CfP: Summer School on Documentary Film Making in Social Sciences
The one-week long, on-site summer school dedicated to exploring the potential of documentary film making in social science research and dissemination of research results. It offers an innovative, practice-oriented knowledge to students, empowering them with a skill which they can use either in their future research or dissemination.
Multisensory audiovisual media help not only to overcome text-centric approaches in research by including into the critical analysis such feature as sound, rhythm, composition, as well as performance, nonverbal communication that could reveal and (literally) show tacit "know-how" knowledge, rituals, and complexity of the relationships inside the community and with external actors; but also, to construct and conduct space of encounter, exchange, experience, and dialogue.The movie and cinema production allows establishing an alternative communication platform during the fieldwork, later with the audience, and with time as a (re)presentation of the historical, ideological period it belongs to. Visual methods are one of the possible instruments to overcome obstacles related to one-dimensional mono-rhetorical narratives that bring back "muted" histories that are still can be perceived.
Call for Papers
Interdisciplinary Online Conference “Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies” October - November 2021
The conference aims to explore the present and historical dynamics shaping the Black Sea region through the lens of transculturality. The region that was governed by three European empires and then dominated by the Soviet Union, has experienced extreme violence during the XX century and continues to be the space of contemporary conflicts and geopolitical turmoil. At the same time, the region’s countries, both within and outside the EU, are often analyzed through the prism of methodological nationalism and a “container-culture approach”. We propose to regard the Black Sea region as a fluid realm where various discourses and ideas interact, compete and merge. We seek to explore novel theoretical concepts and methodologies to studying the transcultural space of the Black Sea region and the challenges that it faces - both in the past and today. Interdisciplinary Online Conference “Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies” October - November 2021.
Workshop and Call for Papers for Special Issue / Research Grant
We would like to invite you to our workshop and to contribute to a special issue on thegovernance of vocational education and training (VET) in the countries of Southeast Europe and the Black Sea Region. The workshop is organised by the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCEat University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), the Leading House on Governance in Vocational and Professional Education and Training (GOVPETat the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), and the New Europe College (NECin Bucharest, Romania). It will take place in Bucharest in the last week of May 2022. It will be a great honour for us and an excellent opportunity for you to share your newest scientific work in the field of governance of VET in the countries of Southeast Europe and the Black Sea Region. In addition, we are supporting a junior researcher with a research grant interested in researching and collaborating in this particular field. All relevant information regarding the topics of interest, submission guidelines, and important dates can be found here.
The deadline to submit the research proposals and to apply for the research grant is the14th of November 2021. They need to be sent togce-info@unisg.ch. Submissions from late PhD students and Post-Doc researchers are particularly welcomed.
For all general enquiries or enquiries regarding the programme, please contact gce-info@unisg.ch.
We look forward to receiving your papers and applications, and seeing you at the workshop in Bucharest!
Grant Recipients of the GCE Research Dissemination Program
In 2021 the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG) initiated the research dissemination grant program "Borderland Studies in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region." The scheme provides funding to support the sharing of academic findings to a broader public. The grant program is a part of the project "Promotion of Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences between Switzerland and the States of the Black Sea Region," funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation. We would like to announce the list of projects that were awarded grants this year.
Workshop: Unions and Divisions: The Politics of Religion and Reconciliation
The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) and The Working Group on Lived Religion in Eastern Europe and Eurasia organize in cooperation with the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) the workshop on Unions and Divisions: The Politics of Religion and Reconciliation. The workshop will take place from 16 June - 18 June online.
CLOSED. Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Online Conference “Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies”
The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland invites paper proposals for a conference “Black Sea Region in the Times of Crises: New Theoretical Approaches and Research Methodologies” to be held online. In October 2021, we will organize a series of online sessions instead of a traditional annual project conference.
CLOSED. GCE-HSG Research Dissemination Grant: Borderland Studies in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Region (closed)
The Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen (GCE-HSG) announces the call for research dissemination grants. The scheme provides funding to support the sharing of academic findings to a broader public. The grant program is a part of the project “Promotion of Cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences between Switzerland and the States of the Black Sea Region” funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation.
HSG Ethnography Talks
The GCE is participating in the HSG Ethnography Talks, which will start in spring 2020. You can find further information here.
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