Announcements
PhD and further study opportunities
Two PhD Research Fellowships and a Post-doctoral Fellowship: 'Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty'
Two four-year PhD Fellowships and a Post-doctoral Fellowship are available within the Project 'Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty' sponsored by the European Research Council, and to be conducted at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Dr Maria Koinova. The University of Amsterdam has an internationally acclaimed research profile and is a member of the League of European Research Universities. Its Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the largest in the social sciences in the Netherlands.
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Fellowship in Peace, Security & Development
This program, launched in June 2011, responds to a shortage of well-trained faculty now reaching crisis proportions in African higher education.It features three distinct competitive fellowship opportunities for early-career social science faculty who hold positions in accredited colleges and universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
More information is available from the Social Science Research Council.
Conference announcements
Return migration and transnationalism: alternatives or complements
This conference will take place at the Peace Research Institute Oslo from 4-5 September 2012.
How are return migration and transnationalism connected? Research has shown the prevalence of the ‘myth of return’ and return visits as ingredients of migrant transnationalism, but what do we know about the connections between different kinds of transnational identifications and practices and considerations about return migration? Preparedness has been identified as an important success factor for return migration, but how does transnationalism affect return migrants’ preparedness for return, and how do sustained transnational ties impact on processes of ‘reintegration’? The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) invites abstracts that address these or similar questions.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 11 March 2012.
Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilites, 'Race'
This is a series of conferences to be held in Université Montpellier III, France; Wake Forest University, USA; and Oxford University, UK during 2011-2013.The conferences will identify and assess the different evolutions of 'Diaspora Studies' and the notion of 'race'.
