Dear Sir/Madam,

We would very much appreciate if you may kindly forward the message below and the attached file to your PhD students. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Umit Sonmez
Research Officer, European Institute, LSE

Dear all,

As you may know, LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies has organised two Doctoral Dissertation Conferences in May 2008 and May 2009 for students working on social science and history topics related to Turkey. Students have presented parts of their dissertations in those meetings and received valuable feedback from staff and fellow students. The selected Papers of the presenters are also published on the LSE website as Doctoral Discussion Papers.

Instead of organizing the third Doctoral Conference in 2010, Contemporary Turkish Studies has decided to support a broader participation opportunity this year. A new unit at LSE on South Eastern Europe, called LSEE will be organising, together with the Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths and the Centre for South East European Studies, SSEES-UCL, in June 2010 a doctoral dissertation meeting for students working on southeastern Europe, which is defined to include Greece and Turkey as well as the Balkans. LSE Contempoary Turkish Studies would like to urge the students to participate in this Joint PhD Symposium organized at LSE on Friday, 18 June 2010.

The Chair of Contempoary Turkish Studies, Professor Sevket Pamuk will be attending to the Joint PhD Symposium, and is very much encouraging students working on dissertations related to Turkey to present their works in this PhD Symposium at LSE.

The deadline for sending an abstract is 12 February, 2010. You can find all relevant information below, and at the following website of LSEE:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/PhDSymposium/Home.aspx

The advert of the Call for Papers to the Joint PhD Symposium together with the speacial message of Professor Sevket Pamuk can also be found attached as a PDF Document.

Please note that LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies will organize its Third Doctoral Dissertation Conference in 2011 for students working on topics related to Turkey. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

With many thanks,

Umit Sonmez
Research Officer: Turkey and European Union
LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies
European Institute
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street WC2A 2AE
London, United Kingdom

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Joint PhD Symposium on

South East Europe

18 June 2010

London School of Economics and Political Science

Organisers:

Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths

Centre for South East European Studies, SSEES, UCL

LSEE-Research on South East Europe, European Institute, LSE

Call for Papers

We invite submissions for a PhD symposium on modern and contemporary South East Europe. A main objective of the symposium is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between young scholars currently undertaking research on the region. It is also intended to help graduate-level research students to overcome the academic isolation associated with PhD research, to ‘try’ their ideas and findings on wider audiences, and to establish new collaborative links across disciplines. Researchers will also be able to ‘engage’ with a wider academic community, including academic members of staff at the three institutions, and also a number of other distinguished scholars who will be involved with the symposium.

We welcome contributions from research students focusing on the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Moldova, Romania and Turkey and working in the following disciplines:

o Anthropology and Sociology
o Economics and Political Economy
o Politics and International Relations
o Modern and Contemporary History (including Economic History)
o Law
o Social Policy
o Cultural Studies

Abstracts of 1000 words maximum must be submitted via the ‘paper proposal’ form. Abstracts should indicate the academic significance of the topic, relevance of conceptual literature, and analytical structure. It should also include six key words. In addition to the ‘paper proposal’ form, applicants will be expected to provide a short statement of support from their supervisor (no more than 300 words). This should be sent by the supervisor directly to the same e-mail address. The deadline for the submission of the ‘paper proposal’ forms is Friday, 12 February 2010. The ‘paper proposal’ form can be downloaded from: www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/Research/LSEE/PhDSymposium/Home.aspx

Completed submissions can be made by email only to: Euroinst.Lsee.Symposium@lse.ac.uk. Successful applicants will be notified by 26 February 2010 and will be requested to submit their full paper by 4 June 2010.

Participants will be expected to pay for their own travel, accommodation and subsistence. It is possible that a limited number of travel grants will be made available to contributors who are both registered and normally based at universities in the region. However, participants applying from the region must not rely on this. Support, if available, will be limited. There will also be a registration fee of 15 for all participants, payable upon registration. General participants are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact:
Ivan Kovanovic
Administrator, LSEE-Research on South East Europe
Email: Euroinst.Lsee.Symposium@lse.ac.uk