February - August 2007 News Archive Mediterranean Mobilities Reseach Network

CALL FOR PAPERS Terrorism and Migration

A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the School of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK.

Saturday November 17th-Sunday November 18th, 2007

Contemporary anxieties about terrorism in the mainstream media and politics have clearly articulated the war against terrorism and the struggle for global security to the control of immigration, as well as the criminalisation of Islam. As A. Sivanandan has argued in a recent article, ‘the war on asylum and the war on terror […] have converged to produce a racism which cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, an immigrant from an asylum speaker, an asylum speaker from a Muslim, a Muslim from a terrorist’. In response to the conflation of discourses of counter-terrorism, global security and the control of migration, this conference invites papers from any area of the humanities and the social sciences that are related to the following topics:

•     Terrorism and Migration in Literature, Film, Visual Art and Music
•     Histories of migration, immigration law and political sovereignty
•     Migration, Terrorism and the State of Emergency
•     Ethnographies of migration and terrorism
•     Terrorism, Migration and the Public Sphere
•     Asylum, Imperialism and War

Confirmed Speakers include: Margaret Scanlan, Elleke Boehmer, Ranjana Khanna, David Glover and Matthew Gibney.

Please submit a 200-300 word abstract via email or post to the address below by September 1st, 2007:

Sandy White
English, School of Humanities
University of Southampton
Southampton
S017 1BJ
E-mail: sw17@soton.ac.uk
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Julie Lees
Research Funding Manager
Research Support Office
Room 4069, Building 37
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 3856
Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 8671
E-mail:funding@soton.ac.uk
http://www.soton.ac.uk/research/rso

La tercera edició de l''Escola d''Estudis Econòmics Euroregió de l''Arc Mediterrani es celebra aquest any a la ciutat de València entre els dies 12 i 14 de juliol. El contingut de les sessions d''aquest any es centraran en la relació econòmica de l''Euram amb les zones del nord d''Àfrica, Àsia i l''Europa de l''est, a més d''una taula rodona dedicada a les infraestructures aèries, portuàries, ferroviàries i de transport per carretera, que estan utilitzant avui les empreses de l''arc mediterrani.

Consulta el programa definitiu i les condicions per a la inscripció a partir del mes d''abril.
Curs amb reconeixement de crèdits de les universitats de la xarxa Joan Lluís Vives.

Qualitative research in the social sciences: innovation, impact and future directions

An Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The seminars provide a forum for debate and discussion about the present use of, and future directions for qualitative research within the social sciences. The series addresses the ways in which qualitative research is conducted across the social sciences, and how qualitative data are used to inform scholars, practitioners and policy makers. In particular the series considers issues of qualitative research capacity building in the contexts of interdisciplinarity and methodological innovation.

The series is organised by Qualiti, the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, Cardiff School of Social Sciences.

DEVELOPING MOBILE METHODS
Tuesday 12th June 2007, 11.00-4.30
Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University

Mobile methodologies are being developed, partly in recognition of the importance of generating social scientific understandings of the movement of social actors through and in space. Researching and representing bodies on the move present a range of methodological, representational and technological challenges. Undertaking mobile fieldwork (through walking, cycling, travelling) can also provide interesting new spaces for the development of research relationships and the collection of data. This seminar considers the opportunities afforded by and difficulties associated with undertaking qualitative research *on the move*, bringing together contributors from a range of
social science disciplines.

11.00-11.15 Introduction from Chair Chris Taylor, Cardiff University
11.15-12.00 *We walk the walk, but can we talk the talk (with deference to John Lee Hooker):
walkabouts to understand the lived environment of community* Nick Emmel and Andrew Clark, Leeds
University
12.00-12.45 *On the go: Conducting and Representing Mobilities Research* Nicola Ross,
Cardiff University
12.45-1.30 Lunch
1.30-2.15 *Being there and seeing there: passenger and video ethnographies* Eric
Laurier, University of Edinburgh
2.15-3.00 *Everyday urban mobilities: capturing children*s travel worlds* Mark
McGuinness, Bath Spa University
3.00-3.15 Coffee break
3.15-4.00 *It*s a question of balance: Mobile methodologies and studies involving
movement* Ben Fincham, Brighton University
4.00 Plenary and Close Chris Taylor

The seminar is free to attend. There is no need to formally book a place. However, to help us ensure that there are enough refreshments available and to avoid problems of under-capacity we would be grateful if you could email qualiti@cardiff.ac.uk, telling us if you would like to attend.

www.cardiff.ac.uk/qualiti

OIL AND POLITICS
10th - 11th May 2007

SOAS, Vernon Square Campus
Pentonville Road, London

Oil is one of the most crucial and controversial substances today. This conference opens up the field to film-makers and artists, social anthropologists, human geographers, and social and cultural theorists in order to connect oil to a wide set of concerns, to make links across seemingly disparate issues, and to begin to develop and explore a variety of methods and methodologies suitable for the investigation of oil.

Topics include: The Business of Oil; Governing Oil in West Africa; Documenting the Politics of Oil; Oil and the New Imperialism

Plenary speakers:
Timothy Mitchell | Politics, New York University
Michael Watts | Institute of International Studies, Berkeley

Speakers:
Andrew Barry | Geography, Oxford
Gavin Bridge| Environment and Development, Manchester
George Frynas | Middlesex University Business School
James Marriott | Platform, London
Martin Skalský | Film-maker, Czech Republic
Alberto Toscano | Sociology, Goldsmiths
Alex Vines | Chatham House, London
Gisa Weszkalnys | Geography, Oxford

Donations of £10 per day (students and unwaged £5 per day) would be very welcome. Please visit http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/source/events.html#oil for registration details and a provisional schedule. For further information please contact Natalie Warner csisp@gold.ac.uk +44 (0)207 919 7731

This conference is organised and supported by:
The Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP),
Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/
School of Geography, Oxford University
Department of Development Studies, SOAS
The British Academy

Natalie Warner
Research Administrator
Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London
SE14 6NW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731
Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713
Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp

10/4/2007
Taula rodona "Les fronteres de la jihad"
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrànea, Barcelona, 6 març 2007
Amb motiu de la recent publicació del llibre Les frontières du jihad, de l'arabista i politòleg francès Jean Pierre Filiu, l'IEMed va acollir una taula rodona el passat 6 de març sobre la situació política actual al Pròxim Orient i el terrorisme d'inspiració islàmica. A més de l'autor hi van participar també Antoni Segura, catedràtic d'Història Contemporània, Nicolàs Valle, periodista de la secció d'internacional de Televisió de Catalunya, i el director general de l'IEMed, Senén Florensa.

10/4/2007
8th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment
(MEDCOAST 07), Alexandria, Egypt, 13-17 November 2007

Final Call for Papers

The 8th event of the coastal management conference series will be held in Alexandria / Egypt between 13-17 November
2007 at the Sheraton Montazah Hotel. MEDCOAST 07 is being organised in collaboration with three Egyptian institutions: National Institute of Oceanograpy and Fisheries (NIOF), Coastal Research Institute (CoRI) and Arab Foundation for Marine Environment (AFME).

Deadline for submission of abstracts to the 8th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment (MEDCOAST 07) is Monday, 16th April 2007.

Further details about the conference, including abstract submission, are available on our website: http://www.medcoast.org.tr/

4/2007
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP):
Perspectives from the Mediterranean EU countries

Organised by:
The Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens
The Foundation for Mediterranean Studies, Athens
The Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, Department of Sociology University of Crete

Deadline for abstracts: 18 April 2007. To be sent to: hakim.darbouche@liv.ac.uk

Theme: The international relations of the Maghreb, post-9/11, revisited

Convenors: Hakim Darbouche, Richard Gillespie and Yahia Zoubir

Description: Policy-making in and on the Maghreb region has always been a challenge. The region’s history, characteristics and dynamics account for the place it occupies in international relations. Changing international contexts have often had an impact on the perceptions of ‘threats’ emanating from the region and accordingly on the strategies to address them. From economic liberalisation to democracy promotion, Western policies towards the Maghreb have, however, never surpassed their architects’ vested interests in the region. As a result, the polities of the Maghreb remain largely authoritarian, their societies distressed and their economies weak and undiversified.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the region regained prominence in the policies of the US and EU in particular. This focus, however, can be said to be a distraction from more pertinent challenges facing the region and begs the question of how these will be addressed and what impact they are likely to have in the meantime. Inter-state conflict in an area noted for regional tensions remains a plausible scenario and could have serious consequences in and beyond the Maghreb.

The proposed panel will address various themes regarding the international relations of the Maghreb, notably, Moroccan-Algerian relations and the question of Western Sahara, democracy and terrorism, US policy in the Maghreb, EU foreign and economic policy, Spanish and French relations with the region, issues of cross-conditionality and cross-socialisation and the role of the EU, the US and Russia in the region and the political economy of the Maghreb.

The panel welcomes theoretical and empirical approaches to these themes.

4/2007

HALKI INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 2007: Re-defining security in SEE and the Middle East: Searching for new tools to address regional security problems

12-17 September 2007, Halki

Organised in cooperation with the Balkan Trust for Democracy in Belgrade and the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) and supported by the Hellenic Aid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German Marshall Fund of the United States

This year's Halki International Seminars will focus on the role of the transatlantic institutions in helping local stakeholders address security challenges in the Middle East and in Southeastern Europe.

Good governance, human rights, humanitarian intervention, relations between Islam & Christianity and migration trends and challenges will be among the core focal points.

Discussions will also concentrate on two functional issues that cut across geographic regions: energy security and security sector reform while the 'mutual education' dimension of the workshop will concentrate on the relationship between religious sensitivities and the democratic right of free expression.

The seminar format, as is always the case with our annual Halki International Seminars, will be highly interactive and will include break-out working groups and roundtable discussions, as well as a simulation exercise.

Call for Participants

Applications are welcome from policy-makers, academics, journalists, diplomats, members of parliament and young researchers (post docs and PhD candidates)

Please complete the Halki Application Form and email it to halki@eliamep.gr

Call for Papers

Papers are invited from researchers (particularly from post-docs and PhD candidates in an advanced stage of their research) that focus on the following areas:

◊ Security issues in the regions examined (Western Balkans, Black Sea, Mediterranean – Middle East)

◊ Migration as a security concern

◊ Good governance, democracy and human rights

◊ Security sector reform

◊ Dialogues of religions and civilizations

◊ Climate change

◊ Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Interested applicants should :

◊ send a paper abstract (300 words)

◊ and fill in the Halki Application Form and send it to halki@eliamep.gr

The Halki Application Form can be downloaded from www.eliamep.gr.

Deadline for applications & for paper abstracts:

30 April 2007

Selected papers will be presented during the seminar and will be published as part of ELIAMEP’s web publications.

The organisers will cover the following costs: seminar participation fee, accommodation and subsistence.

No travel expenses will be covered; however, there will be travel grants for some applicants

Este proyecto pretende ser un encuentro de jóvenes investigadores, de diferentes nacionalidades, con el objetivo de crear un espacio de conocimiento, reflexión conjunta e intercambio de experiencias en torno al MEDITERRÁNEO.

Por ello, nuestra pretensión es iniciar un proceso global de acercamiento que permita a corto plazo, conocer las investigaciones que se están realizando, generar foros de debate sobre temas de interés común, y desarrollar, a medio o largo plazo, iniciativas que permitan mantener el contacto y el intercambio reflexivo, a través de la creación de redes de investigación trasnacional.

This project aims to be a meeting space for young researchers from different nationalities, with the objective to create a space of knowledge, joint reflection and interchange of experiences around the MEDITERRANEAN.
Accordingly, our intention is to initiate a global rapprochement process contributing, in the short term, to disseminating research that is being conducted, to generating debate forums on subjects of common interest, and to developing, in the medium or long term, initiatives that allow maintaining contacts and exchange of reflections, through the creation of international research networks.

La liberté de circuler de l’Antiquité à nos jours : concepts et pratiques
Paris, 21-24 mars 2007
Collège de France, 3 rue d’Ulm, 75005, salle de réunion
et Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005, salle Dussane

En collaboration avec : CNRS (Paris), Collège de France (Paris), Ecole française de Rome, ENS-Paris, EHESS (CRH, Paris), Institut Universitaire de France, MMSH (Aix-en-Provence), Université de Paris 8, Université de Paris 1, USC (Los Angeles)

Mercredi 21 mars (Collège de France, salle de réunion). Président de séance : Pierre Hassner (IEP, Paris)
14h : Ouverture : Claudia Moatti (Paris VIII), Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1-Sorbonne)
Problèmes théoriques:
- Daniel Roche (Collège de France), La mobilité : libertés et contraintes
- Etienne Balibar (Professeur émérite, Paris X-Nanterre,) : Une citoyenneté nomade est-elle pensable?
Discussion
- Giulia Sissa (UCLA) : L’état parfait et la mobilité humaine, de l’Antiquité au moyen âge
- Gérard Mairet (Paris 8,) : La liberté de circuler existe-t-elle hors des espaces politiques?

Jeudi 22 mars : ENS, salle Dussane
- 9h-13h : Territorialités et appropriation des espaces. Président de séance : Bernard Vincent (EHESS)
- Christophe Pébarthe (Paris VIII) : La liberté de la mer par l’empire dans le monde égéen (5e-4e siècle avant J.-C.)
- Anthony Pagden (UCLA), Grotius' Mare liberum and the battle over the freedom of the seas
Discussion
- Marcello Verga (Florence) : La libertà di circolazione nel pensiero dell’Europa (18-20 sec.)
Discussion
- Rony Brauman (chercheur à la fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, professeur associé à Sciences Politiques, Paris) : Les camps de réfugiés: territoire humanitaire, espace d'exception.
Discussion

14h30-18h30 : Economie de la mobilité. Présidente de séance : Laurence Fontaine (EHESS)
- Alain Bresson (Ausonius, Bordeaux) : Zones monétaires, et espaces de droit en Grèce ancienne
- Philipp Schofield (Wales, Aberystwyth) : Serfdom and mobility in Medieval Europe
Discussion
- Francesca Trivellato (Yale) : Raisons de commerce, Raison d'état: Merchants, Diasporas and Citizenship in the Port-cities of Mediterranean Europe, 1500-1800
- Paul-André Rosental (EHESS, CRH) : Impossibles contrôles : les effets imprévus de la libre circulation des travailleurs migrants (XIXe-XXe siècles)
Discussion

Vendredi 23 mars : ENS, salle Dussane
9h30-13 h : La mobilité des étrangers. Président deséance : Jean-Marie Durand (Collège de France)

- Claudia Storti (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria di Varese e Como) : L'étranger mobile entre droit des gens et ius proprium: contradictions (et pragmatisme) de la jurisprudence médiévale?
- Olivia Remie Constable (Notre-Dame, USA) : Liberties and constraints of Muslim travellers in Medieval times
Discussion
- Edhem Eldem (Istanbul) : La mobilité des étrangers et des non-musulmans dans l’Empire ottoman au dix-huitième siècle

14h30-18h30: Président de séance : Patrick Le Roux (Paris XIII)
Droit de partir, droit d’entrer
- Claudia Moatti (Paris VIII), Droit de partir : la liberté du citoyen dans la Rome antique
- Nancy Green (EHESS, Paris) : Emigration/Immigration -- deux droits asymétriques
Discussion
- Marc Crépon (CNRS, ENS) : La peur des étrangers. Réflexions sur l’hospitalité

24 mars : ENS, salle Dussane
9h30-13h30 : Présidence de séance : Gérard Noiriel (EHESS)
Droit de partir, droit d’entrer (suite)
- Niels Frenzen, (USC, Los Angeles): The practice of the right of asylum in the US
- Jérôme Valluy (Paris 1) : Le droit de l’asile contre le droit d’asile et la liberté de circuler
Quel cosmopolitisme aujourd’hui, quelle liberté de circuler ?
- Gérard Noiriel (EHESS), Liberté de circuler : genèse d’un travail d’Etat (XIXe-XXe)

- Roger Waldinger (UCLA) : Freedom, Community, and the Democratic Deficit:Thoughts on the new American dilemma
- Danièle Lochak (ParisX-Nanterre) : Etats-Nations et liberté de circuler.
Discussion
Discussion générale animée par Etienne Balibar, Henriette Asséo, Pierre Hassner

Call for papers - Gender, Borders and Conflict in the Mediterranean

The European Studies Center at the University of Oxford, as part of the Ramses² network of excellence on the Mediterranean area, is organizing a workshop seminar on the subject of Gender, Borders and
Conflict in the Mediterranean region, with a particular emphasis on memories. The workshop will take place in Oxford, on June 13th and 14th 2007. It will address the following questions:

- What is the impact of borders on women in the
region? How do borders affect their legal status, modes of political participation, and social position across the Mediterranean?
- What is the relationship between gender politics, on one hand, and borders and border crossing, on the other? To what extent are women agents capable of changing perceptions (and histories) of borders and thereby transforming conflict? How do women contribute to collective memories and history writing in the region, especially after conflict and war?
- What factors facilitate the crossing of territorial
borders and identity boundaries by women? How are traditional and modern gender identities implicated in the process?
- How does the EU, alongside other international
institutions, influence the practice of border crossing concerning women?

The workshop is based on the assumption that gender relations in the region around the Mediterranean are constantly negotiated at various levels: not solely national but also local and regional.

This inter-disciplinary workshop will bring together researchers as well as practitioners and encourages submissions from the fields of political science, history, sociology, law, economics and anthropology.

Submissions for papers addressing one (or several) of the above questions are welcomed from researchers who work on conceptual issues regarding gender, borders and memories, as well as area-studies specialists focusing on the Mediterranean as such or on South- and South Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa. The papers to be delivered can be short and should be concise. Applications for participation from the astern/Southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea are encouraged.

Application should contain: 300 word proposal and CV.

Deadline is March 15th 2007; accepted paper-givers will be informed at the end of March 2007. Please send to: Franziska.Brantner@ sant.ox.ac. uk (also to be contacted for further information).

RAMSES2 is a Network of Excellence on Mediterranean Studies funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. Launched and coordinated by the Maison Méditeranéenne de Sciences de l'Homme in Aix-en-Provence, RAMSES2 involves 36 academic institutions from Western Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East researching the history, societies and current politics of the wider Mediterranean area. Its ambition is to create a new field of Mediterranean studies by bringing together the hitherto disparate scholarship on the different littoral subregions and countries.

'Researching the Mediterranean'

This important research resource provides in-depth studies of the current state of research on the Mediterranean and Middle East in the UK and Spain.

The book is the product of a project directed by Richard Gillespie (University of Liverpool) and Iván Martín (Casa Árabe, Madrid) that involved the commissioning of two country studies and then their in-depth discussion at an 'Encuentro' of some 50 researchers, from Britain and Spain, held in March 2006 in Barcelona.

Both the UK study (by Emma Murphy and Michelle Pace) and the Spanish study (by Miguel Hernando de Larramendi and Bárbara Azaola) are published in the book, together with other papers from the Encuentro and a set of 5 proposals designed to enhance the infrastructure serving the Mediterranean and Middle East research communities.

FREE copies of this work can be obtained by individual researchers and/or for institutional libraries from the British Council in Madrid, which has published the report in collaboration with CIDOB and IEMed, both based in Barcelona.

For a copy of Researching the Mediterranean, please contact Maureen McAlinden (maureen.mcalinden@britishcouncil.es)

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

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) .

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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Home Mission Statement About Us Networks Seminar Series Events News Critical Mobilities Contacts	News Archive February - August 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS Terrorism and Migration A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Conference at the School of Humanities, University of Southampton, UK. Saturday November 17th-Sunday November 18th, 2007 Contemporary anxieties about terrorism in the mainstream media and politics have clearly articulated the war against terrorism and the struggle for global security to the control of immigration, as well as the criminalisation of Islam. As A. Sivanandan has argued in a recent article, ‘the war on asylum and the war on terror […] have converged to produce a racism which cannot tell a settler from an immigrant, an immigrant from an asylum speaker, an asylum speaker from a Muslim, a Muslim from a terrorist’. In response to the conflation of discourses of counter-terrorism, global security and the control of migration, this conference invites papers from any area of the humanities and the social sciences that are related to the following topics: • Terrorism and Migration in Literature, Film, Visual Art and Music • Histories of migration, immigration law and political sovereignty • Migration, Terrorism and the State of Emergency • Ethnographies of migration and terrorism • Terrorism, Migration and the Public Sphere • Asylum, Imperialism and War Confirmed Speakers include: Margaret Scanlan, Elleke Boehmer, Ranjana Khanna, David Glover and Matthew Gibney. Please submit a 200-300 word abstract via email or post to the address below by September 1st, 2007: Sandy White English, School of Humanities University of Southampton Southampton S017 1BJ E-mail: sw17@soton.ac.uk -------------------------------------- Julie Lees Research Funding Manager Research Support Office Room 4069, Building 37 University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK Tel: +44 (0) 23 8059 3856 Fax: +44 (0) 23 8059 8671 E-mail:funding@soton.ac.uk http://www.soton.ac.uk/research/rso IIIa Escola d'Estudis Econòmics de l'Euram València, del 12 al 14 de juliol 2007 data: 05/06/2006 La tercera edició de l''Escola d''Estudis Econòmics Euroregió de l''Arc Mediterrani es celebra aquest any a la ciutat de València entre els dies 12 i 14 de juliol. El contingut de les sessions d''aquest any es centraran en la relació econòmica de l''Euram amb les zones del nord d''Àfrica, Àsia i l''Europa de l''est, a més d''una taula rodona dedicada a les infraestructures aèries, portuàries, ferroviàries i de transport per carretera, que estan utilitzant avui les empreses de l''arc mediterrani. Consulta el programa definitiu i les condicions per a la inscripció a partir del mes d''abril. Curs amb reconeixement de crèdits de les universitats de la xarxa Joan Lluís Vives. Qualitative research in the social sciences: innovation, impact and future directions An Interdisciplinary Seminar Series The seminars provide a forum for debate and discussion about the present use of, and future directions for qualitative research within the social sciences. The series addresses the ways in which qualitative research is conducted across the social sciences, and how qualitative data are used to inform scholars, practitioners and policy makers. In particular the series considers issues of qualitative research capacity building in the contexts of interdisciplinarity and methodological innovation. The series is organised by Qualiti, the Cardiff Node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, Cardiff School of Social Sciences. DEVELOPING MOBILE METHODS Tuesday 12th June 2007, 11.00-4.30 Committee Room 1, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff University Mobile methodologies are being developed, partly in recognition of the importance of generating social scientific understandings of the movement of social actors through and in space. Researching and representing bodies on the move present a range of methodological, representational and technological challenges. Undertaking mobile fieldwork (through walking, cycling, travelling) can also provide interesting new spaces for the development of research relationships and the collection of data. This seminar considers the opportunities afforded by and difficulties associated with undertaking qualitative research on the move, bringing together contributors from a range of social science disciplines. 11.00-11.15 Introduction from Chair Chris Taylor, Cardiff University 11.15-12.00 We walk the walk, but can we talk the talk (with deference to John Lee Hooker): walkabouts to understand the lived environment of community Nick Emmel and Andrew Clark, Leeds University 12.00-12.45 On the go: Conducting and Representing Mobilities Research Nicola Ross, Cardiff University 12.45-1.30 Lunch 1.30-2.15 Being there and seeing there: passenger and video ethnographies Eric Laurier, University of Edinburgh 2.15-3.00 Everyday urban mobilities: capturing childrens travel worlds* Mark McGuinness, Bath Spa University 3.00-3.15 Coffee break 3.15-4.00 Its a question of balance: Mobile methodologies and studies involving movement* Ben Fincham, Brighton University 4.00 Plenary and Close Chris Taylor The seminar is free to attend. There is no need to formally book a place. However, to help us ensure that there are enough refreshments available and to avoid problems of under-capacity we would be grateful if you could email qualiti@cardiff.ac.uk, telling us if you would like to attend. www.cardiff.ac.uk/qualiti 17/4/2007 OIL AND POLITICS 10th - 11th May 2007 SOAS, Vernon Square Campus Pentonville Road, London Oil is one of the most crucial and controversial substances today. This conference opens up the field to film-makers and artists, social anthropologists, human geographers, and social and cultural theorists in order to connect oil to a wide set of concerns, to make links across seemingly disparate issues, and to begin to develop and explore a variety of methods and methodologies suitable for the investigation of oil. Topics include: The Business of Oil; Governing Oil in West Africa; Documenting the Politics of Oil; Oil and the New Imperialism Plenary speakers: Timothy Mitchell \| Politics, New York University Michael Watts \| Institute of International Studies, Berkeley Speakers: Andrew Barry \| Geography, Oxford Gavin Bridge\| Environment and Development, Manchester George Frynas \| Middlesex University Business School James Marriott \| Platform, London Martin Skalský \| Film-maker, Czech Republic Alberto Toscano \| Sociology, Goldsmiths Alex Vines \| Chatham House, London Gisa Weszkalnys \| Geography, Oxford Donations of £10 per day (students and unwaged £5 per day) would be very welcome. Please visit http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/source/events.html#oil for registration details and a provisional schedule. For further information please contact Natalie Warner csisp@gold.ac.uk +44 (0)207 919 7731 This conference is organised and supported by: The Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP), Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp/ School of Geography, Oxford University Department of Development Studies, SOAS The British Academy Natalie Warner Research Administrator Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP) Department of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross London SE14 6NW Tel: +44 (0)20 7919 7731 Fax: +44 (0)20 7919 7713 Web: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/csisp 10/4/2007 Taula rodona "Les fronteres de la jihad" Institut Europeu de la Mediterrànea, Barcelona, 6 març 2007 Amb motiu de la recent publicació del llibre Les frontières du jihad, de l'arabista i politòleg francès Jean Pierre Filiu, l'IEMed va acollir una taula rodona el passat 6 de març sobre la situació política actual al Pròxim Orient i el terrorisme d'inspiració islàmica. A més de l'autor hi van participar també Antoni Segura, catedràtic d'Història Contemporània, Nicolàs Valle, periodista de la secció d'internacional de Televisió de Catalunya, i el director general de l'IEMed, Senén Florensa. 10/4/2007 8th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment (MEDCOAST 07), Alexandria, Egypt, 13-17 November 2007 Final Call for Papers The 8th event of the coastal management conference series will be held in Alexandria / Egypt between 13-17 November 2007 at the Sheraton Montazah Hotel. MEDCOAST 07 is being organised in collaboration with three Egyptian institutions: National Institute of Oceanograpy and Fisheries (NIOF), Coastal Research Institute (CoRI) and Arab Foundation for Marine Environment (AFME). Deadline for submission of abstracts to the 8th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment (MEDCOAST 07) is Monday, 16th April 2007. Further details about the conference, including abstract submission, are available on our website: http://www.medcoast.org.tr/ 4/2007 The new "Training Guide on Human Rights in European Neighbourhood Policy Instruments" is now available on the EMHRN website in english. You can download it on : http://www.euromedrights.net/pages/2/page/language/1 <http://www.euromedrights.net/pages/2/page/language/1> French and Arabic versions of this guide will be ready on this website by the end of March. 4/2007 The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP): Perspectives from the Mediterranean EU countries International conference 25-27 October 2007, Rethimnon, (Crete) Organised by: The Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens The Foundation for Mediterranean Studies, Athens The Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, Department of Sociology University of Crete For further information :http://www.idec.gr/iier The international relations of the Maghreb, post-9/11, revisited BISA 2007 Panel Proposal Call for papers for a BISA 2007 panel proposal. Interested colleagues are invited to check this year's BISA guidelines at: http://www.bisa.ac.uk/2007/index.htm Deadline for abstracts: 18 April 2007. To be sent to: hakim.darbouche@liv.ac.uk *Theme:* The international relations of the Maghreb, post-9/11, revisited *Convenors:* Hakim Darbouche, Richard Gillespie and Yahia Zoubir *Description:* Policy-making in and on the Maghreb region has always been a challenge. The region’s history, characteristics and dynamics account for the place it occupies in international relations. Changing international contexts have often had an impact on the perceptions of ‘threats’ emanating from the region and accordingly on the strategies to address them. From economic liberalisation to democracy promotion, Western policies towards the Maghreb have, however, never surpassed their architects’ vested interests in the region. As a result, the polities of the Maghreb remain largely authoritarian, their societies distressed and their economies weak and undiversified. In the aftermath of 9/11, the region regained prominence in the policies of the US and EU in particular. This focus, however, can be said to be a distraction from more pertinent challenges facing the region and begs the question of how these will be addressed and what impact they are likely to have in the meantime. Inter-state conflict in an area noted for regional tensions remains a plausible scenario and could have serious consequences in and beyond the Maghreb. The proposed panel will address various themes regarding the international relations of the Maghreb, notably, Moroccan-Algerian relations and the question of Western Sahara, democracy and terrorism, US policy in the Maghreb, EU foreign and economic policy, Spanish and French relations with the region, issues of cross-conditionality and cross-socialisation and the role of the EU, the US and Russia in the region and the political economy of the Maghreb. The panel welcomes theoretical and empirical approaches to these themes. 4/2007 HALKI INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR 2007: Re-defining security in SEE and the Middle East: Searching for new tools to address regional security problems 12-17 September 2007, Halki Organised in cooperation with the Balkan Trust for Democracy in Belgrade and the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) and supported by the Hellenic Aid, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German Marshall Fund of the United States This year's Halki International Seminars will focus on the role of the transatlantic institutions in helping local stakeholders address security challenges in the Middle East and in Southeastern Europe. Good governance, human rights, humanitarian intervention, relations between Islam & Christianity and migration trends and challenges will be among the core focal points. Discussions will also concentrate on two functional issues that cut across geographic regions: energy security and security sector reform while the 'mutual education' dimension of the workshop will concentrate on the relationship between religious sensitivities and the democratic right of free expression. The seminar format, as is always the case with our annual Halki International Seminars, will be highly interactive and will include break-out working groups and roundtable discussions, as well as a simulation exercise. Call for Participants Applications are welcome from policy-makers, academics, journalists, diplomats, members of parliament and young researchers (post docs and PhD candidates) Please complete the Halki Application Form and email it to halki@eliamep.gr Call for Papers Papers are invited from researchers (particularly from post-docs and PhD candidates in an advanced stage of their research) that focus on the following areas: ◊ Security issues in the regions examined (Western Balkans, Black Sea, Mediterranean – Middle East) ◊ Migration as a security concern ◊ Good governance, democracy and human rights ◊ Security sector reform ◊ Dialogues of religions and civilizations ◊ Climate change ◊ Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Interested applicants should : ◊ send a paper abstract (300 words) ◊ and fill in the Halki Application Form and send it to halki@eliamep.gr The Halki Application Form can be downloaded from www.eliamep.gr. Deadline for applications & for paper abstracts: 30 April 2007 Selected papers will be presented during the seminar and will be published as part of ELIAMEP’s web publications. The organisers will cover the following costs: seminar participation fee, accommodation and subsistence. No travel expenses will be covered; however, there will be travel grants for some applicants 3/2007 Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en torno al Mediterráneo Organizado por Jiser - Reflexiones mediterráneas Tarragona, 3 y 4 de mayo 2007 Este proyecto pretende ser un encuentro de jóvenes investigadores, de diferentes nacionalidades, con el objetivo de crear un espacio de conocimiento, reflexión conjunta e intercambio de experiencias en torno al MEDITERRÁNEO. Por ello, nuestra pretensión es iniciar un proceso global de acercamiento que permita a corto plazo, conocer las investigaciones que se están realizando, generar foros de debate sobre temas de interés común, y desarrollar, a medio o largo plazo, iniciativas que permitan mantener el contacto y el intercambio reflexivo, a través de la creación de redes de investigación trasnacional. Meeting of young researchers around the Mediterranean Organized by Jiser - Reflexiones mediterráneas Tarragona, May 3-4 2007 This project aims to be a meeting space for young researchers from different nationalities, with the objective to create a space of knowledge, joint reflection and interchange of experiences around the MEDITERRANEAN. Accordingly, our intention is to initiate a global rapprochement process contributing, in the short term, to disseminating research that is being conducted, to generating debate forums on subjects of common interest, and to developing, in the medium or long term, initiatives that allow maintaining contacts and exchange of reflections, through the creation of international research networks. For more information see Jiser 3/2007 Conference La liberté de circuler de l’Antiquité à nos jours : concepts et pratiques Paris, 21-24 mars 2007 Collège de France, 3 rue d’Ulm, 75005, salle de réunion et Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005, salle Dussane En collaboration avec : CNRS (Paris), Collège de France (Paris), Ecole française de Rome, ENS-Paris, EHESS (CRH, Paris), Institut Universitaire de France, MMSH (Aix-en-Provence), Université de Paris 8, Université de Paris 1, USC (Los Angeles) Mercredi 21 mars (Collège de France, salle de réunion). Président de séance : Pierre Hassner (IEP, Paris) 14h : Ouverture : Claudia Moatti (Paris VIII), Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1-Sorbonne) Problèmes théoriques: - Daniel Roche (Collège de France), La mobilité : libertés et contraintes - Etienne Balibar (Professeur émérite, Paris X-Nanterre,) : Une citoyenneté nomade est-elle pensable? Discussion - Giulia Sissa (UCLA) : L’état parfait et la mobilité humaine, de l’Antiquité au moyen âge - Gérard Mairet (Paris 8,) : La liberté de circuler existe-t-elle hors des espaces politiques? Jeudi 22 mars : ENS, salle Dussane - 9h-13h : Territorialités et appropriation des espaces. Président de séance : Bernard Vincent (EHESS) - Christophe Pébarthe (Paris VIII) : La liberté de la mer par l’empire dans le monde égéen (5e-4e siècle avant J.-C.) - Anthony Pagden (UCLA), Grotius' Mare liberum and the battle over the freedom of the seas Discussion - Marcello Verga (Florence) : La libertà di circolazione nel pensiero dell’Europa (18-20 sec.) Discussion - Rony Brauman (chercheur à la fondation Médecins Sans Frontières, professeur associé à Sciences Politiques, Paris) : Les camps de réfugiés: territoire humanitaire, espace d'exception. Discussion 14h30-18h30 : Economie de la mobilité. Présidente de séance : Laurence Fontaine (EHESS) - Alain Bresson (Ausonius, Bordeaux) : Zones monétaires, et espaces de droit en Grèce ancienne - Philipp Schofield (Wales, Aberystwyth) : Serfdom and mobility in Medieval Europe Discussion - Francesca Trivellato (Yale) : Raisons de commerce, Raison d'état: Merchants, Diasporas and Citizenship in the Port-cities of Mediterranean Europe, 1500-1800 - Paul-André Rosental (EHESS, CRH) : Impossibles contrôles : les effets imprévus de la libre circulation des travailleurs migrants (XIXe-XXe siècles) Discussion Vendredi 23 mars : ENS, salle Dussane 9h30-13 h : La mobilité des étrangers. Président deséance : Jean-Marie Durand (Collège de France) - Claudia Storti (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria di Varese e Como) : L'étranger mobile entre droit des gens et ius proprium: contradictions (et pragmatisme) de la jurisprudence médiévale? - Olivia Remie Constable (Notre-Dame, USA) : Liberties and constraints of Muslim travellers in Medieval times Discussion - Edhem Eldem (Istanbul) : La mobilité des étrangers et des non-musulmans dans l’Empire ottoman au dix-huitième siècle 14h30-18h30: Président de séance : Patrick Le Roux (Paris XIII) Droit de partir, droit d’entrer - Claudia Moatti (Paris VIII), Droit de partir : la liberté du citoyen dans la Rome antique - Nancy Green (EHESS, Paris) : Emigration/Immigration -- deux droits asymétriques Discussion - Marc Crépon (CNRS, ENS) : La peur des étrangers. Réflexions sur l’hospitalité 24 mars : ENS, salle Dussane 9h30-13h30 : Présidence de séance : Gérard Noiriel (EHESS) Droit de partir, droit d’entrer (suite) - Niels Frenzen, (USC, Los Angeles): The practice of the right of asylum in the US - Jérôme Valluy (Paris 1) : Le droit de l’asile contre le droit d’asile et la liberté de circuler Quel cosmopolitisme aujourd’hui, quelle liberté de circuler ? - Gérard Noiriel (EHESS), Liberté de circuler : genèse d’un travail d’Etat (XIXe-XXe) - Roger Waldinger (UCLA) : Freedom, Community, and the Democratic Deficit:Thoughts on the new American dilemma - Danièle Lochak (ParisX-Nanterre) : Etats-Nations et liberté de circuler. Discussion Discussion générale animée par Etienne Balibar, Henriette Asséo, Pierre Hassner 3/2007 Call for papers - Gender, Borders and Conflict in the Mediterranean The European Studies Center at the University of Oxford, as part of the Ramses² network of excellence on the Mediterranean area, is organizing a workshop seminar on the subject of Gender, Borders and Conflict in the Mediterranean region, with a particular emphasis on memories. The workshop will take place in Oxford, on June 13th and 14th 2007. It will address the following questions: - What is the impact of borders on women in the region? How do borders affect their legal status, modes of political participation, and social position across the Mediterranean? - What is the relationship between gender politics, on one hand, and borders and border crossing, on the other? To what extent are women agents capable of changing perceptions (and histories) of borders and thereby transforming conflict? How do women contribute to collective memories and history writing in the region, especially after conflict and war? - What factors facilitate the crossing of territorial borders and identity boundaries by women? How are traditional and modern gender identities implicated in the process? - How does the EU, alongside other international institutions, influence the practice of border crossing concerning women? The workshop is based on the assumption that gender relations in the region around the Mediterranean are constantly negotiated at various levels: not solely national but also local and regional. This inter-disciplinary workshop will bring together researchers as well as practitioners and encourages submissions from the fields of political science, history, sociology, law, economics and anthropology. Submissions for papers addressing one (or several) of the above questions are welcomed from researchers who work on conceptual issues regarding gender, borders and memories, as well as area-studies specialists focusing on the Mediterranean as such or on South- and South Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa. The papers to be delivered can be short and should be concise. Applications for participation from the astern/Southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea are encouraged. Application should contain: 300 word proposal and CV. Deadline is March 15th 2007; accepted paper-givers will be informed at the end of March 2007. Please send to: Franziska.Brantner@ sant.ox.ac. uk (also to be contacted for further information). RAMSES2 is a Network of Excellence on Mediterranean Studies funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. Launched and coordinated by the Maison Méditeranéenne de Sciences de l'Homme in Aix-en-Provence, RAMSES2 involves 36 academic institutions from Western Europe, the Balkans and the Middle East researching the history, societies and current politics of the wider Mediterranean area. Its ambition is to create a new field of Mediterranean studies by bringing together the hitherto disparate scholarship on the different littoral subregions and countries. 3/2007 'Researching the Mediterranean' This important research resource provides in-depth studies of the current state of research on the Mediterranean and Middle East in the UK and Spain. The book is the product of a project directed by Richard Gillespie (University of Liverpool) and Iván Martín (Casa Árabe, Madrid) that involved the commissioning of two country studies and then their in-depth discussion at an 'Encuentro' of some 50 researchers, from Britain and Spain, held in March 2006 in Barcelona. Both the UK study (by Emma Murphy and Michelle Pace) and the Spanish study (by Miguel Hernando de Larramendi and Bárbara Azaola) are published in the book, together with other papers from the Encuentro and a set of 5 proposals designed to enhance the infrastructure serving the Mediterranean and Middle East research communities. FREE copies of this work can be obtained by individual researchers and/or for institutional libraries from the British Council in Madrid, which has published the report in collaboration with CIDOB and IEMed, both based in Barcelona. For a copy of Researching the Mediterranean, please contact Maureen McAlinden (maureen.mcalinden@britishcouncil.es) 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. «Back to News Archive
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