call: videos on the theme “gender identity”

call: videos on the theme “gender identity”
final deadline: 1 March 2006

VideoChannel http://videochannel.newmediafest.org is looking for videos on the theme of “gender identity”, to be included in the online collection on
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org, as well as the DVD video collection to be presented on festivals and media exhibitions. Continue reading

NEW FULLY FUNDED DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AIMED AT EASTERN EUROPEANS PRIMARILY

NEW FULLY FUNDED DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSSIBILITIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AIMED AT EASTERN EUROPEANS PRIMARILY

Marie Curie SocAnth is a new EU funded training programme aiming to promote the development of Anthropological research and teaching in central, eastern and South-eastern Europe. Continue reading

Gender and Peacebuilding -Advanced International Training Programme

A Five-Days International Training Programme for Practitioners, Policy Makers, International and National Agency Staff and NGOs working in peacebuilding, conflict transformation and post-war recovery

www.transcend.org

Organised by TRANSCEND and the Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR)

April 10-14, 2006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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CfP: Queer Theory Conference, Warsaw, 29-30.8.2006

Warsaw University
Gender Studies Center and American Studies Center

Seeking Queer Alliances: Resisting Dominant Discourses and Institutions
7th international queer studies conference

29-30.08.2006

As the political climate in many parts of the world turns increasingly conservative, we are asking whether a concept such as global homophobia may be a useful analytical and/or political tool, and—as a correlate question— whether queer concepts travel well across political borders and geo-cultural spaces. Continue reading