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         'Eastern Enlargement' of the European Union: 
        An Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Seminar 
                      on Borders and Flows
                                
                   / Call for Applications /
                                
                    Convenor: Jozsef Borocz 
           (Dept of Sociology, Rutgers University)

                Fall 2000 // Monday 2:50-5:50
          172 College Ave, New Brunswick // 16.859.501
                                                
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Large structures institutionalized patterns of statehood,
markets, representations and prejudice have been in motion on the
European continent since 1989. A new order is emerging after the
end of imperial state socialism in Europe. We see two parallel
processes: (1) the abolition of interstate borders, increases in
the intensity of human and economic flows, and the unprecedented
sharing and pooling of state sovereignty within the European
Union and (2) the fragmentation, peripheralization, and
marginalization of the now-democratized eastern half of the
continent. Today, European public discourse about the future is
largely about the prospects of the process, commonly labelled as
'eastern enlargement', whereby countries of the latter group are
considered for full membership in the former. An entire continent
is contemplating expansion vs. fortress-building with two sets of
stakes: where the future eastern limes of the new Europe will
lie, and what the divide between the inside and the outside will
imply for the continent and the world. Globalization makes this
transformation an example of social change of historic
significance.

This course will bring together graduate students from a wide
array of disciplines, united by an empirical focus on
transformations of borders and flows.  Participation in the
seminar is by instructor's permission only.

Applications are sought from graduate students in the social
sciences and the humanities specializing in:

- patterns of globality, Europeanness, coloniality and Otherness,

- international political economy,

- statehood and geopolitics,

- citizenship and cross-border migrations, and

- techniques of social closure and distinction, 

whose work or is relevant to issues raised by the 'eastern
enlargement' of the European Union. We particularly encourage
application by PhD-candidates whose interests involve
interpreting textual, visual, or numerical materials in a
historical, global and/or comparative perspective. Familiarity
with European languages in addition to English is an additional
asset.

The number of participants will be limited to fifteen. After a
few introductory readings, the course will be structured as a
research team, with individual participants contributing their
perspective to a scholarly discussion of themes agreed upon at
the beginning of the semester. A website will be developed for
the empirical materials discussed and the scholarly materials
produced in the seminar, providing worldwide visibility to the
project and the participants.

The course is available by default for all graduate students in
the humanities and the social sciences at Rutgers and Princeton.
Interested graduate students at other universities should contact
their academic advisor first to see what ad hoc solution can be
invented for them to be involved.

If interested, please send:

- a brief outline detailing the way in which your interests are
relevant to the subject of the seminar (maximum 250 words),

- your Curriculum Vitae of maximum 2 pages (maximum 500 words),

- along with your name, email and mailing address and phone
number.


Please submit your application, if possible, as an email
attachment sent in .rtf format to jborocz@rci.rutgers.edu.  If
this does not work, the regular mailing address to which the
applications should be sent is

                    Jozsef Borocz
                    CRCEES // Rutgers University
                    172 College Ave
                    New Brunswick, NJ 08901 U.S.A.

Review of applications will take place on 1 July 2000.

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Application Form


Last name:          ________________________

First name:         ________________________


Mailing address:    ________________________

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Email address:      ________________________


Phone contact:      ________________________




Mail this form by 30 June 2000, along with 


- a maximum 250-word description of the relevance of your
interests to research on the 'eastern enlargement' of the EU and 

- a 500-word CV 


as an email message or an .rtf attachment to jborocz@rci.rutgers.edu 

or via snail mail to:

Jozsef Borocz
CRCEES // Rutgers
172 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 U.S.A.

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