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Call for Papers: 7th Garnet PhD School “Global Governance, Regionalism & the Role of the EU: The Gender Dimension” December 1-5, 2008, University of Kassel, Germany The GARNET PhD schools are part of the GARNET Network of Excellence financed by the European Commission’s 6th FP (2005-2009), which focuses on “Global Governance, Regionalization and Regulation: the Role of the EU”. The GARNET PhD school offers a week-long, intensive PhD seminar, based upon active student participation and academic excellence, focusing on theoretical issues and research methodologies. The 7th GARNET PhD seminar will focus on the gender dimension of the European integration process, global governance and regionalization. While gender is one of the basic structural categories in socio-economic processes and their governance, theoretical and empirical contributions obtained from undertaking gender sensitive analyses are not always clear. Consequently, many socio-political research designs do not take gender into account. Against this background, the PhD seminar would like to offer both PhD students, who are already working with a gender perspective, and those who are not, the opportunity to more fully grasp the implications and possibilities of integrating gender into research on European integration, global governance, and regionalization. The seminar will bring together approximately 25 PhD students involved in all fields related to global governance, regionalism and the EU, who share an interest in gender issues. They will have the opportunity to discuss with academic researchers and gender experts from the EU and international institutions. They include Prof. Isabella Bakker PhD (York University, Toronto), Prof. Brigitte Young PhD (University of Münster), Prof. Dr. Thanh-Dam Truong (ISS, The Hague), Prof. Dr. Alison Woodward (Free University of Brussels), Prof. Dr. Violeta Zentai (Central European University, Budapest) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Scherrer (University of Kassel). We welcome papers from PhD students (all genders!) working on one or more of the following topics (non-exhaustive list): - citizenship, - civil society, - commodification processes, - comparative studies on countries, world regions or gender regimes, - demographic change, - EU policies and integration theories, - feminist economics, - finance, - gender identities and sexual orientation, - gender mainstreaming, - global governance, - global social policies, - industrial relations, - international organizations (WTO, IMF, World Bank, OECD, EU, UN etc.), - international political economy, - international relations, - knowledge production and knowledge networks, - masculinities, - migration and mobility, - public policy, - public services, - regionalization, - organizational change and reforms, - trade. The deadline for applications is September 30th. The call for papers, a preliminary program, the application form and additional information on the reimbursement can be found in the attached document and on the Garnet website: http://www.garnet-eu.org/PhD_School.321.0.html