ESRS Newsletter 14.10.2011
Contents:
1. Greetings from the editor of the newsletter
2. Greetings from president Jo Little
3. Congresses
4. New books
5. PhD Vacancy
6. e-learning course on the Common Agricultural Policy
7. Improving ESRS archive
1. Greetings from the editor of the newsletter
As the editor of the newsletter, I am 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
December 2011.
Tiina Silvasti
tiina.silvasti@helsinki.fi
2. Greetings from president Jo Little
Welcome to the ESRS newsletter. At a very successful and enjoyable Congress in
Chania, Crete in August we elected the new Executive Committee of the Society for
the coming two years. I will remain as President for a further term. Professor Gianluca
Brunori (University of Pisa) has been elected to serve as Vice President. In the new
Executive Committee, Professor Mark Shucksmith (Newcastle University) and Senior
lecturer Tiina Silvasti (University of Jyväskylä) will be joined by Professor Vera Majerova
(Czech University of Life Sciences) and Professor David Brown (Cornell).
Professor Kjell Andersson will continue as the treasurer of the Society. Nevertheless,
our long term secretary Minna Lehtola has stepped down. The ESRS expresses
warm gratitude for Minna, who has worked effectively for our Society.
We are looking forward to a productive two years planning events, including the 2013 Congress. Before then, however, Professor Leo Granberg (University of Helsinki) will be organising the 2012 Summer School in Finland.
In Chania we increased our membership and I would like to take this opportunity to
welcome new members to the ESRS. I hope all members will find the website and
newsletter helpful.
3. Congresses
• Rural at the Edge – The Nordic Conference for Rural Research. 21.-23.5.2012,
University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu. [website]
• XIIIth World Congress of Rural Sociology, 29.7.-4.8. 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.
For more information [website]
• Whild/Vasa 2011. The Second International WHILD Conference on the World Heritage Research will be organised by Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland, December
14th to 16th, 2011. Prior to the conference, December 13th, a PhD seminar day will be arranged. Note: Extended PhD Call, until 1.11.2011 [website]
• Producing and reproducing farming systems: New modes of organization for
sustainable food systems of tomorrow – International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) symposium July 1-4, 2012 in Aarhus, Denmark. For further information see [website]
4. New books
• Rural People and Communities in the 21st Century – Resilience and Transformation by
David L. Brown & Kai A. Schafft.
For further information see [website]
• Naming Food After Places - Food Relocalisation and Knowledge Dynamics in Rural Development edited by Maria Fonte & Apostolos G. Papadopoulos.
For more information please see [pdf]
5. PhD Vacancy
• Rural community resilience: Can it be enhanced by engagement with
high-speed broadband, digital applications and services?
For further information see:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cops/graduate/studentships/88/ and
http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=31795
6. e-learning course on the Common Agricultural Policy
• Groupe de Bruges is developing a comprehensive e-learning course on the CAP, in collaboration with SPERA (Interuniversity Centre for Studies on Economic, Rural and Environmental Policies and Associazione “Alessandro Bartola”/AGRIREGIONIEUROPA.
Leading experts from all over Europe contribute their knowledge and expertise to this
course.
For more information see brochure [pdf] letter [doc]
7. 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-webarchive? If
so, please send the material to the web editor Ville Klemets, e-mail: ruralsociology@abo.fi