24 Students dealing with Central Eastern Europe in the transition period have an opportunity to present, discuss and oppose their papers from different research areas in 8 panels under the supervision of 8 distinguished Senior-Academics. The main goals of the conference are: l promotion of cross disciplinary dialogue between young scientists in the regions of Central Eastern Europe; promoting a common language of public interest in different research areas at the level of EU and national policies; promoting mobility and productive confrontation of PhD students from countries of Central Eastern and Western Europe; establishing an effective knowledge based network; publishing the collection of all contributions in electronic form; publishing the best papers selected by Senior-Academics in print form. European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) a partner of our conference will publish the best conference contribution as an ETUI working paper and strongly encourages an application from the participants for a three month traineeship dealing with labour environment issues from European perspective.

Session proposals are invited in any area of survey methodology, or in
substantive areas of survey research. We particularly encourage submissions in  the following areas: 
Sampling and sample design, Web surveys, Unit Nonresponse and attrition, Item nonresponse, Weighting and imputation, Question testing and piloting, Survey mode, Data linkage, Election polling and public opinion, Survey analysis techniques, Methods for cross-national, Paradata and fieldwork, Substantive applications, Longitudinal surveys, Data archiving.

Site: Tallinn, Estonia
Organiser: Tallinn University, Institute of International and Social Studies, Centre for Gender Studies
Topics: The course seeks to provide an overview of the sub-field of the critical studies of men and masculinities, within the context of gender and feminist studies, focusing on the central defining debates and particular foci in the study of men and masculinities in various parts of the world. In addition, the course offers insights on specific ranges of issues in the sub-field within the local/global dynamics of power relations, language and discourses of masculinity, diversity and hegemonic masculinity, and whiteness and masculinity. The course will include a number of plenary lectures and research seminars where students will have the opportunity to present and receive feedback to their PhD work, in particular on theoretical and methodological issues.

Site: Exeter, UK
Organiser: Department of Politics, University of Exeter, UK
Topics: This workshop will explore what interpretive approaches can tell us, about the discourses, practices and politics of authoritarianism that, other approaches cannot. The workshop provides an opportunity for interpretive researchers on authoritarianism to engage explicitly with the conceptual issues, which inform their work. The workshop invites papers from across the social and human sciences (including political science, sociology, history, anthropology, geography, area studies, international relations, and related fields) which address theoretical, methodological, empirical or disciplinary issues related to the theme of 'interpreting authoritarianism'. Empirical studies of particular cases are welcome (whether from the developing, developed, or over-developed worlds) but should also engage with questions of broader conceptual relevance.

Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i., přijme mladého badatele/badatelku (postdoktorandku/postdoktoranda, příp. doktorandku/doktoranda před dokončením doktorské práce) v oboru klasická filologie, historie, dějiny vědy, pomocné vědy historické, příp. příbuzných humanitních disciplín na místo v Oddělení pro studium a edici díla J. A. Komenského s perspektivou dvouletého působení. Vybraný zájemce bude pracovat na konkrétním projektu soupisových prací spojených s vytvářením databáze Komenského korespondence. Projekt je realizován ve spolupráci s Oxfordskou univerzitou v rámci projektu Cultures of Knowledge (viz http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/cofk/).

In December 2010, the Kolleg-Forschergruppe, directed by Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, organizes an international conference on "The Diffusion of Regional Integration". The conference will have three major themes around which the panels will be organized:

1.     Comparing Regional Integration: Divergence or Convergence
2.     Exporting Regional Integration: The European Union as Promoter of Regional Integration
3.     Importing Regional Integration: Adoption, Translation, Resistance

For this academic conference, we invite papers from various disciplinary perspectives to each of these themes. Papers should explicitly address the diffusion of regional integration as outcome or process.

The 3-day international conference seeks to explore women-centered expressions of historical experience as fertile ground for cultural agency and social transformation in national and transnational socioeconomic and political arenas.

IBS Hyderabad University invites proposals for 4th International Doctoral Theses Conference which aims to identify the gap between theory and practice and to fill the gap with suitable suggestions. It will be the platform for intellectual interaction, and give feedback for the research scholars.

The Social Development Programme of ERSTE Foundation invites researchers, scientists and practitioners from Central Europe, South Eastern Europe and Austria studying or dealing with socio-demographic change in Central and South Eastern Europe to apply for fellowships. These fellowships will be awarded based on a proposal for a research paper or project dealing with the issue: Migration and its effects on demographic and economic development in CEE.

Mezinárodní program For Women in Science, na kterém spolupracují společnost L’Oréal a UNESCO, nabízí mladým vědkyním stipendium, které má za cíl podporovat mezikulturní spolupráci ve vědeckém výzkumu.
Kritéria kandidátek: vědecká pracovnice do 35 let (narozená po 1. lednu 1976), která se zabývá biologií, biochemií, biotechnologií, zemědělstvím, lékařstvím, farmacií nebo fyziologií.

Přihlášku o stipendium lze podávat pouze prostřednictvím České komise pro UNESCO (Rytířská 31, 110 00 Praha 1, tel: 221 610 126, fax: 221 610 122, email: unesco@mzv.cz).