Research training course on nationalities


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Research training course on nationalities 


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Please find below information on a PhD course to be arranged in June
in Tallinn. 

The cost of travel and accommodation (including meals) is covered by
the organisers. The students are invited for the course on the basis
of applications. The announcement says that the deadline has passed,
but since there have been no applications from Latvia or Lithuania, we
can welcome late arrivals. However, we'd appreciate to have possible
applications as soon as possible, and by 4th of May the latest.   

Yours sincerely, 
Anna Korhonen
Aleksanteri Institute 
P.O.Box 4 
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki 

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A Multidisciplinary Research Training Course "Nationalities Questions
in Post-Communist Europe and Eurasia" will be held in Tallinn, Estonia
25 June - 1 July, 2001. 
Deadline for applications: 15 April, 2001 
The course is funded by the Nordic Academy of Advanced Study (NorFA)
and intended for postgraduate students from Nordic and Baltic
countries and northwestern Russia, doing research on nationalities
questions in post-communist countries. Altogether twenty doctoral
students are invited to participate.  The course consists of 1)
lectures, 2) panel discussions and 3) workshops, in which
participants' own papers will be presented and discussed. In addition
to preparing an academic paper on their research topic, participants
are also expected to read relevant literature for the course. The
number of credits to be given for the course will be 4 credits (6
ECTS, European credit transfer system, credits). The course language
is English.

A course programme with the names of the lecturers and their topics,
as well as the book list can be found in Aleksanteri Institute's
Graduate School's website: 

http://www.helsinki.fi/aleksanteri/suomi/tutkija/tutki0470.htm or can
be ordered separately from the Aleksanteri Institute. 

Course is part of a series of NorFA-funded research training courses,
a joint project of the Aleksanteri Institute (The Finnish Centre for
Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland),
the Department of Russian and Eastern European Studies (University of
Southern Denmark, Odense University), the Department of Eastern
European Studies (University of Uppsala) and the Department of East
European and Oriental Studies (University of
Oslo).                                  
The Baltic contact person for the course is Professor Mati Heidmets,
Tallinn Pedagogical University. 

Applications, together with a short Curriculum Vitae and an Abstract
of current research to be sent by 15 April 2001 preferably by email
to: Anna Korhonen, Aleksanteri Institute, The Finnish Centre for
Russian and East European Studies, email: [email protected],
postal address: P.O. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. For
more information, please contact Anna Korhonen, Aleksanteri Institute,
phone +358-9-191 23823. 

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