Gleich zwei Veranstaltungen mit explizitem Wien-Bezug und zugleich hinsichtlich inhaltlicher Relevanz weit darüber hinaus weisend gib/lt es für nächste Woche vorzumerken:

1. Anton Tantner: Die Adressierung der Stadt (18. April 2005, IFK, 18.00 c.t., Reichsratsstraße 17, 1010 Wien)

2. Dirk Kaesler: Wien, die anstrengende Großstadt. Max Weber im Sommersemester 1918 (22. April 2005, Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte, 14.00 Uhr c.t., Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1, 1090 Wien)

Schließlich soll auch noch - am Tag vor Kaeslers Referat stattfindend - der Vortrag von Vrääth Öhner erwähnt werden:
3. Medien des Gedächtnisses, Gedächtnis der Medien (21. April 2005, Seminarraum 1 des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte, 12.00 Uhr c.t., Spitalgasse 2, Hof 1, 1090 Wien)

The European Regional Master's Degree in Democracy and Human Rights in South East Europe (2005-2006) - offered/coordinated by the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna - is an intensive one-year course established through the joint efforts of the participating universities and at present in its fifth year of implementation. The Degree is co-founded by the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The deadline for submitting the full application package is June 1, 2005.

The Alliance of Universities for DEMocracy (the site is still under construction) announced a call for Papers for their Sixteenth Annual Conference (23 - 26 October 2005; Yalta, Ukraine).
The Host Institutions are National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute", Dnipropetrovs'k State Financial Academy, Yalta University of Management and the Consortium for the Enhancement of Ukrainian Management Education (CEUME).
The Main Topic will be EDUCATING FOR DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBALIZING AND CHANGING WORLD (some other sources announce: THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT & IN GLOBAL SPACE, which shouldn't irritate you too much) and the Deadline for Submissions is May 28, 2005.