News Archive June 2009
29/06/2009
WORLD CONGRESS ON MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (WOCMES)
Barcelona, 19-24 July 2010 - http://wocmes.iemed.org/en/home/
Panel on the Political Economy of New Tourism Mobilities in the MENA Region
Organisers:
Dr. Ala Al-Hamarneh – University of Mainz– Germany
a.al-hamarneh@geo.uni-mainz.de
Professor Kevin Hannam – University of Sunderland– UK
Kevin.hannam@sunderland.ac.uk
Dr Marcus Stephenson – Middlesex University Dubai - UAE
m.stephenson@mdx.ac
Call for Papers
The journal Mobilities states that contemporary “mobilities encompasse both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.”
In the last ten years new trends and dynamics of tourism mobilities in the MENA region have been noticed: the boom of intra-regional tourisms, the dramatic increase in intra-regional FDI in tourism services, neo-liberal urban restructuring of tourism places and spaces, the establishment of various new intraregional transportation infrastructure and so on. While numerous trends have been driven by decisions taken at the political level, others express growing profit-oriented investments strategies. For example Libyan investments in Tunisia and Egypt are seen as a result of the new political orientation of the country.
Beyond investments, the visa-issuing policies and the establishment of new transportation infrastructures reflect new tourism regulatory frameworks that need to be examined. For example, on the one hand, Iranians cannot travel to Egypt and Jordan due to visa restrictions, but they are more than welcome in the UAE, Syria and Iraq. Turkey and Lebanon have established a no-visa regime for visitors from GCC countries and Jordan.
Furthermore, new developments in communications have also elicited new intraregional connections between both migrants and tourists within and outside the MENA region. Such connections are, of course, emphatically gendered as well as structured by different ethnic backgrounds and shared heritages. These heritages bring to the fore the material nature of many tourism mobilities in terms of the movement of everyday things that become important to sustain the political economy of tourism.
This panel thus aims to discuss from a political economy perspective the various new tourism mobilities in the MENA region and seeks submissions that take up the above dimensions in order to explore the diverse economic, communicational, material and migrational experiences of tourism mobilities. To participate please send a short abstract of 300 words by email to one of the organizer(s) by the 15th October 2009. All abstracts will be refereed.
25/06/2009
3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies
Athens, Greece, 31 March-3 April 2010
For further information see the conference website: http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Mediterranean.htm
Deadline to submit: 5th of October 2009.
22/06/2009
"British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Conference"
Exeter, UK, 03-04 September 2009
Fifth annual gathering of graduate students in Middle Eastern Studies to be held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
Papers accepted from all disciplines. Keynote speaker: Professor Carole Hillenbrand.
For further information, contact the conference team at brismes2009@ex.ac.uk; or visit: http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/BRISMES/index.php
17/06/2009
"Tourism, Religion & Culture: Regional Development through Meaningful Tourism Experiences"
First announcement on a new upcoming International Conference and Call for Papers.
To be held 27th -30th October 2009 in LECCE, ITALY
The conference is organized by the University of Salento (Lecce) in cooperation with:
• University of Bologna, Italy,
• University of Haifa, Israel,
• University of Munich, Germany and
• ATLAS
For further details about the Conference, please visit the conference website at http://www.tourismreligionandculture.eu
15/06/2009
Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development: Strategies to Develop Local & Regional Tourism
31st August - 5th September 2009
2009 International Summer School in Geography of Tourism
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12/06/2009
Conference: "La Frontière Méditerranéenne du 15e au 17e siècle. Échanges, circulations et affrontements"
June 17-20, 2009, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
The aim of this international conference is to discover the underlying interactive processes in the Mediterranean in local and global perspective in the period from the 15th to 17th centuries looking especially at geopolitics, the role of intermediaries, ideologies and culture.
The conference is organised by the Equipe Monde Arabe et Méditerranée (CITERES-EMAM) in cooperation with the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR). The Conference program is now available on the website http://citeres.univ-tours.fr//actu/actu53/frontiere.pdf. For further information: albrecht.fuess@univ-tours.fr.
9/06/2009
Seventh International Conference on the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T^2 M)
Lucerne, Switzerland | November 5–8, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
– Energy and Innovation –
The International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and
Mobility (T^2 M) invites proposals for papers to be presented at its
Seventh International Conference to be held at the Verkehrshaus der
Schweiz (Swiss Museum of Transport), Lucerne, Switzerland from November
5th till the 8th , 2009.
The conference is organised by historians from different universities as
well as by the Swiss Museum of Transport. Switzerland’s most visited
museum celebrates its 50^th anniversary in 2009 and is being rebuilt and
expanded for this occasion at the time. This year the conference theme
is ‚Energy and Innovation’. The CfP ask for papers to this thematic
field but it is at the same time open to all subjects in the history of
transport, traffic, and mobility. The language of the conference is English.
Traffic is motion and therefore energy is imperative. It doesn’t matter
what, how or where to one moves – performance, or the conversion of
energy into motion, is always preconditioned. The modernisation of
traffic since the 18^th century can be seen as a process in the course
of which means of transport that relied in the end on solar energy were
replaced by means of transport that relied on nonrenewable energy. Thus,
the focus was shifted from the likes of walking, rowing, sailing,
horseback riding and the usage of animal traction to mechanical means of
transport such as the steam engine, the combustion engine and rocket
propulsion.Where did the question of energy figure in the acceleration
and intensification of traffic? Where in the choice of a means of
transport, in the question ‘street or ship’? How was energy efficiency
for new machines increased? Conversely, how was their environmental
pollution reduced? Why did one choose a specific propulsion? How did the
price of energy affect the price of transport and mobility? How big was
the influence of private traffic and energy business thereby, how great
the weight of governmental politics?
According to economist Joseph Schumpeter, innovations are elementary improvements that shake the economy and the community which means in this case that they produce new means of transport such as train, car or plane. Which economical, social, cultural and political conditions leveraged which means of transport? Innovations never were the result of mere business calculations and engineering efforts. Behind those were always sociocultural factors such as the ideology of freedom, the < appetite for adventure and discovery or the play instinct and surge for fame. Also, new combinations of existing means of transport could lead to innovation.
Proposals which connect the two conference topics (energy and innovation) are eminently favoured: How was the velocity of a means of transport increased without a multiplication of energy consumption? Do new means of transport prevail mainly in times of war and crisis? Could premodern and antiquated means of transport increase their efficiency under the pressure of competition of new modes of drive as for example the fast sailing ships that came up under the pressure of the steam boat around 1850? Is a renaissance of premodern and environmentally sound means of transport imaginable?
Participants are encouraged, though not required, to organize panels on these themes. A panel consists of a chair and normally up to three speakers; no commentator is required. We especially encourage transnational, comparative and transmodal approaches, and welcome proposals exploring theoretical or methodological issues as well as those of a more empirical nature. Relevant contributions are welcome from historians as well as from cultural geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, and other scholars who do not define themselves as historians. We especially invite recent entrants to the profession and doctoral students to submit proposals.
T^2 M 2009 wants to invest more energy into communication. *Posters of all oral presentations will be exhibited in the public area of Switzerland’s most visited museum. *This innovation will contribute to better promotion of the history of transport, traffic and mobility as a scientific discipline and as a public service. Submission of a fully completed poster form (1 page A4) is mandatory for all speakers. Posters will be judged. Poster forms will be made available later on the website of the programme committee.
6/06/2009
Eleventh Session of the Mediterranean Research Meeting
Florence, Italy, 24-27 March 2010
The Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (Italy) has issued a Call for Papers for the eleventh session of the Mediterranean Research Meeting.
Applications must be submitted electronically by 15 July 2009.
All relevant details are available on the Mediterranean Research Meeting web page www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mrm2010/
3/06/2009
New issue of the journal Mobilities
Mobilities: Volume 4 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld
http://www.informaworld.com
The new issue contains the following articles:
Security and Belonging: Reconceptualising Aboriginal Spatial Mobilities
in Yamatji Country, Western Australia,
Author: Sarah Prout
Connected: Exploring the Extraordinary Demand for Telecoms Services in
Post-collapse Somalia,
Author: Greg Collins
Taking Sacred Space out of Place: From Mount Sinai to Mount Getty
Through Travelling Icons,
Author: Veronica della Dora
Repetitive Visiting as a Pre-return Transnational Strategy among
Youthful Trinidadian Returnees,
Authors: Dennis Conway; Robert B. Potter; Godfrey St. Bernard
Driven to Care: The Car, Automobility and Social Work, Author: Harry Ferguson
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