CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Journal of Central Asian Studies seeks contributions to a special issue on "Globalization and Central Asia."
The guest editor for this special volume is Dr. Laura Adams, Research Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University.
Interested scholars may contact Dr. Adams at <[email protected]>.
It is expected that the issue will go to press by August 15, 2003; therefore, final drafts of articles should be submitted by August 1, 2003.
Articles concerned with other topics and issues in the social sciences and humanities in Central Asia may be sent to Dr. Reuel Hanks, Editor, JCAS <[email protected]>.
Submissions should follow the guidelines found on the journal's website, <www.geog.okstate.edu/journals/jcas/jcas.htm>

Chief of party Mongolia
April 17, 2003
Chemonics seeks chief of party candidates for the USAID-funded Mongolia Economic Policy Reform and Competitiveness project. The project will support policy changes to promote sustainable economic growth, increase investment opportunities, and improve trade and business efficiency. More

Memorial Service

The Annual Memorial Service for His Holiness Dilova Gegen Hutugtu Sunday, May 25th, 2003. Time 12.00noon to 2.00 pm Nitsan Temple, West 6th street, Howell, New Jersey
Phone: 732 367 3940 More

The Network Scholarship Programs Department of the Open Society Institute is pleased to offer supplementary grants to students from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia. The purpose of the program is to enable qualified students to pursue Doctoral studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at accredited universities in Western Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.
Grants will be awarded on the basis of academic record, merit of the proposed study, applicant's long-term goals, and financial need. The grants will provide supplemental funding for one year of study with the option to apply for a second year. Reapplication procedures will be outlined in the 2004/2005 application form. Renewal grants will be competed and are not guaranteed. Only students who have been accepted into a full-time doctoral (Ph.D.) program at an accredited university are eligible to apply.
Grants are provided to help cover costs in one of the following categories:
1. Tuition and fees - not to exceed 50% of tuition and fees per academic year;
2. Living expenses - students who have succeeded in funding their tuition, either through scholarships or tuition wavers, are eligible for housing and living funds;
3. Other - students who have secured all necessary funds but cannot afford additional expenses, such as travel to/from their host country, books, materials, health insurance, etc., are eligible for additional funds.
Grants will not be provided to cover expenses in all three categories. Only those students with confirmed financial support will receive grants.
In addition, in no case may an applicant request grant assistance for the support of an accompanying child or spouse.
Eligibility:
1. Candidates must be nationals of one of the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia.
2. Members of Roma community are encouraged to apply;
3. Candidates must be under 40 years of age at the time of application;
4. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in the spoken and written language of their host institution;
5. ONLY those students who have already been awarded partial or full tuition, room and board stipends, or other types of financial aid may apply.
Applicants must provide the fullest possible account of their actual financial situation including copies of financial aid requests to the Host University and any other documents confirming additional financial support. False statements will result in immediate disqualification.
Application and Deadlines:
APPLICATION FORM (PDF version).
If you are unable to download the application, please email us your mailing address.
Applicants may also apply online at http://www.soros.org/grants/oas. Paper and online applications are equally evaluated.
For students pursuing Ph.D. in North America, Asia, Australia:
April 1, 2003.
For students pursuing Ph.D. in Western Europe and Middle/Near East: June 2, 2003.
Please mail applications to the address below or to your local Soros Foundations office. Be sure to leave sufficient time for applications to get to us, as mail systems can be slow.
Network Scholarship Programs
Global Supplementary Grant Program
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
USA
If you have any questions about the program, you may reach us at:
Tel: (1-212) 548-0175
Fax: (1-212) 548-4652
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.soros.org/scholar/mpf.html

Soros Supplementary Grants Program
Soros Supplementary Grants Program 2003-2004
Program Description:
The Network Scholarship Programs of the Open Society Institute-Budapest is pleased to announce the Soros Supplementary Grants Program, academic year 2003-2004.
The program was created to assist citizens of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Mongolia who are pursuing advanced study within this region but outside of their home countries. The goal is to support cross-cultural, intraregional student mobility as part of the Open Society Institute's overall efforts to strengthen the academic network within and among these countries.
The Soros Supplementary Grants Program 2003-2004 offers grants to:
I. standard eligibility students of the social sciences, humanities, and fine and performing arts who have already arranged for part of the costs of their study to be covered.
II. special needs students:
· Roma
· refugees
· people seeking political asylum
· displaced (forced migrants).
Awards are offered for one academic year only and will be granted in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $5,000. Awards are available to undergraduates and post-graduates enrolled at recognized institutes of higher education outside of their home country or permanent residence and in one of the countries listed below. Participating countries are as follows (no exceptions):

Albania Hungary Russia
Armenia Kazakstan Slovakia
Azerbaijan Kyrgyzstan Slovenia
Belarus Latvia Tajikistan
Bosnia & Herzegovina Lithuania Turkmenistan
Bulgaria Macedonia Ukraine
Croatia Moldova Uzbekistan
Czech Republic Mongolia Yugoslavia
Estonia Poland
Georgia Romania
Application deadline-April 15, 2003.
You can download the application form here.
For more information on eligibility criteria and application details please contact the appropriate scholarship program coordinator at the national foundation in your home country.

If you have any links or announcements you want placed on the site (or on the Mongolia Society listserv), please contact Charles Krusekopf, ACMS Director at <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>.

The ACMS was incorporated in April 2002 to encourage and facilitate academic projects in Mongolia and the Inner Asian region, which includes Mongolia and the border areas of China, Russia and Central Asia, such as Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Buryatia, Tuva and eastern Kazakhstan. It is supported by member institutions and individuals, private foundations, and the US government.

The two primary projects of the ACMS include the opening of a permanent office and library in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to support international academics working in Mongolia and educational exchange programs, and the
creation of fellowships to facilitate academic exchanges with Mongolia.

The ACMS is a growing consortium of US academic institutions, including colleges and universities, museums and research institutes. Members also include individual scholars, the business community and other people and
organizations interested in the region.

The ACMS is currently seeking institutions and individuals who are interested in becoming Charter Members of the ACMS. It is crucial for the development of the ACMS that interested parties join the organization during this formative stage, so please join the ACMS today!

Maximum Award: $20,000
Application Deadline:
May 1, 2003
All applicants will be notified of their status by July 2003 and research projects may begin on or after August 1, 2003, and must be completed before July 31, 2004.

Eligibility:
Groups with a minimum of three researchers are eligible to apply. At least one of the researchers must be a US citizen or legal permanent resident and at least two of the researchers must be citizens and current residents of two different countries of the eligible regions at the time of application.

Eligible Expenses:
Travel and associated expenses, research expenses, participant honoraria, and materials.

To Apply:
Submit the original plus 3 copies of the completed application form (see below), project proposal, budget narrative, timeline, and curriculum vitae for each collaborator, to the following address:

IREX
ATTN: STARR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH GRANTS
2121 K Street NW, SUITE 700
WASHINGTON, DC 20037

Complete applications and supplementary materials may also be submitted via e-mail to <[email protected]>. Those applying electronically must submit all materials and fax the signature page to (202) 628-8189 by the deadline.
To download applications or for more information, visit the IREX website at <http://www.irex.org/programs/starr> or contact: <[email protected]>. The Starr Collaborative Research Grants Program is made possible through the generosity of The Starr Foundation.

From the Human Rights Initiative (HRI) of the Carnegie Council on
Ethics and International AffairsReply to: Erin Mahoney at [email protected] http://carnegiecouncil.org/themes/humanrights.html

January 10, 2002 Human Rights Dialogue, a semiannual publication of the Carnegie
Council on Ethics and International Affairs, is seeking essays for
its Spring 2003 issue. In the coming issue, Human Rights Dialogue
explores the effectiveness of the human rights framework in
addressing the ethical challenges posed by the process of increasing
economic, cultural, and political integration; phenomena commonly
referred to as 'globalization.' Discussions of the relationship between human rights and
globalization have tended to emphasize the ways in which expanded
global communications have facilitated the formation of
transnational networks of activists, north-south NGO partnerships,
and transborder linkages of a broad spectrum of social movements.
Thus, globalization has often been credited with enhancing the
popular legitimacy of human rights worldwide...
There is a $100 honorarium awarded upon publication. The
deadline for submissions is Friday, February 28.We encourage those planning to submit an essay to contact us about
their plans for their articles as soon as possible. Interested
parties should direct their inquiries to: Erin Mahoney
[email protected] tel: 212-838-4120 or fax: 212-752-2432.

The HESP Regional Seminar

Format
HESP invites proposals of multi-year projects from academic institutions, associations or individuals with demonstrated potential for and commitment to promoting teaching excellence and lending on-going support to individual faculty and departments in the region.
The projects considered for funding will target the young faculty currently teaching in the social sciences and humanities in the institutions of higher education in Central, Eastern, South Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia (the target region). Such projects will form and work with groups of 25-30 recurrent participants and international teams of resource faculty and use coherent sequential multi-year programs, whose content, focus and methodology is continuously and cooperatively reconsidered throughout the term of the project. The participation of young university faculty from outside the region (especially from the West) is encouraged, where feasible and necessary, provided the organizers secure funding sources other than HESP grant to cover the costs of such participants. The projects will commence in the summer of 2003 or during the 2003-04 academic year and extend to up to three consecutive years.
The program of HESP Regional Seminar evolves around intensive summer sessions (2-4 weeks in length, hosted in the region), and inter-session activities, which engage the participants and resource persons in collaboration on the following levels:
exploration of the state of the art in the discipline, association with and discussion of contemporary trends in scholarship and teaching,
collaborative advancement of learning in the discipline within the international context,
engaging the students of the program participants in the similar learning and development processes by stimulating critical inquiry and intellectual search, and, through this, inducing their future continuous self-renewal.
The extent of concern of the projects with these levels should reflect the state of development of the discipline in the targeted (sub-)region and the entry level of the participating young faculty.
HESP provides funding commensurate with the geography of the projects and nature and length of activities. HESP encourages project organizers to solicit cost sharing contributions from other donors.

Application Process
Proposals of multi-year projects that respond to the goals and priorities of the HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, for which funding is sought starting not earlier than June 1, 2003, must be submitted in English, electronically, by fax or mail to HESP at the address below to be received by February 25, 2003. HESP will review the proposals and will invite selected applicants to submit a detailed plan of activities and budget proposals for the first year of the project. As a rule, HESP will commit to multi-year projects but will provide funding on an annual basis, all grants subject to on-going progress review. Final decisions will be made by the Higher Education Sub-board on the recommendations of the HESP Regional Seminar Advisory Committee. Selected applicants will be notified in late March 2003.

The detailed Guide for Applicants will be available from the HESP office and through home page www.osi.hu/hesp.

CONTACT INFORMATION

HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching
Open Society Institute
Oktober 6. u. 12., Budapest 1051, Hungary
Tel: (36-1) 235-6152, Fax: (36-1) 411-4401
Oleksandr Shtokvych, Program Manager
E-mail: [email protected]
Marianna Jo, Program Coordinator
E-mail: [email protected]

GRANT- John Smith Fellowship Programme 2003

19 Dec 2002

We are currently seeking applications from potential candidates for our
2003 Fellowship Programme, to take place in June/July next year.

The Programme targets young leaders of high calibre from the former Soviet
Union working in politics, local government or civil society with an
established interest in promoting democratic values.

The six-week programme provides carefully-tailored training, broadly
consisting of an induction period in Edinburgh; followed by a two-week
residential course at a Scottish university; a two-week individual
attachment to an organisation relevant to each fellow's background, interest
and action plans; and one week of professional appointments in London. A
follow-up seminar in-country is held 6 months after the fellows' return in
order to evaluate action of their follow-up plans.

I would be grateful if you could encourage any suitable candidates to apply.

Applications are invited from the following countries:

- Armenia
- Georgia
- Kyrgyzstan
- Moldova
- Russia
- Ukraine

Information on our recruitment criteria, details of applications and
deadlines can be obtained from the British Council website:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/jsmithpublic/index.htm

Emily Carr
Assistant to the Director
John Smith Memorial Trust

Email: [email protected]