News Archive September 2009
25/9/2009
Special Issue: Love, Sexuality and Migration edited by Russell King and Nicola Mai
This new issue contains the following articles:
Introduction
Love, Sexuality and Migration: Mapping the Issue(s), Pages 295 - 307
Authors: Nicola Mai; Russell King
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195318
Original Articles
Bodies That (Don’t) Matter: Desire, Eroticism and Melancholia in
Pakistani
Labour Migration, Pages 309 - 327
Author: Ali Nobil Ahmad
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195359
Not Allowed to Love? Sri Lankan Maids in Lebanon, Pages 329 - 347
Author: Nayla Moukarbel
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195409
Between Minor and Errant Mobility: The Relation Between Psychological
Dynamics and Migration Patterns of Young Men Selling Sex in the EU, Pages
349 - 366
Author: Nicola Mai
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195425
The Mother, the Daughter, and the Cow: Venezuelan Transformistas ’
Migration
to Europe, Pages 367 - 387
Author: Katrin Vogel
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195466
Pathos of Love in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica: Emotion, Travel and Migration,
Pages 389 - 405
Author: Susan Frohlick
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195524
Reading Beyond the Love Lines: Examining Cuban Jineteras ’ Discourses
of
Love for Europeans, Pages 407 - 426
Author: Dina de Sousa e. Santos
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195565
Geographies of the Heart in Transnational Spaces: Love and the Intimate
Lives of British Migrants in Dubai, Pages 427 - 445
Author: Katie Walsh
DOI: 10.1080/17450100903195656
25/9/2009
Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes
Call for Papers: Ad-hoc Session Proposal, ISA World Congress of Sociology
11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg
Peak oil and climate change have brought to the fore the centrality of mobility to social and economic life and the urgent pressures to develop alternative mobilities. Hosting half the world’s population, cities are increasingly important actors in achieving low carbon futures and privileged sites where the moral dilemmas of modern techno-utopias are being rehearsed. In the context of transport, sustainable futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Masdar city in Abu Dhabi or Dongtan ecocity in China and present and distopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters.
We welcome contributions covering the following and related aspects of
urban future mobilities:
i. mobilities futures being created by current techno-social developments;
ii. mobilities futures are being envisioned by relevant political actors and what possible shortcomings do they entail from a sociological perspective;
iii. conflicts between ecological restrictions and social needs concerning transportation;
iv. the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes;
v. the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice;
vi. social and cultural forms implied in visions of future mobilities.
Please email your paper proposal including title, short description (200
words), your name, co-authors, email address and affiliation before 1
December 2009 to both session organisers j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk and
katharina.manderscheid@unilu.ch
27/9/2009
Curs "Política i conflictes a la Mediterrània"
Dirigit per Antoni Segura amb el patrocini de l'IEMed.
Barcelona, 21,22 i 23 d'octubre de 2009?
Els conflictes i l'evolució política de la Mediterrània,
amb especial èmfasi en els els projectes de reforma o transició
política. També abordarà les polítiques euromediterrànies
i la Unió per la Mediterrània, els fluxos migratoris, els
sistemes de seguretat i de defensa, la cooperació i la solidaritat
a la regió, i la ineficàcia de l’ús de la força
en la resolució de conflictes.
Sota el patrocini de l'IEMed, el curs està dirigit per Antoni Segura, catedràtic d'Història Contemporània de la Universitat de Barcelona i coordinat per Lurdes Vidal, responsable de Món Àrab i Mediterrani de l'IEMed.
Lloc
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Matrícula i beques
C/ Montalegre, 5 • 08001 Barcelona
145.00€ (90.00€ estudiants universitaris) Codi 9053
Matrícula online a www.cuimpb.cat
L'IEMed ofereix 15 beques per fer el curs. Cal enviar nom i cognoms, dni, e-mail i telèfon a alandaburu@iemed.org.
Programa
www.iemed.org/documents/21_10_09cursCUIMPB.pdf
Més informació:
CUIMPB - Centre Ernest Lluch, Secretaria d’Alumnes
C/ Ferlandina, 49 • 08001 Barcelona
Tel. 933 017 555 / 933 020 634
info@cuimpb.cat / www.cuimpb.cat
26/9/2009
TTRI Research Seminar -'Pilgrims to Pictures: The Italian Renaissance and the Evolution of the Grand Tour'
Thursday 15th October 2009, 3pm-5pm
Room A02 Amenities Building, Jubilee Campus
Professor Edward Chaney. 'Pilgrims to Pictures: The Italian Renaissance
and the Evolution of the Grand Tour'.
Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine Art at Southampton Solent University.
He gained his PhD at the Warburg Institute in London before teaching in
Italy at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University
of Pisa. From 1985 to 1990 he was Shuffrey Research Fellow in Architectural
History at Lincoln College Oxford. He has since worked for English Heritage
and is the author of many well-received publications including the highly-praised
book “The Evolution of the Grand Tour”.
There will be an opportunity to network with refreshments after the Seminar
in the Aspire Cafe
Please email your response to deborah.timmermans@nottingham.ac.uk
26/9/2009
Global Cities Now? Current Perspectives in 'Global Urban Studies'
Urban Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Annual ConferenceThursday
5th - Friday 6th November 2009, Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK.
The Call for Papers is now closed, and a stimulating programme has beenproduced. There are still some places available to attend the Conference. Registration closes on Friday 9 October. This year's UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchersworking on, and contributing to debates about,the broad theme ofglobalization and the city. Contributions from across the rangeof research on cities in globalization reflect critical discussions, and bringtogether the wide variety of work being undertaken.
Keynote Speakers are: Professor Peter Taylor (Loughborough) Professor Ian Gordon (LSE) Professor Andrew Leyshon (Nottingham) Professor Wendy Larner (Bristol)
The cost of attending the event is: £50 waged; £25 unwaged/students.Deadline
for Registration is 9 October 2009. Please note that the REGISTRATION
FORM is available from the UGRG website: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk
click on '2009 Event' and scroll to the bottom. (Type UGRG into a search
engine if this link does not work!)
25/9/2009
Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes
Call for Papers: Ad-hoc Session Proposal, ISA World Congress of Sociology
11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg
Peak oil and climate change have brought to the fore the centrality of mobility to social and economic life and the urgent pressures to develop alternative mobilities. Hosting half the world’s population, cities are increasingly important actors in achieving low carbon futures and privileged sites where the moral dilemmas of modern techno-utopias are being rehearsed. In the context of transport, sustainable futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Masdar city in Abu Dhabi or Dongtan ecocity in China and present and distopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters.
We welcome contributions covering the following and related aspects of
urban future mobilities:
i. mobilities futures being created by current techno-social developments;
ii. mobilities futures are being envisioned by relevant political actors and what possible shortcomings do they entail from a sociological perspective;
iii. conflicts between ecological restrictions and social needs concerning transportation;
iv. the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes;
v. the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice;
vi. social and cultural forms implied in visions of future mobilities.
Please email your paper proposal including title, short description (200
words), your name, co-authors, email address and affiliation before 1
December 2009 to both session organisers j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk and
katharina.manderscheid@unilu.ch
29/9/2009
La dimension spatiale des ressources sociales : mobilité - capital d’autochtonie
Journée d’études organisée par Fabrice Ripoll,
Sylvie Tissot et
Susanna Magri (LAB’URBA / CSU - UMR CNRS CRESPPA)
Jeudi 15 Octobre 2009, 9h30-17h30, Université Paris 8 (site Pouchet)
59/61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris - http://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/plan.htm
Cette journée d’études pluridisciplinaire se propose
de partir des
difficultés auxquelles les chercheurs sont confrontés pour
penser les
relations entre l’espace et les rapports sociaux. Après s’être
constituée en discipline sur la question des relations hommes /
milieux (naturels), la géographie humaine a connu une véritable
refondation épistémologique en affirmant que c’était
l’espace, ou les
rapports espaces / sociétés qui devaient être son
véritable objet.
Mais tout en s’affirmant ainsi comme science sociale, elle a eu
tendance à faire de « l’espace » une réalité
autonome voire
agissante. Critiquant ce « spatialisme », la géographie
sociale a
pris au sérieux l’idée lefebvrienne d’un espace
produit social, mais
a eu les plus grandes difficultés à statuer clairement sur
le « rôle
» qu’il pouvait avoir, le considérant souvent comme
surface
d’inscription des inégalités, simple « miroir
» produisant une
réflexion « brouillée » comme le dit Pierre
Bourdieu.
Du côté des sociologues précisément, malgré
le programme ambitieux de
la morphologie durkheimienne, la tendance a plutôt été
d’oublier ou
de négliger la dimension spatiale. Et quand elle était prise
en
compte, en sociologie urbaine notamment, on a pu observer la même
bipolarisation des postures, significative du même dilemme
théorique : comment faire pour intégrer pleinement l’espace
sans
l’autonomiser, sans contribuer à évacuer les rapports
sociaux globaux
(comme risquent toujours de le faire les travaux hyperspatialisés
cherchant à dégager des « effets de quartier »
ou de « territoire
») ? La réponse nous semble être dans le fait de ne
plus considérer
l’espace et la société comme deux réalités
séparées, mais au
contraire de penser l’espace comme une /dimension/ inhérente
aux
rapports sociaux. Le social est toujours déjà spatial.
A minima, il faut considérer qu’« effets de lieu »
et « effets de
classe » interagissent constamment. En effet, la localisation
géographique, la réalité matérielle (type
d’habitat, organisation des
villes) dans lequel un individu grandit, travaille et habite, le
nombre et le type d’espaces dans lequel il/elle évolue et
ceux dans
lesquels il/elle est confiné-e... n’ont pas d’impact
indépendamment
de la position et de la trajectoire sociale. Il faut du capital
culturel pour faire d’une architecture ancienne plus qu’une
maison
délabrée : un patrimoine. Une adresse bourgeoise procure-t-elle
vraiment du prestige à un ouvrier ? Ou ne vient-elle pas plutôt
renforcer les rapports de domination par l’invisibilité imposée
à
celui qui trouble l’entre-soi ? Mais si les « effets de lieu
»
n’agissent pas indépendamment des rapports de classe, les
rapports de
classe, inversement, ne constituent pas une réalité «
hors sol »,
séparables des rapports à l’espace physique. En d’autres
termes,
l’espace participe de la définition des positions sociales
et ces
dernières doivent être pensées simultanément
à différentes échelles,
du local au mondial, et pas seulement à l’échelle
nationale
implicitement posée par la notion de société.
C’est pourquoi il nous semble intéressant d’interroger
plus avant la
dimension spatiale des différentes ressources sociales (capital
économique, culturel, symbolique, social...), des conditions de
leur
accumulation et de leur utilisation. Un diplôme n’a pas (et
aura sans
doute de moins en moins à l’avenir) la même valeur,
le même
rayonnement, selon l’université qui le délivre. La
détention de
capital social, les modalités de son accumulation et son rôle
dans
les rapports de domination apparaissent infiniment plus complexes
quand la dimension spatiale est prise en compte. Les travaux sur le «
capital d’autochtonie » semblent montrer en effet que l’inscription
dans des réseaux sociaux locaux peut générer de véritables
ressources
pour les classes populaires. À l’inverse, la sociologie de
la
bourgeoisie montre comment les réseaux internationaux alimentent
la
reproduction sociale, que ce soit au niveau de la socialisation ou du
monde du travail. Entre ces différents groupes sociaux, certaines
fractions des classes moyennes, notamment celles qui viennent habiter
dans des quartiers déqualifiés, ne sont-elles pas contraintes
de
s’inscrire dans des réseaux locaux pour revaloriser leur
adresse ? Et
que penser des actions collectives essayant de développer une
économie à la fois « solidaire » et «
relocalisée » ? Et si la
distinction entre un capital d’autochtonie, ressource des pauvres,
et
une mobilité, privilège des plus riches, était, elle-même,
à nuancer ?
Notre journée d’études se propose de reprendre ces questions à partir
de communications visant à revenir sur ces deux concepts (capital
d’autochtonie/mobilité) et leurs usages dans les recherches,
mais
aussi à tester leur pertinence et interroger leur statut théorique
à
partir d’enquêtes empiriques.
Programme
/Matinée (9h30 – 12h)/
• */Introduction/* - Susanna Magri, Directrice de recherche en
sociologie, CSU - UMR CNRS CRESPPA
• */Classes populaires et capital d'autochtonie. Genèse
et usages
d'une notion/* - Nicolas Renahy, Chargé de recherche en sociologie,
CESAER - UMR INRA-ENESAD
• */Mobilité et ancrage dans les quartiers « pauvres
» : les
ressources de la proximité/* - Sylvie Fol, Professeure en géographie,
Université Paris 1, UMR CNRS Géographie-Cités
/Après-midi (13h30 – 17h30)/
• */Le rapport à la mobilité des catégories
supérieures/* - Anne-
Catherine Wagner, Professeure en sociologie, Université Paris 1,
CSE
• */Un capital d'autochtonie des classes supérieures ? Mobilisation
et ancrage local de gentrifieurs à Boston/* - Sylvie Tissot,
Maîtresse de conférences en sociologie, Université
de Strasbourg,
GSPE / CSU - UMR CNRS CRESPPA
• */Les AMAP et l’économie solidaire : la construction
d’un capital
d’autochtonie interclassiste ?/*/ /- Fabrice Ripoll, Maître
de
conférences en géographie, Université Paris XII,
LAB’URBA
• */Discussion et synthèse/* - Christine Lelévrier,
Maîtresse de
conférences en sociologie, Institut d’Urbanisme de Paris,
LAB’URBA
25/9/2009
CALL FOR PAPERS - Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process
The CREMed - Barcelona GSE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and the European Institute – London School of Economics will hold on July 16th and 17th 2010 a workshop on “Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process” in Barcelona.
The event will highlight Microeconomics and Macroeconomics topics relating to the Mediterranean, including Social Protection, Public Sector Performance, Climate Change, Free Trade Agreement, Unemployment and Market Liberalisation, among others.
The workshop call for papers is now open. Abstracts and expression of interest should be submitted before January 31st 2010. You can find detailed information on the following page: www.cremed.eu/index.php/news1.
25/9/2009
Call for Papers - Common concerns?: Rethinking the transport/mobilities divide
2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010
Organizers: Jennie Middleton and Jon Shaw (School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth)
Alongside more traditional approaches in transport geography, the ‘mobilities turn’ is now well established across the social sciences with increasing attention being paid to the mobility of people and goods, ideas and information. Yet these approaches to the study of movement have largely passed each other by, their intellectual journeys following generally different trajectories on account of being taken by different types of academic, interested in different aspects of movement and speaking different kinds of language. At the 2008 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in Boston, Massachusetts a panel came together of mobilities scholars and transport geographers who were invited to discuss these very issues and possible connections/synergies between their areas of/approaches to the study of movement. The panel discussed the following questions: to what extent are transport geography and mobility compatible?; how far do they already coincide?; how far is it desirable, practical, profitable for them to coincide?; and what are the potential ways forward in terms of theoretical and methodological development and empirical data collection?
Although it is clear that a substantial divide remains between the two
approaches, the panel recognised a number of key areas of mutual interest
and concern. Building on the 2008 session, we aim to explore further opportunities
for ‘boundary crossing’ in order to promote a better appreciation
of each other’s activities and facilitate an increased dialogue
between mobilities and transport scholars. Whilst recognising that differing
approaches will never be fully reconciled (or that such a thing is in
fact even desirable), we invite conceptual and/or empirical/methodological
contributions that provide opportunities for discussing common concerns
across these fields of research. We are particularly keen for the research
being presented to include reflections on its potential to engage beyond
these perceived ‘boundaries’. Thematically, this session seeks
to address, but are not confined to, the following topics:
- Transportation
- Migration
- Transnational flows of people, objects, commodities, information and capital
- Travel and tourism
- Infrastructure, governance and policy
- Sustainable transport/mobilities
- Social networks
- Mobile communications and technologies
- Socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of transport and movement
- Everyday practices, habits and routines
- Corporeal, affective and emotional topographies
Abstracts (of no more than 250 words) and expressions of interests should
be sent to Jennie Middleton (jennie.middleton@plymouth.ac.uk) or Jon Shaw
(jon.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk) by 18th October 2009.
25/9/2009
Appel à communications pour la tenue du premier colloque organisé par le réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement ».
Le thème de ce colloque porte sur la gestion du tourisme dans les sites du patrimoine mondial et se déroulera à Québec les 3 et 4 juin 2010.
Please find in attach the Call for Papers of the first conference organized by the UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK on "Culture, Tourism, Develpment". The conference on World Heritage and Tourism will take place in Quebec City on June 3rd and 4th, 2010.
E' con piacere che vi trasmetto il call for paper per la prima conferenza internazionale organizzata dalla rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" . Il tema centrale della conferenza, che avrà luogo a Quebec City il 3 e 4 giugno 2010, è il rapporto fra Patrimonio Mondiale e Turismo.
Le colloque est organisé par les membres du réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement », et en particulier par la faculté des sciences de l’administration de l’Université Laval, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et le Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change du Leeds Metropolitain University.
Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development; Faculty of Business Administration, Université Laval; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.
La conferenza è organizzata dai membri della rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" ed in particolare dalla facoltà di Business Administration dell'Università Laval, dall'Università Parigi 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne e dal Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change della Leeds Metropolitan University.
Alessia Mariotti
Geografia economico-politica
Università di Bologna
Facoltà di Economia - Rimini Campus
Via Angherà 22
47900 Rimini - Italy
Cell. 0039.348.2435556
Skype: alessia_mariotti
http://www2.dse.unibo.it/dsa/profile.php?id=257
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25/9/2009
Appel à communications pour la tenue du premier colloque organisé par le réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement ».
Le thème de ce colloque porte sur la gestion du tourisme dans les sites du patrimoine mondial et se déroulera à Québec les 3 et 4 juin 2010.
Please find in attach the Call for Papers of the first conference organized by the UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK on "Culture, Tourism, Develpment". The conference on World Heritage and Tourism will take place in Quebec City on June 3rd and 4th, 2010.
E' con piacere che vi trasmetto il call for paper per la prima conferenza internazionale organizzata dalla rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" . Il tema centrale della conferenza, che avrà luogo a Quebec City il 3 e 4 giugno 2010, è il rapporto fra Patrimonio Mondiale e Turismo.
Le colloque est organisé par les membres du réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement », et en particulier par la faculté des sciences de l’administration de l’Université Laval, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et le Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change du Leeds Metropolitain University.
Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development; Faculty of Business Administration, Université Laval; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.
La conferenza è organizzata dai membri della rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" ed in particolare dalla facoltà di Business Administration dell'Università Laval, dall'Università Parigi 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne e dal Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change della Leeds Metropolitan University.
Alessia Mariotti
Geografia economico-politica
Università di Bologna
Facoltà di Economia - Rimini Campus
Via Angherà 22
47900 Rimini - Italy
Cell. 0039.348.2435556
Skype: alessia_mariotti
http://www2.dse.unibo.it/dsa/profile.php?id=257
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24/9/2009
Democracy Promotion and Human Rights in Europe and the Middle East.
University of Birmingham and Leeds Joint Workshop
Date: October 16, 2009. Beech Grove House, University of Leeds.
Co-funded by UACES
Lead Projects / Groups
ESRC Project: Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Middle East (Michelle Pace) http://www.eumena.bham.ac.uk/
ESRC Project: Law, War and the State of the American Exception (Jason Ralph) http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/law-war-state-american-exception.php
Security and International Relations Research Group, POLIS, University of Leeds. http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/international-relations-security/
Rationale
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together two separate but overlapping research project / networks. The workshop will be the fourth in the series convened by Michelle Pace at the University of Birmingham and benefit from an established network of researchers working in this area. It will be complemented by researchers working in the area at the University of Leeds, including Jason Ralph's project on the human rights and the war on terror during and after the Bush administration. The workshop will be the first in the series of events on the theme of Security, Development and Democracy to be hosted by the University of Leeds during the academic year 2009-2010. These events build on an established seminar series, further details of which can be found by visiting the programme's website at http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/sdd-seminar-series.php This innovative series used podcasts to reach a wider audience and with the consent of the speakers we plan to record and disseminate the proceedings in a similar way. Trained staff at Leeds will provide video recording equipment, which will enable, with the consent of the speakers, to put the proceedings on LUTube (Leeds University Tube) http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk <http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk/> Links to the proceedings will appear on the websites of the existing projects. The planned output of the workshop will be a special issue of International Journal of Human Rights, where Jason Ralph is Assistant Editor.
Programme
9.45 Arrival and Coffee
10.00 to 10.05 Welcome: Jason Ralph, Reader in International Relations, University of Leeds.
10.05 to 11.20 Panel 1. Chair: Clive Jones, Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, Head of School, POLIS, University of Leeds.
'Between Foreign Policy and Good Governance- evaluating EU economic rights promotion in Bosnia and Turkey' Charlie Dannreuther is Lecturer in European Studies, POLIS, University of Leeds, C.Dannreuther@leeds.ac.uk
'Towards a "European" Route to Democratisation in Europe's Near Abroad? The Impact of EU, OSCE and NATO Democracy Promotion in Europe's Periphery', Neil Winn, Senior Lecturer in European Studies, University of Leeds, N.Winn@leeds.ac.uk
11.20 to 11.30 Break
11.30 to 1.00 Panel 2. Chair: Neil Winn. Discussant: Larbi Sadiki, Exeter University
'Liberal or Social Democracy? Aspect Dawning in the EU's Democracy Promotion Agenda in the Middle East'. Michelle Pace, Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Fellow, POLSIS, University of Birmingham, m.pace@bham.ac.uk
'Hamas's Media: Towards a New Political Discourse'. Wael Abdelal, Doctoral Candidate, Exeter University, wa218@exeter.ac.uk
'Drawing lines around "Europe". The practice of extraordinary rendition and what it tells us about Europe's relations with its neighbours'. Jason Ralph, Reader in International Relations, POLIS, University of Leeds, J.G.Ralph@leeds.ac.uk
1 to 2.00 Lunch
2.00 to 3.20 Panel Three. Chair: John Schwarzmantel. Discussant: Ahmed Badawi, SOAS
'State-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies: Egypt and Morocco.' Hendrik Kraetzschmar Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the. Middle East and North Africa, University of Leeds and Francesco Cavatorta Lecturer School of Law and Government, Dublin City University.
'EU Democracy Promotion in Turkey: funding NGOs, funding conflict?' Markus Ketola, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics, M.Ketola@lse.ac.uk
'Illegal Migration in the Southern Mediterranean: one more obstacle for political reform?' Thomas Demmelhuber, lecturer, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. thomas.demmelhuber@polwiss.phil.uni-erlangen.de
3.20 Closing Remarks: Michelle Pace
3.30 Workshop closes
Abstracts
Wael Abdelal, Hamas's Media: Towards a New Political Discourse
Does Hamas have a double-discourse, one aimed at the Arab and Palestinian peoples and the other aimed at the West? What elements make up what I consider to be a new media-discourse towards the West by Hamas? How does this new discourse respond to the drive by the Obama Administration (and to a lesser extent the EU) to brokering peace between the Palestinians and Israelis? This paper is an attempt to give tentative answers to these questions. It explores the 'development' of the media discourse of Hamas toward the West in the context of the ongoing struggle for Palestinian statehood. Specifically, the paper focuses on the shifts in this discourse, signalling a more pragmatic or less ideological discourse vis-à-vis the West. To this end, I shall attempt to deconstruct Hamas's emerging discourse with special reference to the latest diplomatic efforts by the Obama Administration to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. I shall argue that this new discourse shows elements of 'moderation', 'flexibility', and 'new public diplomacy' by Hamas in its dealing with the US and the EU.
Charles Dannreuther, Between Foreign Policy and Good Governance- evaluating
EU economic rights promotion in Bosnia and Turkey
This paper discusses some of the challenges of foreign policy evaluation from a practitioner perspective. Evaluation is central to the effective monitoring of foreign policy activities by national governments in crowded political environments but it is also a policy tool in the promotion of good governance and democratisation agendas. The project under discussion was funded by the UK Foreign Office under its Global Opportunities Fund Reuniting Europe stream which is specifically designed to accelerate transition towards the goal of accession in neighbouring states of the EU. Both projects were designed to raise awareness of the EU's Lisbon Agenda, a broad range of economic governance issues designed to promote transparent policy making in the pursuit of competitiveness under assumptions of globalisation, and both were managed by a small UK based NGO called EPIC that was "spun out" from the LSE in 1997. One project was based in Turkey and none in Bosnia and Herzegovina and both proposed a similar "training the trainers" methodology but with dramatically different outcomes. Three issues are discussed in order to evaluate the outcomes of each programme: first the project awards framework, in the production of expectations, second the matching of capacities to project aspirations and finally the relevance of standard management norms in practical contexts. The conclusion explores the role of member state foreign policy intervention in relation to EU goals, the ability of evaluative mechanisms to negotiate the importance of local context in foreign policy administration and the importance of foreign policy evaluation in the literature on "foreign policy evaluation".
Thomas Demmelhuber, Illegal Migration in the Southern Mediterranean: one more obstacle for political reform?
Starting with the European Security Strategy (ESS) in 2003 and later on with the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union reiterated that security, stability, and good governance in its near neighbourhood are key policy priorities. In consideration of new kinds of security threats, such as illegal migration and various forms of terrorist acts in the Southern Mediterranean, we are witnessing an on-going externalisation of security cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) with the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC). With regards to illegal migration FRONTEX (established 2004 by Council Regulation 2007) acts as the main instrument in EU's so called »integrated border management strategy«. This border control agency aims at curbing illegal migration in cooperation with the MPCs. In other words FRONTEX is a tool to establish an exterritorial border, that is to say illegal migrants are to be intercepted prior to even reaching EU territory. However, many questions remain whether it is a further step in easing or deepening the incoherence of EU foreign policy: By externalising security cooperation, the EU contradicts its policies in the fields of democracy promotion, rule of law, and human rights which are based on the EU's self-perception as a normative power. For the last few years the EU has been increasing development aid to the partner countries in exchange for their generous cooperation in joint return missions. Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania are the most recent examples in which the EU has forgotten about its normative agenda vis-à-vis the transit countries of illegal migration in North Africa. For the sake of repatriation of illegal migrants from EU territory or intercepted migrants from various border patrol missions the EU has intensified its bilateral political and financial support. Therefore the EU bears responsibility for increasing the legitimacy and stability of authoritarianism in the region which the EU wanted to fight in the first place. The paper is based on fieldwork carried out in the Mediterranean (i.e. the MENA region). It is further supplemented by the state of the art in the EU cooperation in JHA, research on migration routes from the African continent (countries of origin and transit countries) and on recent political shifts and dynamics in the affected countries.
Markus Ketola, 'EU Democracy Promotion in Turkey: funding NGOs, funding conflict?'
Can EU funding for NGOs induce democratization in Turkey? By focusing on the experience of the women's movement, this paper will attempt an assessment of this question. First, by outlining the rationale for EU funding communicated through policy documents, it is shown that NGO funding is largely justified on the bases of the contribution made towards strengthening democracy. Second, by drawing on interviews with representatives of women's advocacy NGOs, the efficacy of this strategy is investigated. Whilst the contribution of women's groups to a series of legal reforms is taken as evidence of NGOs inducing democratization, the relations among women's NGOs and the rules of inclusion/exclusion within the movement do not seem to reflect this commitment to democratic ideals. These fault lines are most visible between the secular and Islamic women's NGOs, where the conflict has crystallized around the issue of the headscarf. Given the experience of the women's movement, does the EU funding framework for democratization via NGOs remain relevant given the dynamics of civil society activism of Turkey?
Hendrik Kraetzschmar and Francesco Cavatorta, 'State-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies: Egypt and Morocco.'
This paper is concerned with state-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies. Building on existing research in the field, the first section puts forward a number of propositions that may help explain the decision-making rationale of authoritarian incumbents to deploy force against strong electoral challengers. The second section of this article then examines these propositions in Egypt and Morocco. Drawing on recent parliamentary elections in the two countries, the study questions why - despite facing similar challenges from Islamist groups - the two regimes differed so markedly in their willingness to manipulate the polls by recourse to violence. Whilst the Egyptian authorities decided to abrogate all pretence of peaceful elections in favour of violent repression against the Muslim Brotherhood and its sympathisers, no such tactics were deployed by the Makhzen in Morocco. We suggest that three principal factors influenced the regimes' calculation of how to run the elections: (i) the centrality of the elected institution to authoritarian survival, (ii) the availability of alternative electioneering tools and (iii) the anticipated response of the international community. The article concludes by suggesting that in order to better understand when and how states deploy violence in election, we need to focus on a more complex set of factors rather than simply on the electoral potency of key opposition challenger or the authoritarian nature of the state.
Michelle Pace, Liberal or Social Democracy? Aspect Dawning in the EU's Democracy Promotion Agenda in the Middle East
This paper questions how liberal democracy has come to symbolize an ideal, or a universal set of values ready to be exported elsewhere in the world. It critically assesses the EU's almost messianic mission to promote its successful project of liberal democracy, and the ways in which the EU seeks to teach others about its meaning while refusing to aspect learn about alternative forms of political organization in different contexts. It discusses the implications of such a narrow framing of EU conceptions of liberal democracy, drawing on extensive fieldwork carried out in Palestine and Egypt in September 2007 and March 2008, respectively. The paper argues for a new framing of political transformation in the Middle East and North Africa. It concludes by employing Aletta Norval's notion of Aversive Democracy to highlight the need for recognition of crucial aspects of political change that stem from what is emerging in the Middle East.
Jason Ralph, 'Drawing lines around "Europe". The practice of
extraordinary rendition and what it tells us about Europe's relations
with its neighbours.'
The term "extraordinary rendition" has been used widely in recent years to describe the transfer of suspected terrorists by the US to foreign states in circumstances that make it more likely than not that the individual will be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. The discussion on this subject tends therefore to be linked to the question of whether torture can be justified as a means of combating terrorism. The practice of extraordinary rendition however does involve additional considerations. Any analysis of the practice must be concerned not merely with the act of torture itself, it must also take into account the ideological character of the states involved; for the normative assumption behind the act is that illiberal states can do what liberal states would prefer not to do. This is important because it highlights how liberal states view legal and moral boundaries in the post 9/11 world, and how they view their responsibilities as citizens of international society. This paper focuses on Europe's place in the geography of the extraordinary rendition programme. It is noted that terrorist suspects were moved, for example, from Sweden and Italy to Egypt, from the UK to Morocco; and while European governments may not have been complicit in all these transfers it is argued that the programme consolidates lines that separate the 'liberal' from the 'illiberal' world. By drawing lines around liberal zones of 'civilisation', and by exporting the 'dirty work' of counter-terrorism, European governments are in this respect working against any broader ojective of democratisation.
Neil Winn, 'Towards a "European" Route to Democratisation in Europe's Near Abroad? The Impact of EU, OSCE and NATO Democracy Promotion in Europe's Periphery'
This paper analyses the role and impact of the European Union (EU), the
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in promoting democracy, human rights
and good governance in Europe's Near Abroad. In this context the Near
Abroad comprises illustrative cases from North Africa and the former Soviet
Union. The paper begins by analysing democracy, human rights and good
governance in the context of assessing the role and impact in the political
and security fields of the above international organisations (IO's) in
Europe's Near Abroad. The paper then goes onto evaluate whether or not
the above IO's reinforce democracy, human rights and good governance in
the Europe's Near Abroad. It is the argument of the paper that regional
IO's engaged in democracy promotion often vie for policy space to the
detriment of effective international co-operation and that this attenuates
the impact of European democracy promotion programmes.
24/9/2009
IDN KHALDUN PRIZE
http://new.researchresearch.com/#main$.Data.Funding.All$preview$765232$
Middle East Economic Research Centre, TR
This recognises outstanding individual and co-authored papers by young
scientists on Middle East economics. Candidates must be no more than six
years post-PhD. The prize is worth $150 and exemption from dues and submission
fees for two consecutive years.
Award amount max: Not specified
Closing date: 10 Dec 09
24/9/2009
HUNT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
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Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, US
These support the writing-up of already completed research in anthropology.
The fellowships provide $40,000 for 12 months of continuous full-time
writing.
Award amount max: 40,000
Closing date: 01 Nov 09
24/9/2009
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
http://new.researchresearch.com/#main$.Data.Funding.All$preview$257104$
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
The year-long fellowship is intended for scholars in the field of the
Aegean bronze age/early iron age who have received a PhD degree in the
past five years, that is, between May, 2004 and August, 2009. The fellowship
will be awarded in the amount of $24,000, plus up to $4,000 additional
for travel expenses.
Award amount max: 28,000
Closing date: 01 Nov 09
24/9/2009
SIX-WEEK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS - Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
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Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
These allow candidates to conduct research for a six-week period from
March 1 through May 30, 2010 or September 1 through December 31, 2010
at the INSTAP Study Center for East Crete. Fellowships will be awarded
in the amount up to $2,500 plus reasonable round-trip travel expenses.
Award amount max: 2,500
Closing date: 01 Nov 09
RIP RAPP DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP - Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
http://new.researchresearch.com/#main$.Data.Funding.All$preview$776772$
Institute for Aegean Prehistory, US
The institute supports candidates with work to be done at the Study Center
in Pacheia Ammos, Crete in 2010. The fellowship will be awarded in the
amount of $4,000 for a minimum period of four weeks.
Award amount max: 4,000
Closing date: 01 Nov 09
24/9/2009
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION - 3rd Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies
31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010, ATHENS, GREECE
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece, 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010. The conference website is: www.atiner.gr/docs/Mediterranean.htm.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports etc. Panel organizers are encouraged to submit their proposals by inviting other scholars that do research in the area. Specific sessions will be organized along country studies for both the European and the non-European countries of the Mediterranean Basin.
The registration fee is EUR250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks, and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: a Greek night of entertainment, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands and a half-day tour around the wider area of Athens (Attica).
Please submit an abstract (using email only to: atiner@atiner.gr) by October 5th, 2009 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Academic Member of ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, (gtp@atiner.gr) Director, ATINER.
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established
in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to become
a forum, where academics and researchers, from all over the world, could
meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future
developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more
than 100 international conferences and has published over 80 books have
been published. Academically, the Institute is organized into four research
divisions and nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at
least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research
projects.
24/9/2009
UNHCR has launched a new policy statement on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas.
It can be accessed at:http://www.unhcr.org/4ab356ab6.pdf The broader
issue of urban displacement with be discussed at the December 2009 meeting
of the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges. For details,
go to:http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4a12a4a26.html
23/9/2009
Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques 2009/2010
Cher(e)s collègues, Voici une rapide présentation de notre séminaire 2009 / 2010, consacré cette année à la question des images, à partir de deux approches : l'étude des images, l'étude par l'image.
La première séance aura lieu le 15 octobre, de 17h à 19h, à la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris. Le séminaire est ouvert à tous, sans réservation préalable, dans la limite des places disponibles.
LA QUESTION DES IMAGES Des cartes postales du 19ème siècle aux videos postées par les voyageurs sur internet, les images sont omniprésentes dans l’histoire du tourisme, l’invention des lieux et la transformation des pratiques.Qu’elles soient fixes ou animées, produites par, pour ou sur les touristes, les sociétés d’accueil ou les intermédiaires, c’est donc la question des images qui sera au centre de la cinquième saison du séminaire « Tourisme : Recherches, Institutions, Pratiques ».
Le Jeudi 15 octobre, la séance introductive abordera notamment la question de l'authenticité et de ses régimes. Deux approches seront plus particulièrement développées cette année. -
L’étude des images. Une série d’interventions sera consacrée aux images produites par les institutions, les touristes et les médias. Que choisit-on de représenter, de raconter ? Que met-on dans le cadre, que garde-t-on « hors champs » ? Qui produit, qui contrôle les images ? Quels sont les messages véhiculés ? Quels en sont les enjeux politiques, économiques ou symboliques ? Comment les images circulent- elles ? Comment sont-elles reçues, appropriées, combattues ? -
L’étude par l’image. L’anthropologie visuelle documente depuis de nombreuses années la question des rencontres entre visiteurs et visités. L’ambition du séminaire est notamment d’appréhender la dimension heuristique de la production visuelle pour étudier les phénomènes touristiques. Nadège Chabloz a rassemblé de nombreux films – des classiques du genre aux avant-premières– que nous aurons le plaisir de projeter et de discuter avec vous.
15/10 : La question des images : introductions
« Tourismes : la quête de soi par la pratique des autres » : Nadege Chabloz« La question des images. Une brève introduction ». Saskia Cousin Communication "Authenticité et anthropologie du tourisme : catégorie analytique ou catégorie indigène?" Céline Cravatte, agrégée de sciences economiques et sociales, doctorante au Printemps, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines.
La complexité de l’organisation de cette année - notamment la question des droits de diffusion - ne nous permet pas encore de vous diffuser le programme complet, mais cela ne saurait tarder. J'ajoute que si vous avez spécifiquement travaillé sur cette question, il reste une ou deux séances disponibles. merci dans ce cas de me contacter rapidement.Vous pouvez déjà noter que les séminaires auront lieu, comme d'habitude, les 1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h, salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, du 15 octobre au 17 juin (avec sans doute quelques échappées buissonnières supplémentaires les 5ème jeudi) : 15/10, 5/11, 19/11, 3/12, 17/12, 7/01, 21/01, 4/02, 18/02, 18/03, 1/04, 6/05, 20/05, 3/06, 17/06.
Pour toute demande d'information, ou pour vous inscrire sur la liste de diffusion consacrée à l'étude critique des phénomènes touristiques: scousin@msh-paris.fr
A tout bientôt, Cordialement
Saskia Cousin Saskia Cousin
Docteur en anthropologie sociale, MCF en sociologie à l'IUT de
Tours Chercheuse au IIAC-LAIOS (EHESS/CNRS)Chercheuse associée
au CITERES (Université François-Rabelais)Maison des Sciences
de l'Homme54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris01 49 54 21 98 / 06 16 31 04 80scousin@msh-paris.fr
23/9/2009
Appel à candidatures: "Les archives : matières et matérialités"
Le Caire, 5-12 janvier 2010
Atelier Jeunes chercheurs, Institut d'études de l'Islam et des
Sociétés du Monde Musulman (EHESS, Paris), Institut Français
d'Archéologie Orientale (Le Caire),
Laboratoire d'anthropologie urbaine (CNRS, Ivry) Avec le soutien de l'ANR
« Archiver. Les pratiques historiographiques contemporaines au Moyen-Orient
»
Date limite de réception des candidatures : 19 octobre 2009 par
poste (IISMM, 96 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris) ou par mail (iismm@ehess.fr).
Pour l'argumentaire et procédure de candidature cf. Site : http://www.archimo.net
22/9/2009
Call for Papers: Rethinking the Middle East? Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010
Venue: British Academy, London, 17-19 March 2010
Sponsored by British Academy, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, European Studies Research Institute/University of Salford (Greater Manchester)
Twice within the last one hundred years, Western powers have tried to
significantly alter the configuration of the Middle Eastern political
order.
In analyzing the interactions of regional and outside powers, this comparative
and interdisciplinary conference will bring together political practitioners
and historians, political scientists, and international relations scholars.
Reflecting the overall conference theme, the programme follows a two-pronged
approach. Firstly, the conference organisers are looking for papers from
political scientists and historians that deal with the foreign policies
of important external powers (nation-states as well as inter- and transnational
organisations) towards the Middle East, and Iraq in particular, as well
as the constructions and narratives accompanying/justifying specific policies.
We therefore welcome abstracts of papers that deal with:
- the dilemmas and contradictions of US/UK/European policies toward the
region,
- the role of international actors such as the European Union, the United
Nations, and the League of Nations,
- the impact of transnational actors such as global human rights groups
and terrorist organisations.
Secondly, in order to avoid a narrow Western perspective which would treat Middle Eastern actors only as objects of the policies of Western powers, the conference will examine the policies of influential domestic Iraqi political actors and other regional powers, whose international role has been affected by the political developments in Iraq.
We therefore also welcome abstracts of papers that deal with:
- the history and current state of Iraqi domestic politics and foreign
policies including bilateral relationships with
other countries within and beyond the region,
- an assessment of the influence of other external powers such as China
and Russia,
- the perceptions and narratives dominating the views of Arab publics
and governments,
- the reactions of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Israel
and Egypt to foreign interventions and regional upheavals.
Keynote Lectures will be delivered by:
- Professor Charles Tripp (SOAS, London)
- Professor Erik Goldstein (Boston University, US)
Confirmed Speakers:
- Dr Federica Bicchi (LSE)
- Professor Eric Davies (Rutgers University, US)
- Professor John Fisher (University of the West of England)
- Professor Manuel Froehlich (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena/Germany)
- Professor Henner Fürtig (German Institute for Global and Area Studies,
Hamburg)
- Dr Riyadh Aziz Hadi (Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Baghdad
University)
- Dr Saad Jawad (Baghdad University)
- Professor Dietrich Jung (University of Southern Denmark)
- Professor Isam al-Khafaji (Amsterdam)
- Dr Michelle Pace (Birmingham)
- Dr Glen Rangwala (Cambridge)
- Dr Mowaffak Al Rubaie (former National Security Advisor, Government
of Iraq)
- Dr Priya Satia (Stanford University, US)
- Dr Guido Steinberg (German Institute for International and Security
Affairs, Berlin)
- Dr Reidar Visser (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo)
- Dr Frederic Volpi (St. Andrews)
- Dr Mouyad al-Windawi (Baghdad University, formerly United Nations Assistance
Mission for Iraq)
The deadline for submitting a 200 word abstract to Dr Lars Berger at l.berger@salford.ac.uk
is Friday, 30 October. Acceptance of papers will be communicated by 13
November.
A limited number of bursaries covering travel, accommodation and conference
costs are available for PhD students presenting a paper. Those wishing
to apply for this bursary should add one page in which they state why
they are in need of financial assistance. They would also need to describe
the broader research context from which their PhD originates and how attending
the conference might benefit their project.
21/9/2009
Continuity and Change: Immigrants in Spitalfields 1660-2000
Dr Anne J Kershen (Queen Mary, University of London)
Date: 22 October 2009Time: 6:00 PM
Finishes: 22 October 2009Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Room: TBC
Type of Event: Lecture
Series: The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Lecture
Abstract
Spitalfields has been a first place of settlement for immigrants for centuries.
Its proximity to the Port of London and the more prosperous areas of the
City and the West End ensured its place as a starting point for those
seeking to start their journeys on the economic ladder. This talk will
explore the similarities and differences in the experiences of two minority
groups who saw Spitalfields as their promised land - Eastern European
Jews and Bangladeshis. The former arriving in large numbers in the late
19th century, the latter in the latter half of the 20th century. In spite
of their religious and cultural differences, their starting points being
in two different continents and the Bengalis' original intention to stay
just a short while and then return home as 'rich men of high status',
once in 'the promised land' the basic tools needed to launch the incomer
on the journey to prosperity were none too different. Using three of the
pillars of immigrant life - religion, language and economic activity -
I will examine the role each played in the processes of integration -
and in some cases separation - and illustrate that continuity and change
in immigrant life has been what has made Spitalfields a place of settlement
and transition from the mid-seventeenth century through until today.
Organised by: Centres and Programmes (REO) , Centre for Migration and
Diaspora.
20/9/2009
Common concerns?: Rethinking the transport/mobilities divide
Call for Papers : 2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010
Organizers: Jennie Middleton and Jon Shaw (School of Geography, Earth
& Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth)
Alongside more traditional approaches in transport geography, the ‘mobilities
turn’ is now well established across the social sciences with increasing
attention being paid to the mobility of people and goods, ideas and information.
Yet these approaches to the study of movement have largely passed each
other by, their intellectual journeys following generally different trajectories
on account of being taken by different types of academic, interested in
different aspects of movement and speaking different kinds of language.
At the 2008 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in Boston,
Massachusetts a panel came together of mobilities scholars and transport
geographers who were invited to discuss these very issues and possible
connections/synergies between their areas of/approaches to the study of
movement. The panel discussed the following questions: to what extent
are transport geography and mobility compatible?; how far do they already
coincide?; how far is it desirable, practical, profitable for them to
coincide?; and what are the potential ways forward in terms of theoretical
and methodological development and empirical data collection?
Although it is clear that a substantial divide remains between the two
approaches, the panel recognised a number of key areas of mutual interest
and concern. Building on the 2008 session, we aim to explore further opportunities
for ‘boundary crossing’ in order to promote a better appreciation
of each other’s activities and facilitate an increased dialogue
between mobilities and transport scholars. Whilst recognising that differing
approaches will never be fully reconciled (or that such a thing is in
fact even desirable), we invite conceptual and/or empirical/methodological
contributions that provide opportunities for discussing common concerns
across these fields of research. We are particularly keen for the research
being presented to include reflections on its potential to engage beyond
these perceived ‘boundaries’. Thematically, this session seeks
to address, but are not confined to, the following topics:
- Transportation
- Migration
- Transnational flows of people, objects, commodities, information and capital
- Travel and tourism
- Infrastructure, governance and policy
- Social networks
- Mobile communications and technologies
- Socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of transport and movement
- Everyday practices, habits and routines
- Corporeal, affective and emotional topographies
Abstracts (of no more than 250 words) and expressions of interests should
be sent to Jennie Middleton (jennie.middleton@plymouth.ac.uk) or Jon Shaw
(jon.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk) by 18th October 2009.
19/9/2009
Unprotected: Palestinians in Egypt by Orob El-Abed
A review of Oroub El-Abed's book on Palestinians in Egypt has just been published by the Jordan Times.
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19968
17/9/2009
'Orientalism at War' Conference
17-19 June 2010Nuffield College, University of Oxford
This programme seeks to convene scholars from divergent disciplines for athree day conference that examines how Orientalist and colonial discoursesshape war and are shaped by war both in historical and contemporarycontexts. A selection of the papers from the conference will be collectedand submitted for review for publication as an edited volume. We interpret our theme broadly, but we ask that papers address theimplications of Orientalism, and of colonial discourse more generally, inviolent conflict. We are particularly interested in the ways in which war isboth structured by, as well as restructures, Orientalist standpoints. Thatis, we want to address not only Orientalist constructions of conflict, butalso the generative powers of war to reshape its social and politicalcontexts, including the Orientalist discourses that give rise to conflict.
Applicants interested in presenting at the conference are welcome to submita prospective title and 200-word abstract by 4 December 2009. Participationin the conference will be confirmed by 30 January 2010. The programme may be able to provide partial funding for applicants selectedto present.
Individuals interested in attending or discussing at theconference are also invited to contact us. However, funding will be reservedfor those presenting papers at the conference. All paper proposals can be directed to sundas.ali@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
Co-organizers: Tarak Barkawi, Cambridge University (tkb24@cam.ac.uk)Alia Brahimi, Oxford University (alia.brahimi@politics.ox.ac.uk)Patrick Porter, King's College (pporter.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk)Keith Stanski, Oxford University (keith.stanski@nuffield.ox.ac.uk)
16/9/2009
Conference "CRITICAL REFLECTIONS IN MIGRATION RESEARCH: VIEWS FROM THE SOUTH AND THE EAST"
Koç University, Founders Hall on 07-09 October 2009.
Agenda setting in research on international migration has been almost completely in the hands of scholars and researchers in the receiving countries of the North or the West. Although research on international migration in the countries of the South and the East (namely, Eastern Europe) has been characterized by a richness of descriptive material, it is also marked by a relative lack of theoretical contributions. In other words, there seems to be a hegemonic setting in which research areas and questions are defined and formulated in the core countries, and then presented and inserted to the agendas of the peripheries. This phenomenon will be discussed particularly in the light of the recent intensification of development of migration research in selected countries of the South and the East, namely, Turkey, Morocco and Poland.
The Draft Program:http://www.mirekoc.com/staticfiles/files/MiReKoc-BMU_Conference__DRAFT.doc
MiReKoc Forthcoming Activities:http://www.mirekoc.com/?sid=13
16/9/2009
AAG 2010 Call for Papers: Contemporary geographic research on (im)migration
Organizers: Patricia Ehrkamp, University of KentuckyHelga Leitner, University of Minnesota
These proposed paper sessions seek to follow up on a panel discussion “Immigration through many lenses” organized by Mat Coleman and Monica Varsanyi at the 2008 AAG meeting in Boston that sought to highlight the various contributions geographers make to immigration research across disciplines. The discussion among panelists and with the audience yielded glimpses of the manifold topics, themes, and approaches geographers are currently studying or deem important for future research. Intrigued by the intensity of discussion and the breadth of geographic work that surfaced, we invite papers for a series of sessions that feature current geographic research on (im)migration. Papers in these sessions will highlight the work geographers are currently doing, and the ways that their research points to further questions and future study rather than manifestos on “what we should study.” To this end, we conceive ‘geographic research on (im)migration’ broadly to include a variety of topics and approaches that could include, but are certainly not limited to: • Race, racism, and (im)migration• Studying the “host society” and/or social relations between migrants and non-migrants• Immigrant detention, deportation, security• Immigration and law/policy (this includes policies that are not necessarily immigration policies but are relevant to immigrants’ lives)• Local politics of (im)migrant exclusion/inclusion• Immigrant activism• Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism• Social cohesion, integration, and assimilation• Transnational ties and practices• Migration and development• The geopolitics of (im)migration• Doing immigration research: methods, research design• Unbounding academic (im)migration research: Collaborating with activists, informing public discourse and policy
To begin a conversation beyond the (academic) boundaries of geography, and to facilitate conversations between geographers and scholars, analysts or activists working at policy institutes or think tanks we plan to end this series of sessions with a panel discussion with a policy analyst or activist from the D.C. area.
If you are interested in presenting your work in these sessions, please
send your abstract to Patricia Ehrkamp (p.ehrkamp@uky.edu)and Helga Leitner
(Helga.Leitner-1@umn.edu) by October 15, 2009.
15/9/2009
Exploring Innovations and Transgressions in Tourism Mobilities/Immobilities.
Call for Papers, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, April 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC.
Convenors: Professor Kevin Hannam (University of Sunderland), Dr Jan Mosedale (University of Sunderland), Cody Paris (Arizona State University).
Sponsored by Taylor and Francis Publishers and the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group of the AAG.
Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2004: 1) wrote in their book Tourism Mobilities:
“We refer to ‘tourism mobilities’, then, not simply
to state the obvious (that tourism is a form of mobility), but to highlight
that many different mobilities inform tourism, shape the places where
tourism is performed, and drive the making and unmaking of tourist destinations.
Mobilities of people and objects, airplanes and suitcases, plants and
animals, images and brands, data systems and satellites, all go into ‘doing’
tourism. … Tourism mobilities involve complex combinations of movement
and stillness, realities and fantasies, play and work.” Research
into tourism mobilities has, to date, primarily focused upon the impact
of new technologies and modes of transport and related changing social
and cultural practices as well as the creation of new ‘mobile’
places such as airports and internet cafés – with little
regard for both alternative innovations and transgressions within mobilities/immobilities
(Cresswell, 2006; Hannam et al., 2006).
This call for papers, then, looks to examine some of the more neglected aspects of tourism mobilities, in order to understand creative and innovative as well as transgressive and abject mobile practices that are constitutive of contemporary tourism. However, we are also seeking research that examines what happens when things break down in the very ‘doing’ of tourism and both the immobilities and new innovative or transgressive mobilities that may then ensue. Hence, we would like to suggest papers that engage theoretically with the new mobilities paradigm and which examine one or more of the following themes:
Tourism, Creativity & Innovations in Mobilities/immobilities
Tourism, Greed & Excess in Mobilities/immobilities
Tourism, Inequalities & Abjection in Mobilities/immobilities
Tourism, Risk & Health in Mobilities/immobilities.
Tourism, Crime & Terrorism in Mobilities/immobilities.
Please note the guidelines for presenters, available at:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm
Please submit your abstract by October 16th 2009 to either kevin.hannam@sunderland.ac.uk
jan.mosedale@sunderland.ac.uk or cody.paris@asu.edu
14/9/2009
Assembling ‘parts of elsewhere’: Urban politics and policies on the move
Call For Papers, AAG Meeting, 14-18 April, 2010, Washington DC
Organizers: Eugene McCann (Geography, Simon Fraser University) and Kevin Ward (Environment and Development, University of Manchester).
A great deal of urban politics and urban policy-making is characterized by actors’ engagements with places elsewhere. Indeed, for Allen and Cochrane (2007), urban regions are assemblages of ‘parts of elsewhere;’ their very constitution is only conceivable and made operational through the way that they draw together and articulate various people, processes, and forms of knowledge that exist and extend beyond the individual locality. This insight has its origins in the work of David Harvey and Doreen Massey, among others. Both have emphasized, in their own ways, how places are moments in wider processes that link them to wider geographies and histories. Yet, despite a longstanding acceptance of the relational geographies and sociologies of place and the problematic nature of the category, ‘urban,’ much remains to be done in analyzing precisely how, where, and with what consequences urban policy-making and urban politics operate in and through individual cities.
Recent work on policy transfer, policies-in-motion, or policy mobilities has deepened our understanding somewhat (for example, the 2009 special issue of Geoforum on “Remaking governance, mobilizing policy,” (Peck and Theodore, eds.) and the forthcoming volume Assembling Urbanism (McCann & Ward eds., Minnesota Press)). The purpose of this session is to deepen and extend the discussion by bringing together a range of scholars whose work analyzes how urban political and policy actors (broadly defined to include those working in state institutions, in business, and in grassroots activist organizations, among others) engage with places elsewhere as they seek to shape their place. We invite papers from a variety of theoretical and methodological positions, exploring a diversity of empirical cases. Possible themes include (but are not necessarily limited to):
1. Conceptual
· Political economy-derived conceptualizations of urban neo-liberalization
· Post-structural understandings of governmentality, spatiality,
subjectivity, and assemblage as applied to global-urban policy-making
and political action
· Cultural theorizations of mobility in the context of urban policy
and politics
2. Methodological
· Archival and documentary analysis of discourses of connection among cities
· Ethnographies of institutions, organizations, and individuals
involved in the movement of policies and in translocal ‘resistance
transfer’
· Comparative urbanism and other techniques for understanding the
geographies and histories of city to city inter-connections
· Interpretations of landscapes and the parts of elsewhere held
within them
· Theoretically-informed mappings and quantifications of policy
transfers and of geographies of urban policy and political knowledge
3. Empirical
· Specific cases of globally-circulating policies and best practices and their impact on particular places
· Policy tourism and the means through which actors in different
cities move between cities, learning, adapting, translating and implementing
policies
· City twinning, and other formal relationships that exist in and
through which policies can be moved about
· Institutional infrastructures that facilitate and channel knowledge
transfer (UN, Trade organizations, EU learning networks etc.)
· Oppositional political movements and their use of global circuits
to undermine existing policies (eg the World Social Forum)
Authors are invited to submit a 250 word abstract to both the session
organizers, Kevin Ward (kevin.ward@manchester.ac.uk) & Eugene McCann
(emccann@sfu.ca) by Monday 5 October.
14/9/2009
Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives InternationalConference
Oxford, 14-15 January 2010
Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre,University of Oxford
The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is organizingan international conference on the theme of Romani mobilities in Europe:multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is part of 'Mapping Romanimobilities in Europe', a two-year research project funded by the John FellOxford University Press Research Fund.The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and studentsfrom across a variety of disciplines to discuss the multiple dimensions andimpacts of Romani mobilities in Europe.We invite proposals for papers which investigate the variety and directionsof contemporary Romani mobilities into, out of and within the EU and locatethem in the broader political, social, historical and cultural context. Wewelcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the followingareas:- Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governingRomani mobilities;- Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom ofmovement in the EU;- Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements ofRoma in the EU;- Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns anddirections of Romani mobility;- Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process ofEuropeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at internationalNGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism;- Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-establishedRomani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants;- Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and socialpolicies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU;- Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespreadanti-Gypsyism;- Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production.
The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature arange of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by BaronessNicholson of Winterbourne MEP. Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organisers by Friday25th September 2009.
A limited number of bursaries are available for presenters of papers.The bursaries will cover the registration fee and accommodation in Oxford.To apply for bursaries, applicants must accompany their abstract and CV witha one-page cover letter stating why support would be beneficial to them, andname and contact address of a referee. For full details: EMAIL: nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk
WEB: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/conf_conferences_140110.html
BLOG: http://romanimobilities.wordpress.com/
14/9/2009
Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des Droits de l'Homme
Le lundi 14 septembre 2009, le Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des Droits de l'Homme lance son Nouveau site Web…
http://www.fr.euromedrights.org/
13/9/2009
New book on Social Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan
In his recent book, Senior Researcher and PRIO Director, Kristian Berg Harpviken puts forward a theoretical framework for understanding the role of social networks in situations of war, disaster and forced migration. Inspired by social network theory, developed in fields such as economic and organizational sociology, Harpviken systematically applies and advances these theories with reference to forced migration. He draws on extensive fieldwork in the Herat area of Afghanistan to analyze wartime migration and he discusses how social networks help people cope, what kind of network is most effective in various contexts and what social networks provide.
For more information, please see:http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?pid=344093
'Kristian Berg Harpviken is among the few scholars to have met the empirical and conceptual challenges of analysing networks in conflict settings, as is amply shown in this timely and finely researched book on war and the Afghan diaspora.' - Nicholas Van Hear, The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK
'In a field saturated with macro level studies of war and peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Harpviken's stands out for giving agency to people. Afghanistan's refugees, both in exile and after return, present a compelling case for theoretical contributions to social networks, migration studies and political mobilization during wars. Few authors can claim as much experience with field work during the Taliban regime. Harpviken's first hand knowledge makes a strong case for how networks are formed and evolve in the absence of a state, for better and for worse.' - Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Sciences Po, Paris, France
'This book provides a fascinating insight into war, displacement and return in Afghanistan, drawing on detailed empirical investigation during the period of Taliban control, and since the arrival of US-led coalition forces. Its insight into how social networks are maintained and even strengthened during conflict to channel migration and return is both striking and compelling. As a major study of the world's largest refugee displacement of modern times, it should be required reading for anyone interested in refugee movements.' - Richard Black, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK
'In this systematic analysis of wartime migration, Kristian Berg Harpviken
shows how the evolving structure of social networks shapes the decisions
of ordinary people to leave their homes and to return. Drawing on extraordinary
research in two Afghan villages, this compelling work should be read by
scholars and policy-makers alike.' - Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University
and the Santa Fe Institute, USA
12/9/2009
Le Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées (RFIEA) vous informe de la prochaine clôture de l’appel à candidatures de l’IMéRA - Institut méditerranéen de recherches avancées de Marseille (France)
Date limite de candidature : 15 septembre 2009
(les candidatures arrivant après cette date seront examinées
lors de la prochaine phase de sélection en décembre 2009)
Les candidatures sont évaluées par le conseil scientifique international de l’IMéRA suivant les critères suivants :
- la qualité scientifique ou artistique du projet ;
- le caractère innovant : la nouveauté des problématiques
et objets de recherche ;
- le rapport avec la dimension interdisciplinaire de l’institut.
Les candidatures issues de l’espace méditerranéen sont vivement encouragées et seront privilégiées.
L’IMéRA est un institut d’études avancées (IEA) destiné à accueillir en résidence des chercheurs internationaux de haut niveau, émergents et confirmés, de toutes origines disciplinaires, pour leur permettre de se rencontrer, de mener à bien des travaux qui exigent plusieurs mois de liberté sans contrainte administrative ou d’enseignement, et d’approfondir les liens avec les centres de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur de la région. Totalement interdisciplinaire, il est à la fois un lieu d’innovation intellectuelle et le moteur d’un projet collectif visant à construire l’interdisciplinarité future en mettant l’accent sur la dimension humaine des sciences.
Consulter l’appel à candidatures
http://www.imera.fr/index.php/fr/devenir-resident/candidature.html
12/9/2009
EU unveils strategy for maritime governance in Mediterranean
The European Union has unveiled a strategy to improve maritime governance in the Mediterranean, saying this would act as an important driver for more sustainable growth in the region, while addressing common issues of concern.
To read more visit: http://www.enpi-info.eu/mainmed.php?id_type=1&id=19464&lang_id=450
12/9/2009
International Conference: 10. Conference: "Middle East & Caucasus: Peace and Security Resolutions"
Istanbul, Nov 12-13, 2009
The changes in the balance of international systems after the Cold War have raised new opportunities and risks in the Middle East and Caucasus. The region, therefore, is expected to keep its central role and vital importance in the future.
For information, contact: Erdal Yawuz, President, Center for Strategic
Research & Application, Yeditepe University (sam@yeditepe.edu.tr).
12/9/2009
Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas
Panel, paper, and alternative-format presentation submissions are invited
for the “Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and
Technologies in the Americas” conference, to be held in Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada, on April 8-10, 2010.
Open to students, scholars, and professionals, the conference is meant to build new ties amongst all those interested in the theoretical or applied study of mobilities. The study of mobilities is a young and constantly evolving interdisciplinary field. The concept of “mobility” refers to the social, political, historical, cultural, economic, geographic, communicative, and material dimensions of movement. Students and scholars of mobilities focus their attention on the intersecting movements of bodies, objects, capital, and signs across time-space, paying attention as well as to the way relations between mobility and immobility constitute new networks and patterns of social life. The multiple forms of mobility, or mobilities, are often taken to include—amongst others—subjects such as: transportation; travel and tourism; migration; transnational flows of people, objects, information, and capital; mobile communications; and social networks and meetings. While the conference is open to all themes pertinent to the study of mobilities from a social and cultural perspective—irrespective of the geographical site of empirical or theoretical attention—the main focus of the conference will be on the experience, practice, social organization, and cultural significance of forms of mobility in North, Central, and South America.
Whereas in Europe the new mobilities paradigm has taken a strong hold
in academic units, professional research networks, and recognized publication
outlets, the study of mobilities is still in its infancy in the Americas.
In contrast, mobility is very much part of the core of the social imaginary,
geo-politics, and cultural life of the Americas. Indeed, to be “on
the move” is amongst the most quintessential characteristics of
what it means to be a citizen of the Americas. Furthermore, the Americas
are home to many, distinct mobile cultures and practices: from indigenous
cultures rooted in traditional meanings of home to the historical institutionalization
of colonial and postcolonial trade routes and forced relocations, from
controversial experiments in free transnational trade, to the politics
and experience of migration and Diaspora, from the widespread diffusion
of portable communication technologies, to the mobilization of surveillance
systems, and from the leisure mobilities of tourism, to the social and
cultural significance of transportation and movement in daily life.
For more information see here: http://tinyurl.com/l6k97s
11/9/2009
Refugee Futures Conference 2009
10-12 September 2009, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
Topics to be covered by an eminent group of scholars, administrators and policy makers include: * the future challenges faced in the strategic management of refugee movements and settlement* protracted refugee situations and the difficulty of finding solutions* the scope for refugee resettlement* refugees, crime and security* climate change and displacement of people* refugee children: how can the international community improve outcomes?* the future of the global refugee regime.
The Conference will be held at the Monash University Centre, in the elegant 18th century Palazzo Vaj, in Prato, near Florence, in the city’s historic heart. For further information please see
http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/refugeefutures2009/
11/9/2009
€31 million for Mediterranean migratory routes under Call for Proposals on migration and asylum cooperation
The European Commission has issued a Call for Proposals providing €31
million for migration and asylum cooperation along Mediterranean migratory
routes, covering partners in the ENPI South.
To read more visit:
http://www.enpi-info.eu/mainmed.php?id_type=1&id=19421&lang_id=450
11/9/2009
Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Winter Short Courses
January 2010
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies CMRS at the American University in Cairo AUC is offering the following two winter short courses on refugee law:
1. Introduction to Refugee Law (January 10-14, 2010): Course Description: The course will provide post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, lawyers and others working with refugees or interested in refugee issues with an introduction to the international legal framework which governs the protection of refugees. Through lectures, case studies and small group sessions, course participants will learn about the basic features of international refugee law including the components of the international refugee protection regime; the elements of the definition(s) of \"refugee\" contained in international instruments; the ethical and professional obligations of those representing refugees; the basic elements of the process by which refugee status is determined; and, the rights of refugees under international law. A background in law is useful but not required. The course will include a simulated refugee hearing in which course participants will be assigned roles to carry out in mock refugee status determination proceedings.
2. Advanced Refugee Law (January 17- 21, 2010): Course Description: The course will provide post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, lawyers and others working with refugees with further training on new developments and current debates regarding the international legal framework which governs the protection of refugees. Through lectures, case studies and small group sessions, course participants will discuss and debate the sources and governance of international refugee law; the minimum requirements of and best practices in refugee status determination; the nature of the \"nexus\" requirement; the nature of \"persecution\" (including the circumstances under which socio-economic disadvantage may qualify as persecution); how to distinguish between \"persecution\" and \"prosecution\"; the definition of refugee contained in the Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the ethical and professional dilemmas encountered in legal representation of and advocacy on behalf of refugees; and, the obligations to refugees arising from other areas of international law. The course will be taught using examples from past and current refugee policy and jurisprudence from different jurisdictions. Successful completion of an introductory course in refugee law or equivalent experience with refugee law is required. The course will include a multi-party negotiation exercise based upon a simulated refugee crisis in which course participants will be assigned the roles of affected states, UNHCR and civil society and be required to negotiate a solution.
Application procedure:To apply for one or both courses, please fill in the application form
http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx
and send an updated copy of your CV to Sara Sadek: ssadek@aucegypt.eduThe deadline for receiving course applications is October 8th, 2009. Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by e-mail.Venue of the courses
The courses will take place in the Falaki Building, at the downtown campus of the American University in Cairo Course fees:The tuition fee for each course is $ 500 for non-Egyptians and an equivalent to $ 150 for Egyptians. CMRS provides 5 competitive scholarships restricted to registered refugees in Cairo Participants are expected to pay a 30% of the total fees as a deposit before November 15th, 2009. More information on payment method will be provided to accepted participants.Tuition fees will cover course material and 2 coffee breaks per course day. Accommodation and any other expenses are not included. Please check the link for some nearby recommended accommodation venues in Cairo.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/Documents/Recommendations%20for%20nearby%20hotels.pdf
11/9/2009
Children and War: Past and Present
International multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 30 September - 2 October 2010.
Organised by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
In recent years the volume of international research on 'Children and War', carried out by academics, governmental and non-governmental organisations and institutions as well as the media, has continually increased. At the same time there has been a growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. Research topics are as varied as the disciplines and interests involved - often acting independently of each other. Therefore it seems time to review current research and to open new perspectives for future work by bringing together scholars from various academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions and the media.
All proposals which focus on any topic and theme on 'Children and War' are welcome, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, relief and rehabilitation work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, abuse and prostitution, trauma and amnesia, the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, to remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology. Specific conference themes anticipated are:- Children as witnesses and victims of war and conflicts- Holocaust, genocides and forced labour- Child soldiers, partisans and resistance fighters- Army mascots- Deportations and displacements, refugees and asylum seekers- War crimes, trials and human rights
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words, together with biographical background information of 50-100 words by 31 December 2009 to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk All proposals are subject to a review process. Conference language: English. The organising team: Wolfgang Aschauer (Salzburg), Helga Embacher (Salzburg), Darek Galasinski (Wolverhampton), Olga Kozlowska (Wolverhampton), Albert Lichtblau (Salzburg), Grazia Prontera (Salzburg), Johannes-Dieter Steinert (Wolverhampton).
Fees: EUR 100 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available early in 2010.
All participants need to secure their own funding to participate in this
conference. It is intended to publish a selection of conference papers.
Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg) & Dieter Steinert (University
of Wolverhampton) *Please send replies to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk*
11/9/2009
“Mothers and Daughters: A Conversation with Hanan al-Shaykh and Mariam Said”
Organized by The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Hanan al-Shaykh
A Lebanese-born, London-based author who has chronicled the lives and roles of women in the Middle East in her lyrical, provocative, and often humorous fiction for the past two decades. Her latest book is The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story (Pantheon Books, 2009).
Mariam Said
Born and raised in Beirut, Mariam Said (widow of Edward W. Said and daughter of the educator Wadad Makdisi Cortas) is currently involved with numerous cultural organizations, such as the Barenboim-Said Foundation USA of which she is Vice-President. Said recently published her mother's autobiography A World I Loved: The story of an Arab Woman (Nation Books, 2009).
Moderator:
Jonathan Wilson
Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Tufts University (CHAT).
Co-sponsored with: CHAT, Middle Eastern Studies Major, and the Department
of German, Russian, Asian Languages and Literatures
Open to the Public
Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 5:30PM
Cabot Intercultural Center 702, Tufts University
160 Packard Avenue, Medford MA 02155
For more information, including locations, please visit:
http://farescenter.tufts.edu/events/,
On www.facebook.com (Search: Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies),
or call (617) 627-6560
10/9/2009
ESRC Research Seminar Series Understanding the Migrant Experience
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience.
The idea for the series has arisen from a concern to ensure that the evidence on which policy making in the areas of asylum and migration is based includes evidence about the experiences of the principle actors in the migratory process; namely asylum seekers, refugees and migrants themselves, and the families and communities of which they are a part. Full details of the seminar series are attached. We have held two seminars so far this year exploring whether there is 'a migrant experience' and the ways in which experiences of migration are shaped by gender, age, class , race and other dimensions of difference.
Our next seminar is entitled 'Methodological issues in capturing and understanding experiences of migration' and will explore the advantages and disadvantages of different methodological approaches in unpicking and unpacking the migrant experience, including through the use of in-depth questionnaire surveys, oral histories and participatory research methods. Issues associated with undertaking research with migrants considered particularly 'hard-to-reach', including sex workers and undocumented children and young people will be considered. There will also be a panel discussion addressing the ethical and political issues involved in migration research.
The seminar will take place at Swansea University on Wednesday 7th October 2009 from 9.30am – 5pm. Confirmed speakers include Adrian Bailey and Farai Magunha (University of Leeds), Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Nira Yuval-Davies and Erene Kaptani (University of East London), Nick Mai (London Metropolitan University), Myriam Cherti (ippr) and Ilse Van Liempt (University of Sussex). Lunch will be provided and there will be plenty of time for reflection and discussion.
If you would like to attend this seminar please email migration@swansea.ac.uk by 18th September. Places are limited to 45 participants. You will see from the series outline that we have a number of travel bursaries available for migrants and postgraduate researchers who would like to participate.
If you would like to be considered for one of these bursaries please
let us know when you respond. Best wishes Dr Heaven CrawleyDirector, Centre
for Migration Policy ResearchSchool of the Environment and SocietySwansea
UniversitySingleton ParkSwansea WALES, UKSA2 8PP Tel: +44 (0)1792 602409Email:
h.crawley@swansea.ac.ukWebsite: www.swansea.ac.uk/cmpr
10/9/2009
Correspondence: Travel, Writing, and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c. 1850
7-10 April 2010
An international conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Edinburgh (Institute of Geography and Centre for the History of the Book), in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland, is pleased to announce "Correspondence: travel, writing, and literatures of exploration, c. 1750?c.1850"--a four-day, interdisciplinary conference concerned with travel, travel writing, and the associated literatures of exploration.
In bringing together scholarly perspectives from geography, book history, literary studies, and the history of science, the conference seeks to interrogate the relationship between travel, exploration, and publishing in order better to understand how knowledge acquired 'in the field' became, through a series of material and epistemic translations, knowledge on the page.
Plenary speakers include Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon), Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University), Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University), and Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow).
Proposals for papers on all aspects of travel in the period in question are welcome. Preference may be given to papers which engage with one or more of the following themes: - Travellers' inscriptive practices How, where, when, and why did travellers and explorers choose to record the details of their journeys? In what respects did the mode and style of travellers' written accounts--whether rough notes, regularised diaries and logs, thematic reports, or letters--discipline their content and reflect their intended purpose? - Travellers' credibility and the veracity of written accounts Given that travellers and explorers were only ever partial and imperfect witnesses, how did they assure themselves--and, through the published versions of their work, their audiences--of the truth? How did their accounts correspond to the things they sought to describe and understand? What were the epistemological bases to travellers' claims to truth? - The correspondence between manuscript and print What were the material and epistemic transformations which turned travellers' initial notes into completed, published narratives? Which changes and adaptations were considered necessary in making the transition from manuscript to print? How, in a pre-photographic age, were credible illustrations produced in the field, and how did they supplement and lend authority to printed texts?
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to Dr Innes M. Keighren, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, EDINBURGH, EH8 9XP or by email to innes.keighren@ed.ac.uk no later than 1 October 2009. The organizers hope to have a programme of over twenty papers over the four days of the meeting (including plenary papers). Organizers: Dr Bill Bell, Dr Innes M. Keighren, Professor Charles W. J. Withers.
10/9/2009
Call for Papers and expressions of interest: South African Migration to the UK: Exploring Dynamics, Identities andProspects
22-23 April, 2010 at University of Loughborough
Keynote speaker: Prof Jonathon Crush (Queens University) Other provisional speakers include: Prof Terence Ranger (Oxford); JoAnn McGregor (UCL); Claire Nukui (Reading); Dominic Pasura (UCL)
This two-day seminar is being co-organised by Daniel Conway (Loughborough) and Charlotte Lemanski (UCL) with financial support from Centre for the Study of International Governance (CSIG) at Loughborough University.
We are now inviting the submission of abstracts for papers to be presented at the seminar. Papers should address South African migration to the UK and might include issues such as: whiteness, diaspora, space and identity. As this is a relatively under-researched area, the seminar is intended to serve as an initial space to share ideas and research findings, develop a network of researchers and identify future research agendas.
Please send abstracts of 150-200 words accompanied by your title, name
and institutional affiliation to Charlotte Lemanski (c.lemanski@ucl.ac.uk)
by 1 December 2009.
9/9/2009
Book launch in London
Vicki Squire 'Exclusionary Politics of Asylum' Palgrave, 2009
and Umut Erel 'Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. Life-Stories from Britain and Germany' Ashgate 2009
Monday, 21 September 2009 18.00 hrs
The Open University in London (Region 1), Room 21-11 Hawley Crescent Camden Town London, NW1 8NP
Programme details as follows:
18:00: Preliminary Remarks
18:10 - 18:40: Speakers:
Engin Isin (Open University)
David Owen (University of Southampton)
Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London)
Discussion with the audience
18:40 - 19:30 Reception
If you are interested in attending this book launch, please RSVP Pearl Whitney, Research Secretary, The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, by 14 September 2009.
Tel: 01908 652717
Email: p.a.whitney@open.ac.uk
9/9/2009
East & West: Cross Cultural EncountersConference
11-12 September 2009
School of Art History, University of St Andrews
This international conference will provide a forum for interdisciplinarydialogue between scholars and postgraduate students of Eastern and Westernculture to develop understanding of cultural exchange between Asia, Europe andAmerica.
* Fee-waiver is given to Student delegates from history-related disciplines orScottish institutes.
For details of programme and registration, please go to:
http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/newsandevents/cross-cultural/ Contact
information:crosscultural@st-andrews.ac.uk
8/9/2009
Workshop: "Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography"
London, Sept 18, 2009
Organised by: Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
and SOAS. For information and detailed programme contact sarah.savant@aku.edu
8/9/2009
Interdisciplinary Conference: "Arab Popular Culture Conference"
Beirut, April 20-23, 2010
The Institute for Media Training and Research at the Lebanese American
University in Beirut is holding this interdisciplinary conference. Conference
organizers welcome contributions from scholars, journalists, musicians,
artists, graphic designers, and all those interested in the subject. In
the last 20 years, the expansion of the middle class, the exceptional
growth of pan-Arab media and particularly television, and the introduction
of Western forms of mass popular culture have all considerably challenged,
and changed the Arab World. These developments have not been accompanied
by any significant academic interest. Many Arab intellectuals continue
to look at popular culture with derision while Western scholars have mostly
focused their on the political repercussions of the media boom. This conference
aims to focus attention on the significant developments in popular urban
culture in such areas - but not exclusively - as music, cinema, sports,
and fashion. We also expect that some of the papers presented will explore
the relation of media, in all of its forms, to popular culture, and will
examine the limits and significance of the popular in the context of the
international. Those interested in participating should send panel suggestions
or an abstract of less than 250 words no later than February 5, 2010.
They will be notified within a week from receipt of their abstracts. Speakers
should note that they will have no more than 20 minutes to present their
papers. However, a full version of their paper will be made available
to all participants and posted on the LAU conference website. There will
be a registration fee of $100, and $60 for students. It will cover, among
other things, three lunches at the university and one diner off campus.Special
arrangements will be available to participants at a number of hotels near
the LAU campus. More information will follow soon. All correspondence
regarding the conference should be addressed to Dr. Ramez Maluf, rzmaluf@lau.edu.lb
7/9/2009
Conference: "Libya: Legacy of the Past, Prospects for the Future"
Middle East Centre, University of Oxford, 25-27 September 2009.
On 25-27 September the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford, will host an international conference entitled "Libya: Legacy of the Past, Prospects for the Future."
The conference will provide a forum to reflect upon Libya's recent history and current politics. It will bring together leading academics, as well as analysts and diplomats, in order to discuss some central issues that the limited literature on Libya has so far ignored.
For any query please contact the organisers, Claudia Gazzini (claudia.gazzini@sjc.ox.ac.uk) and Emanuela Paoletti (emanuela.paoletti@qeh.ox.ac.uk).
To attend, please complete the registration form and return it by the 30th August to emanuela.paoletti@qeh.ox.ac.uk
For more information please see: http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/libya-conference2009.html
6/9/2009
The 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference: THE 21ST-CENTURY GULF: THE CHALLENGE OF IDENTITY
30 June-3 July 2010
Call for papers:
www.ex.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/gulf-conf/
4/9/2009
Refugee Futures Conference 2009
10-12 September 2009, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
Topics to be covered by an eminent group of scholars, administrators and policy makers include:
* the future challenges faced in the strategic management of refugee
movements and settlement
* protracted refugee situations and the difficulty of finding solutions
* the scope for refugee resettlement
* refugees, crime and security
* climate change and displacement of people
* refugee children: how can the international community improve outcomes?
* the future of the global refugee regime
The Conference will be held at the Monash University Centre, in the elegant 18th century Palazzo Vaj, in Prato, near Florence, in the city’s historic heart.
For further information please see
http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/refugeefutures2009/
3/9/2009
Call for Papers | Ethnography and History Of Southwest Asia (including 'Middle East') and North Africa.
The Department of Anthropology at the LSE is pleased to announce the seminar
series on Southwest Asia (including 'Middle East') and North Africa for
2009 - 2010. This seminar will bring together doctoral students, research
fellows and senior scholars to present their recently completed work and
work-in-progress in a forum to get feedback and discuss new and current
research in and of the region.
We welcome submissions from researchers from any discipline who are employing ethnographic or historic approaches. Suggested topics include, but not restricted to, the following themes:
• State, borders, and citizenship
• Majorities and minorities
• Labour relations
• Migration and forced migration
• Space, performance, and media
• Family, intimacy, and sexuality
• Religions: politics and rituals
• Social movements
We are seeking paper proposals for the Michaelmas Term (Autumn 2009).
The seminar will be held fortnightly on Thursdays 17 - 18h30, papers are
expected to be 45 minutes long, followed by a discussion. To apply please
send a brief abstract and your department/university affiliation no later
than *1 September* to wanaseminar@googlemail.com. Please do not hesitate
to contact us with your questions and queries. The organizing committee
regrets that it cannot provide funding for attendees and participants.
1/9/2009
New Policy Report : 'Surviving in the city: a review of UNHCR's operation
for Iraqi refugees
in urban areas of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria'
Report available at: http://www.unhcr.org/4a69ad639.pdf
"Nothing really prepared us for this operation, so we had to adopt
an
unconventional approach to the way we did business.” Those are the
words
of a UNHCR staff member in the Syrian capital of Damascus, referring to
the challenge of responding to the massive Iraqi refugee exodus that has
taken place since 2006.
As explained in 'Surviving in the City', a new report from UNHCR's
Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES), the organization is
familiar with the demands of coping with large and sudden movements of
refugees. But in many cases, those people are housed in camps. The
unique feature of the Iraqi situation is that the vast majority of
exiled Iraqis have settled in the cities of neighbouring and nearby
states, especially Amman in Jordan, Beirut in Lebanon, as well as
Damascus and Aleppo in Syria.
The report points out that UNHCR's task in these countries was
complicated by a number of other factors, including its limited presence
in the Middle East, the absence of refugee laws in the three countries
of asylum, as well as their preoccupation with the Palestinian refugee
question.
Despite these difficult circumstances, the organization's Iraqi refugee
operation has many achievements to its credit. Taking advantage of
international interest in the crisis, UNHCR mobilized substantial
resources, rapidly scaled up its activities, deployed high-quality teams
to the field and addressed the specifically urban characteristics of the
exodus in an innovative manner.
Cash has been distributed to refugees by providing them with ATM cards.
UNHCR has kept the Iraqis informed by means of SMS messages. Refugee
women have been recruited to act as community outreach volunteers,
encouraging other Iraqis to register with UNHCR and to benefit from the
services it provides. Opinion polls have been used to understand the
needs and intentions of the refugees. And community centres have been
establish to provide Iraqis and other city-dwellers with an opportunity
to meet each other, learn new skills and enjoy recreational activities.
As a result of these initiatives, as well as the generous admission
policies adopted by Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and a substantial refugee
resettlement programme, primarily to the USA, the protection offered to
the uprooted Iraqis has improved over the past three years.
But the situation remains a fragile one.
First, the gains that have been made could easily be reversed if
negative developments were to take place in the political, economic or
security environments.
Second, the majority of Iraqis do not have any immediate prospect of
finding a solution to their plight. Most of them say that current
conditions in Iraq prevent them from repatriating, while a significant
number have no intention of returning there under any circumstances.
Only a limited number of the refugees can expect to be accepted for
resettlement, and yet those who remain in the three countries of asylum
have almost no prospect of integrating there or gaining secure residency
rights, both of which have been ruled out by the authorities.
A final concern underlined in the PDES report derives from the very real
prospect that the resources available to UNHCR will decline in the
months to come. Other emergencies are now capturing the world's
attention and the money available to humanitarian agencies may diminish
as a result of the global economic crisis.
The question now looming over the operation is whether it will be
possible to protect and support the Iraqi refugees, more than 250,000
of
whom have now registered with UNHCR, in the absence of adequate funding.
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