Programme: Europe and Central Asia Regional Programme
Job Purpose: To develop and implement campaigning strategies, managing and coordinating actions on human rights concerns by using and developing knowledge on specific countries or other geographical and thematic areas, and supporting and liaising with the Amnesty International movement and outside networks to ensure maximum impact.

CFP- EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

EDB Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

Call For Papers for the Summer 2010 Issue of the Eurasian Integration Yearbook 2010

The Eurasian Integration Yearbook is pleased to invite submissions for its Summer 2010 issue (No. 3) to be published respectively in June 2010. Submission guidelines can be viewed at:
http://www.eabr.org/media/img/eng/research-and-publications/IntegrationYearbook/2009/a_n2_2009_23.pdf

Call For Papers
Autumn 2009 Issue of The Eurasian Economic Integration

The Eurasian Economic Integration Journal is pleased to invite submissions for its Autumn 2009 issue (No. 5), to be published in November 2009, and respective issues. Submission guidelines can be viewed at:
http://www.eabr.org/media/img/eng/research-and-publications/information_eng.pdf

Issue 4 “Performance, Revolution, Pedagogy: Theatre and Its Objects”
Ontario, Canada

It has been suggested by performance scholar Phelan that, “‘the equation of performance with empowerment and visibility with liberation is ‘a meeting of profound romance and deep violence’” (in Kruger 2005: 782). At the same time, as has been noted by artists and theorists from a wide range of disciplines, performance represents an important oppositional, revolutionary and transformative public forum through which people respond to forms of political, economic, and social/cultural domination.

THE PATRIOTISM OF THE EXPATRIATES.
Diasporas and national consciousness between Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond in the long 19th century
United Kingdom

Call for Papers

A common feature of several European national movements of the nineteenth century was their development outside the territorial space of the state or states they aimed at creating. National consciousness was often developed and elaborated within the circles of diaspora intellectuals and patriots living in exile. The aim of the conference is to explore the role intellectual and revolutionary diasporas played in creating, disseminating and negotiating ideas, and in producing shared values, principles and discursive patterns among patriots of different national origins. It seeks to study how ideas are shaped, how they circulate, and the contribution that diasporas themselves gave to the main ideological currents advocating change in the post-revolutionary world: patriotism, republicanism, liberalism, etc. It will focus on the interaction between the intellectual communities of the European and Mediterranean centres and these diasporas, as well as contacts and exchanges between different diasporas. It hopes to look not only at displaced intellectuals from Europe and the Mediterranean, but also at those coming to these regions from other continents. By looking at trans-national exchanges and trans-national civil societies, it seeks to de-nationalize the study of national consciousness, encourage comparative analysis and study the connections, relations and exchanges between different intellectual traditions and currents. It is hoped that the conference will represent an opportunity to discuss, question and revise some of the theoretical frameworks used by historiography to explore and interpret the circulation of ideas between Europe, the Mediterranean and the rest of the world, and that it will provide an opportunity to improve our understanding of the intellectual and cultural dynamics facilitated by the cross-border and cross national encounters.

Untitled: What's in a Name?

Student Session

Association of Art Historians Annual Conference

University of Glasgow 15-17th April 2010

Call for Papers

As art historians, critics, and researchers we are surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on given solutions without reassessing historical objects and methods.

But what happens when the title is questionable, anachronistic, or purposely absented? From collaborative works that lack designated authors to the untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left alone to fill in the blanks ¨C a productive insecurity in the face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the doing and teaching of art and its histories. We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists; thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity, critique, and resistance that become integral to the act of giving ¨C or retracting ¨C titles. Possible areas of enquiry can include: measuring the name: navigating classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the function of names and classifications in reception, historiography, and methodology; legitimising nomenclature: claiming and re©\claiming the utility of art and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the vocabulary of cross©\disciplinary studies.

Untitled: What's in a Name?

Student Session

Association of Art Historians Annual Conference

University of Glasgow 15-17th April 2010

Call for Papers

As art historians, critics, and researchers we are surrounded by titles, names, and classifications. Names secure and give substance to our critical operations; but names can also constrain investigation if one relies on given solutions without reassessing historical objects and methods.

But what happens when the title is questionable, anachronistic, or purposely absented? From collaborative works that lack designated authors to the untitled work, the enquiring viewer is prematurely left alone to fill in the blanks ¨C a productive insecurity in the face of that which cannot be named, grasped, or conveyed that leaks into, and has an impact upon, the doing and teaching of art and its histories. We would like to invite papers on naming as a activity shared by art historians, critics, curators, and artists; thereby also addressing questions of authority, validity, critique, and resistance that become integral to the act of giving ¨C or retracting ¨C titles. Possible areas of enquiry can include: measuring the name: navigating classification and reconfiguring value; the untitled work as a site of frustration, opportunity, and challenge; the function of names and classifications in reception, historiography, and methodology; legitimising nomenclature: claiming and re©\claiming the utility of art and history; and choosing names and choosing sides: the vocabulary of cross©\disciplinary studies.

Call for Papers

Post-in-progress: 1st International Post-graduation Forum for Music and Dance Studies – Aveiro, Portugal December 2009

The Institute of Ethnomusicology - Centre for Music and Dance Studies (INET-md) and Department of Communication and Art (DeCA) of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, are pleased to host POSTIP an international scientific meeting open to all post-graduation students in music and dance.

http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/

We are looking for full articles (up to 10,000 words) and polemics (short articles up to 5000 words) for our next issue on 'Globalisation and War'.

Published contributions will be available free online and included within our limited-run print edition.

Infinity Journal is switching to the peer-review process and will focus on the topics of war and peace, and all of the issues in between - from humanitarianism to terrorism. The peer-review process begins after Volume 1 ends, which will be in February 2010. Those interested in submitting to Infinity Journal (peer-review) can begin submitting papers now. Visit the site for more details or contact Adam for more information, including submission guidelines.

There will also be a $1,000 award for best piece.

The Red River Valley Historical Journal (RRVHJ) invites the submission of articles for publication in upcoming issues. Articles are solicited on any historical topic, era, or geographic region of the world. The RRVHJ publishes articles of general interest to the academy.

Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research KIMEP is a 21st century dynamic and progressive institution offering American style credit-based graduate and undergraduate programs in social sciences, economics and business. All instructions are offered in English. The institution, which is one of its kind in the entire Central Asian Region, is located in the beautiful, attractive and cosmopolitan city of Almaty.

Post-Doc Researcher

"'Spread the Innovation' - Feeding Project Innovations into the Decision-Making Process in Khorezm, Uzbekistan"

ZEF (Center for Development Research), Bonn, Germany
Department of Political and Cultural Change

Applications before 15 October 2009

Description:

The work is part of ZEF's long-term interdisciplinary research project on sustainable land and water use in the Khorezm province, Aral sea region (full project title Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land and Water Use in the Khorezm Region (Uzbekistan): A Pilot Project in Development Research) http://www.khorezm.uni-bonn.de/

Annual meeting
Association of American Geographers
Washington DC
April 14-18 2010

CFP:
How do basic concepts shift in neoliberal projects? Evidence from the post-socialist world and beyond

The neoliberal experiment across the globe has involved the dissemination of knowledge about rational ‘best practices,’ geared towards the promotion of efficient market economies, seen as deeply intertwined with liberal democratic polities. In doing so, international financial institutions, academics, and the media have promoted not only concrete policies, but also specific languages and set of meanings that, albeit vague, support the rationale of neoliberal projects. Generally accepted by elites worldwide (and contested by their opponents), those concepts are also constantly reworked when they meet diverse and locally specific sets of meaning and institutional frameworks.

InterMedia Survey Institutea global research, evaluation and consulting firm specializing in media and communicationis seeking an experienced Research Analyst/Project Manager who will be responsible for the management of quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation projects throughout the Eurasia Region. This is a highly multifaceted position with duties including client interface, research design, project management, subcontractor oversight, fieldwork observation, research analysis, report writing, presentations and proposal support. The Project Manager will have primary responsibility for Russia and secondary responsibility for other Eurasia countries.