The Semester in Detroit, a new university program, funded by the Provost and the LSA and based in the Residential College and the Ginsberg Center, will allow Michigan undergraduates to spend a semester in residence in Detroit, while earning credit towards their degree. This first iteration of this program will take 20-25 students to Detroit in Winter term, 2009.

The Armenian Studies Program (ASP) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, will be convening an international conference on the theme "Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties." The conference will be held on the campus of the University of Michigan, March 18-21, 2009.

International treaties represent critical moments in the history of Armenia and of the Armenian people that had serious implications for their status and future as well as that of neighboring peoples and countries. International treaties also constitute the linchpin of diplomatic history, an aspect of Armenian history that has been neglected. The purpose of the conference is to determine patterns and processes which might shed light on the challenges faced by Armenia and Armenians in their long history.

The Department of History and Political Science at Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship for fall 2009 in the History of Science with a specialization in any area of European History (including Great Britain and Russia). Candidates must be prepared to teach survey courses in Western Civilization. Candidates must have Ph.D. no later than August 15, 2009 and must provide evidence of excellence in teaching and scholarship.

The Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park, invites candidates with demonstrated achievements in scholarship and teaching to apply for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor.
Candidates with expertise in any aspect of imperial or Muscovite and imperial Russian history are welcome to apply. UMD is an AA/EEO employer; it encourages applications from women and minorities.

Candidates should submit, in hard copy, a letter of application, a c.v., a short (article-length) writing sample or abstract of their research, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to Michael David-Fox, Chair, Russian Search Committee, Dept. of History, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742-7315 USA. For best consideration, applications should be received by September 30, 2008.

Website: http://www.history.umd.edu

Strathclyde Conflict and Resolution (SCAR) is hosting an interdisciplinary conference which will analyze conflict, terror and resolution at various levels: past-present; private-public; local-global. In doing so it aims to reach across disciplinary barriers by bringing together more than forty speakers from the whole of the social sciences spectrum, including politics, history, law, sociology and psychology. Such a holistic analysis will provoke, stimulate and question contemporary thought, while advocating the need for joint efforts to address common challenges. Panels include: Narratives of Conflict, Cultural Reconciliation, Reporting Conflict, Divided Cities and Sectarianism, Just War, and the ‘War on Terror’, among others.

Conference programme and registration form are available on the website: http://intelevents.athollsweb.co.uk/scar/index.php

Email: scar@intel-events.co.uk

The Program on States and Security is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on Field Research and Ethics in Post-Conflict Environments, to be held in New York, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on December 4 and 5, 2008.
Conducting research in post-conflict environments presents particular challenges for academic researchers in terms of methodology, access, and ethics. While interest in conducting research in these environments continues to grow, the literature on how to respond to the particular challenges they present in the field has not kept pace. Researchers may be at risk of violence, find the social and political environment to be unusually unstable and conflictful, have trouble accessing some regions or groups, or discover that their research and methodology has ethical implications and ramifications that they did not consider in advance.

Date: 16-18 April, 2009
Institute of Business & Politics, Moscow

There is suggested to discuss the following issues in the framework of conference:

Civil Society and Law State: Problems of Establishment - Problems of Dialogue of the Federal Power and Regional Elite: Experience and Prospects - Modern Russia: World Policy Challenges - Economic Aspects of Political Development of Russia - Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS): Problems and Prospects of Interaction - Confessional Nature of International Relations and Domestic Policy - Modern Elites: Identification Problems - Image of Russia in the Design of European and Oriental Identities - Religion in the System of Political Culture of Russia: History and Modern Trends - Cultural Aspects of the Globalization - Literature of the XX – XXI Centuries in Social-Political Aspects - Models of University Education in the Modern World - Representation of the Modern Russian in Domestic and Foreign Mass Media

Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support
A R M A C A D
Academic-Autobiographical Journal

Themes of the Journal
The Journal will provide an open forum for all interested parties to write about memories from their academic experiences in a free genre. You are welcome to write about any interesting recollection you have from Armenia and/or abroad. Any story related to your short, several days visit, or a long term stay will fit into the scope of the Journal. The Journal will be published regularly and the authors may write about their experiences in a series of articles. Representatives of all academic disciplines are invited to contribute to the Journal. The language of the Journal is English.

As the centenary of Tolstoy's death approaches (2010), proposals for chapters in an international collection of essays on the cinematic adaptation of Tolstoy's texts are being considered. All nationalities, periods, and issues, including interdisciplinary connections with other arts/media, cultural politics, economics, reception, translation. In addition to the widely known films, proposals on neglected silent's and films not yet translated into English are encouraged. English language collection.

This workshop seeks to explore Polish culture and Polish experiences, either in Poland itself or in Polish Diaspora communities. We also seek to raise awareness of Polish studies in New Zealand.

The conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand at the Kelburn Campus of Victoria University. It is the first in an ongoing series of conferences organized by the Antipodean East European Study Group. Limited travel funding may be available for participants from Australia or New Zealand. All interested parties are invited to submit an abstract by August 15 to Alexander Maxwell, conference organizer, alexander.maxwell@vuw.ac.nz.

Visit the website at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/antipodean/upcoming-events.aspx

convenors Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough

RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES

Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, St. Aldate's, Oxford, Wednesday 1 October 2008

You can still apply for participating in the summer Yiddish program Which will take place in Birobidzhan, Russia, the only place in the world where Yiddish has an official status as the state language. Please write to our Bar-Ilan office yiddish@mail.biu.ac.il with "Summer School" in the topic, till July 27, 2007.