“MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND CROSS-NATIONAL APPROACHES TO ROMANY STUDIES - A MODEL FOR EUROPE”,

financed by the European Union Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses 'Romany Studies'

Course Dates: July 6-24, 2009

Detailed course description: www.sun.ceu.hu/romany

Faculty:

Michael Stewart, Department of Anthropology, University College London/CEU, Nationalism Studies; Julia Szalai, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences/Nationalism Studies, CEU; Judith Okely, Oxford University, IGS Queen Elizabeth House, UK; Yaron Matras, University of Manchester, UK; Paloma Gay y Blasco, University of St. Andrews; Elisabeth Tauber, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, University of Munich, Germany; Henriette Asseo, Ecoles des Hatues Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Judit Durst, University College London; Livia Jaroka, European Parliament, Brussels; Ilsen About, European University Institute, Florence; four junior faculty from our previous training program

Target group:

a) Minimum requirement is a first degree allowing the student to pursue doctoral studies.

b) The main target group is junior and postdoctoral researchers interested in developing Romany Studies primarily involved in academic MA or Ph.D. education. Other persons who are engaged in research in a non-academic environment (think tanks, government departments, NGOs and the like) are also eligible. Given the political and policy importance of the topics we deal with we expect a significant minority of our trainees to be researchers in NGOs, government or other non-university public institutions. We expect the majority, however, to be academically engaged researchers.

c) Eligibility categories:

• Early-stage researchers with up to four years’experience of their research career (engagement in a relevant academic program or professional activity) Applicants in this category will in general have precedence.

• Experienced researchers with up to ten years’experience of their research career (engagement in a relevant academic program or professional activity)

• Experienced researchers with more than ten years’experience of their research career (engagement in a relevant academic program or professional activity), who have a ‘European Union’ citizenship, but do not live in Europe at the time of the events

Language of instruction: English

Application deadline: February 16, 2009

Online application (from mid November): www.sun.ceu.hu/apply