Faculty Position in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Sabanci University, Istanbul‏

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

FACULTY POSITION IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, invites applications and/or nominations for a faculty position in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. The position is open as of September 2012, to mid-career candidates as well as candidates who have recently completed their PhD or are near completion (Professor, Associate Professor and/or Assistant Professor).



Further specialization in one or more of the following areas is desirable: peace psychology; scientific study of peace and conflict; dynamics of cooperation; theories of applied conflict resolution; social psychology; political psychology; self and identity; social cognition; decision making.The successful candidate must have a strong record and potential for top quality scholarly publication, as well as promise of outstanding teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.



Sabanci University is a private, department-free, innovative academic institution located in one of Europe’s largest and oldest cities, Istanbul. The university is strongly committed to interdisciplinary research and teaching both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To meet this challenge, the faculty is organized around multi-disciplinary degree programs including Conflict Analysis and Resolution (MA), Cultural Studies (BA, MA), Economics (BA, MA, PhD), European Studies (MA), History (MA, PhD), International Studies (BA), Political Science (MA, PhD), Public Policy (MA), Social and Political Sciences (BA), Turkish Studies (MA), Visual Arts & Communication Design (BA, MA). The medium of instruction is English. Faculty members are provided with excellent support, including housing facilities on its modern campus if available or a housing stipend.



Applicants are asked to complete an online application form through the university website:



http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/eng/?aday_calisanlar/akademik_is_basvurulari.html



Additionally, a curriculum vitae, a clear statement of current and planned research and teaching activities, and at least three letters of reference should be sent via email to:



Mehmet Bac, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, bac@sabanciuniv.edu

cc: Inci Ceydeli, Faculty Administrative Manager, inci@sabanciuniv.edu.

Orient-Institut Istanbul, PhD Research Grant 2012‏

Research Grant Announcement 2012

The Orient-Institut Istanbul offers a research grant for PhD students.
Grants are available to support research in the Humanities and Social
Sciences on the region, its history, culture, languages and contemporar
affairs. The award consists of a monthly stipend of € 1000 for the duration
of up to a maximum of one year.

Prospective applicants are expected to hold an M.A. degree in a Middle
East-related discipline. The proposed research project should have a
regional focus on, either, Turkey, the Balkans, the Volga or Caucasus
region as well as Central Asia. The complete application should specify
the necessity of conducting research in Istanbul, or Turkey, respectively,
and include a detailed time frame for the envisioned research.

A basic command of German and Turkish is expected of all applicants.
Participation in colloquiums at the institute is expected. Research
stays outside of Istanbul have to be coordinated with the director.

Applications must be submitted by January 15, 2012, to the:

Director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul
Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika
Susam Sokak 16-18, D. 8
34433 Cihangir – Istanbul
Turkey

We also request that applications likewise be submitted by e-mail,
please, to:
<oiist@oidmg.org>

Applications must include the following documents:

(1) Cover letter
(2) CV
(3) Outline of the proposed research
(4) Letter of recommendation written by an academic supervisor
(5) Copy of the M.A. diploma
(6) Documentation of Turkish language skills


--
Dr. Sara Nur Yıldız
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Orient-Institut Istanbul
Susam Sokak 16-18 D.8
Cihangir 34433 Beyoglu
Istanbul, Turkey
office: +90 (212) 293 6067/120
saranuryildiz@gmail.com

Conference: Alevi-Bektashi Communities in the Ottoman Realm, Bogazici University, 13-15 Dec 2011‏

ALEVI-BEKTASHI COMMUNITIES IN THE OTTOMAN REALM: SOURCES, PARADIGMS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY

Program:

13.12.2011 (Tuesday)

Opening: 10:30-11.00

SESSIONS

1) The Medieval/Pre-Ottoman Background

Discussant: Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University

Panelists:

11.00-11.30 Ahmet Karamustafa, Washington University in St. Louis, "Sofu, Abdal, Dede: Kaygusuz Abdal and Vernacular Islam in Medieval Anatolia"

11.30-12.00 Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary, "The Vefa'iyye, the Bektashiyye, and Genealogies of ‘Heterodox Islam' in
Anatolia: Rethinking the Köprülü Paradigm"

12.00-12.30 Coffee Break

12.30-13.00 Sara Nur Yıldız, Orient-Institut Istanbul, "Historicizing Sufi Communities in Medieval Anatolia: Reconsidering the Dominant Paradigms of Syncretism,Heterodoxy and High/Low Islam"

13.00-13.30 Mark Soileau, Mardin Artuklu Üniversitesi, "The Folk Among the Wonders: Finding Alevis in Bektashi Hagiographies"

13.30-15.00 Lunch

2) The Safavids and the Early Modern Context of the Kizilbash/Alevi Movement

Discussant: Derin Terzioğlu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi.

Panelists:

15.00-15.30 Cornell Fleischer, University of Chicago, "The Common Parlance of Messianism and Millenarianism in Islamdom in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries"

15.30-16.00 Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, "Seeing Red: The Kizilbash as Image and Rhetoric in Persianate Literature"

16.00-16.30 Vural Genç, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "The Battle of Chaldiran in Iranian Sources"

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break

17.00-17.30 Fariba Zarinebaf, University of California Riverside, "Shah Isma‘il Safavi in Persian, European and Ottoman Myths"

17.30-18.00 Ferenc Csirkés, University of Chicago, "The Safavid and Ottoman Reception of the Poetry of Shah Isma‘il Hatayi"

14.12.2011 (Wednesday)

3) Tekkes and Dergâhs

Discussant: Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University

Panelists:

10.00-10.30 Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University, "Dutlug Bolsun: Amidst Stone and Soil at the Convent of Seyyid Ali Sultan (a.k.a. Kızıl Deli)"

10.30-11.00 Zeynep Yürekli-Görkay, University of Oxford, "Haji Bektash, His Shrine and the Ottomans"

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-12.00 Mahir Polat, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "Lost or Imaginary? Looking for the Cemevi in Ottoman Architectural History"

12.00-12.30 Frances Trix, Indiana University,"Survival Strategies for Bektashi Tekkes in the Western Balkans: Ergeri (Albania), Kalkandelen (Macedonia), Gjakova (Kosova)"

12.30-14 :00 Lunch

4) Under the Shadow of Empire: Kizilbash/Alevi and Bektashi Communities' Relations with the Ottoman and Safavid States

Discussant: Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, College of William and Mary

Panelists:

14.00-14.30 Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan, "The Waning of the Kizilbash in Iran Revisited"

14.30-15.00 İbrahim Kaya Şahin, Tulane University "Towards an Ottoman Sunnism: Perceptions of Bektashis/Alevis/Shi‘is/Safevis in Chronicles from Aşıkpaşazade to Celalzade"

15.00-15.30 Derin Terzioğlu, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, "How to Conceptualize Ottoman Sunnitization: A Historiographical Discussion"

15.30-16.00 Coffee Break

16.00-16.30 Erdal Küçükyalçın, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi, "Janissary-Bektashi Relations Revisited: Religious Symbolism in Janissary Banner-signs"

16.30-17.00 Alişan Akpınar, İstanbul Üniversitesi, "The Ottoman State's Perception of the Alevis during the Hamidian Era"

17.00-18.00 Buffet

18.30-20.00 Social Program

Dertli Divani Baba (Veli Aykut), Keynote Speaker/Performer Narrative Performance: "The Language of Alevi Hymns"


15.12.2011
(Thursday)

5) Memory, History and Construction of Identity

Discussant Arzu Öztürkmen, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi

Panelists:

10.00-10.30 Markus Dressler, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, "Rewriting Kızılbaş Alevism and Bektashism: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges"

10.30-11.00 Ulaş Özdemir, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, "History Through Sacred Words: The Presence of Haji Bektash Veli in Ahl-i Haqq Lore"

11.00-11.30 Erdal Gezik, Independent Researcher, Holland, "Beyond the Limits of Writing: Construction of the Religio-Cultural Memory of Dersim Alevis"


11:30-12:00 Coffee Break


12.00-13.00 Roundtable

13.00 Closing Remarks & Visit to the Tekke of Nafi Baba (optional)

EASA 2012 - (W029) Violence and Resilience in South-Eastern Europe, Paris, 10-13 July 2012‏

Violence and Resilience in South-Eastern Europe. We invite all interested scholars in the topic to submit their paper proposal via online form on the EASA website by November 28, 2011.

With best wishes,

Hanna Kienzler (McGill University) hanna.kienzler@mail.mcgill.ca<mailto:hanna.kienzler@mail.mcgill.ca>
Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi (University of Montréal) enkelejda.sula@umontreal.ca<mailto:enkelejda.sula@umontreal.ca>


Workshop abstract
In South-Eastern Europe, political and structural violence go beyond death, disease, trauma and anxiety, to include the pervasive effects of the destruction of the economic, political and social fabric of society. This workshop invites papers that explore the consequences of such violence by tracing them in individual biographies, life trajectories, collective memory and communal strategies for coping with and being resilient to violence, adversity and uncertainty. In particular, the papers should describe and analyse the situated, manifold and complex interconnections between violence, larger social forces and individual suffering and ways in which they affect individual and collective perceptions of reality, identity and expectations for the future.
Expanding on the work of other anthropologists who have tried to make sense of different forms of violence, we argue that violence is pervasive, ancient, infinitely various and a central fact of human life, but also poorly understood in general. At the same time and despite these "conceptual uncertainties", it is, among other things, "a cultural problem" which requires attention to the details of its meanings and enactments by social actors in particular contexts. Adopting Sherry Ortner's notion of "serious games", the workshop emphasizes the social aspects of violence through different case studies by arguing that it is shaped, maintained and appeased through the expression of personal and subjective experiences in connection with larger social actors such as the state, international organizations, transnational flows of finances, and the global media.

Proposal submission: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1285
Call for papers: http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2012/callforpapers.htm

OSI/University of Oxford is inviting applications for the scholarship program 2012-13‏

Open Society Foundations/University of Oxford Seek Applications from Students of Select Countries for the Scholarship Program 2012-13

Open Society Foundations in association with the University of Oxford is inviting applications for the scholarship program 2012-13 to provide outstanding students an opportunity to pursue one-year taught postgraduate courses of study at the University of Oxford in subjects relevant to the needs of their countries.

Funded by the OSF and the University of Oxford, these scholarships are a great opportunity to students who have potential to become leaders, decision makers and opinion formers in their home countries.

Scholarship Provision

Each award will provide for payment of academic tuition fees, college fees, a monthly stipend for living expenses sufficient for a single student, and other agreed allowances including one return economy airfare. No financial support or special provisions are provided for dependants or family members.

Eligibility Criteria

• Selected one year taught master’s courses within the University of Oxford’s Social Sciences and Humanities Divisions.
• Any scholarship awards are conditional upon you being offered a place to study at Oxford, and meeting all the conditions of that offer (e.g. obtaining the required score in English language proficiency).
• Applicants will be required to have passed an English proficiency test before being offered a scholarship. The minimum requirement for study on the eligible courses at Oxford is IELTS 7.5 (with minimum 7.0 in each component) or TOEFL – 630 (minimum Test of Written English score – 5) or Computer based TOEFL – 267 (minimum essay writing score – 5) or Internet based TOEFL – 109 or Cambridge Certificate of proficiency in English – B. Local representatives of Open Society Foundations will arrange tests for short-listed candidates after the interviews, if applicants have not already successfully taken a test in the 2 years prior to the interview.
• All applicants must have completed at least three years of BA course (in the Bologna system) or four years of university study and have obtained, or expect to obtain, the appropriate degree(s) not later than September 2012.
• Applicants must be citizens of and resident in one of the following countries during the academic year in which they apply for the award: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Georgia, and Montenegro. Applicants who are temporarily out of the country (for a total period of less than three consecutive months) may be treated as being resident.
• Applicants should be planning to return to their home country at the end of the period of study.
• Applicants should have a proven track record of success or excellence in their professional life distinguishing them from their peers and contemporaries and clear commitment to open society goals.

Preference will be given to applicants who have not previously studied in Western universities.

Please note that if you have applied, or are applying, for other grants, fellowships or scholarships with the Open Society Foundations you should alert to this in your application.  While you may apply under more than one scheme simultaneously, you can be awarded only one Open Society Foundations scholarship or grant for a given period.

Selection Process

Short-listed applicants will be invited for an interview and an English language test in their home country in April 2012. Interviews will be carried out by representatives of OSF–London—in certain cases, there may also be a panel member representing the interests of the University. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of the scholarship competition in May/June 2012.

Please note that successful applicants will be invited to attend a one-month Academic Writing School organized by Open Society Scholarship Programs in Istanbul in August 2012.

Last date for submitting the applications is January 20, 2012.

For more information, visit this link.

Conference: Reducing complexity: transformation of capital cities (W129) EASA Nanterre, 2012‏

Just twenty years ago half of Europe hastily jumped from socialism towards capitalism. Reinforcing nationalism was one of the ways to overcome the transitional anxiety. The European version of cosmopolitan supra-national identity had and still has to compete with particular nationalist representations in the 'new' countries of a united Europe.
As most revolutions happen in capital cities, we seek for ethnographic accounts, that reveal the discrepancy between the imposition of the governmental symbolic order in the public space of capital cities, and creation of everyday lived spaces. Considering the symbolic power that capitals pose, the transformations of the public space in these cities can reveal the aspirations of the political elites in these countries. This panel will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation of European capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis, and constant threat of recession and economic downfall. We are interested both in the nation-state abuse of the idea of capital cities, and the production of appropriate political subjects. Following this, we will look at the resistance produced by ordinary citizens, artists, and other actors who exercise their right to create a public space that is an inclusive open democratic space.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1360

Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012‏

Call for Papers for the Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS)

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012

The SRS is an international inter-disciplinary academic organization based in North America

For information about SRS visit www.society4romanianstudies.org

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is a sponsoring partner

Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World

More than two decades after the fall of communism and several years after Romania’s accession

to the European Union, Romanians, whether at home, in a growing diaspora around the world, or

by virtue of international economic and cultural networks, are continuing to find themselves

integrated into increasingly interconnected European and global institutions and practices. This

gradual process of integration into international networks and interaction with foreign powers

has been underway for centuries. States that occupied the territory of contemporary Romania and

Moldova came under the influence of more powerful neighbors, and stood at the crossroads of

both warlike and peaceful migrations. At one point most Romanian boyars spoke Greek, and in

the 19th century Romanian students often studied abroad as they are again doing today. In the

1920s and 30s, ethnic and religious diversity contributed both to Europeanization and to

domestic and international tensions. Then, the Soviet model played a major role in the imposition

of communism. The proposed focus of the 2012 SRS conference encourages historical, cultural

and contemporary inquiries into the place of Romanians and Moldovans in European and global

structures, while pondering the implications of these trends for the future.

Keynote Speakers:

· Dr. Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the

Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

· Dr. Bogdan Murgescu, Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest,

Romania

We welcome proposals for papers, panels and round-tables coming from young and established

scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, philosophy, law,

linguistics, economics, business, religious studies, theater, literature, cinema studies, music, and

education.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

· Romania and the European Union

· “Europe’s,” Russia’s, and Romania’s roles in the Republic of Moldova

· The social, political, and ideological implications of globalization in Romania and

Moldova

· Migration and diaspora within Europe, North America, etc.

· Consequences of EU accession

· Challenges to European and global integration

· Romanian writers abroad

· Romanian literature in translation

· The global reception of Romanian cinema, literature and art

· The Romanian/Jewish avant-garde in Zurich, Paris, Berlin

· Multinational enterprises in modern Romania and Moldova

· Minority cultures in Romania and Moldova (Roma, German, Hungarian, Jewish, Russian,

Ukrainian, Gagauz et al.)

· The construction of a European memory

· Romanian and Moldovan culture in the digital age

· The Romanian language mass media system in the panoply of world media models

· Journalism and political parallelism

· New and old forms of censorship and self-censorship

· Romanians’ and Moldovans’ historical encounters with “others”

· The image of the Roma/Jew/Hungarian/German among Romanians

Paper proposals should include the title of the presentation, a brief abstract of up to 500 words, a

short c.v., and the contact information of the presenter. They should be sent in a single attached

Word or PDF document by December 1, 2011, to Matthew Ciscel at CiscelM@ccsu.edu

Proposals for 2-hour panels including 3-4 papers, one chair, and 1-2 discussants should provide a

description of the panel topic, abstracts of papers, short c.v.’s and contact information for all

participants. Panel participants should be drawn from at least two different universities. 2-hour

round-tables of 3-5 participants will also be considered. The conference languages are English

and Romanian. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by January 30,

2012.

In order to assure that the conference is accessible to scholars from across the Atlantic region and

to those from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the conference fees will be quite modest.

For scholars from North America, the fee will be 40 USD; for those from the Eurozone and other

world regions, 40 Euros, and from Romania, Moldova, and post-Communist realms, 40

Romanian Lei. Graduate students will be exempt from this fee. SRS membership will also be

required and additional for those paying in USD and Euros, but included for those paying in Lei.