First Winter School on the Analytics and Policy Design of Migration - Course Announcement

January 7-11, 2014, Doha, Qatar

Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013

Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar (GU-Q) is pleased to announce that the first Winter School on the Analytics and Policy Design of Migration will be held in Doha, Qatar, on January 7-11, 2014.

The School will be led by Oded Stark, Distinguished Research Scholar at GU-Q, Professor at the Universities of Klagenfurt, Bonn, Tuebingen, Vienna, and Warsaw.

SCHOOL DESCRIPTION: The main purpose of the School is to induce the participants to think rigorously, creatively, and in non-conventional ways on various approaches to the modeling of migration choices and consequences, and to demonstrate to the participants how such a thinking process could enrich the spectrum of informed migration policies. Participants will be exposed to the art of economic modeling in general, and to the workings of applied microeconomic theory in particular. Following the School, the participants are expected to be more at ease with deciphering theoretical research on migration, and at engaging in such research themselves.

QUALIFICATIONS: School participants should be holders of Ph.D. in Economics earned during 2009-2013, and Economics Ph.D. students in advanced stages of their dissertation work.

FURTHER DETAILS: The cost of participation in the School, including air travel, accommodation, and meals will be covered by the School. The School will be held in the new campus of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Participants will be expected to arrive on Monday, January 6, 2014, and to depart on Sunday, January 12, 2014.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applicants are asked to submit their C.V. along with a sample article or a chapter in their Ph.D. dissertation to Dr. Ewa Kepinska, Coordinator of the Winter School, e-mail: SFSQWinterSchool@georgetown.edu. The application deadline is October 15, 2013. Responses to the applications will be provided by October 31, 2013.

Additional information is at: http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/academics/migrationpolicy