Dear colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for "Identity and Culture" (September 3-5, 2015, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) conference is fast approaching. You are welcome to submit paper abstracts and panel proposals by filling online form (http://cultcenter.net/?wpgform_qv=2011) or sending attached offline form via email to conference@cultcenter.net until February 15, 2015.

The Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies web site: http://www.cultcenter.net/

Conference web site: http://cultcenter.net/?cat=39

SOME FACTS ABOUT SKOPJE

Time Zone

Central European time (GMT + 1)

Climate

The climate is modified continental with certain Mediterranean influences

Average Temperature (yearly)

13,5°C/56°F

Average Temperature (September)

30°C (86°F) to 23°C (73°F) in September

Electric current in Macedonia

220 volts, 50 hertz

Currency

Macedonian denar (MKD)

1 euro = 61.50 denars

Hotel rates (singe room with breakfast and wi-fi) per day from 20-25 €

Meal in fast food: 1 € - 2 €

Meal in restaurant: from 4 €

Beverages and hot drinks: about 1 €

Beer: 1-2 €

Coffee: about 1.1 €

Taxi: Start 0,7 € + 0,4 € per km. Average trip cost 2-3 €

Bus: Ticket per person 0,5 €

Bus from Airport: 1,5 €

Usual rate for taxi from Airport: 15-20 €

Dr. Loreta Georgievska - Jakovleva

Full professor
Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

Institute for Macedonian Literature
http://iml.edu.mk/ http://iml.edu.mk
Centre for Culture and Cultural Studies
http://cultcenter.net/ http://cultcenter.net/

Hello all,

Just wanted to let you know about this opportunity. I'm currently a Ford Academic Fellow at New America, working on a  book about government surveillance in poor and working communities. The foundation has been amazingly supportive, and is looking to broaden their field of academic fellows. The application timeline is a little odd for those holding full-time appointments--applications due March 1 and announcement in May--but if you are flexible, it's a terrific opportunity to take policy-oriented work to a new level.

Yours,
Virginia

As you may know, the New America Fellows Program aims to find and elevate bold, iconoclastic thinkers who are advancing big ideas through research, reporting, analysis, and/or storytelling. We then invest in those thinkers by funding them for one to two years—long enough so they can write a book, develop a series of articles, produce a documentary, or work on other projects that are accessible to broad audiences and long enough to be able to build a real community among the fellows.

We generally seek a group of early-career journalists, academics, public policy analysts, and independent scholars at crucial junctures in their professional lives who would benefit from the financial support, intellectual community, and expanded audience afforded by an association with New America. We also look for more established thinkers advancing new, groundbreaking work.

The Fellows Program has been very successful: Since New America’s founding in 1999, our fellowships have enabled the publication more than sixty books, including more than thirty by first-time authors. In the past two years alone the program has produced five New York Times bestsellers, including Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink, The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, and Overwhelmed by Brigid Schulte. In 2013, our fellow Fred Kaplan’s book The Insurgents was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2014, our fellow Anand Gopal’s book No Good Men Among the Living was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Fellows benefit from a financial stipend and their engagement with each other and with New America’s various policy programs. Precise terms and stipend levels of fellowships vary widely, as some fellows work full-time at New America in pursuit of their research, while many have other professional commitments during the term of their fellowship. We typically have two or three get-togethers for fellows each month, including lunches where fellows make presentations to the staff on their work. We also have a strong track record of creating innovative joint ventures with media partners, such as the Future Tense channel on Slate and the South Asia Channel on Foreign Policy, and with connecting fellows to editors and agents.

The application process is highly competitive, and we can offer no guarantees of positions. Most fellowships are awarded for one year, commencing in September. The next application deadline is March 1, 2015.

You can learn more about the Fellows Program and the application process at http://newamerica.org/fellows/. Please feel free to reach out to Becky Shafer, the program manager, at shafer@newamerica.org to discuss the program and the application process.

Virginia Eubanks
Assoc Professor, Dept of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
University at Albany, SUNY

Ford Academic Fellow, New America
Author, Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age
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