Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
Cultural Events:
Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: International Public Affairs Association “Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions”
Other Announcements:
Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
Detailed Descriptions of Events
Lectures, Local Conferences, and Academic Events:
9:30 – 10:45 AM, Location TBD
Paul S. Segerstrom, Stockholm School of Economics
Departmental Sponsors: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology, Department of Economics
Part of the Themester Lecture Series: Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Part of the Themester Lecture Series: Poverty, Inequality, and Development
Abstract:
During the last 40 years, there has been a dramatic increase in international trade. Has this been a good outcome? Many people think that free trade agreements have made the rich richer and the poor poorer. In this lecture, we take a closer look at the evidence and present an alternative way of thinking about the effects of international trade.
Paul S. Segerstrom is Tore Browaldh Professor of International Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. He received his B.A. from Brandeis University and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. Professor Segerstrom has writtenly widely on economic growth and international trade, and coauthored the seminal paper on “quality ladders growth theory.” His research have been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and International Economic Review.
5:15 PM, Sycamore Hall 101
The Polish Studies Center and the Department of Criminal Justice Indiana University Bloomington Invite you to a talk entitled "Services for Drug Users in the Polish Criminal Justice System" by Maria Stozek.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 5:15 PM
Sycamore Hall 101
Maria Stozek holds Masters in Law degrees from Jagiellonian University (2007) and Harvard Law School (2010). Currently she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Law at the Criminology Department at Jagiellonian University.
Cultural Events:
7:00 PM, Fine Arts Auditorium, 015
Unearthed and newly subtitled for the DEFA Project, SAMMELSURIUM
(1992) will have its U.S. Premiere in Bloomington!
Translated as "hotch potch" or "collector's choice," this documentary by East Germany's top documentary filmmaker, Volker Koepp, and the renowned cinematographer, Thomas Plenert (The Wall, Locked Up Time, Herzsprung, and You Are Not Alone) explores the objects and spaces left behind by communism.
"Koepp's tone is far from elegiac — he collects images as a sign of the pastness of the GDR. Nevertheless, his SAMMELSURIUM has its own eloquence. [...] Koepp has managed to find a visceral image of the violence and abruptness of the Wende."
-Inez Hedges
Followed by a discussion with Ben Robinson and Brigitta Wagner of IU Germanic Studies.
8:00 PM, Wylie Hall 005
When Beijing journalist Ga Yu arrives in a remote Tibetan village, he immediately finds himself embedded in a relentless manhunt with a ragtag group of vigilantes sworn to capture or kill the poachers responsible for destroying the sacred antelope of the mountains.
The Mongolian & Tibetan Film series is presented in conjunction with the IU Art Museum’s special exhibition, From the Steppes and the Monasteries, on view through December 19, 2010.
7:00 pm, Recital Hall
Robin Freeman, Benjamin Gulick, Juan Hernandez, and Juan Carlos Zamudio, Conductors.
Charpentier: Te Deum (H.146)
Gregorian Chant: Hodie christus natus est
Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659
Sala: O nuit brillanteQuem pastores
Irish carol: Angelus ad virginem
Basque carol: Gabriel's message
Kodaly: Veni veni Emmanuel
English carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
French carols: Il est né le divin enfant
English carol: Wassail song
Mathias: Sir Christèmas
Wade: Adeste fideles
Gregorian Chant: Hodie christus natus est
Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 659
Sala: O nuit brillanteQuem pastores
Irish carol: Angelus ad virginem
Basque carol: Gabriel's message
Kodaly: Veni veni Emmanuel
English carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
French carols: Il est né le divin enfant
English carol: Wassail song
Mathias: Sir Christèmas
Wade: Adeste fideles
4. Friday – Saturday, December 3-4: Petr Ilych Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker
December 3, 4: 8:00 PM, Musical Arts Center
December 4,5: 2:00 PM, Musical Arts Center
Scenario by Michael Vernon, after Marius Petipa’s adaptation of the story, “Nutcracker and the King of the Mice” by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker tells the story of young Clara, who receives a toy soldier nutcracker from her mysterious godfather, Herr Drosselmeyer. When she falls asleep with the nutcracker in her arms and starts to dream, magical things begin to happen!
After all the magic onstage, meet Clara and other characters in the “Nutcracker tea”. For parents and children of all ages, on the mezzanine following each matinee (approx. 4:30 - 5:30pm).
Tickets available at the MAC Box Office
5:30 PM, University Club President’s Room, IMU 150
Funding, Grants, and Scholarships:
Deadline: February 15, 2011
The American Research Center in Sofia , Bulgaria, offers three programs with accompanying fellowships for the academic year 2011-2012: a Fall term program (September-November 2011) focusing on the history and archaeology of Bulgaria and neighboring countries, from prehistory to the present day; a Spring term program (February-April 2012) focusing on the history of religion in Bulgaria and neighboring countries; and a nine-month program (September 2011-May 2012) which incorporates both Fall and Spring term programs. The programs combine a formal academic curriculum with independent research. ARCS hosts the programs' lectures and seminars; organizes related study trips; facilitates opportunities for taking Bulgarian and other Balkan language classes; and provides logistical support and access to local libraries, museums, and other educational institutions.
The Center engages the participants with eminent local scholars relevant to the field of their study and makes arrangements for specialized research at local institutions. Further details about these programs are available on the ARCS webpage (www.einaudi.cornell.edu/arcs) and the ARCS facebook group page (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=106253216070705). THE PROGRAMS
THE FELLOWSHIPS
ARCS plans to offer three fellowships for the Fall term program, three for the Spring term program, and one for the nine-month program. The fellowships include a monthly stipend ($550/month), housing in Bulgaria, language instruction, travel expenses within the academic program, and up to $1,000 for travel expenses between North America and Bulgaria.
ELIGIBILITY
Graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern Bulgaria or the Balkan peninsula, in any field of the humanities and social sciences, are eligible for all three programs. The Fall term and Spring term programs are also open to advanced undergraduate students with similar research interests. Non-U.S. applicants are expected to maintain an affiliation with an educational institution in the United States or Canada.
School and university faculty may apply to be admitted for the Fall term or Spring term program, but are ineligible for ARCS fellowships. The American Research Center in Sofia does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to its programs.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
A complete application consists of: the ARCS application form (available at www.einaudi.cornell.edu/arcs/annualprogram.pdf); a project proposal describing how participation in the ARCS academic program will serve your research interests (not to exceed three double-spaced pages); a current cv; academic transcripts; and two letters of reference from scholars familiar with your work. These materials must be submitted by email to Professor Kevin Clinton (kmc1@cornell.edu). Chair of the ARCS Fellowship Committee, by February 15, 2011. ARCS expects to notify applicants of the decision of the Fellowship Committee by April 1,2011.
CONTACT
Please direct any questions about ARCS academic programs, fellowships, or application procedures to:
Professor Denver Graninger, Director of ARCS.
American Research Center in Sofia, 75 Vasil Petleshkov St., Sofia 1510, BULGARIA
TEL: (+359 2) 947 9498; FAX: (+359 2) 840 1962 graninger.arcs@gmail.com www.einaudi.cornell.edu/arcs/
Deadline: January 15, 2011
The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) announces the availability of US graduate fellowships in support of research in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, and/or Azerbaijan). Awards will be made for a maximum of $1500 each. Projects in all fields in the social sciences and humanities are eligible. Proposals will be judged on their quality and on the potential of the research to strengthen scholarship on the Southern Caucasus. The purpose of the fellowship is to help cover travel to and/or living expenses in the Southern Caucasus. During his/her stay in the Southern Caucasus, the fellow is expected to give an ARISC sponsored presentation on a subject related to his/her research.
The fellow will acknowledge ARISC in any publication that emerges from the research carried during the fellowship.
Application requirements: Please send a complete application including the application form, a project statement of not more than 3 pages, work schedule, budget, curriculum vitae, and two letters of recommendation by January 15, 2011 to info@arisc.org. All information must be received by January 15, 2011 in order for the applicant to be considered for the fellowship.
Please see: http://arisc.org/RESOURCES/Funding-Opportunities/ARISC-Fellowships for the full description of the fellowship as well as the application form.
Calls for Papers and Out-of-State Conferences:
1. CALL FOR PAPERS: International Public Affairs Association “Global Problems, Sustainable Solutions”
Priority Deadline: December 10, 2010
Final Deadline: January 10, 2011
March 25, 2011, Indiana University
The 2011 Conference will have a special focus on sustainability. Other possible topics include but are not excluded to:
• International Organizations and Economic Development
• Emerging Nations
• International Law and Cultural Diplomacy
• Climate Change and Green Development
• Conflict and Resolution: The Role of Gender, Minority Groups, and Religion
More information can be found: http://www.indiana.edu/~west/documents/Announcements-Events/ipaacall.pdf
2. 2011 IREX/WWC Regional Policy Symposium: GENDER IN THE 21st CENTURY EASTERN EUROPE AND EURASIADeadline: December 10, 2010
IREX, in collaboration with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Kennan Institute (WWC), is pleased to announce its 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, “Gender in the 21st Century Eastern Europe and Eurasia.”
The research symposium, supported by the United States Department of State (Title VIII Program), will bring American junior and senior scholars and members of the policy community together to examine and discuss gender and women’s issues in Eastern Europe and Eurasia from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Topics may include: education, migration, trafficking, women in politics, domestic violence, and economic opportunities, among others.
Junior scholars will be chosen based on a national competition to present their current research on the topic of the Symposium. Grants will be awarded to approximately ten junior scholars.
The Symposium is scheduled to take place April 5-8, 2011 in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and will involve two full days of reviews of current research projects, roundtable discussions, and the development of policy recommendations.
Technical Eligibility Requirements:
· Applicants must be US citizens
· Applicants must either be currently enrolled in an MA, MS, MBA, JD, or PhD program or have held a graduate degree for 10 years or less. Applicants who hold an academic post must be pre-tenure.
Grant Provisions:
· Round-trip airfare (provided by IREX through its travel office) and/or surface transportation from anywhere in the United States to the symposium site.
· Meals and accommodations for the duration of the symposium.
To receive more information on the 2011 Regional Policy Symposium, please send e-mail inquiries to Symposium@irex.org.
Application materials are available on the IREX website at: http://www.irex.org/application/regional-policy-symposium-application
Symposium Program Evaluation Survey: http://www.irex.org/programs/us_scholars/SymposiumProgEval.pdf
Deadline: February 10, 2011
March 2-4, 2011, Middlebury College, VT, USA
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN VIRTUAL LINGUISTIC-COMMUNICATIVE SPACE
The International Coordinating Committee (Armenia, USA, Italy, Russia, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic) is continuing work on its project Creation of a Virtual Educational Space for the World Community. We invite scholars, educators, instructors and graduate students to participate in the work of the IV International Virtual Conference on Educational Technologies in a Virtual Linguistic-Communicative Space.
The Aim of the Conference is to unite Russian specialists and literary scholars from different countries, to shine light upon relevant issues in Russian studies, literature, language learning pedagogy in the humanities, to increase the effectiveness of international cooperation, and the culture of electronic communication by creating a Network, a new way of sharing experiences, a new innovative educational medium. The Conference will be conducted utilizing Adobe Connect Pro Meeting and Skype.
Information and application materials are available at:
DeadlineL:December
Friday, 24 June 2011,Centre for EU Studies, Ghent University
Organised by: Fabienne Bossuyt (Aston University), Jan Orbie (Ghent University), Michelle Pace (University of Birmingham) and Anne Wetzel (University of Zurich)
Democracy promotion in third countries has been on the EU's agenda since the early 1990s. Over the past 20 years, EU democracy promotion activities have been substantiated through a 'learning by doing'process. In parallel with the development of the EU's democracy promotion policy, a vast academic literature has emerged on the topic.
While many studies have focussed on the impact and effectiveness of EU democracy promotion in third countries, others have dealt with the EU as a democracy promoter itself and, in particular, with its democracy promotion instruments and strategies. Attention is now also being paid to the democratic substance that the EU promotes. Scholars focussing on the issue of democratic substance aim at disaggregating the content of the EU's democracy promotion activities into single aspects such as support for elections, the promotion of civil rights, rule of law, good governance and support to the development of civil society etc.
However, the EU is not the only promoter of democracy. Rather, it acts in an environment that comprises a variety of other democracy promoters. While there are studies that compare the strategies and instruments of EU democracy promotion with those of other actors, including the US and international organisations such as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), similarities and differences in the substance that is promoted have not yet been thoroughly and systematically explored. This workshop aims to address the question of how the substance of EU democracy promotion compares to what other democracy promoters advance in third countries. By other actors, we mean (i) EU Member States that maintain separate national democracy promotion programmes with varying foci, such as Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden; (ii) Non-EU countries that have substantial external democracy promotion programmes, such as the US, Canada, Norway and Japan; and (iii) other international organisations that promote democracy, such as the United Nations, the OSCE and the ADB.
The workshop wishes to address the above questions and invites papers that deal with one or several of the following topics:
- Is there a particular EU-specific conception of democracy
underlying its democracy promotion activities?
- How can we characterise the substance that other actors promote in third countries and how does the substance of EU democracy promotion differ compared to other actors?
- Does the substance that EU Member States promote through their national policies differ from the substance that the EU advances, and if so, how? What factors account for possible differences?
- How do EU Member States influence the substance of EU democracy promotion?
- How does coordination between the EU and other international
democracy promoters shape the content of the EU's policy (e.g. by
sharing the work, hiding behind other actors)?
- Is the substance of EU democracy promotion influenced by policy
paradigms that were developed by other international actors? Can we
detect learning processes in EU institutions that concern the
substance of democracy promotion? Is the EU a norm maker or a norm
taker in this regard?
Please send an abstract of max. 600 words by Friday, 3 December 2010 to:
You will receive a notification of acceptance from the workshop organisers by 17 December at the latest.
We are planning to include several advanced papers into a special issue on the topic of the workshop.
At the moment we are unfortunately not able to announce the reimbursement of travelling costs. However, we may have some funds to cover travelling expenses by June 2011.
Deadline: December 3, 2010
April 13-16, 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah
This year the annual Western Association for Slavic Studies (WASS) conference will meet during the convention of its host organization: the Western Social Science Association (WSSA).
The WASS invites proposals for individual papers, complete panels, and roundtable presentations in all areas of studies on Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Central Asia. The topics may include any aspect of economy, politics, and culture with a broad chronological span from the Middle Ages to present. Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not limited to): anthropology, archeology, architecture, arts, communication, cultural studies, demography, economics, education, environment, ethnic and minority studies, film, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, Jewish studies, law, linguistics, literature, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, theatre, travel and tourism.
For more information regarding the conference site, registration and submitting a proposal, go to our website http://wssa.asu.edu/conferences and follow the link.
Or, go to the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies website:
The deadline for proposals is December 3, 2010. Please include the following information:
Title of Presentation
Name, Affiliation, and Email Address
Other Authors
Abstract (not to exceed 200 words)
The WASS encourages graduate students to attend the conference. The best graduate paper presented will win a $100 prize and will be eligible for the graduate student paper prize sponsored by the AAASS.
Please feel free to forward this Call to individuals, institutions, and organizations that may be interested in the conference.
Other Announcements:
8:30 PM – 9:30 PM, BU 219
An evening where students and faculty of the Slavic department show off their talents. For more information, see http://iub.edu/~reeiweb/events/2010/Slavic_Talent.pdf or contact the slavic department at slavic@indiana.edu.
6:00-8:30 PM, Wells House
WEST Winter Reception will take place next Wednesday, Dec. 8 from 6-8:30pm at the Wells House. Please RSVP to west@indiana.edu by Monday, Dec. 6. We are also still accepting updates and accomplishments from the past year until this Friday, Dec. 3.
Deadline: February 15, 2011
June 6 – July 29, 2011
The Central European University will be hosting a summer school (June 6-July 29, 2011, Budapest, Hungary), which may be of interest to students, postdocs and junior researchers specializing in the post-communist region (see the course list at www.summer.ceu.hu).
Central European University is a US-style, internationally recognized institution of post-graduate education in the social sciences and humanities. The summer school draws its student body of around 500 participants annually from more than 80 countries and its faculty from over 40 countries.
In 2011 the summer school offers 19 high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development, taught by internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU faculty). Application from all over the world is encouraged. Financial aid is available.
The general application deadline is February 15, 2011. More information about the application process is available at the relevant course web sites.
In 2011 the summer school offers 19 high-level, research-oriented, interdisciplinary academic courses as well as workshops on policy issues for professional development, taught by internationally renowned scholars and policy experts (including CEU faculty). Application from all over the world is encouraged. Financial aid is available.
The general application deadline is February 15, 2011. More information about the application process is available at the relevant course web sites.
Language Tables and Coffee Hours:
6:00PM – 7:00PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
6:00 PM, Runcible Spoon
5:45 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:30 PM, Pourhouse Café (314 E Kirkwood)
5:00 PM, Indiana Memorial Union Starbucks
5:30 PM, Ballantine Hall 506
7:00 PM, Runcible Spoon
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