News Archive January 2008
31/01/2008
La política árabe y mediterránea de España
Con ocasión de la presentación del número monográfico de la Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals dedicado a la política árabe y mediterránea de España, se celebrará en el Congreso de los Diputados una sesión de balance de esta legislatura y de puesta en común de perspectivas de futuro. El acto consistirá en una presentación de la revista así como una mesa redonda con representantes de distintas fuerzas políticas que valorarán la actuación del gobierno durante los últimos cuatro años y expondrán las propuestas de sus respectivos partidos en el campo de la política hacia el Mediterráneo y el mundo árabe.
Fecha: 13 de Febrero - 11h - Programa Mediterráneo
Lugar: Sala Clara Campoamor, Congreso de los Diputados, Madrid
Organiza: Fundación CIDOB, con la colaboración del Congreso de los Diputados y de Casa Árabe
Información: Asistencia libre.
30/01/2008
Mémoire et patrimoine à l’ère de la globalisation Cultures de / dans la déterritorialisation - Appel à communication du GT 14 « Institutions du patrimoine » de l’AISLF
Dans le cadre du XVIIIe congrès international de l'AISLF, « Être en société. Le lien social à l'épreuve des cultures », le GT 14 « Institutions du patrimoine » propose de s'interroger sur les mutations des pratiques patrimoniales et mémorielles à l'ère de la globalisation et dans la mesure où ce phénomène marque l'affaiblissement de la référence territoriale. Il s'agira de montrer, via des descriptions fines de situations, de quelles actions sur le passé se nourrissent les cultures de ou dans la déterritorialisation – et pour quelles visées politiques.
XVIIIe congrès international de l'AISLF, Istanbul, 7-8 juillet 2008 (http://w3.univ-tlse2.fr/aislf/spip/article.php3?id_article=16)
Les propositions (deux pages maximum) sont à adresser simultanément aux responsables du GT 14, avant le 30 janvier 2008 :
André Micoud : andre.micoud@univ-st-etienne.fr // Jean-Louis Tornatore : tornatore@univ-metz.fr ou jl.tornatore@free.fr
30/01/2008
5th Postgraduate Conference on Forced Migration The 5th Forced Migration Student Conference
The event will be held at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford on March 1st 2008. Registration is now open for participants who wish to attend the Conference, including students, independent scholars and practitioners. http://www.forcedmigration.org/events/2008/fmsc/
29/01/2008
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL: TOURISME ET PAUVRETE - Appel à communications
Marrakech, Université Cadi Ayyad
Du 9 au 11 juin 2008
tourisme.pauvrete 'at' yahoo.fr
29/01/2008
Migration and Citizenship - conference
The last decade has seen fundamental change in both the scale and nature of labour immigration to the UK at a time of increasing globalisation. Within this context, migration itself may be conceptualised as a business, characterised by the interaction of a range of institutions such as employers, universities, professional bodies and people smugglers as well as migrants. With economic globalisation have come new or enhanced forms of migration, with their own mobility systems and with important consequences for the migrants themselves, for those with a migrant origin and for host communities. The conference will present the latest research in a bid to identify more clearly the processes at work, together with their wider implications.
This conference will address issues based on the following themes: * International mobility in a global economy * Human smuggling and irregular work * Youth labour markets and ethnicity * International researcher mobility * Mobility amongst the highly skilled
* International student mobility
The Leverhulme Programme on Migration and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and University College London (2003-08) consists of eight projects on contemporary labour mobility, post-immigration ethnicity and challenges to British national identity. This is one of two conferences that will take place in 2008 as the Programme reaches its conclusion (the second to be held in November will focus on ethnicity, integration and national identity). Further details of the Programme can be found at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sociology/leverhulme
Please send your abstract (no more than 250 words) to Sara Tonge (sara.tonge@bristol.ac.uk)
Deadline for submissions: 14th February 2008
27/01/2008
Israel/Palestine: Is there a Solution? - seminar
Ghada Karmi, Exeter University @ University of Birmingham, Department of Theology and Religion & European Research Institute, Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 11.30am, Elmfield House, John Keyyd Room, Selly Oak Campus. All welcome.
Dr Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian author and academic. She is also a regular contributor to The Guardian, the Nation, and Journal of Palestine Studies. She is an associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter University. Her publications include Jerusalem Today: What future for the Peace Process (1997), The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998 (1999) and In Search of Fatima. A Palestinian Story (2004). In October 2007, she delivered the Edward Said Memorial lecture at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her most recent book is entitled: “Married to another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine” and was published in May 2007.
26/01/2008
Encounters and Intersections: Religion, Diaspora and Ethnicities - extended Call for papers
The call for papers for this conference has been extended to 28th February and the organisers are looking for abstracts of around 200
words.
Conference - 9th-11th July, 2008, St Catherine's College, Oxford
This conference takes encounter and intersection as its frame. It explores the nature of relations between different faith and ethnic
groups, between diasporic and indigenous citizens and between convivial, and not so convivial, multicultures in current, complex, post colonial contexts. We are interested in patterns and trends in contemporary identity practices, the intersections between social identities and how intersection and multiplicity are experienced and lived.
Encounters can be hostile, intimate, violent, anxious, celebratory, defensive, banal or historic. Participants can feel consumed, tolerated, included, marginalised or empowered. In policy terms, encounters can be read through the lens of 'community cohesion', the 'duty to integrate' or the 'clash of civilisations'. How do different forms of encounter organise (and how are they organised by) particular relational spaces? How do they create and reflect 'contact zones'? How do people negotiate multiple identities of faith, class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, place, etc? What are the social, political and ethical consequences?
This conference is organised by the ESRC/AHRC Programme on Religion and Society (www.religionandsociety.org.uk), the AHRC Programme on Diasporas, Migration and Identities (www.diasporas.ac.uk) and the ESRC Programme on Identities and Social Action (www.identities.org.uk). It will show-case the interdisciplinary research taking place in the UK on these themes across the arts, social sciences and humanities.
The conference includes a keynote address from Prof. Paul Gilroy (London School of Economics) and author of After Empire; The Black Atlantic and Ain't no Black in the Union Jack. There will be panels on Living Intersections - New British Identities
and Encounters - Materials, Spaces and Performances highlighting the research being conducted in the three Programmes. The conference will include parallel sessions of paper presentations, photographic and poster exhibitions, a conference dinner, drinks receptions and many opportunities for discussion and networking with researchers from a wide range of disciplinary and intellectual perspectives.
We welcome submissions to present papers (20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions) on the conference themes. Your paper might present some empirical findings, it might consist of a performance, a theoretical review, critique and new argument; it might consist of a textual analysis, raise provocative questions or analyse one case, site or context. Abstracts should be submitted to Katie Roche (k.a.roche@leeds.ac.uk) by the 28th of February, 2008 including full contact details for all authors.
24/01/2008
International Conference onEnvironment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (EFMSV) - Call for Abstracts
Hosted by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) from 9-11 October 2008 in Bonn, Germany. The deadline for abstract submission is the 28 February 2008. For more information about the conference please visithttp://www.efmsv2008.org. For online abstract submission please visithttp://www.efmsv2008.org/application
23/01/2008
THE FORCED MIGRATION AND REFUGEE STUDIES PROGRAM Summer Short Courses 2008
* Advanced International Refugee Law * Addressing the protection of Refugee Women and Girls * Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Refugees
The course will take place in the 6th floor lounge, Hill House, Main Campus at the American University in Cairo from Monday June 16 to Saturday June 21, 2008 (excluding Friday) everyday from 9 am to 5 pm.
More information: ms. Maysa Ayoub Email: fmrs 'at' aucegypt.edu - Projects Manager Tel: (202) 27976921 - Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Fax (202) 27956681 - American University in Cairo FMRS/AUC, 113 Kasr El Aini Street, PO Box 25000, Cairo 11511, Egypt Deadline for applications is March 30th 2008
22/01/2008
"Penser les diasporas" - Appel à contribution pour un dossier thématique de la Revue Diasporas, histoire et sociétés
Naguère réservé à l’expérience millénaire des juifs, le concept de diaspora a connu depuis une vingtaine d’années un succès et une expansion extraordinaires. L’heure nous a paru venue de photographier un paysage disciplinaire qui n’en finit plus de développer. Deux pistes s’ouvrent aux chercheurs désireux de proposer un texte : la théorie et les modélisations des diasporas, la mise au point d’ordre historiographique ou par champ disciplinaire dans l'éventail des sciences humaines. Date limite : vendredi 15 février 2008. Contact: Patrick Cabanel courriel : patrick [point] cabanel (at) wanadoo [point] fr
21/01/2008
‘iTREN 2030’ joining the dots
More than 45 experts from the European Commission, national governments, industry and the researcher community met in Brussels on 27 November 2007 for the iTREN-2030 project workshop. Among the questions they asked was how to predict the combined effects of EU-wide policies on energy, transport, economy and the environment.
Common concerns: transport, energy, economy and the environment“Launched in May 2007 as part of the Sixth Research Framework Programme, iTREN is developing tools to assess the impacts of policies in inter-related transport, energy and technology fields,” says Wolfgang Schade of Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung (ISI). “In particular, we are concentrating on areas such as the implications of alternative technologies and new energy carriers, and extending existing forecasting tools.”
Experts from Bulgaria, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands presented their current approaches to policy development in these inter-related fields, showing the wide variety of experience in integrated assessment that currently exists across the European Union.
Complex assessment Schade says the project will operate on different levels, taking into account varying levels of experience; countries which have already developed their own assessment capabilities will be able to use iTREN results to compare with their own analyses, while those with less developed procedures will be able to apply the methodologies directly – in particular for strategies to mitigate climate impacts.
The iTREN approach is based on extending four existing assessment tools: *TRANS-TOOLS – assessing transport networks *
TREMOVE – looking at the environmental effects of the transport sector * POLES – simulating long-term energy scenarios for different parts of the world * ASTRA –forecasting the long-term consequences of EU transport policies. Representatives from the automotive industry expressed their interest in the results and are now committed to the project throughout its two-year lifespan, from 2007 to 2009.
Yesterday transport, today waste“Some stakeholders at the iTREN workshop expressed concern that the statistics used must be consistent,” says Schade. “At the moment there are differences between the Eurostat data used at an EU level and national statistics.” Another concern is that the model at present does not encompass ‘trend breaks’ due to factors such as high oil prices or technology breakthroughs.
The next iTREN workshop, planned for April 2008, will take a closer look at the assumptions made in the iTREN model, and at how to increase the project’s transparency.
21/01/2008
‘Other Europes’: Agents of Transformation - Colloquium
Institute for the Study of European Transformationsat London Metropolitan University31 January - 1st February 2008 9.30-6pm INVITED SPEAKERS:Elmar Altvater, Birgit Mahnkopf, Peter Gowan, Kate Soper, John Palmer, Donatella della Porta, Jill Rutter, Sonia Mckay, Patrick Stevenson, Jean-Léo Léonard, Sara Silvestri, Gino Raymond, Judy Batt, Geoffrey Pridham, Tim Haughton PANELS ON: - Religion and Secularity- Migration, Mobility and Social Cohesion- Language and Identity- Politics in the new EU member states The Colloquium will explore transformations currently taking place in Europe in these areas and will address two key questions for the future of Europe: - what is the potential for counter-hegemonic initiatives in Europe?- what are the agencies and institutions most likely to figure in such changes? The Colloquium will be preceded by a London European ResearchCentre (LERC) seminar on ‘The EU After Fifty Years: Looking Back to LookForward’ on Thursday 31st January followed by an evening reception. For further details of the entire programme and to register see the linkbelow.http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/events/oe2008/conference_home.cfm
20/01/2008
Migrant diasporas and decentralized development - Call for papers
29-30 May 2008, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
The links between migrant diasporas and development in 'sending countries' are complex and depend on a host of factors. Recent scholarship suggests that migration is a result of economic, political and social transformations, which, in turn, trigger changes in all these fields, in the countries of origin and residence. Many of the transformations determined by migrant diasporas may not be grasped through macroeconomic or development indicators at national level. The focus on significant local changes determined by migrant diasporas (including first, second or third generations of migrants) may provide valuable insights in regard to local, thus 'decentralised' development, induced through their action in the countries of (cultural) origin. The links between diasporas and development at local level may be assessed differently, depending on the indicators of development and methodologies employed. This conference will focus on the changes created due to the engagement (economic, political, cultural) of migrant diasporas in countries of origin at local level and innovative methodologies for exploring these transformations. We invite proposals on the following themes:- Activities of migrant associations and their impact;- Political, economic and cultural changes in countries of origin, determined by migrants;- Policies of temporary return and economic investment;- Transnational relationships (family, partnerships, etc.) and their effects. Papers should be based on completed research or fieldwork.
We welcome contributions from IMISCOE members and other academics, researchers, PhD students and policy-makers who are not in the network. Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted by 31 January 2008 to Ms. Cristina Pantiru at M.C.Pantiru@sussex.ac.uk. Each abstract should outline the research questions, methodology and findings. The authors of the papers accepted for the conference will be notified in early March. Participants who present papers will have their travel and accommodation costs covered by IMISCOE. This event is organized by Erasmus University Rotterdam (www.eur.nl/)and Sussex Centre for Migration Research (www.sussex.ac.uk/migration/)and is supported by IMISCOE - The Network of Excellence onInternational Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion(www.imiscoe.org/). For any questions please contact: M.C.Pantiru@sussex.ac.uk
19/01/2008
Contested and Constructed Spaces: battles over territory, identity, and resources
Call for papers for '4S' session at the European Assocition for the Study of Science and Technology, Rotterdam 2008
How space is used and invested with meaning has become a topic of great importance for a variety of fields (geography, history, philosophy, political science, urban studies, etc.), reflecting the current global need to explore new and effective ways of diffusing combative situations in cases of contested spaces which are arising at a greater pace with an increase in global immigration and migration. An examination of contested spaces can also turn our attention to post-colonial issues, the creation of identities, the role played by nation-states in the construction of boundaries and borders and the associated social beliefs that they effect. What this reveals is that these spaces concern more than mere physical boundaries and points on a map. In fact, research has shown that contested spaces may or may not concern boundaries that are administratively drawn up and administered. They can simply form based on social discourse and understanding which creates an ideological hierarchy that in turn gets exhibited spatially.
Often we think of contested spaces as having ties with the current influx in immigration and migration, but there are several locales where the contestation has been occurring over generations (e.g., Ireland, the Korean peninsula, the US/Mexico border). Though, with a growing number of multi-ethnic cities in which people from numerous backgrounds live in close proximity to one another, it is not surprising that conflict ensues. Is such tension and conflict inevitable, that is, is it merely part of our post-modern existence? Whatever one's answer to this may be, it must nonetheless address the fact that the dynamics of the question are played out in space. Consequently, the way that people interpret the space around them is a critical issue in our understanding of the current changes in several localities (Ireland, France, the US, Mexico, Korean peninsula, and so forth).
There are several ways to discuss the topic of contested spaces but I offer two in order to set some sort of framework on the direction that the session plans to take: first, to raise questions about the methods employed to diffuse, create, or reinforce contested spaces and, second, to provide insight into ways of creating safe, alternative spaces that allow for diversity.
We are looking for others who share an interest in this topic to submit a 400 page abstract by February 10, 2008 to Azucena Cruz at ellipses3@gmail.com. Please forward all questions to this address as well.
18/01/2008
4th World Conference for Graduate Research in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure
Antalya, Turkey, 23-27 April 2008
We are pleased to announce that the deadline of submission for all categories is extended to 18 February 2008. Graduate students are expected to submit ABSTRACTS only for the thesis and dissertation categories (full papers not required). Those considering the research or inderdisciplinary categories should submit FULL PAPERS only (no prior abstract submission required). In addition to parallel sessions, the confirmed speakers for two panels include Professor Alain Fyall, Professor Muzzo Uysal, Professor John Fletcher, Professor Seyhmus Baloglu, Professor Alain Decrop, and more. More information is available at our webpage, http://www.anatoliajournal.com/conference
18/01/2008
Conferència "Geopolítica de l’aigua a l’Orient Mitjà"
Institut Europeu de la Mediterrànea, Dimarts 22 de gener (19 hores)
Un dels grans especialistes internacionals sobre el tema de l'aigua a l'Orient Mitjà, el professor de la Universitat París VIII Habib Ayeb, pronunciarà a l'IEMed la conferència "Geopolítica de l’aigua a l’Orient Mitjà: del Sudan al Kurdistan". Aquest acte inaugurarà el cicle de conferències “Conflictes al món àrab: conseqüències econòmiques i ecològiques”, que organitzen l'IEMed i Casa Árabe en el marc dels cicles Debats de la Mediterrània. La resta de conferències abordaran la situació de la població a Iraq, els costos econòmics del contenciós del Sàhara Occidental així com l'impacte medioambiental d'altres conflictes a la regió.
18/01/2008
The State of Sovereignty - International Boundaries Research Unit's 8th international conference
Durham on 1-3, April 2009
IBRU began work in 1989, the year that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first use of the term 'the borderless world'. Two decades on, borders are still very much with us but the geopolitical setting in which they exist has changed dramatically. Governments around the world are facing increasingly complex challenges in the exercise of territorial sovereignty - and a growing number are arguably losing the battle, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. The changing nature of sovereignty in a globalising world has attracted
attention from a wide range of disciplines, but the practical implications of such changes for boundary-making, management and dispute resolution have rarely been examined in depth. This major international conference will provide scholars and practitioners with an opportunity to reflect on the impact of the geopolitical upheavals of the last twenty years, and to exchange ideas about the meaning and function of territorial sovereignty today and in the decades ahead. A formal call for papers will be issued later in the year. However, proposals for panels/papers are welcome at any time. Themes of particular interest include:* Sovereignty and territorial integrity * 'Earned sovereignty', 'contingent sovereignty' and their territorial implications * 'Failed' states; ungoverned, undergoverned and 'ungovernable' regions * Sovereignty and international law * New frontiers: de-bordering, re-bordering and 'networked borders'
* Secessionist movements and new states * Alternatives to absolute territorial sovereignty * Boundary-making and the assertion of sovereignty on the ground * Sovereignty and surveillance * Creeping jurisdiction? The exercise of control over maritime space
* New approaches to the resolution of territorial disputes * The impact of climate change on sovereignty * The management of transboundary resources * Sovereignty and Antarctica
See www.dur.ac.uk/ibru/conferences/sos for further announcements.
18/01/2008
Educating Future Citizens in Europe - Dr Yasemin Soysal
The International Centre for Education for Democratic Citizenship (ICEDC), University of London
4th February, 2008 at 6pm, Institute of Education, Room 822
Dr Yasemin Soysal's research covers contemporary reconfigurations of the nation-state and citizenship in Europe; cultural and political implications of international migrations; and international discourses and regimes of human rights. Her latest research was on the post-war reconfigurations of nation-state identities as projected in secondary school history and civics textbooks. Her books include Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe (University of Chicago Press, 1994) and The Nation, Europe and the World: Textbooks and Curricula in Transition (edited with Hanna Schissler, Berghahn, 2004). Dr Soysal is currently the Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmo University, Sweden until April 2008.
Please contact Elaine Kitteringham at e.kitteringham@bbk.ac.uk to book your place.
18/01/2008
Migration Research Seminar
Friday 25th January, W007, Sir Henry Wood Building, Jordanhill Campus, 3.30pm-5.30pm
The migration research group at Strathclyde University, UK, is running a seminar in on research methods (in the context of migration research). Light refreshments will be served at these seminar meetings and all are welcome to attend. The details of the seminar are below.
Speakers: Emma Stewart (Geography and Sociology): "Eritreans in cyberspace: Mapping diaspora networks". Fiona Frank (History): 'Transmission of Jewish Culture: researching five generations of an immigrant family'. Senija Causevic (Hospitality and Tourism): 'Tourism in a broader social context: creating emancipatory knowledge through a critical theory perspective'. Geri Smyth (Childhood and Primary Studies): Researching in English with speakers of other languages.
More information: tarryn.robertson@strath.ac.uk.
18/01/2008
Transport and Tourism Sustainable Futures
Tourism and Hospitality: Planning &Development - Special Issue - Call for papers
Guest Editors: Leslie Lumsdon, University of Central Lancashire, UK; Paul Peeters, NHTV University of Applied Sciences Breda, the Netherlands
A review of the literature reveals that tourism is set to grow in the future and that this, in turn, will generate externalities which are both unacceptable to communities and equally unsustainable in terms of the planet’s survival (see for example Gössling and Hall, 2006). Regardless of technological mitigation or compensation schemes, the current scenario is one where tourism related energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants will grow at high rates as we seek to travel longer distances, more frequently and by the least sustainable modes (Peeters, Gössling and Becken, 2006). Where current average air transport consumption of Swedish people is 3400 km per year, avoiding ‘dangerous’ climate change would require emission reductions that allow for between 600 km and 1200 km for the average world citizen (Åkerman, 2005).
Therefore, there is greater need now than ever before for more research focusing on potential solutions to reduce tourist generated transport. This is especially the case with regard to modes of transport which impact heavily on the planet, namely air travel, the cruise ship sector and the private car. Furthermore a shift towards transport modes like rail and coach with far less environmentally damaging impacts is necessary to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80%, without severely damaging the tourism sector. Peeters (2007: 23) argues that it is necessary to uncouple “the growth of tourism and the growth of passenger-kilometres by changing mobility trends towards shorter and more frequent trips to longer and less frequent ones…”. The issues might lie principally with a wide range of stakeholders at the supply side: destinations and suppliers such airlines, cruise ship lines, travel agencies and tour operators as well as national governments and municipalities. At the tourism demand side researchers are concerned to investigate the underlying causes of hypermobility. Here the focus has been on behavioural change and potential solutions such as personalised travel plans that might be put to good effect in relation to travel for leisure and tourism.
The editors welcome papers which include the following or similar issues:
• Sustainable tourist transport scenarios • Mitigation of environmental impacts of tourist transport • Changing current mobility trends in tourism fitting a sustainable future • Understanding the role of tourism hypermobility for sustainable futures • Climate change and transport futures • Development of sustainable low carbon destinations • Marketing of sustainable tourism transport • Destination development incorporating local-global impacts • Low carbon tourist transport technology • Revival of rail and coach travel • Renewed tourism interest in short haul destinations • The reduction of transport volumes in growing tourism • Sustainable consumption of transport for tourism
Contributors should note:
• The call is open and competitive
• All papers will be blind reviewed in line with journal policy
• Papers must be based on original material not under consideration by other journals
• The editors will select the papers for publication in the special issue but will also recommend others for publication in subsequent issues of the journal if the need arises
• Please see the journal guidelines for preferred paper length, style and additional information
• It is envisaged that the special issue will be published in late 2008
• Papers should be submitted as an attachment [word document] to an e mail letter to Emccarthy1@uclan.ac.uk
• Editorial enquires should be made to lmlumsdon@uclan.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is March 31st 2008
17/01/2008
SELLING OR TELLING? Paradoxes in Tourism, Culture and Heritage
Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, UK
2-4 July 2008
Please join us on 2nd to 4th of July for the 2008 ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) Annual Conference to be held at the most enchanting, exciting, extraordinary seaside city in Britain – Brighton. This is the first ever ATLAS annual conference to be held in the United Kingdom.
Full details of the conference can be found at: http://www.atlas-euro.org/pages/content/pgbrighton.htm
Peter M Burns, Director, Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS)
http://www.brighton.ac.uk/ssm/research/centops/
16/01/2008
TOO MUCH, TOO YOUNG? THE EXPERIENCES OF ASYLUM SEEKING AND REFUGEE CHILDREN
RGS-IBG Conference 27th-29th Aug 2008 ** 2nd Call for papers
The experiences of children and young people who claim asylum in the UK and other European countries have, over the past decade, raised particular issues for academics, policy makers and practitioners. Once protected from the worst aspects of asylum policy by virtue of their status as children, there is growing evidence that in the rush to prevent actual and perceived abuses of the asylum system, children and young people are routinely detained, refused access to the protection and services to which they are entitled under international and domestic legislation and liable to be removed to countries ordinarily considered ‘unsafe’. There is also evidence that the way in which the asylum process deals with children’s experiences of conflict reflects a particular conceptualization of ‘childhood’ and a series of assumptions about what it means to be a child in different geographical spaces. This session will focus on children’s experiences of the asylum system (and its associated structures and agencies) and on the processes by which children rebuild and reconstitute reconstituting their identities in the UK. This could include children’s’ experiences of school (and other statutory) services, children’s perceptions, understandings and memories of their home countries, children’s’ relationships with other children and with the wider ‘community’, and the ways in which asylum seeking and refugee children are represented in political discourse and the media. Contributors are particularly encouraged to consider the ways in which the experiences of this particular group of children and young people can be heard and made to matter in the current political and policy context.
Abstracts (max. 200 words) should be sent to h.crawley@swansea.ac.uk by 31st January 2008.
16/01/2008
EU Political Conditionality after Enlargement: Consistency and Effectiveness
Professor Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich)European Research Institute
Seminar Series, Spring Term 2008. Organised by the European Research Institute jointly with POLSIS. Wednesday 16 January, 16:00 – 17:30, Pritchatts Road, Conference Room (G51)
Frank Schimmelfennig is Professor of European Politics and member of the Centre for Comparative and International Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). He holds a doctoral degree in Social Sciences from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and Habilitation degrees in Political Science from the Darmstadt Institute of Technology and the University of Mannheim. His research interests are in the theory of international institutions and European integration and, more specifically, in the enlargement and democratization of European regional organizations.
Professor Schimmelfennig has published, inter alia, in Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, Journal of Common Market Studies and Journal of European Public Policy. His EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe Rules and Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press 2003) received the Best Book Award of the European Union Studies Association for 2003 and 2004. Frank Schimmelfennig is a member of the executive committees of the European Union Studies Association and of the German Political Science Association.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Michelle Pace (ERI); contact: m.pace@bham.ac.uk
15/01/2008
"SPACE = INTERACTION = DISCOURSE" International conference
Plenary speakers:
* John A. Dixon, Lancaster University, UK
* Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
* Elizabeth Keating, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Lorenza Mondada, Université Lumière Lyon2, France
* Ron Scollon, Alaska, USA
Dates: 12th - 14th November 2008
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1st February 2008
Location: Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Web site: http://www.placeme.hum.aau.dk/conf2008/
14/01/2008
THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
University of Illinois, Chicago, 16-18 May 2008
http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com
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.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed Global Studies Journal. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 14 February 2008. Proposals are reviewed within four 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
14/01/2008
The Mobile City Conference
www.themobilecity.nl
"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, www.themobilecity.nl/background
Call for Participation - Workshops: On February 27th two small scale intensive workshops will be held. The first session is about Urban Culture and locative media (with Stephen Graham and Christian Nold), the second session about mobility and new technologies (with Tim Cresswell and Malcolm McCullough). Please send a very brief bio with relevant current and past activities, and short motivation to info@themobilecity.nl. Indicate what you would like to contribute to, and get from the session(s). Only a limited number of places is available. When interest supersedes availability, the organizing committee will select participants. Registration closes at January 31st.
Call for Participation - Project Presentations: During the main conference on February 28th, Keynote speeches will be alternated with short project presentations about locative and/or mobile technologies for artistic purposes, business, research, etc. We are thinking of: locative media art, commercial locative services, pervasive gaming, mobile marketing campaigns, geo-tagging or geo-storytelling, research projects etc. etc. Your presentation will have to fit in 10 minutes, and be as concrete as possible. Your project will also be featured on our website. If you wish to present, please send us an email about your project at info@themobilecity.nl. Please do so before january 31st.
More info, call for participants, and registration: www.themobilecity.nl
12/01/2008
VALENE SMITH PRIZE * 2008 * Second Annual Tourism Research Poster Competition
Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meetings, Memphis, TN March 28-April 1, 2008. Deadline: January 20, 2008
www.sfaa.net for more information
The SfAA is pleased to invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit posters on the applied social science of tourism in competition for the annual Valene Smith Prize. The winners will receive a certificate and cash award ($500 for first prize, $300, for second place, and third place for $250). The prize is named for Valene Smith, who spearheaded the study of tourism and edited the groundbreaking book Hosts And Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism.
04/01/2008
Diasporas, Migration and Identities
Call for Papers - Annual Conference of the RGS-IBG, London27 - 29 August, 2008
Ideas and experiences of landscape and diaspora are closely intertwined. Situated within broader debates about place and displacement, location and mobility, this session will explore the material and imaginative geographies of diaspora landscapes and the ways in which they reflect and influence migratory cultures, politics, identities and practices. Diaspora landscapes range across different forms, contexts and locations and include landscapes of diasporic memory, attachment and belonging; experiences of everyday landscapes in diaspora; imaginative landscapes in diasporic art, literature and material culture; embodied and sensory landscapes in diaspora; and the effects of migration on landscape change at sites of departure, resettlement and return. Exploring both proximate and more distant landscapes on scales from the home, neighbourhood and city to the nation, homeland, and diaspora itself, the session will reflect on the importance of landscape in relation to diasporic identities and connections over space, time and across different generations. Key themes include: - diasporic landscapes of home and homeland- diasporic landscapes of departure, settlement and return- rural and urban landscapes in diaspora- diaspora and the built environment- secular and sacred diaspora landscapes- sensory landscapes of diasporic attachment and belonging- representations of diaspora landscapes in art, literature and material culture- the politics of diaspora landscapes.
Please submit an abstract of up to 200 words to Alison Blunt (A.Blunt@qmul.ac.uk) by 1 February 2008. The final deadline for the submission of paper and sessions abstracts to the RGS-IBG is 22 February 2008.
03/01/2008
NATO Advanced training course on Spatial Planning as a Strategy for Mitigation and Adaptation to Natural Hazards
Grants are available for trainees from NATO partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries.
3-8 march 2008 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
This course addresses the perspective of strengthening the role of mitigation in risk management through spatial planning. Innovative approaches will be brought on how to translate the concepts of sustainability and vulnerability reduction into effective measures in an integrative program which assembles risk analysis and management, and spatial planning, bringing a new rationality.Prevention and reduction of exposure to natural hazards are reviewed as key mitigation strategies. This Advanced Training Course is designed to enable some of the outstanding specialists to share their expertise, and provide opportunities to both young scientists and decision-makers to learn more about these problem areas and the new scientific insights in the matter.
Contact Prof. Dr. Urbano Fra Paleo: upaleo@usc.es
02/01/2008
Migtation and Everyday Matters: Sociality and Materiality
Royal Geographical Society -Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, London 2008, 27-29 August
The recent growth of interest in the everyday social practices and material cultures of mobility is arguably symptomatic of a wider shift within human geography towards the need to make sense of the way in which meta-narratives, such as globalisation and transnationalism, are produced through 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:* The everyday forms of social experience through which migration unfolds asa way of life.* The material cultures that (re)produce forms of everyday living for migrants.* What the 'everyday' might mean when researching migration as well as theme thodological issues it presents. In this way, the session hopes to bring social and cultural geography’s prioritising of social experiences and material culture to bear on investigations of migrant experiences, especially in the everyday realm. It explores the potential of these approaches to produce new, richer understandings of what it means to be a ‘migrant’, suggests alternative ways to appreciate what matters to migrants and, therefore, what should matter to migration 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.
01/01/2008
"Cultures visuelles de l'urbain contemporain" : appel à articles pour Lieux Communs n°11, revue du laboratoire LAUA, à paraître en septembre 2008
Annonce
Y a-t-il une crise figurative de l’urbain, y a-t-il un déficit dès lors que l’on pense à l’imagibilité urbaine contemporaine ? Certes les images abondent, elles saturent même parfois notre imaginaire, mais bien des indices témoignent d’un décalage entre nos références d’une part et les réalités contemporaines d’autre part. Ainsi le géographe M.Lussault décrit-il une culture visuelle mobilisant le modèle cognitif et idéologique de la ville, en décalage avec les arrangements urbains d’aujourd’hui qui, de ce fait, ne font pas bonne figure (L’homme spatial, 2007, p.296). L’imagibilité, cela peut s’entendre comme la capacité, pour des objets, espaces, à se faire « quasi-personnage » : comment et à quelles conditions l’espace peut-il être un opérateur liant les qualités des figures et des récits, comment peut-il apparaître comme un personnage en lien avec les actes et actions urbaines qui à la fois l’instrumentalisent et en procèdent ? Les réflexions de B.Latour sont parmi celles qui ont travaillé cet enjeu. On retiendrait volontiers dans son sillage que l’urbain est certes donné à voir via quelques panoramas mais qu’il est avant tout organisé via des objets qui sont autant de centres de calcul, non intégrés dans notre appareillage et notre culture visuelle ordinaire. D’où le projet qui avait amené le sociologue et la photographe Emilie Hermant à l’édition de Paris, ville invisible. (...)
Coordination du numéro : Anne Bossé, Laurent Devisme
Notes d’intention pour le 15 Janvier 2008 // Textes attendus pour le 15 Avril 2008 // Sortie : septembre 2008
Contact: guillaume [point] ertaud (at) nantes.archi [point] fr
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