The Selecting Committee of the ISA Eight International Laboratory for PhD Students in Sociology have reviewed all received applications and have selected the below listed students to participate in the forthcoming ISA Laboratory which will organised jointly with the XI Fulbright Summer School in the Humanities at the Moscow University, Russia, June 5-11, 2008. Congratulations to the selected participants!

List of the selected participants and topics of their PhD dissertations (in alphabetic order):

Mr. Lou ANTOLIHAO, Philippines/National University of Singapore, Singapore
Can the subaltern play? Basketball, cultural imperialism and national identity

Mr. Francisco ANTUNES CAMINATI, Brazil
Here be dragons: the relations between free software and the capitalist axiomatic

Mr. Vishal G. JADHAV, University of Pune, India
Social capital as rule: the cultural politics of Maratha domination

Mrs. Asuka KAWANO, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Introduction of Mahallas into school education in Uzbekistan

Mrs. Rafia KAZIM, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
A socio-linguistic study of factors affecting the acquisition and proficiency of English among Muslim woman

Mrs. Zahraa MACDONALD, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Notions of citizenship: a sociological exposition of Islamic education in Johannesburg

Mrs. Claudia MARTINEZ MULLEN, Argentina/University of KwazuluNatal, South Africa
Leisure time and sport: football passion, aesthetic practices and cultural transformation in South Africa and Argentina

Mr. Akachi ODOEMENE, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ethnic relations in Enugu city, Southeastern Nigeria, 1970-2003

Mrs. Adriana STEFANEL, University of Bucharest, Romania
The political imaginary run through the media and the collective imaginary

Mr. Holland WILDE, University of Calgary, Canada
Provoking media production: employing critical ethnographic video to unveil commonsensical media (re)presentation

Mr. Daniel WOODMAN, University of Melbourne, Australia
Uncertainty and rethinking of the future: how young Australians negotiate the post secondary school transition