4 year PhD Fellowships at the University of British Columbia

re you considering pursuing a PhD? Do you know someone who is? If so you may be interested in a new funding development here at UBC.

The message is simple - UBC wants top graduate students and will support those students by ensuring stable scholarship funding of at least $16,000 plus tuition per year for the first four years of their PhD studies. Introduced by the Faculty of Graduate Studies
this fall, the new Four-Year Fellowship (4YF) program greatly enhances the ability of UBC's graduate programs to attract and retain the best doctoral students from across Canada and around the globe.

Every year, the 4YF package will be available to nearly 200 new PhD students, with approximately 800 PhD students at any given time receiving this valuable fellowship.

Open to both Canadian and international students, all students offered admission to a UBC PhD program will automatically be considered for 4YF funding. Awardees will be selected on the basis of academic excellence, upon the recommendation of their graduate program. In addition, all PhD students who are awarded scholarship funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council automatically become 4YF holders.
Four Year Fellowship holders with external scholarship support will receive 4YF support once their external scholarship funding ends.
Additional funding may be available from individual Faculties and graduate programs.

Information about the LINK4YF opportunity is provided at: http:// www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/four-year-doctoral-fellowship-4yf

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Minority Identities in the Arab World (CASAW)

The University of Edinburgh is seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Minority Identities in the Arab World, within the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), to begin January 2011. This post is a one-year fixed term contract.

The successful candidate will be expected to conduct and present research engaging with aspects of the emergence and development of minority communities in the Arab Middle East from the 19th century to the present day, addressing issues of statelessness and the creation of refugee communities. S/he will contribute to the work of CASAW through undertaking teaching and administrative duties and play a part in promoting the Centre’s existing and upcoming teaching and outreach programmes. The post would be ideal for a recent PhD graduate in the history or politics of the Arab world, or any other relevant discipline.
The ideal post holder will have an established record or potential in achieving excellence in research and publication. A knowledge of Arabic and teaching experience is desirable.

Further particulars and an application form can be found at www.jobs.ed.ac.uk, under vacancy reference 3013511.

Closing Date: 12 November 2010
Salary Scale: £29853 - £35646

2011 Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library

Position: 2011 Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden
University Library

Brill, the oldest scholarly publishing house in The Netherlands based in
Leiden since 1683, is sponsoring the Scaliger Institute for the period
2006-2012. This contribution provides an opportunity for one or two
fellows to come to Leiden University Library each year in order to do
research in the library's rich Special Collections.

The Brill fellowship is intended for a minimum period of three months.
The allowance, which is intended to cover the costs of accommodation and
research, is Euro 1000 per month. Applications can be submitted by mail
and post to the board of the Brill fellowship. The prospective fellow
must be involved in one of the following main subject areas of Brill:
Middle East & Islamic Studies; Asian Studies; Medieval & Early Modern
History; Biblical & Religious Studies; Ancient Near East & Egypt and
Classical Studies.

The Brill fellow is expected to contribute to the activities of the
Scaliger Institute and to give a public lecture. When the occasion
arises, the lecture will be published by Brill in association with the
Scaliger Institute.

The closing date for applications is 31 January 2011. For more
information see: http://scaligerinstitute.leidenuniv.nl

Démocratie locale entre logique délibérative et participative

Le CM2S organise le 01décembre 2010 à l’amphithéâtre Driss Chraïbi à la Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines à Casablanca Ain Chock en collaboration avec la Fondation Konrad Adenauer et l'Association Targa-Aide, une journée d'étude autour du thème :

« Démocratie locale entre logique délibérative et participative »

Voir le programme

CALL FOR PAPERS

Together with the University of Bologna, the support of Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and the Italian Rector's Conference (CRUI), AlmaLaurea is organizing the International Conference: "Human Capital and Employment in the European and Mediterranean Area"; Bologna (Italy) on Thursday 10th/Friday 11th March 2011.

The aim of this international conference is to foster the exchange of inter-disciplinary knowledge, research findings, information, experiences and best practices among researchers, transnational firms, clusters of small and medium-size firms, Euro-Mediterranean universities and policy makers.

The 13th AlmaLaurea Survey on Italian Graduates' Employment Conditions based on the experiences of over 370.000 graduates interviewed 1, 3 and 5 years on from graduation, will be presented and put in comparison with similar survey and studies carried out internationally. This will allow the promotion and strengthening of international research networks, the design of policy proposals throughout the Euro-Mediterranean area about human capital development.

We would encourage you to submit a paper proposal and support by disseminating this present call throughout your scientific network and/or publishing it on your website or publications. We would be grateful if you could give us a feedback about your willingness to support us.

CALL FOR PAPERS is open until 29th of November 2010.

AVIS DE SOUTENANCE

Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer que Leila Bouasria, membre du Groupe Jeunes Chercheurs, va très prochainement soutenir sa thèse sur les 'Négociations de rôles conjugaux au prisme du salariat féminin: le cas des ouvrières casablancaises'.

La soutenance se déroulera le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 9h30 à la Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines de Rabat.

Résumé de la thèse

Conférence

Le Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie
organise:
« Quels rôles et quels usages pour les espaces
verts au Maghreb:
Le cas du Parc Murdoch à Casablanca »
Dr. Ammara Bekkouche
département d’architecture d’Oran, USTO
boursière, AIMS/GETTY
à 10h00, le mardi 9 novembre 2010
CEMA, cité du chercheur (ex. IAP), Université d’Oran