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Mutations de l’espace et mobilités en terre d’Islam, XIX-XXIe siècle Lundi 10 mai 2010 | Paris (75006) RESUME ANNONCE Appel à communications 1er thème : Usages sociaux de l’espace urbain 2e thème : Fabrique de l’espace rural Les journées d’études se situent dans une perspective
pluri- et transdisciplinaire, les communications peuvent donc utiliser
des approches anthropologiques, ethnologiques, historiques, géographiques,
socio-économiques et sociologiques. Calendrier : Villes, frontières et changements de souveraineté en Méditerranée,
XVI-XXe siècle Jeudi 10 juin 2010 Appel à communication pour un colloque international intitulé « Villes, frontières et changements de souveraineté en Méditerranée, XVI-XXe siècle » organisé par le Centre de la Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine (EA1193), université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, qui se tiendra à Nice, le 25 et 26 novembre 2010. ANNONCE Elles seront étudiées par un comité scientifique avant le 10 juillet. La publication des actes dans les Cahiers de la Méditerranée ou dans un volume monographique, est envisagée. Informations pratiques : Mots-clés Constitution d'un réseau d'anthropologues sur le Moyen-Orient et l'Eurasie Pour adhérer à ce réseau, inscription auprès de Dr. Pedram Khosronejad, Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland,mail: pedram.khosronejad@st-andrews.ac.uk La première réunion du réseau sera tenue pendant
la 11ème conférence d'EASA à Maynooth, Irlande, du
24 au 27 août 2010. La Méditerranée comme objet. Représentation et construction
scientifique Jeudi 15 avril 2010 | Rome (Italie) RESUME ANNONCE Cycle de formation doctorale: La construction de l’espace méditerranéen Les demandes, comprenant une lettre de motivation, un résumé d’une page de la recherche en cours, un bref CV devront être adressées à : Jean-François Chauvard, Directeur des études pour l’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Ecole française de Rome, Piazza Farnese, 67 - 00186 ROMA (dirmod@efrome.it), avant le 15 avril 2010. Les jeunes chercheurs dont les dossiers auront été retenus seront avertis vers le 10 avril. Ils seront hébergés à l’Ecole française de Rome pendant la durée de la formation (les frais de transport n’étant pas pris en charge, ils seront invités à demander à leur école doctorale de rattachement une prise en charge). Mots-clés: Méditerranée, formation doctorale New workshop for the "2010 Conference: Tourism and seductions of difference" Lisbon, 10-12 September 2010 (http://sites.google.com/site/tourismcontactculture/project-definition) "Seduction and Disenchantment in the Making of Heritage" Panel convened by Camila del Mármol (Universitat de Barcelona) and Marc Morell (Universitat de les Illes Balears i Institut Català d'Antropologia) Tourist sites are not immediately present in social experience. They are the outcome of a complex process that in many cases involves the production of heritage. Recent developments in the making of heritage have triggered new practices and discourses that circulate within and through the territories subject to the tourist gaze. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the world of heritage, and its making, as a process in which diverse power structures and social agencies converge. Our purpose is to explore the way in which seduction and disenchantment are involved in the implementation of heritage policies that shape and emerge within the process, as well as the kind of support and dissent the politics of heritage arouse. We welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions. Abstracts of no more than 250 words and any other inquiries should be directed to Camila del Marmol (camiladelmarmol@gmail.com) and Marc Morell (marc.morell@uib.cat). The working language here is English. Deadline: 1 May 2010
Call for Papers, Special Issue of Sustainability on "Sustainable Tourism: Issues, Debates and Challenges” (Sustainability, ISSN 2071-1050, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability) Sustainable Tourism is high on the agenda of tourists, tourism organizations and many tourism companies, which often have declared their willingness to move towards sustainability. While some companies and individuals have moved considerably in adjusting their behaviours to become more environmentally, economically and socially responsible, it however appears clear that the tourism system as a whole is becoming less sustainable, both because of its overall rapid growth and of what has been called "veneer environmentalism" or "greenwash", i.e. the unwillingness to change travel behaviour (tourists) or to engage in operational and business behavioural changes that are more fundamental, i.e. going beyond measures that are profitable because of resource savings, branding benefits or improved customer relations (private and public components of tourism industry). As sustainable tourism development has in many senses come to a standstill within the overall systemic framework of contemporary economic behaviour and its underlying rationale of growth and financial return to a narrowly defined set of stakeholders, as well as an increasingly intensive energy- and resource demand, there is a need for a critical review of the challenges for sustainability in tourism, particularly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. We encourage submission of articles critically discussing • the implications of the growth paradigm in tourism; • ecological economic approaches to sustainable tourism; • psychology and consumer behaviour in tourism; • the effectiveness of codes of conduct in sustainable tourism including the new focus on climate change mitigation; • supply and value chain studies of sustainable tourism; • corporate responsibility and CSR; • tourism and appropriate development; • comparative analyses of sustainable tourism development between countries and destinations; and • the new geography of tourism under climate change mitigation scenarios. Guest Editors Dr. Stefan Gössling Western Norway Research Institute, Postboks 163, 6851 Sogndal, Norway & Linnaeus University School of Business and Economics, Kalmar, Sweden.Website: http://www.vestforsk.no/index.html/tilsette/stefan-gosslingE-Mail: sgo@vestforsk.no Dr. Michael C. Hall Department of Management, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand & Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Oulu, FinlandWebsite: http://canterbury-nz.academia.edu/CMichaelHallE-Mail: michael.hall@canterbury.ac.nz Submission All manuscripts should be submitted to sustainability@mdpi.org with a copy to the Guest Editor. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly
journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page
before submitting a manuscript. Article Processing Charges (APC) for publication
in this Open Access journal are 300 CHF (Swiss Francs) per accepted Paper.
English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will
be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication
that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2010 Eurasylum's Monthly Interview: The future of international labour migration? Each month Eurasylum conducts a short interview of a leading player in international migration and asylum affairs, within a range of policy, academic and practitioners’ areas of expertise. The third interview in the special IOM/Eurasylum series on the "The Future of Migration: Building Capacities for Change" has just been published. It features Prof. Wiseman Nkuhlu, President of the International Organization of Employers (IOE), and Nand Kishore Singh, Member of the Parliament of India. The interview is on: "The future of international labour migration". The interview can be accessed from: http://www.eurasylum.org/Portal/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=19 Please send any replies to: management@eurasylum.org Seminario "Construyendo una política de inmigración europea: ¿qué pueden hacer las autoridades nacionales, regionales y locales? ¿cómo y cuando?" Organizado por el European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA). 31 de Mayo al 1 de Junio CIDOB. Ver. Home, Migration and the City: New Narratives, New Methodologies Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden 6-10 August 2010 Chair: Dr. Ayona Datta - London School of Economics, UK Our closing date for application is the 16th of April 2010 This conference is part of the 2010 ESF Research Conferences Programme
and is accessible on-line from www.esf.org/conferences/10317 Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location (Duke University Press) The book is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Arguing against the persistent myth of borderless travel, Tracking Europe shows the discourses on Europe to be caught in an irresolvable contradiction on a conceptual level and in deeply unsettling asymmetries on a performative level. It asks why the age-old notion of Europe as a borderless space of mobility goes hand-in-hand with the at times violent containment and displacement of people. For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University
Press, please visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4579-4
The Inaugural Symposium of the Drexel University Center for Mobilities Research and Policy DOES MOBILITY HAVE A FUTURE? Monday, April 19th, 2010, 3-6pm Welcome from Donna Murasko, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Keynote Speaker: Professor John Urry (Lancaster University, UK) Plus Panelists: Prof. Sven Kesselring, Technische Universität München, Germany Dr. Peter Adey, Keele University, UK Reception will follow at 6pm. Please RSVP to Mimi Sheller if planning to attend: mimi.sheller@drexel.edu Prof. Mimi Sheller Tel. 215-571-3652 Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Cultural Diplomacy Organised by the Chios Institute for Mediterranean During the first part of the Forum, prominent keynote speakers and http://www.egeo.gr/euromedforum/ Turbulent Trade Routes Lancaster Environmental Centre (LEC), Lancaster University April 27, 2010, 11.45am-5pm Organized by the Mediterranean Mobilities Research Network - Centre for Mobilities Research in collaboration with LEC.
Turbulence Tim Hall, Department of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire Invisible Trade Routes: Mobilities, Materialities and Geographies of Organised Crime Craig Martin, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London Piracy and Parasites: On the Competing Forces of Oceanic Trade Routes Peter North, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool Trade Routes and Eco-localisation - a Progressive Response to Peak Oil and Climate Change Kathy Pain, Globalization and World Cities Network, Loughborough University / University of Reading Gateways and Corridors in Globalization: Changing European Global City Roles and Functions The growing availability of commodities from all over the world is one of the most banal and pervasive expressions of the increasing if uneven connectivity between places at the turn of the 21st century. Economic geography has made substantial progress in mapping the shifting geographies of transnational production networks but much less is known, however, about the circulation networks of the commodity. Much less is known about how this circulation is made materially possible through transport routes and the resilience of transport infrastructures in the face of shifting economic, technological and environmental conditions. Thus far interest on the heightened connectivity that has become a hallmark of globalization has largely focused on geographies of the internet (e.g. Castells 1996), aeromobilities and world city networks (e.g. Cwerner et al. 2008, Taylor 2004), circuits of money circulation (e.g. Thrift et al. 1994), and human mobility (e.g. Castles and Miller 1998). Despite being vital for the daily subsistence of an increasingly urban population and involving some of most extensive transport infrastructures and the biggest mobile machines, the quiet circulation of goods has not yet captured social scientists imagination. After decades of globalization a renewed interest in trade routes is being triggered at the policy level by a shifting geopolitical landscape that is seeing global economic, political and military influence tilting towards the East. In what is being called an age of new empires, the growing demand of natural resources –especially oil-, the environmental transformations ushered by global warming, the growth of piracy associated with ‘failed states’ and the expanding and contested spheres of influence of new regional powers seem to herald a turbulent future for trade routes. The aim of this workshop is to discuss trade routes from a critical social science perspective, especially in relation with global warming, technological and geopolitical change. Registration If you would like to attend please contact Javier Caletrío for any queries - j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk For further information please visit: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/medmobilities/seminars.htm Event sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ‘Research
and Enterprise Fund 2010’ and CeMoRe. Research Summer School - UK Transport Research Centre Understanding Change 7th-9th September 2010, University of Leeds The UKTRC Summer School (http://www.uktrc.ac.uk/summerschool/index.html) is a unique practical, research-led residential event designed for PhD research students and early career researchers from across the social sciences who are working on issues of transport and travel. The Summer School will provide participants with: · Workshops to challenge and develop theoretical and methodological approaches · Opportunities to present, discuss and reflect on their own work · Access to other students and researchers in the field · Informal opportunities to think, work and play The summer school is organised around the theme of understanding change: be that change in the fabric of society, in methods of organising transport and travel or in the detail of how people respond to short term changes in modes and costs of getting around. Participants will have the chance to consider methods of analysing and understanding change at different scales and with reference to different units of enquiry. For example, changes will be considered over the life course, in relation to trajectories of institutional and infrastructural innovation and to the role of the state. The summer school also addresses change in policy: how is policy change conceived and enacted; how do policies change practice, and how do policies themselves evolve? Equally, now is institutional change facilitated and blocked. Researching change from any of these perspectives presents significant theoretical and methodological challenges. Summer School 2010 is the first of an annual series of such events designed to provide participants with new ideas, insights and opportunities to develop their research. The summer school is priced at £150 for PhD students and £200 for Early Career Researchers and includes all accommodation and meals. Full details about the Summer School including the programme, speakers and details on how to register are available at http://www.uktrc.ac.uk/summerschool/index.html Spaces are limited to 40 so please register early to avoid disappointment! Anyone with any queries about the event including eligibility to attend should contact Dr Greg Marsden (Greg.Marsden@uktrc.ac.uk) Speakers Whilst the event is designed around activities and interaction, several leading speakers from different disciplines will provide think piece discussions around the theme of understanding change. The opening plenary address with be given by Dr Theo Arentze of the Eindhoven Institute of Technology. Dr Dale Southerton (University of Manchester) will speak on socio-cultural perspectives on change, particularly in relation to time use. Participants will also hear perspectives from policy makers and practitioners including David Brown, Head of Strategic Transport Analysis and Review at the Department for Transport. A full listing of speakers is available at http://www.uktrc.ac.uk/summerschool/speakers.html About UKTRC UKTRC was established in 2009 as a £7.25m research centre by the
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for Transport
and Government Scotland. The aim of the Centre is to support top flight
social science research and to bring new insights and evidence to bear
on the UK's transport policy issues. The UK Transport Research Centre
(UKTRC) is jointly operated by Imperial College London, University College
London and the University of Leeds. Conflict, Communication and the Media (Fall 2009) The first article in this Fall 2009 issue is Amani Ismail's “Communicating politics online: The rhetoric of terrorism and resistance”. Ismail considers how two groups that have been classified as terrorist organizations use the WWW in order to both transcend traditional media boundaries and to play more active and creative roles in constructing images of themselves for global public consumption. Mervat Youssef provides the second article in this issue with a focus on the role of the media in constructing ways of thinking about the casualties of war. Youssef asks how CNN and Aljazeera performed during the 2003 Gulf War and whether their reporting on Iraqi casualties was also a vehicle for propaganda. Aim and Scope The Mediterranean Edition publishes scholarship with a focus on communication and media studies from critical and cultural perspectives, gender studies, media and peace communication, and studies in the role of communication and the media in the resolution of conflict and the promotion of peace. The journal welcomes articles from feminist theoretical perspectives, political economy of communication, communication policy and regulation, communication and peace, peace journalism, film, audience studies, media and ethnicity, and discourse. The Mediterranean Edition accepts manuscripts for consideration throughout the year and publishes in both Spring and Fall. Abstracting and Indexing Services The Mediterranean Edition is abstracted and indexed in the ProQuest CSA
and EBSCO. Listed in DOAJ and Ulrich. New book : Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location (Duke University Press) The book is a bold interdisciplinary critique of claims regarding the free movement of goods, people, services, and capital throughout Europe. Arguing against the persistent myth of borderless travel, Tracking Europe shows the discourses on Europe to be caught in an irresolvable contradiction on a conceptual level and in deeply unsettling asymmetries on a performative level. It asks why the age-old notion of Europe as a borderless space of mobility goes hand-in-hand with the at times violent containment and displacement of people. For more information, and to order the book directly from Duke University
Press, please visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4579-4 Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Cultural Diplomacy Organised by the Chios Institute for Mediterranean Affairs. To be held on Rhodes island next May. This Forum will provide a open platform for exchanges and debates for students, young professionals and NGO activists with a keen interest in the Mediterranean region as well as in cultural diplomacy. During the first part of the Forum, prominent keynote speakers and practitioners with first-hand experience of cooperation in the Mediterranean region will share their insight with our participants. During the second part of the Forum, participants will get the chance to discuss concrete projects of cooperation with a clear Euro-Mediterranean dimension within thematic workshops. This will be an excellent opportunity for NGOs to develop their international network and find new cooperation partners in the Mediterranean region. I therefore invite your organisation to apply for this Forum on the basis
of the "Practitioner's Track: Call for Projects". Deadline for
application is April 5th. Further information & Call for proposals.
"Villes rêvées, villes durables ?" Exposition prolongée jusqu'au 21 mars Plus de 82% des Français désirent vivre dans une maison
individuelle. Pourtant, Les villes exercent une forte attraction, parce
qu'elles donnent un accès simple aux emplois, aux écoles,
aux commerces et aux loisirs. Immersion dans les rêves des citadins
et dans leurs envers, l'exposition confronte les désirs contradictoires
d'espace et de centralité. EXPOSITION COPRODUITE PAR Workshop: "Political Islam Week" SOAS, London, 19-23 April 2010 The workshop will be run by SOAS Enterprise Office and the London Middle
East Institute (LMEI). A detailed programme can be viewed at http://www.soas.ac.uk/enterprise/political_islam.
For further information, please contact Dr David Harris on dh16@soas.ac.uk The Jerusalem Quarterly : New issue The Jerusalem Quarterly is the only journal that focuses exclusively on the city of Jerusalem-its history, political status, and future. It addresses debates about the city and its predicament, as well as future scenarios for solving the problems of Jerusalem. The JQ is published by the Institute for Jerusalem Studies, an affiliate of the Institute for Palestine Studies. The new issue of the Jerusalem Quarterly narrates histories of Palestine from the late Ottoman period in essays that, although different, complement each other in that they address historical events rarely studied before. Seen together, these essays highlight aspects relevant to the transformation of Jerusalem, not necessarily as causes, but rather as signs of the times. None of the historical essays deals directly with the native population of the city, but they do help us understand, rather, some of the changes that shaped the lives of the cities and their inhabitants in profound ways. The essays in this collection shed new light on our understanding of many of the issues driving change in the late Ottoman and early Mandate period . The first one, by Laura Robson, addresses the role played by the arriving Occidental travelers and the way they presented and imagined Palestine. Bedross Der Matossian's essay examines the impact of the reforms brought by the Young Turks on the Armenian religious establishment in the city as well as the Armenian community in Jerusalem at large. The diary of Conde de Ballobar, the Spanish consul in Jerusalem from 1914 to 1920, is the primary source on which the study of Roberto Mazza is based. Mazza presents Ballobar as an important witness to the events taking place in the city during a critical period of both the Great War and the heavy handed rule of Jamal Pasha. The next two studies, by Richard Cahill and Omar Khalidi, relate to the
period of the British Mandate in Palestine. The latter deals with the
Palestine Awqaf of the Indian Muslims including various Sufi Zawiyas.
The former continues a his line of enquiry from an earlier essay in issue
38 on the "Black and Tans"-the auxiliary force that the British
used to put down the Irish rebellion in 1919-1920 from whose ranks about
650 members were recruited by the British to serve in Palestine (JQ 38).
Adila Laidi Hanieh, in a conversation with artist Emily Jacir, explores
the lost history of Jerusalem's transport network which connected the
city to the neighboring countries. The last contribution, by Stephen Bennet,
reviews Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks, providing an account of the
accumulative transformations of the Palestinian landscape that have led
to its fragmentation. The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is offering two short courses on refugee issues in June 2010 Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Refugees (June 6-10) and Introduction to International Refugee Law (June 20-24 & 26). Detailed information on the courses and the instructors are to be found below, or from the following link: http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx Please send replies to Sara Sadek: cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu Birkbeck Research in Representations of Kinship and Community (BRRKC) Seminar Series: "A Walled City: Nicosia and its Divided Memories" by Evanthia Tselika Date: 17 March 2010 Free entry; first come, first seated. Contact: Abstract: The divided city of Lefkosia, Lefkosha, Nicosia (Cyprus) is the European Union’s most Eastern frontier and a former subject of the British Empire. It is largely known to the international world because of the ethnic and national strife between the Christian (Greek) and Muslim (Turkish) population of the island, a situation that can be mirrored by other locales in the Balkan area post the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The city is marketed to tourists as the ‘only divided’ capital within the European Union, a firm reality that began with the ethnic troubles that developed in the first half of the twentieth century and unfolded itself to the firm division that divided the urban and rural landscape for thirty years. The general interpretation of Cyprus is that this is an island exclusively inhabited by Greeks and Turks and it is these frictions that have lead to the cold war that has been the ‘Cyprus Problem’. Cyprus throughout its history represented a mixture of cultures but due to its entangled narratives in the twentieth century, its multi cultural past had been denied. As it is now becoming the home for tens of thousands of refugees, economic migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa and Turkish settlers (a term ascribed to migrants from Inner Turkey that move to Northern Cyprus), this former British colony is undergoing one of its most diverse experiences of cultural plurality. This presentation aims to highlight the developments of these cultures of ethno nationalism that describe the divided landscape of the city. This will be achieved through the examination of social, cultural and anthropological theory as it has been applied to readings of the divided communities of Cyprus and the ambiguous border situation with its gaps, its voids and its charged imaginaries. In this bi-polar centre the legacies of the 20th century and the transformations of the 21st are challenging this divided city to introspection, vis-a-vis its claims to an international vocabulary, however ignored, and its architectonic steps forward. As the wider spectrum of my research is concentrating on how creative production can be utilized as a tool for much needed social contact, I will also mention in brief some debates over the use of the physical space of the no man’s land, of this urban ‘frozen in time’ void. Through the umbrella of creation in the public space and social engagement through the arts, this project will aim to narrate visual voices of the inhabitants of a peripheral community in an environment where the divisions of the two ethnicities have been the driving force of political life on the island. Through efforts of bi communal, peace building events a loose frame work has existed in which art has functioned in a socially engaged manner on the island. However in a location where mono cultural agendas have been the framework of how a bi cultural existence could take form, multiculturalism has developed post 1974 indicating that new schemes and increased efforts for social contact are vital. Interpretations of contemporary visual culture are presented with manifestations into the street and through action, site specific and participatory art. The production of socially engaged creative work becomes a move to challenge us to imagine how we would form, cast and shape local social relationships within the global infrastructure of our lives. In an expansionist Europe where identities are largely transforming and migration is reshaping the national landscape, cultural and creative contact amongst the different elements of society is urgent if smooth co existence and mutual respect is to ensue (particularly in a charged ethno landscape such as Cyprus). Registration is now open for the 3rd annual conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Please register now to take advantage of the early bird rate! CARFMS10: Forced Migration: Challenges and Change McMaster University* Hamilton, Ontario, Canada May 6, 2010 – May 8, 2010 Visit the conference website: http://carfmsconference.yorku.ca/index.php?conference=carfms10&schedConf=carfms10 The 2010 CARFMS Conference will bring together researchers, policymakers, displaced persons and advocates from diverse disciplinary and regional backgrounds to discuss the changes and challenges faced in the field of forced migration. We invite participants from a wide range of perspectives to explore the practical, experiential, policy-oriented, legal and theoretical questions raised by different processes of change affecting forced migrants at the local, national, regional and international levels. The conference will feature keynote and plenary speeches from leaders in the field with individual papers and organized panels structured around the following broad sub-themes: Asylum, protection and durable solutions: Needs, current practices and prospects for reform Calls for reform of national and international refugee protection systems have been raised in different quarters, with dramatically diverse visions for change. What are the key challenges facing advocates, policymakers and displaced communities and individuals? How have trends in the interception, interdiction, processing, detention, deportation, protection, settlement and integration of forced migrants shaped prospects for reform? What models might inform the productive reform of the Canadian refugee system? What role might scholars play in efforts to strengthen the protection of forced migrants and the effective resolution of displacement? Theorizing the changing field of forced migration Past decades have seen rapid development - domestically and internationally - in the study of refugee protection and forced migration both within traditional disciplines and across disciplinary lines. With such significant change in research and policy in recent years, the longer view - both to the past and to the future - cannot be neglected. What is the nature of refugee protection in a globalized world, and how is it important (or not) to consider the "new" era? What have been the historical trajectories of laws, policies and practices in forced migration, and how can the historicization of the field advance understandings of change and contemporary challenges? How have different disciplines, methodologies and approaches affected our understandings? Finally, what role is there for actors outside of academia, from policymakers and refugee advocates to displaced persons themselves? Experiencing displacement: Changes and challenges How have recent political and social changes, and changes in the structure and operation of the refugee regime affected the lives of displaced persons? What can scholars of forced migration learn about the contemporary reality of the refugee regime by focusing on the lived experience of displaced individuals and communities? In this section, we particularly welcome presentations by displaced individuals, advocates, and organizations working directly with forced migrants. Please send replies to: mmillard@yorku.ca UNHCR Action to Address Statelessness: A Strategy Note March 2010 http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4b9e0c3d2.html This Strategy Note provides a framework of action to address statelessness issues. Effective responses to statelessness require a partnership approach. The Note is therefore being published in the belief that it may also prove helpful for governmental, UN and civil society partners, as well as regional organizations. This Note highlights the major issues to be addressed at the field level but is not exhaustive and will be complemented by further guidance on specific doctrinal and policy questions. One area in which additional guidance is required is de facto statelessness. Questions relating to how de facto statelessness is defined and addressed will therefore be dealt with in subsequent guidance. The present Strategy Note is focused principally on de jure statelessness, i.e. statelessness as defined in the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and customary international law. Previous alerts are available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/alerts.html Call for Paper for the "Mediterranean Review" Mediterranean Review is issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, at Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea. This Journal addresses Mediterranean regional affairs and discusses crucial developments in culture and politics. It addresses global issues, such as mediterranean influence on international affairs and its multicultural dimensions. We welcome studies of History & Humanity, and Social Sciences, and submission of manuscripts dealing with the relevant areas. Subjets for paper: the Mediterranean Area such as politics, economics, history, literature, languages, arts, society, etc Deadline for the manuscript: 20 April 2010. Date for publication: 30 June 2010. If your article will be published in the journal after the peer review process,a manuscript fee about $1000 will be payed to you from the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. Address: The Editorial Board of Mediterranean Review, nstitute for Mediterranean Studies,Pusan University of Foreign Studies Republic of Korea, imsmr@pufs.ac.kr, For further enquiry, please contact Dr. Kim Heejun, senese77@pufs.ac.kr Seminario ¨La construcción de espacios interculturales significativos. La interculturalidad desde otras visiones¨ Este encuentro, que se desarrollará del 17 al 19 de marzo, se enmarca en la programación del Máster Oficial en Derechos Humanos, Interculturalidad y Desarrollo. En marzo, la Fundación Tres Culturas retoma los seminarios enmarcados en el Máster Oficial de Derechos Humanos, Interculturalidad y Desarrollo que vienen celebrándose desde el mes de enero. En esta ocasión, la Fundación en colaboración con la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía y la Universidad Pablo de Olavide, organiza el encuentro ¨La construcción de espacios interculturales significativos. La interculturalidad desde otras visiones¨, que se desarrollará en el pabellón Hassan II los días 17 y 18 de marzo. En la sociedad española actual, la imagen del extranjero es a menudo percibida únicamente desde el punto de vista laboral, dependiendo de este aspecto su integración social. Estas jornadas, dirigidas académicamente por el profesor de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide Edileny Tomé da Mata, pretenden plantear la construcción de espacios de diálogo en ámbitos más allá del estrictamente profesional, tales como la educación, el derecho, la justicia, la cultura o la religión, entre otros. Además, durante el seminario, Juan José Tamayo, teólogo
y director de la Cátedra de Teología y Ciencias de las Religiones
Ignacio Ellacuría de la Universidad Carlos III, presentará
su libro Islam. Cultura, religión y política. Call for paper for the 14th issue of L’Espace Politique: “Geo/politics of sex” Coordinated by Marianne Blidon and Sébastien Roux, to be released in 2011. “Sex is political” claimed the MLF – Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (Movement for Women’s Liberation) – at the beginning of the 70s. With this slogan, the aim was to pull sexuality out of the private sphere in order to be able to think the body’s political implications and to denounce the naturalized reproduction of sexual and sexed roles. However, even though this critical point of view did generate feminist thinking, which is now always attentive to all dimensions of sexual social relations, analysis of sexuality and gender relations still have difficulties to be accepted as legitimate objects. Accused in turn – or even at the same time – of activism or post-modern ideology, reflections on the geographies of sexualities remain at the margins of research in France. All the same, the geographies of intimacy are geographies of power, and the aim of this issue ofl’Espace Politique is to participate in a shift in vision, in order to think the contemporary transformations of the political based on geo/politics of sex. Proposals can be made in accordance with one of the following perspectives: 1st axe of analysis: feminist perspectives Many works have been published in this respect either in Canada, the US or the UK, without having much impact in France. This issue will give the opportunity to make them better known, through several points of reflection, for example: · Historical perspectives and historiography; Stemming from empirical surveys – from the geographical, sociological, historical or anthropological field – the proposals should offer an analysis of gender relations, so as to be able to grasp the sexual division of space and the material organisation of inequalities’ reproduction. Favoured themes could include: · Private and household geographies; · Sexed division of the public space; · Public space, city and sexuality(ies); · Public policies with regards to sexuality 3d axe of analysis: power, sexualities and globalisation The analysis of globalisation can be improved by an analysis of sexuality. Trade intensification and better mobility for people as well as for goods – actual or symbolic – participate in transforming power struggles, which can be exemplified via the analysis of sexuality and intimacy relations. Themes for the articles could be: · Migrations’ sexual dimension and the way they are dealt
with; The deadline to send in the articles (in French or in English) with a separate presentation of the author, is set for July 1st, 2010. Proposals are to be sent to both coordinators of the issue: · Marianne Blidon : marianne.blidon@univ-paris1.fr · Sébastien Roux : sebastien.roux@ens.fr Euromed Migration II seeks to link migration and development Migrants, countries of origin and host countries should all benefit from
migration, which can contribute to development, according to the aims
of the EU-funded project Euromed Migration II, highlighted in the latest
Eurojar feature published in the Lebanese daily L’Orient Le Jour.
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