The European University Institute, Florence (Italy) has launched its call for applications for two postdoctoral fellowship programs. The deadline for applications for the academic year 2011-2012 is  October 25, 2010.

Submissions are invited for an edited book provisionally entitled BALKANS: Foreign Affairs, Politics and Socio-cultures. The book will be published by Epoka University Press as a first English book in the Balkan area in terms of encompassing three main issues of the Balkan countries and foreign affairs of the global actors toward Balkans. The book aims to be a main reference and primary source by bringing together selective academicians, scholars and experts from the world. The planned book is a collaborative project initiated by a working group dedicated to these themes located within the Epoka University, Tirana, Albania.

A call for papers has been launched by the organizers of one of the main sessions (Walls and the City) at the next International Conference on Urban History, to be held in Ghent (Belgium) between the 1st and 4th of September 2010. Deadline for submission: December 1, 2009.

The Institute for Human Studies (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) has launched an invitation for a Jacek Kuron Debate on Solidarity "Social Solidarity and the Crisis of Economic Capitalism". The discussion will take place on October 16 at 6 p.m. in the Library of the Institute (Spittelauer Lände 3, A-1090 Wien).

An international workshop Reading the City: Urban Space and Memory will be held at the Cultural Centre Tocka in Skopje from May 10-16, 2009. The hypothesis of the workshop "Reading the city: Urban space and memory" in Skopje is that every historical, political, and social development and trend is mirrored in the city's built environment. Cities, accordingly, consist of a multitude of layers of narratives and thus become an image of individual and collective memory. Deadline for applications: April 26, 2009.