The New Europe College, an Institute for Advanced Study in Bucharest, invites applications for
one-term Fellowships in Spring - Summer 2008
(from March through July, 2008)
The two Fellowships shall enable young outstanding researchers - social scientists and humanities scholars - or academics from the Balkan region to pursue their work in Bucharest, with the support of a decent stipend and benefiting from the institute's excellent infrastructure and in its stimulating multidisciplinary atmosphere. Fellows are expected to stay in residence at the New Europe College in Bucharest and to participate in the academic program of this vital Romanian centre of research and debate. For more information on the NEC, please consult the website (www.nec.ro) or turn to the NEC directly.
Eligible are scholars (doctoral or post-doctoral level) from the West Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Preference is given to applicants below 45 years. A good command of English is desirable; fluency in other foreign languages (French, German) an advantage. Knowledge of German would be an advantage, but is not a necessary condition.
Successful candidates receive a monthly stipend of 600 Euro for four months. The Fellowships also include accommodation, travel costs for Bucharest, and a research allowance. Additionally, Fellows are offered a lump sum of 2560 Euros for a one-month research trip to a German institution.
The Fellowships are sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart (Germany).
Applications must use the forms provided on the New Europe College website (www.nec.ro) , and also contain a CV (with publications) and a well-written research proposal (3-5 pages) for the period in question. Applications that satisfy the formal requirements will be considered by an international jury (including representatives of the New Europe College and members of its Boards).
Extended deadline: December 10, 2007
To apply, or if you have questions, please contact
Ms Irina Vainovski-Mihai
Program Coordinator
Tel. +40-21-307 9910
Fax: +40-21-327 0774
E-mail: imihai@nec.ro
Mailing address: str. Plantelor 21, 023971 Bucharest, Romania
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Oct 27, 2007
WOMBACK ldv Project
We wish to inform you that the project WOMBACK (The adaptation of permanent education for the women wishing to return to the labour market) has ended in September 2007, within the European programme Leonardo da Vinci.
The project has been in activity for 36 months. The partnership of the project has brought together 10 organizations from 7 European countries: Spain, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Romania.
The target group of the project was made up of women who, after having left the labour market, to take care of children or older relatives, wish to re-enter this market.
The project objectives have been:
Based on the analysis of the good practices, the adaptation of the permanent education systems, and the afferent tools, the needs and specific features of the target group, within different training domains:
• Programming. Establishing the frame for the training systems.
• Planning. Establishing a training plan, including organizing problems, common to different training actions.
• Coordonarea actiunilor de pregatire. Probleme legate de organizarea de actiuni concrete de pregatire.
• Pedagogical problems, including issues like teaching methodology, structure and content of the training materials, etc.
• Evaluation of the training actions, offering an appreciation from the point of view of future problems related to programming, planning, coordination, as well as pedagogical problems.
• Counselling in the domain of labour market and training, as well as methods to apply for a training action or to find a job after the training is over.
The project products are:
5. Analysis of the situation of the target group on the labour market and the permanent vocational training, both at national, as well as European levels;
6. Analysis of the situation of the permanent vocational training at the level of the countries participating in the project;
7. Analysis of the good practices at a national level, and adapting them to the level of the international partnership;
8. A reference document written in English and Romanian, containing the conclusions and proposals resulted from the project.
All the persons / organizations interested in this reference document of the project, and who are interested in having it (on-line), can contact us at the e-mail address office@srep. ro.
Thank you in advance for your time and your interest!
Best regards,
Emilia Saulescu
President SREP
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The project has been in activity for 36 months. The partnership of the project has brought together 10 organizations from 7 European countries: Spain, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy and Romania.
The target group of the project was made up of women who, after having left the labour market, to take care of children or older relatives, wish to re-enter this market.
The project objectives have been:
Based on the analysis of the good practices, the adaptation of the permanent education systems, and the afferent tools, the needs and specific features of the target group, within different training domains:
• Programming. Establishing the frame for the training systems.
• Planning. Establishing a training plan, including organizing problems, common to different training actions.
• Coordonarea actiunilor de pregatire. Probleme legate de organizarea de actiuni concrete de pregatire.
• Pedagogical problems, including issues like teaching methodology, structure and content of the training materials, etc.
• Evaluation of the training actions, offering an appreciation from the point of view of future problems related to programming, planning, coordination, as well as pedagogical problems.
• Counselling in the domain of labour market and training, as well as methods to apply for a training action or to find a job after the training is over.
The project products are:
5. Analysis of the situation of the target group on the labour market and the permanent vocational training, both at national, as well as European levels;
6. Analysis of the situation of the permanent vocational training at the level of the countries participating in the project;
7. Analysis of the good practices at a national level, and adapting them to the level of the international partnership;
8. A reference document written in English and Romanian, containing the conclusions and proposals resulted from the project.
All the persons / organizations interested in this reference document of the project, and who are interested in having it (on-line), can contact us at the e-mail address office@srep. ro.
Thank you in advance for your time and your interest!
Best regards,
Emilia Saulescu
President SREP
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Ukraine and post soviet spaces
It is our pleasure to inform you of the new program for international students "Ukraine and Post-Soviet Spaces: TRANSITION FROM COMMUNISM" at the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The aim of this program is to present the transitioning society in a broad context – how our country is passing from a totalitarian system to democracy, from a planned to a market economy, etc. To put these processes into context, the courses will cover the transitional processes themselves – economical, political, social – as well as the historical and cultural conditions preceding them.
The program itself can be adapted to the specific needs and interests of individual students. Program applicants and future students will be able to create an individual plan of study with the personal assistance of NaUKMA program coordinators before arriving at the university.
Participating students have flexibility in designing their own programs. They will choose:
- program duration (from 4 weeks to 14 weeks);
- number of courses (from 2 courses over 4 weeks, up to 10 courses for the full 14-week program);
- length of stay at NaUKMA (the program will be offered during both Fall and Spring terms with the possibility to extend coursework over the entire academic year).
Application DEADLINE: 1 5 December 2007.
More about Program, Application form and Program Costs please see from
http://dfc.ukma. kiev.ua/index. php?page= 13
Tamara Martsenyuk, International Education Programs Advisor for Teachers and PhD Students National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Kyiv , Ukraine
Tel/Fax: +38 044 425-50-16, 425-77-71
E-mail: i_proj@ukma. kiev.ua , tarakuta@gmail. com
www.dfc.ukma. kiev.ua
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The aim of this program is to present the transitioning society in a broad context – how our country is passing from a totalitarian system to democracy, from a planned to a market economy, etc. To put these processes into context, the courses will cover the transitional processes themselves – economical, political, social – as well as the historical and cultural conditions preceding them.
The program itself can be adapted to the specific needs and interests of individual students. Program applicants and future students will be able to create an individual plan of study with the personal assistance of NaUKMA program coordinators before arriving at the university.
Participating students have flexibility in designing their own programs. They will choose:
- program duration (from 4 weeks to 14 weeks);
- number of courses (from 2 courses over 4 weeks, up to 10 courses for the full 14-week program);
- length of stay at NaUKMA (the program will be offered during both Fall and Spring terms with the possibility to extend coursework over the entire academic year).
Application DEADLINE: 1 5 December 2007.
More about Program, Application form and Program Costs please see from
http://dfc.ukma. kiev.ua/index. php?page= 13
Tamara Martsenyuk, International Education Programs Advisor for Teachers and PhD Students National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Kyiv , Ukraine
Tel/Fax: +38 044 425-50-16, 425-77-71
E-mail: i_proj@ukma. kiev.ua , tarakuta@gmail. com
www.dfc.ukma. kiev.ua
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Comparative Politics/ International Relations Faculty Position
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabanci University announces a September 2008 opening for an Assistant Professor of Political Science, with a particular focus on Comparative Politics or International Relations. Strong methodological skills is a must. The successful candidates will teach introductory courses in comparative politics, international relations theory as well as courses in their areas of specialization.
Sabanci University (www.sabanciuniv. edu) is a campus university located in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul. It is one of the leading private universities in Turkey and an internationally recognized research institution. The medium of instruction is English. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (www.sabanciuniv. edu/ssbf/ eng/) is a vibrant community of 52 full-time faculty members from various fields in the social sciences. The research and teaching focus in the faculty covers political science, international relations, sociology, cultural studies, history and economics. A primary objective of the Faculty is to promote interdisciplinarity in both teaching and research. Aiming at both teaching and research excellence, the yearly teaching load is 2 courses per semester. In addition to a competitive salary package, the faculty members enjoy additional compensation such as free on-campus faculty housing, health insurance and private pension plan.
Interested applicants should submit a current CV online to http://www.sabanciu niv.edu/eng/ ?ik/basvurular/ akademik. php and send a cover letter, complete CV with publication list, writing samples, and three reference letters to: the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Orhanli, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul, Turkey.
Sabanci University is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability. Deadline for application submissions is December 31, 2007. Review of applications will begin immediately thereafter and proceed until the position is filled.
Source: http://www.sabanciu niv.edu/ssbf/ pols/eng/ ?Etkinlikler/ Haberler. php
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Sabanci University (www.sabanciuniv. edu) is a campus university located in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul. It is one of the leading private universities in Turkey and an internationally recognized research institution. The medium of instruction is English. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (www.sabanciuniv. edu/ssbf/ eng/) is a vibrant community of 52 full-time faculty members from various fields in the social sciences. The research and teaching focus in the faculty covers political science, international relations, sociology, cultural studies, history and economics. A primary objective of the Faculty is to promote interdisciplinarity in both teaching and research. Aiming at both teaching and research excellence, the yearly teaching load is 2 courses per semester. In addition to a competitive salary package, the faculty members enjoy additional compensation such as free on-campus faculty housing, health insurance and private pension plan.
Interested applicants should submit a current CV online to http://www.sabanciu niv.edu/eng/ ?ik/basvurular/ akademik. php and send a cover letter, complete CV with publication list, writing samples, and three reference letters to: the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Orhanli, Tuzla 34956 Istanbul, Turkey.
Sabanci University is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability. Deadline for application submissions is December 31, 2007. Review of applications will begin immediately thereafter and proceed until the position is filled.
Source: http://www.sabanciu niv.edu/ssbf/ pols/eng/ ?Etkinlikler/ Haberler. php
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Concursul scolar: 50 de ani impreuna in diversitate
Concursul este deschis echipelor formate din 10 pana la 20 de elevi si studenti, intre 14 si 20 de ani, care frecventeaza scoli sau organizatii ce desfasoara activitati extra-curriculare in cele 27 de state membre ale Uniunii Europene. Fiecare echipa trebuie sa fie coordonata de doi profesori. Tema concursului este: „50 de ani impreuna in diversitate”. Lucrarile pentru concurs trebuie sa cuprinda un eseu si o lucrare vizuala.
Data limita pentru trimiterea lucrarilor este: 31 decembrie 2007
Informatii detaliate despre concursul scolar „50 de ani impreuna in diversitate” (teme, regulament, premii), pot fi gasite la: http://www.50years. eun.org
Concursul scolar „50 de ani impreuna in diversitate” este organizat de European Schoolnet in parteneriat cu Muzeul Europei. http://www.museu. be
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Data limita pentru trimiterea lucrarilor este: 31 decembrie 2007
Informatii detaliate despre concursul scolar „50 de ani impreuna in diversitate” (teme, regulament, premii), pot fi gasite la: http://www.50years. eun.org
Concursul scolar „50 de ani impreuna in diversitate” este organizat de European Schoolnet in parteneriat cu Muzeul Europei. http://www.museu. be
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Curs FDSC - Managementul financiar al proiectelor cu finantare europeana
Managementul financiar al proiectelor cu finantare europeana
Perioada: 9-11 noiembrie 2007
Organizatiile neguvernamentale, institutiile publice si companiile din Romania pot beneficia de miliarde EURO pentru derularea de proiecte. Cea mai mare provocare este cheltuirea acestor bani. Un bun management financiar ajuta organizatiile sa aibe capacitatea sa cheltuiasca banii, respectand in acelasi timp si rigorile impuse de finantatori si lege. Prin acest curs, FDSC va va dezvolta cunostintele si abilitatile necesare intelegerii importantei managementului financiar al proiectelor si a rolului sau in cadrul organizatiei.
COMPETENTE
La sfarsitul cursului, participantii:
a.. vor intelege rolul departamentului financiar in cadrul organizatiei si modul in care isi aduce aportul la dezvoltarea organizationala;
b.. vor putea sa comunice eficient in cadrul organizatiei si cu ceilalti membri ai echipei, proiectand o imagine pozitiva a functiei financiare;
c.. vor inteleage utilitatea si modul de realizare a principalelor instrumente utilizate in managementul financiar al unui proiect (buget, planificare financiara, flux de numerar);
d.. vor fi capabili sa indeplineasca activitatile de raportare financiara, atat din perspectiva managerului de proiect, cat si din perspectiva finantatorilor;
e.. vor putea dezvolta proceduri de control financiar intern.
Tematica
a.. Rolul finantelor in cadrul organizatiei
b.. Interactiunea cu celelalte departamente si echipa
c.. Principii de baza ale sistemului de control financiar intern
d.. Planificare si analiza financiara a proiectelor
e.. Bugetarea si Raportarea financiara a proiectelor
f.. Managementul riscului
g.. Managementul crizei
Cui se adreseaza:
Cursul se adreseaza asistentilor financiari, coordonatorilor de proiecte si personalului care deruleaza activitati de suport pentru departamentul financiar, care au responsabilitati in realizarea si managementul financiar al proiectelor.
Tarif curs:
510 RON/participant pentru cele 3 zile (18 ore) de training. Aceasta taxa de participare include: materialele de curs (suport de curs, fise de lucru, anexe, CD cu materialele in format electronic), pauzele de cafea si de pranz. FDSC nu asigura transportul si cazarea participantilor. (Cursul se desfasoara in Bucuresti)
Reduceri si Bonus! ! !
10% pentru organizatiile/ institutiile care isi inscriu cel putin 3 reprezentanti la curs.
10% pentru persoanele fizice si reprezentantii organizatiilor/ institutiilor care se inscriu pentru cel putin 3 cursuri (pe teme diferite) organizate de FDSC.
FDSC ofera participantilor consultanta gratuita prin e-mail, timp de 3 luni (de la incheierea cursului). Dupa 6 luni, Departamentul de training si consultanta al FDSC va evalua impactul cursului, modul in care participarea la aceste sesiuni de instruire a contribuit la imbunatatirea activitatii fiecarui cursant, in domeniul abordat in cadrul cursului la care a participat.
Inscriere
Inscrierea la curs se face in urma trimiterii catre FDSC (prin e-mail sau fax) a formularului completat si a documentului de plata. Cursul este organizat pentru min. 12 - max. 20 persoane.
Formular pentru inscriere
Ultima zi pentru inscrieri
2 noiembrie 2007
In urma inscrierii, participantii vor primi agenda cursului si informatii despre locatie.
Contact
Pentru mai multe informatii, va rugam sa ne contactati la tel.: 021/310 01 77 sau e-mail: training@fdsc. ro. Numele persoanei de contact este Andreea Sorescu, Training manager
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Perioada: 9-11 noiembrie 2007
Organizatiile neguvernamentale, institutiile publice si companiile din Romania pot beneficia de miliarde EURO pentru derularea de proiecte. Cea mai mare provocare este cheltuirea acestor bani. Un bun management financiar ajuta organizatiile sa aibe capacitatea sa cheltuiasca banii, respectand in acelasi timp si rigorile impuse de finantatori si lege. Prin acest curs, FDSC va va dezvolta cunostintele si abilitatile necesare intelegerii importantei managementului financiar al proiectelor si a rolului sau in cadrul organizatiei.
COMPETENTE
La sfarsitul cursului, participantii:
a.. vor intelege rolul departamentului financiar in cadrul organizatiei si modul in care isi aduce aportul la dezvoltarea organizationala;
b.. vor putea sa comunice eficient in cadrul organizatiei si cu ceilalti membri ai echipei, proiectand o imagine pozitiva a functiei financiare;
c.. vor inteleage utilitatea si modul de realizare a principalelor instrumente utilizate in managementul financiar al unui proiect (buget, planificare financiara, flux de numerar);
d.. vor fi capabili sa indeplineasca activitatile de raportare financiara, atat din perspectiva managerului de proiect, cat si din perspectiva finantatorilor;
e.. vor putea dezvolta proceduri de control financiar intern.
Tematica
a.. Rolul finantelor in cadrul organizatiei
b.. Interactiunea cu celelalte departamente si echipa
c.. Principii de baza ale sistemului de control financiar intern
d.. Planificare si analiza financiara a proiectelor
e.. Bugetarea si Raportarea financiara a proiectelor
f.. Managementul riscului
g.. Managementul crizei
Cui se adreseaza:
Cursul se adreseaza asistentilor financiari, coordonatorilor de proiecte si personalului care deruleaza activitati de suport pentru departamentul financiar, care au responsabilitati in realizarea si managementul financiar al proiectelor.
Tarif curs:
510 RON/participant pentru cele 3 zile (18 ore) de training. Aceasta taxa de participare include: materialele de curs (suport de curs, fise de lucru, anexe, CD cu materialele in format electronic), pauzele de cafea si de pranz. FDSC nu asigura transportul si cazarea participantilor. (Cursul se desfasoara in Bucuresti)
Reduceri si Bonus! ! !
10% pentru organizatiile/ institutiile care isi inscriu cel putin 3 reprezentanti la curs.
10% pentru persoanele fizice si reprezentantii organizatiilor/ institutiilor care se inscriu pentru cel putin 3 cursuri (pe teme diferite) organizate de FDSC.
FDSC ofera participantilor consultanta gratuita prin e-mail, timp de 3 luni (de la incheierea cursului). Dupa 6 luni, Departamentul de training si consultanta al FDSC va evalua impactul cursului, modul in care participarea la aceste sesiuni de instruire a contribuit la imbunatatirea activitatii fiecarui cursant, in domeniul abordat in cadrul cursului la care a participat.
Inscriere
Inscrierea la curs se face in urma trimiterii catre FDSC (prin e-mail sau fax) a formularului completat si a documentului de plata. Cursul este organizat pentru min. 12 - max. 20 persoane.
Formular pentru inscriere
Ultima zi pentru inscrieri
2 noiembrie 2007
In urma inscrierii, participantii vor primi agenda cursului si informatii despre locatie.
Contact
Pentru mai multe informatii, va rugam sa ne contactati la tel.: 021/310 01 77 sau e-mail: training@fdsc. ro. Numele persoanei de contact este Andreea Sorescu, Training manager
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Oct 21, 2007
MSc Applied Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (University of Greenwich)
University of Greenwich
MSc Applied Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (AMMSC)
PhD Applied Mathematics
This advertisement is aimed at students who wish to consider January entrance. Potential students aiming at distinctive MSc results with migration to PhD studies in applied mathematics are invited to apply. Fundings are not available for students at the MSc level. However students successfully completed the MSc with distinctive results will be selected to continue a PhD research programme, which will then be fully funded, at the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis.
Please refer to http://www.cms. gre.ac.uk for a full description of the research activities.
Deadline for application: 30/11/2007.
Application form from http://cse.gre. ac.uk
The Masters programme is run by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Greenwich, within the School of of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. This highly regarded department was ranked 10th in the 2007 UK departmental ranking (http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ section/0, ,6734,00. html), and the MSc is taught by members of the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis, an award winning research group.
This Masters programme aims to train and equip Honours graduates in engineering, science or mathematics and suitably qualified professionals, with the skills required to understand, and use, applied mathematical modelling techniques and scientific computing technologies in industry. Emphasis will be placed on modelling phenomena governed by the physics of fluid flow, heat transfer, electromagnetics and solid mechanics using CFD, FEA and other software tools. A core philosophy of the programme is to introduce the students to the concept of multi-physics modelling, where interactions between the governing physics, and hence the relevant solution and software technologies, are important. A strand of the programme is devoted to Fire and Evacuation modelling, for candidates with Fire Safety degree background. Details of available modules can be found at: http://cse.gre. ac.uk
Entry requirements: A good Bachelorfs degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or a relevant related discipline. Those who have substantial commercial or industrial experience but lack formal qualifications should seek an interview with the programme leader.
Further details of the programme, applications, enquiries should reach cmsinfo[ at ]gre.ac.uk (Mrs. Marilyn Nichols) or cse[ at ]gre.ac.uk
Professor C.-H. Lai
Programme leader - MSc AMMSC
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MSc Applied Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing (AMMSC)
PhD Applied Mathematics
This advertisement is aimed at students who wish to consider January entrance. Potential students aiming at distinctive MSc results with migration to PhD studies in applied mathematics are invited to apply. Fundings are not available for students at the MSc level. However students successfully completed the MSc with distinctive results will be selected to continue a PhD research programme, which will then be fully funded, at the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis.
Please refer to http://www.cms. gre.ac.uk for a full description of the research activities.
Deadline for application: 30/11/2007.
Application form from http://cse.gre. ac.uk
The Masters programme is run by the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Greenwich, within the School of of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. This highly regarded department was ranked 10th in the 2007 UK departmental ranking (http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ section/0, ,6734,00. html), and the MSc is taught by members of the Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis, an award winning research group.
This Masters programme aims to train and equip Honours graduates in engineering, science or mathematics and suitably qualified professionals, with the skills required to understand, and use, applied mathematical modelling techniques and scientific computing technologies in industry. Emphasis will be placed on modelling phenomena governed by the physics of fluid flow, heat transfer, electromagnetics and solid mechanics using CFD, FEA and other software tools. A core philosophy of the programme is to introduce the students to the concept of multi-physics modelling, where interactions between the governing physics, and hence the relevant solution and software technologies, are important. A strand of the programme is devoted to Fire and Evacuation modelling, for candidates with Fire Safety degree background. Details of available modules can be found at: http://cse.gre. ac.uk
Entry requirements: A good Bachelorfs degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or a relevant related discipline. Those who have substantial commercial or industrial experience but lack formal qualifications should seek an interview with the programme leader.
Further details of the programme, applications, enquiries should reach cmsinfo[ at ]gre.ac.uk (Mrs. Marilyn Nichols) or cse[ at ]gre.ac.uk
Professor C.-H. Lai
Programme leader - MSc AMMSC
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Postdoctoral position in Marine Ecology available in Western Australia
A 2.5-year Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A) position is available in the Centre for Ecosystem Management at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia. A marine ecologist is sought to form part of a team investigating the ecological interactions in a coral-reef system at Ningaloo Reef on the west coast of Australia. The research project is funded by the Western Australian Marine Science Institute with the aim of better understanding the interactions among a range of habitats in coastal systems, that will lead to more effective management in these systems, particularly through the implementation of marine protected areas. The study aims to use field experiments, biomarkers such as stable isotopes, and acoustic tracking of fishes to examine linkages among habitats, and interactions among different trophic levels. The project has significant funding and existing research infrastructure through collaborations with CSIRO.
If you are interested in the position, please visit the web site below for the advertisement, selection criteria and details of the application process.
http://www.hr. ecu.edu.au/ est/html/ jobs_ecu. cfm
Applications close on the 9th November 2007.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Glenn Hyndes
Senior Lecturer
School of Natural Sciences
Edith Cowan University
100 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup, Western Australia, 6027
Australia
Phone: +61 8 6304 5798
Fax: +61 8 6304 5070
http://www.sons. ecu.edu.au/ staff/ghyndes. php
http://cem.ecu. edu.au/coastal- marine/index. php
CRICOS Institutional Provider Code 00279B
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CRICOS IPC 00279B
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If you are interested in the position, please visit the web site below for the advertisement, selection criteria and details of the application process.
http://www.hr. ecu.edu.au/ est/html/ jobs_ecu. cfm
Applications close on the 9th November 2007.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Glenn Hyndes
Senior Lecturer
School of Natural Sciences
Edith Cowan University
100 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup, Western Australia, 6027
Australia
Phone: +61 8 6304 5798
Fax: +61 8 6304 5070
http://www.sons. ecu.edu.au/ staff/ghyndes. php
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PhD student vacancy - regional / urban economics and real estate economics
Dear colleague,
I would like to inform you that the Research Institute for Spatial and Real Estate Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien) which I am directing has three job offers for students with a real estate interest and different backgrounds. The positions are full time for doctoral students for three years.
One of the positions might be particularly interesting: it is announced for the area of regional / urban economics and real estate with an orientation toward Central and Eastern Europe.
The official announcements can be found at http://www.wu- wien.ac.at/ immobilienwirtsc haft/news. I can supply an English language version upon request. For further information, please contact me at gunther.maier@ wu-wien.ac. at . Please, spread the information to others who might be interested.
Note, that the deadline for application is OCT. 31st!
Kind regards,
Gunther Maier
Gunther Maier, University of Economics and Business Administration * *
Augasse 2-6, Vienna, Austria. (Gunther.Maier- wien.ac.at) * *
Newsletter Editor, European Regional Science Association *
Dr Martin Sokol
Lecturer
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road,London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Email: m.sokol@qmul. ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 5400 (Dept. office)
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 8106 (NEW Direct line)
http://www.geog. qmul.ac.uk/ staff/sokol. html
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I would like to inform you that the Research Institute for Spatial and Real Estate Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien) which I am directing has three job offers for students with a real estate interest and different backgrounds. The positions are full time for doctoral students for three years.
One of the positions might be particularly interesting: it is announced for the area of regional / urban economics and real estate with an orientation toward Central and Eastern Europe.
The official announcements can be found at http://www.wu- wien.ac.at/ immobilienwirtsc haft/news. I can supply an English language version upon request. For further information, please contact me at gunther.maier@ wu-wien.ac. at . Please, spread the information to others who might be interested.
Note, that the deadline for application is OCT. 31st!
Kind regards,
Gunther Maier
Gunther Maier, University of Economics and Business Administration * *
Augasse 2-6, Vienna, Austria. (Gunther.Maier- wien.ac.at) * *
Newsletter Editor, European Regional Science Association *
Dr Martin Sokol
Lecturer
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road,London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Email: m.sokol@qmul. ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 5400 (Dept. office)
Tel: +44(0) 20 7882 8106 (NEW Direct line)
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Call for Submissions - INSIGHT TURKEY
Call for Submissions
INSIGHT TURKEY
Insight Turkey is a newly refereed quarterly, published by the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research under the editorship of Ihsan Dagi from the Middle East Technical University.
Currently in its 9th volume, Insight Turkey covers a broad range of topics related to Turkish domestic and foreign policy. It is a policy-oriented journal that aims to provide a forum for informed discussion on Turkish politics and foreign policy as well as its adjacent regions such as the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Europe. Insight Turkey intends to present original thinking by knowledgeable observers both from Turkey and abroad.
We publish four categories of material. Comments are 2,000-3,000- word pieces that make a single, provocative point. Essays are more extensive 4,000-5,000- word pieces of analysis that comprise the body of the journal. Book reviews are 700-1,500-word pieces of new books. 'Letters to the Editor' are feedback from readers on material that has been published in previous issues. 'Letters to the Editor' intended for publication should be no more than 500 words and may be edited for space and style if selected.
We welcome unsolicited manuscripts and article proposals. All submissions should be accompanied by a brief note describing the author's current and past positions, recent publications, and relevant experience.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis. The following deadlines, however, are worth keeping in mind in order for a piece to be considered for a particular issue: for the Winter issue, January 10; for the Spring issue, April 10; for the Summer issue, July 10; for the Fall issue, October 10.
Any questions on these or related editorial issues should be directed to the Editor at insightturkey@ setav.org or contact Insight Turkey at (+90) (312) 405 61 51.
Please send hardcopy material to:
Resit Galip Cad. Hereke Sokak No:10 GOP Cankaya ANKARA, TURKEY
STYLE AND FORMAT GUIDE
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the Insight Turkey style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Authors whose first language is not English should have their article read and corrected by a competent English linguist.
Particular attention is drawn to the following points:
Spelling
American spelling should be used throughout. Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out, other numbers should be given as numerals. Dates should be in the form April 8, 1999; 1996-99; the 1980s. Use percent rather than %.
Names
Use original spelling in languages that use Latin alphabet. For transliteration of all other languages (such as Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, etc) into English, please seek advice from the Editors.
Sub-headings
Should be italic and in title case. Sub-sub-headings should be title case and underlined.
Endnotes
The number of notes should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the article, using a raised numeral in the text, to correspond to a list of notes placed at the end.
In the list of notes, consistency is most important in references to books, articles and manuscript sources; note that initial capitals are used for all nouns and important adjectives in titles. Some examples are given below. All of the information shown must be included.
Books
Terence Walker, The Book Title, (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100.
Terence Walker (ed.), The Book Title (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), pp. 100-102.
Terence Walker and Deborah Jones, The Book Title (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100. Subsequent references should appear as: Smith, The Book Title, p. 100.
Articles in Journals
Terence Walker, 'Article Title', Journal Name, Vol. #, No. # (Month, Year), p. #. Subsequent references should appear as: Smith, 'Article Title', p. #.
Articles in Edited Books
Terence Walker, 'Article Title', in Mary Jones, Book Title (New York: New York Pub1ishing Co., 1999), p.100.
Official Papers
Parliamentary Papers: Select Committee on Manufacturers (Parl. Papers, 1833,
VI), 0.456.
Theses
No italics (i.e. not underlined in typescript) for titles of unpublished theses:
K.E. Thompson, "The Puritan Reformation of Manners, with Special Reference to the Counties of Lancashire and Essex 1640-1660", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, Ch.2, p.36. In endnotes 'ibid.' should be used where possible, but it should not be used where the previous note contains more than one source.
Book reviews
Reviews should be preceded by full publication information, in the following form:
Book Title (and translation if necessary) by First name, Last Name, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), # of pages, price. The reviewer's name and affiliation should appear at the end.
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INSIGHT TURKEY
Insight Turkey is a newly refereed quarterly, published by the SETA Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research under the editorship of Ihsan Dagi from the Middle East Technical University.
Currently in its 9th volume, Insight Turkey covers a broad range of topics related to Turkish domestic and foreign policy. It is a policy-oriented journal that aims to provide a forum for informed discussion on Turkish politics and foreign policy as well as its adjacent regions such as the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans and Europe. Insight Turkey intends to present original thinking by knowledgeable observers both from Turkey and abroad.
We publish four categories of material. Comments are 2,000-3,000- word pieces that make a single, provocative point. Essays are more extensive 4,000-5,000- word pieces of analysis that comprise the body of the journal. Book reviews are 700-1,500-word pieces of new books. 'Letters to the Editor' are feedback from readers on material that has been published in previous issues. 'Letters to the Editor' intended for publication should be no more than 500 words and may be edited for space and style if selected.
We welcome unsolicited manuscripts and article proposals. All submissions should be accompanied by a brief note describing the author's current and past positions, recent publications, and relevant experience.
We accept submissions on a rolling basis. The following deadlines, however, are worth keeping in mind in order for a piece to be considered for a particular issue: for the Winter issue, January 10; for the Spring issue, April 10; for the Summer issue, July 10; for the Fall issue, October 10.
Any questions on these or related editorial issues should be directed to the Editor at insightturkey@ setav.org or contact Insight Turkey at (+90) (312) 405 61 51.
Please send hardcopy material to:
Resit Galip Cad. Hereke Sokak No:10 GOP Cankaya ANKARA, TURKEY
STYLE AND FORMAT GUIDE
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the Insight Turkey style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Authors whose first language is not English should have their article read and corrected by a competent English linguist.
Particular attention is drawn to the following points:
Spelling
American spelling should be used throughout. Numbers from one to ten should be spelled out, other numbers should be given as numerals. Dates should be in the form April 8, 1999; 1996-99; the 1980s. Use percent rather than %.
Names
Use original spelling in languages that use Latin alphabet. For transliteration of all other languages (such as Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, etc) into English, please seek advice from the Editors.
Sub-headings
Should be italic and in title case. Sub-sub-headings should be title case and underlined.
Endnotes
The number of notes should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the article, using a raised numeral in the text, to correspond to a list of notes placed at the end.
In the list of notes, consistency is most important in references to books, articles and manuscript sources; note that initial capitals are used for all nouns and important adjectives in titles. Some examples are given below. All of the information shown must be included.
Books
Terence Walker, The Book Title, (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100.
Terence Walker (ed.), The Book Title (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), pp. 100-102.
Terence Walker and Deborah Jones, The Book Title (New York: New York Publishing Co., 1999), p. 100. Subsequent references should appear as: Smith, The Book Title, p. 100.
Articles in Journals
Terence Walker, 'Article Title', Journal Name, Vol. #, No. # (Month, Year), p. #. Subsequent references should appear as: Smith, 'Article Title', p. #.
Articles in Edited Books
Terence Walker, 'Article Title', in Mary Jones, Book Title (New York: New York Pub1ishing Co., 1999), p.100.
Official Papers
Parliamentary Papers: Select Committee on Manufacturers (Parl. Papers, 1833,
VI), 0.456.
Theses
No italics (i.e. not underlined in typescript) for titles of unpublished theses:
K.E. Thompson, "The Puritan Reformation of Manners, with Special Reference to the Counties of Lancashire and Essex 1640-1660", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge University, 1974, Ch.2, p.36. In endnotes 'ibid.' should be used where possible, but it should not be used where the previous note contains more than one source.
Book reviews
Reviews should be preceded by full publication information, in the following form:
Book Title (and translation if necessary) by First name, Last Name, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), # of pages, price. The reviewer's name and affiliation should appear at the end.
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Conf.: Cross-border Cooperation of the Aromanians in the Balkans
Internationales Zentrum für Minderheiten
Centre International des Minorités
Centro Internazionale delle Minorità
Center Internaziunal da Minoritads
In cooperation with the Federal Union of European Nationalities FUEN
and the International Cultural Forum Disentis/Musté r
Cross-border Cooperation of the Aromanians in the Balkans
Duration: From Thursday, October 25, until Sunday,
October 28, 2007
Location: Disentis/Musté r (Switzerland)
Program
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Individual Arrival and Check-in at Hotel Cucagna
distribution of hotel
19.00 Dinner – Hotel Cucagna
Friday, October 26, 2007
09.00 Welcome speeches
Prof. Dr. Daniel Thürer, Vicepresident of Convivenza
Mr Zyman Krzysztov Zyman, representative of the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, DH-MIN, Secrétariat de la Convention-cadre pour la protection des minorités nationales, DH-MIN
Indroduction
Romedi Arquint, Former President of the FUEN
09.30 Conferences – Position Paper
Dr. Thede Kahl, Vienna:
History and presence of the Aromanian People (25’)
MP Lluis Maria de Puig; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rapporteur for the Recommendations of the Council of Europe (25’)
10.45 Break
11.00 Debate:
Expected initiatives/ engagements in favour of the Aromanian Language and Culture by the Council of Europe
12.30 Apero with welcome speeches by Mr Hans Huonder, vicemayor
of Disentis/Musté r and Ms Franziska Meier, Disentis/Sedrun
Tourismus
15.00 Reports on the Situation by State
Representatives and Members of Aromanian Associations: State of Cross-border
Contacts and Cooperation and Common Problems
The Aromanians in:
· Albania, Representative of the Albanian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Greece, Representative of the Greek State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Macedonia, Representative of the Macedonian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Romania, Representative of the Romanian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Bulgary, Representative of the Bulgarian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
20.00 Dinner at the Restaurant of Hotel Alpsu
Saturday, October 27, 2007
09.00 Prof. Lauri Hannikainen:
The Experience of Cross-border
Cooperation within Europe: The example of the Sami people
10.30 Break
11.00 Workshops
1. Questions related to the Foundation of a Trans-border Common Aromanian Forum (Organisation of Civil Society, Position of State Authorities etc)
2. Needs of the Aromanians, Presentation of a List of Priorities
13.00 Lunch – Hotel Cucagna
14.30-16:15 Recapitulating Reports and Debate in the Plenum; and Final Declaration and Follow-up
· Forming a working group on the following issues: Preparation of a list on mutual solvable projects / priority list and possible allocation of the determined subject areas among the states
· Preparing a possible structure for the Trans-border Common Aromanian Forum
· Establishing a provisional Secretariat
· Next meeting in Sofia 2008
16.30-17:30 Visit to the Museum of the Monastery (history, crystal, animals)
18.00 Dinner – Hotel Cucagna
20.30 Aromanian and Rhaeto-Romansh Culture
Event in “Halla Cons”
Aromanian and Rhaeto-Romanic culture event with Songs, dances and literary texts. Public evening program – the Aromanian Culture (Reading, Dance and Chant) in collaboration of a Rhaeto-Romanic choir and an Aromanian dancing chorus.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Individual check-out and departure
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Centre International des Minorités
Centro Internazionale delle Minorità
Center Internaziunal da Minoritads
In cooperation with the Federal Union of European Nationalities FUEN
and the International Cultural Forum Disentis/Musté r
Cross-border Cooperation of the Aromanians in the Balkans
Duration: From Thursday, October 25, until Sunday,
October 28, 2007
Location: Disentis/Musté r (Switzerland)
Program
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Individual Arrival and Check-in at Hotel Cucagna
distribution of hotel
19.00 Dinner – Hotel Cucagna
Friday, October 26, 2007
09.00 Welcome speeches
Prof. Dr. Daniel Thürer, Vicepresident of Convivenza
Mr Zyman Krzysztov Zyman, representative of the Council of Europe Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, DH-MIN, Secrétariat de la Convention-cadre pour la protection des minorités nationales, DH-MIN
Indroduction
Romedi Arquint, Former President of the FUEN
09.30 Conferences – Position Paper
Dr. Thede Kahl, Vienna:
History and presence of the Aromanian People (25’)
MP Lluis Maria de Puig; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Rapporteur for the Recommendations of the Council of Europe (25’)
10.45 Break
11.00 Debate:
Expected initiatives/ engagements in favour of the Aromanian Language and Culture by the Council of Europe
12.30 Apero with welcome speeches by Mr Hans Huonder, vicemayor
of Disentis/Musté r and Ms Franziska Meier, Disentis/Sedrun
Tourismus
15.00 Reports on the Situation by State
Representatives and Members of Aromanian Associations: State of Cross-border
Contacts and Cooperation and Common Problems
The Aromanians in:
· Albania, Representative of the Albanian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Greece, Representative of the Greek State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Macedonia, Representative of the Macedonian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Romania, Representative of the Romanian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
· Bulgary, Representative of the Bulgarian State, Representative of the Aromanian Community
20.00 Dinner at the Restaurant of Hotel Alpsu
Saturday, October 27, 2007
09.00 Prof. Lauri Hannikainen:
The Experience of Cross-border
Cooperation within Europe: The example of the Sami people
10.30 Break
11.00 Workshops
1. Questions related to the Foundation of a Trans-border Common Aromanian Forum (Organisation of Civil Society, Position of State Authorities etc)
2. Needs of the Aromanians, Presentation of a List of Priorities
13.00 Lunch – Hotel Cucagna
14.30-16:15 Recapitulating Reports and Debate in the Plenum; and Final Declaration and Follow-up
· Forming a working group on the following issues: Preparation of a list on mutual solvable projects / priority list and possible allocation of the determined subject areas among the states
· Preparing a possible structure for the Trans-border Common Aromanian Forum
· Establishing a provisional Secretariat
· Next meeting in Sofia 2008
16.30-17:30 Visit to the Museum of the Monastery (history, crystal, animals)
18.00 Dinner – Hotel Cucagna
20.30 Aromanian and Rhaeto-Romansh Culture
Event in “Halla Cons”
Aromanian and Rhaeto-Romanic culture event with Songs, dances and literary texts. Public evening program – the Aromanian Culture (Reading, Dance and Chant) in collaboration of a Rhaeto-Romanic choir and an Aromanian dancing chorus.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Individual check-out and departure
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Americas Policy Program at Lessons of NAFTA Conference Oct. 22-23
Laura Carlsen Presents on NAFTA Panels
“A New World of Citizen Action, Analysis, and Policy Options”
http://www.americas policy.org/
Introducing the latest events from the Americas Policy Program
Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda
The US-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is organizing a major "Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda" conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota this coming October 22-23. The Americas Policy Program is a co-sponsor of this conference and Program Director Laura Carlsen will be speaking at it on October 23 at 2:00 pm on the subject, "NAFTA Expanded: What is the Security &
Prosperity Partnership? " The same day she will also appear on the NAFTA and immigration panel with Amy Shannon and Oscar Chacón, of our partner organization Enlaces America, and others who work in immigration issues in the U.S. To register or find out about the conference, please go to IATP.
Laura Carlsen (lcarlsen(a) ciponline. org) is the director of the Americas Program at www.americaspolicy. org in Mexico City, where she has been a writer and political analyst for more than two decades.
Recent articles by Laura Carlsen:
"Deep Integration"— the Anti-Democratic Expansion of NAFTA
Via Campesina Sets an International Agenda
Plan Mexico and the Billion-Dollar Drug Deal
For media inquiries Katie Kohlstedt, americas@ciponline. org,
202-536-2649
Produced and distributed by the Americas Policy Program, a program of the Center for International Policy (CIP). For more information, visit http://www.americas policy.org/ and http://www.ciponlin e.org/. If you would like to reprint material from the Americas Program (http://www.americas policy.org/), please email: americas@ciponline. org.
If you would like to subscribe to the free biweekly e-zine Americas Updater (English) or Boletin Transfronterizo (Español y Portugués) or our listservs on specific issues, please go to: http://www.irc- online.org/ lists/. To be removed from this list, please reply to this email with “unsubscribe AMERICAS.”
If you find these materials useful, please help us continue the effort by donating to the CIP Americas Program. You can make a secure donation by visiting http://www.irc- online.org/ donate.php. Thank you.
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“A New World of Citizen Action, Analysis, and Policy Options”
http://www.americas policy.org/
Introducing the latest events from the Americas Policy Program
Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda
The US-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is organizing a major "Lessons from NAFTA: Building a New Fair Trade Agenda" conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota this coming October 22-23. The Americas Policy Program is a co-sponsor of this conference and Program Director Laura Carlsen will be speaking at it on October 23 at 2:00 pm on the subject, "NAFTA Expanded: What is the Security &
Prosperity Partnership? " The same day she will also appear on the NAFTA and immigration panel with Amy Shannon and Oscar Chacón, of our partner organization Enlaces America, and others who work in immigration issues in the U.S. To register or find out about the conference, please go to IATP.
Laura Carlsen (lcarlsen(a) ciponline. org) is the director of the Americas Program at www.americaspolicy. org in Mexico City, where she has been a writer and political analyst for more than two decades.
Recent articles by Laura Carlsen:
"Deep Integration"— the Anti-Democratic Expansion of NAFTA
Via Campesina Sets an International Agenda
Plan Mexico and the Billion-Dollar Drug Deal
For media inquiries Katie Kohlstedt, americas@ciponline. org,
202-536-2649
Produced and distributed by the Americas Policy Program, a program of the Center for International Policy (CIP). For more information, visit http://www.americas policy.org/ and http://www.ciponlin e.org/. If you would like to reprint material from the Americas Program (http://www.americas policy.org/), please email: americas@ciponline. org.
If you would like to subscribe to the free biweekly e-zine Americas Updater (English) or Boletin Transfronterizo (Español y Portugués) or our listservs on specific issues, please go to: http://www.irc- online.org/ lists/. To be removed from this list, please reply to this email with “unsubscribe AMERICAS.”
If you find these materials useful, please help us continue the effort by donating to the CIP Americas Program. You can make a secure donation by visiting http://www.irc- online.org/ donate.php. Thank you.
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Women in Business Conference 2007, Belgrade, Serbia
This program is for enthusiastic and achieving people from around the world wanting to make some changes around them, get new knowledge, skills and friends and become more useful to their own communities.
During these two days, we investigate what happens, what different types of questions are posed when women are positioned as citizens trying to marshal resources to meet obligations they carry for themselves and those who depend upon them. We will try to answer what , why and how of options are used by women for achieving successful careers and securing resources and highlight the aspects of women’s lives that remain hidden.
Students Fee - 60 US $ by November 15th 2007
Deadline for abstracts submission is November 15th 2007
* Deadline for final papers submission is November 25th 2007
Further information at http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/
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During these two days, we investigate what happens, what different types of questions are posed when women are positioned as citizens trying to marshal resources to meet obligations they carry for themselves and those who depend upon them. We will try to answer what , why and how of options are used by women for achieving successful careers and securing resources and highlight the aspects of women’s lives that remain hidden.
Students Fee - 60 US $ by November 15th 2007
Deadline for abstracts submission is November 15th 2007
* Deadline for final papers submission is November 25th 2007
Further information at http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/
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TERENA Networking Conference 2008, Bruges, Belgium
The TERENA Networking Conference 2008 is organised by the Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association and hosted by BELNET, the Belgian national research and educational network.
This year the conference goes to Bruges, a lively city in the Flemish part of Belgium, offering a balanced combination of history and progress. Conference participants will enjoy one of the world's best-preserved medieval cities while being able to use all their usual network gear at full speed.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Extended abstracts are invited on all subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference: to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology for the research and education community and their use by the community. The suggested conference topics are an indication of the planned scope of the conference, but are not meant to be restrictive.
Extended abstracts of 600 to 1200 words (one to two A4 pages) must be submitted in English, the official language of the conference. These should be accompanied by a short professional biography of the author(s) and the full names and contact details of the author(s) as outlined below. Keywords will assist the programme committee in planning the final programme of the conference.
The Conference Programme Committee will review all abstracts submitted to the conference on the basis of a set of criteria including the quality of the submission and its relevance to this conference, originality and international scope of the subject matter.
Format
Extended abstracts should be submitted in HTML, PDF, Word, Open Office or as plain ASCII text files.
Website: http://tnc2008.terena.org/
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This year the conference goes to Bruges, a lively city in the Flemish part of Belgium, offering a balanced combination of history and progress. Conference participants will enjoy one of the world's best-preserved medieval cities while being able to use all their usual network gear at full speed.
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION
Extended abstracts are invited on all subjects relevant to the spirit and objectives of the conference: to present, discuss and learn about the latest developments in networking technology for the research and education community and their use by the community. The suggested conference topics are an indication of the planned scope of the conference, but are not meant to be restrictive.
Extended abstracts of 600 to 1200 words (one to two A4 pages) must be submitted in English, the official language of the conference. These should be accompanied by a short professional biography of the author(s) and the full names and contact details of the author(s) as outlined below. Keywords will assist the programme committee in planning the final programme of the conference.
The Conference Programme Committee will review all abstracts submitted to the conference on the basis of a set of criteria including the quality of the submission and its relevance to this conference, originality and international scope of the subject matter.
Format
Extended abstracts should be submitted in HTML, PDF, Word, Open Office or as plain ASCII text files.
Website: http://tnc2008.terena.org/
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“50 Years Together in Diversity” Competition
On 3 September 2007, in partnership with the Museum of Europe, European Schoolnet launched the “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition that aims to raise awareness about European cultural values, the milestones of European integration and the 50 years of unity in diversity. The competition is intended to enhance and support European citizenship education in schools, in the year when the European Union celebrates its 50th anniversary.
Competition audience
The competition addresses teams of students that attend schools or organisations in charge of extra-curricular activities in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The student teams are encouraged to submit entries resulting from a classroom-based activity, approached in a cross-curricular manner (involving a number of school subjects). Each student team must be coordinated by two teachers.
Competition theme
The competition theme is “50 years together in diversity”. The competition entries should consist of an essay and a visual composition. The essay should answer the questions: “In your opinion, what are the major challenges that the European Union will be faced with in the next 50 years? How can it deal with these challenges?” The visual composition should focus on the topic “Europe in our daily lives”.
Prizes
The competition prizes consist of a trip to Brussels to visit the Museum of Europe, in March 2008. There will be 27 winning teams, one team from each EU Member State. Each winning team will be accompanied by two coordinating teachers.
Competition Rules
The “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition focuses on raising awareness about the European Union family. While remaining diverse in culture, language and traditions, the European Union is based on common cultural values: freedom, democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights and equality.
The competition is open to all schools or organisations in charge of extra-curricular activities in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The competition encourages teams of 10 to 20 students between 14 and 20 years of age to submit entries resulting from a cross-curricular school activity (involving a number of school subjects). Each student team must be coordinated by two teachers.
Eligibility
All schools and organisations in charge of extra-curricular school activities can set up teams of 10 to 20 students to take part in the competition. There is no limit to the number of entries that may be sent by a school. The students must be aged between 14 to 20 years old.
Competition deadline
The competition deadline is 31 December 2007.
Further information at http://www.50years.eun.org
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Competition audience
The competition addresses teams of students that attend schools or organisations in charge of extra-curricular activities in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The student teams are encouraged to submit entries resulting from a classroom-based activity, approached in a cross-curricular manner (involving a number of school subjects). Each student team must be coordinated by two teachers.
Competition theme
The competition theme is “50 years together in diversity”. The competition entries should consist of an essay and a visual composition. The essay should answer the questions: “In your opinion, what are the major challenges that the European Union will be faced with in the next 50 years? How can it deal with these challenges?” The visual composition should focus on the topic “Europe in our daily lives”.
Prizes
The competition prizes consist of a trip to Brussels to visit the Museum of Europe, in March 2008. There will be 27 winning teams, one team from each EU Member State. Each winning team will be accompanied by two coordinating teachers.
Competition Rules
The “50 Years Together in Diversity” school competition focuses on raising awareness about the European Union family. While remaining diverse in culture, language and traditions, the European Union is based on common cultural values: freedom, democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights and equality.
The competition is open to all schools or organisations in charge of extra-curricular activities in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The competition encourages teams of 10 to 20 students between 14 and 20 years of age to submit entries resulting from a cross-curricular school activity (involving a number of school subjects). Each student team must be coordinated by two teachers.
Eligibility
All schools and organisations in charge of extra-curricular school activities can set up teams of 10 to 20 students to take part in the competition. There is no limit to the number of entries that may be sent by a school. The students must be aged between 14 to 20 years old.
Competition deadline
The competition deadline is 31 December 2007.
Further information at http://www.50years.eun.org
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KAUST Discovery Scholarships, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
The KAUST Discovery Scholarship is the general scholarship program of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
This program is designed to ensure that any highly talented student who is qualified and eligible to enroll in KAUST will receive full financial support while at the University. Those who receive a Discovery Scholarship will receive full tuition support, a living stipend, and summer and career enrichment programs.
KAUST will offer Discovery Scholarships to all KAUST students – an exceptional level of support intended to attract gifted and talented students from Saudi Arabia and from other countries around the world.
KAUST will offer a pre-enrollment version of this general scholarship program to students attending first-university or bachelor's degree programs. KAUST will provide financial support to pre-enrollment Discovery Scholarship recipients at their home institutions prior to the University's opening. Upon graduation, these students will enter KAUST as master's degree students in September 2009 and 2010 to complete their graduate studies on a fully funded scholarship.
Recipients of the KAUST Discovery Scholarship represent future leaders in science, engineering and technology.
Students may apply for a KAUST Discovery Scholarship directly, or they may be nominated by a professor at their institution.
All applicants must fully complete their online application and send or attach all required documents by November 9, 2007.
Further information and online application at http://www.kaust.edu.sa
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This program is designed to ensure that any highly talented student who is qualified and eligible to enroll in KAUST will receive full financial support while at the University. Those who receive a Discovery Scholarship will receive full tuition support, a living stipend, and summer and career enrichment programs.
KAUST will offer Discovery Scholarships to all KAUST students – an exceptional level of support intended to attract gifted and talented students from Saudi Arabia and from other countries around the world.
KAUST will offer a pre-enrollment version of this general scholarship program to students attending first-university or bachelor's degree programs. KAUST will provide financial support to pre-enrollment Discovery Scholarship recipients at their home institutions prior to the University's opening. Upon graduation, these students will enter KAUST as master's degree students in September 2009 and 2010 to complete their graduate studies on a fully funded scholarship.
Recipients of the KAUST Discovery Scholarship represent future leaders in science, engineering and technology.
Students may apply for a KAUST Discovery Scholarship directly, or they may be nominated by a professor at their institution.
All applicants must fully complete their online application and send or attach all required documents by November 9, 2007.
Further information and online application at http://www.kaust.edu.sa
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Summer Semester 2008: Go Styria, Graz University, Austria
Grant of the Province of Styria in Cooperation with the University of Graz for Students from South-Eastern Europe - GO STYRIA
Summer semester 2008
General Information
In cooperation with the University of Graz, the Province of Styria offers a new grant for outstanding students from South-Eastern European countries starting in the winter semester - "Go Styria!". For the summer semester 2008
18 more scholarship months are available.
The Department for Scientific Affairs of the Province of Styria takes a very strong interest in the process of South-Eastern European integration and sets a course in those countries who are not - or not yet - members of the
European Union. Styria, as a link between the EU and Eastern/South-Eastern Europe, adopts an active role in the scientific and cultural exchange between the countries and has the necessary preconditions to integrate the
research competences and to utilise the available synergetic opportunities.
Against the background of a long standing, varied and intensive cooperation with the regions of South-Eastern Europe, the University of Graz was the first university in the Germanspeaking world to set a university-wide focus
on "South-Eastern Europe" as the profilesetting core of its university development concept. Thanks to its expertise and acquaintance with both the needs as well as the potentials for cooperation of the South-Eastern
European region, the University of Graz has been an important forerunner within the EU for the realisation of the vision of European-wide integration for a long time. As part of an extensive circle of partnerships, the
university takes these historically developed and in many areas important connections into consideration.
Application Requirements
Those entitled to financial aid are students from universities of South-Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Moldova). Applicants should be at least in the 7th semester of a diploma programme or at least in the 2nd semester of a master's programme, or already write their master's or doctoral thesis. The selection of the
grant holders takes place in a joint process of the Province of Styria and the University of Graz. The academic quality of the applicant is decisive for the success of the application. Depending upon the intended aim of the studies or research, proof of the command of German and/or English is to be provided.
The maximum length of time of financial aid for go styria! is five months. Grant awards for shorter research stays are occasionally possible.
Submission Deadline
Applications have to be received by the Office of International Relations of the University of Graz no later than Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Only those applications that are complete and received on time will be considered! We cannot accept faxed or emailed applications!
Amount of Grant
"go styria" includes the following benefits:
. Grant in the amount of EUR 600 per month
. Waiver of tuition fees at the University of Graz
After the Stay Abroad
Every grant holder has to submit a report about his or her stay in Graz to the Office of International Relations within three months after the end of her/his stay abroad:
The report should give an overall impression of the stay abroad, providing information both on professional benefits as well as general experiences there. The reports will be made public on the homepage and thus made
available to new applicants.
Contact person in the Office of International Relations
Doris Knasar doris.knasar@uni-graz.at
Tel: +43 / 316 / 380-2213
Fax: +43 / 316 / 380-9156
Further information at http://www.uni-graz.at/en
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Summer semester 2008
General Information
In cooperation with the University of Graz, the Province of Styria offers a new grant for outstanding students from South-Eastern European countries starting in the winter semester - "Go Styria!". For the summer semester 2008
18 more scholarship months are available.
The Department for Scientific Affairs of the Province of Styria takes a very strong interest in the process of South-Eastern European integration and sets a course in those countries who are not - or not yet - members of the
European Union. Styria, as a link between the EU and Eastern/South-Eastern Europe, adopts an active role in the scientific and cultural exchange between the countries and has the necessary preconditions to integrate the
research competences and to utilise the available synergetic opportunities.
Against the background of a long standing, varied and intensive cooperation with the regions of South-Eastern Europe, the University of Graz was the first university in the Germanspeaking world to set a university-wide focus
on "South-Eastern Europe" as the profilesetting core of its university development concept. Thanks to its expertise and acquaintance with both the needs as well as the potentials for cooperation of the South-Eastern
European region, the University of Graz has been an important forerunner within the EU for the realisation of the vision of European-wide integration for a long time. As part of an extensive circle of partnerships, the
university takes these historically developed and in many areas important connections into consideration.
Application Requirements
Those entitled to financial aid are students from universities of South-Eastern Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria and Moldova). Applicants should be at least in the 7th semester of a diploma programme or at least in the 2nd semester of a master's programme, or already write their master's or doctoral thesis. The selection of the
grant holders takes place in a joint process of the Province of Styria and the University of Graz. The academic quality of the applicant is decisive for the success of the application. Depending upon the intended aim of the studies or research, proof of the command of German and/or English is to be provided.
The maximum length of time of financial aid for go styria! is five months. Grant awards for shorter research stays are occasionally possible.
Submission Deadline
Applications have to be received by the Office of International Relations of the University of Graz no later than Wednesday, November 7, 2007. Only those applications that are complete and received on time will be considered! We cannot accept faxed or emailed applications!
Amount of Grant
"go styria" includes the following benefits:
. Grant in the amount of EUR 600 per month
. Waiver of tuition fees at the University of Graz
After the Stay Abroad
Every grant holder has to submit a report about his or her stay in Graz to the Office of International Relations within three months after the end of her/his stay abroad:
The report should give an overall impression of the stay abroad, providing information both on professional benefits as well as general experiences there. The reports will be made public on the homepage and thus made
available to new applicants.
Contact person in the Office of International Relations
Doris Knasar doris.knasar@uni-graz.at
Tel: +43 / 316 / 380-2213
Fax: +43 / 316 / 380-9156
Further information at http://www.uni-graz.at/en
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Open House at Parsons Paris
At Open House students considering a career in art and design will:
· learn about the experience of studying art and design at the university level
· become acquainted with the vast range of career opportunities that are available after graduation
· gain a greater comprehension of what qualities need to be demonstrated in a portfolio for an art school and the overall level of development expected from potential applicants
· tour the school and meet with Parsons Paris students and faculty
· and, if they choose, have their portfolio reviewed, either for information or for a formal review.
For students interested in our Bachelors of Business Administration Program in Design and Management there will be faculty available to discuss in depth the program and admissions requirements.
Open House starts at 11:00 am - Please arrive at that time otherwise you will miss important information! Students aged 16 and over are encouraged to attend, as well as interested art teachers and guidance counselors.
To register to attend please fill out the registration form at:
http://www.parsons- paris.com/ Parsons/HTML/ openhouse. php
We will send you a confirmation in a couple of weeks. If you wish to have an individual appointment that day we will schedule it when you arrive at Open House.
To get to Parsons Take Metro Lines 6, 8, or 10 to la Motte-Picquet Grenelle stop. Follow rue du Commerce, take seccond right (rue Letellier). Parsons is 3/4 of the way down the block on the left.
If you need to find accommodations in Paris following is a list of neighborhood hotels:
Hotel Saphir Grenelle**
10, rue du Commerce
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 45 75 12 23
fax: +33 1 45 75 62 49
Splendid Hotel**
54, rue Fondary
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 45 75 17 73
fax: +33 1 45 79 76 11
Holiday Inn***
100/102, Boulevard de Grenelle
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 40 59 90 90
fax: +33 1 45 75 79 10
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· learn about the experience of studying art and design at the university level
· become acquainted with the vast range of career opportunities that are available after graduation
· gain a greater comprehension of what qualities need to be demonstrated in a portfolio for an art school and the overall level of development expected from potential applicants
· tour the school and meet with Parsons Paris students and faculty
· and, if they choose, have their portfolio reviewed, either for information or for a formal review.
For students interested in our Bachelors of Business Administration Program in Design and Management there will be faculty available to discuss in depth the program and admissions requirements.
Open House starts at 11:00 am - Please arrive at that time otherwise you will miss important information! Students aged 16 and over are encouraged to attend, as well as interested art teachers and guidance counselors.
To register to attend please fill out the registration form at:
http://www.parsons- paris.com/ Parsons/HTML/ openhouse. php
We will send you a confirmation in a couple of weeks. If you wish to have an individual appointment that day we will schedule it when you arrive at Open House.
To get to Parsons Take Metro Lines 6, 8, or 10 to la Motte-Picquet Grenelle stop. Follow rue du Commerce, take seccond right (rue Letellier). Parsons is 3/4 of the way down the block on the left.
If you need to find accommodations in Paris following is a list of neighborhood hotels:
Hotel Saphir Grenelle**
10, rue du Commerce
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 45 75 12 23
fax: +33 1 45 75 62 49
Splendid Hotel**
54, rue Fondary
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 45 75 17 73
fax: +33 1 45 79 76 11
Holiday Inn***
100/102, Boulevard de Grenelle
75015 Paris
tel: +33 1 40 59 90 90
fax: +33 1 45 75 79 10
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CfP ASN Convention, New York, 10-12.4.2008
***Deadline Reminder: 1 November 2007***
Call for Papers
"Nation, Identity, Conflict, and the State"
13th Annual World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
10-12 April 2008
Contact information:
proposals must be submitted to:
darel@uottawa. ca and darelasn@gmail. com
100+ panels on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and Eurasia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kurdistan, China and surrounding countries
**INCLUDING a Special Section on Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism* *
THEMATIC Panels on
Islam and Politics, Genocide and Ethnic Violence, Anthropology of Identity, Citizenship and Nationality, Religion, Language Politics, Conflict Resolution, Autonomy, Gender, EU Integration, Diaspora and many more
AWARDS for Best Doctoral Student Papers
AND the Screening and Discussion of **New Films/Documentaries **
The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict, state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, economics, geography, sociolinguistics, psychology, and related fields.
The Convention also features a section devoted to theoretical approaches to nationalism, from any of the disciplines listed above. The papers in this section need not be grounded in an area of the former Communist bloc usually covered by ASN, provided that the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative understanding of nationalism- related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming theory-focused and comparative proposals, rather than specific case studies from outside Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia. A dozen panels are expected to be featured in the Nationalism section.
Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers in five sections: Russia/Ukraine/ Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2006 Convention were Tammy Lynch (Boston U, History, Russia/Ukraine/ Caucasus) , Judith Beyer (Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Central Asia/Eurasia) , Zsuzsanna Magdo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History, Central Europe), Connie Robinson (New School U, Sociology, Balkans), and Wendy Pearlman (Harvard U, Political Science, Nationalism) . Doctoral student applicants whose proposals will be accepted for the 2008 Convention, who have not defended their dissertation by 1 November 2007, and whose paper is delivered by the deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards.
The 2008 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or feature films made within the past few years and available in VHS or DVD format. Most films selected for the convention will be screened during regular panel slots and will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic expert. Films on the 2007 Program included the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country (US, 2007), Vukovar-Final Cut (Serbia and Montenegro, 2006), A Lesson of Belarusian (Poland, 2006), Orange Revolution (US, 2007) and Final Solution (India, 2005).
The 2008 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a discussant. Proposals using an innovative format are encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, in which the author is being engaged by three discussants (nine book panels were featured in the 2007 Convention); a debate between two panelists over a critical research r policy question, following rules of public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the number of discussants is equal to or greater than the number of presenters. Other innovative formats are also welcome.
The 2008 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.
There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the convention, except for a FACT SHEET that can be downloaded at www.nationalities. org. All proposals and fact sheets must be sent by email to Dominique Arel at both darel@uottawa. ca and darelasn@gmail. com.
INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name, email and affiliation of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title of the paper, a 500-word abstract and a 100-word biographical statement that includes full references of your last or forthcoming publication, if applicable. Graduate students must indicate the title of their dissertation and year of projected defense. They can also submit the full references of a recent or forthcoming publication.
PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of the panel, a chair, three paper-givers with the title of their papers, and a discussant; the name, affiliation, email, postal address and 100-word biographical statements of each participant and include full references of their last or forthcoming publication, if applicable. Graduate students can indicate the title of their dissertation and year of projected defense.
PROPOSALS FOR FILMS OR VIDEOS must include the name, email and affiliation of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title, a 500-word abstract of the film/video and a 100-word biographical statement.
PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the panel, the names, emails, affiliations, postal addresses, 100-word biographical statements of each participant (same specifications as above) and a discussion on the proposed format.
INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS TO SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name, email, affiliation, postal address, a paragraph on the areas that the applicant has expertise to serve as a discussant, and a 100-word biographical statement (same specifications as above).
All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL, except for the Fact Sheet that must be attached. Attachments other than the Fact Sheet will be accepted only if they repeat the content of the email message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A SINGLE ATTACHMENT. The reception of all proposals will be acknowledged electronically (with some delay during deadline week, due to the high volume of proposals).
Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation costs. Unfortunately, ASN has no funding available for panelists.
An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2007 or January 2008. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical questions will be communicated afterwards.
The full list of panels from last year's convention, for the geographical and thematic sections, and the section on Theories of Nationalism, can be accessed at http://www.national ities.org/ ASN_2007_ final_program. pdf.
The film lineup can be accessed at
http://www.national ities.org/ ASN_2007_ film.pdf.
The programs from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online at
www.nationalities. org.
Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space, advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12@columbia. edu).
We look forward to receiving your proposal!
The Convention organizing committee:
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2007 (to be sent to both darel@uottawa. ca AND darelasn@gmail. com)
The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:
Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
212 854 8487 tel
212 666 3481 fax
gnb12@columbia. edu
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Call for Papers
"Nation, Identity, Conflict, and the State"
13th Annual World Convention of the
Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
International Affairs Building,
Columbia University, NY
Sponsored by the Harriman Institute
10-12 April 2008
Contact information:
proposals must be submitted to:
darel@uottawa. ca and darelasn@gmail. com
100+ panels on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and Eurasia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kurdistan, China and surrounding countries
**INCLUDING a Special Section on Theoretical Approaches to Nationalism* *
THEMATIC Panels on
Islam and Politics, Genocide and Ethnic Violence, Anthropology of Identity, Citizenship and Nationality, Religion, Language Politics, Conflict Resolution, Autonomy, Gender, EU Integration, Diaspora and many more
AWARDS for Best Doctoral Student Papers
AND the Screening and Discussion of **New Films/Documentaries **
The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to national identity, nationalism, ethnic conflict, state-building and the study of empires in Central/Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Eurasia, and adjacent areas. Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, economics, geography, sociolinguistics, psychology, and related fields.
The Convention also features a section devoted to theoretical approaches to nationalism, from any of the disciplines listed above. The papers in this section need not be grounded in an area of the former Communist bloc usually covered by ASN, provided that the issues examined are relevant to a truly comparative understanding of nationalism- related issues. In this vein, we are welcoming theory-focused and comparative proposals, rather than specific case studies from outside Central/Eastern Europe and Eurasia. A dozen panels are expected to be featured in the Nationalism section.
Since 2005, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers in five sections: Russia/Ukraine/ Caucasus, Central Asia/Eurasia, Central Europe, Balkans, and Nationalism Studies. The winners at the 2006 Convention were Tammy Lynch (Boston U, History, Russia/Ukraine/ Caucasus) , Judith Beyer (Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Central Asia/Eurasia) , Zsuzsanna Magdo (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, History, Central Europe), Connie Robinson (New School U, Sociology, Balkans), and Wendy Pearlman (Harvard U, Political Science, Nationalism) . Doctoral student applicants whose proposals will be accepted for the 2008 Convention, who have not defended their dissertation by 1 November 2007, and whose paper is delivered by the deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards.
The 2008 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries or feature films made within the past few years and available in VHS or DVD format. Most films selected for the convention will be screened during regular panel slots and will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic expert. Films on the 2007 Program included the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country (US, 2007), Vukovar-Final Cut (Serbia and Montenegro, 2006), A Lesson of Belarusian (Poland, 2006), Orange Revolution (US, 2007) and Final Solution (India, 2005).
The 2008 Convention invites proposals for INDIVIDUAL PAPERS or PANELS. A panel includes a chair, three presentations based on written papers, and a discussant. Proposals using an innovative format are encouraged. Examples of new formats include a roundtable on a new book, in which the author is being engaged by three discussants (nine book panels were featured in the 2007 Convention); a debate between two panelists over a critical research r policy question, following rules of public debating; or special presentations based on original papers where the number of discussants is equal to or greater than the number of presenters. Other innovative formats are also welcome.
The 2008 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as DISCUSSANT on a panel to be created by the program committee from individual paper proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal.
There is NO APPLICATION FORM to fill out in order to send proposals to the convention, except for a FACT SHEET that can be downloaded at www.nationalities. org. All proposals and fact sheets must be sent by email to Dominique Arel at both darel@uottawa. ca and darelasn@gmail. com.
INDIVIDUAL PAPER PROPOSALS must include the name, email and affiliation of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title of the paper, a 500-word abstract and a 100-word biographical statement that includes full references of your last or forthcoming publication, if applicable. Graduate students must indicate the title of their dissertation and year of projected defense. They can also submit the full references of a recent or forthcoming publication.
PANEL PROPOSALS must include the title of the panel, a chair, three paper-givers with the title of their papers, and a discussant; the name, affiliation, email, postal address and 100-word biographical statements of each participant and include full references of their last or forthcoming publication, if applicable. Graduate students can indicate the title of their dissertation and year of projected defense.
PROPOSALS FOR FILMS OR VIDEOS must include the name, email and affiliation of the author, a postal address for paper mail, the title, a 500-word abstract of the film/video and a 100-word biographical statement.
PROPOSALS USING AN INNOVATIVE FORMAT must include the title of the panel, the names, emails, affiliations, postal addresses, 100-word biographical statements of each participant (same specifications as above) and a discussion on the proposed format.
INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS TO SERVE AS DISCUSSANT must include the name, email, affiliation, postal address, a paragraph on the areas that the applicant has expertise to serve as a discussant, and a 100-word biographical statement (same specifications as above).
All proposals must be included IN THE BODY OF A SINGLE EMAIL, except for the Fact Sheet that must be attached. Attachments other than the Fact Sheet will be accepted only if they repeat the content of the email message/proposal, and if all the information is contained IN A SINGLE ATTACHMENT. The reception of all proposals will be acknowledged electronically (with some delay during deadline week, due to the high volume of proposals).
Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation costs. Unfortunately, ASN has no funding available for panelists.
An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of proposals. Applicants will be notified in December 2007 or January 2008. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical questions will be communicated afterwards.
The full list of panels from last year's convention, for the geographical and thematic sections, and the section on Theories of Nationalism, can be accessed at http://www.national ities.org/ ASN_2007_ final_program. pdf.
The film lineup can be accessed at
http://www.national ities.org/ ASN_2007_ film.pdf.
The programs from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online at
www.nationalities. org.
Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space, advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12@columbia. edu).
We look forward to receiving your proposal!
The Convention organizing committee:
Dominique Arel, ASN President
Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director
David Crowe, ASN Chair of Advisory Board
Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair
Deadline for proposals: 1 November 2007 (to be sent to both darel@uottawa. ca AND darelasn@gmail. com)
The ASN convention's headquarters are located at the:
Harriman Institute
Columbia University
1216 IAB
420 W. 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
212 854 8487 tel
212 666 3481 fax
gnb12@columbia. edu
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CfA: Summerschool, The Writing of National Histories in Europe, Köszeg, Hungary
Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST)
Institute for Social and European Studies
Köszeg, Hungary
30 June -6 July 2008
Deadline: 15 December 2007
The five-year European Science Foundation-funded Scientific Programme "Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST)" runs since 2003. It aims to
- analyse in depth national historiographies and their relationship to wider national historical cultures,
- study systematically the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of European states,
- bridge the existing historiographical gap within Europe by bringing together the histories of Western and Eastern Europe,
- combine cultural transfer and comparative approaches in examining the relationship between national historiographies and national historical cultures.
The programme is the collaborative effort of more than one hundred scholars from around 30 European countries. Its agenda is being implemented by four teams occupied with
- the institutions, networks and communities which produced national histories and were themselves influenced by the idea of national history (Team 1)
- the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories in their relationship with competing representations structured by the social cleavages in a society (Team 2)
- national histories and their relationship with regional, European and world histories (Team 3)
- the national histories in their spatial relationships and mutual interdependency with other national histories (Team 4)
For more details please see the programme's website:
www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
The aim of the summer school is to promote the results of the NHIST programme to the next generation of academics across Europe and to identify new projects and researchers in the history of historiography using comparative and cultural transfer approaches. Leading NHIST scholars who will be present at the summer school include Professor Stefan Berger (University of Manchester), Professor Christoph Conrad
(Université de Genevé), Professor Chris Lorenz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr. Frank Hadler (Geisteswissenschaf tliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas) , Professor Ilaria Porciani (Università di Bologna).
If you think your work fits in the NHIST remit and you would like to present aspects of it at the summer school we look forward to hearing from you!
Travel Costs are reimbursed up to a maximum of EUR250, accommodation, including meals, is provided. The trip includes one day of sightseeing in Budapest (5th July). The group will have a final dinner, stay for the night and depart the next day from Budapest.
Please send a 100 word CV and a 300 word abstract of your proposed paper via email to:
Sven de Roode
ESF NHIST Programme Coordinator
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
University of Manchester
Email: Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Abstract and CV should reach the programme coordinator by 15 December 2007. The executive group of the NHIST will select the participants of the summer school and the programme coordinator will inform successful applicants by the end of February 2008 at the latest. In case of withdrawals a list of additional potential students will apply.
Sven de Roode
University of Manchester
0044 161 236 93 25
Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Homepage www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
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Institute for Social and European Studies
Köszeg, Hungary
30 June -6 July 2008
Deadline: 15 December 2007
The five-year European Science Foundation-funded Scientific Programme "Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Europe (NHIST)" runs since 2003. It aims to
- analyse in depth national historiographies and their relationship to wider national historical cultures,
- study systematically the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of European states,
- bridge the existing historiographical gap within Europe by bringing together the histories of Western and Eastern Europe,
- combine cultural transfer and comparative approaches in examining the relationship between national historiographies and national historical cultures.
The programme is the collaborative effort of more than one hundred scholars from around 30 European countries. Its agenda is being implemented by four teams occupied with
- the institutions, networks and communities which produced national histories and were themselves influenced by the idea of national history (Team 1)
- the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories in their relationship with competing representations structured by the social cleavages in a society (Team 2)
- national histories and their relationship with regional, European and world histories (Team 3)
- the national histories in their spatial relationships and mutual interdependency with other national histories (Team 4)
For more details please see the programme's website:
www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
The aim of the summer school is to promote the results of the NHIST programme to the next generation of academics across Europe and to identify new projects and researchers in the history of historiography using comparative and cultural transfer approaches. Leading NHIST scholars who will be present at the summer school include Professor Stefan Berger (University of Manchester), Professor Christoph Conrad
(Université de Genevé), Professor Chris Lorenz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Dr. Frank Hadler (Geisteswissenschaf tliches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas) , Professor Ilaria Porciani (Università di Bologna).
If you think your work fits in the NHIST remit and you would like to present aspects of it at the summer school we look forward to hearing from you!
Travel Costs are reimbursed up to a maximum of EUR250, accommodation, including meals, is provided. The trip includes one day of sightseeing in Budapest (5th July). The group will have a final dinner, stay for the night and depart the next day from Budapest.
Please send a 100 word CV and a 300 word abstract of your proposed paper via email to:
Sven de Roode
ESF NHIST Programme Coordinator
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
University of Manchester
Email: Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Abstract and CV should reach the programme coordinator by 15 December 2007. The executive group of the NHIST will select the participants of the summer school and the programme coordinator will inform successful applicants by the end of February 2008 at the latest. In case of withdrawals a list of additional potential students will apply.
Sven de Roode
University of Manchester
0044 161 236 93 25
Sven.DeRoode@ manchester. ac.uk
Homepage www.uni-leipzig. de/zhsesf
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Event: Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar, Berlin, 2007-2008
ZMO-EUME-Colloquium
Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar
Organised by Prof. Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora Lafi
Annual Theme 2007-2008: Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond
Oct. 29: Introduction: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO)
I- A Philosophical Approach to Cosmopolitanism
Nov. 12: Dr. Martine Prange (University of Groningen): Cosmopolitanism and the Modern World: From Kant to Nietzsche
II- Ottoman Towns: Discussing the Cosmopolitan Paradigm
Dec. 10: Dr. Valeska Huber (Konstanz University): Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said as Imperial Relay Station
Dec. 17: Dr. Ariel Salzman (Queen’s University): Islamicate Urbanity or Cosmopolitanism? The Ottoman Impact on the Mediterranean Moral Economy (1450-1800)
Dec. 18: Prof. Edhem Eldem (University Boðaziçi): Bourgeois Identity, Culture and Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Istanbul
Jan. 14: Dr. Marc Aymes (Paris, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): The Cosmopolitan Within: Compounds of Ottoman-ness In and Around a Modern Mediterranean Quasi-City. Cyprus in the 19th Century
Jan. 28: Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi (Istanbul, University of Munich): Muslim and Non-Muslim Craftsmen in Istanbul at the End of the 18th Century: Reflections on Cosmopolitanism in an Urban Ottoman Context
Feb. 11: Dr. Muhammad Sabri al-Dali (Helwan University, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): Foreigners in Ottoman Alexandria: Coexistence and Discords
Feb. 25: Dr. Gergana Georgieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): Cosmopolitanism and the Urban Governance of a Balkan Town Sofia in the Late 18th - Early 19th Centuries
Mar. 10: Dr. Pascale Ghazaleh (American University in Cairo): Traders and Urban Life in Ottoman Cairo: Cosmopolitanism, Money and Power
III- Post-Ottoman Towns and the Question of Cosmopolitanism: Nationalism, Colonialism, Ethnicism
Mar. 31: Dr. Bojan Aleksov (University College London): Balkan Cities 1878-1912: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalisms
Apr. 14: Prof. Henk Driessen (University of Radboud, Nijmegen): Cosmopolitanism in a Comparative Mediterranean and Historical Context
Apr. 28: Prof. Steven Vertovec (Max-Planck- Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften, Göttingen): Exploring Socio-cultural Dimensions of Cos-mopolitanism
May 19: Mehmet Yashin (Cyprus): Cosmopolitanism, Empire and the Nation: Karamanlidika’ s Role in the Modernisation of the Turkish Language and Literature
June 02: Prof. Fred Halliday (London School of Economics): Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity and Nationality
Conclusion
June 16: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO)
Presentation of the Seminar
What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban
traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cos-mopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies.
Twice a Month,
Mondays 17:00-19:00
Starting October 29, 2007
Venue:
Conference Hall
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin-Nikolassee
Participants are asked to register at the following address:
Dr. Nora Lafi
nora.lafi@rz. hu-berlin. de
Telefon (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0
The seminar is part of the activities of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and of the research program 'Europe in the Middle East The Middle East in Europe' (EUME, research field 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent
Regions') of the Berlin-Brandenburgi sche Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
For more information please visit:
http://www.zmo. de
http://www.eume- berlin.de
http://www.h- net.msu.edu/ ~mediter
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Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar
Organised by Prof. Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora Lafi
Annual Theme 2007-2008: Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond
Oct. 29: Introduction: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO)
I- A Philosophical Approach to Cosmopolitanism
Nov. 12: Dr. Martine Prange (University of Groningen): Cosmopolitanism and the Modern World: From Kant to Nietzsche
II- Ottoman Towns: Discussing the Cosmopolitan Paradigm
Dec. 10: Dr. Valeska Huber (Konstanz University): Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said as Imperial Relay Station
Dec. 17: Dr. Ariel Salzman (Queen’s University): Islamicate Urbanity or Cosmopolitanism? The Ottoman Impact on the Mediterranean Moral Economy (1450-1800)
Dec. 18: Prof. Edhem Eldem (University Boðaziçi): Bourgeois Identity, Culture and Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries in Istanbul
Jan. 14: Dr. Marc Aymes (Paris, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): The Cosmopolitan Within: Compounds of Ottoman-ness In and Around a Modern Mediterranean Quasi-City. Cyprus in the 19th Century
Jan. 28: Prof. Suraiya Faroqhi (Istanbul, University of Munich): Muslim and Non-Muslim Craftsmen in Istanbul at the End of the 18th Century: Reflections on Cosmopolitanism in an Urban Ottoman Context
Feb. 11: Dr. Muhammad Sabri al-Dali (Helwan University, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): Foreigners in Ottoman Alexandria: Coexistence and Discords
Feb. 25: Dr. Gergana Georgieva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Europe in the Middle-East The Middle-East in Europe 2007-2008, ZMO): Cosmopolitanism and the Urban Governance of a Balkan Town Sofia in the Late 18th - Early 19th Centuries
Mar. 10: Dr. Pascale Ghazaleh (American University in Cairo): Traders and Urban Life in Ottoman Cairo: Cosmopolitanism, Money and Power
III- Post-Ottoman Towns and the Question of Cosmopolitanism: Nationalism, Colonialism, Ethnicism
Mar. 31: Dr. Bojan Aleksov (University College London): Balkan Cities 1878-1912: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalisms
Apr. 14: Prof. Henk Driessen (University of Radboud, Nijmegen): Cosmopolitanism in a Comparative Mediterranean and Historical Context
Apr. 28: Prof. Steven Vertovec (Max-Planck- Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften, Göttingen): Exploring Socio-cultural Dimensions of Cos-mopolitanism
May 19: Mehmet Yashin (Cyprus): Cosmopolitanism, Empire and the Nation: Karamanlidika’ s Role in the Modernisation of the Turkish Language and Literature
June 02: Prof. Fred Halliday (London School of Economics): Cosmopolitanism, Ethnicity and Nationality
Conclusion
June 16: Prof. Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) and Dr. Nora Lafi (ZMO)
Presentation of the Seminar
What is the historical experience of cities in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire - in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Middle East, and North Africa - in dealing with the impact of global changes and the transformation from Empire to nation States? How did people of different cultural, social and religious backgrounds live together? How are such examples of conviviality, conflict, migration, and urban regimes of governance and stratification conceptualized? And how have urban
traditions been reinterpreted, and what bearing does this have on modern conceptions of civil society, multicultural societies, migration, or cos-mopolitanism. These and other questions will be addressed in this year’s Seminar in Ottoman Urban Studies.
Twice a Month,
Mondays 17:00-19:00
Starting October 29, 2007
Venue:
Conference Hall
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Kirchweg 33
14129 Berlin-Nikolassee
Participants are asked to register at the following address:
Dr. Nora Lafi
nora.lafi@rz. hu-berlin. de
Telefon (+49) (0) 30 80307- 0
The seminar is part of the activities of the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and of the research program 'Europe in the Middle East The Middle East in Europe' (EUME, research field 'Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent
Regions') of the Berlin-Brandenburgi sche Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
For more information please visit:
http://www.zmo. de
http://www.eume- berlin.de
http://www.h- net.msu.edu/ ~mediter
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Partner for Comenius Project
Dear Colleques,
I am Seher Aydogmus. I am a technology and design teacher in Vali Ihsan Dede primary School in Konya, Turkey. Our students ages from 6 to 15 and we have 2000 students in our school. Namely we are a big school in the center of Konya.
This year we have created a project group consist of both students and teachers. We are interested in Comenius School Partnerships and would like to apply for 2008-2010 term as a partner.
My city Konya is famous for Mevlana. Unesco announced the Year of 2007 as Mevlana Year. He is famous thinker and known as one of the first Humanists. About Mevlana more reading is available on http://www.mevlana800.info/ Whirling Dervish Ceremony is on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNb7SpkOsgg
Photos from Konya http://www.konyakulturturizm.gov.tr/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFF4329F0A36BFEFBCDBB148963444B0DC7
http://www.konya.bel.tr/konya.php?id=3
We would like to be your partner in Comenius Project and our partner form B is attached to this message.
If you are interested in our participation please let us know.
Best Regards
Seher AYDOGMUS
Vali Ihsan Dede Primary School
Konya, Turkey
seher.aydogmus@hotmail.com
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I am Seher Aydogmus. I am a technology and design teacher in Vali Ihsan Dede primary School in Konya, Turkey. Our students ages from 6 to 15 and we have 2000 students in our school. Namely we are a big school in the center of Konya.
This year we have created a project group consist of both students and teachers. We are interested in Comenius School Partnerships and would like to apply for 2008-2010 term as a partner.
My city Konya is famous for Mevlana. Unesco announced the Year of 2007 as Mevlana Year. He is famous thinker and known as one of the first Humanists. About Mevlana more reading is available on http://www.mevlana800.info/ Whirling Dervish Ceremony is on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNb7SpkOsgg
Photos from Konya http://www.konyakulturturizm.gov.tr/BelgeGoster.aspx?F6E10F8892433CFF4329F0A36BFEFBCDBB148963444B0DC7
http://www.konya.bel.tr/konya.php?id=3
We would like to be your partner in Comenius Project and our partner form B is attached to this message.
If you are interested in our participation please let us know.
Best Regards
Seher AYDOGMUS
Vali Ihsan Dede Primary School
Konya, Turkey
seher.aydogmus@hotmail.com
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PUBLICATION: Revolutionaries to Race Leaders & A Call for Heresy
What happened to the revolutionary goals of the Black Power movement?
REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
Cedric Johnson
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4477- 3 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4478- 0 | paperback | $20.00
Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black Power era to the present, Cedric Johnson reveals how black political life conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the movement's most radical aims were eclipsed by more moderate aspirations. Documenting the historical retreat from democratic struggle,
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the renewal of popular resistance and class-conscious politics.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ J/johnson_ revolutionaries. html
Confronting the fundamentalism that afflicts both Islam and the United States through traditions of dissent
A CALL FOR HERESY: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America
Anouar Majid
University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-5127- 6 | hardcover | $24.95
A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers. The solution, Majid argues, is a long-overdue
revival of dissent.
"A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America. I hope a lot of people read it." —Bill Moyers
"Open-minded readers will gain many insights from Islamic and early American "heretics" bestowing a rich appreciation for the value that voices of dissent bring to any society." —ForeWord Magazine
"A towering Islamic intellectual. " —Cornel West
For more information, including the table of contents and an author Q and A, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ M/majid_call. html
Watch the Bill Moyers interview with the author:
http://www.pbs. org/moyers/ journal/10122007 /watch2.html
Majid on the United States' presence in Iraq:
http://www2. tbo.com/content/ 2007/oct/ 11/na-the- bonds-of- dissent/? news-opinion- commentary
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REVOLUTIONARIES TO RACE LEADERS: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics
Cedric Johnson
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4477- 3 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4478- 0 | paperback | $20.00
Exploring the major political and intellectual currents from the Black Power era to the present, Cedric Johnson reveals how black political life conformed to liberal democratic capitalism and how the movement's most radical aims were eclipsed by more moderate aspirations. Documenting the historical retreat from democratic struggle,
Revolutionaries to Race Leaders ultimately calls for the renewal of popular resistance and class-conscious politics.
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ J/johnson_ revolutionaries. html
Confronting the fundamentalism that afflicts both Islam and the United States through traditions of dissent
A CALL FOR HERESY: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America
Anouar Majid
University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-5127- 6 | hardcover | $24.95
A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers. The solution, Majid argues, is a long-overdue
revival of dissent.
"A Call for Heresy: Why Dissent Is Vital to Islam and America. I hope a lot of people read it." —Bill Moyers
"Open-minded readers will gain many insights from Islamic and early American "heretics" bestowing a rich appreciation for the value that voices of dissent bring to any society." —ForeWord Magazine
"A towering Islamic intellectual. " —Cornel West
For more information, including the table of contents and an author Q and A, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress. umn.edu/Books/ M/majid_call. html
Watch the Bill Moyers interview with the author:
http://www.pbs. org/moyers/ journal/10122007 /watch2.html
Majid on the United States' presence in Iraq:
http://www2. tbo.com/content/ 2007/oct/ 11/na-the- bonds-of- dissent/? news-opinion- commentary
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Oct 20, 2007
CfP: Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in in the EU
EUMAP.ORG NEWS
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OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
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16 OCTOBER 2007
NEW EUMAP CALL FOR PAPERS: "Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU"
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NEW EUMAP CALL FOR PAPERS: "Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU"
EUMAP calls for articles about the impact and background of intra-EU mobility and migration, both in the countries of destination and the countries of origin.
Read the full Call for Papers at
http://www.eumap. org/journal/ announcements/ cfp_oct07. pdf
____________ _________ _________ _______
THEMES AND QUESTIONS
EUMAP would especially welcome contributions on one of the following themes:
• Policy responses to East-European migration in the countries of destination.
• East-European migration and the multicultural society.
• Immigration from the new Member States in comparison.
• The impact of emigration on the countries of origin.
• The Central European Member States as immigration countries.
A full briefing is included in the Call for Papers
(http://www.eumap. org/journal/ announcements/ cfp_oct07. pdf).
____________ _________ _________ _______
DEADLINE AND INSTRUCTIONS
Selected papers will be featured on eumap.org. Accepted authors will receive an honorarium of €200.
Papers should be written in English and be between 1,500-2,000 words. Papers should conform to the eumap.org editorial policy (http://www.eumap. org/journal/ editpolicy).
Papers should be submitted by 19 November 2007. Please send submissions to submissions@ eumap.org. Contact person: Joost van Beek.
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OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
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16 OCTOBER 2007
NEW EUMAP CALL FOR PAPERS: "Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU"
Thank you for forwarding this newsletter!
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NEW EUMAP CALL FOR PAPERS: "Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU"
EUMAP calls for articles about the impact and background of intra-EU mobility and migration, both in the countries of destination and the countries of origin.
Read the full Call for Papers at
http://www.eumap. org/journal/ announcements/ cfp_oct07. pdf
____________ _________ _________ _______
THEMES AND QUESTIONS
EUMAP would especially welcome contributions on one of the following themes:
• Policy responses to East-European migration in the countries of destination.
• East-European migration and the multicultural society.
• Immigration from the new Member States in comparison.
• The impact of emigration on the countries of origin.
• The Central European Member States as immigration countries.
A full briefing is included in the Call for Papers
(http://www.eumap. org/journal/ announcements/ cfp_oct07. pdf).
____________ _________ _________ _______
DEADLINE AND INSTRUCTIONS
Selected papers will be featured on eumap.org. Accepted authors will receive an honorarium of €200.
Papers should be written in English and be between 1,500-2,000 words. Papers should conform to the eumap.org editorial policy (http://www.eumap. org/journal/ editpolicy).
Papers should be submitted by 19 November 2007. Please send submissions to submissions@ eumap.org. Contact person: Joost van Beek.
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eumap.org is an online centre for comprehensive resources, news, and analyses, committed to delivering information on, and generating debate about, human rights and the rule of law in Europe. eumap.org is the website of the Open Society Institute's EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program. To find out more about the Program view: http://www.eumap. org/about
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New Journal/CfP: Southeastern Europe
We have pleasure in announcing the publication of 'Southeastern Europe', a new interdisciplinary academic journal.
The journal's aims are:
* provide an interdisciplinary and international focal point for making sense of the dynamics of the rapidly transforming polities, societies, cultures and political economies of Southeastern Europe
* explore the existing and emerging networks and flows of people, cultural resources, capital and ideas throughout the region as well as the ones sustained by the region's diasporas
* constitute a forum for debates and exchange of ideas regarding the complex issues facing the region in a globalizing world and in the context of European and regional integration.
The Journal aims to host academic debate and analysis that is not divorced from everyday life in the region and therefore welcomes short contributions on current affairs and developments alongside its academic article session.
In line with the journal's commitment to the encouragement and promotion of debate, the editorial board welcomes critical replies to articles that appear in its pages.
Southeastern Europe is subject to a peer review process and is published three times a year(November, March and July).
Southeastern Europe welcomes submissions for consideration. Potential contributors of articles should send brief abstracts or manuscripts electronically to the journal editorial team at journalsubmissions@ southeasterneuro pe.eu.
For further information, please contact info@southeasterneu rope.eu.
Regards,
Chris Sneyder
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The journal's aims are:
* provide an interdisciplinary and international focal point for making sense of the dynamics of the rapidly transforming polities, societies, cultures and political economies of Southeastern Europe
* explore the existing and emerging networks and flows of people, cultural resources, capital and ideas throughout the region as well as the ones sustained by the region's diasporas
* constitute a forum for debates and exchange of ideas regarding the complex issues facing the region in a globalizing world and in the context of European and regional integration.
The Journal aims to host academic debate and analysis that is not divorced from everyday life in the region and therefore welcomes short contributions on current affairs and developments alongside its academic article session.
In line with the journal's commitment to the encouragement and promotion of debate, the editorial board welcomes critical replies to articles that appear in its pages.
Southeastern Europe is subject to a peer review process and is published three times a year(November, March and July).
Southeastern Europe welcomes submissions for consideration. Potential contributors of articles should send brief abstracts or manuscripts electronically to the journal editorial team at journalsubmissions@ southeasterneuro pe.eu.
For further information, please contact info@southeasterneu rope.eu.
Regards,
Chris Sneyder
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CfP: Pakiv European Network
Pakiv European Network is announcing its call for articles on the following topics:
v Civic methods for activating excluded communities such as Roma
v Civic practices for insuring equal access to education of Roma children
v Civic practices for generating income and employment amongst Roma.
We are interested in both theoretical and practical research. We are also interested in case studies and results of on-going or recently finished projects.
The best 5 articles in each category will be edited and published in three printed bulletins. The bulletins will be distributed Europe-wide in English, Bulgarian, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian. Each published article will be rewarded 100 euro.
Deadline 15th November 2007
For more information, please see the attached file.
Pakiv European Network (PEN) works for strengthening democratic practices and effective fulfilment of human rights by promoting participatory approaches to development in Roma communities. In fulfilling its mission, PEN seeks to influence policies for social inclusion of disadvantaged (Roma) groups, by stimulating processes of critical reflection, learning, and exchange on local experiences and practices. Read more about PEN on www.pakivnet. org
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v Civic methods for activating excluded communities such as Roma
v Civic practices for insuring equal access to education of Roma children
v Civic practices for generating income and employment amongst Roma.
We are interested in both theoretical and practical research. We are also interested in case studies and results of on-going or recently finished projects.
The best 5 articles in each category will be edited and published in three printed bulletins. The bulletins will be distributed Europe-wide in English, Bulgarian, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian. Each published article will be rewarded 100 euro.
Deadline 15th November 2007
For more information, please see the attached file.
Pakiv European Network (PEN) works for strengthening democratic practices and effective fulfilment of human rights by promoting participatory approaches to development in Roma communities. In fulfilling its mission, PEN seeks to influence policies for social inclusion of disadvantaged (Roma) groups, by stimulating processes of critical reflection, learning, and exchange on local experiences and practices. Read more about PEN on www.pakivnet. org
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Asia Pacific Leadership Program
The Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in Asia Pacific and a signature program of the East-West Center. The program links advanced and interdisciplinary analysis of emergent regional issues with experiential leadership learning.
The APLP empowers future leaders with the knowledge, skills, experiences and supportive community needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change in the 21st century.
Graduates leave the East-West Center with an expanded regional perspective. They are knowledgeable about the societies and issues of the Asia Pacific region and trained to exercise leadership and promote cooperation in a variety of cultural, geographical and institutional environments.
An innovative graduate level certificate program that combines the development of regional expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership skills.
Type of study: A five or nine-month course of study; includes seminars, field studies and internships.
Eligibility: Early- to mid-career professionals; currently enrolled graduate students; and recent university graduates from all countries.
Provisions: Substantial funding for tuition, field studies and health insurance. Supplemental scholarship assistance for living expenses and housing in graduate residence hall.
Scholarships
Hawaii Pacific Rim Society Fellowships
(These scholarships are open to applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Jhamandas Watumull Fellowships
(For applicants with Indian citizenship)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Obuchi Fellowship
(For applicants of Okinawan heritage or recent residence. See separate application forms.)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Spring semester costs
WUB FellowshipWorldwide Uchinanchu Business Scholarship Endowment Fund
(For applicants of Okinawan heritage who reside outside of Okinawa)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Nainoa Thompson Fellowship
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States who are outstanding community leaders. Funds raised annually by APLP alumni)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Bhutan Fellowships
(For applicants who are citizens of the Kingdom of Bhutan)
Airfare to/from Hawai'i· Living expenses
Pacific Island Fellowships
(For citizens of Pacific Island nations)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
French Polynesia Fellowship
(For citizens of French Polynesia)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Spring semester costs
OmniTrak Loui Schmicker Scholar Awards
(For applicants from Thailand, China, Japan and Hawai'i)
Applicants should have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in the private sector and should intend to return to the private sector
The award will help cover EWC program fees.
Jean E. Rolles Fellowships
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
For applicants with a demonstrated interest in the environment, economics, or the travel and hospitality industry
The award will help cover housing costs.
Eleanor and Hermann Haus Fellowships
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
For applicants with a record of and intention to be involved in developing a better environment, whether in design, engineering or management.
The award will help cover housing costs.
Application deadline: December
Application Booklet [DOC] [PDF]
Apply to:
East-West Center
Award Services Office
Attn: APLP
John A. Burns Hall, Room 2066
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 USA
Telephone: 808-944-7738; Fax: 808-944-7730
Email: aplp@eastwestcenter .org
www.eastwestcenter. org/aplp
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The APLP empowers future leaders with the knowledge, skills, experiences and supportive community needed to successfully navigate personal and regional change in the 21st century.
Graduates leave the East-West Center with an expanded regional perspective. They are knowledgeable about the societies and issues of the Asia Pacific region and trained to exercise leadership and promote cooperation in a variety of cultural, geographical and institutional environments.
An innovative graduate level certificate program that combines the development of regional expertise with the enhancement of individual leadership skills.
Type of study: A five or nine-month course of study; includes seminars, field studies and internships.
Eligibility: Early- to mid-career professionals; currently enrolled graduate students; and recent university graduates from all countries.
Provisions: Substantial funding for tuition, field studies and health insurance. Supplemental scholarship assistance for living expenses and housing in graduate residence hall.
Scholarships
Hawaii Pacific Rim Society Fellowships
(These scholarships are open to applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Jhamandas Watumull Fellowships
(For applicants with Indian citizenship)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Obuchi Fellowship
(For applicants of Okinawan heritage or recent residence. See separate application forms.)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Spring semester costs
WUB FellowshipWorldwide Uchinanchu Business Scholarship Endowment Fund
(For applicants of Okinawan heritage who reside outside of Okinawa)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Nainoa Thompson Fellowship
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States who are outstanding community leaders. Funds raised annually by APLP alumni)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Bhutan Fellowships
(For applicants who are citizens of the Kingdom of Bhutan)
Airfare to/from Hawai'i· Living expenses
Pacific Island Fellowships
(For citizens of Pacific Island nations)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
French Polynesia Fellowship
(For citizens of French Polynesia)
Housing costs ($420 per month)
Living expenses ($600 per month)
EWC program fees ($3,000)
Spring semester costs
OmniTrak Loui Schmicker Scholar Awards
(For applicants from Thailand, China, Japan and Hawai'i)
Applicants should have demonstrated outstanding leadership skills in the private sector and should intend to return to the private sector
The award will help cover EWC program fees.
Jean E. Rolles Fellowships
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
For applicants with a demonstrated interest in the environment, economics, or the travel and hospitality industry
The award will help cover housing costs.
Eleanor and Hermann Haus Fellowships
(For applicants from Asia Pacific and the United States)
For applicants with a record of and intention to be involved in developing a better environment, whether in design, engineering or management.
The award will help cover housing costs.
Application deadline: December
Application Booklet [DOC] [PDF]
Apply to:
East-West Center
Award Services Office
Attn: APLP
John A. Burns Hall, Room 2066
1601 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96848-1601 USA
Telephone: 808-944-7738; Fax: 808-944-7730
Email: aplp@eastwestcenter .org
www.eastwestcenter. org/aplp
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Peace Scholarship for Indonesians
Undergraduate Students: Apply for a scholarship to study in Australia
Here is your opportunity to experience the Australian education system and culture for one semester as part of your undergraduate degree. A number of Universities in Australia in association with the Peace Scholarship Program and the partners
listed below are offering the opportunity for at least three students in INDONESIA to study in Australia for one semester commencing February 2008 – either study abroad (general university subjects) or English courses.
The Peace Scholarship Program is committed to providing opportunities for eligible students in selected countries worldwide to study abroad in Australia. The Program believes that providing this opportunity will facilitate the interaction of diverse cultures through international education opportunities, improve crosscultural
understanding and lead to enduring global peace.
Award
There are at least three Peace Scholarships available for eligible students in Indonesia worth up to AU$20,000 and covering:
Tuition fees for study abroad or English course at a participating Australian university for one semester
Travel scholarships to cover travel expenses to Australia and return
Funds to cover living costs, accommodation and other costs while in Australia
Two day orientation welcome program
Other services and products offered by supporters of the Peace Scholarship Program
Lifetime networking opportunities with Peace Scholarship recipients worldwide
Eligibility
Full details of the eligibility criteria for the Peace Scholarship are available on the website at
www.idp.com/ globalpeace. For example, candidates must:
have completed at least three semesters and no more than six semesters of their first full-time
undergraduate degree of an accredited course in Indonesia
have achieved at least a 65-70% average mark in their degree to date
have a level of English language proficiency that satisfies the host institution requirements
be able to demonstrate a commitment to ‘global peace and understanding’ through community, academic or professional achievements
be able to indicate how the experience will further their professional development and help contribute to global peace and understanding
be able to demonstrate a financial need and that without this scholarship they would not have the chance to study overseas
More Information
For more information on the scholarship offered, eligibility criteria and how to apply please logon to www.idp.com/ globalpeace. Alternatively email the Peace Scholarship at globalpeace@ idp.com.
Applications close on November 9th 2008.
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Here is your opportunity to experience the Australian education system and culture for one semester as part of your undergraduate degree. A number of Universities in Australia in association with the Peace Scholarship Program and the partners
listed below are offering the opportunity for at least three students in INDONESIA to study in Australia for one semester commencing February 2008 – either study abroad (general university subjects) or English courses.
The Peace Scholarship Program is committed to providing opportunities for eligible students in selected countries worldwide to study abroad in Australia. The Program believes that providing this opportunity will facilitate the interaction of diverse cultures through international education opportunities, improve crosscultural
understanding and lead to enduring global peace.
Award
There are at least three Peace Scholarships available for eligible students in Indonesia worth up to AU$20,000 and covering:
Tuition fees for study abroad or English course at a participating Australian university for one semester
Travel scholarships to cover travel expenses to Australia and return
Funds to cover living costs, accommodation and other costs while in Australia
Two day orientation welcome program
Other services and products offered by supporters of the Peace Scholarship Program
Lifetime networking opportunities with Peace Scholarship recipients worldwide
Eligibility
Full details of the eligibility criteria for the Peace Scholarship are available on the website at
www.idp.com/ globalpeace. For example, candidates must:
have completed at least three semesters and no more than six semesters of their first full-time
undergraduate degree of an accredited course in Indonesia
have achieved at least a 65-70% average mark in their degree to date
have a level of English language proficiency that satisfies the host institution requirements
be able to demonstrate a commitment to ‘global peace and understanding’ through community, academic or professional achievements
be able to indicate how the experience will further their professional development and help contribute to global peace and understanding
be able to demonstrate a financial need and that without this scholarship they would not have the chance to study overseas
More Information
For more information on the scholarship offered, eligibility criteria and how to apply please logon to www.idp.com/ globalpeace. Alternatively email the Peace Scholarship at globalpeace@ idp.com.
Applications close on November 9th 2008.
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CfP: BJSEP, Volume 2 (2008)
Call for Papers:
The Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy (BJSEP), ISSN 1313-1958, an international, peer-reviewed, print publication, from 2008 will be published twice annualy, in spring and fall, and seeks original contributions on ongoing basis. Articles embracing any aspects of science and education theory, policy, practice
(especially in science education) and management are welcome, including biographical portraits of prominent scholars and educators of any nation. Book reviews related to the scope of the journal are also solicited.
Notices of conferences, calls for papers, and other academic announcements will be accepted and published in BulgJSEP E-Mail List at Yahoo,
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/BulgJSEP
Manuscripts (in English or in Bulgarian) should not exceed 15 standard pages in lenght. Articles schould be accompanied by a summary of size not exceeding 15 lines. Style should conform to that of Publication Manual of the Psychological Association, widely used for such type of publication.
The electronic submission of the manuscripts (in word format) is preferable:
toshev@chem. uni-sofia. bg
bjsep@abv.bg
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The Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy (BJSEP), ISSN 1313-1958, an international, peer-reviewed, print publication, from 2008 will be published twice annualy, in spring and fall, and seeks original contributions on ongoing basis. Articles embracing any aspects of science and education theory, policy, practice
(especially in science education) and management are welcome, including biographical portraits of prominent scholars and educators of any nation. Book reviews related to the scope of the journal are also solicited.
Notices of conferences, calls for papers, and other academic announcements will be accepted and published in BulgJSEP E-Mail List at Yahoo,
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/BulgJSEP
Manuscripts (in English or in Bulgarian) should not exceed 15 standard pages in lenght. Articles schould be accompanied by a summary of size not exceeding 15 lines. Style should conform to that of Publication Manual of the Psychological Association, widely used for such type of publication.
The electronic submission of the manuscripts (in word format) is preferable:
toshev@chem. uni-sofia. bg
bjsep@abv.bg
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European meeting between teachers in schools of journalism and european journalists about the european information
hello,
In a couple of days the 23th and 24th of november , we will organize an european meeting between teachers in schools of journalism and european journalists about the european information.
We are looking for teachers and journalists in your country interested in these subjects. Will it be possible for you to help us to find them? I'll send you the invitation and the subject of these meeting. The european radio will give 240 euros to participate to the fees.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards.
Laurence Aubron
Bonjour à tous, hello to everyone, hej allihopa, hallo zusammen, jo napot mindencinek, bom dia a todos, hola a todas.
here are all the documents for the european meeting in Nantes (France). A lot of teachers and european journalist are coming so please let us know as soon as possible if you're coming.
Hope to see you
Eur@dioNantes
Laurence Aubron
Halle 6
42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne
44000 Nantes
www.euradionantes. eu
euradionantes@ gmail.com
laurence.aubron@ gmail.com
portable:+33 (0)6 76 49 94 01
radio: +33 (0)2 40 20 92 51
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In a couple of days the 23th and 24th of november , we will organize an european meeting between teachers in schools of journalism and european journalists about the european information.
We are looking for teachers and journalists in your country interested in these subjects. Will it be possible for you to help us to find them? I'll send you the invitation and the subject of these meeting. The european radio will give 240 euros to participate to the fees.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards.
Laurence Aubron
Bonjour à tous, hello to everyone, hej allihopa, hallo zusammen, jo napot mindencinek, bom dia a todos, hola a todas.
here are all the documents for the european meeting in Nantes (France). A lot of teachers and european journalist are coming so please let us know as soon as possible if you're coming.
Hope to see you
Eur@dioNantes
Laurence Aubron
Halle 6
42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne
44000 Nantes
www.euradionantes. eu
euradionantes@ gmail.com
laurence.aubron@ gmail.com
portable:+33 (0)6 76 49 94 01
radio: +33 (0)2 40 20 92 51
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Conference: Bad Memories, Rovereto/Italy, 9.11.2007
The Observatory on the Balkans is pleased to invite you to the conference:
BAD MEMORIES
Sites, emblems and narrations of the wars in the Balkans
Friday, 9th November 2007
Rovereto (Trentino - Italy), Peace Bell Foundation Center, Colle di Miravalle
During the conference, the documentary "CIRCLE OF MEMORY", produced by the Observatory on the Balkans with the support of the European Union and directed by Andrea Rossini, will be premièred in Italy.
Internationally renowned scholars, journalists, politicians and activists will reflect upon the policies of memory of the socialist Yugoslavia and on how the wars of the '90s are remembered in the new States.
With Balkan experiences as emblematic, the conference wishes to be an occasion for debate on the elaboration of the Twentieth Century conflicts, promoting further reflection on how to build a shared memory in the XXI century Europe.
Programme, registrations and more information:
http://www.osservat oriobalcani. org/convegno2007
Wishing to have you as our guest,
Best regards
Osservatorio sui Balcani
Piazza San Marco 7
38068 ROVERETO
Tel: 0464 424230
Fax: 0464 424299
Email: eventi@osservatorio balcani.org
Web: www.osservatoriobal cani.org
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BAD MEMORIES
Sites, emblems and narrations of the wars in the Balkans
Friday, 9th November 2007
Rovereto (Trentino - Italy), Peace Bell Foundation Center, Colle di Miravalle
During the conference, the documentary "CIRCLE OF MEMORY", produced by the Observatory on the Balkans with the support of the European Union and directed by Andrea Rossini, will be premièred in Italy.
Internationally renowned scholars, journalists, politicians and activists will reflect upon the policies of memory of the socialist Yugoslavia and on how the wars of the '90s are remembered in the new States.
With Balkan experiences as emblematic, the conference wishes to be an occasion for debate on the elaboration of the Twentieth Century conflicts, promoting further reflection on how to build a shared memory in the XXI century Europe.
Programme, registrations and more information:
http://www.osservat oriobalcani. org/convegno2007
Wishing to have you as our guest,
Best regards
Osservatorio sui Balcani
Piazza San Marco 7
38068 ROVERETO
Tel: 0464 424230
Fax: 0464 424299
Email: eventi@osservatorio balcani.org
Web: www.osservatoriobal cani.org
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TOC: Turkish Journal of International Relations
INTERNATIONALRELATI ONS (Turkish Journal – Uluslararasi Iliskiler)
NEW ISSUE
Vol. 4, No. 13, 2007
CONTENTS
Editorial
THEORETICAL
Discussions on Identity and Multiculturalism from Modernity to Post-Modernity
M. Zeki DUMAN
REGIONAL – CURRENT AFFAIRS
A Friendlier Schengen Visa System as a Tool of “Soft Power”: The Experience of Turkey
Kemal KÝRÝÞCÝ
The Policies of Ankara and Berlin toward the Bosnian War: A Comparative Analysis
Birgül DEMÝRTAÞ-COÞKUN
PROCEEDINGS
Second Congress on International Relations Studies and Education (April 19-21, 2007)
Program
Organizing Committee
List of Participants
International Relations Curricula in Turkish Universities
E. Fuat KEYMAN ve N. Esra ÜLKÜ
Problems of Graduate Education in Turkish International Relations Discipline
Gencer ÖZCAN
Politics, Division and Transformation in Turkish Foreign Policy Literature
Ýlhan UZGEL
Criteria for Appointment and Promotion as a Way to Solve Quality Problem
Ýlter TURAN
Think-Tanks in Turkey and Discipline of International Relations
Serhat GÜVENÇ
Media and International Politics
Erdem DENK
BOOK REVIEW
Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn (der.), “Energy & Security” Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Volkan ÖZDEMÝR
For submissions and subscription:
Uluslararasý Ýliþkiler Dergisi / Uluslararasý Ýliþkiler Konseyi Derneði
Söðütözü Cad. No. 43, TOBB-ETÜ Binasý, Oda No. 364, 06560 Söðütözü / Ankara - TURKEY
Tel.: (312) 292 41 08
Fax: (312) 292 43 81
Web: www.uidergisi. com
E-mail: bilgi@uidergisi. com
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NEW ISSUE
Vol. 4, No. 13, 2007
CONTENTS
Editorial
THEORETICAL
Discussions on Identity and Multiculturalism from Modernity to Post-Modernity
M. Zeki DUMAN
REGIONAL – CURRENT AFFAIRS
A Friendlier Schengen Visa System as a Tool of “Soft Power”: The Experience of Turkey
Kemal KÝRÝÞCÝ
The Policies of Ankara and Berlin toward the Bosnian War: A Comparative Analysis
Birgül DEMÝRTAÞ-COÞKUN
PROCEEDINGS
Second Congress on International Relations Studies and Education (April 19-21, 2007)
Program
Organizing Committee
List of Participants
International Relations Curricula in Turkish Universities
E. Fuat KEYMAN ve N. Esra ÜLKÜ
Problems of Graduate Education in Turkish International Relations Discipline
Gencer ÖZCAN
Politics, Division and Transformation in Turkish Foreign Policy Literature
Ýlhan UZGEL
Criteria for Appointment and Promotion as a Way to Solve Quality Problem
Ýlter TURAN
Think-Tanks in Turkey and Discipline of International Relations
Serhat GÜVENÇ
Media and International Politics
Erdem DENK
BOOK REVIEW
Jan H. Kalicki and David L. Goldwyn (der.), “Energy & Security” Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy
Volkan ÖZDEMÝR
For submissions and subscription:
Uluslararasý Ýliþkiler Dergisi / Uluslararasý Ýliþkiler Konseyi Derneði
Söðütözü Cad. No. 43, TOBB-ETÜ Binasý, Oda No. 364, 06560 Söðütözü / Ankara - TURKEY
Tel.: (312) 292 41 08
Fax: (312) 292 43 81
Web: www.uidergisi. com
E-mail: bilgi@uidergisi. com
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Book Review: Aksan on Finkel, Osman's Dream
H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Turk@h-net. msu.edu (July, 2007)
Caroline Finkel. _Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923_. New York: Basic Books, 2006. xix + 660 pp. Illustrations, maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-02396- 7.
Reviewed for H-Turk by Virginia Aksan, Department of History, McMaster University
The Long Ottoman Road
Not since the publication of Stanford J. Shaw and Ezel Kural Shaw's _History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey_ (vol. 1: _Empire of the Gazis_ and vol. 2: _Reform, Revolution and Republic_, 1976-77) has the English-speaking world had a serious, comprehensive narrative of the Ottoman world at hand. While there have been numerous attempts to fill in the gap in the last quarter century, most are risible, even comic recreations of a vast territory with a six-hundred- plus-year (1300-1923)
lifespan.[1]
_Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire_ arrives in our bookstores at a time of intense interest and a flurry of publications on the pre-modern Middle East. Areas of particular focus for Ottoman specialists have been the classical or golden age up to and including Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-66) and the long century from 1800 to the end of empire in 1923. They are radically different fields of research,
the former engaging Europeanists around many of the sustaining myths and stereotypes of the "terrible Turk," while the latter aims at carving out the Ottoman road to the modern. In a recent review by Nicholas Doumanis of new works by Suraiya Faroqhi, Daniel Goffman, Molly Greene, Bruce Masters, and Donald Quataert, called "Durable Empire: State Virtuosity and Social Accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean" , he notes: "Getting to know this 'real' and ever-changing entity has required wholesale revision of conventional interpretative frameworks and the assumptions built into causal plots of conventional narratives." [2]
Ehud Toledano best described three such "interpretative frameworks" a while back in a review of Suraiya Faroqhi's _Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources_ (1999). Noting Faroqhi's general neglect of Edward Said's _Orientalism_ in her work, he added "Practically all of the main building blocks of the Orientalist
Paradigm, which Said did not elaborate, but are easily recognizable to scholars in the field, are present in Ottoman studies, and at least three of them are central to the body of knowledge generated by its practitioners. These are the Decline Theory (part of the larger Islamic Decline model), the Eastern Question, and the Impact of the West."[3]
All such narratives were constructed around the question of the rise and fall of empires, and in their different ways attempted to answer the question either as to why the Ottomans survived, or why they failed to keep pace with Europe. Inexorable decline was the first to undergo extensive revisionism among Ottomanists of the last couple of decades. The explanation for the decline, generally posited to have continued >from 1600 to 1850, rested on the premise that the central state lost
control over both manpower and revenue sources by 1600, and never fully recovered such control until European financiers arrived in the 1850s to colonize and revive the Ottoman economy. It is obviously related to both the other schools of thought: the "Eastern Question," which used to rest almost exclusively on bureaucratic debates of successive British governments about the extent of the Russian threat, and the "Impact of the West," which could conveniently demonstrate that the Ottomans were not redeemable until they came to assimilate western technologies and secularism.[ 4]
The three narrative templates have come under sustained attack in recent years, as part of the general rejection of Eurocentric history, and the field is the better for it, but I think it fair to say that we still lack a paradigmatic substitute for the _longue duree_, especially for the middle period 1600-1850.[5] With few exceptions, recent studies of the Ottomans are divided into two empires: from sultans Osman to Suleyman the Magnificent, extended to 1650 by most, and the era of
reform (Tanzimat), from 1839 to 1918 (or to 1923 if the narrative includes the emergence of the Turkish republic). The new Cambridge versions by Daniel Goffman, _The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Donald Quataert, _The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922_, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), the former ending circa 1600, the later beginning in 1700, are the best examples of the phenomenon. The Goffman book situates the
Ottomans in the Europe of the Renaissance, and argues strenuously for the enormous impact of the Ottomans on European and Mediterranean consciousness. The Quataert book concerns itself largely with the nineteenth century, and offers a substantial glimpse into Ottoman social spheres. Both were designed for the classroom, and are making a difference in the way we teach.
One experiment with the middle period, Suraiya Faroqhi's _The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It_ (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004), is a select social history of the empire in the Goffman vein, set in its geographical context, looking westward. Her work has always drawn parallels between European and Ottoman societies, as she explicitly situates herself in the social history of diplomacy, trade, and agrarian
societies. This latest synthesis includes many vignettes of hybridity, middle passages, and permanent exiles, blurring, as Dan Goffman does, the line beyond Muslim and Christian worlds. Implicitly and explicitly, these works challenge the paradigms mentioned above.
For the Suleymanic age, Cemal Kafadar's _Between Two Worlds_ (1995) has the most succinct representation of the historiography on the origins of the Ottomans, and a more complex explanation of the ubiquitous _gazi_ (warrior for the faith) thesis, which has resulted in a flourishing textual search for expressions of Ottoman foundational ideologies and legitimacy, along with the ongoing study of Ottoman-Muslim institutions such as law courts, charitable organizations, and systems of coercion such as slavery and conversion. Such surveys and studies have broadened our understanding of the middle centuries.[6]
For the late Ottoman Empire, the secularist/moderniz ation teleology is represented by the out-of-date, but solid works by Bernard Lewis (_The Emergence of Modern Turkey_ [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968]), and Niyazi Berkes (_The Development of Secularism in Turkey_ [Montreal: McGill University Press, 1964]), which remain in print. There are many more recent versions, but they focus largely on the trajectory from dying empire to modern republic, and the vexed questions of ownership of that history.[7] There is certainly a Tanzimat subfield, 1839-1876, which has always been essential to Turkish nationalist historiography, but has recently been joined by vigorous and interesting revisionist history about the Ottoman Arab world. The work of Albert Hourani and Andre Raymond set the agenda, which has influenced several generations of students of the Arab long nineteenth century. Some of the new approaches can be sampled in _The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire_, eds. Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp,
and Stefan Weber (Wuürzburg : Ergon in Kommission, 2002).[8]
We know more now about the 1600-1850 era then we did when Shaw published his history, especially about the Ottoman economy and world systems, thanks to several decades of archival research and interpretation which built on work by Barkan and Braudel. We also have been offered three templates for change for the middle era, in the works of Rifaat Ali Abou-El-Hajj, Karen Barkey, and Gabriel Piterberg. Rifaat Abou El-Hajj's influential _Formation of the State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries_ (Albany: State University of New York Press); 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005) set out an agenda calling for a refocus on class, changing social order, and fluidity rather than on institutional structures, Weberian bureaucracies, and decentralization. Karen Barkey's _Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization_ (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1994), attributes a genius to the Ottoman ability to control the
empire's elites by cycles of court inclusion and exclusion, and access to wealth (the bandit to bureaucrat [and back again] of her title). Her model offers us an approach into the logic of Ottoman rebellions, that ubiquitous aspect of the middle centuries of empire. Gabriel Piterberg's _An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play_ (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003) seeks to explain the Ottoman ideological and societal divisions of the seventeenth century by a close reading of textual justifications of the tragedy of the regicide of the young Sultan Osman II in 1622.[9] As influential as all three
works have been in Ottomanist circles, no one in our era has had both the combination of breadth of knowledge and audacity to rewrite the whole story.
Until now. Caroline Finkel is known in the field especially for her meticulous archival research on the Ottoman military, and military architecture, as well as for a collaborative project on earthquakes. [10] First issued in 2005 by John Murray, a company with a distinguished record of publishing books on the Middle East, _Osman's Dream_ was picked up by Basic Books in 2006 in North America. Finkel is frank about
her intentions and her several audiences in the preface. A resident of Turkey for many years, she was prompted by a need for a new narrative to serve as a corrective to the many that reduce the Ottomans to a "theatre of the absurd, ...a setting which lacks all but the barest acknowledgement of the dynamics of history" (p. xi). Aware of the paucity of such studies in Turkey itself, she aimed at filling the void for a contemporary Turkish audience, but also addressing the general reader whose views have been particularly influenced by the "What went wrong?" and "Why didn't they" analyses of the post-9/11 world (p. xiv). She intended the text for students of the empire as a single-volume entry into Ottoman history, noting: "To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us--rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire,' 'fundamentalist, ' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance--is a matter of urgency" (p. xiv). The book is rapidly being translated and published in multiple languages, testimony enough to the perceived deficit of this sort of work.[11]
While the geographical coverage of _Osman's Dream_ is inclusive of all Ottoman territories, this remains a grand narrative which privileges imperial Istanbul as the nexus of Ottomanness, later Turkishness, even though there is an increasingly rich historiography on other nodes of belonging: Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Albanians, Circassians, to name the most obvious. That said, I think Finkel's story is balanced and clear-eyed, introducing as she can the
alternative versions as they were available to her. Perhaps it also has to do with the author's chosen trajectory for _Osman's Dream_, which is aptly named because it begins with dreams of empire in Turkic Anatolia and ends with visions of the republican phoenix rising from the ashes of World War I in Turkish Anatolia. Finkel elected to extend her narrative into the early years of the republic, in order to comment on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's "dream" (and self-justification) for his new nation in the six-day speech in 1927 known as _Nutuk_, which in the English edition is 724 pages long. This device allows Finkel to end her story with a lesson for present-day Turks concerning the utility of rehearsing the role of history and rethinking the national narrative. While some might disagree with her inclusion of such didacticism, the conceit of the dreams is a deft touch. It is the only place she resorts to an authorial lecture of that sort in what is a judicious portrait of the empire.
The heart of the story is laid out in sixteen chapters, dense and sometimes relentless in the inclusion of a huge cast of greater and lesser characters of the Ottoman stage. Help is available in a number of ways: for one, the choice to use the modern form of place names, which will irk experts, will help the non-specialist. There is also a good set of maps, a detailed and lengthy chronology (pp. 557-572), and a set of interesting illustrations and photographs inserted in the middle of the
text. The reader will be hard put to find a periodization of the empire's history outside the chronology, as the author has preferred the "strong narrative" line (p. xiii), but the chapter titles indicate the direction of empire implicitly: "First among Equals" (chapter 1); "Possessor of the Kingdoms of the World" (chapter 5); "Rule of the Grandees" (chapter 9); "From the Ordering to the 'Re-ordering' " (chapter 13), and "The Storm before the Calm" (chapter 16) as examples. In lieu of sub-headings, which in a narrative as lengthy as this are advisable, a double-spaced paragraph break indicates a change in subject within the chapters. There are occasional explanatory pauses along the way, such as on pages 5-6, where the author asks why the family of Osman won the race to empire; or page 339, where a couple of paragraphs explain the effort to reform the tax system in the seventeenth century; or on page 488, where Finkel discusses the reputation of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909),
dubbed "Abdul the Damned" by his enemies.
In general, speculative or explanatory interjections are few, and subsumed in the larger narrative project. That project is massive, informative, and often entertaining. I particularly liked the sixteenth-century inscription on the fortress at Bender (modern Tighina), where Suleyman the Magnificent declares: "In Baghdad, I am the shah, in Byzantine realms the caesar, and in Egypt the sultan" (p. 129), an example of the author's generous inclusion of illustrative bits from chronicles, poetry, and other textual and physical remains of the empire. In another instance, she reminds us that Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) had thirty daughters he adroitly married off to his loyal statesmen in time-honored fashion, a comment which led me to think could account for the stability of the royal household for a large part of the eighteenth century (pp. 338-339).
A nice example of her biographical sketches is that of Varvar Ali, an Ottoman governor of the seventeenth century, illustrated by verses from his autobiography. He began life as a draftee into the Janissaries: "they took me weeping and in distress, I did not know what was in store for me." He found himself a courtier under Sultan Ahmed I (1603-1617), who addressed him: "'Pray tell' he bade, 'reveal to me your heart's desire, your wish is my command'; in reply I entreated, 'As one of your pages in the senior service, may you grant my wish and permit me to attend you on the march.'" Varvar Ali served under several sultans, having distinguished himself on the battlefield, but was assassinated by a rival in the sustained disorder generated by the Abaza Mehmed rebellion beginning in 1623. His autobiography ended three years before his death in 1648, concluding with the lines: "On the bestowal of this supreme favor, I became oblivious to the world, the universe entire; Should the grace of God be granted to His servant, a shepherd may be
[transported] to a sultan's domain" (pp. 231-233).
Finkel's description of the Abaza Mehmed rebellion, a central event of seventeenth- century Ottoman politics, allows us a further glimpse into the pleasure and pitfalls of this particular approach to writing Ottoman history (pp. 202-230, passim). Finkel first sets the rebellion in the context of center-periphery politics, and the tension between the Anatolian troops and the elite regiments of the Janissaries in Istanbul. The rebellion began deep in Anatolia in 1623, where Abaza Mehmed had just been dismissed as governor of Erzurum. His rebellion was ostensibly aimed at revenge for the regicide (the first) of Sultan Osman II (1618-1622), but the revolt was equally a result of the turmoil on the Safavid/Ottoman border, which required constant reiteration of Ottoman power through imperial campaigns to regain Baghdad between 1624 and 1639. (One of the contemporary explanations for the regicide was the
young sultan's decision to lead his army into Anatolia as a means of reform, which the Janissaries feared meant an eclipse of their power in Istanbul.) We learn from Finkel's narrative that Abaza Mehmed had mounted an army of 40,000, and besieged Ankara for the better part of a year, a very large threat which the new sultan, in the chaos following Osman II's death, had neither the troops nor the money to resist. Then Finkel adds two paragraphs of explanation that even though the regicide
engendered a shift in power politics at center, it never really threatened the dynastic order, and it is her understanding that rebellions, even of this strength, aimed at insertion of the particular rebel into the circle of power rather than overthrow of the system (pp. 204-205).
>From 1628 till his death in 1634, Abaza Mehmed was restored to sultanic favor under the formidable Sultan Murad IV (1623-1640), and served both in the Balkans and the Crimea. The sultan himself, who is portrayed as having been forced to execute his favorite under pressure from his rivals, rode in his funeral procession, an extraordinary mark of favor, which engendered further mythical adventures of the loyal rebel. Finkel relates a story from Evliya Chelebi, whose famous travels often included tall tales, about a _faux_ Abaza Mehmed who turned up in Erzurum and claimed he had escaped execution in 1634 by spending more than 15 years at sea as an Algerian corsair, captive of the Danish, and member of the Portuguese navy! The finale to this tale comes from an Armenian priest, eyewitness to many of the events in Istanbul, who had heard that Abaza Mehmed was remembered in Erzurum as a man "who loved Christians and particularly the oppressed Armenian community; a man who served his country well and was solicitous of the weak of all [religions] without
discrimination" (p. 208).
Finkel's record of this and other events, which I have teased out of a number of pages, is produced practically verbatim from the contemporary sources she has used, making it colorful but tough going to keep the catalog of names and factions straight. Furthermore, the habit of translating some of the longer names of the individuals involved in such events is annoying, for example, "Guzelce 'Beauteous' ) Ali Pasha" (p. 198); "Tabaniyassi ('Flat-footed' ) Mehmed Pasha" (p. 209); "Civan
('Young Fellow') Kapucubashi ('Gatekeeper' ) Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha" (p. 225); or "Cinci ('Demon-chaser' ) Huseyin Hoca" (p. 225). While such insertions may elucidate an individual's character, they also underscore Ottoman difference, reinforcing the exotic. Furthermore, the simple recital of endless rebellions, without any attempt at a topography, or genealogy of violence, invites the reformation of the Ottoman sick (and violent) man of Europe in the minds of her readers.
The seventeenth century is Finkel's strong suit. For the eighteenth century onwards, she pulls together the story of the collapse of the Ottoman military and the sustained conflicts with the Russian Empire, and moves into "The Islamic Empire" chapter with the standard narrative of struggle in and around Sultan Abulhamid II. There are interesting details demonstrating the sultan's obsession with the Ottoman image abroad. Following Selim Deringil, she informs us of the Ottoman insistence on their right to attend the Berlin conference on the future of Africa in 1884-85, when they had not originally been invited (p. 498). Elsewhere, we learn that even after the Crimean War and almost till the end of the empire, the sultans sent a high-ranking envoy to welcome the tsar to his summer residences in the Crimea, as part of
Russia's symbolic deference to the sultan-caliph as spiritual leader of the (Russian) Muslim community there (p. 493).
On the much-contested Armenian genocide, Finkel is even-handed in her treatment of the events of the 1890s. She traces the emergence of the extensive eastern rebellions of the general population between 1905 and 1907, the rise of the Committee of Union and Progress, and the loss of Bulgaria, Crete, and Bosnia in 1908-09, all while the society was experiencing radical, if localized, liberalization, the reopening of parliament, and the thirty-first March incident which ended with the
deposition of Abdulhamid himself. On pages 534-536, Finkel sets the massacres of the Armenians in 1915 in the context of the experience of all ethnicities and religious groups in the remaining Ottoman territories, but is careful to rehearse arguments for both sides of the genocide debate and allows that continued denial consigns Turkey to pariah status in western circles, and Armenia and Azerbeijan to a miserable existence. The remainder of the chapter traces the emergence of the Turkish Republic in the ferocious defense of the territory of last resort for millions of Muslims fleeing or exiled from Balkan and Caucasus territories, introducing the sober evidence of the official census figures of the resulting populations between 1900 and 1927 (from the work of Zurcher). In the precipitous statistical drop in non-Muslims in cities like Erzurum (from 32 to 0.1 percent), Trabzon (43 to 1 percent) and Sivas, from 33 to 5 percent, the "success of the new
nationalist republic in avenging itself on the Ottoman Armenians and Greeks who, as the victors saw it, had so treacherously turned against their Muslim compatriots was manifest" (p. 547). The final pages trace the evolving meanings of the word "Turk" across the centuries of empire, with its eventual residence in the definition of the modern nation-state of Turkey.
Between the oriental tale of Abaza Mehmed and this very modern tale of ethnic cleansing and genocidal impulses there is very little in the way of explanation for the levels of state-inflicted violence and popular resistance described here. Finkel is not entirely at fault. It is simply the way the story is generally told because few have tried a holistic view of the multiple political, military, and economic crises of the 1650-1850 period. Contextualizing the revolts of the sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries as part of the larger narrative of the Ottoman passage is long overdue.[12] The historiography of rebellions and the impact of warfare on early modern European society, by contrast, has a distinguished lineage, unmatched by those who write on the Ottoman world in English, even though there are many important studies and much ongoing research of individual revolts, in specific
regions, or among specific groups. (I think here of the work on the _celali_ revolts in Anatolia; on the Arab provinces and Egypt in the seventeenth and eighteenth century; on Greece and on the Balkans). European historians by and large acknowledge that the era 1500-1800 was a highly unstable period, and that in the effort to control violence, the emerging sovereign states inflicted as much violence on "friendly and passive citizens" as on external enemies.[13]
There are obvious reasons for the lack of coherence on the question of violence in Ottoman historiography, relating to insufficient information, nationalist or cold war paradigms, or the unwillingness of many of us to legitimate orientalist stereotypes about barbarism which seem to resurface in the popular imagination with depressing regularity. To that I would also add a resistance among the experts to step beyond the texts, as here, and to think comparatively across cultures. As a
consequence of the lack of coherence, the sectarian violence of the nineteenth century seems _sui generis_, hence, even more condemnable.
It is far too convenient to hold the Ottomans (or the Turks, or the Arabs, _read_ Muslims) accountable for the mess of the modern-day Middle East, as some reviewers of _Osman's Dream_ have used the occasion to do.[14] What Caroline Finkel has achieved here is the assembling and humanizing of a complex and long-lived civilization, an accomplishment that will take some doing to surpass.
Notes
[1]. This reviewer assumes, for the sake of argument that such a narrative is helpful and necessary, if mainly for classroom or general readership. For a discussion of a number of them, such as those of Andrew Wheatcroft and Jason Goodwin, see my "The Ottoman Story Today" in _Middle East Studies Association Bulletin_ 25 (2001): 35-42.
[2]. Nicholas Doumanis, "Durable Empire: State Virtuosity and Social Accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean, " _The Historical Journal_ 49 (2006): 953-966 (here, p. 954).
[3]. "What Ottoman History, and Ottomanist Historiography Are, or, Rather, Are Not," _Middle Eastern Studies_ 38 (2002): 199. His criticism of Faroqhi's work was rather more concerned about the Turkish-Arab divide in the field, which we discussed in an exchange about a "one-stop" textbook on H-Turk (V. Aksan, 11 November 2002).
[4]. The tradition draws on Gibbon and Von Hammer; Shaw's work reflects the historiography in the subtitle of volume 1: _The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808_ and of volume 2: _The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975_. My inspiration in this as always is Palmira Brummett, especially in "Imagining the Early Modern Ottoman Space: from World History to Piri Reis," in _The Early Modern Ottoman World: Remapping the Empire_, ed. Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
[5]. That situation could change with the publication of the _Cambridge History of Turkey_ volume 3: _The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839_, edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), the first of a four-volume set. As recently noted on H-Turk, the other three volumes are slated for publication in 2007.
[6]. Halil Inalcik is the doyen of the approach. A more recent example is Colin Imber, _The Ottoman Empire 1300-1650: The Structure of Power_ (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002). One of the best examples of an edited work for a generalized audience is _Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World_, ed. Metin Kunt and Christine Woodhead (London and New York: Longman, 1995). One that is likely to become a favorite is _Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power_, ed. Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005).
[7]. There is of course the well-populated historiography around the rise of Turkish nationalism, which is hotly contested around the debate on the Armenian genocide, the role of the Committee of Union and Progress, and the Ottomans in WWI. It has developed a number of competing paradigms of its own: Erik J. Zurcher, Feroz Ahmed, Sukru Hanioglu are among others I discussed in "Finding the Way Back to the Ottoman Empire: Review Article," _International History Review_ 25 (2003): 96-107.
[8]. The work includes two introductory articles on the "Discourse and Practice of Ottomanism": Usama Makdisi, "Rethinking Ottoman Imperialism: Modernity, Violence and the Cultural Logic of Ottoman Reform," and Jens Hanssen, "Practices of Integration- -Center-Peripher y Relations in the Ottoman Empire," which could be said to set out the paradigm of late Ottoman colonialism in Arab/Muslim/ Gulf territories.
[9]. See the review of Piterberg on H-TURK/H-NET by Gottfried Hagen (April 2006,
http://www.h- net.org/reviews/ showrev.cgi? path=83311531597 49). It would be remiss of me not to mention the influential Jack A. Goldstone work, _Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), an ACLS e-book. His is a cyclical template linked to population growth, which could use amplification from Ottomanists.
[10]. _The Administation of Warfare: Ottoman Military Campaigns in Hungary 1593-1606_ (Vienna, 1988); with Victor Ostapchuk, "The Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Ozi," _Muqarnas_ (2005): 150-188, and with N. N. Ambraseys, _The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas: a Historical Review_ (Istanbul: Eren, 1995).
[11]. A Turkish translation has just been published: _Ruyadan Imparatorluga Osmanli: Osmanli Imparatorlugu' nun Oykusu, 1300-1923_ (Istanbul: Timas, 2007).
[12]. One exception is a special issue on mutiny and rebellion, _International Journal of Turkish Studies_ 8 (2002), edited by Jane Hathaway, from a conference at Ohio State University.
[13]. Julius R. Ruff, _Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 44-45.
[14]. Daniel Lazare, "Ottoman Ghosts," _The Nation_ (Sept. 25, 2006), who uses the review to flog his own version of the Ottoman demise and _contemporary_ history: "By the end, the empire was little more than a giant machine for the manufacture of ethno-religious enmity, as the world has since learned to its dismay," and then discusses the examples of Lebanon and Israel as successor states (p. 36).
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Caroline Finkel. _Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1923_. New York: Basic Books, 2006. xix + 660 pp. Illustrations, maps, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-02396- 7.
Reviewed for H-Turk by Virginia Aksan, Department of History, McMaster University
The Long Ottoman Road
Not since the publication of Stanford J. Shaw and Ezel Kural Shaw's _History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey_ (vol. 1: _Empire of the Gazis_ and vol. 2: _Reform, Revolution and Republic_, 1976-77) has the English-speaking world had a serious, comprehensive narrative of the Ottoman world at hand. While there have been numerous attempts to fill in the gap in the last quarter century, most are risible, even comic recreations of a vast territory with a six-hundred- plus-year (1300-1923)
lifespan.[1]
_Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire_ arrives in our bookstores at a time of intense interest and a flurry of publications on the pre-modern Middle East. Areas of particular focus for Ottoman specialists have been the classical or golden age up to and including Suleyman the Magnificent (1520-66) and the long century from 1800 to the end of empire in 1923. They are radically different fields of research,
the former engaging Europeanists around many of the sustaining myths and stereotypes of the "terrible Turk," while the latter aims at carving out the Ottoman road to the modern. In a recent review by Nicholas Doumanis of new works by Suraiya Faroqhi, Daniel Goffman, Molly Greene, Bruce Masters, and Donald Quataert, called "Durable Empire: State Virtuosity and Social Accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean" , he notes: "Getting to know this 'real' and ever-changing entity has required wholesale revision of conventional interpretative frameworks and the assumptions built into causal plots of conventional narratives." [2]
Ehud Toledano best described three such "interpretative frameworks" a while back in a review of Suraiya Faroqhi's _Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources_ (1999). Noting Faroqhi's general neglect of Edward Said's _Orientalism_ in her work, he added "Practically all of the main building blocks of the Orientalist
Paradigm, which Said did not elaborate, but are easily recognizable to scholars in the field, are present in Ottoman studies, and at least three of them are central to the body of knowledge generated by its practitioners. These are the Decline Theory (part of the larger Islamic Decline model), the Eastern Question, and the Impact of the West."[3]
All such narratives were constructed around the question of the rise and fall of empires, and in their different ways attempted to answer the question either as to why the Ottomans survived, or why they failed to keep pace with Europe. Inexorable decline was the first to undergo extensive revisionism among Ottomanists of the last couple of decades. The explanation for the decline, generally posited to have continued >from 1600 to 1850, rested on the premise that the central state lost
control over both manpower and revenue sources by 1600, and never fully recovered such control until European financiers arrived in the 1850s to colonize and revive the Ottoman economy. It is obviously related to both the other schools of thought: the "Eastern Question," which used to rest almost exclusively on bureaucratic debates of successive British governments about the extent of the Russian threat, and the "Impact of the West," which could conveniently demonstrate that the Ottomans were not redeemable until they came to assimilate western technologies and secularism.[ 4]
The three narrative templates have come under sustained attack in recent years, as part of the general rejection of Eurocentric history, and the field is the better for it, but I think it fair to say that we still lack a paradigmatic substitute for the _longue duree_, especially for the middle period 1600-1850.[5] With few exceptions, recent studies of the Ottomans are divided into two empires: from sultans Osman to Suleyman the Magnificent, extended to 1650 by most, and the era of
reform (Tanzimat), from 1839 to 1918 (or to 1923 if the narrative includes the emergence of the Turkish republic). The new Cambridge versions by Daniel Goffman, _The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Donald Quataert, _The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922_, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), the former ending circa 1600, the later beginning in 1700, are the best examples of the phenomenon. The Goffman book situates the
Ottomans in the Europe of the Renaissance, and argues strenuously for the enormous impact of the Ottomans on European and Mediterranean consciousness. The Quataert book concerns itself largely with the nineteenth century, and offers a substantial glimpse into Ottoman social spheres. Both were designed for the classroom, and are making a difference in the way we teach.
One experiment with the middle period, Suraiya Faroqhi's _The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It_ (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004), is a select social history of the empire in the Goffman vein, set in its geographical context, looking westward. Her work has always drawn parallels between European and Ottoman societies, as she explicitly situates herself in the social history of diplomacy, trade, and agrarian
societies. This latest synthesis includes many vignettes of hybridity, middle passages, and permanent exiles, blurring, as Dan Goffman does, the line beyond Muslim and Christian worlds. Implicitly and explicitly, these works challenge the paradigms mentioned above.
For the Suleymanic age, Cemal Kafadar's _Between Two Worlds_ (1995) has the most succinct representation of the historiography on the origins of the Ottomans, and a more complex explanation of the ubiquitous _gazi_ (warrior for the faith) thesis, which has resulted in a flourishing textual search for expressions of Ottoman foundational ideologies and legitimacy, along with the ongoing study of Ottoman-Muslim institutions such as law courts, charitable organizations, and systems of coercion such as slavery and conversion. Such surveys and studies have broadened our understanding of the middle centuries.[6]
For the late Ottoman Empire, the secularist/moderniz ation teleology is represented by the out-of-date, but solid works by Bernard Lewis (_The Emergence of Modern Turkey_ [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968]), and Niyazi Berkes (_The Development of Secularism in Turkey_ [Montreal: McGill University Press, 1964]), which remain in print. There are many more recent versions, but they focus largely on the trajectory from dying empire to modern republic, and the vexed questions of ownership of that history.[7] There is certainly a Tanzimat subfield, 1839-1876, which has always been essential to Turkish nationalist historiography, but has recently been joined by vigorous and interesting revisionist history about the Ottoman Arab world. The work of Albert Hourani and Andre Raymond set the agenda, which has influenced several generations of students of the Arab long nineteenth century. Some of the new approaches can be sampled in _The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire_, eds. Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp,
and Stefan Weber (Wuürzburg : Ergon in Kommission, 2002).[8]
We know more now about the 1600-1850 era then we did when Shaw published his history, especially about the Ottoman economy and world systems, thanks to several decades of archival research and interpretation which built on work by Barkan and Braudel. We also have been offered three templates for change for the middle era, in the works of Rifaat Ali Abou-El-Hajj, Karen Barkey, and Gabriel Piterberg. Rifaat Abou El-Hajj's influential _Formation of the State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to
Eighteenth Centuries_ (Albany: State University of New York Press); 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005) set out an agenda calling for a refocus on class, changing social order, and fluidity rather than on institutional structures, Weberian bureaucracies, and decentralization. Karen Barkey's _Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization_ (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1994), attributes a genius to the Ottoman ability to control the
empire's elites by cycles of court inclusion and exclusion, and access to wealth (the bandit to bureaucrat [and back again] of her title). Her model offers us an approach into the logic of Ottoman rebellions, that ubiquitous aspect of the middle centuries of empire. Gabriel Piterberg's _An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play_ (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003) seeks to explain the Ottoman ideological and societal divisions of the seventeenth century by a close reading of textual justifications of the tragedy of the regicide of the young Sultan Osman II in 1622.[9] As influential as all three
works have been in Ottomanist circles, no one in our era has had both the combination of breadth of knowledge and audacity to rewrite the whole story.
Until now. Caroline Finkel is known in the field especially for her meticulous archival research on the Ottoman military, and military architecture, as well as for a collaborative project on earthquakes. [10] First issued in 2005 by John Murray, a company with a distinguished record of publishing books on the Middle East, _Osman's Dream_ was picked up by Basic Books in 2006 in North America. Finkel is frank about
her intentions and her several audiences in the preface. A resident of Turkey for many years, she was prompted by a need for a new narrative to serve as a corrective to the many that reduce the Ottomans to a "theatre of the absurd, ...a setting which lacks all but the barest acknowledgement of the dynamics of history" (p. xi). Aware of the paucity of such studies in Turkey itself, she aimed at filling the void for a contemporary Turkish audience, but also addressing the general reader whose views have been particularly influenced by the "What went wrong?" and "Why didn't they" analyses of the post-9/11 world (p. xiv). She intended the text for students of the empire as a single-volume entry into Ottoman history, noting: "To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us--rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire,' 'fundamentalist, ' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance--is a matter of urgency" (p. xiv). The book is rapidly being translated and published in multiple languages, testimony enough to the perceived deficit of this sort of work.[11]
While the geographical coverage of _Osman's Dream_ is inclusive of all Ottoman territories, this remains a grand narrative which privileges imperial Istanbul as the nexus of Ottomanness, later Turkishness, even though there is an increasingly rich historiography on other nodes of belonging: Arabs, Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Albanians, Circassians, to name the most obvious. That said, I think Finkel's story is balanced and clear-eyed, introducing as she can the
alternative versions as they were available to her. Perhaps it also has to do with the author's chosen trajectory for _Osman's Dream_, which is aptly named because it begins with dreams of empire in Turkic Anatolia and ends with visions of the republican phoenix rising from the ashes of World War I in Turkish Anatolia. Finkel elected to extend her narrative into the early years of the republic, in order to comment on Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's "dream" (and self-justification) for his new nation in the six-day speech in 1927 known as _Nutuk_, which in the English edition is 724 pages long. This device allows Finkel to end her story with a lesson for present-day Turks concerning the utility of rehearsing the role of history and rethinking the national narrative. While some might disagree with her inclusion of such didacticism, the conceit of the dreams is a deft touch. It is the only place she resorts to an authorial lecture of that sort in what is a judicious portrait of the empire.
The heart of the story is laid out in sixteen chapters, dense and sometimes relentless in the inclusion of a huge cast of greater and lesser characters of the Ottoman stage. Help is available in a number of ways: for one, the choice to use the modern form of place names, which will irk experts, will help the non-specialist. There is also a good set of maps, a detailed and lengthy chronology (pp. 557-572), and a set of interesting illustrations and photographs inserted in the middle of the
text. The reader will be hard put to find a periodization of the empire's history outside the chronology, as the author has preferred the "strong narrative" line (p. xiii), but the chapter titles indicate the direction of empire implicitly: "First among Equals" (chapter 1); "Possessor of the Kingdoms of the World" (chapter 5); "Rule of the Grandees" (chapter 9); "From the Ordering to the 'Re-ordering' " (chapter 13), and "The Storm before the Calm" (chapter 16) as examples. In lieu of sub-headings, which in a narrative as lengthy as this are advisable, a double-spaced paragraph break indicates a change in subject within the chapters. There are occasional explanatory pauses along the way, such as on pages 5-6, where the author asks why the family of Osman won the race to empire; or page 339, where a couple of paragraphs explain the effort to reform the tax system in the seventeenth century; or on page 488, where Finkel discusses the reputation of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909),
dubbed "Abdul the Damned" by his enemies.
In general, speculative or explanatory interjections are few, and subsumed in the larger narrative project. That project is massive, informative, and often entertaining. I particularly liked the sixteenth-century inscription on the fortress at Bender (modern Tighina), where Suleyman the Magnificent declares: "In Baghdad, I am the shah, in Byzantine realms the caesar, and in Egypt the sultan" (p. 129), an example of the author's generous inclusion of illustrative bits from chronicles, poetry, and other textual and physical remains of the empire. In another instance, she reminds us that Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) had thirty daughters he adroitly married off to his loyal statesmen in time-honored fashion, a comment which led me to think could account for the stability of the royal household for a large part of the eighteenth century (pp. 338-339).
A nice example of her biographical sketches is that of Varvar Ali, an Ottoman governor of the seventeenth century, illustrated by verses from his autobiography. He began life as a draftee into the Janissaries: "they took me weeping and in distress, I did not know what was in store for me." He found himself a courtier under Sultan Ahmed I (1603-1617), who addressed him: "'Pray tell' he bade, 'reveal to me your heart's desire, your wish is my command'; in reply I entreated, 'As one of your pages in the senior service, may you grant my wish and permit me to attend you on the march.'" Varvar Ali served under several sultans, having distinguished himself on the battlefield, but was assassinated by a rival in the sustained disorder generated by the Abaza Mehmed rebellion beginning in 1623. His autobiography ended three years before his death in 1648, concluding with the lines: "On the bestowal of this supreme favor, I became oblivious to the world, the universe entire; Should the grace of God be granted to His servant, a shepherd may be
[transported] to a sultan's domain" (pp. 231-233).
Finkel's description of the Abaza Mehmed rebellion, a central event of seventeenth- century Ottoman politics, allows us a further glimpse into the pleasure and pitfalls of this particular approach to writing Ottoman history (pp. 202-230, passim). Finkel first sets the rebellion in the context of center-periphery politics, and the tension between the Anatolian troops and the elite regiments of the Janissaries in Istanbul. The rebellion began deep in Anatolia in 1623, where Abaza Mehmed had just been dismissed as governor of Erzurum. His rebellion was ostensibly aimed at revenge for the regicide (the first) of Sultan Osman II (1618-1622), but the revolt was equally a result of the turmoil on the Safavid/Ottoman border, which required constant reiteration of Ottoman power through imperial campaigns to regain Baghdad between 1624 and 1639. (One of the contemporary explanations for the regicide was the
young sultan's decision to lead his army into Anatolia as a means of reform, which the Janissaries feared meant an eclipse of their power in Istanbul.) We learn from Finkel's narrative that Abaza Mehmed had mounted an army of 40,000, and besieged Ankara for the better part of a year, a very large threat which the new sultan, in the chaos following Osman II's death, had neither the troops nor the money to resist. Then Finkel adds two paragraphs of explanation that even though the regicide
engendered a shift in power politics at center, it never really threatened the dynastic order, and it is her understanding that rebellions, even of this strength, aimed at insertion of the particular rebel into the circle of power rather than overthrow of the system (pp. 204-205).
>From 1628 till his death in 1634, Abaza Mehmed was restored to sultanic favor under the formidable Sultan Murad IV (1623-1640), and served both in the Balkans and the Crimea. The sultan himself, who is portrayed as having been forced to execute his favorite under pressure from his rivals, rode in his funeral procession, an extraordinary mark of favor, which engendered further mythical adventures of the loyal rebel. Finkel relates a story from Evliya Chelebi, whose famous travels often included tall tales, about a _faux_ Abaza Mehmed who turned up in Erzurum and claimed he had escaped execution in 1634 by spending more than 15 years at sea as an Algerian corsair, captive of the Danish, and member of the Portuguese navy! The finale to this tale comes from an Armenian priest, eyewitness to many of the events in Istanbul, who had heard that Abaza Mehmed was remembered in Erzurum as a man "who loved Christians and particularly the oppressed Armenian community; a man who served his country well and was solicitous of the weak of all [religions] without
discrimination" (p. 208).
Finkel's record of this and other events, which I have teased out of a number of pages, is produced practically verbatim from the contemporary sources she has used, making it colorful but tough going to keep the catalog of names and factions straight. Furthermore, the habit of translating some of the longer names of the individuals involved in such events is annoying, for example, "Guzelce 'Beauteous' ) Ali Pasha" (p. 198); "Tabaniyassi ('Flat-footed' ) Mehmed Pasha" (p. 209); "Civan
('Young Fellow') Kapucubashi ('Gatekeeper' ) Sultanzade Mehmed Pasha" (p. 225); or "Cinci ('Demon-chaser' ) Huseyin Hoca" (p. 225). While such insertions may elucidate an individual's character, they also underscore Ottoman difference, reinforcing the exotic. Furthermore, the simple recital of endless rebellions, without any attempt at a topography, or genealogy of violence, invites the reformation of the Ottoman sick (and violent) man of Europe in the minds of her readers.
The seventeenth century is Finkel's strong suit. For the eighteenth century onwards, she pulls together the story of the collapse of the Ottoman military and the sustained conflicts with the Russian Empire, and moves into "The Islamic Empire" chapter with the standard narrative of struggle in and around Sultan Abulhamid II. There are interesting details demonstrating the sultan's obsession with the Ottoman image abroad. Following Selim Deringil, she informs us of the Ottoman insistence on their right to attend the Berlin conference on the future of Africa in 1884-85, when they had not originally been invited (p. 498). Elsewhere, we learn that even after the Crimean War and almost till the end of the empire, the sultans sent a high-ranking envoy to welcome the tsar to his summer residences in the Crimea, as part of
Russia's symbolic deference to the sultan-caliph as spiritual leader of the (Russian) Muslim community there (p. 493).
On the much-contested Armenian genocide, Finkel is even-handed in her treatment of the events of the 1890s. She traces the emergence of the extensive eastern rebellions of the general population between 1905 and 1907, the rise of the Committee of Union and Progress, and the loss of Bulgaria, Crete, and Bosnia in 1908-09, all while the society was experiencing radical, if localized, liberalization, the reopening of parliament, and the thirty-first March incident which ended with the
deposition of Abdulhamid himself. On pages 534-536, Finkel sets the massacres of the Armenians in 1915 in the context of the experience of all ethnicities and religious groups in the remaining Ottoman territories, but is careful to rehearse arguments for both sides of the genocide debate and allows that continued denial consigns Turkey to pariah status in western circles, and Armenia and Azerbeijan to a miserable existence. The remainder of the chapter traces the emergence of the Turkish Republic in the ferocious defense of the territory of last resort for millions of Muslims fleeing or exiled from Balkan and Caucasus territories, introducing the sober evidence of the official census figures of the resulting populations between 1900 and 1927 (from the work of Zurcher). In the precipitous statistical drop in non-Muslims in cities like Erzurum (from 32 to 0.1 percent), Trabzon (43 to 1 percent) and Sivas, from 33 to 5 percent, the "success of the new
nationalist republic in avenging itself on the Ottoman Armenians and Greeks who, as the victors saw it, had so treacherously turned against their Muslim compatriots was manifest" (p. 547). The final pages trace the evolving meanings of the word "Turk" across the centuries of empire, with its eventual residence in the definition of the modern nation-state of Turkey.
Between the oriental tale of Abaza Mehmed and this very modern tale of ethnic cleansing and genocidal impulses there is very little in the way of explanation for the levels of state-inflicted violence and popular resistance described here. Finkel is not entirely at fault. It is simply the way the story is generally told because few have tried a holistic view of the multiple political, military, and economic crises of the 1650-1850 period. Contextualizing the revolts of the sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries as part of the larger narrative of the Ottoman passage is long overdue.[12] The historiography of rebellions and the impact of warfare on early modern European society, by contrast, has a distinguished lineage, unmatched by those who write on the Ottoman world in English, even though there are many important studies and much ongoing research of individual revolts, in specific
regions, or among specific groups. (I think here of the work on the _celali_ revolts in Anatolia; on the Arab provinces and Egypt in the seventeenth and eighteenth century; on Greece and on the Balkans). European historians by and large acknowledge that the era 1500-1800 was a highly unstable period, and that in the effort to control violence, the emerging sovereign states inflicted as much violence on "friendly and passive citizens" as on external enemies.[13]
There are obvious reasons for the lack of coherence on the question of violence in Ottoman historiography, relating to insufficient information, nationalist or cold war paradigms, or the unwillingness of many of us to legitimate orientalist stereotypes about barbarism which seem to resurface in the popular imagination with depressing regularity. To that I would also add a resistance among the experts to step beyond the texts, as here, and to think comparatively across cultures. As a
consequence of the lack of coherence, the sectarian violence of the nineteenth century seems _sui generis_, hence, even more condemnable.
It is far too convenient to hold the Ottomans (or the Turks, or the Arabs, _read_ Muslims) accountable for the mess of the modern-day Middle East, as some reviewers of _Osman's Dream_ have used the occasion to do.[14] What Caroline Finkel has achieved here is the assembling and humanizing of a complex and long-lived civilization, an accomplishment that will take some doing to surpass.
Notes
[1]. This reviewer assumes, for the sake of argument that such a narrative is helpful and necessary, if mainly for classroom or general readership. For a discussion of a number of them, such as those of Andrew Wheatcroft and Jason Goodwin, see my "The Ottoman Story Today" in _Middle East Studies Association Bulletin_ 25 (2001): 35-42.
[2]. Nicholas Doumanis, "Durable Empire: State Virtuosity and Social Accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean, " _The Historical Journal_ 49 (2006): 953-966 (here, p. 954).
[3]. "What Ottoman History, and Ottomanist Historiography Are, or, Rather, Are Not," _Middle Eastern Studies_ 38 (2002): 199. His criticism of Faroqhi's work was rather more concerned about the Turkish-Arab divide in the field, which we discussed in an exchange about a "one-stop" textbook on H-Turk (V. Aksan, 11 November 2002).
[4]. The tradition draws on Gibbon and Von Hammer; Shaw's work reflects the historiography in the subtitle of volume 1: _The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1280-1808_ and of volume 2: _The Rise of Modern Turkey, 1808-1975_. My inspiration in this as always is Palmira Brummett, especially in "Imagining the Early Modern Ottoman Space: from World History to Piri Reis," in _The Early Modern Ottoman World: Remapping the Empire_, ed. Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
[5]. That situation could change with the publication of the _Cambridge History of Turkey_ volume 3: _The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839_, edited by Suraiya N. Faroqhi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), the first of a four-volume set. As recently noted on H-Turk, the other three volumes are slated for publication in 2007.
[6]. Halil Inalcik is the doyen of the approach. A more recent example is Colin Imber, _The Ottoman Empire 1300-1650: The Structure of Power_ (Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002). One of the best examples of an edited work for a generalized audience is _Suleyman the Magnificent and His Age: The Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern World_, ed. Metin Kunt and Christine Woodhead (London and New York: Longman, 1995). One that is likely to become a favorite is _Legitimizing the Order: The Ottoman Rhetoric of State Power_, ed. Hakan T. Karateke and Maurus Reinkowski (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005).
[7]. There is of course the well-populated historiography around the rise of Turkish nationalism, which is hotly contested around the debate on the Armenian genocide, the role of the Committee of Union and Progress, and the Ottomans in WWI. It has developed a number of competing paradigms of its own: Erik J. Zurcher, Feroz Ahmed, Sukru Hanioglu are among others I discussed in "Finding the Way Back to the Ottoman Empire: Review Article," _International History Review_ 25 (2003): 96-107.
[8]. The work includes two introductory articles on the "Discourse and Practice of Ottomanism": Usama Makdisi, "Rethinking Ottoman Imperialism: Modernity, Violence and the Cultural Logic of Ottoman Reform," and Jens Hanssen, "Practices of Integration- -Center-Peripher y Relations in the Ottoman Empire," which could be said to set out the paradigm of late Ottoman colonialism in Arab/Muslim/ Gulf territories.
[9]. See the review of Piterberg on H-TURK/H-NET by Gottfried Hagen (April 2006,
http://www.h- net.org/reviews/ showrev.cgi? path=83311531597 49). It would be remiss of me not to mention the influential Jack A. Goldstone work, _Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World_ (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), an ACLS e-book. His is a cyclical template linked to population growth, which could use amplification from Ottomanists.
[10]. _The Administation of Warfare: Ottoman Military Campaigns in Hungary 1593-1606_ (Vienna, 1988); with Victor Ostapchuk, "The Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Ozi," _Muqarnas_ (2005): 150-188, and with N. N. Ambraseys, _The Seismicity of Turkey and Adjacent Areas: a Historical Review_ (Istanbul: Eren, 1995).
[11]. A Turkish translation has just been published: _Ruyadan Imparatorluga Osmanli: Osmanli Imparatorlugu' nun Oykusu, 1300-1923_ (Istanbul: Timas, 2007).
[12]. One exception is a special issue on mutiny and rebellion, _International Journal of Turkish Studies_ 8 (2002), edited by Jane Hathaway, from a conference at Ohio State University.
[13]. Julius R. Ruff, _Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 44-45.
[14]. Daniel Lazare, "Ottoman Ghosts," _The Nation_ (Sept. 25, 2006), who uses the review to flog his own version of the Ottoman demise and _contemporary_ history: "By the end, the empire was little more than a giant machine for the manufacture of ethno-religious enmity, as the world has since learned to its dismay," and then discusses the examples of Lebanon and Israel as successor states (p. 36).
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