Master of Science Programme in Social Studies of Gender at Lund University

The application period for  Master of Science Programme in Social Studies of Gender is open for enrollment. Application deadline is January 15, 2015 for the study period 28/08/2015 - 09/06/2017.

                                                                                                 

This is an interdisciplinary social science master’s programme. It focuses upon how gender and feminist research, in dialogue with other social science subjects, contribute to the understanding of resistance and change in inequalities and relations and practices of power.

The major aim of the programme is to encourage students to develop their ability to critically examine, evaluate and discuss the field’s most important theoretical perspectives and to be able to formulate and analyse the interconnection between theory and practice in issues related to gender, class, ethnicity and sexuality.

The Social Studies of Gender Programme is given jointly by feminist / gender scholars from the Departments of Gender Studies, Development Studies, Education, Political Science, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Pedagogy, Sociology of Law and the School of Social Work at Lund University.   The program provides the opportunity for internships and international exchange semester.

The medium of instruction is English. This means that lectures, seminars and examination will be in English.

More information about the programme is available at:

http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-SASSG

http://graduateschool.sam.lu.se/education/programmes/master-of-science-in-social-studies-of-gender

Information on applying to Swedish universities is available at: www.universityadmissions.se.

Short facts about the Master programme:

·         Students will acquire a degree of Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender with a major in their previous field of study in the Social Sciences.  

·         It is a fully interdisciplinary Social Science Master programme that is taught at a top-ranking university

·         There are no tuition fees for EU/EEA citizens

·         Normal duration of the programme is 2 years of full-time studies (120 ECTS)

·         The medium of instruction is English

Application deadline is January 15, 2015.  The next cohort will begin in September 2015.

Please find enclosed a poster and a programme sheet with information about the programme. We would appreciate if you could take the time and effort to make them accessible to interested students

Contact:

Phone: 046-222 49 83; 046-222 31 30.

E-mail: master@sam.lu.se

Programme Coordinators: Milan Burke, Shoshana Item and Helena Falk

Program Director: Sara Goodman

4th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Nonmonogamy CFP

This is a CALL FOR PAPERS for the 4th International Conference on the Future of Monogamy and Nonmonogamy, which happens Feb 13-14, 2015, in Berkeley, California (USA). The majority of presentation spots have already been spoken for, but there is still room for a few more.

http://www.TheSaar.com 

https://sites.google.com/site/monogamyandnonmonogamy2015/

(If this first link does not work with your system, try the second one, or cut and paste the link manually into your browser).

This event will be devoted to presentations of scientific and academic research related to polyamory, open relationships, swinging, other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, and related subjects. Presentations will cover various topics that offer some possible progress to a deeper and more complete understanding of the phenomenon of consensual nonmonogamy. Issues related to both nonmonogamous and monogamous relationships will be explored from an interdisciplinary perspective, in as objective and unbiased a manner as possible. 

Any presentation that discusses the prevalence of monogamy or nonmonogamy at any particular place, time, or society, or which offers some potential insight into the changing nature of such attitudes and practices over time will be considered. Strong preference is given for presentations with obvious direct relevance to issues related to possible future changes in attitudes about monogamy and nonmonogamy. 

We strive to make this a strongly interdisciplinary conference. Presentations can include research related to psychology, sociology, neuroscience, sociocultural studies, anthropology, political science, historical studies, future projections, media studies, examinations of art, folklore and mythology, or any other area of scholarship related to the subject of consensual nonmonogamy. 

Preference is for completed projects, but works in progress will also be welcome. Emphasis is on original work not published or previously presented, but exceptions may be made for material deemed especially relevant to the theme of the event. Papers and projects from graduate and undergraduate students will also be welcome. 

Papers will be published after the conference in online proceedings with a confirmed ISBN number/reference. There will be no length limit for submissions, but the presentations will be limited to 30 minutes, with ten minutes dedicated to questions, answers, and discussion following each presentation. Proposed presenters are encouraged to send inquires as early as possible. 

The deadline for proposals is Dec 15, 2014. Send initial queries and proposal summaries to : 

dr_dave_doleshal@yahoo.com

Doctoral Scholarships in East Asian Studies at GEAS, Freie Universitaet Berlin

The Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments, will admit up to 17 doctoral candidates to its program, beginning October 1st, 2015. Twelve candidates will receive a grant funded through the Graduate School, up to two PhD candidates can be considered for special funding provided by the DAAD (GSSP Program). The Graduate School will also consider to accept up to three candidates who receive funding either from other Freie Universität Berlin programs, from partner institutions in East Asia (CSC, etc.), or through scholarships provided by German or international organizations.

We offer PhD stipends of € 1365 €/month (plus 103 €/m research allowance). Fellowships will initially be granted for one year, and contingent upon a positive evaluation after each year of study, fellowships will be extended for another year. The fellowship may be granted for a maximum of three years.
Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region (China, Japan and/or Korea). All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile: (1) the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, (2) the effects institutions have on processes related to globalization and modernization in East Asia on the side of governments, bureaucracies or business and individual life-styles or related preferences, and, finally, (3) the interdependencies of institutions in East Asia within and beyond its regional boundaries.
Successful applicants will have an above average master’s degree in either area studies (Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies) or a discipline represented at the Graduate School (Political Science, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Business, Economics, Law, History, Cultural Studies, Humanities, Theatre Studies, Environmental Policy) with a focus on East Asia. The language of instruction is English. Successful candidates will also show proof of language skills in an East Asian Language (Chinese, Japanese, or Korean) at a level of B2 (CEFR) or higher.
Applications should include a CV, a letter of academic interest, a brief outline of the prospective dissertation topic (maximum 6 pages), a schedule for the dissertation, and copies of certificates of your relevant degrees and language skills. Two letters of recommendation shall be sent directly by your referees to GEAS via the online application system. For more information and guidelines as well as for applications, please register at the online application portal: https://apply.drs.fu-berlin.de/eas
The next application deadline will be January 16, 2015. For questions on admission and the online portal, please also consult the Admission FAQ at our webpage. The screening takes place in January and February 2015. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed (via Skype) in April 2015 at the latest. Candidates accepted for admission into GEAS will receive notice by early to mid-May 2015.
For additional information, please check our website and feel free to contact us. No legal entitlement shall be constituted by applying to the program. Reasons for rejections will not be disclosed.
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GEAS Application Team
Graduate School of East Asian Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (0)30-838-59697
Fax: +49 (0)30-838-459697
application@geas.fu-berlin.de
http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de
Katrin Gengenbach
Graduate School of East Asian Studies
Freie Universitaet Berlin
HIttorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49-30-838-51596
Email: application@geas.fu-berlin.de
Visit the website at http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de

China Fellowship Announcement

CHINA
Research Fellowships Now Available

The Confucius China Studies Program Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship
provides generous funding and support for qualified U.S. and international
(non-Chinese) students who wish to pursue their doctoral research in China.

Funding awards range from six months to two years.

AWARD PACKAGE INCLUDES:

• 80,000 RMB annual living stipend
• 20,000 RMB annual research stipend
• Insurance
• Financial support for a research visit to China by home university advisor
• Host university tuition
• Reimbursement for the cost of round-trip, economy airfare

    ELIGIBILITY:

• Currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a U.S. institution
• Pursuing research in the arts, education, humanities, and social sciences that focuses on China
• Have a minimum HSK score of level 3
• Are not a Chinese citizen
• Will not be recipients of other Chinese government scholarship funding
• Will not have spent significant amount of time in China during the years of their secondary education

Application Deadline: January 29, 2015

 For more information, including application instructions, visit: www.iie.org/ccsp
 

CFP: A Multitude of Encounters with Asia – Gender Perspectives

The conference and PhD Course are organized by RIKK - Centre for Women’s and Gender Research & EDDA – Center of Excellence, University of Iceland, NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and GAN - Gendering Asia Network One of the great challenges in increased relations with Asia through business, culture, life biographies, historical relations as well as ITC networks is to make the importance of gender visible. Encounters have become increasingly, mutually interrelated and perhaps even dependent in multiple ways. Economically encounters are wide-ranging with financial decisions made in one part of the world affecting the real lives of many in the other part of the world. In the political sphere the need for enhancing mutual understanding and tolerance grows every day. How can we understand these multiple links, interactions and encounters and how are they gendered? Some encounters are vividly obvious and others are less prominently visible, or perhaps consciously or unconsciously made obscure. How is knowledge of encounters being produced, by whom and for what purposes? This conference on macro and micro level encounters with Asia, including encounters between Asia and the Nordic countries, takes the traveling of theories, concepts, ideas, practices, products and people as its starting point and asks 1) How gender and gender relations play into, create, and are created in the course of a multitude of encounters 2) How transnational feminism has produced knowledge in the context of globalization Keynote speakers · Kathy Davis, Senior Research Fellow, Sociology, VU University, Amsterdam · Mary E. John, Senior Fellow, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi · Wil Burghoorn, Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg More keynotes TBA Commentators for the PhD Course · Wil Burghoorn, Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg · Anna Karlsdottir, Assistant professor, Department of geography and tourism studies, University of Iceland · Cecilia Milwertz, Senior Researcher, NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies More commentators TBA Deadline for submitting abstract 15 June 2014 (maximum 300 words) For more information, please go to the conference website: http://gendernnc2014.niasconferences.net

Chinese Government Scholarship Program 2014

Chinese Government Scholarship Program 2014

     Beijing Forestry University is a designated institution entitled to admit students under Chinese Government Scholarship by Ministry of Education of China. Applications for Chinese Government Scholarships are accepted from now on and applicants for Master Degree Program and Doctor Degree Program can apply for Chinese Government Scholarship directly to Beijing Forestry University. 

Application Prerequisites

1.                  Applicants shall be non-Chinese citizens in good health

2.                  Applicants shall not be studying in China currently

3.                  Requirements in terms of educational background and age of applicants.

Applicants who apply for master’s degree program must be holders of bachelor’s degrees under the age of 35. Applicants who apply for doctor’s degree program must be holders of master’s degrees under the age of 40.

Application Steps

Step One：Please log onto http://laihua.csc.edu.cn, to fill out the Chinese Government Scholarship Enrollment Application Form in Chinese or English. The Agency Number for Beijing Forestry University is 10022. Applicants shall print and sign the application form. 
Step Two ：Prepare other supportive documents (in duplicate)：

1.    Notarized highest diploma and academic transcripts. If the applicants are full-time students or graduates, they should provide Certificats de Scolarit issued by their universities or employment certificates issued by their work places. The documents in languages other than English or Chinese should have the notarized Chinese or English version.

2.   Transcripts from undergraduate level. Those transcripts of languages other than English or Chinese should have the notarized Chinese or English version.

3.   Study Plan (no less than 800 words) written in Chinese or English.

4.   Recommendation letters by two professors or associate professors written in Chinese or English

5.   Photocopy of Foreigner Physical Examination Form(The original copy shall be kept by the applicant). The form shall be printed by the quarantine authority of China for those who shall study in China for more than 6 months, and applicants are required to fill in it in Chinese or English. The medical examinations must cover all the items listed in the Foreigner Physical Examination Form. Incomplete records or those without a sealed photograph of the applicants, the signature of the attending physician, or the official stamp of the hospital are invalid.

Step Three：Mail the application form and supportive documents to:

Beijing Forestry University Mailbox 226, International Student Office

No.35 Qinghua East Road, Haidian District, 100083

Beijing, China

TEL：0086-10-62338271

FAX：0086-10-62310316

Application documents will not be returned to the applicants whether they are recruited or not.

北京林业大学2014年度中国政府奖学金招生简章

   北京林业大学是中华人民共和国教育部指定的中国政府奖学金生自主招生院校，从即日起我校开始受理2014年中国政府奖学金的申请。凡欲报考我校2014年秋季学期的硕士、博士项目的外籍学生均可向我校直接申请中国政府奖学金。

一、申请人资格

1.    申请人须为非中国籍公民，身体健康；

2.    申请人须为非在华学习的学生；

3.    来华攻读硕士学位者，须具有学士学位，年龄不超过35周岁；来华攻读博士学位者，须具有硕士学位，年龄不超过40周岁。

二、      奖学金内容及标准

1.    注册费、学费、实验费、实习费和基本教材费

2.    住宿费，硕士生（双人间）；博士生（单人间）

3.    奖学金生活费

生活费标准为硕士研究生1,700元人民币/月，博士研究生2,000元人民币/月。奖学金生活费自奖学金生入学之日起由学校逐月定期发放。新生当月十五日（含十五日）之前注册的，发给全月奖学金生活费；十五日以后注册的，发给半个月奖学金生活费。毕业生的奖学金生活费发至学校确定的毕业之日以后的半个月。对休学、退学或结业回国者，奖学金生活费自下个月起停发。学校规定的假期内奖学金生活费照发；奖学金生假期内因离校休假而未能按时领取奖学金生活费，返校后可以补发。奖学金生未请假而不按时到校注册、非健康原因离校或者旷课，时间超过一个月者，停发当月的奖学金生活费。

4.    来华留学生综合医疗保险

中国政府奖学金来华留学生综合保险是由中国教育部为在华奖学金生所投付的综合医疗保险，主要用于学生因大病住院或发生人身意外伤害所支付的费用。保险费用由奖学金生所在学校或指定的救援机构受理垫付，并持有关费用收据按照事先规定的保险条款向保险公司理赔。保险公司不受理中国政府奖学金生个人理赔事宜。

奖学金生因患严重疾病需休学者，应回国休养，回国旅费自理；经学校批准休学者，享受奖学金资格最长可保留一年，但休学期间停发奖学金生活费。奖学金生因其他原因休学者，其享受奖学金的资格不予保留。

5.    新生来华一次性安置费标准：

来华学习期限不满1学年者一次性发放1,000元人民币

来华学习期限为1学年及1学年以上者一次性发放1,500元人民币

6.    门诊医疗费：学生在学校医院或学校指定的医院就医的日常门诊费用。学生就诊后需按学校有关规定自行支付一定比例的费用。

7.    国际旅费：自理。

三、招生专业

1. 北京林业大学硕士招生简章

2. 北京林业大学英文授课硕士项目招生简章

3. 北京林业大学博士招生简章

四、授课语言

除林学、林业经济管理专业的2年英文硕士项目，其它专业均为中文授课。无汉语基础的学生，需进行1年汉语强化培训后再进入专业学习。凡需汉语补习者奖学金期限相应增加1年。

五、申请步骤

第一步：登录http://laihua.csc.edu.cn，在线填写申请表时，北京林业大学的单位代码是10022。申请人须打印申请表并签字。

第二步：准备其他申请材料（均为一式两份）：

1.    经过公证的最高学历证明。如申请人为在校学生或已就业，需另外提交本人就读学校出具的在学证明或就业单位出具的在职证明。中英文以外文本需附经公证的中文或英文的译文；

2.   学习成绩单。中英文以外文本需附经公证的中文或英文的译文；

3.   来华学习和研究计划（不少于800字），用中文或英文书写；

4.   两名教授或副教授的推荐信，用中文或英文书写；

5.   《外国人体格检查记录》（复印件，原件自行保留）。此表格由中国卫生检疫部门统一印制，须用中文或英文填写。申请人应严格按照《外国人体格检查记录》中要求的项目进行检查。缺项、未贴有本人照片或照片上未盖骑缝章、无医师和医院签字盖章的《外国人体格检查记录》无效。

第三步：将上述申请表和要求提供的材料(一式两份)提交到：

中华人民共和国北京市海淀区清华东路35号

北京林业大学226信箱留学生办公室 100083

电话：0086-10-62338271

传真：0086-10-62310316

无论录取与否，以上材料概不退还。

六、申请日期

即日起至2014年4月30日，以收到申请材料时间为准。

七、报到材料

1. 护照

2. 北京林业大学录取通知书

3. 中国政府奖学金录取通知书

4. 外国人来华留学人员签证申请表JW202表/JW201表

5. 体检表

6. 护照尺寸照片6张（白色背景）

八、报到时间

报到时间将在录取通知书中特别注明。

九、联系方式

中华人民共和国北京市海淀区清华东路35号北京林业大学

综合楼322房间留学生办公室

联系人：刁雅榕，林宇

电话：0086-10-62338271

传真：0086-10-62310316

Email：diaoyr@bjfu.edu.cn；lxs@bjfu.edu.cn