Dr Shaunna Scott, a Council member of IRSA, has been appointed to the role of Editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. She encourages our involvement... Please read more.
Dr Shaunna Scott, a Council member of IRSA, has been appointed to the role of Editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. She encourages our involvement... Please read more.
The University of Granma (UDG) summons the “II Worshop on International Cooperation for Local Development (CIDEL 2013)” within the frame of the IV
Cuban Local Development Congress to be held in Hotel Sierra Maestra, Bayamo, Granma, Cuba, from
March 6 to 8, 2013.
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Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, North Carolina, USA, March 2013
On the 22-24 March 2013, the Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, will host the 36th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference. The theme is ‘Communities in Action, Landscapes in Change’. Information is available at the conference website.
ESRS Newsletter 20.09.2012
The ESRS Newsletter 20.09.2012 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are
1. Greetings from the editor of the newsletter, 2. Congresses, 3. ESRS Summer School in Finland –Student’s feedback, 4. New books, 5. Improving ESRS archive
Bertebos Prize 2013 recognises achievements of Professor Philip Lowe
Professor Philip Lowe, Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, UK, will be presented with the Bertebos prize 2013 by the King of Sweden, on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy, in Stockholm on 28 January. The prize is awarded in alternate years to an individual for distinguished and practical research in food, agriculture, ecology or animal health. The award reflects Philip’s significant contribution to sustainable rural development, land use management, and interdisciplinarity.
Latin American Rural Sociology Association has appointed new President
The Latin American Rural Sociology Association has announced that Dr. Silvia Cloquell has assumed its presidency, succeeding Dr. Arturo Leon who recently passed away in Office. Dr. Cloquell directs the productive Agricultural Research Group at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina. Her research has focused on food security, family farming, agricultura, environment and the impacts of globalization on rural societies. Congratulations to Dr. Cloquell for this appointment.
Professor Raymond A. Jussaume, Jr. has been elected the next Secretary-Treasurer of the International Rural Sociological Association. Ray has a Ph.D. in Development Sociology from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1987). He has been a Professor and Chair at Department of Community & Rural Sociology, Washington State University. Presently he is a Professor and Chair at Department of Sociology, Michigan State University. Ray has been a member of the IRSA council for 8 years, and at the World Congress in 2008, he served as the Assistant Program Chair. He has been attending IRSA World Congresses for twenty years, and is a member of the both the United States and Japanese Rural Sociological Associations. He has also served as the Secretary-Treasurer of Research Committee 40 of the International Sociological Association.
Professor of Sociology Geoffrey Lawrence was recently elected President of IRSA for the next quadrennial period.
Geoffrey Lawrence has been a rural sociologist for over four decades. He has a Bachelor’s degree in agricultural science (economics) from the University of Sydney, a Diploma in Social Science from the University of New England, a Masters in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Doctorate in Sociology from Griffith University. His present positions are Professor of Sociology, Head of Sociology and Criminology, and Food Security Co-leader, Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. Read more background information here.
Forthcoming Conferences
The Spanish Agricultural History Society and the University of Extremadura invites you to submit a paper for the session The Modernization of Agriculture in the Atlantic Peripheries after the Second World War. The Conference will be in Badajoz (Spain) 7th to 9th November 2013.
Call for Papers
The Global Mountain Regions Conference, Kentucky, USA, October 2012
The Global Mountain Regions Conference is being organised by the University of Kentucky Appalachian Centre and Appalachian Studies Program. It will be held Thursday 25 October to Saturday 27 October 2012. Read more at the conference website.
The Regional Global Health Conference, Kentucky, USA, October 2012
The Regional Global Health Conference ‘Crossing Borders and Disciplines: New Horizons in Global Health’ will be held at the University of Kentucky on 26th October 2012. Details are available at: http://www.uky.edu/IntlAffairs/GlobalHealth/.
The XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology
The XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology is approaching, and the Final Programme and the meeting general information are now available on the Congress website: http://irsa2012.com/event/wcrs-2012/
Arturo Léon, president of Latin American Rural Sociology Association, has passed away.
Arturo Léon died in Huichol Mountains in Western Mexico, on April 27th 2012. He was leading a group of students on a field trip at the time of is passing. He was president of Latin American Rural Sociology Association at the time of his passing. Arturo was a beloved teacher and an excellent researcher, well known for his study of European agricultural policy, maize production and markets for agricultural products in Mexico. His legacy includes many books, awards and former graduate student advisees who completed important theses about rural Mexico and its problems. He was an outstanding teacher and mentor of the Rural Development Post-Graduate School of the Universidad Metropolitana. His colleagues, family and students mourn his loss. IRSA joins them in this exercise and regrets that he will not be with us at the upcoming July World Congress in Lisbon.
Yolanda Massieu, Coordinator, Rural Development Post-Graduate School, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico City, April 2012
Please register now for the XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology. Early bird registration 30 March:
http://irsa2012.com/event/irsa-2012/registration/
ESRS SUMMER SCHOOL 2012 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Summer School of the European Society for Rural Sociology will be organized August 19th – 26th 2012 in Ristiina, Finland with a theme Rural– urban relationship revisited.
The summer school is open to 20 PhD students at any stage of their PhD studies, and writing their thesis on rural issues in European context.
The summer school requires an application in the form of an abstract (300-500 words; 1,5 space), along with the application form, submitted to the organizers by March 15th 2012. The abstract and the application form can be sent from https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/30017/lomake.html
Short recommendation by the supervisor (optional) can be emailed to eeva.uusitalo@helsinki.fi
Full-board and accommodation will be offered during the school for the participants. The students have to cover their own travel costs.
Read more about the Summer School at www.ruralstudies.fi/esrs-2012/
NOMINATIONS FOR IRSA PRESIDENT 2012 - 2016
The IRSA Executive Committee is seeking nominations for IRSA
President for the four year period beginning with the XIII World
Congress of Rural Sociology, July 29-August 4, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal.
The eligibility requirements are that a candidate either has been a
member of IRSA Council (at any time in their lives) including as
Secretary-Treasurer, or that s/he is among the nominees of a member
association for the coming term. Individuals are ineligible to stand in
they are from the same member association as the retiring
President – IN THIS CASE ESRS or have held the position of IRSA
President previously.
Individuals can nominate themselves or nominate others for the
position by e-mailing the current IRSA Secretary-Treasurer David
Hansen at hansen.4@osu.edu. Nominations are welcome until
March 15.
The University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu invites to the second Nordic Conference for rural research: Rural at the Edge. The conference will be at 21st to 23rd of May 2012 with the theme "Rural at the Edge" indicating not only our Nordic location at the outskirts of Europe, but also a focus on issues that emerge in this changing landscape and increasing interdependency between countries and regions. For more information about the conference and the subthemes, please visit the conference website.
ESRS Newsletter 14.10.2011
The ESRS Newsletter 14.10.2011 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are
Greetings from the editor of the newsletter, Greetings from president Jo Little, Congresses, New books. PhD Vacancy. e-learning course on the Common Agricultural Policy and Improving ESRS archive
The Department of Development Sociology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell
University is seeking applicants for a 9-month tenure-track position in Sociology of Food Systems. This
position is part of an interdisciplinary cluster hire that also includes a position in Sustainable Cropping
and Food Systems in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. Position Description
The Rural Sociological Society is having their 74th Annual Meeting July 28- 31, 2011. We are combining with the Community Development Society in Boise, Idaho. Please visit our website for Conference details at www.ruralsociology.us.
IRSA Congress
The president wants to congratulate the organizers and program committee of the IRSA congress with a total of 1 460 abstracts submitted for the 77 sessions. This shows a very promising interest, and is a good sign of a huge turnout and a successful congress in Lisbon later this year.
The XXIV European Society for Rural Sociology Congress
The European Society for Rural Sociology invites to the XXIV European Socity for Rural Sociology Congress, 22-25 August 2011 in Chania (Greece). The theme of the congress is 'Inequality and Diversity in European Rural Areas'.
In IRSA we are now introducing a more outspoken, actual and vivid homepage. As of today we launch a President's Corner and an IRSA Forum, where members and others may comment the Corner text and other IRSA issues. You are also invited as members to send us longer texts, up to 600 words, in which you may take part in a discussion of upcoming issues and concerns in international rural sociology. The aim is to become a more living organisation with more active members.
12 positions for early stage researchers
PUREFOOD project has 12 vacant positions for early stage researchers in the socio-economic and socio-spatial dynamics of the (peri-)urban and regional foodscape.
PUREFOOD offers 12 individual research projects in 6 countries.
ESRS Newsletter 29.9.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 29.9.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are call for working groups to the XXIV ESRS Congress (22-25 August 2011) in Chania (Greece), announcement of conferences and a new book published.
Minutes from the Mid Year Council Meeting (July 13 2010 in Gothenberg, Sweden) are now available.
The Asian Rural Sociology Association (ARSA) announces the 4th International Conference in Legazpi City, Philippines on September 6-10, 2010. The theme for the conference is “The Multidimensionality of Economy, Energy and Environmental Crises and their Implications for Rural Livelihoods”.
ESRS Newsletter 27.5.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 27.5.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. The contents of the ESRS Newsletter are New Scientific Committee, Extended dl. for the ESRS Summer School, Conferences and Job opportunity
A Turning Point of Women, Families and Agriculture in Rural Japan
edited by Masae Tsutsumi (ISBN: 978-4-7620-2015-5) has just been released by Gakubunsha Publishing of Tokyo. The book’s six chapters focus is the changing and emerging role of entrepreneurial women in rural Japan, with special emphasis on women farmers. The chapters include studies of example of women from non-farm backgrounds who are becoming farmers, women who are inheriting farms, and the significant role played by Japanese women in emerging alternative agri-food systems. All of the chapters are in English and were built upon contributions made at the World Congress of the International Rural Sociological Association in Seoul in 2008.
ESRS Newsletter 15.2.2010
The ESRS Newsletter 15.2.2010 has been published on the ESRS Website. Contents of the ESRS Newsletter:
Agri-Food Research Network has launched its new website: http://www.afrn.org.au/
At the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Sweden (11th-17th July 2010) IRSA will host a session called “Comparative perspective on the new productivism: Agricultural system and policy responses to increasing food and energy prices and climate change.”
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IRSA XII World Congress Papers
European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) invites to the XXIII Congress in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009.
The theme for the congress is Re-inventing the Rural- between the Social and the Natural.
ESRS XXIII Congress Website
Rural Sociological Society (RSS) hosts its 72nd Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin (USA), July 30-August 2, 2009.
The theme for this meeting is Climate Change and Societal Response: Livelihoods, Communities, and the Environment
2009 Annual Meeting Website