News Archive December 2007
30/12/2007
Séminaire Sciences sociales et immigration (2007-2008)
Un vendredi par mois, de 14h à 16h, premier et deuxième semestres 2007-2008
3 ECTS, ENS, 48 boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, salle D131
Contacts : C. Hmed (choukri.hmed@ens.fr), A. Spire (alexis.spire@libertysurf.fr) ou C. Zalc (claire.zalc@ens.fr).
Les succès électoraux du Front National, les réformes successives de la législation sur l’entrée et le séjour et l’inflation des discours médiatiques et politiques sur l’intégration, puis sur les discriminations, ont placé l’immigration au cœur de controverses scientifiques et politiques. L’objectif de ce séminaire, ouvert à tous, est de restituer la genèse sociale des concepts et des enjeux mobilisés dans ces débats, grâce à la présentation de travaux scientifiques récents. Pour cela, nous avons choisi d’adopter une perspective résolument pluridisciplinaire. A chaque séance, l’intervenant proposera un texte, support à sa présentation, qui sera soumis à un discutant chargé d’introduire le débat avec les participants au séminaire. On s’efforcera de privilégier les travaux fondés sur des matériaux empiriques (archives, entretiens, terrains d’observation) et de centrer la discussion collective sur les apports de la conférence et sur les questions soulevées par la méthodologie et les concepts utilisés.
30/12/2007
La présence de Byzance dans l’Europe du Sud-Est aux époques moderne et contemporaine
Colloque international, École française d’Athènes
22-24 septembre 2008
APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS
L’héritage et la perception de Byzance dans l’Europe du Sud-Est aux époques moderne et contemporaine sont le sujet du colloque international qui se réunira à Athènes du 22 au 24 septembre 2008. Contrairement à la thèse longtemps en faveur de Nicolas Iorga, le surgissement de nouveaux États souverains au XIXe et au XXe siècle ne marqua pas un point final au souvenir de Byzance, mais conduisit à autant d’appropriations, à des déclinaisons variées de la mémoire, à des dénis, voire au contraire à l’idée d’un héritage commun à partager. De la Grande Idée grecque aux guerres balkaniques récentes, de la politique des Églises orthodoxes aux historiographies nationales, combien d’empreintes sous-jacentes du passé médiéval ? Quel héritage byzantin pour l’ensemble du Sud-Est européen ?
C’est à une vaste réflexion sur une Byzance continuée, retrouvée ou réinventée dans cette région d’Europe qu’invite le colloque d’Athènes.
Olivier DELOUIS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance // Anne COUDERC, École française d’Athènes/Université Paris I-UMR 8138 IRICE // Petre GURAN, Academia Romana, Institut d’Études du Sud-Est européen, Bucarest.
Les propositions de communication (500 mots) doivent être rédigées en anglais ou en français et être envoyées avant le 30 janvier 2008 en se connectant à l’adresse suivante : http://www.efa.gr/byzance2008
Les langues du colloque sont le français et l’anglais
29/12/2007
The new COSMOBILITIES NEWSLETTER No 3/2007 is out now
Inside this issue you will find
Research news:
International Summer School ‘Mobility and Cultural Exchange': a conference report, by Sarah Ruth Sippel
'Arbeit im Luftverkehr', notes from a research project, by Ingo Matuschek
New publications:
Freizeitmobilität im Alltag, by Konrad Götz
Mobilizing Hospitality, edited by Jennie Germann Molz and Sarah Gibson
Global Nomads, by Anthony Fischer D'Andrea
Portrait Introducing Innoz, Innovation centre for mobility and demographic change at Berlin, Germany.
28/12/2007
Annonce - Catastrophe et risques : regards anthropologiques
Appel à contributions, journée d’étude du jeudi 3 avril 2008, EHESS
Salle Lombard, 96 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris
A une époque où la diffusion croissante des médias de masse permet une appréhension quasi-simultanée des crises qui frappent le monde, risques et catastrophes sont de plus en plus présents dans les représentations contemporaines. A travers le prisme médiatique, tout comme dans les discours politiques ou scientifiques, les désastres apparaissent à la fois plus nombreux, plus dangereux, plus insupportables aussi. Dans le domaine des sciences sociales, l’histoire des catastrophes, le paradigme de la société du risque ou encore la sociologie des désastres nord-américaine abordent sous des regards différents cet objet. L’ethnologie française reste relativement muette à ce propos, alors que les chercheurs sont souvent confrontés sur le terrain à des événements de violence, de risque, voire catastrophiques. Doit-on considérer ces éléments comme participant du contexte de l’enquête de terrain ou peut-on faire du risque et de la catastrophe de véritables objets anthropologiques ?
Comité organisateur : Association pour la Recherche sur les Catastrophes et les Risques en Anthropologie (ARCRA)
Cécile Quesada (CREDO) : cequesada@free.fr
Violaine Girard (IRIS et LaSSP) : viogirard@yahoo.fr
Julien Langumier (RIVES UMR 5.600) : langumier@yahoo.fr
Sandrine Revet (Paris 3 CREDAL) : sandrine.revet@free.fr
27/12/2007
Huitième colloque annuel du groupe de travail « Mobilités spatiales et Fluidités sociales » (GT23)
de l’Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF)
Rennes les 13, 14 et 15 mars 2008
Ce colloque centré sur la thématique « Mobilités, identités, altérités » est envisagé comme une rencontre interdisciplinaire visant à faire dialoguer sociologues, géographes, psychologues, aménageurs ainsi que les divers acteurs territoriaux concernés dans leurs pratiques par cette thématique.
Information : colloque-MSFS2008@univ-rennes2.fr
26/12/2007
DRC Specialist
Looking for someone to provide information and/or an expert testimony statementon: traditional forms of leadership and their relationship with oil companiesin Nigeria; militant youth groups - how well they are networked and armed; thecapacity of the Nigerian government to protect an individual from such youthgroups. The information received will be used in conjunction with country oforigin information to support a re-opening submission for an asylum seeker'sclaim for refugee status. The lawyer working on this case will send a list ofquestions to any who can offer help. Dr. Barbara Harrell-Bond <behbond@aucegypt.edu>
22/12/2007
Les migrations, un atout dans la lutte contre la pauvreté
Le nouveau rapport du Centre de développement de l'OCDE sur les migrations et les pays en développement démontre que des politiques migratoires plus efficaces et plus cohérentes peuvent contribuer à combattre la pauvreté dans le monde. Mieux organisés, les flux migratoires peuvent favoriser le développement :
· en renforçant les compétences des migrants;
· en augmentant les transferts de fond effectués par les migrants vers leur pays d'origine; et
· en réduisant le taux de chômage dans les pays en développement.
Ces objectifs peuvent être atteints si les politiques migratoires prennent en compte leur impact sur le développement. Les décideurs politiques des pays riches et es pays en développement doivent traiter les politiques migratoires et de développement de manière concertées.
Les flux migratoires vers les pays de l'OCDE sont avant tout des flux intra-OCDE.
Pour plus d'informations
Acheter l'étude
En lire plus sur Migrations et pays en développement
Consulter notre site internet sur les migrations
De nouvelles politiques pour faire des migrations un atout majeur
21/12/2007
Tourisme, mobilités et altérités contemporaines
Appel à contributions - 15 février 2008
Civilisations vol. 57 (1-2) - A paraître en 2008
On assiste aujourd’hui un peu partout dans le monde au développement sans précédent d'une mobilité touristique impliquant des flux à la fois humains, techniques, financiers et culturels. Longtemps, les sciences sociales ont soit ignoré ce phénomène – notamment dans le milieu francophone –, soit l'ont cantonné à une dimension essentiellement ludique et occidentale. C'est à cette double lacune que sera consacré ce numéro thématique de Civilisations. Il s'agira d'une part de montrer les implications politiques et épistémologiques du tourisme, et d'autre part d'accorder davantage d'attention aux pratiques et aux représentations des touristes non occidentaux.
Tourisme et anthropologie: enjeux méthodologiques et épistémologiques
Le tourisme s'accompagne de la généralisation de nouvelles formes de visualisation, de mise en scène et de consommation des différences culturelles. Les populations étudiées traditionnellement par les anthropologues sont engagées dans un processus de marchandisation d'elles-mêmes visant à les transformer en objet de désir, ce qui a d'importantes implications pour les conditions de l'enquête et le type de savoir produit par l'anthropologie. L'un des objectifs de ce numéro spécial sera précisément de cerner le caractère problématique de l'objet "tourisme" en anthropologie et d'en montrer les implications méthodologiques et épistémologiques. En quoi un ethnologue se différencie-t-il d'un touriste sur un terrain mondialisé ? Quelle pertinence attribuer aux questions d'authenticité et comment les traiter ? Comment le savoir ethnographique est-il utilisé par les touristes et par ceux qui en sont les hôtes ?
Tourisme, Etat et Nation : enjeux politiques des mobilités de loisir
Le tourisme possède aussi de multiples dimensions politiques : il fait l'objet de procédures d'encadrement particulières de la part des Etats ; il alimente la construction de lieux et de réseaux culturels spécifiques ; il participe de la reformulation des grilles identitaires, des rapports à l’État, à la Nation, aux populations voisines, à l'histoire et au territoire. Historiquement, c'est le nationalisme qui a rendu le territoire attractif et qui en a permis la valorisation et la protection. En d'autres termes, ce ne sont pas la différence et l'extraordinaire qui ont créé les touristes mais leur contraire, le prolongement de l'appartenance et la perspective de prendre place dans des cultures nationales qui les attiraient (Franklin, 2004 : 298). Au travers de ce processus, le tourisme a permis la reproduction ou la modification de hiérarchies sociales, globales et locales. Il peut même être considéré comme un phénomène néo-colonial, la mobilité d'une fraction privilégiée de la population mondiale contrastant avec l'immobilité contrainte – ou les migrations forcées – de ceux qui ne peuvent prétendre être des touristes et/ou qui en sont les hôtes.
Les touristes non occidentaux : pratiques et représentations
En fin, les touristes non occidentaux sont aujourd'hui de plus en plus nombreux – souvent dans leurs propres pays (tourisme domestique ou national) à défaut de pouvoir l'être facilement dans les nôtres – mais restent encore relativement peu étudiés. Un renversement de perspective devrait mettre à jour moins des comportements différents que des désirs asymétriques et des productions idéologiques spécifiques aux cultures et aux nations concernées. Il montrera également que les dynamiques sociales du tourisme expriment, sous la forme d’un jeu de miroir, les inégalités économiques et les enjeux politiques de l’accès à la mobilité de loisir. Enfin, ce décentrement éclairera le caractère fondamentalement transnational de l'activité touristique, soit parce qu'elle souligne l'artificialité de frontières héritées de la colonisation, soit parce qu'elle participe à l'échelle globale de la reconfiguration des relations entre les pays du Sud et l'Occident.
Les articles pourront envisager ces phénomènes selon différents angles – géographiques, historiques sociologiques, anthropologiques. L’objectif général de ce numéro sera d’inscrire la question du tourisme à la fois dans une économie globale des signes et dans une anthropologie politique des formes de mobilités.
Les propositions d'articles, en anglais ou en français (un titre et un résumé de 200 mots maximum), sont à envoyer avant le 15 février 2008 au secrétariat de la revue (civilisations@ulb.ac.be) et aux deux responsables du numéro : Anne Doquet (annedoquet@yahoo.fr) et Olivier Evrard (evrard@bondy.ird.fr ou olivier.ev@free.fr).
Civilisations est une revue d’anthropologie à comité de lecture publiée par l'Institut de Sociologie de l'Université libre de Bruxelles. Publiée sans discontinuité depuis 1951, la revue publie, en français et en anglais, des articles relevant des différents champs de l’anthropologie, sans exclusive régionale ou temporelle. Relancée depuis 2002 avec un nouveau comité éditorial et un nouveau sous-titre (Revue internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines), la revue encourage désormais particulièrement la publication d’articles où les approches de l’anthropologie s’articulent à celles d’autres sciences sociales, révélant ainsi les processus de construction des sociétés.
Informations et conseils aux auteurs disponibles sur : http://www.ulb.ac.be/is/revciv.html#presentation
21/12/2007
I International Symposium on Interculturality in the Mediterranean - Mobilities in a transcultural world: inmigrants, tourists and 'european' residents
The Mediterranean area has been historically shaped by the migration of people and groups, the production of different transnational identities, a variety of cultural and economic exchanges. Nowadays, along with the thousand of inmigrants in search of a better life, and the millions of tourists in search of the warmth of the Mediterranean sea and brightness, thousands of Northwestern European citizens move southward their homes in search of a better quality of life: the Mediterranean way of life.
The Costa Blanca is a paradigmatic example since it is one of the leading tourist destinations in the Mediterranean. It is also a laboral migrants from all over the world, reaching 40% of foreign population in more than 40 municipalities. Despite the strength of these numbers, the research and the knowledge about this cultural diversity only privileges the social and economic relationships between the local population and the labour inmigrants. Being, in most cases, a culturalist approach focused on traditions, rituals, festivals, music and food.
These new mobilities are brought together in territories that, as the Costa Blanca, are social realities determined by the daily practices of groups coming from different cultural and geographical backgrounds. However, the social dynamic of these coastal Mediterranean territories, strengthen during fifty years upon the arrival of both tourists and Northerwestern Europeans citizens, has configured a dense reality that requires interculturality to be approached in its whole extension and complexity. Thus it seems compulsory to consider the presence and the living together of the three big socio-cultural groups that condense the transcultural mobilities and that characterise our global world: tourists, inmigrants, and European residents, and their relation both among them and with the local population (whatever the meaning that the adjective local may acquire in this case).
Thus, it is urgent that scholars, researchers, public administrations and private institutions ease the exchange of ideas, as well as working and research proposal, with the sole objective of getting closer to a better comprehension of intercultural processes.
For this reason we want to bring together specialists from different countries to sit at a table and to talk about this social and cultural world. And this symposium is a very good first step.
21/12/2007
Mar de Ciudades, Ciudades del Mar - Tánger en Tres Culturas
El ciclo de Tres Culturas “Mar de Ciudades, Ciudades del Mar”, que ya ha estado dedicado a Beirut, Estambul, Nápoles y Alejandría, llega en Diciembre a Tánger. El ciclo tiene como objetivo centrarse en algunas de las ciudades que han creado la identidad mediterránea, analizando y mostrando su influencia y protagonismo.
De este modo Tres Culturas pretende hacer un recorrido por los momentos de esplendor de cada una de estas urbes, no sólo como centros políticos, sociales, culturales, religiosos o artísticos, sino también como cuna de las distintas civilizaciones que han ido conformando la identidad mediterránea tal como la conocemos.
“Mar de Ciudades, Ciudades del Mar” llegará en diciembre a Tánger. Las palabras de Delacroix, describiendo la luminosidad de la ciudad, la convirtieron en la parada obligatoria de todo pintor en busca de los colores y la luz. Su apertura atrajo la atención de artistas de diversa índole, que, embrujados por sus encantos, no pudieron dejar de visitarla e incluso de vivir en ella, como Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams o los Rolling Stones.
Fecha: Diciembre de 2007, Lugar: Fundación Tres Culturas; Organiza: Fundación Tres Culturas
Para más información: Antonio Marquez, amarquezm@tresculturas.org
21/12/2007
Bourgeois Seas Revisiting the Middle Classes of Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities
International Conference Call for Papers
European University Institute, Florence
Although there has recently been a notable surge of interest in the study of non-European middle classes as well as of Eastern Mediterranean port cities, most historians working on the field of the Eastern Mediterranean rarely treat port cities as sites where classes were formed and contested and where bourgeoisies asserted their class hegemony. This conference aims at bringing these two critical trends together. Following recent historiographical trends proposals are invited on any port city of the Eastern Mediterranean during the long nineteenth century, until about the aftermath of the First World War.
The conference will take place at the European University Institute in Florence in September 2008. Applicants are welcome to send abstracts of about 350 to 500 words by the end of January 2008. Authors will be notified by the end of March 2008. Papers will be circulated in advance in order to facilitate discussion among participants and it is expected that the conference will lead to a publication of an edited volume. For information and submission of abstracts please contact
Paris Papamichos Chronakis Dr. Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas University of Crete European University Institute pchronakis@gmail.com Athanasios.gekas@eui.eu
21/12/2007
Les migrations internationales / International migrations
Appel à communications
Catégorisation(s) et migrations, CERI le 13-14 mars 2008
« Immigré », « étranger », « réfugié », « émigré », « primo-arrivant », « deuxième génération », « demandeur d’asile », « sans papiers », « flux » ou « stocks »… ces mots servent à dire les phénomènes migratoires. Ces termes sont à la fois des catégories de pratique, utilisés par les acteurs de la migration, des politiques aux individus, et des catégories d’analyse servant aux chercheurs à désigner la migration. Ce colloque a pour objet de s'interroger sur les processus historiques, sociaux, politiques et culturels de construction de ces catégories. La démarche dans laquelle s’inscrit ce colloque est interdisciplinaire.
La démarche dans laquelle s’inscrit ce colloque est interdisciplinaire. Nous sollicitons aussi bien des études théoriques que des illustrations concrètes de catégorisations dans le champ des migrations. Nous porterons une attention particulière sur les papiers couvrant des aires géographiques les plus diverses.
Les propositions en français ou en anglais ne devront pas comprendre plus de 900 mots.
Vous êtes invités à accompagner vos propositions d’un encart biographique comprenant les informations suivantes : Nom et Prénom, Situation actuelle, Laboratoire de rattachement, Principaux thèmes de recherche et Liste des publications les plus significatives.
Elles devront être adressées à cette adresse migractions@yahoo.fr avant le 15 décembre 2007.
Pour un souci de clarté, nous vous demandons d’enregistrer vos documents au format Word ou RTF à vos nom et prénom.
21/12/2007
Early Announcement : 6 fully-funded PhD studentship at Bournemouth University
International Centre for Tourism & Hospitality Research
Please click on the project names listed below to go direct to details of individual projects.
§ eTOURISM: SOCIAL NETWORKING ONLINE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TOURISM (WEB 2.0-TRAVEL 2.0)
§ eTOURISM: WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES AND LOCATION-BASED SERVICES
§ ADAPTING TOURISM FOR A LOWER CARBON FUTURE: AN HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HOLIDAY TRAVEL
§ PRO-POOR TOURISM: A REALISTIC STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SELECTED ASIAN COUNTRIES
§ OVERWEIGHT, OBESITY, WELLBEING AND THE FOODSERVICE INDUSTRY
§ TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND DISPLACEMENT EFFECTS
Click here for detailed information about each project
Bournemouth University is committed to building on areas of academic strength through an ambitious and sustained programme of investment. Research in the School of Services Management is organised around our research centres, each of which comprises both teaching staff and research students. The ICTHR is pleased to offer six of fully funded PhD studentships. Please note within the School of Services Management that only one of these studentships will be offered to an overseas fee-based candidate and the remainder to Home/EU fee-based candidates.
Candidates for the fully-funded PhD studentship must demonstrate outstanding qualities and be motivated to complete a PhD in 3 years. All candidates must satisfy the School’s minimum doctoral entry criteria for studentships of: an honours degree at Upper Second Class (2.1) and/or an appropriate Masters degree. An IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 minimum is essential for candidates for whom English is not their first language. In addition to satisfying basic entry criteria, the Research Centre will look closely at the qualities, skills and background of each candidate and what they can bring to their chosen research project.
If you would like to contact a member of staff to find out more information then please email the project supervisor identified with a particular area of study. Alternatively, you can also arrange to view the School and its facilities by emailing the administrator, Karen Ward
Closing Date: The final closing date for applications is 31 July 2008. However, applications are assessed independently and offers may be made to ideal candidates throughout the process. As such – apply early to avoid disappointment. .
21/12/2007
"America! America! L’immigration, son histoire et ses représentations"
journée d'étude organisée par la Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration et l'EHESS (Centre de Recherches Historiques/Centre d’études nord-américaines)
Mercredi 19 décembre 2007, de 9h30 à 18h30 à l'Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art2, rue Vivienne / 6 rue des petits champs- 75002 Paris
A l'occasion de l'exposition "Augustus Frederick Sherman. Portraits d'Ellis Island 1905-1920", la Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration et l'EHESS organisent, sous la direction scientifique de Nancy Green, historienne des migrations, une journée consacrée à l'immigration en France et aux Etats-Unis. Une histoire qui fait une large part aux approches comparées, entre deux pays, entre deux époques, entre hommes et femmes. Une histoire qui interroge aussi les représentations de l'immigration, à travers plusieurs disciplines artistiques majeures : cinéma, photographie, littérature.
Réservations par mail : sherman@histoire-immigration.fr
21/12/2007
Euroasylum Interviews
Eurasylum (www.eurasylum.org) has just published its new monthly policy interview, featuring Mr. Louis Michel, EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, on : 'Recent and unfolding developments on the EU-Africa dialogue and partnership on migration’. The interview can be accessed from: http://www.eurasylum.org/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=19 Eurasylum’s interviews may be reproduced freely on condition that both the original source and the URL are explicitly acknowledged. Contact: management@eurasylum.org
21/12/2007
UN Human Development Report 2007/2008
Focus is on the development impact of climate change
21/12/2007
Colloque International « Femmes et stratégies transnationales XVIIIe-XXIe siècles »
les 18, 19, 20 septembre 2008 à l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise
Appel à communications
En insérant l’étude de genre dans une perspective transnationale, ce colloque cherche à mettre en lumière le rôle des femmes dans un monde de plus en plus globalisé, tout comme l’influence de cette globalisation sur la situation et les revendications des femmes. Par l’analyse des passerelles qui permettent le passage du local au global et vice versa, il insistera sur les stratégies qui, non seulement extraient les femmes du strict domaine privé auquel les sociétés nationales les avaient traditionnellement cantonnées, mais plus largement portent leurs valeurs et leurs luttes hors des frontières nationales, les élevant alors au rang d’actrices (légitimes ?) sur la scène internationale.
Groupe du CICC, Civilisations et identités culturelles comparées des sociétés européennes et occidentales, EA 2529 du CNRS, de l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise. Mercedes YUSTA RODRIGO (myusta@free.fr) - Marie-Pierre ARRIZABALAGA (marie-pierre.arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr,) - Diana BURGOS-VIGNA (dianaburgos@voila.fr )
21/12/2007
Refugee Voices
"Refugee Voices" is a quarterly newsletter, prepared within hCa's Refugee Advocacy and Support Program. The winter edition of the newsletter, published in December 2007 includes articles about a wedding story of a young Somalian couple from Istanbul, organisation efforts of Congolese people in Istanbul and suspicious death of Festus Okey from Nigeria. The newsletter, published in Turkish and English, sometimes includes articles written in Arabic and French. You can download the 4th issue of Refugee Voices from this link.
21/12/2007
European Council Conclusions on Migration
At the General Affairs Council meeting on 10 December, EU Ministers adopted Conclusions on mobility partnerships and circular migration in the framework of the global approach to migration. The Council stated that specific partnerships on migration with third countries could contribute to a coherent migration policy which combines measures aimed at facilitating well-managed legal migration opportunities and their benefits with those fighting illegal migration, protecting refugees and tackling the root causes of migration while at the same time impacting positively on development in countries of origin. Mobility partnerships between the European Union, Member States and third countries could be tested by way of a limited number of pilot par tnerships.
21/12/2007
Desmarges aux frontières. Les îles méditerranéennes, enjeux de conquêtes et de souverainetés à l’époque moderne
Journées d’études, 25-26 avril 2008
L’intérêt de cette journée d’études, portant sur « Des marges aux frontières : les îles méditerranéennes, enjeux de conquêtes et de souverainetés », est de montrer comment, par quels biais, ces îles sont passées du statut de simple bordure à celui de frontière au sens anglo-saxon du terme, c’est-à-dire des lieux de centralité. Point de mire des puissances, expression de leur défense agressive (fortifications, course, police des mers, contrôle militaire), les îles deviennent, en tant que frontières, des mondes convoités, attaqués, et des espaces aux fonctions militaires hypertrophiées. Subissant toutes les formes de guerre, elles en deviennent des lieux spécialisés.
Date limite des propositions : 30 décembre 2007
A dresses électroniques d'envoi : anne.brogini@laposte.net et / ou maria.ghazali@wanadoo.fr
CMMC – Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
20/12/2007
Six new UNHCR research papers
Promoting integration through mobility: free movement and the ECOWAS Protocol, by Aderanti Adepoju, Alistair Boulton and Mariah Levin. Research Paper No. 150
International protection for trafficked persons and those who fear beingtrafficked, by Kari Saito. Research Paper No. 149
Secondary movement in Romania: the asylum-migration nexus,by Alison Munteanu. Research Paper No. 148
Refugee camps in Chad: planning strategies and the architect's involvement inthe humanitarian dilemma, by Manuel Herz. Research Paper No. 147
The protection of forced migrants in Islamic law, by Kirsten Zaat. Research Paper No. 146
The removal of failed asylum seekers: international norms and procedures, by John Gibson. Research Paper No. 145
Papers can be accessed here
20/12/2007
L’escale portuaire : mythes et réalités d’un lieu d’échanges de l’Antiquité au XXIe siècle
Colloque interdisciplinaire –22-24 octobre 2008 (CIRTAI & GRIC – Université du Havre)
Faire escale : le colloque de l’université du Havre propose d’étudier sous différents angles et dans l’interdisciplinarité ces lieux d’étape de la navigation : topographie changeante des escales, réseaux de distribution des marchandises et des hommes, transformation des quartiers portuaires, enjeux de l’histoire militaire, droit des gens de passage et des marchandises, migrations, circulation et diffusion des épidémies, porte d’entrée dans l'univers colonial, imaginaire de la littérature, de la peinture, de la chanson ou du cinéma, etc.
Les propositions de communication sont à envoyer, avant le 31 décembre 2007, à :
John Barzman, john.barzman@wanadoo.fr
Jean-Pierre Castelain, jpcastel@club-internet.fr
ou Eric Wauters, eric.wauters@wanadoo.fr.
19/12/2007
The future of historic spa towns. The role of cultural heritage in the process of urban revitalisation and re-imaging
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 March 2008
Spa Balmoral-Belgium
The emphasis of the meeting lies on the exchange of theoretical knowledge and practical experiences with tourism development in traditional spa towns (mainly in Europe). The challenges for revitalisation policies are complex; although every place is unique, the options for the future need to be studied in the shared context of a global, dynamic and competitive market.
The objective of this symposium is to stimulate the interest of academic research in comparative studies about traditional spa destinations and to discuss a framework and agenda for joint research projects.
More information can be found on the ATLAS website
19/12/2007
"LANDSCAPES, IDENTITIES AND DEVELOPMENT" conference
Lisbon / Óbidos, Portugal, 1-5 September 2008
see http://tercud.ulusofona.pt/PECSRL/SessionsKeynotes.htm
We are inviting contributions to the following special session: A10 Special Session: EMERGING ENERGIES, EMERGING LANDSCAPES. Energy and landscape are intricately inter-connected. Landscapes embody and are significantly shaped by the energy decisions of previous generations and our own. Before the onset of the industrial revolution, renewable energy was virtually the only type of energy available to humankind (e.g. fire, crops to feed draught and riding animals, sailing ships, watermills, windmills). Their relative importance in our ‘energy mix’ became almost negligible during the industrial age, but renewable energies are currently undergoing a renaissance. Concerns about climate change and energy security have driven energy issues ever-higher up socio-political agendas, and the decisions which we make about our ‘energy futures’ will have far-reaching implications for landscapes, both directly (through infrastructure) and indirectly (by modulating climate change). The proposed transformation of our energy mix towards a much greater reliance on renewables thus greatly enhances the importance and topicality of the landscape-energy relationship. The ways in which sections of society interpret the diverse, diffuse and spatially heterogeneous impacts of (decentralized) renewable energies or contribute to these changes can be regarded as a re-composition of socio-technical links between energy generation and (territorial) identity. The idea underlying this session is that (changes in) the notion, practice and meaning of landscape can be studied through the ‘lens’ of energy developments, and vice versa. The planning and/or sitting processes for renewable energy developments create an opportunity to analyse the social (re)construction of landscape. The session aims to explore landscape-energy issues based on empirical, theoretical or synthetic contributions coming from various countries and disciplinary fields. They might deal with the development of renewable energies (e.g. wind power, biomass) or of more conventional types of energy generation and transmission (e.g. hydro, fossil fuel, nuclear, electricity grid networks), include landscape as a salient dimension and/or consider the ability of theoretical frameworks to capture the multi-dimensionality (i.e. relational, social, environmental, material, spatial, aesthetic) of the process of landscape construction.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 10th of January 2008. For discussion or further information, please contact one of the coordinators of the special session: Alain Nadai nadai@centre-cired.frCharles Warren crw2@st-andrews.ac.uk Dan van der Horst d.vanderhorst@bham.ac.uk
19/12/2007
The Mobile City conference
27 & 28 February 2008
NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"The Mobile City" is a two-day conference about locative & mobile technologies, urban culture and identity. The Mobile City brings academics, architects, urban professionals and media designers together to address the question: what happens to urban culture when physical and digital spaces merge?
Keynote speakers are Stephen Graham, Tim Cresswell, Malcolm McCullough and Christian Nold.
Background: The physical, geographical city with its piazza’s, its neighbourhoods and crossings intersects with the ‘virtual space’ of electronic communication-, information- and observation-networks of GSM, GPS, CCTV, UMTS, WIFI, RFID, etc. At the same time, the domain of digital space is increasingly becoming physical, an “internet of things” is emerging. Another example is the rise of 'pervasive games', digital games with a physical component in urban space. Is it still useful or even possible to talk about the city as being only physical? Or about the digital world as purely ‘virtual’ (in the sense of 'not real' or immaterial)? The physical city and the spaces of digital technologies merge into a new “hybrid space”. Hybrid spaces are shaped by the social processes that concurrently take place in digital and physical spaces. What is the influence of these developments on the ideas we have of time, space and place, citizenship and identity?
Conference questions: Locative and mobile media can be understood as interfaces between the digital domain and the city, as bridges between the social processes that formerly took place in more separated domains (digital or physical) but now are spilling over into each other. The Mobile City will ask the following questions:
• From a theoretical point of view, what are useful concepts to talk about the blurring/merging of physical and digital spaces?
• From a critical perspective, what does the emergence of locative and mobile media mean for urban culture, citizenship, and identities?
• From a professional point of view, what does all this mean for the work of urban professionals (architects, designers, planners), media designers, and academics?
The full program text is available at our website
18/12/2007
Rethinking Solutions for Forced Migrants
5th Annual Forced Migration Postgraduate Student Conference, entitled “Rethinking
Solutions for Forced Migrants”, will be held on the 1st March 2008 at the University of
Oxford. Read more
17/12/2007
Call for Participation - Expanding Citizenship in an Age of Migration
25th – 27th January 2008, Berlin
What is Citizens of Europe? We are a network of people from all over the continent. We believe that European integration is both a fortunate reality and our future. While most discussions and activities still take place in national contexts, we work together on the fields of debate, culture and training in order to contribute to the development of a European civil society. Bringing Europe together
is, for us, a matter of mental and cultural change rather than a technocratic process. Read more
16/12/2007
Two Scholarships to attend the "Peacekeeping and International Conflict Resolution Course"
Ankara, Turkey, Apr 2008
EAST WEST STUDIES INSTITUTE-EWSAnkara -- Turkey www.eastweststudies.org
Together with the ITALIAN CENTER FOR TURKISH STUDIES-ICTSMilan - Italy
In collaboration withUNITARPOCIThe United Nations Institute for Training and Research Programme ofCorrespondence in Peacekeeping Operations www.unitarpoci.org
Are proud to offer two scholarships (the scholarships will cover only thetuition fee of the course) to attend the Short Course on PEACEKEEPING and INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION In English, April 26 -27, 2008 Ankara, Turkey http://www.unitarpoci.org/classroom_course_detail.php?cid=687
This short course is organized in three meetings and designed to offer tothe students a basic understanding of the field of Conflict Resolution andits application to peacekeeping intervention in contemporary internationalconflicts. The lectures will cover the following topics: The nature ofconflict; Key concepts of conflict resolutions; Contemporary conflictdynamics; Conflict mapping; Early warnings and conflict prevention;Peacekeeping and conflict resolution in war zones; Peace settlements andpost-conflict peace building; The role of culture in conflict resolution;Gender issue. Earning a Certificate of Completion from United Nations Institute for Training and Research: By the end of the course, and upon the payment of thefee, students who have achieved a passing grade of 75% or higher in the "UNPeacekeeping and International Conflict Resolution Final Exam" are awarded the Certificate-of-Completion from the United Nations Institute for Trainingand Research, Programme of Correspondence, Instruction in PeacekeepingOperations, www.unitarpoci.org. College and ACCP Credits: The U.S. Army Institute for ProfessionalDevelopment (AIPD) has reviewed UNITAR POCI Courses and determined they merit Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP) credits. US personnel who complete UNITAR POCI courses may have these ACCP credits recorded in their US Army personnel records. UNITAR POCI Peacekeeping and International Conflict Resolution Course provide 22 ACCP credits. Transfer Credit: The "American Military University-Transfer Credit Evaluation Center" recognises the UNITARPOCI Certificates for their undergraduate degree programs:http://www.apus.edu/TransferCredit/accepted/Undergraduate/mou/unitar-pociLecturer: Dr. Giovanni Ercolani, UNITARPOCI Research Associate, ICTSSecurity Adviser, Lecturer at Durham University and Nottingham Trent University.
THE SCHOLARSHIPS WILL COVER ONLY THE TUITION FEE OF THE COURSE
Eligibility:. Turkish nationality. IR undergraduate student. Knowledge of Italian language. Age max 24 years old. Excellent CV DEADLINE: Apr 6, 2008 Contact: account@eastweststudies.org
15/12/2007
7th Global Conference: Violence and the Contexts of Hostility
Monday 5th May - Wednesday 7th May 2008, Budapest, Hungary
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/ptb/hhv/vcce/vch7/cfp.html
This multi- and inter-disciplinary research and publications conference aimsto identify and understand violence in contemporary life. The project willpay particular attention to the different contexts and places where violencedevelops, occurs and where its effects are felt; from the interpersonal tothe international, from the empirical to the symbolic. Attention will also focus on uncovering the motives, dynamics and functions that violence hasfor individuals, groups, populations and societies, as well as for bonds andsocial relations in the private, institutional and public spheres of life.Exploring and understanding representations of violence in media, art andliterature is a key part of the conference. Violence has been part of societies and used as a political tool in multipleways: to unite or divide, to produce fear and compliance, to incite orneutralize mobilization, to resist domination or to impose subordination. Ithas been touted as the only path for liberation or the inevitable road toannihilation and destruction, as a necessary means for transformation or asthe ultimate form to avoid change and defend the status quo. And despiteglobal, national and local efforts to minimize, reduce or eliminate it violence remains a horrifying feature of today's world and life. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstractsshould be submitted by Friday 18th January 2008. If an abstract is acceptedfor the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 18thApril 2008.
15/12/2007
Miguel Ángel Moratinos presenta l'anuari de la Mediterrània Med.2007 a Madrid
Madrid, dijous 20 de desembre
El ministre d'Afers Exteriors i de Cooperació del Govern espanyol, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, presentarà a Madrid el proper dijous 20 de desembre el Med.2007, la nova edició de l'anuari de la Mediterrània. L'acte tindrà lloc a les 12 hores a la Representació a Espanya de la Comissió Europea (Paseo de la Castellana, 46).
15/12/2007
Conferència de Baltasar Porcel "La Mediterrània: una història personal"
Sala d'actes de l'IEMed, dimecres 19 de desembre (19 hores)
La conferència "La Mediterrània: una història personal", anirà a càrrec de l'escriptor Baltasar Porcel, en un acte que comptarà també amb Senén Florensa, director general de l'IEMed, i Emili Rosales, director d'Ediciones Destino. La conferència té lloc amb motiu de l'aparició del llibre de Porcel Mediterráneo. Una historia personal.
15/12/2007
Taula rodona "El conflicte de conflictes: Israel-Palestina i l'eterna fractura al Pròxim Orient"
Sala d'actes de l'IEMed, dimarts 18 de desembre (19 hores)
Taula rodona amb motiu de la presentació del darrer número de Vanguardia Dossier "El conflicto Israel-Palestina". Hi prendran part Ilan Pappé, professor de la Universitat de Haifa i director de l'Institut Àrab Jueu d'Israel; Ferran Izquierdo, professor de relacions internacionals de la UAB; Xavier Batalla, corresponsal diplomàtic de La Vanguardia i director adjunt de Vanguardia Dossier; Senén Florensa, director general de l'IEMed.
15/12/2007
European Council Conclusions on migrations
At the General Affairs Council meeting on 10 December, EU Ministers adopted Conclusions on mobility partnerships and circular migration in the framework of the global approach to migration. The Council stated that specific partnerships on migration with third countries could contribute to a coherent migration policy which combines measures aimed at facilitating well-managed legal migration opportunities and their benefits with those fighting illegal migration, protecting refugees and tackling the root causes of migration while at the same time impacting positively on development in countries of origin. Mobility partnerships between the European Union, Member States and third countries could be tested by way of a limited number of pilot par tnerships.
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/gena/97508.pdf
14/12/2007
eTourism: The View from the Future
23rd – 25th January 2008
Innsbruck Congress Centre will host the world’s foremost annual forum for Information and Communication Technologies in Travel and Tourism – the 15th ENTER Conference in January 2008. A world-class event in a world-class venue, in the Tyrol - the heart of the Austrian Alps.
The overall theme of ENTER 2008 is dedicated to ‘eTourism: The View from the Future’. The conference will be opened with a key note speech from Geoffrey Lipman, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). Eric Basha, Managing Director Tourism of Microsoft will address the attendees as keynote speaker on Thursday.
In organising the structure of the conference ENTER the organising body, the International Federation for IT in Travel & Tourism (IFITT), has a very direct approach: three tracks – a research track, an eDestination track and an Industry & Innovations track. The research track provides a platform for the very latest research papers from the academic world. The eDestinations track, is about the applications and issues to provide cutting edge business solutions and best practices to destinations. The Industry & Innovations track will focus on the latest innovations in the tourism industry.
Prof. Andy Frew, IFITT-President, is convinced: “We have an enticing combination of the world’s leading eTourism researchers joined by industry champions describing their solutions and their visions for the future.”
Illustrative topics include: trends and future scenarios for travel & tourism, online communities, Web 2.0, Destination Management Systems, mobile services, interactive TV, electronic marketing, recommender systems, and a host of others – around 150 presentations in all!
On Friday, 25th January, there will be an Austrian Day with a focus on Web 2.0. The presentations on the Austrian Day will be given in German by high-profile representatives of the Austrian Tourism Industry.
Now in its fifteenth year, ENTER, continues to take forward its mission of bringing together industry, national agencies and research communities to hear and engage with the very latest developments in ICT in Travel and Tourism. What distinguishes ENTER from other forums on this topic is vision is that it provides current business-oriented solutions and best practice cases not only for today but for tomorrow. ENTER is the conference to get up-to-date, learn from best practices/informative cases, and see into the future.
More information on ENTER, a detailed programme as well a registration form can be obtained on www.ifitt.org/ENTER.
http://www.ifitt.org/enter
13/12/2007
Geographies of Hospitality
Call for Papers
Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London, 2008
27th-29th August
In recent years there have been important developments in both the conceptions of hospitality and its application to the analysis of social phenomena. Geographers (Dikeç, 2002; Barnett, 2005), philosophers (Derrida, 2000; Friese, 2004), sociologists and cultural theorists (Molz and Gibson, 2007) have begun using hospitality to understand the ethics and politics of mobility and global migration. In the meantime, management researchers who traditionally treated hospitality as a series of economic and organisational practices have begun to embrace social scientific conceptions of hospitality in their studies of its commercial provision (Lashley et al., 2007; Lugosi, 2007). There is increasing cross fertilisation of ideas between management researchers and geographers. Management academics are developing a geographical understanding of commercial operations (Di Domenico and Lynch, 2007; Lugosi, 2007) and geographers have begun to examine the how social and commercial forms of hospitality interact to transform urban communities and contribute to urban regeneration (Bell, 2007; Bell and Binnie, 2005). This session aims to build on this emerging body of work by encouraging dialogue between geographers, social scientists and those working in the management research community. We welcome any papers that help to develop a geographical understanding of hospitality, but we particularly welcome theoretical and empirical papers that explore:
· The role of hospitality in urban, suburban and rural cultures, including its positive and negative impacts
· The relationship between hospitality and urban regeneration
· The entanglement of social and commercial forms of hospitality
· How notions of hospitality can be used to understand social, organisational and spatial processes
· The management and operation of commercial hospitality venues
Authors should submit a 200-word abstract by Friday 18th of January to Peter Lugosi via email plugosi@bournemouth.ac.uk <mailto:plugosi@bournemouth.ac.uk> . Authors of accepted papers will be notified by the 25th of January.
13/12/2007
Sexing Travel: Intimacy and Subjectivity in Women’s International Tourism
Call for papers
Edited by Susan Frohlick and Jessica Jacobs
Abstracts accepted until January 15, 2008 Full chapters due by July 1, 2008
2009 publication target date
We are seeking ethnographically informed papers that focus on the multiple dimensions of women’s participation in sexual and intimate relationships with local men or women in international tourist destinations, to be included in an edited volume on transnational/cultural intimacy and sexual subjectivity in women’s travel. We are currently looking into various channels for publication, and are aiming for eight contributors.
Scholarship on ‘ethno-sexual relations’ (Nagel, 2003) between tourists and locals is growing and reflects, in our view, the expansion of sex tourism in late capitalism from a predominantly masculine terrain (tied into ideas around the modern subject) and historical practice to a global phenomenon that includes the gendered consumption practices of First World women shaped by some women’s increasing economic power and mobility. Most work to date draws almost exclusively upon a political-economic framework that refers to “female sex tourists” or “romance tourists”, whose parameters are defined by women’s similarity (or difference) to male sex tourists. As well as ustaining the male subject at the center of the conceptualization of female sex tourism, we feel these approaches ignore the complex sensorial and emotional dimensions of women’s inter-racial, transcultural sexual and intimate relationships with local people in largely Southern and Third World countries. They also miss the opportunity to comment on the role these encounters play in new subject formations and transnational relationships.
We encourage papers that open up the current narrow focus of debate and do not simply reproduce the argument that First World female tourists are exploiting their white feminine privilege by taking sex from young men on the beaches of the Gambia (or Barbados, Bali, Indonesia, etc) in exchange for money, goods or other less tangible benefits. We are particularly interested in papers with a strong empirical grounding, based on fieldwork and ethnographic methodology or historical approaches, that consider the diverse international tourist spaces and multifaceted contexts in which these relationships occur. We especially welcome papers that, as a collection, are multi-disciplinary (e.g. anthropology, geography, sociology, women’s and gender studies, cultural and media studies, tourist studies, history), examine a range of destinations and landscapes, and deal with a variety of nationalities and ethnicities. Please send an abstract of between 300 and 500 words before January 15, 2008 to Dr. Susan Frohlick <frohlick@cc.umanitoba.ca> and Dr. Jessica Jacobs <jessica.jacobs@blueyonder.co.uk>. Full papers of approximately 7, 000 to 8, 000 words will be expected by April 1, 2008.
13/12/2007
Sixth International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M)
Ottawa, Canada
September 18-21, 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
-Mobility and the Environment -
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its Sixth International Conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada from September 18th through the 21st, 2008.
Papers may address any aspect of the social, cultural, economic, technological, ecological and political history of transport, traffic and mobility. However, special consideration will be given to proposals related to the conference theme: Mobility and the Environment. The language of the conference is English.
Hosted by the Canada Science and Technology Museum, the 2008 conference coincides with a period of growing concern about the problematic relationship between the human desire and need for greater mobility, and the environmental consequences and challenges of this demand. Historical perspectives on this relationship offer the promise of greater clarity and understanding. To this end, we encourage proposals that explore all aspects of the issue across the full spectrum of modalities, systems, political contexts and environments. In addition, the conference theme is also intended to embrace philosophical, technical and cultural perspectives on the history of overcoming, or adapting to, the challenges of geography and climate. With respect to all of the above, the conference will also provide an opportunity to consider how important insights and ideas arising from historical research on the environment, and on issues of mobility in general, can best be shared with an interested general public.
Notwithstanding T2M’s natural affinity for the historical view, interdisciplinary approaches are greatly encouraged. Relevant proposals from the fields of geography, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, engineering and others are most welcome. The participation of young scholars and doctoral students is especially desirable. T2M also invites professionals working in the areas of mobility or environmental policy and planning to contribute. Participants are encouraged, though not required, to organize and to propose panels on specific issues or ideas. As a rule, a panel should consist of a chair, a commentator and normally up to three speakers. Session proposals will also be considered.
The deadline for abstracts and a one-page CV (English only) is the 1st of March, 2008: maximum of one page for all individual papers or panel presentations, or one page per presentation within a session proposal. Session proposals should also include a one-page overview of the session. Please send proposals to: submissions@t2m.org.
http://www.t2m.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=89
12/12/2007
New EuroMesco Newsletter
Euromesco has published its October/November Newsletter
11/12/2007
The Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Risk, Surveillance and Regulation
Symposium
10-11 September 2008
Newcastle University, UK
Expressions of interest for participation are invited by 31st January, 2008. Please send: name, affiliation, suggested title of paper / area of interest to: Andrew Donaldson <andrew.donaldson@ncl.ac.uk> and David Murakami Wood <d.f.j.wood@ncl.ac.uk>.
The entanglement of infectious diseases (of both humans and animals) with the material networks of the globalizing is a matter of increasing concern. Foot and Mouth Disease has shown that an animal disease can cause major disruption to the normal social and economic workings of a modern state. SARS showed the speed with which deadly disease could transcend national borders in a connected world. The threat of a new global flu pandemic, and the linking of this to avian influenza, has demonstrated that the boundaries that might be transgressed are more than just territorial. How should we understand, control or avoid the mobilities of such diseases on a global scale?
This symposium is targeted mainly at human geographers and social scientists in cognate areas of sociology, science studies, public health and politics. We will have participants from relevant policy or regulatory bodies, but aim to sketch a strategic and critical social science agenda that is not driven by immediate policy / applied concerns but which nevertheless can contribute to improved wellbeing.
The cost of the event will be no more than: £150 for full-time, £100 for postgraduates. This will be a non-residential event, so you will need to find your own accommodation (a full list of options will be provided).
There will be three sequential sessions focusing on three types of site at which diseases are constructed as issues, problems and objects of knowledge in different ways, but with the themes of regulation, risk and surveillance running through all three. A central point of the symposium is to identify the things 'in-between' the various domains involved in disease, including those things which bridge the nonhuman/human divide.
Farmyard, Clinic and Lab
This session will focus on the activities which occur at sites of direct interaction between disease and healthcare professionals, and the ways in local interactions connect with other scales. Comparison between human and animal medicine could provide useful insights in this area. Possible topics will include:
* Diagnosis and disease surveillance
* Local knowledges
* Organisation and knowledge exchange
Models
This session will focus on the way in which diseases are represented, simulated, predicted and anticipated through the use of statistical analysis, computer modelling, mapping and more basic field surveillance techniques. Increasingly advanced modelling techniques are at the heart of disease prevention and control, but in the words of statistician George Box "All models are wrong" so we need to put them into context. Possible topics will include:
* Fieldwork vs models
* Data collection and coordination
* Communication and controversy
Institutions and Circulations
This session will focus on the interaction of diseases and their representations with global political and economic structures, organizations and processes. The maintenance and dismantling of borders and bounded territories in the face of multiple flows and mobilities is a concern in many areas of strategic planning, policy making and regulation. When considering infectious diseases the following are possible topics:
* Transnational organizations
* Trade and (making and unmaking) boundaries
* Measures for global surveillance and intervention
* Travel, consumption and risk
Organising Committee:
Andrew Donaldson, CRE, Newcastle
David Murakami Wood, GURU, Newcastle
Valerie November, EPFL, Switzerland
Abigail Woods, Imperial College, London
08/12/2007
Travel and Trauma: Suffering and the Journey. An Interdisciplinary Colloquium
April 1112, 2008
St John’s College, Oxford
Many travellers are Dark Tourists drawn to sites of devastation and destruction, suffering and trauma: Ground Zero, Kennedy's assassination site, battlefields, concentration camps, places associated with atrocities, and the like. Such 'thanatourism' has a long history it was arguably part of the appeal, for example, of Pompeii but it seems to be on the increase today, as history becomes more swiftly commodified and turned into spectacle. But how should we regard such journeys, and the travellers that make them? Are they important witnesses to human suffering, or just ghoulish voyeurs? Are they engaged in acts of atonement, or of exploitation? And how,
equally, should we regard the many travel writers who are drawn to recreate these sites, and the journeys to them, in writing not to mention the many readers who make their vicarious journeys through these texts? This colloquium is interested in all aspects of the 'dark' travel experience: the themes of suffering, and the representation or reenactment of suffering; the competing claims of reportage, collective memory, exploitation and voyeurism; the travel industry infrastructures that maintain and promote such 'thanatourism'; the rhetorical devices and narrative structures that characterise the writing of the 'dark travel' text. These are just
some of the topics that contributors might like to consider papers may approach the theme of human suffering as a point of focus or badge of honour for the traveller/tourist/travel writer from any disciplinary angle, and with reference to any historical period.
For more information, or to offer a paper, contact Carl.Thompson@ntu.ac.uk
The deadline for paper proposals is 5th January 2008.
Costs: TBC.
07/12/2007
Call for Papers: 11th Annual Mediterranean Studies Congress
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany
May 28 - 31, 2008
The Mediterranean Studies Association's 11th annual International Congress will be held on May 28-31, 2008 at the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. As is the case each year, papers and sessions on all subjects relating to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all periods are encouraged. Following a day of optional excursions, the Congress will open with a plenary session and reception on the evening of Wednesday, May 28. Over the course of the next days over 150 scholarly papers will be delivered before an international audience of about 250 scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of fields. Held in the historic city of Lüneburg, the official languages of the Congress are English and German. In addition, complete sessions in any Mediterranean language are welcome. A number of special events are being planned for Congress participants that will highlight the unique cultural aspects of Lüneburg. An optional five-day coach excursion of Germany ending in Berlin is also being planned following the close of the Congress. See http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/
The Congress is sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the University of Kansas. Selected revised papers will be considered for publication in the Association's journal, Mediterranean Studies, published by Manchester University Press.
The Mediterranean Studies Association is an interdisciplinary organization that promotes the scholarly study of Mediterranean cultures in all aspects and disciplines. It is particularly concerned with the ideas and ideals of western Mediterranean cultures from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment and their influence beyond these geographical and temporal boundaries.
Proposals for papers and sessions are now being solicited. Papers and proposals for sessions with a Mediterranean theme, from any period and any discipline, will be considered. Proposals for roundtable discussions of a topical work or theme are also welcome. The typical panel will include three papers, each lasting twenty minutes, a chair, and (optionally) a commentator. For examples of paper and session topics, and the range of subjects, see the programs from Lisbon (1998), Coimbra (1999), Salvador (2000), Aix-en-Provence (2001), Granada (2002), Budapest (2003), Barcelona (2004), Messina (2005), Genoa (2006), and Evora (2007). See http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/
Proposals should include a 200-word abstract for each paper and a one-page curriculum vitae for each participant, including chairs and commentators. (If you have participated in a previous congress, you need not submit your cv again; we have it on file.) Each participant's name, e-mail and regular address, and phone number should also be listed. Proposals are now being solicited for consideration. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis as they are received. You are encouraged to submit no later than December 15, 2007.
NOTE: The MSA regrets that no funding is available to support travel and other costs of participants.
You are encouraged to submit proposals online as this is the quickest and most secure method.
Please use the convenient online forms to submit a paper proposal or a session proposal: http://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/. Alternatively you may e-mail attachments to rclement@ku.edu, or send proposals to: Richard W. Clement, Mediterranean Studies Association, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, 1450 Poplar Lane, Lawrence, KS 66045-7616, USA.
06/12/2007
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture in Human Geography in Nijmegen: “The Rocky Expansion of Multiple Membership: Multicultural and Dual Citizenship”
Monday December 10, 17:30-19:00, in Theatre LUX,Mariënburg 38-39, NL-6511PS Nijmegen.
This is part of a seminar eeries on: TRANS-WORLD, Debating the Openness of Borders inthe Age of Transnational Migration. See also: http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/content/programmedescription.html
For other lectures in this series see also: http://www.ru.nl/socgeo/content/currentprogramme.html
(Note that this Alexander von Humboldt Lecture will take place in Theatre LUX. Entry is free, but pick up your free ticket at the ticket window of theatre LUXSince a large audience is expected it might be sensible to reserve your tickets in advance: www.lux-nijmegen.nl/reserveren ) Prof Thomas Faist is located at the Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
05/12/2007
Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 27-29 August 2008
Paper session: Cities in the world – Responsibility beyond place and politics beyond the local
Organisers: Nick Clarke (University of Southampton) and Paul Cloke (University of Exeter)
Please send expressions of interest to both n.clarke@soton.ac.uk and p.cloke@exeter.ac.uk
Deadline for titles and abstracts (c200 words): 11 Jan 2008
In World City (2007), Doreen Massey notes that lines run out from cities (trade routes, investments, political and cultural influences etc.), actions in cities have effects elsewhere, and ‘the global is locally produced’. She also notes that, on the one hand, spaces and places are increasingly the product of global flows, while, on the other, politics remains framed by a territorial imagination and structure. In view of this, she calls for the acknowledgement of ‘responsibility beyond place’, and the construction of ‘a politics of place beyond place’.
This session is inspired by Massey’s arguments. It also seeks to build on them in three ways. First, while Massey focuses on London, this session considers responsibility and politics as they relate to a variety of towns and cities. Second, while Massey focuses on the period since the early 1980s, this session considers examples of ‘a local politics that thinks beyond the local’ from the contemporary period but also from the history of municipal internationalism (see Saunier 2002). Third, while Massey focuses on the specific responsibilities that attach to both actors and the beneficiaries of actions, this session considers the roles of various modes of responsibility, and other factors too, in motivating ‘a more outward-looking politics of place’.
Papers are sought on the following topics: (i) The geographical imaginations that frame understandings of cities and their relationships with other places; (ii) The production of these geographical imaginations; (iii) The relationship between these geographical imaginations and action; (iv) The effects of towns and cities in the country and/or the world; (v) Examples of ‘a local politics that thinks beyond the local’ from the contemporary period (e.g. the Fairtrade Foundation’s Fairtrade Towns campaign – see Malpass et al 2007) and/or the history of municipal internationalism (e.g. the municipal foreign policy movement – see Kirby et al 1995); (vi) The various modes of responsibility and/or other factors that help to motivate ‘a more outward-looking politics of place’.
References:
Kirby A, Marston S and Seasholes K (1995) ‘World cities and global communities: The municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities’, in P Knox and P Taylor (eds) World Cities in a World System (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) pp267-79
Malpass A, Cloke P, Barnett C and Clarke N (2007) ‘Fairtrade urbanism? The politics of place beyond place in the British Fairtrade City campaign’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(3): 633-45
Massey D (2007) World City (Cambridge, Polity)
Saunier P-Y (2002) ‘Taking up the bet on connections: A municipal contribution’, Contemporary European History 11(4): 507-27
04/12/2007
Call for papers for a session in the RGS-IBG AnnualConference 2008 (27-29 August)
Migration and Everyday Matters: Sociality and Materiality
Convenors: Madeleine Dobson and Elaine Ho (Royal Holloway)
The recent growth of interest in the everyday social practices and materialcultures of mobility is arguably symptomatic of a wider shift within humangeography towards the need to make sense of the way in whichmeta-narratives, such as globalisation and transnationalism, are producedthrough seemingly nondescript norms, values, objects and routines. This session on ‘Migration and Everyday Matters’ responds to calls for ‘analternative conceptualization of migration which emphasizes its situatedness within everyday life’ (Halfacree and Boyle, 1993), and an attentiveness to‘the mundane and situated efforts by which people make their lives across international borders’ (Conradson and Latham, 2005). Rather than being consigned simply as ‘floating nomads’, migrants need to be understood as making their lives in physical locations on a daily basis, just like those with more sedentary trajectories. We encourage contributions that explore: (i) The everyday forms of social experience through which migration unfolds asa way of life; (ii) The material cultures that (re)produce forms of everyday living for migrants; (iii) What the ‘everyday’ might mean when researching migration as well as themethodological issues it presents. In this way, the session hopes to bring social and cultural geography’sprioritising of social experiences and material culture to bear oninvestigations of migrant experiences, especially in the everyday realm. Itexplores the potential of these approaches to produce new, richerunderstandings of what it means to be a ‘migrant’, suggests alternative waysto appreciate what matters to migrants and, therefore, what should matter tomigration geographers.
Please send your abstracts (150-200 words) to Madeleine Dobson(m.dobson@rhul.ac.uk) and Elaine Ho (elaine.ho@rhul.ac.uk) by 10 January 2008.
2/12/2007
Forced Migration Online Podcast 3: Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2007
The third Forced Migration Online podcast is now online. The podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture which was on Wednesday 21 November 2007 at the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History. In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Refugee Studies Centre, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan gave the lecture and spoke on the subject of human rights and refugees. http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/prince-hassan/
01/12/2007
Roads less travelled: The culture of shared air, marine, and land mobility
CALL FOR PAPERS
A series of important contributions to the international and interdisciplinary study of mobility over the past decade have shown the centrality of automobility in Western societies and cultures. Automobility stands as an icon of individualized freedom of movement, late modern lifestyle, reliance on transportation technology for daily living, as well as the advent and downward-spiralling of pollution, (sub)urbanization, and consumerism. The study of automobility also stands as an exception to the generalized paucity of knowledge on the cultures of other practices of mobility. In contrast, little do we know, for example, about the sociological, media-ecological, and anthropological significance of non-individual (hence, shared) land, air, and marine mobility. Acquiring additional knowledge about these forms of mobility seems necessary if we wish to comprehend the cultural meaningfulness of alternatives to the patently unsustainable dominant medium of transportation of the day, the car.
As fuel prices rise, as petrol becomes less easily available worldwide, and as the reflexive feeling of citizen responsibility for sustainable mobility grows, it behoves scholars to understand the symbolic significance of car-less lifestyles and countercultures of immobility. The proposed book will collect 12 original ethnographic studies written from a wide variety of social scientific fields and interdisciplinary social sciences. Submissions of proposals for papers dealing with the culture of marine mobility, air mobility, shared land mobility, and immobility are invited. Ideal proposals for ethnographic studies would look at the role played by the mentioned modes of mobility in the everyday life of individuals living in precise geographical contexts. Essays would focus on the logic, experience, and practice of alternative mobility and its shaping of the senses of space, time, identity, and community. Essay topics would include, but are not limited to, ferry-boat transportation, the culture of year-round sailboat travellers, the mobility options and movement practices of remote island communities, the experience of regional, national, and international airline travel, the practice of bush pilot air travel, train and subway commuting, urban bus transit, long-range coach travel, and also the experiences and lifestyle of immobile individuals--those who wish to "maroon" themselves within the confines of a unique space.
The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2008. Proposals should consist of 200 word abstracts emailed to the editor, Phillip Vannini: phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca Expressions of interest, preliminary inquiries, and requests for further information are welcomed at any time. Preliminary interest in the project from an international publisher of academic titles has already been expressed.
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