Starter scholarships - Basel Graduate School of History

The Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH) is offering three 1-year
starter scholarships (Start date: 1st of April 2017).

Your tasks
The purpose of the scholarships is to support you during the starting phase of your doctorate. Within the first six months of your scholarship, you must develop a grant application for your doctoral project and submit it to the Swiss National Science Foundation, or another funding institution.

Your profile
The scholarships are intended for graduates who hold a Master's degree
or an equivalent qualification in History, and who are interested in carrying out research within the fields of study represented at the Basel Graduate School of History. A high level of motivation is expected, with the ability to carry out a research project independently over the course of several years as an active member of the BGSH, and tocontribute to academic debates both within and outside the Department of History. For further information on the fields of study at the BGSH see:
bgsh.geschichte.unibas.ch/about-us/research-fields/?L=1

What we offer
The Basel Graduate School of History offers a structured graduate studies programme in history within an intellectually inspiring environment. Doctoral students at the BGSH benefit from a rich scolarly exchange, joint workshops and research seminars, and a vast international and interdisciplinary network. Moreover, the BGSH offers further instruments to pursue your doctoral project and supports the realization of own scholarly events. The 1-year scholarship amounts to CHF 30,000 and is paid in two tranches (with intermediate evaluation).

Application / Contact
Deadline for applications: 6th of November 2016
The application is to be submitted electronically on following web
page: bgsh.geschichte.unibas.ch/application
In addition, please email the following documents to the coordinator at
the Basel Graduate School of History, Dr. Roberto Sala
(roberto.sala@unibas.ch):
1. Covering letter
2. CV (including a list of publications, where applicable)
3. Outline of the dissertation project (max. 3 pages)
4. Degree certificate
5. One or two text samples (incl. master thesis or equivalent)
Please submit the documents in two separate pdf files:
- Documents 1 to 4: one single file with the title >[surname]-bew.pdf<
- Text samples: one single file with the title >[surname]-texte.pdf<
Applications can be submitted in German, French, or English. 

Applicants who are about to complete their studies can apply, provided that they
can submit an official graduation certificate no later than 14th ofFebruary 2017. Applications from doctoral students already enrolled at other institutions will not be considered. Holders of a starter scholarship must enrol as PhD students at the University of Basel.
For further information, please consult bgsh.geschichte.unibas.ch or
contact Dr. Roberto Sala at roberto.sala@unibas.ch / +41 61 207 46 74

European Summer School on Cold War History 2016

The partner institutions of the European Summer School on Cold War History are jointly convening the eighth edition of the school at University of Vienna, Austria

8-10 September 2016.

The Summer School is a unique conference specifically for PhD students and early career researchers to discuss the effects of the Cold War in the fields of politics, culture, and diplomacy, to name only a few.

The School consists of workshops and panel sessions focused on submitted research papers, debates on historiographical and methodology, as well as practical sessions on publishing and academic careers. The school offers an informal atmosphere in which new ideas and research directions can be shared and debated, be it in panel sessions, or over coffee and meals.  

The school has a very high student to faculty ratio (2:1) allowing participants to have in depth discussions about their research with established scholars in the field. The faculty includes prominent scholars, among others:

• Sara Lorenzini (Università di Trento)
• Kaeten Mistry (University of East Anglia)
• Piers Ludlow (LSE)
• Leopoldo Nuti (Università Roma Tre)
• Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po)
• Silvio Pons (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
• Oliver Rathkolb (Universität Wien)
• Federico Romero (EUI)
• Antonio Varsori (Università di Padova)
• Vladislav Zubok (LSE)

PhD students and early career researchers (no more than 3 years from PhD completion) are invited to submit proposals. We encourage submissions on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined. Of particular interest are papers that make use of newly available primary sources and innovative methodologies. 

hD students and early career researchers (no more than three years from PhD completion) are invited to submit proposals. We encourage submissions on any aspect of the Cold War, broadly defined. Of particular interest are papers that make use of newly available primary sources and innovative methodologies.

Papers should not exceed 7,000 words (including citations in Chicago style).

At the School, each participant will give a 15-minute presentation (in English) followed by discussion with the faculty and students.

The best paper will be given the opportunity to publish in the Cold War History journal.

Applicants should submit a 300 word abstract and a brief academic CV in a single PDF document and in English, with the file titled as your surname. The CV must make clear the applicants' nationality and stage of PhD or research.

Please send these to coldwarsummerschool@gmail.com by 30 April 2016.

Please note in the subject line of your email "CW Summer School 2016-YourLastName".

Please note that preference is given to those who have not previously attended.

Please note that there is a €200 euro registration fee, which will cover accommodation and meals for the duration of the conference. 

 

CfP: Utopias and Realities:Socialist Modernism. CHB 28-29 April2016

http://www.berlin.balassiintezet.hu/de/utopien-und-realitaeten-open-call/

CFP: Identities In-Between: East-Central Europe, c. 1900-present

Wolfson College, Oxford, 12-13 September 2016

This two-day conference invites submissions for 20-minute papers that engage with a specific definition of ‘sub-cultures’ (see below) through case studies drawn from the East-Central European region, over the period c. 1900-present

Funding is available for travel and accommodation in Oxford for accepted submissions, with details to follow. Participants may be invited to contribute to a summative volume or special edition on the titular subject.

Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2016

Interrogating the notion of ‘identity’ remains a central concern in Humanities and Social Sciences research. For East-Central Europe, the subject has particular resonance: this was a region forged in diversity, remade after 1945 along ethno-national lines, and which in the present, continues to resist alternative narratives.

The conference concludes a four-year research project that proposes a new definition of the term ‘sub-cultures’ to understand identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories imposed from the top down, such as ‘ethnic group’, ‘majority’ or ‘minority’. Instead, a ‘sub-culture’ is an identity that sits between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect forms, cultural traditions, or ethnic identifications. It may be drawn on particular conceptions of race and biology that, similarly, sit outside national projects, or else in the interstices. In short, a ‘sub-culture’ in these terms is not ‘subaltern’, but is an identity resisting complete incorporation into the standard categories of ‘majority’ and’minority’. The region offers many examples of such identities: among working-class inhabitants of Lodz or Lviv in the early 20^th Century, with their mixed dialect practice; Germans who lived in Wroclaw after the city became Polish in 1945, with their blended tradition and mixed identifications.

A full definition of the term and a working case study can be found in the article by Robert Pyrah and Jan Fellerer, ‘Redefining ‘sub-culture’: a new lens for understanding hybrid cultural identities in East-Central Europe with a case study from early 20th century L'viv-Lwów-Lemberg’, Nations and Nationalism, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 700–20, October 2015. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12119. Further information on the project, the concept, and its evolution may also be found on the dedicated website: http://subcultures.mml.ox.ac.uk.

To help participants select their topics, we propose a number of governing themes, which may cut across disciplines:

• Uses of history, memory, myth and tradition;
• Ritual practice, religion and religious observance;
• Minority policies ‘from above’
• Subjective experiences among groups / populations ‘from below’
• Linguistic forms and practice
• Biology and essentialism

Submissions: please include your name, title, the title of your presentation, and a short abstract (up to c. 500 words) to the address: subculturesoxford[AT]gmail.com

Informal enquiries: these may be made to robert.pyrah[AT]history.ox.ac.uk

CFP: ASEEES Annual Convention in Washington, DC on 17-20 November 2016

http://aseees.org/convention

 

Call for chapter proposals - Edited collection “Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures”

The proposed collection departs from the observation that the existing literature on post-socialist urban infrastructures is, firstly, mainly focused on energy; secondly, scattered among multiple topics and, thirdly, lacking relation to the existing and expanding theoretical literature on infrastructures (e.g., Amin, 2014; Graham & Marvin, 2001; Graham & McFarlane, 2014). 

This collection of articles aims to provide a more comprehensive and theoretically-substantiated framework regarding urban infrastructures, which have both been shaped by and have contributed to shape the post-socialist transformation. Analysing infrastructure is thus also a way to approach post-socialist cities more generally.

For more information see:
 

http://www.ifl-leipzig.de/en/news/weitere-mitteilungen/detail/article/infrastrukturen-in-der-postsozialistischen-stadt.html

Leibniz Summer Fellowships - ZZF

The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung / Centre for Contemporary
History Potsdam (ZZF) is pleased to invite applications for up to three
Leibniz Summer Fellowships "German and European History in the 20th
century" for the academic year 2016 to study German and European History in the 20th century. These two-month fellowships provide an opportunity to
pursue individual research in Germany while participating in the academic life in one of Germany's major historical research centres.

Founded in 1992, the ZZF covers a broad scope of Contemporary European
History with currently four research departments that reach from
"Communism and Society" and "Economic Thought and Practice" to "Regimes
of the Social Sphere" and "Contemporary History in the Age of Media and
Information". The ZZF library holds approx. 80,000 items and subscribes
to more than 100 periodicals. Since 2009 the ZZF is a full member of the
Leibniz-Association.

Applicants must have at least postdoctoral status with an outstanding
academic record. They are expected to pursue their own research. However
applicants whose interests relate to the research departments at the ZZF
will be preferred. Fellowship holders will be assigned to a research
department and asked to present their current project in a seminar or
colloquium.

The Leibniz Summer Fellowships carry a monthly grant of about 3.000 EUR.
The funding is supposed to cover all expenses including travel, housing,
and insurance. Fellows are expected to reside in Berlin or Potsdam for
two consecutive months between April and October 2016. The ZZF will
provide office space and other relevant facilities.
 
The application deadline is November 30, 2015. Decisions will be
announced not later than December 31, 2015. Applications can be in
English or German and must include
a letter of interest;
a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications);
a project proposal not exceeding 1.500 words;
a letter of recommendation (under separate cover).
Please send your application to:

Hanno Hochmuth
- Leibniz Summer Fellowship -
Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung
Am Neuen Markt 1
14467 Potsdam
Germany
E-Mail: fellowships@zzf-pdm.de

Applicants may apply via e-mail with one combined pdf-attachment only.
The letter of recommendation should be sent under separate cover or with
a separate e-mail. For further information regarding the Zentrum für
Zeithistorische Forschung, please refer to www.zzf-pdm.de. 
 

CfA: 2nd RegPol² school - 26/30 October 2015 Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL) Leipzi

The project “Socio-economic and Political Responses to Regional Polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe” (RegPol²) focuses on the evolution and persistence of polarisation and peripheralisation processes and analyses governance issues of core-periphery relations as well as local strategies and potentials in dealing with polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe. Being a Marie Curie Initial Training Network it is funded by the European Union in order to provide young researchers appropriate training opportunities for their career. The second RegPol² school "Empirical perspectives on Central and Eastern European polarisation processes and their analysis" is open to PhD students at the beginning of the empirical phase of their PhD project.
Up to this point, invited participants elaborated their theoretical and methodological frameworks, and are due to start (or have recently started) their field work. The event is therefore designed to give the participants practical guidance for their empirical work. We will aim to discuss some of the key concepts which underpin issues of socio-spatial polarisation in CEE from a variety of disciplinary views (such as peripheralisation or post-socialism). The goal is to expand the participants' skills in engaging with such issues in a critical manner through multi-perspectivity.
Program
The week-long school includes lectures, seminars, colloquia and a World Café forum which offers space for intense discussions. Furthermore, the program offers skills trainings on methods such as discourse analysis, design thinking and critical reading of global and European maps. Keynote lectures will be given by Prof. Sebastian Lentz (IfL Leipzig), Prof. Frank Othengrafen (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Prof. Ray Hudson (Durham University) and Dr. Thomas Bürk (University of Hamburg).
Additionally, young researchers receive individual rhetoric coaching in order to improve their presentation skills. The participants will also have the opportunity to directly engage with the emergence of centres and peripheries in Eastern Germany during an excursion to the surroundings of Leipzig.
Application
The RegPol² project offers 5 places for external young researchers to participate in the second RegPol² school. We invite you to exchange your ideas on the above mentioned topics. The participation including lunch and one excursion will be free of charge, but travel and accommodation costs have to be covered by the participants themselves. We can help in reserving hotel rooms for successful applicants (approx.  69 €/night).
Interested young researchers should send a short motivation letter and CV (together no more than 2 pages) to Franziska Görmar (f_goermar@ifl-leipzig.de) until the 17th of September 2015.  

To get more information about the project RegPol² please visit our project website www.regpol2.eu or the Ifl website www.ifl-leipzig.de.