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Below you will find Ph.d courses and conferences arranged by Polforsk or an institution in our network. Kind Regards Flemming Bjerke & Asbjørn Brink Comparative Political Analysis: Building on Case Study Analysis. ============================================ From: 2008/04/21 To: 2008/04/24 Responsible: Maurice Falk Professor of American Government B. Guy Peters, Pittsberg University At Polforsk we are happy to arrange a Ph.d course with Professor Guy Peters about Comparative political analysis based on case studies. The course will provide a systematic presentation of major research problems in comparative politics. There will be some attention to case study methods but those methods will be embedded in the basic logic of comparative analysis, including issues of selecting cases for analysis and problems of developing concepts and measures that can travel across cultures. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1893 Inaugural World Conference: Ideology and Discourse Analysis Rethinking Political Frontiers and Democracy in a New World Order ============================================= From: 2008/09/08 To: 2008/09/10 Responsible: Torben Dyrberg ISG and Allan Dreyer Hansen ISG. Over the course of the last 25 years, the Essex School in Ideology and Discourse Analysis has established itself as an important and distinctive alternative to mainstream social science approaches. Established in 1982 by Professor Ernesto Laclau, the intellectual programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis draws on a wide range of traditions and disciplines to develop a novel set of conceptual tools intended to enhance theoretical, empirical, and normative research. Further information: Allan Dreyer Hansen [log in to unmask] or Torben Dyrberg [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://ruc.dk/isg/nyheder/30082116/ Between State and Society: Local-Level Politics in Southeast Asia ============================================ From: 2008/05/06 To: 2008/05/09 Responsible: Christian Lund, Michael Eilenberg, Jakob Trane Ibsen. This PhD-researcher course aims to train the participants in analyzing questions and appraise different approaches to studying local-level politics with a geographic focus on Southeast Asia. This will be done through discussions of concepts, theories and methodological aspects. The methodological aspects of how we actually investigate the questions of property and access are a core element of this workshop. We expect discussions to deal with a variety of issues such as analytical frameworks of local politics; political economy vs. historical sociology; domination or negotiation; government, governance, and governmentality; and clash of institutions or friction in local politics. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1853 Rural Property and Inequality ==================== From: 2008/09/01 To: 2008/09/02 Responsible: Thomas Sikor, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia Christian Lund, International Development Studies, Roskilde University The announced workshop is the result of joint efforts by the Rural Property Network, the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and the Graduate School in International Development Studies at Roskilde University. The idea is to combine a meeting of the Rural Property Network with a research-training workshop. This will allow for an exchange of theoretical ideas and empirical knowledge on the forefront of contemporary research and for a discussion of upcoming researchers projects and work. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1915 Contemporary European Perspectives on Volunteering =================================== Time: 15th of May 2008 Responsible: Lena Blomquist The conference on Contemporary European Perspectives on Volunteering: Civic Virtue vs. Social Movement Activism organisers call for papers for this conference. It will be held at Ersta Sköndal University College Stockholm, Sweden, September 10-12, 2008. An abstract of no more than 200 words have to be submitted before the 15th of May 2008 to Lena Blomquist (see below). Notices of acceptance will be sent out by the 15th of June 2008. The final papers have to be distributed no later than the 20th of August 2008. The conference is open to all members of the CINEFOGO Network as well as to other interested colleagues. PhD students are also welcome to apply. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://ruc.dk/isg/nyheder/30082134/ Gendering Theories of Citizenship: Europeanization and Care ========================================= Time: 2nd of april 2008 Responsible: Dr. Hanne Marlene Dahl The conference brings together, on one hand, discussions about the genesis of a thin European social citizenship, which seems to be in development process, and on the other hand, issues of care, whether paid or unpaid, in the context of welfare states and different forms of welfare (state, market, civil society). The intention is to relate feminist thinking and feminist theory on citizenship with a specific attention to care together with the empirical tendency towards Europeanization of welfare and changes in European societies taking place presently. The overall aim is to develop new theoretical insights on this field. In doing so, the relationship between Europeanization and globalization dynamics needs to be discussed and theoretized anew. We envisage contributions that thematize theories of citizenship with an attention to care (its various forms) and to discussions about the emergence of the contours of a European social citizenship. We invite theoretical as well as empirical papers – and attempt to create an interdisciplinary conference with a maximum of 40 participants from various disciplines representing different modes of reasoning. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://ruc.dk/isg/nyheder/30082090/ Theory Building at the Intersections of Organizing and Communication ============================================== From: 2008/03/26 To: 2008/03/28 Responsible: Robyn Remke, Copenhagen Business School In the last 25 years the so-called “linguistic turn” has placed communication and discourse at the focal point of organizational theory and research. The assumption that organizations are constituted through the everyday communicative practices of their members requires that we develop robust and powerful theories regarding the relationship between communication and organization. This course will explore some of those theories, and investigate the extent to which they meet the challenge of taking communication seriously as a constitutive feature of organizational life. In addition, we will examine the ways in which these theories have been put into practice—to what degree has the last 25 years of research provided us with great insight into the complexities and contradictions of everyday communicative practice and the organizational meaning making that is its medium and outcome? What are the future, yet unrealized, possibilities for this research? Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1897 Institutional Organizational Analysis - Change and Transformation ============================================ From: 2008/05/05 To: 2008/05/08 Responsible: Professor Jesper Strandgaard, CBS ([log in to unmask]). The course focuses on the school within institutional theory that is rooted in sociology and not in economic theory. Within this boundary, first we concern ourselves with the provocative foundational works of organizational neoinstitutionalism. We will review institutional contributions, exploring the unique, social constructionist approach used by organizational sociologists. Next, we will turn to some of the more recent advances in institutional analysis. Neoinstitutionalists are distinctive in that they are both historical and interpretive in orientation, exploring historical change and transformations in the meaning of organizational structures and practices. We analyze how institutions are constructed and diffused; how institutional elements are incorporated into and translated in organizations as well as how institutional change and institutional entrepreneurship is taking place within specific organization fields. We discuss diverse methodological approaches to the study of institutionalization processes - macro- as well as micro approaches. In addition, we will explore the applicability of neoinstitutional theory and methods to the empirical projects course participants are currently working on. The goal of the course is to give participants a broad overview of organizational neoinstitutionalism and develop their capacity to use the approach in their own work. Further information: Pia Schjødt Brylov [log in to unmask] Link to course webpage: http://korturl.dk/1va Organizational Identity: Origin, Methods and Relevance for the Future ============================================== From: 2008/05/19 To: 2008/05/21 Responsible: Majken Schultz This doctoral seminar focuses on the topic of organizational identity and related constructs such as organization culture and stakeholder images. The objective is to bring together doctoral students interested in this topic, from different nationalities and intellectual and methodological traditions, to discuss, argue, and share ideas with leading identity researchers from Denmark and the U.S . Further information: Pia Schjødt Brylov [log in to unmask] Further information: [log in to unmask] Link to course webpage http://korturl.dk/wgg Organizing Agents and Institutions ======================= From: 2009/05/11 To: 2009/05/15 Responsible: Ass. Professor Signe Vikkelsø The course focuses on the theoretical tensional field of actor-network theory, new-institutional theory, and the theory of symbolic interactionism (sensemaking theory) with a view to the nature and dynamics of organizing processes. The purpose is to enable the PhD scholar to clarify and formulate his/her own theoretical position and to relate it productively to concrete issues of organizing. Further information: Pia Brylov ([log in to unmask] Read more here: http://korturl.dk/1mt Reading the Novel Politically =================== From: 2008/05/05 To: 2008/05/08 Responsible: Anitta Kananen Novels have permanently examined political dilemmas and challenged familiar political ideas, irrespective of whether professional political scientist have recognized this or not. Such authors as Dostoevsky, Camus, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie, among many others, have inspired as much political as artistic thought by their work. However, as both a contrary and complimentary academic move there has always been the tendency to read novels reductively as simple manifestations or illustrations of political ideas. The purpose of this symposium and doctoral course is to find new ways of reading novels politically, while also reading them as distinctly artistic works. Is it possible, in the final analysis, to be loyal to both perspectives simultaneously? Do novels still embody radical and substantial political thinking worth closer and enduring study? What kinds of methodologies are there available to address these issues? This symposium will address such issues from the perspectives of political thought, philosophy, ethics, and postclassical narratology. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://polforsk.dk/course_full_view?nn=1907 European Summer School of Rural Sociology 2008 ================================== From 2008/08/25 to 2008/08/30 Responsible: Andrea Szili The European Society for Rural Sociology annual Summer School is especially designed for doctoral students and young researchers from all European countries and represents an opportunity for young researchers to meet and exchange experiences with colleagues from other European countries, to present their research work and to have it discussed by other participants including senior researchers. Further information: [log in to unmask] Read more here: http://korturl.dk/mml Sociology and the Quality of Life ====================== From: 2008/06/14 To: 2008/07/18 Responsible: Lloyd Dodd This summer School will be held at university of Crete in Rethymno. 35 places are available at Summer School on Sociology and the Quality of Life for doctoral students. See more at www.cinefogo.org or www.europeansociology.org. Further information: [log in to unmask] The Danish Political Science Research Program Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University House 24.2 Universitetsvej 1 P.O. Box 260 DK-4000 Roskilde Ph. +45 46 74 29 81 [log in to unmask] / www.polforsk.dk