Open Society Institute - Higher Education Support Program Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching and centre for research, art and civic engagement "the city"
RESET Challenge Seminar 2007-2009:
Cultures of Memory and Emancipatory Politics:
Re-visioning the Past and Communality in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Spaces
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Higher Education Support Program of Open Society Institute (Budapest) and the Centre for Research, Art and Civic Engagement "The City", Bosnia and Herzegovina, are announcing a new Regional Challenge Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, inviting interested scholars and university educators from all fields of social sciences and humanities to take part in the programme.
The collaborative interdisciplinary international project entitled Cultures of Memory and Emancipatory Politics: Re-visioning the Past and Communality in the Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Spaces will be carried out by a team of prominent scholars from various disciplines and will involve junior university-based academics primarily from the former Yugoslav region. The aim is to support and advance their teaching and research abilities and professional development through a collaborative international effort that offers a host of opportunities for young scholars/academics.
Working languages of the seminar are both English and South Slavic languages (Bosnian/Serbian/ Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian*). The duration of the project is currently planned for two years starting in Autumn 2007. During this period, we aim to conduct and accomplish a number of tasks pertaining to teaching and research advancement in the areas of concern, and conduct two autumn and two spring sessions to take place in the Former Yugoslav region. The first joint session is tentatively planned for late September 2007 in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The project has a rhizome-like structure both in terms of its lines of research and the organization of participants. Brining together researchers working at the cross-roads of cultural and literary theory, political theory, sociology and anthropology, the first core session addresses common concerns and later divides into distinct interdisciplinary, yet connected, research pathways. These will undertake research towards themes like: the revision of cultural memory in the former Yugoslav region, the recasting of past and communality in post-Yugoslav space and potentials for emancipatory politics, and so forth. Both core sessions (total of two) as well as
specific pathways (and their specific sessions and other activities) will ensure a concrete, flexible, and deliverable manner of devising, developing, and testing teaching and research methodologies that can be applied in junior faculty's research projects and teaching. The rhizome-like organization of the participants ensures their greater mobility and mutual exchange, encourages their independence and creativity, and sets in motion potential team-work both in teaching and researching
after the completion of the project.
For more details on the programme structure and the productive challenges it offers, please CONSULT two separate documents containing information sheet and programme outline. (Please note that many programme specifics will be revised and developed later by all the participants in order to respond to their interests and concerns to the fullest).
APPLICANTS
The project is aimed at young faculty primarily from former Yugoslav universities who are interested in developing their research and teaching skills in a challenging and collegial context. The applicants must be at an early stage of their teaching academic career, with a strong MA degree and publishing record, and preferably holding a PhD degree or enrolled in a doctoral programme. We welcome applications from all disciplinary backgrounds in social sciences and humanities (political theory, sociology, anthropology, law, gender, cultural and literary studies, and so forth).
It is essential that participants be committed to working as a group for an extended period of time. Each participant must have a very good command of English language in order to be able to engage with literature at an advanced level, strong interest in scholarship related to the theme of the seminar, as well as a developed interest in advancing the teaching and research process at their institutions and more widely.
Application process
The following documents must be submitted electronically and emailed as attachments to reset@centargrad. com:
Completed application form
a supporting statement (no longer than 500 words) in English outlining your needs and expectations from this Challenge Seminar as well as the way in which you will aim to contribute to it;
your academic CV with a select list of publications;
a sample of your published research / work in progress (no longer than 2,000 words).
Deadline for applications
We expect application as soon as possible, but certainly before 20 July 2007.
For more details about the seminar contents, goals and activities, and about the application process, please refer to additional materials attached: [ATTACHMENTS REMOVED - PLEASE CONTACT THE COURSE ORGANIZERS AT THE ADDRESSES BELOW FOR APPLICATION MATERIALS]
1. Programme outline (pdf)
2. Information sheet (doc)
3. Application form (doc)
4. Call for applications (doc)
CONTACT DETAILS
Jasmina Husanovic, Academic Director (jasmina@centargrad. com)
Damir Arsenijevic, Administrative Director (damir@centargrad. com)
Official Project Mail: reset@centargrad. com
Project Website: www.reset.centargra d.com
information sheet:
ReSET Challenge Seminar
Title of the Project Cultures of Memory and Emancipatory Politics:
Re-visioning the Past and Communality in the and Post-Yugoslav Spaces
Discipline(s) and Academic Areas Cultural, political and gender studies,
anthropology, literature, sociology
Project Period 1 June 2007 - 1 May 2009 (24 months)
Host Institution( s) "The City", Centre for Research, Art and Civic
Engagement, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Working Language(s) English and South-Slavic languages:
Bosnian/Serbian/ Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian*
Project Directors
Name Jasmina Husanovic-Pehar PhD
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR
Title, position, institution Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Vice-Dean for
Research in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia
President, Board of Directors, Centre for Art, Research and Civic
Engagement "The City" Tuzla
Name Damir Arsenijevic, PhD near awarding
ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Title, position, institution Lecturer at the CIPS, University of Sarajevo
Core Resource Faculty
Name Jasmina Lukic PhD
Title, position, institution Associate Professor, Department of Gender
Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Name Elissa Helms PhD
Title, position, institution Assistant Professor, Department of Gender
Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Name Boris Buden PhD
Title, position, institution European Institute for Progressive Cultural
Policies, Vienna, Research Fellow
Name Rastko Mocnik PhD
Title, position, institution University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts,
Professor in the Department of Sociology
Name Jasmina Husanovic PhD
Title, position, institution University of Tuzla, Lecturer in Cultural
Studies and Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Philosophy
Name Damir Arsenijevic, PhD near awarding
Title, position, institution University of Sarajevo, CIPS, Lecturer in
Cultural/Gender Studies
Project Description
(approx. 100 words) The project has a rhizome-like structure both in terms
of its lines of research and the organization of participants. Brining
together researchers working at the cross-roads of cultural and literary
theory, political theory, sociology and anthropology, the first core
session addresses common concerns and later divides into distinct
interdisciplinary, yet connected, research pathways. These will undertake
research towards themes like: the revision of cultural memory in the former
Yugoslav region, the recasting of past and communality in post-Yugoslav
space and potentials for emancipatory politics, and so forth. Both core
sessions (total of two) as well as specific pathways (and their specific
sessions and other activities) will ensure a concrete, flexible, and
deliverable manner of devising, developing, and testing teaching and
research methodologies that can be applied in junior faculty's research
projects and teaching. The rhizome-like organization of the participants
ensures their greater mobility and mutual exchange, encourages their
independence and creativity, and sets in motion potential team-work both in
teaching and researching after the completion of the project.
Participants Eligibility
Disciplines Cultural studies, political theory, gender studies,
anthropology, literature, sociology (as well as other disciplines in
humanities and in social sciences)
Region/countries Post-Yugoslav countries
Academic standing/level/ prerequisites MA and PhD degree holders involved in
teaching and research of target disciplines in the regional faculties and
research centres
Other criteria A good knowledge of English language, working knowledge of
the basic concepts used in the discipline/s and at an early stage of their
teaching/research career
Deadline for applications 20 July 2007
Application procedure (essay, test, interview, etc.) Application form, CV
with a list of publications, statement of purpose, a sample of written work
Contact information for applicants and general inquiries
Contact person Jasmina Husanovic-Pehar PhD
Postal address Stupine B6/6-32, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Telephone/fax +387 61 411 968, + 387 35 306 332
E-mail jasminamak@gmail. com or jasmina@centargrad. com
Web site www.centargrad. com
Other important information
Other invited professors as potential guest faculty for specific sessions:
Biljana Kasic PhD, University of Zadar, Professor in the Department of
Sociology, Co-ordinator of Women Studies in Zagreb
Renata Jambresic Kirin, Research Associate at the Institute of Ethnology
and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Lecturer at the Centre for Women's
Studies, Zagreb
Dubravka Ugresic, writer and scholar, various post in Netherlands and Europe
Wendy Brown, Professor of Political Science, University of California,
Berkeley, US
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Department of Rhetorics and
Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, US
Nancy Ries, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Colgate
University, US
Terry Eagleton, Professor of Cultural Theory, University of Manchester, UK
Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature, Emory
University, US
Sari Wastell, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of London,
Goldsmiths, UK
Kirsten Campbell, Lecturer (social and legal studies), Department of
Sociology, University of London, Goldsmiths, UK
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