News Archive 2006
2/2006
The British International Studies Association Working Group on International Mediterranean Studies and the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark announce a forthcoming workshop on
EUROPE'S LEGACY? FROM COLONIALISM TO DEMOCRACY PROMOTION. THE CASE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
to be held at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, Odense, Denmark between April 21-22, 2007.
The workshop seeks to cast empirical and theoretical light upon an increasingly important aspect of European politics: attempts by the European Union to export democracy to other regions. It will therefore focus on a crucial aspect of the EU’s external policy and will add value to ongoing debates about the EU’s neighbourhood policy relations which stop short of membership.
Through this closed workshop, and as a related issue to the key question this event will address, participants will seek to investigate critically the recent emergence of socio-political movements in the wider Mediterranean in an effort to understand the current transformations in the Maghreb, the Mashrek and the Middle East.
Contributors will reflect on Europe's legacy (colonial periods in the Mediterranean region and post-colonial legacy), the EU's efforts at 'democratization' in the region and the impact on the ground especially as regards the emergence of socio-political (Islamist, in some cases) movements.
As part of the two-day programme a public panel-debate about the overall-theme has been arranged.
Funding for this workshop has, thus far, been secured from UACES, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute in Cairo, the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies (Odense), the BISA working group on International Mediterranean Studies, the Danish Institute of International Affairs and the European Research Institute (University of Birmingham).
For more information on this event please contact the workshop organizers:
Michelle Pace and Peter Seeberg
Dr Michelle Pace
Research Councils UK fellow
EU Enlargement, EMP & ENP
European Research Institute
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 121 414 8222
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 7329
email: m.pace@bham.ac.uk
Dr Peter Seeberg, Associate professor, Ph.D.
Head of Department & Director of Studies
Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies
University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55
DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Phone +45 6550 2183/2177 Direct +45 6550 2176
Mobile +45 2238 5470 Fax +45 6550 2161
Mail: seeberg@hist.sdu.dk
Web: www.humaniora.sdu.dk/middle-east
1/2006
Call for papers: The political geographies of the Mediterranean: conflicts and boundaries
Session in the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference 2007 28th – 31st August 2007, at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London.
Historically a source of cultural and economic dynamism, the circulation of people, objects, ideas and ways of life across the Mediterranean has taken a new edge with current global geopolitical and geo-economic processes. In the midst of greater connectivity and fluidity of exchanges and ongoing processes of de- and re-territorialization, the Mediterranean re-emerges as a hotspot for international conflicts. Analysts predict a deterioration of political stability in the region in the coming decades due to, inter alia, acute environmental degradation, scarcity of fossil fuels, and growing structural economic and demographic disjunctures between Europe, the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. Political, cultural and environmental conflicts and instabilities often underpin processes of regionalisation and yet little is know about the relationship between the conflictive nature of the region and emerging socio-spatialities.
This session explores the emerging Mediterranean socio-spatialities within the increasingly transnational, instable and unsustainable nature of social, political, economic and environmental life in the region. We welcome papers that go beyond predominant ways of conceiving social relations as occurring in self-enclosed territories (e.g. nation-state) and are sensitive to the complex and contingent processes of de- and re-territorialization, de- and re-scaling and continual openness and bordering of social, environmental, political and economic life (e.g. the EU, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, Euro-regions such as the Latin Arc) .
Keywords: Mediterranean, Sustainability, Conflict
If you would like to present a paper in this session, please send a title and an abstract (of no more than 200 words) to either Ramon Ribera-Fumaz or to Javier Caletrío Garcerá by 28th of February 2007.
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