferate and to merge. A stimulating empirical approach avoiding any oversimplification may be to focus on the evolution of the relations with memory and places of memory –lieux de mémoire– through the processes of recognition and incorporation of heritage status. We welcome approaches based upon the premises that history is only an interpretation and a production of past facts in a specific socio-political context by different actors and that this interpretation participates to identity construction processes for individuals and groups. Articles questioning heritage statuses in post-Yugoslav territories and societies are welcome as well as analyses of storytelling and production of discourses at the local and the national scales.
Process of selection

We invite young researchers, PhD students and post-doc in Social Sciences working on the post-Yugoslav space to apply to this call. Writing language has to be French or English.

Propositions should be 500 words long. They should be sent before the 1st of May 2013 at the following e-mail: reseaupy@yahoo.fr . They should come with a one-page CV in French or in English.

The selection committee will pay attention in particular to the scientific and language quality of propositions and to their link with the three themes developed in this call.

The accepted applicants will be notified in May; articles should be submitted during summer 2013.
The PY network

The PY network aims at bringing together PhD students and young researchers dealing with reconfigurations of post-Yugoslav societies and territories.

For more information, see: http://www.facebook.com/ReseauPy ; http://reseaupy.hypotheses.org
Heads of the network:

Cyril Blondel, PhD student in politics and in regional planning UMR CITERES (CNRS 7324), Université de Tours cyril.blondel@univ-tours.fr
Guillaume Javourez, PhD student in geography UMR TELEMMe (6570); Université d’Aix-Marseille g.javourez@univ-provence.fr
Marie Van Effenterre, PhD student in anthropology EHESS, UMR IIAC-TRAM (CNRS 8177), Paris marievaneffenterre@gmail.com

The Historia Nova Prize for the Best Book on Russian Intellectual History.

The jury will consider titles originally written and published in English within the preceding two years (2011-2012).

The range of acceptable genres includes
• single and collective-author monographs,
• collections of articles,
• and special and thematic issues of scholarly journals.

We encourage nominations from publishers, literary agencies, universities and university departments, journals, scholarly organizations, artistic unions, groups, and individuals.

The winner will be announced in November 2013 during the ASEEES conference in Boston, MA
and will receive a prize of $5,000 USD.

Please make all nominations by June 1, 2013 to the email address historianova@academicstudiespress.com

www.historia-nova.com

International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine – Mykolaiv (Ukraine)
The application must be sent by e-mail to ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com, by 30 April 2013.

http://www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca/summer_school_2013.html

The 5th Annual International Social Science School, to be held in Mykolaiv, Southern Ukraine, on 2-9 July 2013, will have the theme of “Challenging the Social Order: Revolution, Reform and Transformation Under and After Socialism.” For an intensive week in early July, an international group of twenty doctoral students and up to a dozen faculties are converging to a different town in Ukraine to hear and discuss presentations on ongoing research on a critical theme. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international and follows the format of a Workshop. The program also includes lectures and field trips, of historical and contemporary significance, within the region.

Co-Sponsored by The Embassy of France in Ukraine – The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa (Canada)  – The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] (France) – The Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University in Mykolaiv (Ukraine) – The Doctoral School of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) – The University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense (France) – The Franco-Belarusian Center for European Studies (Belarus)
Program description

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. 6

The countries of the former Socialist Bloc have repeatedly experienced throughout the last century the difficult, perilous and uncertain task Machiavelli warns us against. Building, managing and deconstructing socialist states and societies appears to be a circular process of radical social and economic transformation. Thus, collectivization, arguably one of the most ambitious attempts implemented by a state to alter the socio-economic order, can be been as a starting point for major crises such as famines, population displacement and deportation, and the disruption of the countryside. Perestroika, enacted as a response to the decline of the Soviet economy, served as a catalyst for painful transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe, the introduction of neoliberal reforms and steep rise of social inequalities. Similarly, Soviet informal practices have been interpreted both as a reaction to the deep economic crisis of the late 1980s and as constituting a major cause of yet another crisis, the failure of the rule of state and economic transition.

These challenges to the social order have had seminal political consequences, such as Soviet industrialization and the rise of Stalinism, the post-war establishment of Communist rule in Central Europe, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the introduction of political pluralism under perestroika, the August 1991 putsch and the collapse of the Soviet Union, shock therapy, the 1998 financial crises in Russia, the colored revolutions and the return of authoritarianism.

The Summer School seeks to examine these moments of disruption of the existing social order when state and society are challenged in their institutions, rules, values and principles. Topics under consideration include:

the causes and dynamics of revolution, reform and transformation
mobilization, protest and rebellion
the management of social or political crisis
the production of new norms (informal, legal, economic, political)
the impact of dominant economic models
the management of the past: transitional justice, lustration, the politics of memory
how individuals and groups adapt to a new social order: career paths, survival strategies

The Fifth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine welcomes proposals from the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and adjacent fields. While the primary focus will be on the socialist and post-socialist era (in the former Soviet Union, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe), pre-Soviet history may also be examined.

The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international and follows the format of a Workshop. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a paper and receive comments from a group of international scholars, as well as from the other participants, who are expected to be active in these discussions. The School’s program consists of lectures, panel presentations and discussions, as well field trips within the region.
Location

The International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine takes places in a different city of Ukraine every year. Previous schools have been held in Uman (2009), Dnipropetrovsk (2010), Ostroh (2011) and Zhytomyr (2012). The 2013 Summer School will be hosted by the Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University in Mykolaiv, Southern Ukraine.

The history of Mykolaiv, located on the Black Sea Cost, about 110 kilometers east-northeast of Odessa, is closely linked to its Port. The Port of Nikolaev is an important river port and one of Ukraine’s largest and busiest ship-building centers. After the Russian Empire annexed the Black Sea coast in 1788, the Port of Mykolaiv was founded as a shipyard near the site of the ancient Greek Olbia. Originally built for repair of Russian Navy ships during the Russo-Turkish War, the Port of Mykolaiv was opened as a commercial harbor in 1862, and the first foreign ships were welcomed into the port. This also led to the establishment of several foreign consulates in Mykolaiv. In the early 19th century, as with most urban areas in Ukraine, Mykolaiv developed into one of the largest Jewish centers in the Russian Empire and was the birthplace of the the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty.

In the Soviet era, Mykolaiv was a major shipbuilding center, closely linked to the military industry. The shipbuilding industry provided about 60% of Mykolaiv citizens with work. Because of this military orientation, the Port of Mykolaiv was closed to foreign visitors through the late 1980s. Most of the tragic events of the past century echoed in Mykolaiv’s history, such as the Civil War, the famine, the purges, German occupation and the Holocaust.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the industrial city of Mykolaiv faced a huge economic crisis. Most of the state-owned military-oriented industries faced restructuring and/or privatization, with unequal suc3 Fifth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine cess. New branches of economy appeared. The image of the city is also evolving, sometimes in unexpected ways: the past city of shipbuilders became “the city of brides” with the development of foreign-oriented marriage agencies. In November 2012, the city was also in the center of the political news : the election vote count led to bloody clashes in Mykolaiv Oblast’s Pervomaisk, where pro-government and opposition candidates were both claiming victory in district 132.

A city of glory and a city in crisis, Mykolaiv is a perfect place for a Summer School focused on the challenges of a new social order.

Excursions and meeting organized by the Summer School team will focus on these different dimensions of the regional history.
Duration

One week, Tuesday 2 July – Tuesday 9 July 2013.
Call for application
Eligibility

The Summer School is open to PhD students (or students enrolled in a kandidat nauk program) and young researchers (up to six years removed from their PhD or kandidat nauk degree).

Proposals strong on theory and empirical research are particularly welcomed.

The working language of the Summer School is English.

Prospective participants must be fluent in English. Selected candidates will be notified before the end of May.
How to apply?

To be considered for the Summer School, candidates must complete an application form (that includes a 500 word project proposal) and add a CV.

They are also encouraged to send an additional written sample, such as a conference paper, a dissertation chapter, or a publication, although this is optional.

The application must be sent by e-mail to ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com,
by 30 April 2013.

The application form can be requested at ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com or downloaded on the following address: http://www.ukrainianstudies. uottawa.ca/summer_school_2013.html
The scientific committee is being set up.

November 28-29, 2013
Kaunas
Conference organizer: Vytautas Magnus University

Deadline: 1 September 2013

The conference is organized according to:
PROGRAME FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FOR 2007-2013
“Support to Research Activities of Scientists and Other Researchers (Global Grant)”

Central and Eastern European Region: Research of the Construction of National Narratives and Politics of Memory (1989-2011) VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-K-02-024

The historians of the majority of the European countries claim that the history of their nation is unique and exceptional. These claims serve as a basis for the formation of the historical image and politics of memory of the country at the national level. The visions of this “special way” are especially typical to the national historiographies and popular forms of memorialisation of the Central and Eastern European countries. They are based on the idea of exceptionality and belief that the history of a specific country is unique and incompatible with the historical narratives of the neighbouring countries. The authors of such ethno-centric narratives limit themselves only to the analysis of events within the boundaries of their country; cross-national approach to the same historical happenings is not applied. Such situation could be explained as a natural need of the post-communist countries to form their identities. Due to the newly restored/ acquired independencies, the need was especially urgent.
On the other hand, the situation is changing and new methodological approaches to novel cultural, memory, post-structural, post-colonial and other histories and spheres of research challenge the homogeneity of national narratives. Regional research of historical narratives and forms of memorialisation is especially topical in the transition from individual comparative analyses to large-scale comparative studies. Thus the prior aim of this conference is to enhance the  development of the comparative studies of national narratives and the processes of memorialisation in the Central and Eastern European Region by  analysing the national reflections of the past within the framework of the historical narratives of the whole region.
As an answer to the current topicalities, the chronological framework of the conference encompasses the post-soviet period, which signifies the erosion of the earlier narratives, the reconstruction of the old narratives and forms of memorialisation, and the formation of new historical narratives, memory forms and national identities.
We kindly invite researchers from the disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences interested in the research of the Central and Eastern European Region to participate in the conference.

The conference covers these areas:

Theoretical problems of the relation between memory and history
The relationship between the academic historiography and popular historical narrative
National heroes: between a legend and political order
The problems of autochthonic approach and the development of pseudo-ethnogeneses in the national narratives
The problem of intertwined and confronting representations of the past in the national narratives of the neighbouring countries
Ideological and world-view vectors of national narratives
Division of historical heritage
The relationship of individual (cognitive) memory with the historical narratives
The reflections of post-communist transformations in contemporary national narratives
The influence of the membership in the European Union and the contemporary politics of Russia on the construction of the national narratives

Length of talks: 20 minutes

Conference language: English

All conference articles will be peer reviewed. Accepted articles will be published in a collective volume of scientific papers.

Researchers are kindly requested to fill in the participant’s form. Abstracts should be 300-500 words long, in English, and should be sent by 1 September 2013.

Participant’s form should be sent to the conference office:
v.kasperavičiūtė@hmf.vdu.lt

Telephone number for enquiries:
+370-37-327836

The organizers of the conference will cover meal and accommodation expenses.

The organizing committee of the conference:

Chairman:
dr. Marius Sirutavičius (Vytautas Magnus University) m.sirutavicius@gmail.com

Members:
dr. Liudas Glemža (Vytautas Magnus University) l.glemza@hmf.vdu.lt
assoc. prof. dr. Rūstis Kamuntavičius (Vytautas Magnus University) r.kamuntavicius@hmf.vdu.lt
dr. Vitalija Kasperavičiūtė (Vytautas Magnus University) v.kasperaviciute@hmf.vdu.lt
dr. Andrius Švarplys (Vytautas Magnus University) a.svarplys@pmdf.vdu.lt
dr. Jurgita Vaičenonienė (Vytautas Magnus University) j.vaicenoniene@hmf.vdu.lt

The scientific committee of the conference:

Chairman:
prof. habil. dr. Egidijus Aleksandravičius (Vytautas Magnus University)

Members:
assoc. prof. dr. Kastytis Antanaitis (Vytautas Magnus University)
dr. Halina Beresnevičiute Nosálová (Masaryk University, Brno)
dr. Moreno Bonda (Vytautas Magnus University)
prof. habil. dr. Krzysztof Buchowski (University of Bialystok)
dr. Vytautas Petronis (Herder-Institute, Marburg)

Colloque à l’École française de Rome « Presse et exil dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle », 23-24 septembre 2013

Les propositions de communications doivent nous parvenir
avant le 24 avril

L’équipe « Exil » rassemble des chercheurs français et italiens autour d’un projet de base de données collective sur les exilés politiques italiens dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle, avec le soutien de l’École française de Rome. Elle prévoit un programme de rencontres sur le thème de l’exil ouvertes sur l’ensemble du monde européen. Le premier de ces projets porte sur la presse et l’exil au xixe siècle.

Tout au long de l’époque contemporaine, l’exil a constitué une forme de mobilisation à part entière, qui s’est inscrite dans le répertoire d’actions contre-révolutionnaire, libéral, républicain, puis socialiste et anti-fasciste. Pour le patriote lombard Carlo Cattaneo, c’était ainsi une « nouvelle institution » que le poète Ugo Foscolo avait donnée à l’Italie du Risorgimento en quittant Milan en 1816 pour embrasser une vie de proscrit. Cette modalité de l’engagement politique a alimenté des flux migratoires quantitativement de plus en plus importants dans l’Europe du xixe siècle et du premier xxe siècle, mais ce n’est pas par son effectif qu’il convient de jauger son importance. Car les exilés, même en petit nombre, ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’internationalisation des débats politiques et la circulation des idées, favorisant la naissance d’une sphère publique européenne ou transatlantique et de nouvelles formes de politisation. Ils ont également joué un rôle économique et professionnel non négligeable, contribuant à faire circuler techniques, process, savoirs et savoir-faire entre communautés d’exilés et pays d’accueil. Faire l’histoire de leurs expériences permet d’envisager le développement des cultures et des identités au-delà de la sphère étroite de la nation ou du groupe, pour reconnaître l’importance des échanges et des interactions dans la formation de communautés séparées.

Le projet se fonde sur l’idée que la contribution des exilés à la presse de leur temps constitue une fenêtre d’analyse sur l’exil comme expérience politique, créatrice d’« exopolitie », ainsi que Stéphane Dufoix a proposé de baptiser l’espace spécifique dans lequel les exilés mènent leurs différentes activités. L’exil représente, dans le même temps, un facteur d’ouverture de la presse européenne aux pays étrangers, contribuant ainsi à l’internationalisation de certains slogans et thèmes politiques dans l’Europe des guerres civiles et des constructions nationales, ainsi qu’à la circulation des connaissances liées au monde du travail.

Nous nous intéressons donc à l’ensemble des façons dont les exilés ont pu contribuer à la presse de leur temps, comme journalistes ou plus rarement comme éditeurs, aux périodiques qui accueillaient leurs contributions comme aux organes de presse que des proscrits ont pu créer durant leur séjour à l’étranger, et aux conditions réservées dans chaque pays d’accueil à cette activité. Les sources qui nous permettront de nous pencher sur ces phénomènes iront des journaux eux-mêmes aux sources administratives et diplomatiques, en passant par les archives privées et les correspondances d’exil.

Problématiques retenues

Les conditions d’écriture et de publication des journaux d’exil (cadre juridique et économique dans lequel s’inscrit la publication de ces organes de presse, parfois clandestins ; censure exercée par le pays d’accueil mais aussi par la diplomatie du pays d’origine ; importance des lectorats visés, qu’ils se trouvent dans le pays d’accueil ou dans le pays de départ).
Le contenu technique et professionnel de cette presse (annonces, offres de travail, rubriques spécifiques…
Les stratégies éditoriales et politiques des rédactrices et rédacteurs, mais aussi des lectrices et des lecteurs (utilisation de la presse pour légitimer un combat politique mené depuis l’étranger, pour cliver ou au contraire rassembler une communauté d’étrangers dispersés dans le pays d’asile).
Le contenu idéologique et culturel de ces périodiques (la presse comme moyen d’influencer le débat national du pays d’origine, ou comme interface avec celui du pays d’asile ; la part prise par la presse d’exil dans une histoire du sentiment public international ; les représentations et les transferts culturels permis par cette presse parfois bilingue, pont entre deux ou plusieurs cultures).

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communications doivent nous parvenir
avant le 24 avril

aux trois adresses suivantes : catherine.brice@gmail.com, delphinediaz@gmail.com et simon.sarlin@gmail.com.

Ces propositions comporteront

un titre,
un résumé d’environ 2.000 signes,
ainsi que les coordonnées complètes de l’intervenant(e) (nom, prénom, fonction, rattachement institutionnel et courriel).

Comité scientifique

Sylvie Aprile (Université Lille III), Catherine Brice (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Simon Burrows (University of Western Sydney), Christophe Charle (Université Paris 1), Diana Cooper-Richet (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Delphine Diaz (Université Paris-Sorbonne), François Dumasy (École française de Rome), Simon Sarlin (Université Grenoble II).