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Call for Abstracts Abstracts submission will open from April 25 to September 30, 2017 24:00 GMT

As part of the forthcoming RC21 Conference Rethinking Urban Global Justice (September 11-13, Leeds, UK), we are organising a session titled: Global Urban Youth in the Midst of Precarization of Life: Towards the Formulation of New Claims For Social Justice.   Global Urban Youth in the Midst of Precarization of Life: Towards the Formulation of…

The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences invitesapplications from postdoctoral researchers who wish to complete a research stay at the Graduate School of two to six months in 2017 or 2018. The deadline for the submission of your application is Wednesday, March 15, 2017. The call is here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/bagss/Formulare_und_Ordnungen/Call_for_Applications_PostDoc_Fellows.pdf For further information about the Graduate…

DEADLINE: March 15, 2017   Dear Colleagues, RC34 Members and Associates, Preparations have started for the XIX International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology to be held at Toronto, Canada.  The Call for Sessions is now open, and will close on March 15, 2017.  (Please note that the Call for Papers will come later, scheduled…

The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences offers two types of memberships for students who wish to pursue doctoral studies: REGULAR MEMBERSHIP Regular doctoral students are full-time researchers funded either by BAGSS (Starter Scholarship or DAAD Scholarship) and the Excellence Initiative or by an external institution (e.g., other bodies funding doctoral studies based on academic…

DEADLINE: March 31, 2017 Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists 1. The International Sociological Association (ISA) announces the organization of the Seventh Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists. The winners will be invited to participate in the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology which will take place in Toronto, Canada in July 2018. 2. By Junior Scholars we…

Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Germany Applications: November 30, 2016   The BGHS is offering six doctoral positions to begin 1 April 2017. A full description of the open positions is available here. Applications should be submitted to the online application portal no later than 30 November 2016.     30 Nov.2016 Deadline…

The Centre for Education, Training and Work in the Asian Century (CETWAC) in the School of Education is pleased to announce the opportunity to complete a higher degree by research and work with world class supervisors. This opportunity is for 2017 enrolments, with a closing date for applications of October 31, 2016 .Successful applicants will…

Doing Transitions Collaborative DFG-funded Research Training Group at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen   The research training group focuses on the question how transitions in the life course are shaped and produced. Transition research so far has dealt with structural factors of transitions and their effects on individual agency and life…

The Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS) invites applications to its PhD program BIGSSS-departs (doctoral education in partnerships). It is part of the COFUND scheme funded by the European Commission under the Framework for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020. BIGSSS is an international Social Science inter-university graduate school, located at the University of…