News Archive November 2008
8/11/2008
Séminaires mobilités de loisir - Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques
Saskia Cousin, anthropologue, IIAC-LAIOS / CITERES, mcf à l’Univ. François-Rabelais | Sylvain Pattieu, historien, EA 1571 (Université Paris 8)
Bertrand Réau, sociologue, CRIS / CSE, mcf à l’Université de Lyon-I | 1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h (salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, sauf le 27/11, en salle 007) | du 16 octobre au 18 juin | Renseignements : saskia.cousin@univ-tours.fr
Pour la quatrième année, nous poursuivons notre exploration des recherches menées sur le tourisme. Il s’agira toujours croiser les terrains et les approches disciplinaires, en donnant cette année une place plus importante aux historiens et aux géographes. Nous avons également voulu faire mieux connaître les recherches menées à l’étranger, tant du point de vue des méthodes et des concepts, qu’en termes d’organisation scientifique. 6 chercheurs nous aideront à faire le point sur ce sujet. Comme chaque année, nous alternerons les interventions de chercheurs confirmés et de doctorants. Les séances seront organisées autour de la présentation d’un ou de deux intervenant (s), suivie d’une mise en perspective avec un discutant, et d’une discussion avec les participants. Ce séminaire est associé au LAIOS. Il est ouvert à toutes les personnes qui s’intéressent à la recherche sur le tourisme et les mobilités de loisirs.
27 novembre : Mathis Stock, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Tourisme, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion (Suisse) : « Défis de connaissance scientifique sur le tourisme » | 4 décembre : Anne Gaugue, Université de Clermont-Ferrand : « La navigation de plaisance au long cours » | 18 décembre : Emmanuel Peyvel, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis /ENS-LSH Lyon : « Tourisme, développement et construction nationale au Vietnam » | 15 janvier : Eric Boutroy, Université de Lyon 1, CRIS/IDEMEC : « L’ailleurs et l’altitude. Une ethnologie du tourisme d’aventure en Himalaya » | 29 janvier : Bertrand Réau, Université de Lyon 1, CRIS/CSE : « Le travail de recrutement dans une multinationale du loisir » | 5 février : Pascal Ory, Université de Paris 1 : « Retour sur l'invention du bronzage » | 5 mars : Jennifer Bidet, Université de Lyon 2: « Vacances au bled ? Lieux de résidence et lieux de vacances de familles immigrées d'origine algérienne » | - Muriel Girard, Université François-Rabelais : « Mise en scène du patrimoine immatériel : l'exemple de l'"artisanat traditionnel" à Fès, Istanbul et Alep » | 19 mars : Marion Fontaine, docteur en histoire : « De la Mine à la mer : tourisme, travail et relations sociales au sein des Houillères Nationales » | - Aurélien Gentil, Université de Lyon 2 : « Trajectoires et processus de socialisation des salariés saisonniers mobiles du tourisme » | 9 avril : Johan Vincent, Observatoire du patrimoine maritime (Université de Bretagne-Occidentale) et CERHIO (Université de Bretagne-Sud): « Réussir une saison balnéaire. Stratégies et politiques d’aménagement des stations balnéaires bretonnes et vendéennes (fin 19e -début 20e) » | - Sylvain Pattieu, Université Paris 8 : « Etat de la recherche sur le tourisme populaire » | 7 mai : Simone Abram, Université de Leeds, CTCC (Royaume-Uni) : « Movement, Nature and Nationalism: understanding the significance of holiday homes ». | - Tim Neal, Université de Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) : « The perfect place : situating British migrants in rural France » | 4 juin : Pal Nyiri, Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) : « Tourism and Modernity in China » | 18 juin : Maria Gravari-Barbas, Université de Paris 1, EIREST : « Temps et espaces de l’événement urbain ».
7/11/2008
8th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)
Collingwood College, Durham University, UK, 10–13 July 2009
The conference aims to explore the impact of travellers in, to, and from the Near East and Egypt from earliest times until the middle of the twentieth century.
Contributions are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines, and it is envisaged that the conference will cover many fascinating themes, including but not limited to the following: Travellers’ Experiences: caravanserai, hotels and encampments; travel by rail in the Near East; travel guides routes and seaways; dahabiyyah and other boats | Travellers in Specific Periods: Classical; Mediaeval; 18h century; early twentieth century | Travellers in Specific Locations: in the Ottoman Balkans and Greece; in Egypt and around the Red Sea; on the rivers of Mesopotamia; through ‘Kurdistan’; to the Arabian Peninsula; in deserts; in specific towns in the region; on Grand Tour to Constantinople; Smyrna; Arab travellers en route to and from Europe; guidebooks before 1880 | Travellers' Observations of: topography – archaeology – popular culture–– scientific topics (natural history, science, medicine etc.) – languages, literature and dialects | Travel and Religion: Pilgrimage and Pilgrims – Travellers’ understanding of Islam – Experience of the Hajj; Missionary travellers – Travels of Biblical Scholars/Historians – monasteries, monks and hermits.
Contributions can be presented either as papers, which will not exceed 25-minutes duration. The language of the conference will be English. Expressions of interest and inquiries can be directed to Mrs Janet C.M. Starkey (address below). Abstracts for consideration should be submitted to Janet Starkey by 28 February 2009. Programme details and booking forms will be available on the ASTENE website early in 2009.
Please send titles, abstracts, ideas for panels to Mrs Janet C.M. Starkey, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)191 334 1414; Fax: +44 (0)191 334 3421; Email: j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk
6/11/2008
9th International Conference: „Migration, Politics, and Work“
Trier/Germany and Dudelange/Luxembourg | 25 - 27 June 2009
Organizers: Institute for Regional and Migration Research (IRM) (Trier, Germany), Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines (Dudelange, Luxembourg), Institute of Integration and Participation at the School for Social Work (FHNW) (Olten, Switzerland)
Invitation to submit a proposal dealing with “Migration, Politics, and Work” in reference to one of the following topics. Please indicate the topic to which your proposal refers: Migration and global market for labor | Historical development of labor migration | Labor migration in exhibitions and museums | Migrational and labor market politics in Europe | Undocumented labor migrants in Europe – social, legal, and economic aspects | Feminization of migration and labor migration | Self-organization of labor migrants | Migration and labor unions | Migration and the social state.
If you are interested in giving a speech, we kindly ask you to submit a short abstract (max. of 500 words) with the title of your speech, a short biography, and contact details (e-mail, mobile/telephone, and postal address). Deadline for proposals: 21st December 2008
Conference languages: German and English. Information and contact: www.irm-trier.de; Tagung2009@irm-trier.de
5/11/2008
Job Advert | Syracuse University | Department of Geography | Assistant Professor
NEW YORK, SYRACUSE, 13244. The Department of Geography at Syracuse University seeks to hire a human geographer at the Assistant Professor rank. This is a tenure track appointment. PhD required at time of appointment.
We seek a scholar who takes a political economy approach to geography. Candidates should have an empirical focus on areas such as the following: economic restructuring, gender, geopolitics, globalization, labor, law, or race. Besides contributing to the Department's research and teaching cluster in Political Economy, we seek a scholar who might also contribute to departmental research efforts in Culture, Justice, and Urban Space; Gender, Identity, and Citizenship; or Globalization and Regional Development. Regional specialization is open, but we would especially welcome applications from scholars of the Middle East, Africa, or Asia. Opportunities for interdisciplinary research within the Maxwell School include the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, the Program on the Analysis of Conflict, the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, the Middle East, East Asia, and South Asia Programs, and others. The Department maintains strong collaborative links with scholars in African American Studies, Anthropology, LGBT Studies, International Relations, Political Science, Sociology, and Women's and Gender Studies. With its Community Geography Project and other initiatives the Department is also a leader in the University's emphasis on publicly-engaged scholarship; applications from scholars emphasizing socially-relevant and engaged research are therefore welcome.
The Department strongly values excellence in teaching, and the successful candidate will be expected to teach both undergraduate and graduate courses. Faculty members normally teach two courses per semester.
The Maxwell School is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and minorities. For consideration, a candidate must complete an online faculty application at www.sujobopps.com <http://www.sujobopps.com> and attach a letter of application, Curriculum Vitae, statements about the applicant's research program and teaching interests, a statement of teaching philosophy, writing samples and or list of professional references. In addition, three letters of recommendation and any writing samples the applicant wishes to provide should be sent directly to:
Search Committee | Department of Geography | The Maxwell School of Syracuse University | 144 Eggers Hall | Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY 13244
Application deadline: January 15, 2009
4/11/2008
Film ‘Yemen: Refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden’ now available on the Forced Migration Online website
The film ‘Yemen: Refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden’ is now available to view on the Forced Migration Online website.
This documentary film was produced by Médecins Sans Frontières, Spain and reports how thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty.
Yemen: Refugees crossing the Gulf of Aden: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/yemen/
More videos can be viewed at:
http://forcedmigration.org/video/
3/11/2008
Annoucement: Publication of monograph on video essays - URSULA BIEMANN MISSION REPORTS Artistic Practice in the Field Video Works 1998-2008
This substantial monograph, on and around Ursula Biemann's practice, provides an opportunity to engage with more than a decade of her video art production and writing. Through a range of essays by cultural theorists, as well as texts by the artist herself and generous visual documentation, this book surveys the numerous artistic and visual research projects Biemann has conducted throughout the contested trans-national territories of the world. She has consistently developed a unique aesthetic language with which to explore her concerns with the gendered concept of borders and the contemporary forms of migration that they produce. Her video essays offer a critique of the visual technologies being advanced for the acceleration, and control, of global mobility, confounding the prevailing representations to reveal a more complex human geography of collateral effects and unrecorded movements on the ground.
Texts by Ursula Biemann on conceptualising artistic fieldwork discussing her videos essays from Performing the Border (1999) to X-Mission (2008); and essays by Angela Dimitrakaki Materialist Feminism for the Twenty-First Century: The Video Essays of Ursula Biemann, Wendy S. Hesford Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy: The Geopolitics of Rhetorical Identification, Uta Staiger Visualizing the citizenship gap: EU borders and migration in cultural productions, Brian Holmes Extradisciplinary Investigations. Towards a New Critique of Institutions, Jean-Pierre Rehm Political Typographies, Jörg Huber Getting to the Bottom of Vision: Theory of Images - Images of Theory, The Significance of Ursula Biemann's Video Work for a Theory of Culture, T.J. Demos Sahara Chronicle: Video's Migrant Geography.
Ursula Biemann, Jan-Erik Lundström eds.
Bildmuseet Umea/Arnolfini Bristol publs
distributed by Cornerhouse Publishers
200 pages, 80 in color, english
www.cornerhouse.org/books/isbn/9780907738916
publications@cornerhouse.org
ISBN 978 0 907738 91 6
bookshop@arnolfini.org.uk
released in November 2008
http://www.geobodies.org/03_books_and_texts/2008_mission_reports/
2/11/2008
Post-Doctoral Fellow - Center for International and Regional Studies - Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Location: Doha, State of Qatar
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar's Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) is pleased to announce an opening for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The fellowship will support a recent PhD recipient in all disciplines working on the area of the Middle East with priority to those working on the Gulf. The Fellowship is for a period of one academic year starting in the Fall 2009 semester. The Fellow is expected to devote this time to turning his/her dissertation into a book manuscript for publication.
Applicants must have completed a PhD between August 1, 2006 and August 31, 2009. The fellowship requires residence at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. The Fellow will be given library privileges at Georgetown University and office space at CIRS, and is expected to participate fully in the academic and intellectual life of the Center, including delivering occasional lectures at CIRS and taking part in the Center's academic seminars and conferences. Depending on needs and interests, the Fellow may be invited to teach one course as well.
SFS-Qatar, which is located in Education City in Doha, Qatar, is a branch of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and offers a four-year undergraduate curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) degree identical to that offered on the Main Campus of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Each year, the SFS-Qatar admits a class of approximately 50 students, primarily from the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, who take courses on and will graduate from the Doha campus. The students and facilities of the SFS-Qatar are outstanding. For more information, visit http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/. SFS-Qatar employees join a community of scholars in Education City who teach in the other branch campuses of Carnegie-Mellon University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northwestern University. Compensation, benefits and other terms of employment are highly competitive.
Review of applications begins December 15, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, and a synopsis of their PhD dissertation. Also, candidates should provide a statement outlining the precise nature of their intended work during the period of the fellowship, the final product's significance in terms of the discipline and the body of knowledge, and when the completion of the project for publication may be expected. Please submit application materials electronically to cirspositions@georgetown.edu. Applications or supporting materials may be sent as well to Naila Sherman, CIRS Associate Director, 3300 Whitehaven Street, NW, Suite 2100, Washington, DC 20007-2401.
Georgetown University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
1/11/2008
Seminar series - Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques
Saskia Cousin, anthropologue, IIAC-LAIOS / CITERES, mcf à l’Univ. François-Rabelais | Sylvain Pattieu, historien, EA 1571 (Université Paris 8).
Bertrand Réau, sociologue, CRIS / CSE, mcf à l’Université de Lyon-I | 1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h (salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, sauf le 27/11, en salle 007), du 16 octobre au 18 juin. Renseignements : saskia.cousin@univ-tours.fr
Pour la quatrième année, nous poursuivons notre exploration des recherches menées sur le tourisme. Il s’agira toujours croiser les terrains et les approches disciplinaires, en donnant cette année une place plus importante aux historiens et aux géographes. Nous avons également voulu faire mieux connaître les recherches menées à l’étranger, tant du point de vue des méthodes et des concepts, qu’en termes d’organisation scientifique. 6 chercheurs nous aideront à faire le point sur ce sujet. Comme chaque année, nous alternerons les interventions de chercheurs confirmés et de doctorants. Les séances seront organisées autour de la présentation d’un ou de deux intervenant (s), suivie d’une mise en perspective avec un discutant, et d’une discussion avec les participants. Ce séminaire est associé au LAIOS. Il est ouvert à toutes les personnes qui s’intéressent à la recherche sur le tourisme et les mobilités de loisirs.
16 octobre : Nelson Graburn, Université de Californie (Berkeley USA) : « The Place of the Study of Tourism in Contemporary Anthropology » | 6 novembre : David Picard, Center For Tourism and Cultural Change, Université de Leeds (Royaume-Uni) : « Tourisme, Magie, Modernité » | 27 novembre : Mathis Stock, Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur le Tourisme, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion (Suisse) : « Défis de connaissance scientifique sur le tourisme » | 4 décembre : Anne Gaugue, Université de Clermont-Ferrand : « La navigation de plaisance au long cours » | 18 décembre : Emmanuel Peyvel, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis /ENS-LSH Lyon : « Tourisme, développement et construction nationale au Vietnam » | 15 janvier : Eric Boutroy, Université de Lyon 1, CRIS/IDEMEC : « L’ailleurs et l’altitude. Une ethnologie du tourisme d’aventure en Himalaya » | 29 janvier : Bertrand Réau, Université de Lyon 1, CRIS/CSE : « Le travail de recrutement dans une multinationale du loisir » | 5 février : Pascal Ory, Université de Paris 1 : « Retour sur l'invention du bronzage » | 5 mars : Jennifer Bidet, Université de Lyon 2: « Vacances au bled ? Lieux de résidence et lieux de vacances de familles immigrées d'origine algérienne » | - Muriel Girard, Université François-Rabelais : « Mise en scène du patrimoine immatériel : l'exemple de l'"artisanat traditionnel" à Fès, Istanbul et Alep » | 19 mars : Marion Fontaine, docteur en histoire : « De la Mine à la mer : tourisme, travail et relations sociales au sein des Houillères Nationales » | - Aurélien Gentil, Université de Lyon 2 : « Trajectoires et processus de socialisation des salariés saisonniers mobiles du tourisme » | 9 avril : Johan Vincent, Observatoire du patrimoine maritime (Université de Bretagne-Occidentale) et CERHIO (Université de Bretagne-Sud): « Réussir une saison balnéaire. Stratégies et politiques d’aménagement des stations balnéaires bretonnes et vendéennes (fin 19e -début 20e) » | - Sylvain Pattieu, Université Paris 8 : « Etat de la recherche sur le tourisme populaire » | 7 mai : Simone Abram, Université de Leeds, CTCC (Royaume-Uni) : « Movement, Nature and Nationalism: understanding the significance of holiday homes ». | - Tim Neal, Université de Sheffield (Royaume-Uni) : « The perfect place : situating British migrants in rural France » | 4 juin : Pal Nyiri, Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) : « Tourism and Modernity in China » | 18 juin : Maria Gravari-Barbas, Université de Paris 1, EIREST : « Temps et espaces de l’événement urbain ».
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