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.

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.

AntropoWeb při Katedře antropologických a historických věd Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni pořádá 6. mezinárodní studentskou vědeckou konferenci, tentokrát zaměřenou mj. i na diskusi nad současnými podobami antropologie ve střední Evropě, a i proto nazvanou Antropologie? Ano, Antropologie! konference je určena předně pro studentky a studenty bakalářských, magisterských či doktorských oborů antropologie a příbuzných věd. Studenti/tky zde mají možnost prezentovat výsledky jejich aktuálního bádání na poli humanitních a sociálních věd.

Departments of Gender Studies and Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague is calling for papers for  conference Cripping Neoliberalism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Governing and Imagining Dis/Ability and Bodily Difference.
Main themes:
- Neoliberal governance of the ‘disabled subject
- Neoliberal invocations of ‘disability¨
- Historical perspectives on knowledge and representation of bodily difference and extraordinary bodies
- Alliances in cripping Neoliberalism

Fakulta humanitních studií Univerzity Karlovy vyzývá k posílání příspěvků na konferenci Reprezentace odlišného těla a monstrozity v interdisciplinární perspektivě, jež je součástí rozsáhlejšího projektu Reprezentace tělesné jinakosti v historické a interdisciplinární perspektivě. Konceptuálně a tematicky je propojena s interdisciplinární mezinárodní konferencí Cripping Neoliberalism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Governing and Imagining Dis/Ability and Bodily Difference pořádanou FHS UK ve dnech 8.–9. října 2010. Kromě prezentací případových studií se konference soustředí především na teorické přístupy a konceptualizace tělesné jinakosti diskutované v současném zahraničním bádání. Konference je koncipována primárně jako meziooborové studentské a doktorandské fórum.

Within the broader framework of the HiiL Law of the Future Conference 2011, the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law invites young scholars and graduate students to enter into the “HiiL Young Talent Essay Competition” by submitting original, scholarly written essays on how they think law will look like in 20-30 years. The conference will be loosely organised around three tracks: 1) Constitutional / institutional / administrative law; 2) Private law / private actors / horizontal relationships; 3) Criminal law / public power and punishment. The essay should attempt to answer the following: “What do you see as the most significant challenges for the development of the law (within one or more of the tracks mentioned above and/or in relation to other tracks)? What developments are we likely to see in the coming two to three decades? What do those developments mean for national legal systems as a whole?”

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European University invites young scholars from wide variety of disciplines to present in one of three panels: “Space for Time/Time for Space”; “The State, Citizenship, and Transnational Flows”; “Measure for Measure: Knowledge, Culture, and the Third Wave Marketization.” The organizers welcome both empirical and theoretical papers dealing with these topics. Given the theme of the conference, papers demonstrating epistemological awareness and transparency are especially encouraged.