News Archive November 2009
12/11/2009
New Vacancies at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford
(For Further particulars and applications : http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/about-us/vacancies)
Research Officer, EUMAGINE Project (Ref: VG-09-017)
International Migration Instititute, James Martin 21st Century School
Grade 7: Salary £28,839-£35,469
The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a research officer to work on a major collaborative research project “Imagining Europe from the outside” (EUMAGINE) funded by EU’s Seventh Framework (FP7) programme involving 7 different research partners across Europe and Africa. The successful candidate will play a central role in qualitative and quantitative fieldwork in Morocco, prepare project reports and working papers and scientific articles, and will play a coordinating role in the project-wide design and implementation of surveys including sampling as well as the compilation and analysis of survey datasets.
Qualifications include a doctorate in a relevant social science discipline with strong experience with fieldwork, and in particular the design and implementation of surveys, sampling, strong statistical skills, excellent communication and writing skills and good knowledge of French. Based in Oxford, the post requires limited fieldwork travel to Morocco and other project countries. This full-time post is for three years, to start in February 2010.
Further particulars may be obtained from the link below and from the Administrator, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB (tel: 01865 281805, email: recruitment@qeh.ox.ac.uk) Applications must quote reference no.VG-09-017 and enclose a completed cover sheet (available via the link below), a letter addressing the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae, and the names of two referees. The closing date for applications is noon on Friday 20th November 2009.
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Research Assistant, THEMIS Project (Ref: VG-09-016)
International Migration Instititute, James Martin 21st Century School
Grade 6: Salary £25,623 - £30,594
The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a research assistant to work on a major collaborative research project on Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) funded by NORFACE – a partnership of fourteen research councils. This programme will work with academic partners in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway to explore the conditions under which initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in the formation of migration systems. The project will include both the development of theory on the initiation and continuation of migration and also comparative fieldwork following migration from a range of origin countries to European cities.
The successful candidate will assist in the preparation of literature reviews, establishment of a research database, analysis of data, maintaining communications with programme partners, fieldwork and the preparation of publications. Qualifications will include an advanced degree in a relevant social science, excellent communication skills, research experience, preferably including use of surveys and qualitative interview techniques. Based in Oxford, the post may require limited fieldwork travel to the project countries. This full-time post is for four years, to start in January 2010.
Further particulars may be obtained from the link below and from the Administrator, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB (tel: 01865 281805, email:recruitment@qeh.ox.ac.uk) Applications must quote reference no.VG-09-016 and enclose a completed cover sheet (available from the link below), a letter addressing the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae, and the names of two referees. The closing date for applications is noon on Thursday 12th November.
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Part-time Project Co-ordinator, THEMIS Project
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INSTITUTE
JAMES MARTIN 21ST CENTURY SCHOOL
Grade 5: Salary £22,765 – £27,183 p.a. pro rata
The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a part-time project co-ordinator to work on a major collaborative research project on Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) funded by NORFACE. This programme will work with partners in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway to explore the conditions under which initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in the formation of migration systems.
The successful candidate will help in co-ordinating IMI’s work on
the project, including collaboration with the project partners, liaison
between IMI and the funders and communicating the research results to
a wide range of stakeholders including academics, policy makers and the
general public. The post-holder will provide general administrative and
financial support for the project including assisting with the preparation
of narrative and financial reports on the project. The post is for 19
hours a week for four years to start in January 2010.
Applicants should have a high degree of computer literacy including familiarity with website content management systems, relevant work experience, proven numeracy skills preferably with experience of working with budgets, excellent writing skills, proven, relevant communication ability and the ability to prioritise effectively.
Further particulars may be obtained from the link below and from the Administrator,
Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB (tel: 01865 281805,
email: recruitment@qeh.ox.ac.uk) Applications must quote reference no.VG-09-019
and enclose a completed cover sheet (available from the link below), a
letter addressing the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae, and the
names of two referees. The closing date for applications is noon on Friday
13 November 2009.
12/11/2009
Fifth International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region Red Sea V: "Navigated spaces, connected places"
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 16-19 Sept. 2010
The MARES Project at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, is delighted to host the tenth anniversary conference of the Red Sea Project series, founded by the Society for Arabian Studies. The conference will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the IAIS and city of Exeter, and will coincide with a Dhow Exhibition to be held at the Institute.
Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500 words
to the Organising Committee on the archaeology, anthropology, ethnography,
history and language of the peoples of the Red Sea region from the earliest
times to the present day. The organisers particularly encourage papers
addressing movement, navigation and land/seascape on the Red Sea, including:
* Maritime networks, seafaring, navigation and ports.
* Boatbuilding traditions and technologies.
* Trade and material contact across the sea.
* Sacred space and pilgrimage.
* Identity among maritime communities.
Please send all abstracts and proposals to redseav@exeter.ac.uk before 1 March 2010. The organising committee comprises Prof Dionisius Agius, Dr John Cooper, Dr Chiara Zazzaro, Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Lucy Semaan and Ms Beata Faracik. For further information: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/mares/conferences.htm
11/11/2009
Call for Articles for Journal "Encounters" on "The Middle East and Globalization in the 21th Century"
Guest Editors, Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today.
Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors.
Please submit your paper (5,000 to 10,000 words) electronically in MS
Word format, font size 12 to encounters@zu.ac.ae by December 15, 2009.
http://encounters.zu.ac.ae/
11/11/2009
Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political,and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century
November 9 - 13, 2009
Elizabeth Chilton and Neil Silberman, Co-organizers
The UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society is pleased to announcethis international workshop to take place over five days at the campuses ofUMass Amherst, Massachusetts, and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NewYork. The public portion of the workshop will be held at UMass Amherst onNovember 9-10. There will then be a roundtable for invited participants andthe Bard campus community on November 12-13.
http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/workshop.html
10/11/2009
Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy andinstitutional frameworks
Fifth annual Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability
Munich Re Foundation and United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security.
The theme of 2010 Summer Academy is"Protecting environmental migrants:
creating new policy andinstitutional frameworks". We invite qualified
Ph.D, LLM and SJD students who have an interdisciplinary focus and are
working on research or dissertations related to humanitarian and human
rights law, migration studies,economics and labor migration, environmental
studies, natural disasters,human security, and public health to apply
for the 2010 Summer Academy.Applications are required to be submitted
online at www.ehs.unu.edu nolater than January 15, 2010. For more information
please refer to the attached announcement or ourwebsite www.ehs.unu.edu
09/11/2009
War and the Body
Interdisciplinary one day conference
Centre for European & International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth and the War and Media Network
Friday June 11th 2010 Imperial War Museum, London UK. War is fundamentally embodied, ?he most radically embodying event in which human beings ever collectively participate?(Scarry, 1985: 71). War is enacted and experienced through the surveillance, classification, wounding, rape, mutilation, torture, death and display of human bodies. Diverse bodies are mobilized, disciplined, drilled, augmented, sacrificed, decorated, produced in war. The history of war is one of corporeal destruction and reconstruction, from the conversion of civilian bodies for military service to the battle for hearts and minds. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means, but politics incarnate. War and the Body invites proposals that seek to explore the embodied history of war as well as recent transformations in warfare. Through what practices, techniques and metaphors has war historically occupied various bodies? From advanced warfighters to private military contractors, child soldiering to ethnic cleansing, is war assuming predatory new embodied formations? To what extent is war deterritorialized and brought home through bodily practices such as militarized leisure and fashion, security and surveillant assemblages? How do bodies bear witness to the histories and transformative power of war through representations of bodily violence and corporeal memorializations? Recognizing the growing interest in the embodiment of human life and social action across the humanities and social sciences, War and the Body aims to bring together international scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives who share a common thematic concern with the intertwining of war and the body. As such, it acknowledges the importance of the body as an increasingly productive site for rethinking and retooling the historical and sociological imaginations. Empirical analyses and theoretical contributions are welcome. Anticipated questions and topics may include, but are not limited to: ?How are military principles and values inculcated, and resisted, in civilian bodies? ?How are war and political violence lived and experienced through the body? ?What bodies does war traverse, inscribe, produce??Bodies and weaponry?War and human vulnerability ?Corporeal aftermaths, memorializations and mourning?Representing war and the body: cinema, literature, documentary, photography, new media?Cultural histories of war and embodiment?The body politic: wounded nations, national traumas?The militarization of human sensation
Please send abstracts of proposed papers (max 500 words), together with brief biographical details by 31st December 2009 to: kevin.mcsorley@port.ac.uk. All proposals are subject to a review process. Selected papers from the conference will be published as a themed issue of a relevant journal or edited collection.
For more information please visit:http://www.warandmedia.org/warandbody/ Organizing CommitteeKevin McSorley, University of Portsmouth (kevin.mcsorley@port.ac.uk) Gavin Schaffer, University of Portsmouth (gavin.schaffer@port.ac.uk)Sarah Maltby, City University, London (sarah.maltby.1@city.ac.uk)
This conference is supported by the Centre for European & International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth (http://www.port.ac.uk/research/ceisr) and the War and Media Network (http://www.warandmedia.org/)
07/11/2009
Communautés migrantes et espace urbain dans les ports de la Méditerranée, XVIIe-XIXe siècle
Dixième conférence internationale d'histoire urbaine, Gand,
1er-4 septembre 2010
Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports, 17th-19th
centuries
Tenth International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September
2010
Résumé
Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards
a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority
groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins.
Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical
discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis,
that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under
study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go”
views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in
the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th
centuries).
Annonce
10th International Conference on urban History, Ghent 1st-4th September
2010
Main session
"Migrant Communities and Urban Space in the Mediterranean ports,
17th-19th centuries"
Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study.
This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries). To this effect, the session will address the key issue of “minority spaces”, namely of urban spaces that were socially, architecturally or culturally formed and shaped by the presence of migrants and foreigners. It will also consider the way such spaces were perceived by the local population, as well as the role played by urban space as a stake within broader patterns of social coexistence or exclusion.
Following the idea that routes of commerce were also the major routes of emigration, the session will focus primarily on Mediterranean port-cities, but will also consider cities located on other types of commercial crossroads. Conceived as minorities, foreigners’ groups may include the so-called Diaspora groups such as the Jews, the Greeks, and the Armenians, but also the other “nations”.
Favoring principally papers with a comparative approach, the session aims to approach the theme of “migrant spaces” from the point of view of both the community studies and the urban studies. Comparison can in turn be approached both on a theoretical level and through different case studies.
Session Organizers
Dr. Heleni Porfyriou (Senior Researcher, CNR-Italian National Research
Council- ICVBC, Rome, Italy) helpor1@yahoo.it , h.porfyriou@icvbc.cnr.it
Dr. Athanasios Gekas (Lecturer, Manchester University, UK) a.gekas@manchester.ac.uk
Mathieu Grenet (PhD Candidate, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy)
mathieu.grenet@eui.eu
Deadline
Paper proposals have to be submitted on the conference website (www.eauh2010.ugent.be/registration)
between 1 October and 1 December 2009. Session organizers have to decide
which papers they accept, and they should inform the speakers and the
organizing committee about their decision (deadline: 1 February 2010).
In April 2010 the final program will be available on the website.
Blog
http://panelmigrantspaceghent2010.blogspot.com/
05/11/2009
Workshop "The Impact of Migration on Gulf Development and Stability" during Gulf Research Meeting 2010
Cambridge University, UK, 7-10 July 2010
This workshop is organised by Philippe Fargues and Nasra Shah. Deadline for papers 15 December 2009.
Further information on the workshop and Migration in the Gulf at http://grcevent.net/cambridge/pdf/workshop12_proposal.pdf
Information on the Gulf Research Meeting 2010 at http://grcevent.net/cambridge/index.php
04/11/2009
Call for proposals for the Special Issue War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction ( Autumn 2010)
Wars, conflicts and commemoration occupy the minds of today's users of new media across the globe, especially those in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe: from digital accounts of 'wars on terror' to virtual museums of political terror under communism; from cyberwars against websites and databases to computer war games; from on-line anti-war organising to virtual memorials to WWII soldiers; from photo-and video- reporting on warfare in Kosovo, Chechnya, Gaza or Georgia to flash-mobs of political protest or racist incitement; from digitalised personal memories and family histories to YouTube clips featuring victorious presidential speeches.
The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways wars and conflicts are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as well as in other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital broadcasting and computer games. What is the role of new media in understanding, representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting) war and terror? What is the status of testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of digital reproduction? What practices of memory do new information and communication technologies entail? What structures of feeling operate in on-line reports and debates around military operations and human suffering? How can digital mediations of conflict bring people and communities together, while tearing others apart? And lastly, how can the embodied, physical violence intensify in digital interactions, and how can it be resisted?
This special issue of Digital Icons aims to create a forum for scholars working in the fields of war, conflict, commemoration, digital media, and new media, while simultaneously addressing linguistic, cultural, historical and political aspects of new media use in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. We invite original articles that focus on one or more countries of the region, or on their diasporas. We also welcome theoretical essays, reflection by media practitioners on their own practices, contributions from artists and authors, and reviews of relevant projects, books and events.
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2010
Anticipated date of publication: October 2010
Please contact Adi Kuntsman warconflictcommemoration@googlemail.com
or DI editors editor@digitalicons.org to discuss your submission.
When submitting your work, please include the following information:
a biographical statement (100-120 words in English) and an abstract/description
of the submission (or the first paragraph of the essay if appropriate)
(about 150 words in English).
02/11/2009
Tourisme et sociétés
Collectif (sous la direction de Gilles Ferréol, Anne-Marie Mamontoff)
Collection Proximités Sociologie
Editions Eme & Intercommunications
Avril 2009 - 212 pages
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Cet ouvrage collectif constitue les actes enrichis d’un colloque international qui s’est tenu à Perpignan les 23 et 24 octobre 2008 sur le thème très général de la relation entre tourisme, loisirs et sociétés.
Au sommaire
1. Éléments de cadrage
– Un essai socio-historique sur les loisirs, par Rudolf Rezsohazy
– Les Bronzés 1, 2 et 3 : une représentation des pratiques
touristiques des classes aisées dans le cinéma populaire
français, par Michel Cadé
– Les démarches qualité mises en œuvre par les
pouvoirs publics dans le secteur du tourisme. De la polysémie du
concept aux pratiques hétéogènes, par Jérémy
Dagnies
2. Dynamiques urbaines, environnement et risques
– Tourisme et gestion des risques. Le rôle des croyances dans
les dispositifs de sécurité, par Anne-Marie Mamontoff
– Villes, tourisme et conflits d’usage dans les quartiers
historiques réhabilités de Strasbourg et de Valparaiso,
par Maurie Blanc et Maximiliano Soto Sepulveda
– Le tourisme, “reflet, antidote et imaginaire” de la
ville, par Jean-Michel Hoerner
3. Loisirs et modes de vie
– Le voyage qui guérit, par Michel Valière
– En voyageant dans le topos d’Hermès. Représentations
et métaphores culturelles, par Antigone Moutchouris
– Système culturel localisé et gestion des stations
touristiques, par Jean Corneloup
4. Études de cas
– Un portrait socio-statistique des “champions du monde”
des vacances, par Gilles Caire
– Le camping au GCU (Groupement des campeurs universitaires). Genèse
et actualité d’une utopie, par Martine Lefeuvre-Déotte
– Le tourisme à la Réunion, un développement
contrarié, par Philippe Guillot
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