News Archive May 2010
29/05/2010
Damascus Exchange, Damascus, 1-15 August 2010
In an effort to further its commitment to promoting dialogue and understanding, Mideastwire.com, in partnership with The Syria Report, is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for the first Damascus Exchange, which will engage students from around the world in a multifaceted discussion of some of the key issues facing Syria and the region.
The Damascus Exchange program rests on three tracks:
Academic - Participants will attend a series of seminars led by leading academics and public intellectuals in Syria. Topics will include: Economic reform challenges; The evolving relationship between Syria and Turkey; Syria's role in the Middle East peace process; Arab nationalism; Hydro-politics in the Levant; and, Doing business in Syria: Barriers, opportunities and practices.
Language - Participants will have the option of attending 20 hours of Arabic language instruction. Modules will be available at different levels.
Dialogue with Leaders - Participants will have the opportunity to meet, listen and engage political, economic and religious leaders in Syria.
Application deadline 20 June 2010.
Further information visit: www.thebeirutexchange.com
25/05/2010
7th CYCLING AND SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM
MONDAY 6th SEPTEMBER 2010
University of Oxford - UK
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 18th June 2010
Abstracts are invited for the 7th Cycling and Society Research Group symposium to be held at the University of Oxford on Monday 6th September 2010.
The Symposium is open to academics, policy makers and advocates who wish to share their research, knowledge and experience of any topic related to cycling. The event will take place in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere in one of the UK’s foremost cycling cities. Newer participants to the field are most welcome and we particularly invite submissions from those who are able to offer critical perspectives on the subject matter from a variety of disciplines.
Papers presented at previous symposia have covered a broad range of themes including: culture; effects of interventions; embodiment; factors inhibiting cycling; fear; gender; history; identity; image; interaction between road users; legal issues; methodological approaches; policy; planning and design; promotion; route choice modelling; social capital; social transformation; statistics; and technology.
Please send an abstract of up to 300 words by the deadline of Friday 18th June 2010 to tim.jones@ouce.ox.ac.uk
Abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of members of the Cycling and Society Research Group and notification of acceptance will be sent via e-mail to the corresponding author by Friday 16th July 2010.
Those wishing to participate in the symposium without presenting a paper are very welcome to attend. A full programme and information on registering for the event will be available in July. Registration to attend the event on the Monday 6th September will be £25 and includes buffet lunch and refreshments. There will also be an informal session for academic researchers on Tuesday 7th September during the morning.
If you require any further information in the meantime please contact Sally Pepperall at the Transport Studies Unit by e-mail sally.pepperall@ouce.ox.ac.uk or by telephone +44 (0)1865 285066 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +44 (0)1865 285066 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Background to the C&S Symposium Series The Cycling and Society symposium series was launched in 2004 at Lancaster University, with subsequent meetings at the Universities of Cardiff (2005), Chester (2006), at the offices of the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) Guildford (2007), University of West of England (2008) and University of Bolton (2009).
The symposia are linked to the Cycling and Society Research Group (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/cycling-and-society.html)
whose members span many disciplines and approaches to the study of cycling.
An edited collection of papers presented at earlier symposia was published
in the book ‘Cycling and Society’ (eds. Horton, Rosen &
Cox, 2007) by Ashgate as part of its Transport and Society Series.
21/05/2010
Call for Papers: “Higher Education, Globalization and Power in the Arab World”
In 2003, the second UNDP Arab Human Development Report severely criticized the Arab higher education systems, deeming it to be in a disastrous state. It invited the Arab states to make mas-sive investments, quantitatively as well as qualitatively, in a sector crucial for any society’s future. While newly expressed, the negative perception concerning Arab universities and their weak-nesses is not recent. The mismatch between the curricula and social needs has long been de-nounced. Arab higher education is hindered by numerous problems: obsession with large, general-ist universities; redundancy and devaluation of the most valorized university diplomas; unemploy-ment of graduate students; absence of professional training matching social needs; and brain drain, to name just a few. These issues have been raised by many in the Arab world and outside. They fuel a discourse of “academic crisis”, which bears huge political, social, economic and emo-tional investments in a sector felt to be vital for the country.
Present Arab higher education stems from hundreds of years of history in the region. Medieval Is-lamic universities preceded nineteenth century universities, founded by Arab or colonial rule and emulating the European university model. But the development of modern higher education dates back to the independences. Considered strongholds of the anti-colonial struggles or created to quench the newly independent states’ thirst for development, prestige and legitimacy, universities multiplied in the Arab world. This trend was repeated after the 1980s when the developmentalist dead ends led to timid liberalizations. Ten universities (i. e. higher education institutions) existed in 1940; there were 140 in 2000, half of them founded between 1980 and 1993; today they are 250. University capacities vary – gross enrolment rates range from 14% in Yemen to 49% in Libya – but are increasing in every Arab country.
And yet, this academic opening has been hampered for two decades by economic crises, struc-tural adjustments programs, drops in reputation, and graduate unemployment. In this context high-lighted by the UNDP report, strategies of requalification emerge. The emphasis of this special is-sue of REMMM will be put on the current mutations of Arab universities, mutations materialized by new modalities of interaction between the Arab world and Northern countries in the context of glo-balization.
The poor results of the first wave of academic liberalizations led to two series of consequences. Firstly, a new wave of financing from the corporate sector, as part of the globalization of universi-ties, has for a decade been imposing higher education as a commodity. The multiplication of uni-versities is reconfiguring the higher education framework in the Arab countries. Secondly, the most recent actors of the Arab academic renaissance are the countries constituent of the Arabian Pen-insula. In Saudi Arabia, there were only eight universities in 2003; more than a hundred have been created since 2004. The budget for higher education multiplied threefold to reach 15 billion dollars for a 23 million people country.
This evolution has introduced deep changes in the Arab academe and pushed it toward higher in-tegration in the global economy. On the one hand, universities in the Maghreb are altering their strategies in order to emulate the European universities engaged in the Bologna process, and to mark their difference with Sub-Saharan countries. On the other hand, universities in the Near-East (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan) seem to be caught in the crossfire between the rise of the Peninsula’s universities shaping themselves toward the American model, and the North-African universities following the European model. At the same time, most of the authoritarian regimes are strengthening their grip over society while other regimes are going through crises (Lebanon, Pales-tinian Territories, Iraq); violence is ceaseless whatever its source or nature is. Finally, the circula-tion of knowledge, scientists and institutional technologies are altered by internal rearrangements – especially the faculty flows between Egypt and the Gulf countries.
How to elucidate these complex dynamics? Who are the older and newer academic actors? How – and by whom – are their functions formulated, reformulated and experienced? How are they work-ing today? How are relations negotiated between societies, governments and universities? How are countries, institutions and university careers ranked? How do Arab societies articulate the opening of universities to international competition with the persistence of coercion? Is privatization an effective solution against massive unemployment? For the time being, only a few studies offer a political sociology of academic actors and institutions in the Arab world. The only comprehensive and referential books are sociographies (in English) dating back to 1966, plus some recent publica-tions on education in the Arab world. Another set of works, mostly expertise, mobilize the science of education and economics in order to enhance the functioning and internal organization of uni-versities or to adapt them to liberalization. They form a major part of the “grey literature” on the matter, rich in information though poorly theoreticized. This new issue of REMMM aspires to ex-plore the different aspects and scales of this academic renewal, its history, actors and stakes.
With this issue, we would like to shed new light on the higher education (research and teaching) dynamics in the Arab world, and the influence of the academic liberalizations since 1990. This study is to be based on field research and case studies, favoring multidisciplinary perspectives. The aim is to examine the reactions of universities to both transversal (the global commoditization of higher education, the reinforcement of authoritarian regimes, economic crises) and regional stakes (positioning differences between Maghreb, Near-East and Gulf countries). South-South and North-South academic relations are of particular interest.
Every paper inducing comparisons and theoretical, historical, regional and international appraisal is welcome. The theme is open: formations and transformations of the academic practice and mar-ket, redefinition of public policies and university governance, academic freedom and coercive re-gimes, feminization of the workforce, transformations of the student population and renewing of the curricula, faculty and programs. Papers focusing on a precedent period or on states neighboring the Middle East will be accepted to the extent that they allow a comparative reflection on the main issues highlighted here.
The paper proposal – English or French - must not exceed one page (2 000 characters), explaining the problem explored, how it integrates the main theme of the current issue of REMMM and the material, field and theoretical approach chosen.
You may send your proposals to Vincent Romani, romani.vincent@uqam.ca, by September 15, 2010. See http://remmm.revues.org/index6553.html
20/05/2010
“Refugee Participation in Policy and Practice”
Cairo, June 13-17 2010
The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American University in Cairo, Egypt is pleased to offer a short course on “Refugee Participation in Policy and Practice” June 13-17 2010, to be taught by Professor Barbara Harrell-Bond, one of the world’s leading scholars and activists in the field of refugee studies. To apply, please contact: cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu.
Please note that the deadline for accepting applications is May 1, 2010.
*Instructors* Prof. Barbara Harrell-Bond (OBE) is a leading figure in the field of refugee studies. She founded the Refugee Studies Center at Oxford University, the world's first institution for the study of refugees. She has also founded or helped to found refugee legal aid organizations in several locations including the refugee law in Uganda and Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance and Forced Migration Studies in Egypt. In 2005, Harrell-Bond was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to refugee studies. In September 2008, she returned to Oxford where she directs Fahamu an 'information platform' web site for legal aid practitioners in the global south. Professor Harrell-Bond will be assisted by two graduates from Oxford, Ms. Nora Danielson and Mr. Themba Lewis. *Course Description* Title: Refugee Participation: Where is the Voice of the Refugees?
June 13-17, 2010 This course will explore the questions of refugee participation vis-à-vis humanitarian organizations in the development of policy and practice for refugees, with examples of refugee self-organization and governance. It will confront the conundrum: how can refugee populations be involved in decision-making on issues that affect them; how can their voices be heard? It is also an issue that affects refugees when they seek to organise themselves to represent their interests in their dealings with humanitarian organizations or governments. Referring to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Mark Malloch-Brown once commented, ‘We work for no other organization in the political, governmental, or commercial world which has such an absence of mechanisms for determining citizen or consumer satisfaction.’ How can UNHCR or humanitarian organizations identify refugees who are genuinely representatives of their communities? Does forcing the inclusion of women into refugee committees in camps guarantee that women’s interests will be represented in policy or practice? Do refugees choose their public representatives and do they have legitimacy, or are they ‘self-appointed’? Why has no international refugee organization ever developed? In what ways have refugee voices been represented in the media? Are there times when refugees prefer others to speak for them? Are there times and places where it is inappropriate to encourage refugee participation in institutions that are working in their interests? Are there examples where refugees have taken the initiative to improve their own welfare? How have these initiatives fared? These issues inevitably raise the question of the struggle for power at the institutional and state level as well as within refugee populations themselves. They also force us to examine an even broader question, the social engineering strategies that are employed, especially in refugee camps, in seeking to introduce international standards of human rights.
http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/Documents/CMRSsummer2010_finalAnnouncement.pdf
Please send replies to: cmrscourses@aucegypt.edu.
18/05/2010
Call for Submissions for the Journal of Arabian Studies
The Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter is pleased to announce the launching of the Journal of Arabian Stud-ies (JAS): http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/centres/gulf/gulf_journal.php JAS is the only journal focus-ing on the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf, the Red Sea, and their connections with the Western Indian Ocean (from West India to East Africa), from Antiquity to the present day.
It covers a wide range of topics, in all disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. It follows in the footsteps of Arabian Studies (1974-1990) and New Arabian Studies (1994-2004), although it breaks new ground by incorporating social science subjects and extending the journal’s scope to the present day.
The first issue of JAS is expected out in June 2011. For your article to be potentially included in the first issue, you should submit it no later than September. Please follow the submission guide-lines on the journal's webpage. Books to be reviewed in the first issue should be send to our Book Review Editors no later than July.
James Onley, Editor, Journal of Arabian Studies,
http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/centres/gulf/gulf_journal.php
17/05/2010
Thinking With Insects: Entomological Reflections on History, Medicine and Politics
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Anthropologies of African Biosciences Group
May 20th – 22nd 2010. Attendance is free.
Public Opening Event: 20 May, 4.30-8.30pm
Knowledge about insects has informed models and manipulations of human societies, from apiary inspired labour reform in Victorian Britain to large- scale resettlement schemes for controlling sleeping sickness in colonial Africa. Religious, cultural, economic and political authority has been framed by knowledge of bugs; analysis of their behaviours has challenged our concepts of sociability, intentionality and language. Investigations of their habitats have informed how we construct, cultivate and manage public space. Insects are not only embedded in ecosystems but in cultural understandings; folklore, fiction and media constitute the insect as pest, pollinator or pestilence. In many ways, entomology is a political science par excellence; insect knowledge is enmeshed with the problems of governance, population welfare and ecological stewardship. Insect interventions – vector control, pest eradication, specimen collection and colony cultivation – register the evolving relationship between science, society, and technology.This workshop will bring together scholars doing innovative work on the intersections of insect and human worlds. Combining historical, anthropological and sociological insights with the experiences of entomologists, we will explore the political dimensions of insect-knowledge, probing the question, “how can we think with bugs?”
Confirmed Speakers include: Hugh Raffles (New School), Nigel Clark (OU), Margaret Humphreys (Duke), Steve Lindsay (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), John Clarke (St.Andrews), Nick Bingham (OU), Javier Lezaun (Oxford), Clapperton Mavhunga (MIT)
More info and the conference programme can be found here: http://aab.lshtm.ac.uk/
15/05/2010
New Issue Babelmed
http://www.babelmed.net/
Babelmed.net est le premier magazine on-line des cultures méditerranéennes. Son nom évoque la Méditerranée (med), sa diversité linguistique et culturelle (babel); tandis que «bab», la porte en arabe, ajoute l'idée d’ouverture sur l’ailleurs.
Babelmed, c’est avant tout un réseau de correspondants choisis dans de nombreux pays du pourtour pour leur indépendance et la profonde connaissance des sociétés dans lesquelles ils vivent. Grâce à ces qualités, le site produit une information précieuse et originale.
Babelmed publie une multitude d’articles, enquêtes, portraits, interviews, rendez vous, notes de lectures, rubriques, afin de donner une plus grande visibilité à la Méditerranée créatrice, tout en affrontant les problématiques majeures propres à cette région.
L’accès à Babelmed et à sa newsletter hebdomadaire sont gratuits s’inscrire. Toutefois le site fonctionne grâce à des journalistes et traducteurs professionnels, rémunérés.
Babelmed est une organisation à but non lucratif fondée
à Rome en 2001. L’association est soutenue par plusieurs
fondations publiques et privées.
14/05/2010
International Workshop "Entangled by Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture"
Zurich, 3-4 June 2010
Almost all long-distance transfer of conceptions, institutions and practices
was, and still is, shaped by one very peculiar setting: it was done by
individuals and groups living in diaspora networks. But this implied mediating
between parallel reference frames, switching forth and back between a
home and one or more host cultures, in short:
"speaking multiple tongues".
This continous merger of home and host conceptions, institutions and practices into hitherto unknown new ones made, and still makes, diaspora the one major place of intercultural mediation and transcultural negotiation. The question how this multilingualism (in its widest sense) peculiar of all diaspora shaped the transfer of culture will be the focus of this workshop.
Conveners: Prof. Dr. Mareile Flitsch, University of Zurich, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology/Ethnographic Museum, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Kaplony, University of Zurich, Oriental Institute.
This workshop is an activity of the University Priority Research Program "Asia and Europe" (http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch), Research Field 2: "Entangled Histories".
For further information see www.ori.uzh.ch/actual/conferences/tongues.html
; registration cantele@vmz.uzh.ch
11/05/2010
Interdisciplinary conference and workshop on 'Maritime Geographies'.
October 7th - 9th 2010, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Co-sponsored by the Historical Geography Research Group, Political Geography Research Group and Social and Cultural Research Group of the RGS-IBG and the Human Geography Research Group and the Centre for Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism, University of Glasgow
Confirmed speakers include:
Professor Paul Gilje, George Lynn Cross Research Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma (Author of Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Society and Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850)
Professor Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Department of History Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi (Author of Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast)
Dr Jeremy Anderson and Paula Hamilton International Transport Workers’ Federation Dr Dan Clayton, School of Geography and Geo-sciences, University of St Andrews (author of Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island)
Dr Stephanie Jones, English, School of Humanities, University of Southampton (Editor of Imagining the Indian Ocean: A Reader, forthcoming)
Dr David Lambert, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London (White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity in the Age of Abolition)
Dr Carl Thompson, School of Arts and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University (author of The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination)
Over the last decade or so, geographers have begun to critically engage with the maritime realms of the past and the present, signalling something of a shift from the territorial focus which had dominated the discipline for so long. The worlds of sailors and ships, slaves and merchants, dockworkers and ports, and even the sea itself have been explored through the lens of geography. This has led to the foregrounding of new debates and perspectives in relation to existing concerns within the discipline and has reworked understandings of processes such as imperialism and slavery. It has also offered new points of departure from which geographical research can emerge. Geographers have, among other things, begun to engage with the politics of maritime networks (Lambert 2005), the spatial constitution of maritime networks (Ogborn 2008), explore forms of subaltern agency and identity constituted by maritime workers (Featherstone 2008), and interrogate the spatial imaginaries of the ocean (Steinberg 2001).
Much of this work has been positioned in relation to productive theoretical and empirical attempts to ‘historicise the ocean’ (Klein and MacKenthun 2004); a paradigm shift in historical studies which advances a major challenge to existing work in social and political history. This work has included pioneering work on various forms of Atlantic radicalism and maritime culture (Gilje, 2004, Linebaugh and Rediker, 2000; Rediker, 2004, 2007, Scott, 1986), on the maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean, (Pearson, 2003, Subramanian, 2003), an historical ethnography of the HMS Bounty mutineers (Dening, 1992), an account of slave-ship sailors (Christopher, 2006), and work on the presence of Africans in the Atlantic (Bolster 1997; Gilroy 1992). This work has led to an important revisioning of nation-centred histories of radical movements and forms of social practices and opened up new ways of engaging with subaltern identities, agency and practices.
While drawing on this body of work for inspiration, this conference seeks to critically engage with the work that has been advanced in maritime geographies thus far and prompt new research agendas in the process. The programme of events spanning three days will include keynote talks, papers and workshops dealing with methodological and theoretical issues.
Key questions: •How does a focus on maritime connections refigure terracentric conceptions of nation and empire? •What are the sites/spaces of the ship? •How does a focus on the littoral refigure notions of space and place? •What are the dynamic spatial practices of maritime workers/ sailor’s politics/ organising practices? •What are the geographies of pirates and piracy? •How does thinking in explicitly spatial terms reconfigure the terms of debate of existing work on maritime histories? •How are maritime spaces constituted through transnational and multi-ethnic relations? •What are the gendered spatial practices of maritime worlds? •What human/ non-human configurations are constituted through maritime networks? •What productive methodologies are engendered by an attention to maritime geographies?
4 bursaries are available for Historical Geography Research Group and Social and Cultural Geography Research Group postgraduate members presenting at this conference.
If you want to be considered for one of the postgraduate bursaries please
indicate this when you submit your abstract. Abstracts of around 250 words
should be submitted to William Hasty (will.hasty@ges.gla.ac.uk) and David
Featherstone (david.featherstone@ges.gla.ac.uk) by Friday, 4th June, 2010.
10/05/2010
"Extraterritoriality: The Juridical, Spatial, and Political Condition of Refugee Camps and Other Extraterritorial Spaces”
When: 11 June 2010, 18:00-20:00
Where: The Graduate Institute, La Voie-Creuse 16, Room CV 342 (3rd Floor), Geneva, Switzerland
PANELISTS
John Palmesino (Director, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths University of London), "Neutrality: Extraterritorial Islands in a Borderless World"
Ursula Biemann (Researcher, Institute for Theory of Art and Design at HGK Zurich), "X-Mission: The Extraterritorial Status of Palestinian Refugee Camps"
Manuel Herz (Architect, ETH Studio Basel/Contemporary City Institute), "The Architecture of Humanitarian Relief"
DISCUSSANT
Michael Flynn, Lead Researcher, Global Detention Project
Event co-hosted by the Graduate Institute’s Programme for the Study of Global Migration, the Centre for Research Architecture, and Centre Europe - Tiers Monde.
For more information, contact the Programme for the Study of Global Migration (+41 22 908 6256 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting +41 22 908 6256 end_of_the_skype_highlighting).
08/05/2010
Assessment of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Perceptions and Realities
Una enquesta realitzada per l'Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània
L' Institut Europeu de la Mediterrània (IEMed) ha dut a terme la primera enquesta anual d’experts i actors en relacions euromediterrànies per avaluar els avenços, fites i mancances del Procés de Barcelona.
Aquesta enquesta forma part del projecte “Fomentar el coneixement mutu, l’entesa i la cooperació entre la UE i els Països de la Política de Veïnatge (Regió Sud)” (EuropeAid/125411/ACT/C/Multi- Lot3), cofinançat per la Unió Europea a través del capítol regional de l’Instrument Europeu de Veïnatge i Associació.
L’Enquesta se centra en les percepcions d’experts i actors directament implicats en el Partenariat Euromediterrani. Fins ara els responsables polítics no han disposat d’un instrument per avaluar resultats, orientar polítiques i mobilitzar experts i, en última instància, l’opinió pública.
El document pretén augmentar la visibilitat del Partenariat Euromediterrani, aspecte que a la Conferència de Ministres d’Afers Exteriors celebrada a Marsella el novembre de 2008 es va assenyalar com un element d’extrema importància “per a la seva comprensió i acceptació públiques, així com per al seu sentit de pertinença i legitimitat”.
Al llarg del procés d’anàlisi i avaluació es fa especial atenció a les qüestions de gènere i, alhora, es garanteix un nivell significatiu de participació de dones en el qüestionari.
http://www.iemed.org/activitats/2010/euromedsurvey/assets/Euromed_Survey_pages.pdf
07/05/2010
International Conference "Migration and Family"
University of Basel, 10-12 June 2010
The full conference program and necessary further information regarding registration and location are available under: www.irm-trier.de/veranstaltungen_aktuell.htm
In total there will be 32 speakers participating at the conference from
a wide range of European and Non-European countries, including the following
most well-known experts: Prof. Dr. Rhacel Parreñas (Brown University;
U.S.), Prof. Dr. Eleonor Kofman (Middlesex University, UK), Prof. Dr.
Ursula Apitzsch (University of Frankfurt, Germany), Prof. Dr. Marianne
Krüger-Potratz (University of Muenster, Germany), Prof. Dr. Dirk
Hoerder (Arizona University, U.S.), Prof. Dr. Zvi Bekerman (Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel), Prof. Dr. Sinan Özbek (Kocaeli University, Türkey),
Prof. Dr. Oded Stark (University of Bonn, Germany).
05/05/2010
Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe
International Conference
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Monday, 11 – Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Convenors: Professor Lucille Cairns (University of Durham) and Dr Andrea Reiter (University of Southampton)
CALL FOR PAPERS
What does being Jewish today mean in European countries such as Austria, France, Germany or the United Kingdom, and to what extent is this experience shaped by factors that lie outside the national context? These are questions to which younger Jewish writers and intellectuals themselves are searching for an answer.
As the intellectual historian Diana Pinto has pointed out, Jews in today’s Europe increasingly see themselves as part of a European community. The reunification of Germany in 1989, the rise of the Historians’ Debate, and, in France, the re-emergence of anti-Semitism in the 1970s and 1980s, the rise of revisionism and negationism, President Jacques Chirac’s public apology in 1995 for the role of the French state in the Shoah, new forms of anti-Semitism since the Second Intifada and, most recently, the war in Gaza, have triggered complex cultural reactions from descendents of Jewish Holocaust survivors in these countries. Meanwhile, immigrant Jews from Russia, Israel or the United States still feel obliged to justify their decision to live in Germany.
There is evidence in the print media, television and increasingly in the internet that Jews are once more playing a significant role in the public sphere of these countries and beyond. This conference will investigate how Jews’ relationships to the country in which they live have been shaped by recent historical/political events. Furthermore, it will demonstrate how Jewish identity in Europe is marked by transnational allegiances, and the extent to which Jews might be seen as leading the way in establishing a post-national existence.
We welcome proposals for papers related to any of the aspects touched upon above. Papers may focus on Jewish writers, philosophers and intellectuals working within the European context.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Matti Bunzl (Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois)
Atina Grossmann (Professor of History at the Cooper Union, New York University)
Diana Pinto (Senior Fellow of the Institute of Jewish Policy Research,
London)
Shmuel Trigano (Professor of Religious and Political Sociology, Université
de Paris X, Nanterre)
Proposals for papers of twenty minutes’ duration, along with a
short bio-bibliography, should be sent by 1 September 2010 to the two
conference convenors:
Professor Lucille Cairns (lucille.cairns@durham.ac.uk)
and Dr Andrea Reiter (air@soton.ac.uk).
Further information
http://w01.igrscms.wf.ulcc.ac.uk/index.php?id=478
05/05/2010
"The complexity of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?" by Saskia Sassen
Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture on 26 May 2010
The Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development,
University of Oxford, is pleased to announce that Professor Saskia Sassen
will give the Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture on 26 May 2010. The lecture
will take place at the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's
College, Manor Road, Oxford (0X1 3UJ). The event will start at 5pm and
will be followed by a drinks reception. Saskia Sassen is the Robert S.
Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought,
Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her latest books are "Territory,
Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global" "Assemblages"
(Princeton University Press 2008) and "A Sociology of Globalization"
(Norton 2007). She has recently completed a five-year project for UNESCO
on sustainable human settlement, the results of which have been published
as one of the volumes of the "Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems"
(Oxford: EOLSS Publishers). The lecture will be entitled "The complexity
of Powerlessness: What makes human rights law perform?" Saskia Sassen
will speak about the limits of power and the complexities of powerlessness
– the direct or mediated resistances that the powerless can deploy
knowingly or not. Immigration and human rights help to explore these more
abstract issues – especially in powerful countries vis-à-vis
undocumented workers, who are among the most vulnerable subjects in those
same countries. And yet, under certain conditions, the powerless can make
history, even if they do not gain power in this process. She will discuss
two institutional domains where powerlessness can become complex and the
powerless have made history. For more information or to reserve a seat,
please contact wouter.tekloeze@qeh.ox.ac.uk / +44(0)1865 281726 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting
+44(0)1865 281726 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
05/05/2010
Méditerranée / Barques du désespoir
Film review by Kenza Sefroui. Published in babelmed.
Rachid, Nasser et Omar, jeunes diplômés de Mostaganem, décident de «brûler» en Espagne pour fuir un avenir verrouillé, dans lequel leurs rêves d’une vie digne et libre ne sont qu’utopie. Mais, rongé de désespoir, Omar met fin à ses jours. Sa sœur Imène décide de prendre sa place. Les trois amis confient leur argent et leur destin à Hassan, passeur sans scrupules, et se retrouvent à bord d’une barque vétuste avec sept autres candidats à l’émigration clandestine.
Harragas est le premier film qui donne une place centrale dans la narration à la traversée de la Méditerranée, alors qu’elle était jusqu’alors le point aveugle des œuvres sur ce sujet. Merzak Allouache montre en effet un passage : depuis les préparatifs du départ en Algérie jusqu’à l’arrivée en Espagne, au terme d’un voyage éprouvant et plus qu’incertain. Harragas s’inscrit ainsi dans la continuité de ses films, dont Salut cousin ! (1996) ou L’Autre monde (2001), où il est question des relations entre l’Europe et le Maghreb. Le film se construit sur la polarisation entre un pays qui fait fuir tant les diplômés que les pauvres gens, comme ces hommes du sud qui n’ont jamais vu la mer, et un ailleurs vu comme un Eldorado.
Il montre comment la misère et l’absence d’espoir amènent à prendre les risques les plus insensés, à braver la mort et les gardes-côtes de plus en plus nombreux avec le durcissement des politiques d’immigration, à encourir la prison pour cette tentative. Il suggère subtilement que le hrig est aussi symptomatique de cette situation bloquée que le suicide ou l’islam radical. S’il ne s’attarde pas sur les motivations individuelles, qui apparaissent comme une évidence, il réunit dans une même barque des personnages emblématiques de la société algérienne. La lutte entre le policier et l’islamiste qui, en se noyant tout deux, allège les tensions dans le groupe, est hautement symbolique.
Merzak Allouache met des images réalistes et des mots justes sur ce drame humain. Sa fiction est un condensé de cette réalité : elle est filmée sur les lieux du départ et basée sur une abondante documentation (témoignages, articles de presse, interviews avec des jeunes candidats, des expulsés qui tentent de repartir ou des sans-papiers en France). « 99% de ce que disent les personnages du film sont des phrases que j’ai entendues », confiait-il. C’est en adoptant une esthétique sobre, où la caméra est embarquée comme dans un documentaire, et qui contraste avec la violence du sujet, qu’il fait naître l’émotion. Le film a reçu le prix spécial du jury et le prix des Droits de l’Homme au festival du film de Dubaï, ainsi que le Palmier d’or et le prix de la meilleure bande originale au festival de Valences, et il le mérite, car c’est un plaidoyer pour la libre circulation.
Film franco-algérien de Merzak Allouache, avec Nabil Asli, Lamia
Boussekine, Seddik Benyagoub (2009 – 1h35)
Actuellement en salles.
05/05/2010
Tourism and Hospitality: Planning & Development - Special Issue
Call for papers: Low Carbon Tourism Travel: Cycling, Walking and Trails
Guest Editors:
Richard Weston, University of Central Lancashire, UK
José Carlos Mota, University of Aveiro, Portugal
There is increasing pressure for destinations to reduce their carbon footprint and to enhance their part in providing for healthy, relaxing forms of travel. A recent study for the European Parliament (2009) concluded that cycle tourism has a role to play in a more sustainable future for domestic and international tourism, and “that cycle tourists bring major benefits to localities which currently do not enjoy mainstream tourism development.” (Ibid. 12) Whilst cycle tourism fits well with regional and national policies for the development of sustainable tourism, there are a number of barriers to this. For example, poor integration with public transport and the lack of consistent infrastructure deter the development of the market. Demand tends to occur where good networks of cycle routes exist; in a European context this tends to be Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands (Larsen, 2007). Equally, there have been cycle tourism developments in Australasia and North America in recent years, but these tend to be fragmented. A similar picture can be discerned in relation to walking and tourism.
There is greater need for more research focusing on the economic, social and environmental benefits of cycling and walking for leisure in general and cycle and walking tourism specifically. If greater investment is to be made by regional, national and supra-national bodies more evidence is required so that decisions are made to good effect.
The editors welcome papers that include the following or similar issues, with regard to the development of cycle tourism development in different parts of the world:
Cycling and walking for tourism
Trail/network development and promotion
Environmental impacts of cycle and walking tourism
Changing trends in cycle and walking tourism
Understanding the role of cycling and walking in sustainable tourism development
Social and health impacts of cycle and walking tourism
Cycle tourism destinations
Walking tourism destinations
Cycling and walking as slow travel
Economic impacts of cycling and walking
Integration with rail and coach travel
Spatial planning approach to cycle and walking tourism
Strategies, plans and projects regarding cycling and walking
The governance of tourism & leisure cycling and walking
Contributors should note:
The call is open and competitive
All papers will be blind reviewed in line with journal policy
Papers must be based on original material not under consideration by other
journals
The editors will select the papers for publication in the special issue
but will also recommend others for publication in subsequent issues of
the journal if the need arises
Please see the journal guidelines for preferred paper length, style and
additional information
It is envisaged that the special issue will be published in 2011.
Papers should be submitted as an attachment [word document] to an email
letter to Emccarthy1@uclan.ac.uk <mailto:emcarthy1@uclan.ac.uk>
Editorial enquires should be made to rweston@uclan.ac.uk
The deadline for initial submissions is June 30th, 2010 and final papers
by November 15th, 2010.
05/05/2010
The changing paradigms of tourism in international development: Placing the poor first – Trojan Horse or Real Hope?
GUEST EDITORS: PROFESSOR ANDREW HOLDEN (University of Bedfordshire, UK) and DR. MARINA NOVELLI (University of Brighton, UK)
The aim of this special edition of THPD is to critically evaluate the
place of tourism as a strategy for international development. A decade
after the engineering of the UN Millennium Development Goals, it is timely
to assess the extent to which tourism development policy has shifted from
a focus on macro- to micro-economic implications, aimed at benefiting
local economies and the poor rather than maximising foreign exchange earnings
and international tourist arrivals. For instance, whilst it is advocated
by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) that tourism
can contribute to poverty alleviation, there is a lack of robust evidence
to support this assertion.
Understanding the merits and limitations of tourism in this context is important not only within the academic community but also to resource policies of governments, non-governmental organisations’ agendas, industry and communities’ practices.
Subsequently, we welcome papers that will contribute to furthering and enhancing the understanding of the changing role of tourism in development with a focus on the relationship between tourism and poverty. Specifically, papers are welcomed that:
1) Analyse the evidence of extent of changing paradigms of the role of
tourism in international development;
2) Contribute to the theoretical frameworks of the interaction of tourism
and international development;
3) Contribute to the theoretical frameworks of the interaction between
tourism and poverty;
4) Present reflective, logical and substantiated discourses on tourism
and poverty reduction;
5) Identify policy and strategies to advance the use of tourism for poverty
reduction; and
6) Present case studies that provide a critical evaluation on the effectiveness
of tourism as an agent of poverty reduction.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
· The call is open and competitive
· The editors encourage the submission of abstracts from academics, policy makers, non-governmental organisations and consultants, especially those in developing countries.
· The guest editors will select the papers for publications in the special issue
· Selected papers will be blind reviewed in line with journal policy
· Submission implies that the article constitutes original material that has not previously been published or under consideration elsewhere
· Manuscripts should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words.
· It is expected that Tourism and Hospitality: Planning and Development Journal guidelines are adhered to (paper length, style, etc)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rthpauth.asp <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rthpauth.asp>
· Papers, reviews, case studies should be submitted as a word document and sent to andrew.holden@beds.ac.uk and m.novelli@brighton.ac.uk
SUBMISSION DATES:
Abstracts (max 350 words) to the guest editors by 30 April 2010
Full papers for review by 31st August 2010
Final Papers by 31st December 2010, for special issue publication in Spring 2011
05/05/2010
CALL FOR PAPERS : Encounters: Researchers as Tourists AND Travellers
Guest editors: Keyan G Tomaselli and Andrew Causey
Writing on tourism research is often akin to that of forensic accounting: humorless and persnickety in the extreme. Articles in some high impact tourism journals manage to drain the lifeblood out of the most interesting topics, usually by prefacing their work with extensive literature reviews that go back to the 19th century and then plod slowly forward, embalming theories at each stop along the way.
We invite papers which explore how academics encounter their research sites, subjects and even their own holiday destinations. Autoethnography would offer one of a number of key research methods into studies of our own back yards and/or far away places. Tourism guides like the Lonely Planet and Bradt series, though often anecdotal, do offer sometimes intriguing insights and guidance into local norms, cultures and practices. These guides themselves need to be studied, critiqued, and analysed through both theoretical and methodological lenses, and of course in the field itself.
Papers should offer new methods and ways of doing research, based on
empirical experiences and theoretical revisions. We are looking for submissions
which offer theorised diaries of actual researcher-researched experiences
which develop new ways of researching and particularly, writing, through
which new insights are generated and new research is inspired.
Papers should reach us by 31 July 2010. The manuscript (including abstract,
notes, references and quotations) should be double spaced, prepared in
accordance with the APA system (Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association, 5th Edition: http://www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4b.htm) and should
not exceed 30 pages (including tables, figures and references). The title
page must include all authors' names, affiliations and highest professional
degrees; the corresponding author's postal address, email address, telephone
number; and a brief biographical statement. Papers should not have been
previously published, or simultaneously submitted to another journal,
if in substantially similar form or with substantially similar content.
Authors in doubt about what constitutes prior publication should consult
the editors. Electronic copies should be simultaneously submitted to Andrew
Causey acausey@colom.edu and Keyan Tomaselli tomasell@ukzn.ac.za
Submitting authors should contact the editors for further information
regarding submission procedures.
Guest Editors
Andrew Causey
Dept of Anthropology
Columbia College
Chicago
Keyan G Tomaselli
Centre for Communication, Media and Society
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
http://ccms.ukzn.ac.za
05/05/2010
art.public.tourism.
21 May 2010
Old School Board, Boardroom
Calverley Street, LS1 3ED, Leeds
Artwork is now often used in place marketing, but does public art attract tourists? Do artists share a language with destination managers? How can artists, art managers, destination managers and tourism promoters work together? Is what is good for art also good for tourism? And what kind of publics do art and tourism produce?
There are questions to be asked about the role of art as utilitarian objects or live events: should art be useful? What is use in relation to art? What makes art public? And how do we articulate the importance of the extra-ordinary in our experience of public spaces? Should tourism be a concern for artists, or should art be a concern for tourism? In a time of tighter public spending, how should tourism managers be thinking about and working with publics, artists and art?
The Workshop will be of interest to professionals working in arts management and regional development; destination managers at local and regional level; tourism development organisation and consultant; owners and managers of tourism sites as well as artists.
The Workshop will feature the following experts:
Nicola Hughes
Communications Manager, The Northern Way
Dr Nigel D Morpeth
Artist and Senior Lecturer, Tourism and Entertainment Management, Leeds
Metropolitan University
Katy Hallet
National Art Co-ordinator, Sustrans
Professor Franco Bianchini
Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning, Leeds Metropolitan University
Sue Ball
Director, Media and Arts Partnership (MAAP)
Professor Mike Robinson
Director, Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan
University
William Culver-Dodds
Director, Culver-Dodds Cultural Consultancy (CDCC)
Registration and Fee:
The Workshop is open to everyone interested in the outlined themes. The delegate fee for the full day is £75. Booking can be made online at https://onlinestore.leedsmet.ac.uk/catalogue/productdetails.asp?compid=1&prodid=246&deptid=4&catID=8&hasClicked=1
Workshop Venue:
The Workshop will be held in the Old School Board on Calverley Street in the centre of Leeds. The venue is opposite the Leeds Town Hall and behind the Leeds City Art Gallery. The closest car park is 2 minutes by foot in front at the Rose Bowl on Woodhouse Lane. The venue is also less than 10 minutes walk from Leeds Railway Station.
A map of the venue can be downloaded online at www.tourism-culture.com/location.html
Programme outline
The registration will start at 9:30am and the workshop will be finished by 5pm. The complete programme will be available soon on the website.
For further information, updates and the link to the online registration please go to http://www.tourism-culture.com/workshop_series.html?PAGE=2
Or email us at ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk ......................................................................................................................................................................
04/05/2020
MICROCON Publications : Risk, Security and Coping Mechanisms
RWP24: Child Morbidity and Camp Decongestion in Post-war Uganda - Carlos Bozzoli and Tilman Brück
Conflict related displacement affects millions of families throughout the world. Very little is known about the determinants of health outcomes in the period immediately after a cease-fire is agreed, in which currently displaced people living in camps consider returning to their place of origin. In this paper, we study the effects of war and displacement on the health of children, using morbidity data collected as part of a large household survey from post-war northern Uganda in 2007. We combine this dataset with geo-coded conflict event data at the individual level to overcome the challenges of selection bias and endogeneity arising from households choosing their location in part based on their health status. This methodological concern is confirmed in our analysis. We then estimate the determinants of child morbidity (proxied by various health indicators) in an instrumental variables multivariate model, where conflict intensity at place of birth of the head of household is used as an instrument. We find that while children in IDP camps and in returnee locations exhibit the same mean morbidity rates, IDP camp residency almost doubles morbidity while poor access to safe drinking water in return locations counteracts the positive health effects of camp decongestion. Our results point to the importance of overcrowding and poor cooking technologies in IDP camps for worsening morbidity in children and the need to provide better sanitation and drinking water access in return locations to further improve the health status of conflict-affected children. Better data and analysis in early post-war periods can help to balance public health interventions, thereby strengthening the peace process.
04/05/2010
Living Together - Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
29 – 30 June 2010
University of Surrey , Guildford
This conference aims to take stock of the different forms of civic, political and cultural engagement which currently exist, and investigate the factors and processes which are driving them, and the role of public policy in the engagement of women, migrants, minorities and national populations. A special feature of the conference this year will be an event organised by the Runnymede Trust, which will consider where Britain stands 10 years after the Parekh Report on the future of multi-ethnic Britain and 25 years after the Swann Report.
This conference will range across different academic disciplines and explore links between academic knowledge, policy, practice and the media. The format will consist of keynote addresses, parallel paper sessions, convened symposia, a poster session and a panel debate organised by the Runnymede Trust.
Keynotes:
· Benjamin Barber, President (CivWorld at Demos) and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA
· Constance Flanagan, Professor of Youth Civic Development, Penn State University, USA
· Yvonne Galligan, Director, Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University Belfast
· Antje Wiener, Professor of Politics, University of Hamburg, Germany
Runnymede panel:
· Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, journalist, author and broadcaster
· Munira Mirza, Director of Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy, Greater London Authority
· Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol
· Jørgen S. Nielsen, Director, Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
· Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster, UK (recorded presentation)
· Sally Tomlinson, Professor of Education, University of Oxford
For more about the conference and registration, please visit http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM
04/05/2010
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship.? ‘The Jewish Diaspora in Wales’?
Bangor University and the Cardiff Reform Synagogue
PhD Studentship – Dr. Nathan Abrams
Closing date for applications: 25 June 2010
Start date for project: 1 October 2010
The project
The successful applicant will undertake a doctoral thesis on the history of the Jewish communities of Wales between 1945 and the present. The project will include a study of the position in south Wales as a central element, and this will be rendered possible by access to the private archives, the contacts and the official support of the Cardiff Reform Synagogue and access to other communities through the South Wales Representative Council. The student will also examine the position of the Jewish community and its relations with other ethnic and religious bodies. The thesis will also embrace the scattered Jewish communities of north Wales and the Synagogue will help the project to access material relating to, and to develop understanding of, these communities and families, and the ways in which they retained their faith through contacts within and beyond Wales.
Entry requirements and funding
We especially welcome applications from students holding an M.A. or equivalent in a relevant subject. Preference will be given to candidates with some practical experience of the use of oral evidence and/or knowledge of British-Jewish (or other minority) history. Those who have other academic or professional qualifications (such as in Museum Studies) will also be considered. Applications are open to both EU and non-EU citizens, assuming that they fulfil the relevant residency criteria (contact Dr Abrams for further details).
This AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Studentship will be based in the Graduate School of the College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University in collaboration with Cardiff Reform Synagogue and the South Wales Representative Council. The studentship is worth £13,290 in maintenance per annum with an additional £500 for travel expenses (the studentship also includes the fees of £3390 per annum), tenable for three years and subject to a probationary period and an annual assessment regarding academic progress, from 1 October 2010.
Enquiries and Applications
The first step is to send a self-nomination to Dr. Nathan Abrams (n.abrams@bangor.ac.uk), including the following information, by Friday 25 June 2010 at the latest. We encourage early submission. This should be sent in electronic format (Word, RTF, or PDF; no .docx extensions please):
1. an up-to-date CV, including the names, addresses and email addresses of two academic referees;
2. a brief statement (no more than 2 pages) accounting for your interest in, and describing your suitability for, the proposed doctoral research project.
Informal enquiries may also be directed to Dr Nathan Abrams. Confirmation of the safe receipt of your self-nomination will be provided.
04/05/2010
SPACE AND FLOWS: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON URBAN AND EXTRAURBANSTUDIES
University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, USA
4-5 December 2010
http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/
This conference aims to critically engage contemporary spatial, social,ideological, and political transformations in a transitional world. In aprocess-oriented world of movement, the global north and global southnow simultaneously converge and diverge in a dialectic that shapes andtransforms cities, suburbs , and rural areas. This conference addressesthe nature and mapping of these forces and the dynamics that propelthese changes. The conference also examines and defines the myriad ofdifferent spaces that make up our contemporary world, including urban,edgeurban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, and off-the-grid. In addition to plenary presentations, the Spaces and Flows Conferenceincludes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers, andresearchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers.Presenters may submit their written papers for publication in the peerreviewed 'Spaces and Flows: An International Journal on Urban andExtraurban Studies'. If you are unable to attend the conference inperson virtual registrations are also available which allow you tosubmit a paper for referring and possible publication. You also have theability to upload your presentation to the Space and Flows YouTubechannel. The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title andshort abstract) is 13 May 2010. Future deadlines will be announced onthe conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed withintwo weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including anonline proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website:
http://www.spacesandflows.com/conference-2010/ .
04/05/2010
CALL FOR PAPERS - INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE(S) IN SOUTHERN EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
ESA Research Network 27 - Southern European Societies
Mid-term conference in Cascais (Portugal), October 1-2, 2010
Organized with the collaboration of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS)
The European Union is presently facing new and crucial challenges. Doubts are publicly voiced about the viability of the euro currency and the project of a United Europe. Some governmentsare blaming others, especially those of Mediterranean countries, for failing to rein in their economic deficits, Southern European countries are being pictured as examples of how a country should not be run, and for this reason not deserving solidarity from more virtuous countries. When compared with European societies North and West, Southern European countries are said to be not only lagging behind economic and socially, but also politically and in terms of good governance.
To which extent are these views accurate, and to which extent are they new? Faced with the constraints of coping with accelerated modernization and globalization, have Southern societies - governments and civil society alike - failed to meet rapid social change in adapting to new needs in education, retraining, research, youth and women expectations, economic development, integration of immigrants, changing demographic structures, and institutional reforms ?
What does "competitiveness" mean: should it be measured exclusively in macro-economic terms at country level? Or should it include also, as Paul Krugman argues, the ability of a given country to redistribute the value created by a population to this population as a whole?
While proposing a focus on this theme, organizers will welcome other proposals including a comparative approach between Southern European countries or with other European countries and regions.
The papers may be presented in English, French, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish.
Practical information:
a. Timetable
- Abstracts, limited to 200 words including full identification and the
author(s) contacts, should be sent by May 30th to the following e-mail
addresses: anaromao74@gmail.com
and aps@aps.pt
- Notification of acceptance will be announced by June 30th.
- Full papers should be submitted by September 15th, so as to make them
available to all conference participants.
b. Registration fee
- Upon receiving notification of acceptance, participants will be required
to pay a nominal registration fee of 30 Euros, which will include documentation,
coffee breaks, and lunch.
c. Travel and accommodation
- Participants will need to make their own travel arrangements and hotel
reservation. Conference organizers will provide information about accommodation
in Cascais, as well as suggestions about alternatives way to reach Cascais
from Lisbon airport. Information will be available in time on the ESA
website, on the the RN27 page; see mid-term Conference.
Organization committee:
Ana Romão, Academia Militar (Portugal) – ana.romao@academiamilitar.pt
Luís Baptista, FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) -
blav@fcsh.unl.pt
Manuel Carlos Silva, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) - mcsilva@ics.uminho.pt
Andrea Vargiu, Università di Sassari (Italy) - larvanet@tin.it
Daniel Bertaux, CNRS and Université de Strasbourg (France) - bertaux@ehess.fr
02/05/2010
Research network: EastBordNet
The main aim of EastBordNet is to explore transformations of ‘Eastern’
European borders, comparing knowledge across disciplines, time periods
and regions. Part of this involves focusing on shifts in how places and
peoples are valued within and across borders, including shifts in the
meaning and location of “Europe” itself. In this, borders
are not taken for granted; rather, the aim is to compare findings about
the constant process through which borders appear, disappear, reappear
and are reconfigured.
The themes of money, gender and sexuality - which always mark differences
between people and places, but also involve exchanges and relations across
differences – are themes some participants use to examine the expression
of diverse values across and within borders.
EastBordNet works to understand how borders are made meaningful or rendered
irrelevant, how they generate a sense of location, belonging, worth, distance
or alienation. EastBordNet brings together a wide range of people: it
particularly includes specialists working on the borderlands running from
the north-east (Baltics and environs) to the south-east (Balkans and environs),
but it also involves many others, including those working across the post-socialist
regions of Europe (e.g. Poland and former East Germany), and those mainly
interested in the conceptual and analytical means used to understand the
themes of the network (borders, money, gender and sexuality).
Keyword relating to the interests of the network: Eastern European borders;
post-socialist transformation; value; money; gender; sexuality; identity
and difference; cross-border exchange; border visibility; north-eastern,
south-eastern Europe; mobility; border histories; border documents; concepts
of East and Eastern; East-West distinctions; Balkans; Baltic states; place,
location and belonging.
http://www.eastbordnet.org/
Prof. Sarah Green
Chair, EastBordNet/COST IS0803
Head of Social Anthropology
School of Social Sciences
University of Manchester
Arthur Lewis Building
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
sarah.green 'at' manchester.ac.uk
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01/05/2010
Conference: "Sumud and the Wall"
Bethlehem University, 30 April-1 May 2010
An academic conference with 17 lectures organized around the following
themes:
1. The Wall, space and violence
2. Life near the Wall
3. Activism and Sumud practices
4. Towards Wall Studies
The conference is organized by Oxford Brookes University (UK), Paris-Est University (France) and the Arab Educational Institute (AEI-Open Windows, Bethlehem), in cooperation with Al-Quds Open University, Bethlehem University (Department of Humanities) and Utrecht University (Center for Conflict Studies) as academic partners. The Arab Educational Institute (AEI-Open Windows) is locally responsible for coordination. There will be English-Arabic and Arabic-English translation.
Program und further information:
www.aeicenter.org/aei/archives/Activities/Sumud_and_the_Wall_conference_program2010.htm
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