News Archive July 2009
31/7/2009
CALL FOR PAPERS - BEYOND CITIZENSHIP: FEMINISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BELONGING
An international, interdisciplinary conference
30 June – 2 July 2010 Birkbeck, University of London
Confirmed Speakers: Sara Ahmed, Davina Cooper, Antke Engel, Katherine
Gibson, Julie Graham, Rebecca Gomperts, Ranjana Khanna, Gail Lewis, Lynne
Segal, Margrit Shildrick, Birte Siim, Gloria Wekker, Anna Yeatman.
The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists
to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic,
political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship,
for example, have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative
potential and their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there
has been a strong steer from research funders and policy makers towards
research agendas which address the question of citizenship in the context
of increasingly diverse and multicultural societies.
But, can the concept of citizenship encompass the transformations that
feminist politics seek? What are the restrictions and exclusions of contemporary
forms and practices of citizenship? How does the concept of citizenship
deal with power, inequality, and difference? What are the problems with
framing our desires and visions for the future in terms of citizenship
in a globalizing world of migration, mobility, armed conflict, economic
crisis and climate change? Does the concept of citizenship restrict our
imaginations and limit our horizons within nation-state formations? Can
it ever really grasp the complexity of our real and longed-for attachments
to communities, networks, friends and loved ones? Is it able to embrace
the politics of embodiment and of our relationships with the non-human
world? How have feminists historically and cross-culturally imagined and
prefigured a world beyond citizenship? Is a feminist, queer or global
citizenship thinkable, or should we find a new language for new forms
of belonging?
We invite proposals for papers that address these questions and the broad
theme of the conference. We particularly welcome papers which explore
the interface between the feminist academy and feminist activism, and
which are interdisciplinary and innovative in method and approach.
Individual paper proposals (max. 200 words) or proposals for panels of
three or four related papers (max. 300 words) should be submitted by 1st
December 2009 to: abstracts.beyondcitizenship@bbk.ac.uk
The conference will take place in central London.
A limited number of bursaries will be available.
For further information about the conference, visit:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/beyondcitizenship/
Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging is organised
by FEMCIT, an EU FP6 integrated research project on “Gendered citizenship
in multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements”,
in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, at Birkbeck,
University of London, Rokkansenteret, at the University of Bergen, and
is sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council.
Organizing Committee
Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London
30/7/2009
International Conference on Deportation, Organised by Centre on Policy, Migration and Society (COMPAS) and the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC). 11 – 12 December 2009
http://www.forcedmigration.org/events/2009/deportation-and-citizenship/
Over the last decade many states across the world have boosted their
legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their
territory, including failed asylum seekers, illegal migrants, and
convicted criminals. Scholars have analysed this development primarily
through the lens of immigration control. Deportation has been viewed as
one amongst a range of measures designed to control entrance,
distinguished primarily by the fact that it is exercised inside the
territory of the state. But deportation also has broader social and
political effects. The practice provides a powerful way through which
the state reminds noncitizens that their presence in the polity is
contingent upon acceptable behaviour. Furthermore, immunity from
deportation is increasingly one of the few privileges that citizens
enjoy that distinguishes them from permanent residents.
The aim of this conference is to encourage interdisciplinary and
comparative scholarship on deportation, broadly conceived as the lawful
expulsion power of states, both as an immigration control and as a
social control mechanism. The conference will serve as a vehicle for
bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, including
politics, sociology, history, international relations, law, criminology
and anthropology, interested in the study of deportation.
Themes
We particularly welcome papers on the following themes:
Pre-History
What kinds of historical practices (e.g., banishment, expulsion, exile)
should be seen as the forerunners of contemporary deportation power?
What roles did these practices play in the reproduction of political
community and the maintenance of social and political order?
Subjects
Who are the main subjects of deportation power and how have they changed
over time as a result of political and social concerns? In what ways
does subjection to deportation power map on to patterns of race, gender,
and age?
Contestation
What legal, political and social constraints confront states in their
attempt to deport individuals? How do individuals and social and
community groups go about the task of challenging deportation power? How
do prevalent (and conflicting) conceptions of membership (official,
legal, and popular) influence the state’s ability to use deportation
as
a membership defining tool?
Consequences
How does the practice of deportation affect the way non-citizens see
membership in the states in which they live? What are the effects of
deportation upon the families of the deported and the societies to which
deported people are sent? What are the consequences of deportation for
those who return home? How does the threat of deportation affect the
volume and character of unlawful residence in modern polities? How does
deportation influence inter-state relations?
Submission of Proposed Papers
Those interested in presenting a paper at this conference should send
a
title, abstract of 300 words, and a short biographical outline or CV to
the conference organizer, Dr Emanuela Paoletti, at
emanuela.paoletti@qeh.ox.ac.uk by 20 September 2009. Prospective paper
givers will be informed if their paper has been accepted by 30 September
2009. Full written papers must be submitted by 1 December.
Conveners
* Dr Bridget Anderson: Senior Researcher at COMPAS, University of Oxford
* Dr Matthew Gibney: University Reader in Politics and Forced Migration,
RSC, University of Oxford
* Dr Emanuela Paoletti: Research Officer, RSC, University of Oxford
This conference is made possible by a grant from the John Fell-OUP Fund.
* Call for Papers:
http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/Call%20for%20Papers%20Deportation%20and%20the%2
0Development%20of%20Citizenship.pdf
http://bit.ly/fJmOJ
27/7/2009
Call for Papers : Ethnography and History of Southwest Asia and North Africa
The Department of Anthropology at the LSE is pleased to announce a seminar series on Southwest Asia and North Africa for 2009 - 2010.
This seminar will bring together doctoral students, research fellows
and senior scholars to present their recently completed work and
work-in-progress in a forum to get feedback and discuss new and
current research in and of the region.
We welcome submissions from researchers from any discipline who are
employing ethnographic or historic approaches. Suggested topics
include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
* State, borders, and citizenship
* Majorities and minorities
* Labour relations
* ?igration and forced migration
* Space, performance, and media
* Family, intimacy, and sexuality
* Religions: politics and rituals
* Social movements
We are seeking paper proposals for the Michaelmas Term (Autumn 2009).
The seminar will be held fortnightly on Thursdays from 17 - 18h30.
Presentations are expected to be 45 minutes long, followed by a
discussion of the same length of time.
To apply please send a brief abstract and your department/university
affiliation no later than 15 August to wanaseminar@googlemail.com.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with your questions and queries.
The organizing committee regrets that it cannot provide funding for
travel or accommodation.
26/7/2009
Workshop Call for Papers : Contemporary Fieldwork in the Middle East: Practices, Possibilities and Politics
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Russell Square Campus,
London | Friday 18th September 2009 | Room 4421
Submissions from researchers in any discipline working on the Middle East
are welcomed for a one day workshop which will examine the practical challenges
and the theoretical considerations of conducting fieldwork in the region.
Part A will explicitly discuss participant’s own experiences while
Part B will reflect more abstractly on themes identified below. Suggested
topics include, but are not restricted to, the following themes:
Part A: Practicalities of Fieldwork: Possibilities and Constraints
• ‘Teaching’ Fieldwork
• Fieldwork Encounters
• Expectations versus Reality
• Ethical questions and challenges
Part B: Theoretical Considerations
• Fieldwork and Discipline:
Fieldwork in the Middle East was formerly largely the preserve of anthropology,
yet now there is a huge growth of disciplines conducting fieldwork - historians,
political scientists, and a variety of applied ‘studies’ –bringing
with them different conceptions of fieldwork, and different requirements
in terms of the data it needs to produce.
To what extent do different disciplines have different conceptions of
fieldwork?
What are the practical implications of these?
Do these changes have any impact on how the ‘field’ is relating
to its fieldworkers?
• Fieldwork and the Democratisation of Academia:
Increasingly, academia – or specifically that part of academia focused
on exploring the ‘emic’ – is open to the vernacular
or oral history, to indigenous voices, to women, to lower class contributors
to challenge an imagined canon from various subaltern and non-elite perspectives.
This often has the character of people researching at some level their
own community –which at some level pertains to many of us conducting
fieldwork, and the increased prevalence of hybrid (culturally if not ethnically)
fieldworkers .
To what extent is there a democratisation of academic representations
in our field contexts?
What impact is this having on our research or the way we conduct our fieldwork?
• Fieldwork and the Economics of Academia:
o The Political Economy:
With its performance targets, emphasis on timeliness of output, and new
internal controls such as ethics committees and regulations, the political
economy of academia has shifted.
What is the impact that this is having on fieldwork and academic practices
generally? e.g. the erosion of long term fieldwork and iterative research
projects / questions, the requirement of ethical declaration forms and
their disruption of field relationships.
To what extent is a new political economy of academia discernible in our
various fields / Middle East Studies?
To what extent is this provoking changing practices of fieldwork?
o The Knowledge Economy
What is the place of academia in the knowledge economy, as it becomes
less privileged as an authoritative site of knowledge production and is
sidelined in favour of think-tanks and consultant experts? What is the
impact of marketing trends which capture and persuade an audience through
entertainment, e.g. the rise of an entertainment academia with its thematic
interests in the political exotic of sex and violence.
Does this have any impact in our own contexts of conducting and then presenting
field research?
Do the demands of the knowledge economy – insofar as they can be
said to exist – change what we look at within our field-sites, and
how we come represent it subsequently?
Interested contributors are asked to submit abstracts of no more than
300 words via email attachments (Microsoft Word). Abstracts should include
the paper’s title, full name of author(s), professional affiliation,
current email address and telephone number. Abstracts should be submitted
no later than Wednesday 5th August 2009.
Successful papers for presentation will be notified by Monday 17th August
2009.
Attendance to the workshop is free, but regrettably we do not have funds
available to support travel and accommodation costs for participants.
Please register for attendance and submit abstracts via email to workshop
organiser: Dr Vivian Ibrahim Vi2@soas.ac.uk
25/7/2009
CALL FOR PAPERS - Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling
CALL FOR PAPERS
Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling
Wednesday 16th September 2009
Organised by the Department of Geography and City Centre,
Queen Mary, University of London
This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the critical relationships between cities and diasporas. Drawing on historical and contemporary research, this conference will address the ways in which the city, as a place of departure, travel, sojourn and resettlement, is a site of diasporic mobility and dwelling. Through its focus on urban diasporas and the importance of the city in fostering diasporic identities, imaginations and networks, the conference will extend debates about migration and diaspora; transnational and postcolonial urbanism; cosmopolitan cities; and urban memory.
The conference is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and convened by the Diaspora Cities research project team based at QMUL (Alison Blunt, Jayani Bonnerjee, Noah Hysler-Rubin and Shompa Lahiri).
Abstracts are invited from researchers working on the relationships between
cities and diasporas with reference to particular cities and to wider
conceptual themes. Conference themes are likely to include:
. Diasporic memories, imaginings and experiences of the city
. Tales of urban mobility and dwelling in life stories, cultural practices,
text and images
. The emotional, embodied and sensory geographies of diaspora cities
. Public and private spaces of diaspora urbanism
. Diasporic practices, networks and the neo-liberal city
. Comparative studies of diaspora cities
. Mobility and dwelling in relation to urban modernities, cosmopolitanism
and consumption
Please email abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 10 July 2009 to Dr
Shompa Lahiri at s.lahiri[at]qmul.ac.uk
Registration is free but places are limited. To confirm your place, please email s.lahiri[at]qmul.ac.uk by 15 August 2009.
Visit http://www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/diasporacities/ to find out more about the conference and the Diaspora Cities research project.
24/7/2009
Call for papers : Liminal landscapes: re-mapping the field | Liverpool John Moores University | 1st July 2010
Symposium - Liverpool John Moores University | 1st July 2010
Convenors
Dr Hazel Andrews, (Tourism, Consumer and Food Studies, LJMU)
Dr Kevin Meethan, Department of Sociology, University of Plymouth
Dr Les Roberts (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool)
Ideas and concepts of liminality have long shaped debates around the uses and practices of space in tourism. Victor Turner’s writings on ritual and communitas, Graburn’s theory of tourism as a sacred journey, or Shield’s discussion of ‘places on the margin’ have secured a well-established foothold in the theoretical landscapes of travel and mobility. The unique qualities of liminal landscapes, as developed by these and other writers on the subject, are generally held to be those which play host to ideas of the ludic, consumption, carnivalesque, inversion or suspension of normative social and moral structures of everyday life, deterritorialisation and ‘becoming’, and so on. While these arguments and tropes remain pertinent, and their metaphorical appeal evermore attractive, the extent to which these spaces provoke counter ideas of social control, terror, surveillance, production and territorialisation, invites an urgent call to re-evaluate the meanings attached to ideas of the ‘liminal’ in tourism studies. The deaths of 21 Chinese migrant workers in Morecambe Bay in 2004 has prompted a sobering re-assessment of the coastal resort as a site of tourism, leisure and consumption. The shifting social geographies associated with these landscapes has meant that the example of the beach may equally be looked upon as a space of transnational labour, migrancy, racial tension, death, fear, uncertainty and disorientation. In this instance, the precarious and un-navigable natural landscape of Morecambe sands becomes a metonym for the increasingly de-stabilising landscapes of trans- or post-national capitalist mobility. Moreover, the settlement of asylum seekers and refugees in UK coastal resorts such as Margate has exposed the underlying tensions and social divisions between representations that play on the ludic, touristic heritage of these resorts and those which address the marginality and exclusion that characterises the other set of mobilities and meanings evoked by these spaces. In addition, the appropriation of liminal landscapes by, for example, local authorities, commercial bodies and marketeers constructs an increasingly mediated or textualised space of performance that re-fashions the embodied (and embedded) spaces as lived by those who make up their diverse social fabric.
We invite contributions from across a broad interdisciplinary field, including scholars and practitioners working in tourism and mobility studies, anthropology, geography, film and cultural studies. We also invite multimedia submissions on the topic of liminal landscapes.
For enquiries and further details contact Dr Hazel Andrews H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk.
Please submit proposals for papers (300 words maximum) by e-mail to H.J.Andrews@ljmu.ac.uk. We also welcome proposals for panels and exhibits.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009
Notification of acceptance: November 2009
Date for Registration: March 2010
Final submission deadline for full papers: 7 January 2010
Papers selected from the conference proceedings will be published in Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice (www.tourismconsumption.org).
22/7/2009
Numéro spécial de la revue NAQD N°26 : Migrants / Migrance. Souffrance. El harga
Depuis près d’une décennie, la question des mouvements
migratoires occupe dans nos régions les devants d’une actualité
qui n’en retient que les manifestations spectaculaires et souvent
dramatiques. Encore une fois, les opinions mal informées réagissent
aux menaces suggérées par les groupes conservateurs et par
la plupart des médias. Des barrières de toutes sortes se
dressent face aux « invasions étrangères » et
devant les supposés périls auxquels seraient exposés
le corps social et les grands équilibres économiques. Aucune
société n’est épargnée par ces phénomènes
récurrents, mais certaines plus que d’autres en souffrent,
profondément affectées qu’elles sont par les atteintes
multiples à leur corps réel ou imaginé.
Pour éclairer davantage ces processus qui affectent les pays du
Sud en l’inscrivant dans les dynamiques d’une mondialisation
inégale qui assigne à ces espaces, au-delà des intentions
et des discours, des places bien définies, le numéro de
NAQD consacré aux migrations souhaite focaliser sur ce que celles-ci
définissent comme logiques et orientations, comme pratiques et
actions, comme régulations et dérégulations, comme
représentations et nouvelles sociabilités versus stigmatisations/exclusions.
Etudes de cas, monographies, témoignages, lectures critiques d’ouvrages
et autres analyses seront les bienvenus.
Date limite (texte de +/- 3 000 mots ou 30 000 signes) : fin septembre
2009
21/7/2009
Call for papers : Paestinian Diasporas, Political Cultures and Trans/national Building Projects
WOCMES 2010 – Barcelona
Organized by : Ruba Salih, University of Exeter, Nahla Abdo, Carleton University. Chair : Rosemary Saying. Discussant : Nahda Abdo
For further info : r.salih ‘at’ exeter.ac.uk
20/9/2009
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory and Society on: 'Organizing Christmas and Beyond'
Guest Editors:
Philip Hancock, University of Warwick, UK
Alf Rehn, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
From Valentine's Day to Diwali, from Thanksgiving to the Day of the Dead,
cultural
festivities provide an excuse for producing, consuming and organizing.
On a global scale,
however, few surpass the economic significance of Christmas. In countries
where
Christmas is a state or religious sponsored festival it accounts for up
to 60% of the
average retail store's annual turnover. Even where this is not the case,
its impact is
significant. In China, for instance, more is now spent at Christmas than
during the
traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. Furthermore, in 2007 the country exported
$13.4 million
worth of artificial Christmas trees and $142.6 million worth of Christmas
tree ornaments
to the US alone, a trade that is, for some, associated more with the prevalence
of
sweatshop working conditions than it is with the proliferation of peace
and goodwill.
It is not purely as an economic event that Christmas and what one might
term its
associated festivities are significant, however. They also require the
mobilization of vast
organizational and logistical resources. In the UK, for instance, the
Royal Mail delivers
around 150 million cards and packets during the pre-Christmas period;
a figure that rises
to around 20 billion in the US. Festive events such as Christmas are also
often high on the
organizational agenda of individual households as they cater for, and
entertain, not only
their usual members but also scores of relatives, friends and casual acquaintances.
In
order to manage what are often such stressful demands, a significant self-help
industry
has emerged to service this increasingly profitable market. This ranges
from the mass
provision of magazines and websites, to the individualized services of
personal planners
and even Christmas consultants amongst others. Christmas, along with its
associated
festivities, can, therefore, be viewed as a nexus at which a range of
organizational
questions and problematics are thrown into stark relief. Yet despite this,
they have
received little sustained consideration from within the field of organization
studies.
In order to address this lack of attention we invite both theoretical
and empirical
submissions that critically explore, but are not limited to, festive themes
including:
* The globalization and homogenization of festivity
* Finance, markets and the Christmas hiatus
* The festive labour process
* Festive commercialization, organizational excess and waste
* Ethnic and spiritual identity in the Christmas workplace
* The aesthetic and spatial characteristics of festive business
* Representation of festive organization
* Festive tourism and cultural identity
* Gender and the sexualization of festive labour
* Domestic organization at Christmas and beyond
Submission: Papers must be submitted electronically by 30th April 2010,
but not before
31st March 2010, to SAGETrack at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/organization.
Manuscripts should be prepared according to the guidelines published in
Organization and
on the journal's website:
http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?
level1=600&currTree=Subjects&catLevel1=&prodId=Journal200981.
Papers should be no more than 8,000 words, excluding references, and
will be blind
reviewed following the journal's standard review process. For further
information, please
contact one of the guest editors: Philip Hancock (philip.hancock@wbs.ac.uk)
or Alf Rehn
(alfrehn@mac.com)
17/7/2009
CALL FOR PAPERS - BELONGING IN THE TRANSNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(Print) ISSN 1758-9576; (Online) ISSN 1758-9584
This themed peer-reviewed issue of the Journal of Legal Anthropology invites
papers which explore how the transnational is composed and experienced
in social, political and socio-legal settings.
Papers may consider how families and other groups deal with borders and
the forms of separation and re-making which occur, for instance. How does
the national and transnational occur and or intervene in people's lives
through the use of international conventions and human rights' laws? When
is a custody right a violation or unenforceable? How are 'culture rights'
and 'human rights' experienced within and across socio-legal, social-cultural
and physical borders? In what ways are national/transnational families
affected through movement, separation,re-settlement, and different understandings
of rights and culture? What are the roles of
new and old technologies in forming, un-making and mediating these settings?
Papers may reflect on these and related issues in discussing multiple forms of belonging in relation to people and legal phenomena in the transnational.
We also invite book reviews on these topics.
Submissions:
Narmala Halstead, Editor, n.halstead@uel.ac.uk
Heather Horst, Book Reviews Editor, hhorst@uci.edu
Submission guidelines: www.anthropologies-in-translation.org
14/7/2009
43rd Seminar for Arabian Studies
London, British Museum, 23- 25th July 2009
This year sessions include: Prehistory & Surveys, Bronze Age to Iron Age in S.E. Arabia, Islamic Arabia, Landscape & Food Resources, Arabic & Modern South Arabian and South Arabian Ethnography.There is a Focus Session on 'Current Fieldwork in Qatar' and a Special Session on 'The Development of Arabic as a Written Language'. This year's MBI Al Jaber Public Lecture will be 'Ancient Arabia and the Written Word' by M.C.A. Macdonald (University of Oxford, UK)
For further information on the Seminar and how to register please visit our webpage at www.arabianseminar.org.uk or e-mail seminar.arab@durham.ac.uk
12/7/2009
International Conference: "Trust, Culture and Gender"
Heilbronn, 13-14 November 2009
The deadline for the conference, taking place at the Orient Institute for Intercultural Studies at Heilbronn University, has been extended to 30 August 2009.
Further information e-mail jammal@hs-heilbronn.de, http://ois.hs-heilbronn.de/wiki/DownloadPage
10/7/2009
GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
Pusan National University
Busan, South Korea
21-23 June 2010
http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com
We are excited to be holding the Third Global Studies Conference in Busan, South Korea. Busan the second largest South Korean city and, as one of the busiest world's ports, is significantly involved in globalizing processes. Busan's growing financial services sector promises to increase its involvement in globalization, as does its commitment to international sport. In 2002, Busan was a host city for both the Asian Games and the FIFA World Cup. In addition, it has submitted a bid to be the host of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games. Busan is also a center for higher education, and includes the distinguished Pusan National University, the host of the Global Studies Conference.
The Global Studies Conference and Global Studies Journal are devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. The Conference and Journal attempt to do this from many points of view, from many locations in the world, and in a wide-angle kaleidoscopic fashion.
As well as impressive line-up of international plenary speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the Global Studies Journal. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this refereed academic Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this Conference, we also encourage you to present on the Conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the Conference website for further details.
The deadline for the next round in the Call-for-Papers (a title and short abstract) is 9 July 2009. Future deadlines will be announced on the Conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website - http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Busan in June 2010.
Yours Sincerely,
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
For the Advisory Board, Global Studies Conference and Global Studies Journal
8/7/2009
Images of Illegalized Immigration
University of Basel, 31.8.-1.9.2009
This conference invites scholars to discuss images of illegalized
immigration. How do images shape the way we perceive illegalized
immigration? Who creates these images? Under which conditions? And
where do they circulate? How do they relate to legal and political
discourses?
The number of ?displaced persons? is increasing, resulting in various
forms of social conflict. In what kind of images are these conflicts
presented? How do political and theoretical frameworks as well as
social movements transform these images? How can we draw distinctions
and find new perspectives amidst these pluralities of images? And how
are persons ?de-legalized? through the use of images?
The goal of this conference is to deal more critically with visual
'evidence' of illegalized immigration.
We are very delighted to have W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
give our keynote address. In 1994, W.J.T. Mitchell coined the
persuasive term ?pictorial turn?. He is known especially for his work
on the relations of visual and verbal representations in the context
of social and political issues.
Program:
Sunday, 30. August 2009 (Neues Kino: Klybeckstrasse 247, Basel)
Screenings, Moderation: Nora Mathys
7:00 pm
Fernand Melgar: La Forteresse
Severin Kuhn: Niemand nicht weiss
Monday, 31. August 2009 (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel, Room
212)
Images and Politics, Chair: Jana Häberlein
9:00-9:30 am Welcome and Introduction
9:30-10:00 am Christelle Maire De Bellis: Illegal Migration and Asylum
Abuses:
Constructing New Figures of Speech in Political Posters
10:00-10:30 am Jan-Henrik Friedrichs: Guest Workers and Refugees in
West Germany
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 am Sylvia Kafehsy: Images of Victims in Trafficking in Women
11:30-12:00 pm Christine Bischoff: The Making of "Illegality":
Strategies of
Illegalizing Social Outsiders
Images and Border (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel, Room 212),
Chair: Martin Mühlheim
1:30-2:00 pm Francesca Falk: Invasion, Infection, Invisibility. An
Iconology of Illegalized Immigration
2:00-2:30 pm Michael Andreas: Mimesis, Mimikry, Camouflage: The
Aesthetics and Politics of Illegal Border Crossings
2:30-3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00-3:30 pm Pamela Scorzin: Voice-over Image
3:30-4:00 pm Marc Schonderbeek: The Image versus the Map:
Investigating Border Conditions in Ceuta
Keynote (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel, Room 102),
Introduction: Roland Bleiker
6:15-8:00 pm W.J.T. Mitchell: Flying Checkpoints and Immoveable Walls:
Images and Immigration in Israel/Palestine
Tuesday, 1. September 2009 (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel,
Room 212)
Images and Aesthetics, Chair: Fiona Siegenthaler
9:30-10:00 am Eva Kuhn: "Border" - the videographic traces
by Laura Waddington as a cinematographic memorial
10:00-10:30 am Lambert Dousson: Bruno Serralongue at the Cité
Nationale
de l'Histoire de l'Immigration
10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 am Helen Schwenken and Olaf Berg: Masking, Blurring,
Replacing: Can the Undocumented Migrant Have a Face in Film?
11:45-12:15 pm Almut Rembges: Picture Sevice ? an Interactive
Photo-Project for Immigrants at the Border of Switzerland
12:15-1:00 pm Snack
1:00-1:15 pm Stephan Meyer and Patricia Purtschert: Summary
1:15-2:00 pm Final Discussion
Please register for the conference via email: images.immigration@gmx.ch
Supported by University of Basel, Swiss National Science Foundation
--
Christine Bischoff
Seminar für Kulturwissenschaft und Europäische Ethnologie
Spalenvorstadt 2
Postfach
CH-4003 Basel
Tel. ++41 (0)61 267 12 42
Mail: christine.bischoff@unibas.ch
7/7/2009
COMPAS Annual Conference 2009
New Times? Economic Crisis, Geo-Political Transformation and the Emergent
Migration Order
21st and 22nd September 2009, St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Registration is now open.
"The global financial and economic crisis that struck in the second
half of 2008 can be seen as an acute manifestation of a transformation
of the world order underway for the last decade or so. Gradually the US
is being eclipsed as a more diffuse order emerges in which economic power,
in particular, is spreading to China, India, Russia and Brazil (the so-called
BRIC countries) and other emergent large or middle income polities –
although there is debate as to how deep and significant this process is."
This conference will look at the implications for the global migration
order – and for regional, national and local migration orders –
of this restructuring of the global political economy.
For more details: http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/annual-conference-2009/
2/7/2009
Genre en mouvement : Conflits, négociations et recompositions
Moving Gender : Conflicts, Negotiations and Redefinitions
Colloque international, du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2009?lieu: Université
Paris Diderot
Les mutations économiques, sociales et culturelles qui bouleversent
l’ensemble des sociétés contemporaines donnent lieu
à une redéfinition des rôles, statuts et positions
sociales des femmes et des hommes. Cette réorganisation des rapports
de genre oblige à repenser les cadres d’analyse du genre
mais aussi l’agencement et la fabrique des féminités
et des masculinités.
Parmi les enjeux de la recherche sur cette question, on peut noter d’abord
que les
transformations des rapports de genre ne se produisent pas nécessairement
sous la forme d’une mobilité propre à résorber
les inégalités entre les sexes. L’asymétrie
de départ entre les hommes et les femmes, entre féminin
et masculin, demeure souvent mais connaît des changements et une
redéfinition. La recomposition des statuts et des identités
sexuelles ne peut plus être pensée sous l’unique forme
d’une évolution linéaire dans la mesure où
les déplacements qui s’opèrent par rapport aux normes
ne se limitent pas à des remises en question définitives
mais comportent des réinterprétations et des repositionnements
par rapport à celles-ci.
femmagh@gmail.com
info : http://ramses2.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/Appel-colloque-Genre-en-mouvement.pdf
1/7/2009
Conference: "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Palestine Refugees: Present and Future"
Brussels, 29 - 30 June 2009
Conference in the context of "UNRWA at 60" and the "EU-UNRWA Partnership for Peace and Humanity". Conference Organisers: Prof. Dr. Koen Byttebier & Prof. Dr. Kim Van der Borght, Centre for Economic Law & Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. The conference is supported by the EC Commission, UNRWA and the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The purpose is to develop constructive policy recommendations for the international community and UNRWA on how to deal with economic, social and cultural rights. What the obligations of the international community are, what the mandate is or should be of UNRWA, the obligations of the host countries etc.
Attendance is free but registration is compulsory before 12.00 on 26 June 2009 by sending an email with full name, title and affiliation to: UNRWA60@vub.ac.be. Places are limited.
For further information contact vanderborghtkim@gmail.com
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