The Association of the Sociology Students at Sofia University - ASSSU reminds you that there is still a week before the final deadline for applying for  ESSA Spring School 2008: “New forms of human rights and civic engagement in the 21st century”. The school takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria between May 9th - May 12th, 2008 and will be followed by an ESSA General Assembly on May 13th. 5 lecturers, coming from Bulgaria, Slovenia, Holland and Germany, will, each in their own workshop and from their own standpoint, address the issues concerning the theme. All the info and the list of workshops you can find on http://asssu.eu/ . For more information about the keynote speakers: http://asssu.eu/taxonomy/term/7

In the attachment you can find the official announcement and the application form. We are kindly asking everyone interested to fill in the application form and send it to the following e-mail address This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it . Please note that the application deadline is April 14th 2008. Successful candidates will be notified by April 20th via e-mail. When applying, everybody is required to submit a short essay (2-5 pages) on the position of the human rights and civic engagement. The working language for the spring school and the assembly, as well as for the essays, will be English.

Both accommodation and food expenses will be fully covered by the organizers. Travel expenses will be fully covered by the organizers, provided that you use second class train ticket or another cheap way of traveling (please inform us) and bring all your original travel receipts and tickets. Participation fee: none

We are looking forward to receiving your applications and seeing you in Sofia!

Department of Sociology, University of Oxford: 26 – 28 June 2007

The Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, is offering a three day course on practical aspects of survey analysis and interpretation, aimed at practising social researchers working in the public and private sectors, academics and graduate students.

The course will be led by Professor Anthony Heath FBA and Jean Martin AcSS, both of whom have unrivalled experience in survey analysis. Professor Heath, currently the Head of the Department of Sociology, was the Director of the 1983-1997 British Election Surveys and principal investigator of many ESRC-funded projects on survey analysis. He has publishes widely, including books, articles in leading refereed journals, and reports for government. Jean Martin is a former Director of Social Analysis and Reporting Division at the Office for National Statistics, and has been responsible for many major government surveys.

This three day course in the Department of Sociology provides a practical guide to all the key elements of survey analysis necessary for drafting a research report or an article.  The focus of the course is on the practical issues that arise in the analysis of survey data and the kinds of decisions that survey analysts have to make from the initial checking the survey to the final write up and presentation of the results.

The full cost of the course is £450, which includes lunch, a drinks reception on Tuesday evening, and a tour of historical Oxford for all participants. The cost for students at academic institutions is £350. The cost of en-suite accommodation is £55.75 per night (inc. breakfast).

From the 2nd till 9th of September 2007, the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp organises a summer school on "Religion, Culture and Society" in Antwerp, Belgium. With this, the centre continues the tradition it started in 2003 with its summer seminars on intercultural dialogue and on faith-based radicalism.

It is obvious that religion, culture and society are strongly interwoven and are crucial for understanding the contemporary world. It is the aim of the interdisciplinary UCSIA summer school to learn and reflect on this interconnection.

This call for application is addressed to graduate and postgraduate students and young scholars in theology, the humanities, the social sciences or other disciplines who are involved in active research work pertaining to this subject matter.

Participants should stay for the whole duration of the seminar. Tuition fee, accommodation and meals are provided by the organizer. In principle, the participant only has to bear his or her travel expenses and his or her personal expenses.

The completed application form and other required application documents must be submitted to the UCSIA Selection Committee not later than Sunday April 15th 2007.

For further information please visit the website: www.ucsia.org/summerschool .

 

 

Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies consists of several short and intensive one-week postgraduate research courses at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway.

Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies was initiated by Professor Fredrik Engelstad in 1992 in order to further international contact among students and researchers working within comparative social science. The first summer school session was held in the summer of 1993, and will now be held for the 15th time in the summer of 2007.

From a relatively small summer session back in 1993, with 7 course modules offered and only about 50 PhD students participating, the Summer School during the last 6-7 years have grown steadily from year to year, with well over 200 PhD students and young researchers attending the summer programme of 2001, and summer programme of 2005. And the programme of 2004 was actually fully enlisted for almost all the 9 different course modules, with alltogether 250 participants ranging from about 30 different countries. In the year 2002, the Oslo Summer School celebrated its 10th year adding two 2 anniversary lectures to the programme, one of them held by the well known Norwegian political scientist and philosopher Jon Elster who lectured on the topic of The Comparative Study of Justice.

Throughout the years, a number of well known scholars have lectured at the Oslo Summer School, such as Professor Bob Jessop (1994 & 2001), Professor Gösta Esping-Andersen (1995), Professor Peter Evans and Professor Wendy Griswold (1998 and 2005), Professor Charles Tilly, Professor Philippe Aghion and Professor Robert Boyer (1999), Professor Michal Mann (2000), Professor Pippa Norris (2001), Dr. Keith Hart (2002), Professor Rogers Brubaker (2004), Professor Brian Wynne and Professor Göran Therborn (2005), Professor Jonathan Friedman (2006). And for many years, and perhaps one of our most popular courses, Professor Charles C. Ragin have provided the methodological background and framework lecturing on Comparative Methodology (1994, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004)

Visit the Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies 2007 web site to learn more about this years' program.

The 8th European Sociological Association Conference titled "Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society" will take place in  Glasgow between 3rd - 6th September, 2007 and it will bring together scholars from across the globe to explore contemporary citizenship in Europe and debate the state of democracy and the fate of civil, political and social rights that have been the political lifeblood of European societies. The Conference will host papers in over 30 Research Networks and Research Streams covering the full range of substantive areas within the sociological canon, including a list of research streams/networks.

Keynote Speakers

Keynote speakers include Margaret Archer, Donatella Della Porta and Nicos Mouzelis.

Registration and abstract submission

It is anticipated that registration and abstracts will be accepted from autumn 2006. If you would like to be contacted as details become available, please fill in our contact form or email This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it giving your name, address and contact email.