Ignorance, fear and prejudice – do Europeans get Turkey?

15 November 2011, 14:00-16:00

Istanbul Bilgi University, Academic Board Room, Dolapdere Campus,
Kurtuluş Deresi Cad. No:47, 34440 Dolapdere – Istanbul

The European Institute of Istanbul Bilgi University and the European Stability Initiative
are pleased to invite you to the panel discussion

Do European media paint a realistic picture of Turkey? Are there issues under-represented or over-represented? What other sources of information – for example, the migrant communities – do Europeans use to form their image of Turkey?

These questions will be discussed by Gerald Knaus, Director of the European Stability Initiative, who will present the results of one year of detailed monitoring of the coverage of Turkey in the media of five EU countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Further panellist are Senem Aydın Düzgit and Peter Widmann, both from Bilgi University’s European Institute.

Opening: Prof. Dr. Yeşim Atamer, Deputy Director of the European Institute

 

Islam in Europe Workshop University of Helsinki

 

Essex

University of Essex, Department of Sociology,

NORFACE PhD scholarship in the project

‘500 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe’

The Department of Sociology is looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate for three years, commencing October 2010. Under the supervision of Dr Güveli, the student will conduct a study leading to a PhD thesis. The candidate is required to write his/her own PhD proposal within the project ‘500 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe’. The first version of this proposal should be presented when making the application and it will be used to select the successful student.

Project ‘500 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe (LineUp) ’

The research project ‘500 Families: Migration Histories of Turks in Europe (LineUp)’  is funded by the NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe). This international collaborative research involves partners from the UK, Netherlands and Germany. It aims to collect data on the complete genealogies of 500 Turkish families in Europe and Turkey, to interview a selected number of family members (around 6,000) and to collect data about 11,000 family members of these genealogies. It focuses on migration patterns of the Turkish immigrants in Europe and investigates transmission of resources, behaviour, and values across multiple generations. The Turkish families will be selected by screening five high migrant sending regions in Turkey.

Further information about the Research Project LineUp can be found on the project’s web page at: www.lineup.essex.ac.uk

More information about the Department of Sociology can be found at: www.essex.ac.uk/sociology

Qualifications  and skills

Qualifications of the PhD candidate should include a Masters in sociology, or related social sciences discipline, advanced skills of social science quantitative research, experience with and strong interest in migration issues.  In addition, excellent skills in using statistical software packages such as SPSS, STATA and preferably MLwiN and ability in speaking, writing and understanding Turkish, English and preferably French.

The award pays tuition fees and a maintenance grant each year for a maximum of three years of full-time doctoral study (subject to evidence of satisfactory progress).

General Information

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Ayse Güveli (T 00 44 (0) 1206 873054,
E aguveli@essex.ac.uk). Please send your research proposal and CV via e-mail with the following inserted into the subject:  ‘LineUp PhD position’ before the closing time (stated below).

However, all applications must also be sent to Ms Michele Hall. The successful candidate must provide all necessary documents. For more information about these documents please contact Ms Michele Hall with the following inserted into the subject: ‘LineUp PhD position’.

Michele Hall

Graduate Administrator

Department of Sociology

T 00 44 (0) 1206 87 3051

E mehall@essex.ac.uk

Closing date: 23 July 2010

Interview date:  Week beginning 2 August 2010

 

Essex

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX 

 

RECRUITMENT PACK

 

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Making an application:

 

Please complete the short on-line application form, which includes some standard questions, and attach the following documents. (Shortlisting is undertaken by a panel after the closing date on the basis of information provided.)

 

• a covering letter – explaining why you are interested in this post, and giving examples to demonstrate how you meet the requirements of the job as outlined.
• a curriculum vitae – giving full details of your qualifications and experience to date;

 

NB. Please do not provide reference or other non-requested documents.

 

• Links to Guidance Notes and Frequently Asked Questions can be found at the top of the Search Results page.
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If you are invited to attend an interview, you will receive an email with details of the arrangements.  If you have provided us with a mobile telephone contact number, you will also be notified via a text message telling you to visit your email account for further information.

 

Please note:  We are only accepting on-line applications for this post.  However, if you have a disability that makes it difficult for you to provide us with information in this way, please contact the Recruitment Team (01206-874588/873521) for help.

 

Closing Date: 30 November 2009

Interviews are likely to be held in the second half of December 2009.

 

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JOB DESCRIPTION – Job ref RE946

 

Job Title and Grade:	Senior Research Officer Grade 8
Contract:	Full time, fixed-term for 2 years. This post is fixed-term due to funding stipulations on the period of employment
Hours:	A notional minimum of 36 hours per week
Salary:	£29,704-£35,469 per annum
Department/Section:	Sociology
Responsible to:	The Head of Sociology
Reports on a day to day basis to:	The PI of the Project LineUp
Responsible for:	Managing the data collection, tracing families and contributing to the activities of the research team.
Purpose of job:   We are looking for an enthusiastic post doctoral researcher with the knowledge, skills, and experience to play a full and active part in all aspects of this project. Under the supervision of Dr Güveli, the tasks of the successful candidate will concentrate on the management of the survey data collection, tracing the members of the 500 Turkish families, organizing meetings, liaising with the partners and conducting research. The main tasks comprise the preparation of the questionnaires, managing the screening in Turkey, tracing the family members and publishing articles and reports. Qualifications include a doctorate in sociology, economics, demography or a related social science, excellent quantitative research skills, experience with and strong interest in migration issues and survey data collection, and excellent Turkish and English communication skills.   This research is administered by the University of Essex and it is hosted in the Department of Sociology. The candidate should start in January 2010 or as soon as possible after this date.

 

Duties of the Post:

 

1. Coordinating and managing the LineUp project as a whole but in particular the international data collection (under the supervision of the Principal Investigator and other research partners).
2. Contributing to the development of the questionnaires.
3. Managing the screening of the regions in Turkey to find immigrant and non-immigrant families.
4. Collecting contact information of the family members of the 500 Turkish families in all European countries and Turkey.  
5. Liaising with organizations and associations in Turkey and European countries in order to increase the response rates in the screening and surveying.
6. Finding bilingual interviewers from European countries and assisting them with their interview training and interview.
7. Taking notes in the meetings and writing evaluation reports about them.
8. Writing annual reports.
9. Preparing proposals for funding purposes.

10.  Attending relevant conferences, workshops, and meetings.

11.  Doing literature review on the Turkish migration to Europe.

12.  Contributing to collaborative decision making with colleagues in the research team.

13.  Planning and managing own research activities in collaboration with other team members.

14.  Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the Head of Sociology or his/her nominee.

These duties are a guide to the work that the post holder will initially be required to undertake. They may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances and do not form part of the contract of employment.

Terms of Appointment:

For a full description of the terms of appointment for this post please visit:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/personnel/CondServ/default.htm

 

Nomrs… norms

Call for Papers : Strasbourg Conference

(23-24-25 June 2010)

 Norms in translation and the translation of norms in

European institutions and businesses

Europe is the world’s largest economic zone in terms of general domestic product. The European Union, however, as its most powerful economic structure with 27 member states, does not have the monopoly on all the exchanges that take place in Europe. Countries such as those of the European Free Trade

Association (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), countries of South-Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Ukraine, and several others, also participate in the exchanges within Europe. The 23 official languages of the European Union, which are determined when the states become members, are thus supplemented by other languages which also have a role to play.

Within this European zone every country works in one or several languages, which are either chosen or imposed by circumstance, and translation is therefore an inevitable and necessary aspect of all these exchanges. This situation raises the question of the languages from and into which translation occurs, and the norms that apply to these translations.

The pertinence both of the problems involved in translating normative texts and of the question of norms in translation is explained by the large quantity of texts to be translated in a great number of languages on the one hand, and by the desire to “say the same thing” in all these languages on the other. These matters have repercussions on an economic, institutional, socio-cultural and ideological level.

This European multilingualism constitutes a de facto impediment for the translation of the various types of norms elaborated by the institutions of the European Union, such as their regulations, directives and recommendations, as well as the judgments and decisions issued by the supranational courts. The same applies to economic, technical and scientific documents: every language has to be taken into account, whatever its number of speakers may be. A further matter for debate lies in the different translation norms diffused by translator training institutions and in their varying applications among publishing houses throughout Europe. Furthermore, the multilingual environment in which European businesses function raises the problem of the choice of their working language, as they often adopt English at the expense of the national language, which in turn raises the question of source text quality.

The conference aims to bring together translators, linguists, translator trainers, experts working in the European Institutions, as well as people working in the business sector, to discuss the practices and the demands which this European multilingualism generates.

Presentations can focus on any of the following topics:

• Harmonising translation practice in businesses and institutions.

• The use of terminology in a multilingual context, both in the public and private sector.

• Multilingual strategies in business communication and translation.

• European minority languages and translation issues.

• The impact of majority languages on translation norms.

• Problems of source text quality linked to the use of global English.

• The implicit and explicit diffusion of translation norms.

• Norms in translator training.

• Norms in translation as applied by the audiovisual industry and in publishing.

The conference is organised by the Research Group on European Multilingualism (EA 1339, LiLPa), the

Institute for Translators, Interpreters and International Relations (ITI-RI) at Strasbourg University and the College for Languages and Applied Human Sciences of the University of Strasbourg.

200 to 300-word proposals for papers in French or in English, with a provisional title, should be sent to outilstrad@googlemail.com by 30 November 2009. The selected papers may be given in French or in English in a 25-minute presentation (+ 5 minutes Q & A).

Registration fee: € 65 (payment before 31 March 2010) or € 100 (payment after 31 March 2010)

Coffee breaks and lunch are provided by the conference organisers.

Accommodation and other meals are paid for by the participants.

Conference calendar:

30 November 2009: deadline for submission of proposals

30 January 2010: notification of acceptance of proposals

23-24-25 June 2010: Conference

Academic Committee:

• Amalia Todirascu (University of Strasbourg)

• Antje Gualberto, (University of Strasbourg)

• Arlette Bothorel (University of Strasbourg)

• Ayfer Altay (Hacettepe University of Ankara, Turkey)

• Barbara Kaltz (University of Aix-en-Provence)

• Christopher Gledhill (University of Lille 3)

• Claude Truchot (University of Strasbourg)

• Daniel Gouadec (University of Rennes 2)

• Elisabeth Lavault-Olléon (University of Grenoble 3)

• Ineke Wallaert (University of Strasbourg)

• James Brannan (European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg)

• Jean Dewitz (Université of Strasbourg)

• Jean-François Allain (Council of Europe, Strasbourg)

• John Humbley (University of Paris 7)

• Marie-Paule Jacques (University of Strasbourg)

• Mojca Schlamberger Brezar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

• Rita Temmermann (Erasmushogeschool, Brussel, Belgium)

• Slaheddine Dchicha (University of Strasbourg)

• Teresa Cabré (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

• Thierry Grass (University of Strasbourg)

 

Intensive

Intensive Summer Program on World Religions

2010: Globalizing Religions: Conflict or Conflict Resolution?

The Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University conducts an annual summer seminar. It is organized by the well-known sociologist of religion Peter L. Berger, co-sponsored with the School of Theology of Boston University, under the guidance of Dean John Berthrong.  The seminar is generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation’s Henry R. Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.

The program is an intensive two-week seminar on special topics in religion and world affairs.  The 2010 program will run June 13-25.  It will examine the world’s major religious traditions, in each case asking the following questions: How has each tradition globalized?  Has it contributed to conflict or conflict resolution? The seminar is designed for professional residents of the United States, with some coming from abroad, who are concerned with the international role of religion in politics, economics and social change.  Those particularly encouraged to apply are journalists, policy analysts (in or out of government), and educators.

The program is taught by a combination of faculty from Boston University and other universities, as well as by active or former members of the foreign policy community.  Details of the 2010 summer seminar will be posted here once the program is finalized.

CURA will provide housing and meals for all participants.  Travel fellowships will be available on a competitive basis.

To apply, send a one-page letter of interest, along with a brief CV, and an indication whether assistance with travel is required, to:

Ms. Laurel Whalen, Administrator
Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs
10 Lenox Street
Brookline, MA 02446
Email: cura@bu.edu Fax: (617)-353-6408

Application Deadline: March 31, 2010

 

reflections

 

Sustainable

 

Boundaries!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Beyond Boundaries:

Media, Culture and Identity in Europe

2-3 October 2009, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

What is Europe according to its others? An essence, an origin, a center? Or is it nothingness, a void or chiasm? Where is Europe? In diasporic or migrant spaces? How is Europe different from the West? Can an identity be made European? Could it be Eurocentric or Euro-chiasmic? Can one leave one’s cultural frame to take on another? Can one transnationalize and/or regionalize a national identity or vice versa? Can the European Union create a single entity or a grand signifier of Europe out of multiple differences? What is the role of communication, media, and culture in such exchanges, transformations, processes and practices? Can we account for the similarities, proximities, and relations or should we focus on the differences, cleavages, and tensions?

This conference aims to explore the questions above and how such questions surface in media and cultural texts, ranging from everyday practices to media representations. The papers may deal with various meanings of Europe and its relation to non-European cultures, and how these are experienced or altered at the level of media, culture, and identity. Possible paper topics are:

Eurocentrism and its alternatives

Transnationalism and nationalisms

Global, regional, and local media and culture

Diasporic and migrant culture and identities

Gender equality and cultural diversity

Tactics and strategies of dialogue between cultures

Symbolic representations of Europe in various cultural practices

Theories of European cinema, media and culture

Challenges for European cinema, media, and cultural studies

European communication studies and strategies

The EU policies on media, communication, and culture

Confirmed Keynote Speakers (alphabetically listed):

Emine Bozkurt ( Member of the European Parliament for the PvdA ), member of the Employment and Social Affairs Committee ; member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality ; member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Turkey ; substitute member of the Culture and Education Committee ; Vice-Chair of the Diversity and Integration Network for the Socialist Group .

Prof. Angela McRobbie (University of London, Goldsmiths College, Media and Communications) author of Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries, forthcoming (2010); Feminist Cultural Studies:  Essays on Post-Feminist Aesthetics , Literature and Popular Culture, forthcoming (2010); The Aftermath of Feminism : Gender, Culture and Social Change (2008); The Uses of Cultural Studies (2005); In the Culture Society (1999); British Fashion Design (1998).

Prof. Kevin Robins (Based in Istanbul and a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths College, University of London) author of Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (1999); Into the Image: Culture and Politics in the Field of Vision (1996); Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (co-author, 1995).

Prof. William Uricchio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies), author of We Europeans?: Media, Representations, Identities (2009); Media Cultures (2006); Media, Technology, Convergence (1997); Reframing Culture: the Case of the Vitagraph Quality Films (1993, co-author).

Other speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.

Please send a 300-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker (mailing address & email address) to emcs@bahcesehir.edu.tr

Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2009.  

Deadline for acceptance information: June 29, 2009.

Deadline for submitting the completed papers: September 20, 2009.

Deadline for papers for conference proceedings: October 18, 2009.

 

Organizing Committee  

• Prof. Haluk Gürgen (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Prof. Dieter Mersch (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
• Prof. Winfried Gerling (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
• Assoc. Prof. Süheyla Schroeder (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; visiting fellow at University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany)
• Assoc. Prof. Savas Arslan (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Assist. Prof. Defne Karaosmanoglu (Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)
• Assist. Prof. Christine Hanke (University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany; visiting fellow at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey)  

The conference is organized by an EU funded project, “European Media and Cultural Studies and Media Awareness,” jointly run by Bahcesehir University (Istanbul, Turkey), University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany) and University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany).

Please note: There is no fee for the conference registration.

The language of the conference is English.

If you have further questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us. E-Mail: Aysegul Kesirli (conference assistant) Phone: +90 (212) 381 0764

 

Köprüler yaptirdim gelip geçmeye…

EURASIA IN A SHIFTING GLOBAL CONTEXT:

BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY BRIDGES

June 18-21, 2009