ResearchTalk’s 2008 Qualitative Research Summer
Intensive features 6 days of qualitative
research professional development courses taught
by leaders in the field and presents
opportunities to network with other qualitative
researchers.

Instructors include:
Elijah Anderson, Kathy Charmaz, John
Creswell, Leslie Curry, Carolyn Ellis, Alison
Hamilton, Valerie Janesick, Ray Maietta, Paul
Mihas, Patricia Pugliani, Debra Skinner.

Course topics include:
Autoethnography, Coding, Ethnography,
Grounded Theory, Large-Scale Qualitative
Research, Longitudinal Qualitative Research,
Mixed Methods, Narrative Analysis, Qualitative
Data Collection, Qualitative Methods,
Qualitative Software (ATLAS.ti and MAXQDA),
Qualitative Writing.

Inquiries: info@researchtalk.com
Web address:
http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_08.html

The primary focus of the conference is on
research topics and youth work practices that
explore theories of youth participation and
democracy. It will also consider the
experiences of young people that enable them to
fufil their individual, social and democratic
rights and benefit from making a full and equal
contribution to society.

The deadline for the final call for papers is
Monday 30th June

Contact email: karen.mcdairmant@strath.ac.uk
Web address: http://www.strath.ac.uk/pdu/ga2008

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Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of
Enduring Evil

Monday 22nd September – Thursday 25th September 2008
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
 

The Asia Pacific’s largest e-learning and
training international conference and expo

Keynote speakers include:
Jay Cross (USA) Under the Shade of the Coolabah
Tree
Prof Nigel Paine (UK) Learning Leaders: Moving
Centre Stage
Dr Giles Hirst (AUS)Learning to Lead: Action
Learning to Accelerate Individual and
Organisational Learning
Dr Penny de Byl (AUS)Creating Engaging Online 3D
E-Learning Content

Learning leaders getting behind the event theme
(Learning with the Environment in Mind)

Checkout the video clips on the LearnXtube
http://www.learnx.net/learnx/eventvideo.html

10 Mini-MasterClasses embedded in the conference
program.
100 sessions and more over two days. Plus the E-
Learning & Training Awards – Top 20 on National
Training Day 2008 in the Expo Hall. The worlds
first learning event to go carbon neutral and
the worlds first Green Training Award.

A conference priced to help save the planet
without costing the earth.

Enquiries: rob@learnx.net
Web address: http://www.learnx.net
Sponsored by: Training Australia Magazine

The Institute for Law and Finance (ILF) at Frankfurt University offers a unique one-year postgraduate program leading to a Master of Laws in Finance (LL.M. Finance). German is not a requirement for admission since all courses are conducted in English.No more than 50 highly qualified graduates will be admitted for study. The program is aimed at students with a prior degree in law or business/economics and who have an interest in combining theoretical knowledge with practical training in law and international finance. Previous professional experience is not a requirement, but would be an advantage. The emphasis is on international diversity, with over 20 different countries represented among the students. The program builds on the role of Frankfurt as a leading banking, central banking and financial center of the European Union.

News…News…News Three ILF students of 2008/2009 will be sponsored an intensive German language beginners’ course at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt!

The curriculum is interdisciplinary, covering all aspects of international financial law with emphasis on the EU and the US, along with parallel developments in the field of international finance. Among the courses from which the students can choose are Law of Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Securities Law, Financial Intermediation and Risk Management, Financial Markets and Institutions, Corporate Taxation as well as Effective Negotiations. Additionally, the program features a comprehensive variety of courses in Insurance Law and Risk Management as well as Law of Investment Banking and Project Finance.

The faculty consists of both leading academics as well as experienced practitioners from Europe’s financial world, leading law firms and the European Central Bank, the German Bundesbank and BAFin (German Financial Supervisory Authority). ILF students are fully-enrolled members of Frankfurt University, which confers the LL.M. Finance degree. Tuition costs are set at 15,000 Euros. It is possible to apply for financial assistance. For students seeking to combine study with work (i.e. studying on a part-time basis), it is also possible to arrange for the courses to be taken over a period of two years. ILF has both full-time as well as part-time students.

The LL.M. Finance program incorporates a special two-month internship with public and private institutions which support the ILF. These institutions typically include leading international law firms, banks, international accounting firms, the European Central Bank, Deutsche Bundesbank, BAFin and others. The ILF internship program offers a valuable opportunity to acquire relevant working experience and to create a network of professional contacts.Thanks to the sponsorships of the law firm Mayer Brown LLP and the Goethe Institute, Frankfurt, three ILF students from the academic year 2008/2009 will be selected and sponsored to attend a four-week intensive German language course for beginners (which usually costs €3,560 per course) conducted in Frankfurt just before the start of the LL.M. Finance program at the ILF.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt is one of Germany’s most prominent higher education institutions. The university ranks among the German universities as having one of the highest proportions of foreign students among its 37,000 enrolled students. Frankfurt University is a center of excellence in international finance.

The ILF is now inviting applications for admission to its LL.M. Finance Program 2008/2009 which commences in October 2008. Applications are dealt with on a “rolling” basis, i.e. they will be considered as soon as the submitted documents are complete. No application fee is required.

For more on the ILF: www.ilf-frankfurt.de or write to us at:Institute for Law and Finance
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Senckenberganlage 31, D-60325 Frankfurt a.M.
Tel: +49 69 798 28448
Fax: +49 69 798 29018
Email: llm@ilf.uni-frankfurt.de

Call for Papers

This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore
the new and prominent place that the idea of
culture has for the construction of identity and
the implications of this for social membership in
contemporary societies. In particular the project
will assess the larger context of major world
transformations, for example, new forms of
migration and the massive movements of people
across the globe, as well as the impact and
contribution of globalisation on tensions,
conflicts and the sense of rootedness and
belonging. Looking to encourage innovative
trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome
papers from all disciplines, professions and
vocations which struggle to understand what
it means for people, the world over, to forge
identities in rapidly changing national, social
and cultural contexts.

Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on
any of the following themes:

1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
* Who is self and who is other?
* The new value of social diversity and cultural
multiplicity; breaking with homogeneity and sameness
* What is the place of difference and alterity, of
normality and normalisation in defining identity
and membership
* How to account for social membership and
cultural identity?
* Making sense of transformations and their
effects over culture, identity and membership
* Othering, excluding, stygmatising

2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
* What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
* New migrants, new migratory flows and massive
movements from peripheral to central countries
* Resurgence of the local and the diminishing
importance of the national
* Are we living post-national realities?
* What is the place of cultural claims in today’s
forms of social membership?
* Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other
forms of placing the responsibility of change on
the Other

3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
* Evaluating the promises and institutions of
post-national governing
* Institutions and organisations that do more for
money than for people
* Political battles over globalization
* Social movements, new rebellion and alternative
globalizations
* Trans-cultural connections that escape
institutional and political intentions or control
* New forms of global exclusion

4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
* De-centering individuals and the making of
persons; thinking and acting with others in mind
and interpersonally
* Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of
identity formations and social membership
* New sources and forms of belonging; new
tribalism, localism,
parochialism and communitarianism
* Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality
and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics
and power, nations and geography
* Who am I if not the relation with others?
* Non-recognition as cultural violence

5. Media and Artistic Representations
* The role of new and old media in the
construction of cultures and identities, of
nations and place
* Production and reproduction of cultural typing
and stereotyping
* The contested space of representing culture,
identity and belonging
* Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and
impenetrable constructions of culture
* Living, being and belonging through art
* Life imitating art and fiction

6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of
Contemporary Life
* What is shared from cultures? How are cultures
shared? Who has access to the sharing of cultures?
* Cultural claims and human rights
* Living in a context with the cultural markers of
a different context: Is that transculturalism?
* Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of
wanting to bridge the ‘invisible’ divide of cultures
* Symbols and significations that connect people
to places other than ‘their own’
* Culture, identity and belonging by choice

7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
* Recognition and respect without exclusion
* An ethics for social relations in a new millennium
* What to do with historically old concepts like
tolerance, acceptance and hospitality?
* Should not we all be strangers? Should not we
all be foreigners?
* Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
* Loving the other within the self; building fluid
boundaries of belonging and being

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
18th April 2008. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 8th August 2008.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this
order: author(s), affiliation, email address,
title of abstract, body of abstract. Please use
plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
any special formatting, characters or emphasis
(such as bold, italics or underline). We
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply
from us in a week you should assume we did not
receive your proposal; it might be lost in
cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.

Joint Organising Chairs
Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
Director of Research,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
E-Mail: acc@inter-disciplinary.net

Rob Fisher
Network Founder & Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-mail: mcb2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the ‘Diversity and
Recognition’ research projects, which in turn
belong to the ‘At the Interface’ programmes of
ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative
and challenging. All papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will
be developed for publication in a themed hard copy
volume.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/multiculturalism/mcb.html

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ati/diversity/multiculturalism/mcb2/cfp.htm

Contact Person: Guliyev Jeyhun 

Everyone at Birmingham City University
would like to wish you every success for the coming year.

You may not be aware that our university is going through some changes at the moment, all of them very exciting. One of the major changes is the re-structuring of our faculties in order to offer vastly improved provision and targeted, up to date, relevant courses.We have been ranked one of the Top New University’s and we are one of the UK’s largest Universities with approximately 25,000 students. Birmingham itself is the UK’s second city centrally located in the middle of England. We are based at the heart of the country’s infrastructure boasting air, rail and road links to the rest of the UK and Europe.Our teaching is second to none, with a strong focus on employability and professional skills needed in the workplace. Many of our courses are vocational and do not need academic qualifications to enrol. For example we accept many professional qualifications in lieu of a degree, such as ACCA, CIMA, CIPS, ABE and many others.You can find out more about the University, the services that we offer to our students, and the programmes that we offer and course fees by downloading the International Guide or visiting our website.

Take part in our ‘Name the Tiger Competition’

We’ve recently changed the university’s logo, and we now have an heraldic tiger. To celebrate this we’re running a competition to Name the Tiger. Complete an entry form, available from us when we visit your home country and you could win a one year full tuition scholarship. Click here for details of when we will be visiting your country.

Missed the January Intake?

No need to worry, all of our programmes will be running in September. So, if you have missed the deadline for our January starts, please contact us. We can re-issue your offer letter You can find further information on all our courses and download PDFs by following this link or you can e-mail us at the address at the bottom of the page.