International Sociological Association invites applications from PhD students in sociology or interdisciplinary programs to attend the eight edition of the ISA International Laboratory for PhD Students in Sociology to be organised jointly with the XI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities at the Moscow University, Russia, June 5-11, 2008. The Laboratory will be hosted by the XI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities at the Moscow University.

The 7th European Feminist Research Conference is an international event based on cutting-edge scholarship. The conference will reflect a diversity of feminist and gender studies research incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. The focus is on the way in which knowledge, politics, and the imagination inform gendered cultures in contemporary Europe.

The Vienna Forum brought together more than 1000 delegates from governments, international organisations, private sector (business & corporations) and few NGOs to strategize on ways to end human trafficking and facilitate a global exchange of strategies and best practices.

26. - 27. září 2008 Brno, FSS.
Konferenci organizuje Institut pro výzkum reprodukce a integrace společnosti a Masarykova česká sociologická společnost. Na konferenci bude prostor pro diskusi na téma(znovu)vymezení předmětu české sociologie rodiny, setkání výzkumníků a výzkumnic bádajících v tomto oboru, představení pracovišť, které se zaměřují na sociologii rodiny a seznámení se s aktuálními výzkumy na tomto poli.

Konference se zaměřuje na vztah mezi filmem, architekturou a krajinou města a je určena především vědcům a vědkyním nebo pracovníkům a pracovnicím ve filmu, architektuře, geografii, historii a studiích města a kulturních studiích.

The Conference is organized by the Institute for Educational Research Belgrade as XI international scientific conference in series "Educational Research and School Practice".
Topics: The Conference goal is to highlight current practices and innovations in qualitative research and point to its potential for school improvement. Distinguished experts and scholars will take part in dialogue and debate around the following themes: Meta-theoretical assumptions of qualitative educational research; Methods and techniques in qualitative educational research; Qualitative research projects in educational research.

Stanford, California, August 6 - 9, 2008. The Stanford organizing team invites paper submissions for the 2008 Summer Meeting on topics relevant to social stratification and mobility (e.g.,education, family, gender, labor market, income, social exclusion, elites, migration, race & ethnicity). In addition to regular paper sessions, we plan to develop poster sessions of extraordinary quality and interest, sessions that we hope will generate more interest than some of the regular sessions. We encourage registrants to express an interest in participating in these poster sessions.

September 25−26, 2008. Šiauliai, Lithuania
Proposed topics for discussion:
- Democracy, totalitarianism and authoritarianism as state management forms in different historical epochs.
- Democracy and authoritarianism in Europe between the two World Wars.
- Creation and development of the totalitarian communist bloc in Europe.
- Guerrilla warfare, resistance and dissident movements in Europe after World War II.
- Movement of democratic forces in the European communist bloc.
- Culture and art under democratic, dictatorial and authoritarian conditions.

The Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in collaboration with the University of Nicosia invites you to attend an International Conference organized within the framework of the transnational project entitled "Integration of Female Migrant Domestic Workers: Strategies for Employment and Civic Participation"

Central Asian states faced a new world order alongside independence after the Soviet Union’s collapse. A vital characteristic of the new order was the transition from planned to a market economy. Undoubtedly this process affected society to a great extent. Equally, this process is getting faster and more penetrative due to the advanced technological age that we find ourselves in. How does this process and transition affect Central Asian youth and how do young people perceive this, how is this process seen through their eyes?