Summer School of Advanced Economic Geography, Italy

Deadline:  27 March 2017
Open to: students
Venue: 2-8 July 2017, L’Aquila (Italy)

Description

Next July 2-8 2017, the Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Social Sciences Unit, in cooperation with the Regional Science Association International (RSAI), will organize the RSAI-GSSI Summer School of Advanced Economic Geography in L’Aquila.

The event is intended to provide a unique opportunity to investigate leading-edge theoretical and methodological issues and to discuss ongoing research by young promising scholars in the field. Besides a substantive training through advanced classes, the school will also provide the students with the opportunity to present their work to the other participants and instructors to receive feedback to further advance their research. The residential school will offer 10 scholarships to 2nd or 3rd year doctoral students for an intensive, one-week program with in-depth classes in spatial analysis and economic geography complemented by more formal sessions on leading-edge theoretical and methodological issues and research-practice, skills-based sessions on journal publishing and successful grant applications.

The Residential School format is a 6-day meeting. It includes time for research and discussion – combining conventional classes, “practicals” and seminars where the participants can present their current research projects.

Eligibility

Students are eligible to apply.

Benefits

Participants will be offered:

1. free participation (no fees);
2. shared accommodation and meals;
3. travel reimbursement up to: EUR 200 for Italian students; EUR 300 for European students; EUR 500 for students coming from the rest of the world

How to apply?

Complete application should include:

1. CV;
2. Title of the research project and an extended abstract (1500 words including contribution, theoretical framework, empirical approach and/or first results);
3. One reference letter from Ph.D. thesis advisors/supervisors.

Applications must be sent to:  socialsciencesgssi@gmail.com with the following email subject: “Application RSAI-GSSI Summer School”.

For more information please visit the official web page.

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JASSO Student Exchange Support Program in Japan

Deadline: 31 March 2017
Open to: qualified international students
Scholarship: monthly stipend for the scholarship 700 USD

Description

Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) offers scholarship for qualified international students who are accepted by a Japanese university, graduate school, junior college, college of technology (3rd grade or upper) or professional training college (hereinafter referred to as “Japanese school”) under a student exchange agreement or other student exchange arrangement on a short-term basis from 8 days to one year between Japanese school and their home higher educational institution outside Japan (hereinafter referred to as “home school”).

Eligibility

• Students enrolled in a regular course of study in a higher educational institution outside Japan (home school);
• Be accepted by Japanese school under a student exchange agreement or other student exchange arrangement with their home school;
• Demonstrating excellent academic and personal records at their home school;
• Students not having the financial means to study in Japan;
• Students, upon termination of the period of study in Japan, will complete their studies at their home school;
• Students eligible for ‘Student Visa’. For study in Japan for 90 days or less, Japanese school will arrange the status of residence.

Scholarship

The total monthly stipend for the scholarship (JPY 80,000 approximately 700 USD per month). Students cannot receive any other scholarship from the Japanese government together with this scholarship.

How to Apply?

• Applications for the scholarship will be accepted through Japanese school. Direct applications from home higher educational institutions outside Japan or students will not be accepted;
• Upon screening the application documents submitted by Japanese school, JASSO will decide the programs and the number of students and notice the results to Japanese school;
• The recruiting period and the selection method of exchange students are different from each school and each program. For further information and inquiry, applicants are advised to ask each Japanese school or home school.

For more information please visit the official web page

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Summer School “Kinship and Politics Undoing the Boundaries” 2017 in Germany

Deadline: 1 April 2017
Open to: postgraduates and advanced doctoral students from Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Sciences and neighbouring disciplines
Venue: 2 – 7 July 2017, Bielefeld University, Germany

Description

The summer school’s goal is to re-examine the relationship between politics and kinship. Organised by the ZiF 2016/17 research group on Kinship and Politics, the summer school intends to intervene in these debates by getting doctoral students and early career scholars to focus on this major conceptual problem. The summer school will revolve around two core theoretical perspectives: (a) “kinship” and “family” as analytical categories and (b) uses of kinship in political practice. The panels aim at bridging critical historical epistemology and empirical case studies. They are organised around four problem areas that should be examined from perspectives beyond a single discipline, region, or historical period:

1. Property and kin relations;
2. Conceptualising, implementing and negotiating the nuclear family;
3. Boundary work: kinning the state – state kinning;
4. The (re)making of political order, in particular through children.

Eligibility

Postgraduates and advanced doctoral students from Anthropology, History, Sociology, Political Sciences and neighboring disciplines.

Costs

Accommodation and travel costs (basic economy flights and second-class train tickets) of the participants will be covered. There are no fees for the summer school. 

How to apply?

• Applications should include a letter stating the reasons for applying, a short CV, an abstract (250 words maximum) and an outline of research results (up to 5 pages) to be presented at the summer school;
• Full papers (up to 8000 words excluding the bibliography) should be handed in by 11th June 2017 and will be distributed to all participants. It is expected that participants read all papers in advance.

Please send your application to the ZiF Kinship and Politics research group coordinator Miss Jennifer Rasell: kinshipandpolitcs@uni-bielefeld.de.

For more information please visit the official web page.

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