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Dear one and all
We would like to inform you of the foundation of a new research centre,
the Sussex Centre for the Individual and Society (SCIS).
SCIS is independent of Sussex University but run by Sussex postgraduate
students in Social and Political Thought and situated on Sussex campus.
Surprising as it may seem, there appears to be no other research centre
at any university in the world that applies itself wholly to looking
at "the individual and society" from the perspective of social sciences
and/or social and political thought.
Research in SCIS will be undertaken in three Research Clusters. These
are:
1. Study of the Individual
2. Study of Collectivisms
3. Development Studies
SCIS has an international focus and aims to involve further students
and young researchers at Sussex and worldwide as Research Assistants
and Associate Researchers. We wish to create both the new intellectual
heart of Sussex University and a worldwide interdisciplinary network of
highly individualistic researchers, particularly in the social sciences
and humanities, and artists - a network of people who feel that the
current higher education system stifles their abilities and potential.
SCIS will hold an Inaugural Symposium on "The Individual and Society in
the 21st Century" at the University of Sussex on the weekend of 22/23
July 2006.
For this Symposium we invite "Positions" (rather than papers or
abstracts) that express YOUR take on "the individual and society" and
in particular "The Individual and Society in the 21st Century". - - -
Discussions during the Symposium will be structured around
participants' Positions. - - - The proceedings of the Symposium may be
published.
Please send your Position (500 words) as soon as possible.
We would also like to receive your Position if you are interested in
working with SCIS on an ongoing basis, be this as Associate Researcher
or Associate Research Assistant or, in exceptional cases, as a full
member of the centre (e. g. Researcher or Senior Researcher).
Although our focus is on "the individual and society" we believe that a
vast variety of daring and unusual research projects can be carried out
under this heading (there are no restrictions) and that the personality
and way of thinking of the individual researcher are what is all
important.
Please get in contact with us if you think that you're the kind of
person we're interested in meeting.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes,
Erich Kofmel, [log in to unmask]
Alex Higgins, [log in to unmask]
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