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2009 FALL INTERNSHIPS The Chicago Council on Global Affairs offers undergraduate juniors and seniors the chance to learn about our organization and participate in a variety of duties associated with ongoing projects through internships. While intern responsibilities vary by department, tasks may include researching prospective speakers, donors, studies, and corporate members, writing communications, assisting in the development of marketing/program materials, audience and outreach development, administrative duties (filing, faxing, data entry, preparing mailings, assembling program/meeting materials), assisting at Council events, and other projects as assigned. With more than 150 programs and events every year, The Chicago Council delivers a diverse and balanced spectrum of programming related to international relations, global issues, and U.S. foreign policy. Note: The Council’s program year runs from September through June. Internship opportunities are available in the following departments: • Public and Leadership Programs • Global Chicago • Corporate Program • Studies • Major gifts/fundraising • Corporate Relations • Marketing and database maintenance • Administration To qualify, students must have an academic major or personal interest in international affairs; possess excellent research, writing, and verbal communications skills; be detail-oriented with strong organizational abilities; and possess knowledge of Microsoft Office. Interns are asked to commit to a minimum of 15 hours per week. While internships are unpaid, the Council does offer limited local travel reimbursement to and from the office. Interns also receive a complimentary, one-year membership with The Chicago Council. To apply, please e-mail a cover letter (specifying dates and hours of availability), résumé, and a two-page writing sample as Word documents to hr@thechicagocouncil.org Feel free to apply via the Council’s Web site at www.thechicagocouncil.org. APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2009 INTERNSHIPS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED. EEO About Us The Chicago Council on Global Affairs is a leading independent, nonpartisan organization committed to influencing the discourse on global issues through contributions to opinion and policy formation, leadership dialogue, and public learning. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, founded in 1922 as The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, has been the pre-eminent forum in Chicago and the Midwest for the discussion of world affairs and U.S. foreign policy since its inception. Posted August 2009 |
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University |
The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Invites applications for 2009-2010 Graduate Affiliates Advanced doctoral students working in the humanities in any of the schools across Northwestern University who would be interested in sharing their ideas and research with Institute associates and participating in events with Institute visitors are invited to apply for graduate affliliate. Please click here for more information about this program and application procedures, or contact Beverly Zeldin-Palmer, Department Assistant, at the Kaplan Institute, at b-zeldin@northwestern.edu or 847-467-3970. The application deadline is April 3, 2009. Posted February 2009 |
| Re-Public | Call for papers Representing the Crisis/Representing Debt The current world economic crisis is historically unique in that it did not arise out of a crisis in industrial production or equity market crash but by the simple fact that large numbers of working class Americans began defaulting on their household mortgage payments. The crisis has highlighted the extent of the penetration of finance into the transactions of everyday life; housing, pensions, insurance and consumption. The sudden collapse of the global debt driven consumer and housing boom and the associated deterioration in the equity and commodity markets have also put in question several narratives the ‘boom’ supported such as ‘democratic financialization’ and ’shareholder nation’. The unprecedented rush by the Governments of major economic powers to ’save the system’ by massive public injections of capital into the financial sector amidst no public debate, widespread public disapproval yet acquiescence raises serious questions of how the current crisis is being represented and the spaces it opens and forecloses for more democratic governance of the ‘economy’. While a dominant narrative of the causes of the crisis has yet to emerge, blame has so far been focused either on the inexperience of certain banks, greedy CEO’s, or on reckless sub-prime borrowers. Policy is still heavily geared around ’saving the economy’ via more or less state intervention. There has not yet been mainstream questioning of the debt driven consumption led growth, or the massive changes in capital markets since the hegemony of neo-liberal policy thinking and the resultant new forms of investment , ownership and financial power to have emerged.
Guest editor: Arlen Dilsizian Deadline for submission: 15 April 2009
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University of Macedonia, Olympia, Greece |
The International Graduate Summer Seminar in Conflict and Identity in scenic and historic Olympia in Greece Co-organized by the University of Macedonia and SINCE THE SUMMER OF 2002, Olympia has been hosting, with growing success, an annual international graduate summer program in conflict studies. Thanks to the collaboration of Greek universities with Yale University’s Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, the hospitality of the city of Ancient Olympia, and the generosity of Greek foundations, the OSS bring together every year a highly diverse and talented group of graduate students, professionals, and professors from more than 20 countries from around the world. The purpose of the seminars is to create a forum for high quality academic work in the unique context of Olympia, and to provide opportunities for the creation and consolidation of scholarly networks of cooperation. The 2009 program will run from July 6 until July 17, 2009. Participants will be selected from a competitive pool of candidates. Tuition charges cover only part of the total cost of the program since OSS is generously supported by several sponsors. A number of scholarships are offered on the basis of merit and need.
Posted February 2009 |
