News Archive January 2010
28/01/2010
Call for Papers: "Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society"
Zayed University is delighted to announce the launch of Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society. Published semi-annually in November and May by Zayed University, Dubai, Encounters (ISSN 2075-048x) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an Advisory Board of prominent scholars, including Arjun Appadurai, Peter van der Veer, Lila Abu-Lughod, Steve Caton, and Aihwa Ong amongst others.
Encounters promotes and publishes scholarship from the humanities and the social sciences, and their intersections on topics related to the encounters of cultures, intellectual traditions, and social and political systems across space and time. The Editorial Committee encourages contributions that explicitly link the humanities and the social sciences and engage their different methodologies. Regular special volumes will offer stimulating, focused engagement with specific historical, political, cultural, social or theoretical questions.
Our inaugural number is dedicated to issues related to the production of knowledge about others. It includes articles by well-known scholars such as Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova, Anneliese Moors, and Abdelmajid Hannoum. Our second number due in May 2010, will focus on the Middle East and globalization in the 21st century. The third number will be edited by Nobuko Adachi of Illinois Sate University and will feature articles on East Asian transnational migration in Africa and the Middle East.
Our introductory subscription rate is 50 USD per year, including shipping.
Our preferred form of payment is electronic bank transfer.
Please send requests to: encounters@zu.ac.ae. For further information
see the Subscriptions link in our website. http://encounters.zu.ac.ae
CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended)
Guest Editors, Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at
Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers
on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major
social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world
today. Papers dealing with identity issues will be of special interest
to the editors. Please submit your paper (5,000 to 10,000 words) electronically
in MS Word format, font size 12 to encounters@zu.ac.ae by February 15,
2009.
27/01/2010
International Conference: "Tropics of Travel. 4. Homes"
Université de Liège, Belgium, 13-15 January 2011
Project Leaders: Frédéric Bauden (Université de Liège), Aboubakr Chraïbi (INALCO, Paris), Antonella Ghersetti (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia), Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS, London)
The Conference is part of a wider project that takes the form of four international symposia. The final part of the Project looks at the ways in which travel may revise notions of self, community and home, and inscribe into the journey of homecoming significance of ontological and epistemological dimensions.
. In what ways do tourism and relatively long sojourn 'abroad' produce
divergent articulations of subject and community?
. Is it possible to speak of 'migration' as we know it today in the pre-modern
context? How would modern knowledge gained in studies of massive populations
movements refine our understanding of travel and homecoming in pre-modern
eras?
. Is the shape of home necessarily drawn by homesickness and nostalgia?
. What role does alienation abroad play in the imaginings of home?
. What meaning do the differing experiences of travel and residence abroad
inscribe on the journey of homecoming, therefore, home? What becomes of
home? Is return possible? What are the possible trajectories of homecoming?
. How is travel remembered, thought of and reinterpreted? Are there dreams
or nightmares about travel? Or are there simply memories? How do these
various forms of remembering shape travel writing?
. When does 'home' become 'exile'?
. How does 'travel' mediate between alternative visions of community?
. What role does travelling material culture play in individual, communal
and cultural transformations?
. Is it possible to speak of 'cosmopolitan' culture and economy in the
pre-modern world? What impact does that have on notions of travel and
definitions of home?
Those who wish to participate are kindly requested to send an abstract of no more than 500 words or one A4 page (double-spaced) to Frédéric Bauden (f.bauden@ulg.ac.be) before the end of March 2010.
The official languages of the conference will be English and French.
However, papers written in another European language will be accepted
for publication in the Proceedings of the Conference.
26/01/2010
Grants for International Partnerships (Africa/ Middle East/ South Asia)
In an initiative developed by the British Academy's Area Panels, awards of up to £10,000 a year for up to three years are available to support the development of ongoing links between research centres or institutions, within the humanities and social sciences, in the UK and in Africa, the Middle East or South Asia. The link would be built around a specific research theme of mutual interest. This could be carried forward through visits in both directions; workshops; seminars and lecture programmes; collaborative research; and joint publications. The programme might form part of either institution's training programme and will ideally involve participation from more than one overseas institution, and might also involve more than one department/university/group/research centre in the UK.
Aim of Award: The scheme is intended to foster links between the UK and Africa, the Middle East or South Asia, with an emphasis on helping scholars to develop research skills and to produce a joint research outcome.
Applicants must have identified an academic partner based in an institution in Africa, the Middle East or South Asia, who will act as the co-applicant on the award.
Scope: Priority will be given to projects with a training element, such as the support and development of staff or postgraduate students (in the UK and overseas). The scheme is intended to benefit early-career scholars from both the UK and overseas, and projects will be highly regarded where they include junior academics from both sides. Visits might be undertaken for staff exchange, supplying teaching elements to courses and developing joint curricula. Workshops and seminars should form an integral part of the programme, and involve both staff and postgraduate students. It is expected that each programme should produce papers or some other joint research outcome designed for publication.
Eligibility: Applicants must be of postdoctoral or equivalent status (i.e. academic staff with at least one or two years of teaching/ research experience)
Level of Grant: Grants are offered up to a maximum of £10,000 per year for up to 3 years.
Closing Date: The closing date for applications is 20 April 2010. Decisions
will be announced in mid-July.
Applications must be submitted via MailScanner has detected a possible
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the Academy's electronic grant application system.
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24/01/2010
darkmatter Journal : New special issue: Pirates and Piracy
http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/category/journal/issues/5-pirates-and-piracy/
Debates about piracy have long featured certain telling contradictions.
At
different times, pirates have been seen as both violent monsters and
colourful folk heroes. They have been cast by historians and cultural
critics as both capitalist marauders and militant workers fighting for
a
restoration of the commons. The pirate has become a compelling symbol
of
freedom: freedom from oppressive work routines; freedom from polite
behaviour; freedom from institutional controls; freedom from restrictive
property laws; freedom from unjust social conventions surrounding race
and
gender roles. We now apply the pirate label to an assortment of activities
from the formation of transgressive sexual identities to the
technology-assisted defiance of copyright law. This special issue of
darkmatter sets out to examine the complicated and often incongruous
cultural meanings assigned to pirates and piracy in the twenty-first century.
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