20 October 2010
TH!NK4: Climate Change Blogging Competition, Win a Trip to Cancun
Deadline: 15 December 2010
After the success of blogging competition TH!NK’s second edition in the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit, TH!NK4 is switching the focus to climate again.
Journalists, students and bloggers are invited to use the competition’s online platform to share their thoughts, as COP16 Mexico approaches.
The competition will open 4 October, and end 15 December, 2010, at TH!NK platform
Prize: Reporting Trip to COP16 in Cancun
You need to register and submit blog posts to the platform by 1st November, 2010 to be eligible to win a reporting trip to COP16 in Cancun. (with support of the European Commission)
Prize: Macbook and FLIP HD
All posts submitted on 4 October - 15 December are eligible for the prizes, Macbook or FLIP HD.
NOTE: All blog entries to the competition need to be in English.
Sign up by registering and submitting one blog post. Registration will enable you to join the competition and your post will be submitted as your first entry. Once registered you will receive a login and full access to blog on COP16 and other climate change issues.
For more information, contact: info@thinkaboutit.eu
More information here.
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After the success of blogging competition TH!NK’s second edition in the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit, TH!NK4 is switching the focus to climate again.
Journalists, students and bloggers are invited to use the competition’s online platform to share their thoughts, as COP16 Mexico approaches.
The competition will open 4 October, and end 15 December, 2010, at TH!NK platform
Prize: Reporting Trip to COP16 in Cancun
You need to register and submit blog posts to the platform by 1st November, 2010 to be eligible to win a reporting trip to COP16 in Cancun. (with support of the European Commission)
Prize: Macbook and FLIP HD
All posts submitted on 4 October - 15 December are eligible for the prizes, Macbook or FLIP HD.
NOTE: All blog entries to the competition need to be in English.
Sign up by registering and submitting one blog post. Registration will enable you to join the competition and your post will be submitted as your first entry. Once registered you will receive a login and full access to blog on COP16 and other climate change issues.
For more information, contact: info@thinkaboutit.eu
More information here.
19 October 2010
Call for Papers - Re-enchantment of Arab Television: Audience Responses and Identity Constructions
Deadline: 30 October 2010
Copenhagen University, Denmark
The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme
RE-ENCHANTMENT OF ARAB TELEVISION:
AUDIENCE RESPONSES AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS
Call for conference paper and subsequent book proposals
The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme invites proposals for papers at the Conference on Re-enchantment of Arab Television: Audience responses and identity constructions to be held in Copenhagen, 27 29 May 2011
The main issue of this conference is how Arab audiences respond to religion and religious programming on Arab television. A focus on Islamic programming is particularly requested, but also papers on audience responses to other religious programming are encouraged. In spite of the common recognition that the effect of media has to be understood in the encounter between media discourse and audience responses, very often the Arab television audiences seem to be perceived as a passive, impressionable and homogenous mass. This raises the need for further and critical reception and audience analyses taking the heterogeneity and transnationality of the Arab audiences into account. Thus, the main objective of the conference, and subsequent book proposal, is to gain new knowledge about the Arab audiences and how they make use of TV in their construction, negotiation and rejection of religious identities and practices.
The conference objective is to present and discuss qualitative and comparative studies of Arab television audiences. This approach raises questions related to media and (religious) identity formation as well as a number of methodological questions of general interest for media and cultural studies. Concepts like meaning making and individual identity construction are introduced as key notions in general but three interrelated analytical approaches are suggested for further exploration. Firstly, audience identification with religious identity as collective memory constructed through storytelling. Secondly, audience use of religious programming as an instrument to live and identify transnationally. And, thirdly, audience interpretation of religious programming as basis for resistance towards political hegemonies. These topics will be investigated at three seminar sessions wherein the following questions might be examined:
How does tthe audience integrate the mediatised form of religious storytelling in its own identity discourse and how does the audience construct collective identity through media use?
o Arab/Muslim audience as an analytical and theoretical concept with a focus on
theoretical discussions hereof.
o Media theory on Arab/Muslim audience responses with a focus on methodological
and analytical questions.
o Case studies on audience responses using cases related to television.
How is the transnationality of the Arrab television practiced and consumed by the audience and what does this add to the transnational perspective as a theoretical perspective on religious and cultural identity?
o The Arab/Muslim Diaspora and its TV media practices.
o The construction of transnational communities as spatial and/or virtual
communities.
How do Arabs/Musslims in different societal contexts make use of religious narratives offered by the Arab television to negotiate, reject, and contest cultural and political ideas, values and identities?
o Arab/Muslim audience as a political public using religious television as source for opposition and resistance.
Submission of proposals:
Abstracts (300 500 words) should be sent by 30th October 2010 too Ehab Galal at (ehab AT hum.ku.dk). Abstract, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract, short CV (max. 150 words). A full draft paper of 8000 words should be submitted no later than 1st May 2011. Selection of the papers will be made on the basis of quality and relevance to the conference themes. Only accepted papers will get an answer by the date mentioned below. Selected papers will be published in a special volume in English.
Deadlines:
o Submission of abstracts: 30th October 2010
o Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1st December 2010
o Submission of full papers: 1st May 2011
Financial and other support:
All participants will be provided basic accommodation free of cost for a maximum of three nights for participants within Europe; for participants outside Europe individual arrangement will be made.
For additional information:
Organizer Ehab Galal
Assistant Professor in Modern Islam and Middle Eastern Studies
Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
Snorresgade 17-19
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
E-mail: ehab AT hum.ku.dk
The conference will take place under the auspices of The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme at the University of Copenhagen.
More information here.
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Copenhagen University, Denmark
The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme
RE-ENCHANTMENT OF ARAB TELEVISION:
AUDIENCE RESPONSES AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS
Call for conference paper and subsequent book proposals
The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme invites proposals for papers at the Conference on Re-enchantment of Arab Television: Audience responses and identity constructions to be held in Copenhagen, 27 29 May 2011
The main issue of this conference is how Arab audiences respond to religion and religious programming on Arab television. A focus on Islamic programming is particularly requested, but also papers on audience responses to other religious programming are encouraged. In spite of the common recognition that the effect of media has to be understood in the encounter between media discourse and audience responses, very often the Arab television audiences seem to be perceived as a passive, impressionable and homogenous mass. This raises the need for further and critical reception and audience analyses taking the heterogeneity and transnationality of the Arab audiences into account. Thus, the main objective of the conference, and subsequent book proposal, is to gain new knowledge about the Arab audiences and how they make use of TV in their construction, negotiation and rejection of religious identities and practices.
The conference objective is to present and discuss qualitative and comparative studies of Arab television audiences. This approach raises questions related to media and (religious) identity formation as well as a number of methodological questions of general interest for media and cultural studies. Concepts like meaning making and individual identity construction are introduced as key notions in general but three interrelated analytical approaches are suggested for further exploration. Firstly, audience identification with religious identity as collective memory constructed through storytelling. Secondly, audience use of religious programming as an instrument to live and identify transnationally. And, thirdly, audience interpretation of religious programming as basis for resistance towards political hegemonies. These topics will be investigated at three seminar sessions wherein the following questions might be examined:
How does tthe audience integrate the mediatised form of religious storytelling in its own identity discourse and how does the audience construct collective identity through media use?
o Arab/Muslim audience as an analytical and theoretical concept with a focus on
theoretical discussions hereof.
o Media theory on Arab/Muslim audience responses with a focus on methodological
and analytical questions.
o Case studies on audience responses using cases related to television.
How is the transnationality of the Arrab television practiced and consumed by the audience and what does this add to the transnational perspective as a theoretical perspective on religious and cultural identity?
o The Arab/Muslim Diaspora and its TV media practices.
o The construction of transnational communities as spatial and/or virtual
communities.
How do Arabs/Musslims in different societal contexts make use of religious narratives offered by the Arab television to negotiate, reject, and contest cultural and political ideas, values and identities?
o Arab/Muslim audience as a political public using religious television as source for opposition and resistance.
Submission of proposals:
Abstracts (300 500 words) should be sent by 30th October 2010 too Ehab Galal at (ehab AT hum.ku.dk). Abstract, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract, short CV (max. 150 words). A full draft paper of 8000 words should be submitted no later than 1st May 2011. Selection of the papers will be made on the basis of quality and relevance to the conference themes. Only accepted papers will get an answer by the date mentioned below. Selected papers will be published in a special volume in English.
Deadlines:
o Submission of abstracts: 30th October 2010
o Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 1st December 2010
o Submission of full papers: 1st May 2011
Financial and other support:
All participants will be provided basic accommodation free of cost for a maximum of three nights for participants within Europe; for participants outside Europe individual arrangement will be made.
For additional information:
Organizer Ehab Galal
Assistant Professor in Modern Islam and Middle Eastern Studies
Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
Snorresgade 17-19
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark
E-mail: ehab AT hum.ku.dk
The conference will take place under the auspices of The New Islamic Public Sphere Programme at the University of Copenhagen.
More information here.
02 September 2010
Controversial Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad to be Republished
Flemming Rose, the Danish editor who featured 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that led to protests from the Islamic extremists in 2005, has written and will be publishing the book titled Tyranny of Silence. Included in this publication are cartoons made by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and the story behind the drawings. "I am sure that a lot of people don't know what I think of these drawings. My concerted wish is to explain myself," Rose said.
More information here.
26 July 2010
PhD Scholarship (Denmark) in Urban Youth and Language
A PhD scholarship is available as part of the research project Minority Children and Youth: Language, School, and Other Settings (the Amager Project) in connection with the HERA funded project frame Investigating discourses of inheritance and identity in four multilingual European settings (the IDI4MES project). Enrolment as a PhD student will begin on February 1, 2011 or later for up to three years. The place of employment will be at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.
The PhD student will be part of a research team in Danish as a Second Language and Poly-Lingualism, employing three tenured professors, three post-docs, and three PhD students. At least one additional PhD scholar is expected to join the research team in 2010.
Project description
The Amager Project is a study of the use of language in the lived lives of late modern urban individuals, represented by poly-lingual children and adolescents in Copenhagen, Denmark. We understand language as the means by which individuals form their understanding of the world, their personalities, and more than anything else their social relations. Our project studies the varied linguistic behavior of grade school students in their different everyday contexts with the aim of describing how individuals develop and shape their identities, their realities, and their social relations, and what opportunities and impediments they meet. The project has the character of basic research in this respect. Furthermore, our project has an applied aspect in the concentration on linguistic minority members and their everyday language behavior.
PhD research project
The work of the PhD student will consist of carrying out the Danish parts of the IDI4MES project and to formulate and carry out her or his personal project under the IDI4MES umbrella which is a co-operation between the Universities of Stockholm, Tilburg, Birmingham, and Copenhagen. The focus of this project is on discourses of heritance and identity among late modern urban youth in Europe.
Further Information
For further information about the post, please contact the project leader, Professor Normann Jørgensen, normann@hum.ku.dk
Application procedure
Applicants need to hold a two-year Master's degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent, or expect to receive such by 31 January 2011. Applicants shall have submitted their thesis at the time of application, to the extent the thesis forms part of their Master's program.
Applicants with a non-Danish Master's degree will have their degree assessed by The Danish Agency for International Education to establish, if the Master's degree is equivalent to a Danish Master's degree. More information about The Danish Agency for International Education is available at: http://www.studyindenmark.dk/
Employment as a PhD student occurs pursuant to the applicable rules of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). Under this agreement, the PhD student is obliged - without further remuneration - to carry out allotted work to an extent corresponding to a total of 840 working hours in the case of a three-year contract.
The PhD student will be working at the same department of the faculty as the supervisor. Daily presence at the department is expected.
Enrolment as a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities' Graduate School is a precondition for employment as a PhD student. A description of the PhD study programme is available at: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/
Applications shall be submitted via the electronic application system efond: http://www.efond.dk/ku-hum/.
Do not submit any publications.
Application form and application guidelines on research proposal and required enclosures are available at the homepage: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/
A certified copy of the applicant's Master's Degree diploma needs to be submitted as one of the enclosures to the application. Certification shall be by a public authority such as the institution having issued the diploma or a public bureau specializing in diploma certification. The applicant may be asked to submit the originally certified copy of the Master's Degree diploma after the application deadline.
If the MA diploma and/or examination records are in another language than English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, please include a translation into either of these languages in your application.
The translation of diplomas/certificates and transcripts must be made by or approved by either: a Danish state-authorized translator and interpreter or the embassy or consulate of the country where the original document was issued or where the translation was made or a Danish consulate/embassy.
Closing date for applications: 17 August 2010 at 12 noon (Central European Time). No supplementary documents will be considered after this deadline.
More information here.
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The PhD student will be part of a research team in Danish as a Second Language and Poly-Lingualism, employing three tenured professors, three post-docs, and three PhD students. At least one additional PhD scholar is expected to join the research team in 2010.
Project description
The Amager Project is a study of the use of language in the lived lives of late modern urban individuals, represented by poly-lingual children and adolescents in Copenhagen, Denmark. We understand language as the means by which individuals form their understanding of the world, their personalities, and more than anything else their social relations. Our project studies the varied linguistic behavior of grade school students in their different everyday contexts with the aim of describing how individuals develop and shape their identities, their realities, and their social relations, and what opportunities and impediments they meet. The project has the character of basic research in this respect. Furthermore, our project has an applied aspect in the concentration on linguistic minority members and their everyday language behavior.
PhD research project
The work of the PhD student will consist of carrying out the Danish parts of the IDI4MES project and to formulate and carry out her or his personal project under the IDI4MES umbrella which is a co-operation between the Universities of Stockholm, Tilburg, Birmingham, and Copenhagen. The focus of this project is on discourses of heritance and identity among late modern urban youth in Europe.
Further Information
For further information about the post, please contact the project leader, Professor Normann Jørgensen, normann@hum.ku.dk
Application procedure
Applicants need to hold a two-year Master's degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent, or expect to receive such by 31 January 2011. Applicants shall have submitted their thesis at the time of application, to the extent the thesis forms part of their Master's program.
Applicants with a non-Danish Master's degree will have their degree assessed by The Danish Agency for International Education to establish, if the Master's degree is equivalent to a Danish Master's degree. More information about The Danish Agency for International Education is available at: http://www.studyindenmark.dk/
Employment as a PhD student occurs pursuant to the applicable rules of the Faculty of Humanities, as well as between the Ministry of Finance and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). Under this agreement, the PhD student is obliged - without further remuneration - to carry out allotted work to an extent corresponding to a total of 840 working hours in the case of a three-year contract.
The PhD student will be working at the same department of the faculty as the supervisor. Daily presence at the department is expected.
Enrolment as a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities' Graduate School is a precondition for employment as a PhD student. A description of the PhD study programme is available at: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/
Applications shall be submitted via the electronic application system efond: http://www.efond.dk/ku-hum/.
Do not submit any publications.
Application form and application guidelines on research proposal and required enclosures are available at the homepage: http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/PhD/Announcements/
A certified copy of the applicant's Master's Degree diploma needs to be submitted as one of the enclosures to the application. Certification shall be by a public authority such as the institution having issued the diploma or a public bureau specializing in diploma certification. The applicant may be asked to submit the originally certified copy of the Master's Degree diploma after the application deadline.
If the MA diploma and/or examination records are in another language than English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish, please include a translation into either of these languages in your application.
The translation of diplomas/certificates and transcripts must be made by or approved by either: a Danish state-authorized translator and interpreter or the embassy or consulate of the country where the original document was issued or where the translation was made or a Danish consulate/embassy.
Closing date for applications: 17 August 2010 at 12 noon (Central European Time). No supplementary documents will be considered after this deadline.
More information here.
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