Call for Papers-Call for Applications - Part 65
[ Call for Papers-Call for Applications ]
The HCA Heidelberg, the German Dept. of the University of Halle, and the University of Zurich are calling for papers for the conference European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a (Trans-)national Civil Society on November 22-25, 2006.The Research Group European Protest Movements invites applications from postgraduate students, early stage researchers (PhD-students) and postdocs who are working in the field of European protest movements since 1945 for the participation of two training workshops within a series of Marie
Curie Conferences and Training Courses.
Participants will present their research during the workshops in a 20 min paper. Although the conference language will mainly be English, we also invite proposals in French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Polish, if a short summary in English is provided.
Extended deadline for applications: June 30, 2006;
selections will be made by: July 15, 2006.
Workshop I: Tracing Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology, Political Sciences, and Media Studies
Date: November 22-25, 2006
Location: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany,
Workshop II: Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest
Date: March 7-10, 2007
Location: German Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
The aim of the workshops is to offer a platform to discuss innovative research in this area and to provide the trainees with an overall view of the scientific approaches to protest movements, enabling them to apply proper conceptual, theoretical and methodological frameworks to their own research (see project website). All travel costs within reasonable boundaries will be covered by the European Union. The teaching for Workshop I will be performed by leading scholars from the fields of Sociology, Media Studies and Political Science, who will offer the following workshops:
- Social Movements: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Evidence
Dieter Rucht, Social Science Research Center, WZB Berlin - Social Movements and the Democratic Process
Donatella Della Porta, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence - Mass Movements and the Public Sphere
Jostein Gripsrud, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway - Mediapolitical and Institutional Constraints of a European Public Sphere
Hans Kleinsteuber, Institute for Political Science, University of Hamburg - Transnational Movements, Global Civil Society and Human Rights (t.b.a.)
- Protest Movements and Participative Democracy in a Globalizing World
Roland Axtmann, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales Swansea, UK
Kontakt:
Dr. Martin Klimke
Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Schillerstr. 4-8
69115 Heidelberg
Tel.: +49 6221 / 79 634 12
Fax: +49 6221 / 79 634 29
Dr. Kathrin Fahlenbrach
MMZ, Mansfelder Str. 56
06108 Halle (Saale)
Sekretariat: Karin Pabst
Fon: (0345) 55 23 571
Fax: (0345) 55 27 058
Email: mail@protest-research.org
URL: http://www.protest-research.org
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