“Nicolae Titulescu” University and the Business and Administration Faculty, University of Bucharest
Topics: The main purpose of this International Scientific Session organized by “Nicolae Titulescu” University and the Business and Administration Faculty, University of Bucharest is to provide an opportunity for academicians and specialists in various social sciences and their related fields, all over the world, to meet and change their opinions. In addition, the Scientific Session will also provide a place for academicians and specialists with cross-disciplinary interests related to social sciences to change their views and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines. Topic Areas are: Law; International Studies and Relations; Economics; Management and Marketing; Finance and Accounting; Education; Political Science; Public Administration; Sociology; IT and Public Services; Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related topics.

Date: April 18-19, 2008
Site: Cracow, Poland
Organiser: The Conference "European Union Policies in the Making" is an element of a larger project under the same title, funded by the Jean Monnet program, within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program of the European Union.
Topics: The conference "European Union Policies in Making" aims at summarising recent and current efforts of the EU to build up or strengthen up its policies in five important fields (Common Foreign and Security Policy, European Security and Defence Policy, Energy and climate protection, Transport, Lisbon strategy). The objective of our conference is to provide an opportunity to have a closer look at internal developments in all five policies. With this in mind, the Tischner European University invites scholars, practitioners and PhD students to submit paper abstracts within one or more of the five areas mentioned above.

Date: April 17-19, 2008
Site: Kharkiv, Ukraine
Organiser: The School of Sociology of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Topics: Theoretical and methodological problems of the development of sociology. Sociological imagination: myth or reality? Dilemmas of the sociology of culture; Communications and social space; Problems of risk, security, and social order in a changing world; Sociological reflection of the economic phenomena; Political space: a game without rules?; Personality in the system of the groups and institutions of society; Transformational processes on the post-Soviet space; Spiritual spheres of society: socio-humanitarian approach; "Ethnic" and "national" in society of the 21st century; Gender problems in Sociology.
Problems of education and youth; Modern conflicts: evolutionary tendencies.

Date: April 24-27, 2008
Site: California, Berkeley
Organiser: Soyuz: The Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies
Topics: The organizers are now inviting submissions for the conference. The selected papers will interrogate the relevance of the theoretical insights gained in engagements with postsocialism for other contexts, areas and problems of contemporary world. They will consider the implications of postsocialism, both as a historical formation and as a problem-space, for the problems interrogated in contemporary anthropology and social inquiry.

The aim of the conference on e-Social Science is to bring together leading international representatives of the social science, e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities in order to improve mutual awareness, harmonize understanding and instigate coordinated activities to accelerate research, development and deployment of powerful, new research methods and tools for the social sciences and beyond. Invited are contributions from members of the social science, e-Infrastructure/ cyberinfrastructure and e-Research communities with experience of, or interests in: 1) exploring, developing, and applying new methods, practices, and tools afforded by new infrastructure technologies - such as the Grid and Web 2.0 - in order to further social science research; and 2) studying issues impacting on the wider take-up of e-Research.

The purpose of this course is to understand why the current impasse in the negotiations and implementation of climate change measures has occurred and explore the various options proposed to escape from this situation. In so doing, the course will examine carefully the detailed, transparent records compiled in recent years in this field to explore the developing roles of non-state organizations (non-profits, industry groups, the scientific community); the comparative strengths and weaknesses of national, regional and multilateral institutions in the design and implementation of environmental regimes; and the character of international negotiation processes and analytical methods used therein. In addition, the meanings of emerging legal doctrines of international public environmental law will be explored in this context. That includes the right to sustainable development, the polluter pays and precautionary principles, the common heritage of mankind, and the common but differentiated responsibilities of nations.

Topisc of the conference: Social change and restructuring in rural societies - opportunities and vulnerabilities; Knowledge potential of the countryside; Agri-food systems - position and future role in rural development; Everyday life in rural Europe.

The implications of 1989 have not frequently been taken as an explicit point of departure for the rethinking of social theory. General notions of social thinking, such as ‘globalization’, ‘late modernity’, ‘identity’, or ‘diversity’, have remained rather untouched by the event. In this, social change in post-1989 Europe has mostly been understood as a moment of accelerated convergence towards a (post-) modern form of society, rather than implying diversification. There has also been an over-emphasis on Europeanization. This lack of attention for the deeper implications of 1989 seems unfortunate, as 1989 in its various significations has had a decisive impact not only on the possibility of any critical kind of social theory, and on imaginations of the social as such, but also on the shape of the future of Europe as well as on how we interpret the European historical legacy. The conference will address these considerations around four themes: critical theory, post-western and multi-ethnic Europe, the idea of the social, interpreting the European political heritage.

Časopis se věnuje antropologickým vědám s důrazem na problematiku města a příbuzným společenskovědním a humanitním disciplínám. Přijímá vědecké stati, eseje, materiály, recenze a zprávy. Stati a eseje procházejí oboustranně anonymním recenzním řízením. Časopis vychází třikrát ročně, z toho dvakrát v českém jazyce (v květnu a v prosinci) a jednou v anglickém jazyce (v září).

Recenzovaný česko-slovenský čtvrtletník pro kritickou reflexi médií MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA uvítá nabídky odborných příspěvků z oblastí mediálních
studií a teorie žurnalistiky, a to do následujících čísel:

Mediální studia - červen 2008: uzávěrka příspěvků 20. 3. 2008


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