NEWS 2012

Erasmus Video

Erasmus celebrates20 years in Austria: Graz University officials talk about their personal experiences with the most popular exchange program between European universities.

Here is a link to the Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLf981vmG6Q&feature=youtu.be

Begriffe des Alter(n)s in den Wissenschaften

The Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf organizes a series of lectures titled: "Begriffe des Alter(n)s in den Wissenschaften

Please find here the Poster and Flyer with more information.

Die Sehnsucht des Möglichen. Mobilität und Werte

Roberta Maierhofer nimmt an der Podiumsdiskussion um 19.00 Uhr teil und wird aus Sicht der Universität Graz und des Zentrums für Inter-Amerikanische Studien über Mobilität, Region und Werte sprechen.

Im Anschluß an die Kooperationsmesse findet um 19:00 Uhr im Publikumsstudio die Festveranstaltung zum Europatag 2012 statt.
Die Festveranstaltung kann im Foyer via Live-Stream verfolgt werden.

Um 20:45 Uhr, Ausstellungseröffnung in der Funkhausgalerie: Petar Dabac, Zagreb-Graz.
Empfang des Landes Steiermark

Latin-American Film Evening

The Center for Systematic Musicology is currently planning a joint event with the Society for Threatened Peoples, a campaign or for non-contacted Indians in Peru-Brazil border area. That means we from Musicology are making a film evening on 16 May, with a short talk by Mrs Laida (from Peru) on the situation of Indians from an Indian perspective and the movie "Corumbiara" by V. Carelli on the destiny of violently and non-violently contacted people in Rondonia
On May 18^th is the event of STP with a keynote speech by ex-boss Jose Meirelles FUNAI, who talks about the situation and who is politically / financially trying to achieve something.

Here is also the Information sheet of GfbV.

Scholarship opportunity at University of the West of England

To celebrate the launch of the Graduate School, UWE is delighted to announce the availability of at least 20 Graduate School scholarships.At least 20 fully-funded PhD scholarships will be awarded to high calibre graduates. Please find more information about this opportunity on the following link: http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/research/postgraduateresearchstudy/studentshipopportunities.aspx

Zwischen Karibik und Amazonas. Auf den Spuren der Outlaws in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Excursion-Class-Fieldresearch will take place from July 22nd till September 2nd, 2012  and it is open to all students of all Faculties.

Please find more detailed information about it >>here<<.

European Conference "University Lifelong Learning"

“Universities’ Engagement in and with Society. The University Lifelong Learning contribution”
University of Graz, Austria | Wed 09 to Fri 11 May 2012

Es haben sich bereits über 120 Fachleute aus mehr als 25 Ländern angemeldet. Das Programm umfasst u.a.:

• ein University-Business Panel;
• Hauptvorträge zur Rolle von Universitäten/Hochschulen im Bereich Community-based education und Lernen im späteren Lebensalter;
• ein Panel zur Zukunft der universitären Weiterbildung in Europa u.a. mit der Präsidentin der EUA sowie mit VertreterInnen der Europäischen Kommission und des Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschusses.

Darüber hinaus finden vier Workshops zu folgenden Themen statt:

• Innovation in regional business & industry, NGOs and the public sector – the role of University Lifelong Learning (ULLL);
• Community-based education and learning as part of ULLL;
• An ageing Europe and the role of ULLL;
• Supporting the individual learner in ULLL;

alle Infos auf unserer Website: http://eucen.uni-graz.at;

Am 10. Mai 2012 findet ein kostenfreier Workshop „Curriculum in Partnership“ statt. Dieser findet parallel zur Tagung unter der Leitung von Jason Davies, University College London, unter internationaler Beteiligung statt.

Nähere Informationen unter:

http://implement.eucen.eu/sites/implement.eucen.eu/files/Graz_Flyer_CurricInPartnershipv3.pdf;

http://implement.eucen.eu/TrainingEvents

EU-Canada Study Tour "Thinking Canada"

Based on the positive experiences from 2010 and 2011, European Network for Canadian Studies, in cooperation with the European Commission, organizes in the fall of 2012 a four-week EU-Canada study tour for 30 participants plus subsequent two-month internship for nine participants under the theme "Thinking Canada / Penserle Canada".The study tour will take place from September 2nd til- 30t. Deadline for aplication is April 30th, 2012.

The journey begins with a three-day stay in Brussels, where the EU and the relations between the EU and Canad aare illuminated,and continues on to Ottawa, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Victoria.

The cost of the trip will be generously supported by the EU and Canada, so that EU participants must cover only a relatively small summ of EUR 750. In principle, also a non-EU citizens are welcome to apply,but must pay the full amount of EUR 2.750. Detailed information on application procedures and program are available on: http://www.thinking-canada.eu/. .Youcan also find photos from the trip in 2011, taken by a young Austrian Academic who took part in it.

The announcement poster is available >>here<<, as well as the Program description and a Report about previous Tours.

Summer Project by the Universidad del Golfo de Mexico.

Summer Project organized in Mexico from July 13th until August 11th by the Universidad del Golfo de Mexico. The project consists of an intensive language training and immersion in the Mexican and Zapotec culture.

For more information, please visit the website: http://www.ugm.edu/iroweb/ and download the leaflet with information in English on the following link: http://www.ugm.edu/IROWEB/Docs/Prospecto%20ENGLISH.pdf

Der Standard.at "Gleichzeitig alt und jung"

Roberta Maierhofer and Ulla Kriebernegg on the theme of Aging. Here is the link to the article in Der Standrard.at:

http://derstandard.at/1332323959206/Altern-ohne-Schrecken-Gleichzeitig-alt-und-jung

RAAS Biennial Conference, Remapping Urban Spaces: American Challenges,

The Conference will take place in October 4-6, 2012, at Ovidius Univcersity Constanta  and it is organized by the Romanian Association for American Studies, the Faculty of Letters and the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission, Bucharest.

The topic of the conference aims at reflecting the current debates on the contemporary city in the context of the developments that take place within urban studies in the United States at a time when the economic, the social, the political and the cultural tend to intersect and thrive in the metropolis rather than anywhere else. Therefore this conference represents an invitation to (re)investigate and (re)analyze issues connected to the city as well as broader acceptations of urban spaces and identities from an interdisciplinary perspective (literary studies, geography, sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, political science, film studies, institutions and other associated fields).

The organizors decided to give another chance to those who did not manage to meet the deadline, therefore it is extending to May 1, 2012. You may find the CALL FOR PAPERS and the REGISTRATION FORM here. Updates will be posted at http://www.raas.ro/conferences.

IAS Conference: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas: Dynamics of Change in Politics, Culture, and Media

Second BI Annual Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies: Crossing Boundaries in the Americas: Dynamics of Change in Politics, Culture, and Media will take place in Guadalajara, September 25-27, 2012.

More information about conference and registration are available on the link: http://www.interamericanstudies.net/?page_id=1936

Inter-Generational, Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Bridges

International Conference of the LSP Unit which is organized by the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania will tak place from  11-12 May 2012 in Iasi.

Globalization has been hailed as a sign of technical progress and economic development. In recent times, the other side of globalization – its discontents – has become increasingly obvious. Global challenges preclude simple answers; the complexity of global phenomena, of global crises and of global threats requires dialogue, the rebirth of public virtues and the commitment to care for our fellows and the environment in which we live.     

2012 is the European year of active aging and intergenerational solidarity. The purpose of our 5^th year conference is the framework for a three-tired dialogue: between generations, between disciplines and between cultures, on topics such as:

- knowledge vs. wisdom: a youth/aged dichotomy?;
- challenges of inter-generational education;
- inter-disciplinarity, interculturality, inter-temporality;
- cultural approaches to the aging phenomenon;
- intergenerational dialogue and the creation of public virtues;
- business education and the training of socially responsible graduates;
- age and seniority in business communication;
- representations of inter-generational and intercultural dialogue in literature and the media;
- public virtues in the classroom, in institutions and in companies;
- the foreign language class: opportunities for inter-generational, intercultural and interdisciplinary dialogue.

Please find more detailed text and registretion form >>HERE<<

LCA'S "3rd NATIONAL AND INTER AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON GERONTOLOGY: THE OLD IN THE NEW WORLD" -- October 10-12, 2012 Kovens Conference Center, Miami, FL

The 3rd National and Inter American conference on Latino elderly, sponsored by the Latino Center on Aging (LCA) in cooperation with MIA Senior Living Solutions, Acacia Network and other agencies of the aging network will be held on October 10-12, 2012 in Miami, Florida. The conference will be held in English and Spanish, with workshops and working sessions in either language or both, and choice will be determined by what is most appropriate for target audiences.

The Latino Center on Aging (LCA), based in New York City since 1991, is a private non-profit organization devoted to improving through advocacy and education the quality of life for Hispanic seniors and their communities. The LCA has successfully organized two (2) Inter American conferences throughout the hemisphere, the first took place in Chile in 1994, and the second was a series of conferences held in Mexico, Costa Rica, Argentina and Puerto Rico in 2000 and 2001.

The conference will offer an opportunity for community advocates, service professionals, policy makers, and Latino elders and their families to discuss key issues such as: HIV and the elderly, Alzheimer's Disease, Morbid Obesity, Hypertension, End of Life Decisions, Advocacy, Economic Security, Housing, Nutrition and Hunger.

Organizing Committee (In formation)-- The Latino Center on Aging, MIA Senior Living Solutions, Acacia Network, and Goddard Riverside.

Academic Support-- RCMAR (Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research) National Coordinating Center at UCLA; New Jersey City University; Universidad de Puerto Rico; Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México; Federación Argentina de Geriatría y Gerontología, Argentina; Asociación Gerontológica Argentina; European Network in Aging Studies, The Netherlands; University of Graz, Austria.

ÖPIA Lecture series: Altern in interdisziplinärer Sicht - Konfliktlinien und Wandel

The Austrian Platform for Interdisciplinary aging issues (ÖPIA) announces the lecture series "Altern in interdisziplinärer Sicht -Konfliktlinien und Wandel",  which is again in this summer semester organized in the cooperation with the Institute of Sociology, University of Vienna for students and external guest.

The lecture series focuses on selected areas of age and discusses social, biological, psychological and economic issues as well as health and care. The goal is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of socially and politically relevant questions of demographic change.

The lectures are held on Mondays from 16.30 - 18.00 in the Seminar Room 3 of the Institute of Sociology, Rooseveltplatz 2, 1 Floor, 1090 Vienna. A detailed program with all the dates can be found here.

Registration is not required (except for the excursion, due to a limited number of participants. please register at: office@oepia.at)

The Center on Age and Community: Summer Institute

In collaboration with Sojourn Theatre and Luther Manor, The Center on Age and Community is hosting a summer institute inspired by the success of the Penelope Project.

CREATE/CHANGE: Transforming Care for Elders through Creative Engagement

·designed for artists, students, and care professionals

·learn partnership and creative engagement

·design your own project

·taught by artists, elders, care providers, and scholars

Space is limited to 50 participants!

Please find more detailed information on the following link: http://www.ageandcommunity.org/

Student Conference on Inter-American Studies in Bratislava

After a successful student conference in Bratislava, here is one of the interviews as an outcome of the conference. Georg Schendl gave an interview to a staff member of "Perspective" magazine.

Here is a link to the interview:

http://perspectiveszine.webnode.sk/news/once-you-start-blending-in-you-get-to-see-the-heterogeneity-of-life-georg-schendl/

Also Mrs Jana Hulova gave an Interview for "Perspective" magazine.

You can read her Interview on the following link:

http://perspectiveszine.webnode.sk/news/jana-hulova-what-was-behind-the-conference-on-inter-american-studies-/#.T3TNewoLZUY.facebook

Call for Abstracts for an Aging conference in Halifax: Our Future is Aging: Current Research on Knowledge, Practice and Policy

The Conference :Our Future is Aging: Current Research on Knowledge, Practice and Policy will take place from November 21st-23rd, 2012  in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Please find the detailed infotmation about the call for abstracts and the deadlines >>here<<.

Fulbright Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies 2013-14

Invitation to tender for the Fulbright Visiting Professor at Graz University of Cultural Studies 2013-14 was published. You can find the description on:
http://www.fulbright.at/fulbright-for-us-citizens/scholars/graz-visiting-professor.html as well as further information on http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/ .

"Fulbright-University of Graz Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies", formerly called "Fulbright-Karl Franzens University Graz Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies", is offered since 1998, offering a visiting professor at the Faculty of Humanities and U.S. colleagues the opportunity for professional exchange in teaching and research and to build networks. Visiting professor will be selected by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars and the Fulbright Commission in Vienna.

The focus of the candidates should be interdisciplinary and in the field of cultural studies. The scope of lecture is 2 to 3 per 90-minute sessions per week, while in the former case is strengthened by research and consulting for advanced doctoral students.
Please inform all the colleagues in your area who might be interested in this visiting professorship, about the invitation. The active search for candidates by the faculty gives us the opportunity to strengthen our needs and research interests and allows us a better integration of the selected visiting professors at the institutions offering the respective fields of research at the faculty.
The deadline for the visiting professor in summer term 2014 ends on 1 August 2012.

Call for Papers: BSG2012@Keele

41st Annual Conference - 11th-13th July 2012

Abstract deadline (for papers/posters/symposia) fast approaching! Make sure you get your abstracts to us by Friday February 24th

Conference themes:

1. Theory and methodology
2. Critical gerontology/critical perspectives
3. Ageing and the arts and humanities
4. Intergenerational perspectives
5. Understanding dementia
6. New ageing populations
7. Cross-cultural perspectives
8. Environment and ageing
9. Pensions and income maintenance

Plenary debate on 'The Future of Research into Ageing': speakers confirmed as: Sally-Marie Bamford (International Longevity Centre-UK), Mark Gorman (HelpAge International), Philly Hare (Joseph Rowntree Foundation),  Peter Lansley (University of Reading)

For further details see: http://www.keele-conferencemanagement.com/bsg2012

ENAS publication opportunities in The Gerontologist

The Gerontologist, which is one of the official journals of the Gerontological Society of America, currently accepts manuscripts from scholars from the humanities and arts. The GSA publications committee has been convinced that having humanities and arts work included in the main gerontology journal was essential in order to move the field forward. By having work by humanities and arts scholars available to readers from all sub-disciplines within aging, rather than limited to only those in the humanities and arts, would provide an important forum for new ideas and ways of considering older age. An associate editor (Helen Kivnik) and editorial board (Ruth Ray, Ron Mannheimer, Kate de Medeiros and Debra Sheets) have been appointed specifically dedicated to the humanities and arts. The Gerontologist has an impact rating of 2.0, and was listed as the 6th most cited journal in gerontology.

See also an editorial written by Helen Kivnik and Gerontologist editor Rachel Pruchno, which describes their commitment to the humanities and arts.

For more information on submissions see: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/geront/for_authors/

Submissions should sent to the attention of Helen Kivnik, Associate Editor for the Humanities and Arts, who will insure that they are reviewed by appropriate Humanities and Arts reviewers.

Research Funding Opportunity - New Round of Newton International Fellowships

These fellowships are designed to enable early stage researchers from around the world to work at a UK institution for two years. The scheme covers researchers in all disciplines represented by the British Academy and Royal Society.

Please see http://www.newtonfellowships.org/, for details of Newton Fellowships.

Call for application-Graduate School at Maastricht University

The call for applications of our Graduate School is now open. Five of the suggested research topics on the website are related to age/aging studies: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/web/Faculties/FASoS/Theme/ResearchPortal/GraduateSchool/ResearchSuggestions/ArtsMediaAndCulture/GenderDiversityStudies.htm

So, if you know excellent students that for one reason or another can not be part of your own research team, bring this call to their attention. You can find all the information on Academic Transfer: http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UM/vacancy/12719/lang/en/

There are three positions available. Deadline for candidates tosubmit a proposal is Friday 30March, 2012.

Etta Becker-Donner-Scholarship program

The second call of Etta Becker-Donner Scholarship program is open from February 1^st, to March 1^st, 2012. The program provides travel grants for Latin America researchers who participate in scientific conferences in Austria and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Science and Research.

Detailed information are available at: http://www.lai.at/programa-de-becas-etta-becker-donner

The announcement as well as an application form is available in Spanish and English language​​.
For further question please contact Mrs. Christina Schmutzhard: christina.schmutzhard@lai.at.

La segunda convocatoria del programa de becas “Etta Becker-Donner” esta abierta del 1 de febrero al 1 de marzo 2012

El objetivo del programa (financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Austria) es fomentar contactos entre instituciones de investigación en Austria y América Latina y el Caribe. Con este fin, tres convocatorias se pondrán en marcha para apoyar a los/las investigadores/as latinoamericanos/as a participar en conferencias científicas teniendo lugar en Austria así como visitar instituciones de investigación austriacas.

La convocatoria y el formulario de sloicitud existen en Español y Ingles
Contacto: christina.schmutzhard@lai.at

Age on Stage Conference

European Conference on "Later Learning"in Adult Education and its Role in Europe`s Development - Challenges, Concepts, Benefits, Outlook"

21-22 Juni 2012 in Graz, AT

Please find more detailed information here and on the following webpage:
http://www.age-on-stage.eu

Job oppening at the Department of American Studies

Das Institut für Amerikanistik sucht eine/n
Universitätsassistent/in mit Doktorat
(40 Stunden/Woche; befristet bis 31.07.2013; zu besetzen ab sofort)

Aufgabenbereich:

* eigene Forschungstätigkeit
* Mitarbeit bei Forschungs- und Publikationstätigkeiten des Instituts
* eigenständige Lehre in American Studies im Ausmaß von 4 Semesterwochenstunden
* Organisations- und Verwaltungstätigkeiten des Instituts
Fachliche Qualifikation:

* Abgeschlossenes Doktoratsstudium der Geisteswissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Amerikanistik
* Organisationserfahrung wünschenswert
* Erfahrung mit Universitätsagenden wünschenswert
Persönliche Anforderung:

* Soziale Kompetenz
* Teamfähigkeit
* Organisationsfähigkeit
* selbstständige Arbeitsweise
* wissenschaftliche Neugier

Einstufung:
Gehaltsschema des Universitäten-KV: B1

Mindestgehalt:
Das kollektivvertragliche Mindestentgelt gemäß der angegebenen Einstufung beträgt € 3283.20 brutto/Monat. Durch anrechenbare Vordienstzeiten und sonstige Bezugs- und Entlohnungsbestandteile kann sich dieses Mindestentgelt erhöhen.

Wir bieten Ihnen eine Tätigkeit in einem angenehmen Arbeitsklima mit zahlreichen Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten. Nutzen Sie die Chance für den Einstieg in ein herausforderndes Arbeitsumfeld, geprägt von Teamgeist und Freude am Job.

Ende der Bewerbungsfrist: 15. Februar 2012
Kennzahl: MB/12/99 ex 2011/12

Bei Interesse senden Sie Ihre Bewerbungsunterlagen innerhalb der angegebenen Bewerbungsfrist inkl. Lebenslauf, Foto und relevanter (Dienst-)Zeugnisse unter Angabe der Kennzahl bitte an:
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Personalressort
Universitätsplatz 3
8010 Graz
oder per E-Mail an: bewerbung@uni-graz.at<mailto:bewerbung@uni-graz.at?subject=Bewerbung,%20Kennzahl:%20MB/12/99%20ex%202011/12>

Entity and Identity in Bioethics, Paris International Conference

Ars Identitatis encourages interdisciplinary debates, that is why we are inviting anyone who could contribute to this debate (Professors, Researchers, Journalists, NGO activists, Lawyers, Clerics, etc.). Submissions from graduate students are also encouraged.

The progress of genetics has strengthened the relation between body and identity at such an extent that a number of researchers have argued that DNA can be considered today what traditional religions and philosophical conceptions understood by one’s soul (Nelkin, Lindee). Moreover, the research on artificial life (alife) brings a new light on a posthuman age of a life-as-it-could be and influences the values adopted by contemporary societies. New communication and entertainment technology supports this ideal. In a world dominated by the ideas of securing the comfort of the individual and of the perfection of the human being, minority categories of disabled persons seem threatened by a large majority of normal persons. Award winning films as Breaking the Waves (von Trier 1996), The Sea Inside (Amenabar, 2004) and Million Dollar Baby (Eastwood, 2004) have contributed to the idea that certain impairments reduce the person to a mere entity. Stereotypical norms of beauty usually diminish the importance of the sexual attractiveness of disabled people, and bring individuals that suffer from genetically transmissible diseases not to wish to have offspring. The possibility of choosing the sex or the sexual orientation of the child before birth, or the abortions made with the purpose of preventing children with various impairments being born, raise questions on the identity of the entities that are destroyed or preserved and on the different mentalities regarding life, identity and the concept of person in the contemporary world.

In response to such contemporary innovations more traditionalist points of view assert a wider identity that comprises the development and self-fulfilment of the person from the moment of her conception until the moment of her death, and sometimes even beyond death. Some of them even go further by associating current practices with evil and revert to more traditionalistic forms of medicine or simply to prayers in order to heal someone from curable or incurable diseases, to help infertile couples give birth to offspring, to perform ritualistic surgeries on the human body (in order to confer a certain identity to it) etc. Among these practices, some are considered dangerous for the identity of the person on which they are performed, as for example female circumcision.

The purpose of this conference is twofold: firstly, to engage researchers with different cultural, political, philosophical, religious backgrounds in a debate on the close relation between entity and identity in bioethics and secondly, to obtain a better theoretical understanding of the identities of those that engage in bioethical debates (for instance, in what degree one’s belonging to a Muslim, Christian Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, Buddhist or Black community etc influences his/her arguments for or against some practices or affects her interest in certain issues).

The International Conference will take place at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris from 23 to 24 April 2012 at and it is organized by Ars Identitatis Cultural Research Association.

The proceedings will be published (after peer review): some in paperback format, the others in electronic format.

We accept both Panel proposals and Individual abstracts. Individual abstracts should be of no more than 450 words in length. Those who intend to send individual abstracts are kindly requested to submit also a short bio note.
The person who submits a panel proposal is kindly requested to send us a short Curriculum Vitae (one page) together with a presentation of the panel and the abstracts. The other panelists should send only a short bio-note. Each panel proposal should contain at least two abstracts.

The deadline for sending abstracts is February 10 but we encourage early submissions, in order to allow the selection commission to have enough time for deliberation.

We will acknowledge receipt of your abstract. In case you don’t receive any reply from us after 3 days, please resend your abstract.

Ars Identitatis is an independent non-profit association. We are making efforts to keep as low as possible the logistics costs related to the conference and to the publication production process.

Please send your materials and address your enquiries to Ms. Silvia Stoica (President of Ars Identitatis) Mr. Ionut Untea (PhD candidate, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) and Ms. Andrada Maran (Ecole Polytechnique) at registration[at]identitatis.org

For updates, please visit http://www.ars.identitatis.org/

Keywords (non-exhaustive list): bioethics, entity, identity, public stigmatization, miraculous healings, biobanks, DNA, substantial identity, self-consciousness, future of value and identity, persistent vegetative state, anencephalic infants, female circumcision, harmful traditional practices in general, exorcism, the child’s right to identity, pre-embryos, experimentation and genetic engineering, drugs and medicalization, artificial life (alife), artificial intelligence (AI), posthuman, communication and biotechnologies, cyborg, conjoined twins, eugenics, euthanasia, end of life questions, prenatal diagnosis, bioethics and film, bioethics and literature, disabled people, ethnic conceptions, ageing, deafness, cochlear implantation, surrogate mother, family by choice, LGBT, ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’, self-demand amputation, philosophical and religious traditions on bioethics, reproductive liberty, fetus, ‘‘intentional’’ family, transsexualism, insemination, transplant and identity transfer, etc.

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IABA-L: A LIST FOR LIFE WRITING
International Auto/Biography Association
http://www.theiaba.org/

Craig Howes, list manager
craighow@hawaii, biograph@hawaii.edu
Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CBRHawaii

FIAR-New Issue: Indigenous America - América Indígena

Wilfried 'Willy' Raussert & Yolanda Campos, of the online-journal Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR) would like to inform you that the new issue is online now: http://www.interamerica.de/

Current Issue Vol. 4 No. 2 (Nov 2011): Indigenous America – América Indígena

Jonathan Hart, Alberta, Canada:
Haunted by Spain: The Past and Identities in English and French America

Barbara Buchenau, Bern, Switzerland:
Inventing Iroquoia? Migrating Tropes of Similarity and Heritage in Francophone Narratives of Colonial Possession

Guillaume Boccara,Paris, France and Patricia Ayala, Antofagasta, Chile:
La nacionalización del indígena en tiempos de multiculturalismo neoliberal

Jochen Kemner, Bielefeld, Germany:
Lobbying for Global Indigenous Rights: The World Council of Indigenous Peoples (1975-1997)

Video:
–Entrevista a Walter Prudencio Magne Veliz (Embajador Boliviano en Alemania)

Susanne Berthier-Foglar, Savoie, France:
Indigenous Claims and Uranium Mining on Mount Taylor, New Mexico, USA

Lívia Šavelková,Pardubice, Czech Republic:–
Indigenous Peoples – Creating New “Borderlines“?

Érika Julieta Vázquez Flores, León, Mexico:
La Universidad Como Espacio De Creación Y Reflexión De La Educación Intercultural

Giorgio Mariani, Rome, Italy: ’
Negotiating Violence and Identity in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

The Forum for Inter-American Research (FIAR) is the publication organ of the International Association for Inter-American Studies (http://www.interamericanstudies.net).
Some of the articles in this issue have been presented at the AIW-Meeting in Graz in 2011. We would like to thank especially Heidi Moertl for their collaboration.

Community of Respect at TAMU

Texas A&M is offering the next Community of Respect Train-the-Trainer Workshop on February 16 and 17, 2012 (Thursday and Friday) in College Station, Texas. We invite you to consider this award winning cross-cultural communication training program for those who are responsible for presenting diversity training in the workplace or classroom designed to help people become more culturally competent in the workplace. A Community of Respect helps American inter-ethnic and international community’s understand their interactions with each other. This interactive training will provide experiences that prepare individuals from a wide range of professions to work with people from other cultures and/or countries. For further questions please contact:  l-edwards@exchange.tamu.edu and visit Community of Respect website at http://bcsrespect.tamu.edu/.

Please find the flyer of Comunity of Respect >>here<<

Ausschreibung Lehre Geschlechterstudien 2012/13 Universität Graz

Hier finden Sie die Ausschreibungsunterlagen für Lehraufträge aus dem Bereich Geschlechterstudien der  Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz für das Studienjahr 2012/13.

Weitere Informationen zu Lehraufträgen an der Universität Graz finden Sie unter http://www.uni-graz.at/kffwww/ausschreibung.html

Visiting Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Advanced Study, University of London

Deadline for submission is 31 January 2012

The School of Advanced Study, University of London offers a Visiting Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Applications for 2012–13 are now invited from professorial staff and early to mid-career academics (applicants must have been awarded their PhD between eight and fifteen years before applying for a fellowship) who wish to pursue research in London in any of the areas covered by the School, and to engage in an active relationship with the multidisciplinary scholarly community across the School. The Fellowship is tenable for up to six consecutive months between September 2012 and June 2013.

The Fellowship offers an allowance towards travel, accommodation and research costs up to a determined maximum.

Further information:

E: peter.niven@sas.ac.uk

T: +44 (0)20 7862 8666

Website: www.sas.ac.uk/school-visiting-fellowship

Chopin der Kreolen

The Ö1 Radiokolleg will broadcast four programs with the topic "Chopin der Kreolen". The series is dedicated to the nowadays forgotten but most important U.S.-American composer of the 19^th century, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. January 16^th-19^th, 9.45-10:00 am.

Please find more information on the following >>link<<.

Conference: Nomadism and Mobile Ways of Life in the Americas

The international conference “Nomadism and Mobile Ways of Life in the Americas” will be held in Vienna, February 15-17, 2012, at the Wiener Urania. It offers a variety of interesting panels, stimulating discussions, and exhibition areas, and will include keynote lectures from distinguished international experts. The conference opening will take place on February 14, 2012. Delegates will be encouraged to bring their families and friends.

The conference gathers together scholars, students, and other interested people from all over the world. We received applications from (junior) researchers and scientists from different (sub- and cross-)disciplines (African Studies, African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Displacement Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Gender Studies, Geography, History, Holocaust Studies, Human Rights Studies, Inter-American Studies, Jewish and Hebrew Studies, Law, Literature, Medicine Studies, Migration Studies, Minority Studies, Native American Studies, Natural Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Romance Studies, Russian and East European Studies, Slavery Studies, Sociology, Violence and Genocide Studies, Women, Gender and Family Studies) who come from resp. are working in Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, Uruguay, the USA, and Venezuela.

The conference aims at serving as a platform for the presentation of current or recent research resp. dissertation projects as well as for the international exchange between scholars with a regional focus on North/Central/South America, Caribbean and/or the Atlantic World concerned with the phenomena of nomads, nomadism and mobile ways of life in a broader sense. Last but not least, it aims to promote the building of academic networks, and stimulate intercultural polylogues and the mobility between the continents. The conference languages are English and Spanish.

More Information are available at the link: http://www.konak-wien.org/Nomadism/nomadismindex.htm

Call for papers

Screening Age

Medienbilder – Stereotype – Altersdiskriminierung
29.06. – 01.07.2012

Fachtagung
GAM – Gesellschaft, Altern, Medien e.V.
Schloss Tunzenberg
(Mengkofen, Bayern)

Screening Age ist eine Fachtagung des „GAM – Gesellschaft, Altern, Medien e.V.“. Wissenschaftler/innen und Medienpraktiker/innen engagieren sich in GAM für die Erforschung, Reflexion und die öffentliche Diskussion der Zusammenhänge von Medien und Altern und ihren gesellschaftlichen Konsequenzen. Die Beiträge der Tagung münden in eine Buchpublikation, die in der Schriftenreihe des Vereins im Verlag kopaed (München) erscheint.

Zwei Keynotes zu psychologischen und kulturellen Fragen der Altersdiskriminierung rahmen die Tagung.

Organisiert wird Screening Age von:

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Hoffmann

(Universität Siegen / Medienwissenschaft)

hoffmann@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de

Prof. Dr. Clemens Schwender

(Hochschule der populären Künste, Berlin)

schwender@hdpk.de

Wolfgang Reißmann, M.A.

(Universität Siegen / Medienwissenschaft)

reissmann@medienwissenschaft.uni-siegen.de

Aussagekräftige Abstracts (max. 1500 Zeichen) sind bis zum 01.02.2012 in digitaler Form an die Organisator/innen der Tagung zu richten. Eine Rückmeldung über die Teilnahme erfolgt bis spätestens 01.03.2012.

Mehr Informationen dazu finden Sie >>hier<<.

Graduiertenkolleg "Alter(n) als kulturelle Konzeption und Praxis", Düsseldorf, 01.04.2012-31.03.2015

Bewerbungsschluss: 31.01.2012

Das Graduiertenkolleg "Alter(n) als kulturelle Konzeption und Praxis" an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf vergibt zum 01. April 2012

9 Promotionsstipendien an exzellente und hoch motivierte NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen aus den Bereichen Kulturwissenschaften, Sozialwissenschaften, Jura, BWL, Rechtsmedizin und Psychologie. Die Stipendien richten sich an DoktorandInnen, die in ihren Dissertationsvorhaben interdisziplinäre Fragestellungen der Alter(n)sforschung behandeln (Präsenz- und Residenzpflicht). Das Graduiertenkolleg "Alter(n) als kulturelle Konzeption und Praxis" bietet eine ausgezeichnete wissenschaftliche Ausbildung, eine differenzierte individuelle Betreuung, transdisziplinäre Diskussionsforen sowie ein innovatives und weiterqualifizierendes Lehrprogramm in wichtigen berufsbezogenen Schlüsselkompetenzen.

Die Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf strebt eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils an. Bewerbungen von Frauen werden bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung daher bevorzugt berücksichtigt, sofern nicht in der Person eines Mitbewerbers liegende Gründe überwiegen. Die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter ist erwünscht.

Die Laufzeit der Stipendien beträgt maximal 36 Monate. Die Besoldung entspricht den üblichen Stipendiensätzen der DFG.

Weiterführende Informationen zum Bewerbungsverfahren finden Sie unter http://www.phil.hhu.de/ageing. Bitte verwenden Sie ausschließlich die hier hinterlegten Bewerbungsformulare.

Bewerbungen sind bis zum 31. Januar 2012 zu richten:

An die Sprecherin des Graduiertenkollegs

"Alter(n) als kulturelle Konzeption und Praxis"

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrea von Hülsen-Esch

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Institut für Kunstgeschichte

Universitätsstr. 1, Geb. 23.32

D-40225 Düsseldorf

Email: ageing@hhu.de

NEWS 2011

The Franciscan Connection: St. Augustine, Florida, First U.S. Hispanic City: Website Update

Two major videos are now available on the St. Francis and the Americas website.

Please find more detailed information here.

Publication

The Transatlantic Dialogue on Higher Education:
An Analysis of Cultural Narratives

Ulla Kriebernegg

2011, 186 Pages
ISBN 978-3-8325-2696-2
Price: 44.00 €

Comparing apples and oranges frequently, this is what we do when we talk about similarities and differences regarding higher education in the United States and Europe. Based on the assumption that higher education policy texts are cultural texts to be interpreted, this book deconstructs four US American cultural narratives within higher education (coopetition, the frontier myth, McDonaldization, and the narrative of security), and compares these to discourses prevailing in Europe. Disputing the prevalent claim that both the recent European higher education transformation initiative, the Bologna Process, and the establishment of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) have had absolutely no impact on US institutions of higher learning, this study proves that cultural narratives in the last decade have strongly determined political and structural developments in higher education on both sides of the Atlantic. This book therefore adds another facet to the transatlantic dialogue on higher education by providing a cultural critical perspective, including the Foucauldian theory of governmentality as well as aspects of postcolonial theory.

Call for papers

Comparative American Studies: An International Journal

Special Issue: Hemispheric Approaches to Native American Studies

The editors of an upcoming special edition of the interdisciplinary journal Comparative American Studies invite contributions (between 5,000 and 7,000 words) that illustrate this new hemispheric approach to indigenous studies. We welcome essays from the pre-Columbian era to the present that deal with issues such as artistic exchange, (neo)colonialism, identity, resistance, environmentalism, border-crossing, and new disciplinary forms. We are primarily interested in comparative work that highlights continuity and conflict across North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean, as well as the indigenous nations established before the European arrival.

Please email abstracts of 250 words (or less) and a biographical blurb to

Antonio Barrenechea abarrene@umw.edu & Heidrun Moertl heidrun.moertl@uni-graz.at

Deadline for abstract submissions is February 1, 2012.

Please find more detailed information about the call for papers here.

Student Conference on Inter-American Studies in Bratislava

This year's Graz University Summer School on the Americas graduate Jana Hulova published an article in the online student magazine "Perspectives" of the department of English and American Studies at Comenius University, Bratislava about her Summer School experience. Her creative reflections also resulted in the organization of a student conference on Inter-American Studies at Comenius University, Bratislava on February 16th, 2012.

Please find the article here: perspectiveszine.webnode.sk/products/once-upon-a-hill-or-the-roots-of-the-student-conference-on-inter-american-studies/

Please find the Information, the Invitation and the Poster for the Conference here

More information about the conference is available on  http://interamericanconference.webnode.sk/

Here are the photos from the Student Conference in Bratislava:
http://picasaweb.google.com/102808513224916121385/StudentConferenceOnInterAmericanStudies?authkey=Gv1sRgClivso661PXoZQ

Call for Textos Hibridos

Here you can read the information about Convocatoria

Fulbright German Language Teaching Assistantships 2012-2013

In the next academic year, The Fulbright Commission offers Austrian students in the second stage of study, young graduates and graduates of colleges of education (Pädagogischen Hochschulen ) possibility to spend a year as German Language Teaching Assistant in the U.S.

This program allows the scholarship recipients to gain experience in the teaching German as a foreign language in an English speaking country, as well as attending classes at the host institution. Undergraduates and doctoral students can use the facilities of the host university for their own research and literature studies.

More detailed information about this scholarship program and the relevant application forms can be found on the following website:

http://www.fulbright.at/fulbright-for-austrians/german-language-teaching-assistants.html

Deadline for Application: 15. November 2011 (Postmark)

Jop Openings at the Center for Inter-American Studies:

1. Univ. Ass. ohne Doktorat (graduate assistant/lecturer/PhD candidate), 4 year contract, immediately
2. Univ. Ass ohne Doktorat (graduate assistant/administrative assistant/ PhD candiate), replacement, 10 months, 15.9.2011 - 15.7.2012
Application deadline for both jobs: August 24, 2011
Detailed information (in German) can be found in the Mitteilungsblatt released on August, 3, 2011.

19th Golden Age Awards - Heidrun Moertl to receive the Tomorrow's Leadership Award

At the Latino Center on Aging's Golden Age Awards Annual Banquet in New York, Ms. Heidrun Moertl from the Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz was awarded this year's Tomorrow's Leadership Award.

The Golden Age Awards are given every year to indiviuals who have made significant contributions to the Latino/Hispanic communities throughout the world. Awards are given for effective leadership, lifetime contributions, public pulicy initiatives, corporate contributions and community involvement.

The 2011 Golden Age Award honorees: Lew Leone, GM of Fox5 and My9; Adriene Rosell, BASICS/Promesa Systems; Dr. Felix Matos Rodriguez, President, Hostos Community College; Mario Tapia, LCA's President and CEO; Gail Solomon from Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation; and, Theresa Kilb for Heidrun Moertl, University of Graz. (Photo courtesy of Chris Rybin).

More pictures from this year's banquet can be viewed >> here <<.
The banquet also made it on Channel 5-NY's 10 o'clock news.

Round Table Discussion: Inter-American Studies: European Perspectives

July 19, 2011, 5.00 pm, Seggau Castle, Seggauberg 1, 8430 Leibnitz, Austria
Please register until July 15, 2011 by email to ulla.kriebernegg@uni-graz.at or phone +43-316-380-8211.

CFP: Anders altern?! – Kulturelle und soziale Plastizität des Alter(n)s"

The conference organizers are looking forward to receiving submissions for interesting papers and presentations and are asking for abstracts by September 9, 2011 (abstracts@sektion-altern.de). Further information can be found in the Call for Papers.

Doctoral Program "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies"

Job opportunities - Australia

There are a number of fellowship and scholarship opportunities associated with the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) in which I am a collaborator. Expressions of interest are sought from suitably qualified researchers and postgraduate students to join a multi-disciplinary team investigating determinants of healthy and productive ageing, cohort change and international comparisons. For further information visit >> Sydney Recruitment <<.

MICRA PhD Student Conference - Ageing research: developing the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers

Friday 15 July 2011, 10 am - 4 pm

Facilitated by Professor James Nazroo (Sociology and CCSR) and Dr Neil Pendleton (Geriatric Medicine), supported by Age UK, Valuing Older People, and the International Longevity Centre - UK.

Open to all current PhD students interested in research within the field of ageing, from any institution and any discipline (engineering, life sciences, nursing, economics, computer science, psychology, medicine, arts, etc).

Offers students the chance to:

• Understand the research funding environment for ageing-related research, and requirements around interdisciplinarity
• Work with students of different disciplines on a real world exercise set by key stakeholders
• Develop informal networks with peers from different disciplines and different universities

Keynote speeches

• Interdisciplinarity in ageing research - Professor James Nazroo, University of Manchester
• What commissioners of research want: meeting the needs of older people - Susan Gillen, Regional Manager (North West), Age UK
• Making your PhD count: impacting policy and practice - David Sinclair, Head of Policy & Research, International Longevity Centre – UK
• Ageing research: the Manchester context – Jane Morris, Valuing Older People (Manchester City Council/ NHS Manchester)

For further details and to apply online please refer to the >> website << (the conference is free of charge and includes lunch).

CFP First Yearbook of Aging Studies in Europe 2011 / Erstes Jahrbuch für Aging Studies in Europa 2011

“The Ages of Life”: Living and Aging in Conflict?/ „Lebensalter“: Leben und Altern als Widerspruch?
bilingual edition en/dt
Abstract deadline: April,30 2011

6th Summer Project in Mexico 2011 - Options to learn Spanish

July 14- August 14, 2011

Spanish courses and workshops will be organized at our newly built campus in Oaxaca, located in the state of Oaxaca at a distance of 300 kilometres of our rectory in Orizaba. As a summer project student, you will take your Spanish classes here, in comfortable classrooms. If you want to check your e-mail, work on the Internet or do your homework on the computer, you can make use of our computer rooms. The cafeteria will offer you drinks and snacks at any time of the day. And at last, our garden will give you the possibility to play some sports or rest a little bit between classes and enjoy a nice chat with other students.
For more inoformation please visit the >>course website<<.

FIAR Call for Papers

The International Association of Inter-American Studies invites you to submit articles for a future edition of FIAR (Forum for inter-american research) in 2011. The thematic focus of this edition will be the following: Independence Movements / Emancipatory Processes in the Americas
For further information please click on the >>CFP<<.

Current Cooperation Projects of the Univeristy of Graz in South America (Argentina, Chile)

Please click >>here<<

18.05.2011 Lecture: “How to Eat Würstel: A Textlinguistic Account of Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Conflict Among Two Generations of Female Shoah Exiles in London”

Prof. Eva Eppler, Professor at the University of Roehampton (London)

Time: 6.00 pm
Place: Department of English, Heinrichstraße 36, Lecture Hall 11.01

07.06. 2011 Lecture: "Theories, Principles and Methods of Critical Discourse Studies".

Time: 6.00 pm
Place: Department of English, Heinrichstraße 36, Lecture Hall 11.01

Komm in den Hör-Saal - AIW Interview aired on Uni Graz Webradio and Radio Helsinki

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Uni Graz Webradio, in Cooperation with Radio Helsinki, will air an interview with Heidrun Moertl about the upcoming American Indian Workshop. LIsten in to 'Hör-Saal' on Radio Helsinki 96,2 MHZ between 9.30 and 10.00 am (and again on Sunday, April 3, 2011 between 2.00 and 2.30 pm).

CEEPUS Welcome Hour for Incoming Students

from left to right:. Vakrilen Kilyovski, Gergana Kusheva, Ulla Kriebernegg, Heidrun Mörtl, Roberta Maierhofer and Zuzana Laurencikova

On March 10, 2011 C.SAS invited the CEEPUS Incoming students of the network CII-AT-0503-01-1011 in Inter-American Studies to a Welcome Hour at C.SAS. Vakrilen Kilyovski, Gergana Kusheva (both from St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) and Zuzana Laurencikova (University of Olomouc, Czech Republic) followed the invitation.

Announcement of the workgroup HUASTEC

Prof. Bernhard Hurch from the University of Graz is inviting interested scholars to participate in the workgroup 'HUASTEC'. Further information can be found here (in German only).
First meeting - Mach 22nd, 2011.(Merangasse 70, WALL)

Announcement of the Lecture Series 'Nach Amerika nämlich!'

On Feburary 18, 2011 the University of Graz published a news item regarding the above mentioned lecture series. Please click here for the news item.

NWSA Conference 2011, Age and Ageism Caucus

Atlanta, November 10-13, 2011

Deadline to submit abstracts: February 11, 2011

3 CFPs:

• Live to Be a Hundred: Creative Interventions in Cultural Narratives of the Fourth Age
• Menopause: Transforming the Master's Narratives
• From Bella Swan to Betty Whote: Gendered Aging in Popular Culture

Advisory Board Members of the IAS 2011-2014

It is our pleasure to announce that Prof. Dr. Roberta Maierhofer was voted as Advisory Board member for the IAS.
The current board members are (in alphabetical order):Jonathan Hart (University of Alberta, Canada), Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld University, Germany), Luz Angélica Kirschner (Bielefeld University, Germany), José-Carlos Lozano (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico), Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz, Austria), Carmen Martinez Novo (Quito, Ecuador), Graciela Martínez-Zalce, Sánchez (UNAM, Mexico), Sophia A. McClennen (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Gonzalo Portocarrero (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Stefan Rinke (Free University Berlin, Germany), Sebastian Thies (Bielefeld University, Germany). The journal FIAR nominated Christina Seeliger as "ex oficio" member of the Advisory Board for 2011.

The AAEC (Fulbright) is seeking a Program Officer

The AAEC is seeking a program officer for full-time employment with a diverse set of administrative responsibilities: program administration, secretariat, logistics, public information, and the management of a program for U.S. teaching assistants at Austrian secondary schools.

All candidates are expected to have strong office, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

Formal qualifications for this position are: Completed college or university degree (from Austria or abroad, Uni or FH), fluency – both written and oral - in English and German, Computer literacy in the standard Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook), Content Management System user skills desirable, but not required, Relevant academic or professional experience abroad: preferably in but not limited to the English-speaking world. Familiarity with Austrian and American secondary and tertiary educational systems and institutional cultures and/or DAF/ESL is an advantage, but not a must.

The AAEC is seeking applicants who are reliable; proactively assume responsibility; have the ability to multi-task and work with a minimum of supervision; are team players; and can negotiate cross-cultural interfaces.

Starting date: The AAEC would like to fill this position as soon as possible.

Applications: Candidates interested in applying should submit the following materials in English as Word files or PDFs to staff@fulbright.at by February 4, 2011.

Call for Proposals - Research or Art Grant in Austrian/Central European Studies

The Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA invites applications for a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research or art project grant for up to $45,000. The grant is intended for scholarly or artistic projects that are broadly based in Austrian/Central European Studies. Proposals from all disciplines in the arts, social sciences, humanities and/or sciences are welcome.

Application deadline: Friday, March 11, 2011
Award period: The anticipated period of award ranges from 1 year to 18 months

Parameters and selection criteria: can be found on the website of the CAS.

Award period: The anticipated period of award ranges from (1 year to 18 months)

For more information about the program, please contact: Klaas van der Sanden, Interim director, Center for Austrian Studies

54 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS / 54 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas
"Building Dialogues in the Americas" / "Construyendo Diálogos en las Américas"

Americanist scholarship is marked by a vibrant diversity of ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions. Since its inception, Americanists have gathered at ICA meetings to discuss empirical and normative scholarship, liberal and conservative politics, positivist and post-positivist perspectives, as well as activists and theoretical approaches, among other things. While these specializations often have been artificially separated, we aim to facilitate sharing of insights, questions, methods and viewpoints that could foster dynamic dialogues.

Los estudios americanistas están caracterizados por una vibrante diversidad de cuestiones ontológicas, epistemológicas y metodológicas. Desde su comienzo, americanistas se han reunido en los congresos del ICA para discutir investigaciones empíricas y normativas, políticas liberales y conservadoras, perspectivas positivistas y post-positivistas, así como posiciones activistas y teóricas, entre muchos otros. Mientras que estas especializaciones han sido separadas artificialmente, nuestro propósito es facilitar compartir conocimientos, interrogantes, métodos y puntos de vista que fomenten fructíferos diálogos.

http://ica2012.univie.ac.at/

Grant for Doctoral Students offered by the School of Humanities.

Detailed information regarding conditions, grant length and amount as well as concerning the selection procedure can be found on the homepage of the School of Humanities.

Application deadline: 15.01.2011