News Archive March - April 2008
29/04/2008
CALL FOR PAPERS - States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel/Palestine
Social science research and legal studies of surveillance in Western countries have been on the increase in the last couple of decades, in particular after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. There is, however, a dearth of comparative, empirical research that includes the Middle East. The purpose of this call for papers is to examine surveillance practices in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a conflict zone. The case study provides an appropriate venue for examining surveillance and its associated technologies at several levels: (1) social sorting of population through discursive practices involving people counting and census construction; (2) spatial control, urban warfare, and territorial sovereignty; (3) geographic mobility; (4) use of technology in its various forms to manage people and violence in conflict situations; (5) discourses of state securitization, biopolitics, and states of exception that are deployed as means of surveillance; (6) role of the military-industrial-surveillance complex in promoting surveillance; (7) extent to which existing privacy and other related laws protect against intrusiveness by the state, private sector, and third-parties in the collection and dissemination of personal information; and (8) how the practice of social sorting in Israel/Palestine has influenced and in turn been influenced by global considerations related to the discourse on security and terrorism.
Focus of the Proposed Workshop
The proposed workshop will have three main foci: one, to situate studies of surveillance and population management in the context of theorizing about security and states of exception; second, to analyze the assemblages of surveillance techniques ranging from traditional forms of face-to-face contact to the use of various types of technologies in the gathering of personal information; finally, through a political economy perspective, to analyze state securitisation and the relationship between the military-industrial complex and the production of surveillance technologies. While twenty possible topics which address these foci are listed below, potential participants are encouraged to suggest for possible considerations other topics that fit within the overall framework of the workshop.
Suggested Topics
1. Theorizing states of exception and suspension of the law in conflict zones. Examples should include Israel/Palestine and other regions. 2. Use of maps and censuses as discursive surveillance tools in the construction of citizenship, identity boundaries, and borders. 3. The logic of biopolitics in Israel/Palestine as a case study or in comparison with other regions. 4. Colonialism and states of exception in the analysis of population management and surveillance in British colonial Palestine. 5. Face-to-face surveillance (role of informants and collaborators in pre- and post-1948 Israel/Palestine). 6. Surveillance as a prelude to Palestinian refugee exodus in 1948. 7. The checkpoint experience from the points of view of (a) the Palestinians and (b) Israeli soldiers. 8. The passport and the ID as markers of citizenship criteria. 9. Urban design, urban warfare and technologies of control. 10. The Israeli military-industrial-surveillance complex (a political economy approach). 11. Israel and other states of exception: surveillance in the securitisation of the state (role of military, police, and other security agencies). 12. Surveillance by the private sector (internet service providers, retail enterprises, commercial databases, etc.). 13. Use of CCTV (as for example in Jerusalem, on Road 6, or other public places in Israel and the OPT). 14. Profiling of individuals at crossing points. 15. The Wall a means of surveillance/security and a tool of land/border and population management. 16. The technological fix to counter surveillance and privacy protection: A critical assessment. 17. Citizen knowledge and awareness of surveillance/privacy laws and their impact on human rights, freedom of information, etc. 18. The extent to which Israeli policies of social sorting have influenced and been influenced by other conflict zones. 19. Analysis of social sorting and its impact on issues of social justice and human security. 20. Modes of resistance to surveillance techniques.
Workshop Sponsors and Venue
The workshop is part of The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting project that is funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council through its Major Collaborative Research Initiative. The project involves an array of international scholars working in surveillance studies. For more information click on http://www.queensu.ca/sociology/Surveillance
The workshop will be held either at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario or somewhere in the Middle East, depending on where the majority of participants are likely to come from. Cost is a consideration here. At this stage, the workshop is scheduled to be held from 8-9 December 2008 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
Those who are interested in submitting a proposal to participate in the workshop, should send their enquiries and a 500-word abstract to Elia Zureik (zureike@queensu.ca), Yasmeen Abu-Laban (yasmeen.abu-laban@ualberta.ca) , or David Lyon (lyond@queensu.ca) by April 1, 2008. Participants are encouraged to seek funding from their institutions. Some funds may be available for economy travel and local accommodation for those who indicate that their institutions or funding councils have turned down their request for funding.
28/04/2008
Lille (Villeneuve d’Ascq) les 20-22 novembre 2008
27/04/2008
Architecture competition
Details can be found on www.shamspiritualoasis.org
16/04/2008
17th Nordic Symposium in Tourism and Hospitality Research Conference - Call for papers
Lillehammer, September 25 - 27
Researchers and phd-students in a variety of disciplines with a focus on tourism and hospitality research attending are invited to submit abstracts before May 9th.
For more details on the conference
31/03/2008
AHRC Doctoral Studentships at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University
The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University has some quota spaces available for
students wishing to make applications to the AHRC for doctoral studentships. If you are interested in doing a PhD
in the general field of the centre, please do get in touch as soon as possible. The deadline for complete applications
is 12th April, and some preparatory discussions will be needed before then.
CTCC is an inter-disciplinary social science research centre including anthropology and archaeology (as well as
development studies, sociology, politics, history), and is open to research projects related to cultural change, encounters and contacts, organisations and bureaucracies, travel, cosmopolitanism, tourism, heritage, cultural change, or other areas related to tourism and culture. The centre currently has 15 PhD students who form a very lively research environment, currently hosting a series of 2-day research seminars "Major Concepts in Tourism Research" (see below for details).
You can read more about the centre at www.tourism-culture.com and about postgraduate studies at http://www.tourism-culture.com/postgraduate_studies.html or email/call the centre for more information.
Source: Saskia Cousin
30/03/2008
IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 3 Podcast
The latest podcast in a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available on Forced Migration Online. The third plenary event included a panel discussion ‘Regions at the Crossroads: Transregional Forced Migration’ chaired by Susan Martin, with presentations by Mark Schlakman, Aicha Belarbi, Jeffrey Crisp and Ahmet Icduygu and Susan Kneebone. http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/iasfm11-plenary3/
Source: Forced Migration
28/03/2008
Turismos, patrimonios, identidades y territorios
Fecha: 03.abr.2008 | Hora: 08:30 hrs | Lugar: Palau dels Reis de Mallorca | Organiza: Université de Perpignan, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, Programa Dinámicas Interculturales de la Fundación CIDOB, Universidad de Barcelona.
El seminario “Turismos, patrimonios, identidades y territorio”, a partir de una selección de comunicaciones que tengan como eje central una reflexión sobre la noción de territorio y su vinculación con el turismo, el patrimonio y la identidad, pretende ampliar la percepción del concepto territorio y redefinirlo a partir de sus implicaciones en el ámbito del turismo, del desarrollo sostenible y de los procesos de reconstrucción identitaria. Se trata de investigar si hoy, cuando la movilidad afecta más que nunca al turismo, la revalorización del territorio como espacio de identificación social y espacio de desarrollo puede convertirse en fuente de conflictos o, al contrario, un progreso social y económico. Las comunicaciones tratarán los temas siguientes: • Territorios urbanos, marcos de vida y creadores de relación social. • Territorios de conversión. • Territorios “en construcción” (o en expansión). • Territorios fronterizos, olvidados ayer o quizás relegados y hoy verdaderos laboratorios, en la vanguardia de la construcción europea.
Asistencia libre con plazas limitadas | Inscripciones: bataillou@univ-perp.fr
28/03/2008
Asiáticos en España y el Mediterráneo: diáspora, transnacionalismo y empresariado étnico
Fecha: 01.abr.2008 | Hora: 09:30 hrs | Lugar: Fundación CIDOB. C/ Elisabets, 12. 08001 Barcelona Organiza: Fundación CIDOB
En un momento en que los movimientos migratorios internacionales ocupan un puesto importante en la agenda política y social europea, resulta de especial interés abordar las especificidades de las migraciones asiáticas y su asentamiento en Europa. Con el foco de interés situado particularmente en la dimensión económica de la inmigración asiática y en los elementos transnacionales que la caracterizan, el presente seminario pretende conjugar las aportaciones de expertos provenientes de diferentes puntos de la Europa del Mediterráneo. Con ello se espera contribuir al desarrollo de un campo de estudio que ha sido muy prolífico en el ámbito anglosajón y que resulta de especial interés para la gestión de la inmigración y de cara a explorar nuevas vías para la internacionalización de la sociedad y la economía.
28/03/2008
Las ciudades del Mediterráneo y el diálogo intercultural
Nicosia y Larnaca, Chipre, 17-20 de abril
La asociación Les Rencontres organiza, con motivo del Año Europeo del Diálogo Intercultural, un encuentro en las ciudades chipriotas de Nicosia y Larnaca, que aspira a favorecer que las administraciones locales, y especialmente las de la región mediterránea, asistan y alimenten este diálogo. En vista de la realidad cada vez más multicultural de las sociedades europeas, se tratarán temáticas como los nuevos y antiguos flujos migratorios, los cambios con el resto del mundo a través del comercio, la educación, el ocio y la globalización en general. Para más información, visite lesrencontres.org
27/03/2008
Fundación Europea de la Cultura: An Alternative Gaze: a shared reflection on cross-Mediterranean cooperation in the arts
Este libro es el resultado de un proceso de reflexión sobre la cooperación artística en el espacio mediterráneo lanzado por la Fundación Europea de la Cultura (ECF) en julio de 2006. El volumen, que ha sido presentado hace pocas semanas, aporta observaciones y reflexiones de varios miembros del ''Grupo de reflexión'', como Basma El Husseiny, Sofiane Hadjadj, Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Nat Muller y Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes, así como de otros autores. Pueden acceder al informe en medreflection.eurocult.org
26/03/2008
Doctoriales du tourisme
Nice, 3 et 4 avril 2008
Programme des journées
IAE (salle 214)
Jeudi 3 avril
Accueil à partir de 9h30
Ouverture des journées : 10h-10h10 (R. Knafou)
1ère session, de l’accueil au marketing : 10h10 – 12h45
animation : Jacques Spindler, économie-gestion, professeur à l’université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
• De l'hospitalité à l'hospitalité touristique (Yves Cinotti, marketing)
• L'assemblage dynamique des chaînes logistiques multiservices (Frédéric Pellegrin, logistique)
• Se préparer à vivre la crise – ?Emergence et Management d’une communauté de pratiques au sein de l’organisation touristique (Christiane Gillet, sciences de gestion)
• Ré-intermédiation et stratégie de prix dans le secteur du tourisme (Malgorzata Ogonowska, sciences économiques)
• La médiation touristique : pour une nouvelle approche de l'activité touristique (Vallia Filloz, communication)
• Spécificités des stratégies marketing pour le tourisme de luxe (Vanessa Guerrier Buisine, sciences de gestion)
• Archipélité et mise en tourisme au Cap Vert (Nadège Kokel, géographie).
pause déjeuner (sur place) : 12h45 – 13h30
2ème session, Lieux et pratiques touristiques : 13h30 - 16h
animation : Philippe Bachimon, géographie, professeur à l’université d’Avignon
• Tourismes et colonisation en Indochine (Aline Demay, histoire et géographie)
• Le tourisme chinois : des pratiques autochtones qui produisent des lieux nouveaux (Benjamain Taunay, géographie)
• Evolution des plages et aménagement touristique à Djerba et Zarzis (Mohsen Sebei, aménagement)
• La mise en tourisme des espaces publics à Bordeaux, Marseille et Montpellier (Baptiste Fricau, aménagement)
• Les défis de l'écotourisme en Amazonie centrale Brésilienne. Les contradictions d'un modèle de développement (Terence Keller Andrade, géographie)
• Tourisme alternatif et randonnée pédestre (Lionel Lapompe Paironne, géographie)
3ème session, Construire la recherche en tourisme : 16h30 – 19h
animation Philippe Violier, géographie, professeur à l’université d’Angers
• Filière touristique et émergence de formes de tourisme alternatif : quels enjeux ? (Mehdi Marzouki, sciences économiques)
• Intérêts de la sociologie pour la géographie du tourisme : exemple de la sociologie des jeux de Roger Caillois (Bénédicte Auvray, géographie)
• Rythme, tourisme et urbanité (Maie Gérardot, géographie)
• « Le tourisme des pauvres n’est pas un pauvre tourisme », réflexions sur le tourisme au Vietnam. (Emmanuelle Peyvel, géographie)
• Une approche régionale du territoire touristique - Enjeux d'une recherche pluridisciplinaire (Jérôme Pirou)
dîner : 20h15
vendredi 4 avril
4ème session, Tourisme, populations locales et transformation sociale : 9h30-12h30
animation : Saskia Cousin, anthropologue, maître de conférence en sociologie à l'Université François Rabelais, CITERES-VST (Tours) et IIAC-LAIOS (Paris)
• Recompositions sociales au sein du campement de yourtes de Song Köl, Kirghizstan (Johanne Pabion, anthropologie)
• La porosité touristique des territoires communautaires. Le cas du Liban (Ghada Salem, géographie)
• Touristes et sociétés locales, des catégories homogènes ou distinctes ? Une analyse sur le rôle des acteurs locaux du tourisme à partir du cas de la Polynésie française (Caroline Blondy, géographie)
• Ressource touristique et paysannerie en terre chagga : double écriture géographique, texte et audiovisuel (Juhane Dascon, géographie) (+ film)
• Du bénéfice de l’immoral. Réflexions sur la prostitution dans le tourisme à partir du cas thaïlandais (Sébastien Roux).
Pause déjeuner (sur place) : 12h30-13h30
5ème session : Des palaces aux "Integrated Resorts" : regards croisés sur les hébergements touristiques : 13h30-15h
animation, Laurent Tissot, historien, professeur à l’université de Lausanne
• Grand Hôtel de Paris, 1862 – fin du XXe siècle, un siècle et demi d'histoire d'un palace parisien (Alexandre Tessier, histoire)
• Evolution et situation actuelle de l'hôtellerie parisienne (Miroslawa Woroniecki, géographie)
• De la canne à sucre aux villas luxueuses. Nouvelles stratégies de développement touristique à l'île Maurice : les "Integrated Resorts" (Priscilla Sambadoo, géographie)
• L'hôtellerie à Bruxelles 1880-1940 : Organisation spatiale d'un secteur en pleine expansion (Virginie Jourdain, histoire).
15h-15h15 : Bilan des doctoriales
Les Doctoriales du Tourisme sont organisées par l’ADRETS (Association pour le Développement de la Recherche et des Etudes sur les TourismeS), sous la responsabilité de Rémy Knafou, président de l'ADRETS, professeur à l'université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de l'IREST,
Avec le concours financier de la Direction du Tourisme, l'appui de l'université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis et de l'IREST (Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme)
Lieu des Doctoriales :
Institut d'administration des entreprises de l'université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis (directeur Jacques Spindler, vice-président d'ADRETS), avenue Emile Henriot
Composition du Comité scientifique
Michel Archambault (gestion), université du Québec à Montréal (UNQUAM)
Philippe Bachimon (géographie), université d’Avignon
Christine Cabasset, docteure en tourisme, consultante
Saskia Cousin (anthropologie), université François-Rabelais (Tours)
Jean-Michel Decroly (géographie), université libre de Bruxelles
Rémy Knafou (géographie), université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
Thierry Paquot (philosophie), Institut d’urbanisme de Paris
Michel Raspaud (sociologie), université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1
André Rauch (histoire), université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg
Jacques Spindler (économie-gestion), université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis
Jean-François Tassin, président du GEFIL
Laurent Tissot (histoire), université de Neuchâtel
Alet Valero (études hispaniques), université Toulouse-le-Mirail
Vincent Vlès (aménagement, urbanisme), université de Pau et des pays de l’Adour
Pour tout contact :
Maie Gérardot, secrétaire de l'ADRETS : maie.gerardot@wanadoo.fr
Rémy Knafou : rknafou@club-internet.fr
Source: Saskia Cousin (saskia.cousin@orange.fr)
23/03/2008
Fòrum Internacional - Migracions i desenvolupament socioeconòmic en les regions d’origen. El cas de la regió Oriental del Marroc
14 i 15 d’abril de 2008. Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània, Barcelona
En un món globalitzat, les migracions internacionals assoleixen noves dimensions i adopten noves formes, convertint-se en una realitat evident i ineludible a nivell mundial. Així doncs, cal abordar aquest fenomen des d’una nova perspectiva, per tal d’optimitzar tot allò que pugui aportar tant als països receptors com als països d’origen. Punt de trobada entre una societat i una altra, els immigrants poden promoure una aproximació entre les nacions i un enriquiment econòmic mutu. En aquest sentit, les regions del nord i el sud de la Mediterrània han de promoure contactes directes entre elles per tenir una millor informació sobre les oportunitats d’intercanvis comercials, cooperació descentralitzada i inversió, àmbits on els immigrants puguin jugar un paper d’actors o catalitzadors.
Decidits a invertir els seus recursos, competències i coneixements en el desenvolupament de les seves regions d’origen, els immigrants se situen a l’avantguarda del procés de codesenvolupament i cooperació descentralitzada.
A partir d’aquestes premisses, la primera edició d’aquest fòrum se centrarà en la regió Oriental del Marroc i analitzarà els canvis profunds que s’hi han produït. L’objectiu és afavorir el flux d’inversions, tant de la diàspora marroquina a Espanya com d’inversors espanyols, per tal de facilitar el desenvolupament d’aquesta regió de la riba sud en plena harmonia amb les altres regions de la Mediterrània.
http://www.iemed.org/activitats/2008/oriental/coriental.php
15/02/
22/03/2008
Moving homes, changing places, transforming geographies: the experiences of forced migrants, refugees and asylum seekers - Call for papers
New Zealand Geographical Society annual conference, Wellington, July 2-5, 2008
The international movement of refugees, forced migrants and asylum seekers often involves a complex series of mobilities and changes in everyday physical, material and emotional geographies connected with culture, society and everyday life. The long- and short-term causes and consequences of this movement and how it plays out are profoundly affected by geographical processes, differences and particularities relating to experiences in countries of origin; the length, form and nature of the migration process; and factors connected with resettlement, e.g. housing, employment issues and interactions with local communities. This session will explore issues connected with these processes, and suggested themes include – but are not limited to – the following: * The local context: everyday lives, livelihoods, inequalities and experiences * Borders, policies, and the role of the state and state policies in shaping forced migrants’ experiences * Emotional geographies of transnational forced migration * Memory and building new senses of home and self * Mobile identities: shifting and hyphenated identities * Building and sustaining new communities within host countries * Difference: nationality, gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion * Rethinking scale: connecting refugee and forced migrant experiences of translocal places * Innovative research approaches and methodological issues for researching forced migration, asylum and refugee issues.
The session will examine these issues in a variety of national, regional and local contexts in the global south and north.
Please send offers of papers to all three convenors (rachel.pain@durham.ac.uk; peter.hopkins@ncl.ac.uk; sara.kindon@vuw.ac.nz) by 30 March 2008.
Conference website: http://www.vuw.ac.nz/nzgs2008/
19/03/2008
UNEP Plan Bleu - Comité de pilotage « Mobilité urbaine »
La première réunion du Comité de pilotage sur les activités du Plan Bleu en matière de mobilité urbaine s’est tenue à Sophia-Antipolis le 29 février 2008. Réunissant des représentants des partenaires au développement (AFD, Banque mondiale, Veolia Environnement) et des experts de l’urbanisme, des déplacements urbains et de l’environnement de villes méditerranéennes, le comité de pilotage a passé en revue l’ensemble du programme Plan Bleu sur la mobilité urbaine 2007-2009, la méthodologie des études de cas (Tunis, Istanbul, Le Caire, Alep, Alger, Tanger), des études régionales à engager, les premiers éléments de contenu du Forum méditerranéen sur Mobilité urbaine et développement durable prévu en juin 2009.
17/03/2008
‘Attractions and events as catalysts for regeneration and social change’ - Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
University of Nottingham, 24th-25th September 2008
17/03/2008
London International Documentary Film Festival - Films on forced migration
Four films on the topic of forced migration: Saturday 29 March, 8.00pm Renoir Cinema "La Americana" (The American)Dir. Nicholas Bruckman/Co-Dir. John Mattiuzzi, USA/Bolivia/Mexico, 2008, Special Preview Saturday 5 April, 11.05pm Stevenson Theatre, British Museum | Next Station (Próxima Estación)Director: Estela Ilárraz, 2007, Spain, 69min, UK Première Ya OromiaDirector: Amanda Walsh, 2006, Australia, 5min, European Première | For My Children (Por Mis Hijos) Director: Aymee Cruzaleguí, Spain, 2007, 16min, World Première For more information about each film, visit the London International Documentary Film Festival web site at http://www.lidf.co.uk
17/03/2008
A new Viewpoint by the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of detention of asylum seekers is available at: http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/Viewpoints/default_en.asp
16/03/2008
Iraqis In Cairo: Time is Running Out - New film
http://homepage.mac.com/jvanpraag/IRAQIS_IN_EGYPT/iMovieTheater11.html
The film was made over a five week period this year, produced for only a few hundred dollars with the help and expertise of a small and very dedicated group of individuals. This short documentary takes a look at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq and are now living as refugees in Egypt.Like millions of others who have been driven out of their country since the American invasion in 2003, they are living in increasingly desperate situations with little or no rights in their country of asylum.
16/03/2008
European Council approves the ‘Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean’
The European Council has approved the principle of a Union for the Mediterranean which will include the Member States of the EU and the non-EU Mediterranean coastal states. In a statement annexed to their conclusions, the EU leaders invited the Commission ‘to present to the Council the necessary proposals for defining the modalities of what will be called "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean" with a view to a Summit which will take place in Paris on 13 July 2008.’
According to a Council press release, this initiative should deepen the existing Euro-Mediterranean Partnership between Member States and third countries in the Mediterranean basin (the so-called Barcelona Process). The renewed partnership, it says, will be financed by the funds currently set aside in the EU budget for support to partner states in the Mediterranean.
14/03/2008
Memory, Mourning, Landscape - Call for papers
University of Glasgow, 9 June 2008
One hundred years after Freud, the debate about how memory and mourning work continues. Increasingly scholarly attention is paid to the role of place and space in memorialising - whether in commemorations of individuals or in marking mass deaths. At the same time, experts in a variety of fields are finding new significance in the different ways of "saying goodbye" (or not saying goodbye). The aim of this symposium is two-fold: to explore the links between memory, mourning and landscape, and also to investigate more
deeply these themes as separate entities. The symposium will therefore be of interest to scholars across the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, including, but not limited to: literature, ancient, medieval, and modern languages, cultural studies, history of art, history, archaeology, geography, theology, sociology, psychology, and archive studies.
Please submit abstracts by email (preferably as a word document attachment) to mml.conference@gmail.com, by 1 April 2008.
Further details: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/seminarsandconferences/conferencememorymourningandlandscape/
10/03/2008
People on the Move : The Challenges of Displacement in the 21st Century
The 2008 IRC-UK Annual Lecture by UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres
Monday 16th June at 7pm at The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore (Exhibition Road Entrance), London SW7 2AR
Tickets: Lecture £15.00 (concessions £8.00) | Lecture and post lecture reception £30 | For reservations please call the IRC-UK events line: +44 (0)20 7692 2737 (Monday to Friday 0900 – 1730) | All proceeds from the evening will go towards the IRC’s work.
08/03/2008
Uneven regional development, polarisation in cities and international circuits of migration
Small one day workshop at the London School of Economics on April 25th 2008. The workshop convened by Diane Perrons and Allan Williams will begin at 11.a.m. (room to be declared on registration). Registration is essential. Please send expression of interest to Kathy Wood Kathy.wood@durham.ac.uk
06/03/2008
Podcasts on Forced Migration Online
Forced Migration Online has launched the first of a series of podcasts recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), held in Cairo between January 6th and 10th 2008. The 11th IASFM conference was hosted by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the American University in Cairo. A large proportion of those attending and giving presentations were researchers and practitioners from the global South. The FMO team made audio recordings of the conference’s plenary sessions and these will be launched gradually over the coming weeks. http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/iasfm11-plenary1/
05/03/2008
British Institute at Ankara Study Grants
Study grants are intended to support doctoral or post-doctoral research in the fields of the arts, humanities and the social sciences related to Turkey and the Black Sea littoral. Specifically, the grants are intended to support scholars in defined aspects of doctoral research which will significantly progress the research, in the completion of PhDs, or in discrete pieces of post-doctoral research.
These grants are not intended to support fieldwork within a wider project. They can be used to provide access to the outstanding Institute library, to support use of the extensive Institute archive resources, and to study in the broader academic context within Turkey. Periods of study from one to three months will be supported. An airfare (£300) and funding for basic subsistence and accommodation (£500 per month) is the expected level of funding. Accommodation at the Institute's hostel will be available and full access to the Institute's facilities will be provided. It is expected that normally the study will be based in Ankara, but specific applications based elsewhere in Turkey are not excluded.
Eligibility
1. Support is available to scholars for defined aspects of doctoral research which will significantly progress the research, the completion of PhDs, or discrete pieces of post-doctoral research.
2. The period of study must take place between April 2008 and March 2009.
3. Applicants must be postgraduate students or post-doctoral scholars based in a British university.
4. Applications are considered by the BIAA Research Committee at half-yearly intervals; the next deadline for submission is 1 April 2008.
Late applications will not be considered.
For further information please contact Siobhan McKeown: biaa@britac.ac.uk or visit the website: http://www.biaa.ac.uk/awards_details.html#study
03/03/2008
THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
University of Illinois, Chicago, 16-18 May 2008
The Global Studies Conference on Global Studies Journal are devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. This journal and the conference attempt to do this from many points of view, from many locations in the world, and in a wide-angle kaleidoscopic fashion.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com
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