University of Konstanz in cooperation with the University of Tilburg and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) announce the 10th POLNET International Summer School on the Analysis of Political and Managerial Networks. It will take place at the New Castle of Meersburg at the Lake Constance, Germany.This seminar is a basic introduction to social network analysis. It is intended for MA/PhD students, as well as researchers and practitioners, interested in theoretically driven empirical research on networks in the social sciences. The aim is to introduce to the analysis of networks who are conducting or planning to conduct quantitative studies of networks in the fields of public policy, management and organisational science.

The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of The New School for Social Research is announcing the 19th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute and welcomes a diverse cohort of forty junior scholars from The New School, Europe, and other parts of the world for an intensive program of study in society, culture and politics, this year centered around the theme “Citizens without Borders” (de-territorialization, and new practices that reshape identities and traditional notions of citizenship). A full description of courses and Institute faculty, as well as information on how to apply, will be available in early February 2010.

The 5th edition of the Barcelona Summer School in International Politics will take place at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The objective is to offer different short courses on significant topics in international relations and international political economy, taught by experts of international prestige. The school is aimed at graduate students, professors and researchers in the areas of political science, economics, and international relations and international studies who are interested in learning first-hand about the latest advances in research.

COURSES:

* Development and Democracy in Today's World
* The World Economy and International Politics
* Globalization and Society
* The Political Economy of Development
* Explaining Ethno-Nationalist Civil Wars

Doctoral School in Sociology and Political Science – Sociology Programme (University of Turin), Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences (University of Milan) and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Turin) invites abstracts for the International Summer School “Global Crisis, Welfare Responses and Social Inequalities”. The summer school is devoted to PhD students and young researchers.

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) organizes summer school with the aim to give 20 PhD students working in the field of environmental politics the opportunity to exchange teaching and research ideas with colleagues from other universities and research institutes. Teaching is organised across five themes: Green political theory; International relations of the environment; Environment and global political economy; Green movements and parties; Public policy and the environment. The school will be held at the Keele University.

University of Edinburgh invites announces extended deadline for The ECPR Summer School: Federalism, Regionalism and Public Policy. The Summer School is open to all postgraduate students (especially
PhDs) wishing to deepen their knowledge of territorial politics and to
network with both senior and early-career researchers. This year's Summer   School will showcase the work of some of this field's leading experts of federalism and regionalism.

The Aleksanteri Institute in cooperation with the Södertörn University/BEEGS, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)/ Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies announces the summer school aimed at doctoral students researching topics related to civil society, with a focus on post-socialist states and/or the Baltic Sea area. Twenty-five students will be selected to participate. The course focuses on the civil societies around the Baltic Sea, paying particular attention to the post-socialist states, especially Russia. The constitution of the course is multidisciplinary, incorporating political science, sociology, history and gender studies to illuminate the complexities of the subject.

Pravnik”/ “Lawyer” NGO that gathers law students and young lawyers invites graduate and postgraduate students of law related disciplines for summer school with a clear focus on law or political science, under the age of 35 from Europe and the US to participate at summer school in Sarajevo.

The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute’s research focus on “Religion & Secularism”. It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic.

The programme consists of 4 seminars:

• Religion and Multiple Modernities
• Religion and Democracy
• The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
• God in Contemporary Debates

The SoDoc meeting at the Jacobs University of Bremen is an annual consultation possibility for PhD students in Social Psychology. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to present your ongoing PhD project and preliminary data, and to receive feedback from fellow graduate students as well as from experienced teachers. Participants will work in small groups (up to 15 students) with one of the teachers. Each group will have a certain main theme, based on the teachers’ field of expertise. You can choose which group you would like to participate in. The groups: 1. Social cognitive / Cultural Psychology (Teacher: Ulrich Kühnen), 2. Organizational Social Psychology (Steffen Giessner), 3. Acculturation, Prejudice & Intergroup Attitudes (Andreas Zick), 4. Aggression / Applied Social Psychology (Barbara Krahé).