Area Studies

Corvinus University (formerly Karl Marx University of Economics) welcome students (undergraduate and MA) to its Summer School in Budapest. The School offers  four courses: Enterpreneurship, Making Investment Decisions,  East Asia developmental Strategies in Comparison to East-Central European command economic systems and their strategies (before 1989), and City Development int he 21st Century.

The participation fees are follow:  1 course costs 600 Euros (early bird 550 Euros), two courses  cost 1100 Euros (early bird 1000 Euros). Each course offers earning 6 credits.

Call for papers for special issue of New Global Studies

https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ngs

Call for applications: 2019-2020 Research Travel Grant

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library and the Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections.

2^nd Annual Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes African Studies Conference

Pondering African Futures: Technologies and Strategies for Growth

May 11, 2019

The Celebrity and Fan Studies Area is welcoming proposals for inclusion in the 2019 fall New England Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Conference from scholars and independent researchers interested in interrogating the ideas and the ideals of celebrity and fandom. We welcome submissions from all theoretical and philosophical perspectives. We are open to submissions in any area of celebrity studies including but not limited to:

Luisa Rivi (2007) argued that in the last decades cinema turned into a privileged space for the examination of European identities. The shift to the ‘economy of signs’ (Lash and Urry 1993) reconfigured the ties of culture with economy. In the EU context, culture became a policy-oriented field (Shore 2006) supporting the processes of Europeanisation. At the same time, new borders transformed the European landscape and (re)drew the attention to south East Europe.

Patterns of Prejudice seeks a new Book Review Editor.

Making the borders of contemporary Ukraine

This is a reminder that Dr. Samuel Yamashita’s Public Lecture, “The ‘Japanese Turn’ in Fine Dining in the United States, 1980–2017” will be live streamed. Please access via the following link:

2^nd Annual Mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes African Studies Conference

Pondering African Futures: Technologies and Strategies for Growth

May 11, 2019