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YECREA organises a Young Scholars Workshop as part of the ECREA Symposium “The Mediation of Scandal and Moral Outrage” (organised by the Communication and Democracy – Gender and Communication – YECREA sections) http://www.ecrea.eu/events/about/id/60.

Please distribute and participate in this survey for an LSE postgrad project.

This is a short survey that aims to understand what people consider important in good public debates as they are conducted through the media, but also face-to-face. It is interested in the kind of qualities a public debate should have in a democracy: https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/lsewebsite/debate

 
Winter Conference in Copenhagen: Conceptions of ethical and social values in post-secular society - Towards a New Ethical Imagination in a Cosmopolitan world Society

 
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies invites suitable candidates to apply for up to four postdoctoral fellowships and one Central and East European postdoctoral fellowship in economic sociology and political economy.
 
Applicants must hold a PhD degree in political science, sociology, organization studies or related fields. Degrees must be received by June 2011 at the latest. 
Fellowships will usually start on October 1, 2011, and will be awarded for one year. The deadline for application is January 31, 2011.
 

 
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABP658/studentship-2010/

Check out the facebook event for the Planning an Academic Career session in Hamburg on October 1st. We hope to see you there.

 
Six international postdoctoral positions in the digital humanities are now available at HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden from September 1, 2010 
The call is open, but 1-3 positions may be allocated to the areas of “media places”, “archeological landscape visualization”, and “internet and religion”. There are no teaching requirements associated with any of the positions.
 

Fully funded mobility PhD scholarships at the Graduate School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Mobility scholarships may be awarded to candidates with qualifying degrees from educational institutions outside Denmark or from Danish educational institutions other than the institution awarding the scholarships.
http://www.phd.humaniora.au.dk/en/scholarships/vacant/f10_mobil_uk

Call for papers – vol. 2 issue 2:
Voices of Dissent. Activists' Engagements in the Creation of Alternative, Autonomous, Radical and Independent Media.