CFA: Graduate Programs in Political Science, Central European University (Vienna, Austria)

Deadline: February 1, 2021

 

The Department of Political Science at Central European University invites you to apply for its BA, one- and two-year MA program, as well as our PhD program, taught in English, in a highly international environment in Vienna, Austria. All our degrees are accredited both in the United States and in Austria. 

 

Excellence in Teaching and Research: 

• In the latest Quacquarelli Symonds university ranking in 2020, CEU has been ranked 30th place in the world in political science, and 10th in Europe.  
• Our programs target both future academics and students who wish to pursue professions in non-academic jobs such as civil service positions, the news media, international organizations, NGOs, political and cultural organizations, and private businesses.  

Financial Aid: Our department offers a wide range of financial assistance to prospective students, ranging from tuition waivers to full stipends.  

• About 90% of the MA students at the Political Science Department are granted some kind of financial aid. CEU also increased its scholarship scheme for 2021/2022: 
• CEU Master’s Excellence Scholarship: 1,000 EUR/month; 
• CEU Master's Distinction Scholarship: 750 EUR/month; 
• CEU Master's Scholarship: 500 EUR/month. 
• All PhD students are fully funded: 1,300 EUR/month. 

Classes and Technology: Our outstanding 7:1 student/faculty ratio ensures excellent opportunities for academic and professional development. 

• Professors utilize cutting-edge technology and platforms to enhance online and on-site learning experience in order to enable our students to acquire the best possible foundations for their careers and further study. 
• Our department offers live-streaming of all public lectures and seminars. 
• All classrooms are equipped with high-tech tools that ensure high-quality digital learning environment. 
• Professor Levente Littvay is sharing his lectures as part of a weekly online series. The first out of six videos was made together with Professor Erin K. Jenne (IR, CEU), in which they are covering a few important principles in voting behavior. 

Response to Covid-19: At the time of writing this letter, the department must prepare for various scenarios of online and campus-based or hybrid teaching in the upcoming academic year as well. We expect that by 2021/22 we can deliver our programs fully on campus and in-person, but we are well-prepared for remote, online teaching as well. 

• Faculty worked together to adapt and redesign the delivery of our programs to provide a smooth transition from on-campus teaching to online courses, if necessary. 
• The department may offer the possibility of interoperability of online and on-site classes. 
• Doctoral students as Teaching Assistants provide extensive academic and technical support at classes.  
• Faculty are available as mentors to students who can always consult with issues and questions related to your studies. 

The deadline for applications is February 1, 2021 so if you may be interested in our MA or PhD program, or have further question, do not hesitate to contact us at polsci@ceu.edu or our student representatives. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

CFP: Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies Conference

Deadline: January 15, 2020

The Post-Socialist and Comparative Memory Studies (PoSoCoMeS) working group is part of the Memory Studies Association. Our goal is to bring together researchers, activists, and practitioners working in and on post-socialist countries. We call for trans-regional comparative studies that connect Eastern Europe and Africa, Southern America and Asia, and result in broad conceptualizations of post-socialist memories.

The PoSoCoMeS group was constituted in 2018 in order to establish a platform for the exchange of ideas between scholars from different disciplines working on post-socialist memory studies. During the third annual MSA conference in Madrid, we organized 14 panels, which attracted a broad audience. We have already published two newsletters informing about our activities, and now we are organizing the first PoSoCoMes conference. It will take place on September 24-26, 2020, in Chisinau, Moldova. One of the purposes of this conference is to allow scholars and practitioners from the post-socialist countries of Europe and Eurasia to discuss common issues. Travel to Moldova is visa-free for citizens of over 100 countries. All participants in the conference need to be members of the MSA, however, sponsored memberships are available. There will be no registration fee for the conference, and we are hoping to raise funds to offer scholarships to a small number of participants from low-income countries. Applications from those living outside the former socialist world and working in comparative memory studies involving questions of (post)socialism are also very welcome.

We invite submissions of panels, sessions, round tables, workshops, and individual papers covering different aspects of post-socialist memories. We are especially interested in papers using comparative approaches and studying cases from different regions.

We are inviting proposals for panel and poster sessions for early-career researchers (Ph.D. and advanced MA students), including discussions of thesis proposals. Alternative formats are also welcome. 

• Possible topics of submissions include:
• Post-socialist writing/ writing memories of (post)socialism
• (Post)socialism in art, film and visual culture
• Museums and memories of socialism
• Nostalgia and Ostalgie
• Difficult memories of post-socialist pasts
• Transitional justice in post-socialist countries
• Memory activism connecting post-socialist countries
• Post-socialist and postcolonial entanglements of memory 
• Politics of memory and memory wars in post-socialist countries
• Media and Internet shaping memories in and across post-socialist regions
• Theorizing comparative memory studies
• Post-socialist memory in Global South
• Non-alignment and memory
• Ideology and everyday life of (post)socialism
• Memory and oral history
• Transitional justice in post-socialist contexts
• Memories of transitional periods 

We are organizing a stream on the adaptation of cosmopolitan Holocaust memory culture in Eastern Europe. Please note if you are applying to this stream.

Paper proposals should include abstracts no longer than 250 words and information about the presenter (affiliation and short biographies). Panel and roundtable proposals should include an abstract no longer than 250 words and a complete list of participants, titles of their papers, and names of discussants and/or moderators.

Please, send your submission through the google form or to posocomes@gmail.com. Submissions are due January 15, 2020.


Program committee:

• Zuzanna Bogumił, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, anthropology
• Diana Dumitru, Ion Creangă State University, history
• Oksana Dovgopolova, Odessa National University, history/philosophy 
• Aleksei Kamenskikh, Higher School of Economics in Perm, history/ philosophy
• Wulf Kansteiner, Aarhus University, history/memory studies
• Daria Khlevnyuk, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, sociology
• Lana Lovrencic, Zagreb, heritage studies/history of art
• Olga Malinova, Higher School of Economics in Moscow, political science
• Ksenia Robbe, University of Groningen, literary & cultural studies
• Bin Xu, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, sociology