ESRS Newsletter 8.4.2013
Contents:
1. Greetings from the editor of the newsletter
2. Greetings from Jo Little, ESRS president
3. Revisions to the ESRS Constitution
4. New editor for Sociologia Ruralis
5. Nominations for president and other members of the executive committee
6. Call for Expressions of Interest to Organize the ESRS Congress 2015
7. Call for bids – European Summer School of Rural Sociology 2014
8. Congresses
9. Improving ESRS archive
1. Greetings from the editor of the newsletter
As the editor of the newsletter, I would be very happy to receive any information the
members of ESRS wish to publish: local or thematic congresses, job opportunities, new publications etc. Please send your news to me by email. The next newsletter will be
published in June 2013.
Tiina Silvasti
tiina.silvasti@jyu.fi
2. Greetings from the president
Dear ESRS Member
Welcome to the Spring newsletter. There are several important items in this edition of
our newsletter. It is the time when we call for expressions of interest to run both the Postgraduate Summer School (next one is in 2014) and the bi-annual Congress (in 2015). Details of how to ‘express’ interest follow below.
The ESRS also needs to elect a new President and Committee members. Many of those
of us currently occupying the posts are not eligible to stand for election again, as explained
in the newsletter, so we will need to ensure that members come forward to stand. PLEASE
get involved by standing, nominating or seconding and then voting in Florence.
As well as the President and new committee members, the Society will also be seeking a
new Editor for its journal, Sociologia Ruralis. The existing editor, Henry Buller, who has
done a wonderful job will also come to the end of his period of tenure and will need to
be replaced as editor. Again, there are details of how to nominate or express interest in
this post in the newsletter.
Since the Congress in Chania the Executive Committee has undertaken a review of the
ESRS Constitution – details of this are on the website and members need to review the suggested changes as we will be voting on these in Florence at the General Assembly.
Finally, preparations for the Congress in Florence are well underway and hopefully all
members are planning to come! See you there.
Jo Little, ESRS President
3. Revisions to the ESRS Constitution
It was recognised at Chania that the existing ESRS constitution is a little vague
regarding the possible re-election of the President and members of the EC and also
makes it difficult to vary the possibilities for electing key officers to the Society. The EC
have therefore proposed a few minor changes to clarify the period of tenure for the
President and members of the EC. We have also added a clause to allow us to elect
members who had not previously been nominated in the event of nobody coming forward
for election before the GA. Please take some time to review these minor changes on our website so that we can vote for them (or against them) at the GA:
Current ESRS Constitution [pdf]
ESRS constitution, Draft [pdf]
4. New Editor for Sociologia Ruralis
Henry Buller, the current editor of the ESRS Journal Sociologia Ruralis will be finishing his
term as Editor at the end of the current year. We are looking to appoint a new Editor for
the Journal.
For further information see: [pdf]
5. Nominations for president and other members of the executive committee
At the General Assembly in the Florence Congress a new ESRS President and other
members of the Executive Committee will be elected. All posts are available although
some members of the EC are eligible for a further period of office. See how to get involved
in the process of nominating, seconding and voting in Florence: [pdf]
6. Call for Expressions of Interest to Organize the ESRS Congress 2015
Interested in arranging and hosting the XXlV European Congress for Rural Sociology in
2015? Expressions of interests should be submitted to the Secretary of the Society by
May 2013.
For specified guidelines for submission see: [pdf]
7. Call for bids – European Summer School of Rural Sociology 2014
Members, their Departments and Universities are asked to give bids for organizing
European Summer School of Rural Sociology in 2014. Bids should be submitted to the
Secretary of the Society Kristina Svels, ksvels@abo.fi , by the 31st May 2013
For further information see: [pdf]
8. Congresses
• The XXV ESRS Congress “Rural resilience and vulnerability: the rural as locus of
solidarity and conflict in the times of crisis” in Florence, 29th July – 1st August 2013.
Congress home page: http://www.florenceesrs2013.com/
• International conference examining Social and Economic Transformation Affecting Rural People and Communities in Central & Eastern Europe since 1990 will be held on September 2nd-3rd 2013 at the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia. For further information see: http://www.fesrr.uniag.sk/EEC/
• The Spanish Federation of Sociology will celebrate its XI Congress of Sociology in Madrid, July10th-12th 2013. More information on the Congress' web page: http://www.fes-web.org/inicio/pages.8/
9. Improving the ESRS archive
• We are building the archive page in the ESRS web pages. Do you have anything in your
files, which could be stored for the future actors of the society in the ESRS-web archive?
If so, please send the material to the web editor Ville Klemets,
e-mail: ruralsociology@abo.fi