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Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is an independent institute within the University of Helsinki. Its aims are:

• to enhance scholarly excellence within humanities and social sciences;
• to endorse dialogue between different academic orientations;
• to provide an innovative environment for concentrated study;
• to encourage theoretical and methodological reflection in research;
• to promote international visibility of Finnish research and interaction between scholars from all over the world.

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The 2012 Fellowship Appointments at HCAS

The Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies has appointed, based on the Executive Board's and Academic Advisory Board's recommendations, 10 new research fellows whose research period will begin in September 2012.

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Call for Contributions:
Dictatorship of Failure: The Discourse of Democratic Failure in Current European Crisis

The interdisciplinary academic e-journal COLLeGIUM is announcing a call for contributions for a special issue entitled Dictatorship of Failure: The Discourse of Democratic Failure in Current European Crisis.The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15. Read more...

 

Call for Papers:
Mortality, Death and Dying:  Philosophical and Social Perspectives
This international and interdisciplinary symposium addresses broad questions connected to mortality, death and dying from various philosophical and social-scientific perspectives.
Call for Papers is open until March 16, 2012. Read more...

 

Dictatorship of Failureding you a call for contributions for a special issue of COLLeGIUM on the topic of "Dictatorship of Failure: The Discourse of Democratic Failure in the Current European Crisis". The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 15.

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