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University of Padua, Italy. International PhD Fellowships 2012-2013.

Jul 10

Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua), one of the oldest universities in the world (estd. 1222), is offering PhD fellowships across its various schools for the academic year 2012-2013. Of particular interest is the School of Social Sciences: Interactions, Communication, Cultural Constructions.

15 research fellowships for foreign students to attend Doctoral Schools/International Courses. The duration of the doctoral courses is three years, starting on 1st January 2013 and ending on 31st December 2015.

Application Deadline: 5 September 2012.

Michel Foucault: Self and Subjectivity (Lecture). 1983

Jul 03

The work of late French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault wields a wide and considerable influence on structuralist and post structuralist thought across a broad range of disciplines in philosophy, humanities and social sciences, to this day. I was quite excited to hear Foucault’s voice in this, articulating his thoughts as only he can. The ultra heavy French accent takes a while to listen in to, but once you do, the ride is great. He examines Western culture’s conceptual development of individual subjectivity. Recorded at the University of California, Berkeley, April 1983. (Note: There are some distortions in the audio once a while (sound sped up), but the ‘rough patches’ get over quickly.)

PhD studentship in Human Geography at the University of Leicester, UK, 2012.

Jul 02

PhD studentship in Human Geography at the Department of Geography for the students of UK/EU and International students at the University of Leicester, UK, 2012. Internationalisation of British Higher Education and Social Media: Academic Identities, Transnational Socialisation, and Engaged Pedagogic Practice.

Study Subject(s): Human Geography Course Level: PhD

Eligibility: Applicants must have a first-class or high upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in geography or a social science discipline relevant to the project (such as media studies or education) and meet the University’s standard English language entry requirements.

Jacques Derrida

Jun 21

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Asia-Pacific Human Development PhD Fellowship, 2012

Jun 21

PhD Fellowship in the field of social science, liberal arts, or management for the applicants of developing countries, 2012 Asia- pacific

Study Subject(s):Embedding Environmental Concerns into Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth Course Level: PhD Scholarship Provider: UNDP Scholarship can be taken at: Asia-Pacific

Martin Heidegger – Thinking the Unthinkable

Jun 18

“We are attempting to learn thinking. The way is long. We dare take only a few steps. If all goes well they will take us to the foothills of thought. But they will take us to places which we must explore to reach the point where only the leap will help further. The leap alone takes us into the region where thinking resides. We shall therefore take a few practice leaps right at the start, though we won’t notice it at once, nor need to…In contrast to a steady progress, where we move unawares from one thing to the next and everything remains alike, the leap takes us abruptly to where everything is different, so different that it strikes us as strange. Abrupt means the sudden sheer descent or rise that marks the chasm’s edge. Though we may not founder in such a leap, what the leap takes us to will confound us.” – Martin Heidegger

Victoria India Doctoral Scholarship 2013

Jun 18

Ten prestigious doctoral scholarships are now available to international scholars from India to pursue research based at a university in Victoria, Australia commencing in 2013. The scholarship round for 2013 is open from 1 June, 2012.

More information about this scholarship.