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| 12/11/2009 New Vacancies at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford (For Further particulars and applications : http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/about-us/vacancies) Research Officer, EUMAGINE Project (Ref: VG-09-017) Grade 7: Salary £28,839-£35,469 The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a research officer to work on a major collaborative research project “Imagining Europe from the outside” (EUMAGINE) funded by EU’s Seventh Framework (FP7) programme involving 7 different research partners across Europe and Africa. The successful candidate will play a central role in qualitative and quantitative fieldwork in Morocco, prepare project reports and working papers and scientific articles, and will play a coordinating role in the project-wide design and implementation of surveys including sampling as well as the compilation and analysis of survey datasets. Qualifications include a doctorate in a relevant social science discipline with strong experience with fieldwork, and in particular the design and implementation of surveys, sampling, strong statistical skills, excellent communication and writing skills and good knowledge of French. Based in Oxford, the post requires limited fieldwork travel to Morocco and other project countries. This full-time post is for three years, to start in February 2010. Further particulars may be obtained from the link below and from the Administrator, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB (tel: 01865 281805, email: recruitment@qeh.ox.ac.uk) Applications must quote reference no.VG-09-017 and enclose a completed cover sheet (available via the link below), a letter addressing the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae, and the names of two referees. The closing date for applications is noon on Friday 20th November 2009. ***** Research Assistant, THEMIS Project (Ref: VG-09-016) The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a research assistant to work on a major collaborative research project on Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) funded by NORFACE – a partnership of fourteen research councils. This programme will work with academic partners in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway to explore the conditions under which initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in the formation of migration systems. The project will include both the development of theory on the initiation and continuation of migration and also comparative fieldwork following migration from a range of origin countries to European cities. The successful candidate will assist in the preparation of literature reviews, establishment of a research database, analysis of data, maintaining communications with programme partners, fieldwork and the preparation of publications. Qualifications will include an advanced degree in a relevant social science, excellent communication skills, research experience, preferably including use of surveys and qualitative interview techniques. Based in Oxford, the post may require limited fieldwork travel to the project countries. This full-time post is for four years, to start in January 2010. Further particulars may be obtained from the link below and from the Administrator, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB (tel: 01865 281805, email:recruitment@qeh.ox.ac.uk) Applications must quote reference no.VG-09-016 and enclose a completed cover sheet (available from the link below), a letter addressing the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae, and the names of two referees. The closing date for applications is noon on Thursday 12th November.
The International Migration Institute (IMI) is seeking to appoint a part-time project co-ordinator to work on a major collaborative research project on Theorizing the Evolution of European Migration Systems (THEMIS) funded by NORFACE. This programme will work with partners in Portugal, the Netherlands and Norway to explore the conditions under which initial moves by pioneer migrants to Europe result in the formation of migration systems.
Applicants should have a high degree of computer literacy including familiarity with website content management systems, relevant work experience, proven numeracy skills preferably with experience of working with budgets, excellent writing skills, proven, relevant communication ability and the ability to prioritise effectively.
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| 12/11/2009 Fifth International Conference on the Peoples of the Red Sea Region Red Sea V: "Navigated spaces, connected places" Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 16-19 Sept. 2010 The MARES Project at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter, is delighted to host the tenth anniversary conference of the Red Sea Project series, founded by the Society for Arabian Studies. The conference will be held in the beautiful surroundings of the IAIS and city of Exeter, and will coincide with a Dhow Exhibition to be held at the Institute. Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts of up to 500
words to the Organising Committee on the archaeology, anthropology,
ethnography, history and language of the peoples of the Red Sea
region from the earliest times to the present day. The organisers
particularly encourage papers addressing movement, navigation and
land/seascape on the Red Sea, including: Please send all abstracts and proposals to redseav@exeter.ac.uk
before 1 March 2010. The organising committee comprises Prof Dionisius
Agius, Dr John Cooper, Dr Chiara Zazzaro, Julian Jansen van Rensburg,
Lucy Semaan and Ms Beata Faracik. For further information: http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/mares/conferences.htm |
| 11/11/2009 Call for Articles for Journal "Encounters" on "The Middle East and Globalization in the 21th Century" Guest Editors, Jan Nederveen Pieterse of University of California at Santa Barbara and Habibul Haque Khondker of Zayed University, invite papers on the Middle East and 21st century globalization, dealing with the major social, economic, cultural and political issues confronting the world today. Papers on the relationship between the Middle East and the growth regions in Asia, especially, China and India in the context of global economic downturn, will receive particular attention. Papers dealing with migrations and changing identity in the Gulf will be of special interest to the editors. Please submit your paper (5,000 to 10,000 words) electronically in MS Word format, font size 12 to encounters@zu.ac.ae by December 15, 2009. http://encounters.zu.ac.ae/ |
| 11/11/2009 Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political,and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century November 9 - 13, 2009 Elizabeth Chilton and Neil Silberman, Co-organizers The UMass Amherst Center for Heritage and Society is pleased to announcethis international workshop to take place over five days at the campuses ofUMass Amherst, Massachusetts, and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NewYork. The public portion of the workshop will be held at UMass Amherst onNovember 9-10. There will then be a roundtable for invited participants andthe Bard campus community on November 12-13. http://www.umass.edu/chs/news/workshop.html |
| 10/11/2009 Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy andinstitutional frameworks Fifth annual Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability Munich Re Foundation and United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. The theme of 2010 Summer Academy is"Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy andinstitutional frameworks". We invite qualified Ph.D, LLM and SJD students who have an interdisciplinary focus and are working on research or dissertations related to humanitarian and human rights law, migration studies,economics and labor migration, environmental studies, natural disasters,human security, and public health to apply for the 2010 Summer Academy.Applications are required to be submitted online at www.ehs.unu.edu nolater than January 15, 2010. For more information please refer to the attached announcement or ourwebsite www.ehs.unu.edu |
09/11/2009 War and the Body Interdisciplinary one day conference Centre for European & International Studies Research, University of Portsmouth and the War and Media Network Friday June 11th 2010 Imperial War Museum, London UK. War is fundamentally embodied, ?he most radically embodying event in which human beings ever collectively participate?(Scarry, 1985: 71). War is enacted and experienced through the surveillance, classification, wounding, rape, mutilation, torture, death and display of human bodies. Diverse bodies are mobilized, disciplined, drilled, augmented, sacrificed, decorated, produced in war. The history of war is one of corporeal destruction and reconstruction, from the conversion of civilian bodies for military service to the battle for hearts and minds. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means, but politics incarnate. War and the Body invites proposals that seek to explore the embodied history of war as well as recent transformations in warfare. Through what practices, techniques and metaphors has war historically occupied various bodies? From advanced warfighters to private military contractors, child soldiering to ethnic cleansing, is war assuming predatory new embodied formations? To what extent is war deterritorialized and brought home through bodily practices such as militarized leisure and fashion, security and surveillant assemblages? How do bodies bear witness to the histories and transformative power of war through representations of bodily violence and corporeal memorializations? Recognizing the growing interest in the embodiment of human life and social action across the humanities and social sciences, War and the Body aims to bring together international scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and perspectives who share a common thematic concern with the intertwining of war and the body. As such, it acknowledges the importance of the body as an increasingly productive site for rethinking and retooling the historical and sociological imaginations. Empirical analyses and theoretical contributions are welcome. Anticipated questions and topics may include, but are not limited to: ?How are military principles and values inculcated, and resisted, in civilian bodies? ?How are war and political violence lived and experienced through the body? ?What bodies does war traverse, inscribe, produce??Bodies and weaponry?War and human vulnerability ?Corporeal aftermaths, memorializations and mourning?Representing war and the body: cinema, literature, documentary, photography, new media?Cultural histories of war and embodiment?The body politic: wounded nations, national traumas?The militarization of human sensation Please send abstracts of proposed papers (max 500 words), together with brief biographical details by 31st December 2009 to: kevin.mcsorley@port.ac.uk. All proposals are subject to a review process. Selected papers from the conference will be published as a themed issue of a relevant journal or edited collection. For more information please visit:http://www.warandmedia.org/warandbody/ Organizing CommitteeKevin McSorley, University of Portsmouth (kevin.mcsorley@port.ac.uk) Gavin Schaffer, University of Portsmouth (gavin.schaffer@port.ac.uk)Sarah Maltby, City University, London (sarah.maltby.1@city.ac.uk) This conference is supported by the Centre for European & International
Studies Research, University of Portsmouth (http://www.port.ac.uk/research/ceisr)
and the War and Media Network (http://www.warandmedia.org/) |
07/11/2009 Communautés migrantes et espace urbain dans les ports de la Méditerranée, XVIIe-XIXe siècle Dixième conférence internationale d'histoire urbaine,
Gand, 1er-4 septembre 2010 Résumé Annonce Main session Recent research on migrant communities has witnessed a clear shift towards a more sophisticated understanding of the variety of bonds that link minority groups to the society they live in, as well as to their places of origins. Yet, when it comes to the understanding of past migrations, historical discourse still depends in many ways on traditional categories of analysis, that often poorly reflect the profound originality of the situations under study. This session is an attempt to challenge traditional and “ready-to-go” views on the organization of community life among migrants who lived in the Mediterranean port-cities during the late modern period (17th to 19th centuries). To this effect, the session will address the key issue of “minority spaces”, namely of urban spaces that were socially, architecturally or culturally formed and shaped by the presence of migrants and foreigners. It will also consider the way such spaces were perceived by the local population, as well as the role played by urban space as a stake within broader patterns of social coexistence or exclusion. Following the idea that routes of commerce were also the major routes of emigration, the session will focus primarily on Mediterranean port-cities, but will also consider cities located on other types of commercial crossroads. Conceived as minorities, foreigners’ groups may include the so-called Diaspora groups such as the Jews, the Greeks, and the Armenians, but also the other “nations”. Favoring principally papers with a comparative approach, the session aims to approach the theme of “migrant spaces” from the point of view of both the community studies and the urban studies. Comparison can in turn be approached both on a theoretical level and through different case studies. Session Organizers Blog |
05/11/2009 Workshop "The Impact of Migration on Gulf Development and Stability" during Gulf Research Meeting 2010 Cambridge University, UK, 7-10 July 2010 This workshop is organised by Philippe Fargues and Nasra Shah. Deadline for papers 15 December 2009. Further information on the workshop and Migration in the Gulf at http://grcevent.net/cambridge/pdf/workshop12_proposal.pdf Information on the Gulf Research Meeting 2010 at http://grcevent.net/cambridge/index.php |
04/11/2009 Call for proposals for the Special Issue War, Conflict and Commemoration in the Age of Digital Reproduction ( Autumn 2010) Wars, conflicts and commemoration occupy the minds of today's users of new media across the globe, especially those in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe: from digital accounts of 'wars on terror' to virtual museums of political terror under communism; from cyberwars against websites and databases to computer war games; from on-line anti-war organising to virtual memorials to WWII soldiers; from photo-and video- reporting on warfare in Kosovo, Chechnya, Gaza or Georgia to flash-mobs of political protest or racist incitement; from digitalised personal memories and family histories to YouTube clips featuring victorious presidential speeches. The aim of this special issue is to explore the ways wars and conflicts are mediated, commemorated, reported and discussed on the Internet as well as in other forms of new media, including mobile phones, digital broadcasting and computer games. What is the role of new media in understanding, representing, negotiating and remembering (or forgetting) war and terror? What is the status of testimony, evidence and reportage in the age of digital reproduction? What practices of memory do new information and communication technologies entail? What structures of feeling operate in on-line reports and debates around military operations and human suffering? How can digital mediations of conflict bring people and communities together, while tearing others apart? And lastly, how can the embodied, physical violence intensify in digital interactions, and how can it be resisted? This special issue of Digital Icons aims to create a forum for scholars working in the fields of war, conflict, commemoration, digital media, and new media, while simultaneously addressing linguistic, cultural, historical and political aspects of new media use in Russia, Eurasia and Central Europe. We invite original articles that focus on one or more countries of the region, or on their diasporas. We also welcome theoretical essays, reflection by media practitioners on their own practices, contributions from artists and authors, and reviews of relevant projects, books and events. Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2010 When submitting your work, please include the following information: a biographical statement (100-120 words in English) and an abstract/description of the submission (or the first paragraph of the essay if appropriate) (about 150 words in English). |
02/11/2009 Tourisme et sociétés Collectif (sous la direction de Gilles Ferréol, Anne-Marie
Mamontoff) Commander (Aide ?) : Fichier pdf Cet ouvrage collectif constitue les actes enrichis d’un colloque international qui s’est tenu à Perpignan les 23 et 24 octobre 2008 sur le thème très général de la relation entre tourisme, loisirs et sociétés. Au sommaire 1. Éléments de cadrage 2. Dynamiques urbaines, environnement et risques 3. Loisirs et modes de vie 4. Études de cas |
29/10/2009 Workshop with Adrian Favell (UCLA) author of Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe Date: Monday 23 November 2009 Time: 12-3pm Location: Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, The University of Manchester Paper: The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial: London (and Manchester) as a Hub of Intra-EU Mobility Sponsors: CRESC, RICC and the Pathways to Cosmopolitan research programme Website: http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/favell/index.html |
28/10/2009 A national competition has just been launched for up to eight postgraduate studentship awards (all on the ESRC +3 model) to start in the academic year 2009/10 and 2010/11. These prestigious doctoral studentships are offered by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for Transport and Government Scotland. The funding is part of the UK Transport Research Centre (UKTRC), a new £7.25 million five year research centre aimed at bringing new social science insights to bear on the UK’s transport policy issues. The UKTRC is a partnership between the University of Leeds, Imperial College London and University College London.
The purpose of this scheme is to support studentships at UK universities that bring to bear new insights from social science research disciplines to further the understanding of the role of transport in society and its links to and impacts on the economy, the environment, health and social inclusion. The disciplinary scope of the work includes (but is not limited to) perspectives from anthropology, economics, geography, history, law, marketing, science and technology studies, sociology, psychology, statistics, social policy, politics, and planning.
Full details of the studentship competition can be found at: http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/fundingopportunities/UKTRCopportunities.aspx
The deadline for outline applications is 18th December 2009.
Any ESRC accredited department is eligible to host a studentship.
If anyone would like any further information about the scheme then they should contact the scheme manager Dr Greg Marsden (G.R.Marsden@its.leeds.ac.uk, Tel: 0113 343 5358). |
26/10/2009 Two Senior Research Fellows in Transport and Society - Closing date: 27/11/09 As part of continued strategic investment in transport research
at UWE, the Each post is for three years in the first instance. Salary: £35,469-£44,930 We are seeking highly capable and motivated individuals who share
our The successful applicants will play an important part in pursuing
new Since being founded in 2002, CTS now has a team of some 25 staff
and It is not our intention to define each of the posts in terms of
a The successful applicants can expect to be focusing in particular
on the For an informal discussion please contact me. The closing date
for To obtain further details about the posts and an application form
please |
24/10/2009 Full-time research fellow to work at the University of East London on the ESRC funded Cycling Cultures project Full-time research fellow to work at the University of East London on the ESRC funded Cycling Cultures project - details available here - http://jobs.uel.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=074R2009
This is a 22 month post beginning March 1st 2010. Any queries please do not hesitate to contact me - R.E.Aldred@uel.ac.uk
Dr. Rachel Aldred Senior Lecturer in Sociology School of Humanities and Social Sciences University of East London 4-6 University Way London E16 2RD |
21/10/2009 Tourism Sessions at ISA, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010? TOURISM STUDIES: PURSUING THE EVOLUTION OF A COMPLEX SOCIAL PHENOMENON XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Following the central theme of the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology,
about understanding change including change in the scientific approach
itself, the Research Committee 50 on International Tourism has developed
our theme of "Tourism studies: pursuing the evolution of a
complex social phenomenon". Potential paper presenters are invited to send abstracts (between 250 and 300 words) with authors' names, affiliation, email and paper title, to the moderators of the concerned sessions, with a copy to RC50 Programme coordinators by December 15, 2009. Programme coordinators are:
Session 2 Global impacts and local positions Session 3 Violence intersecting tourism Session 4 Tourism Policies Session 5 Imagining 'world-making' tourism and cosmopolitan values Session 6 Multiple disciplines and the significance of 'unusual'
disciplinary approaches Session 7 The debate: from older to new generations in tourism
studies Session 8: BUSINESS MEETING -- |
18/10/2009 INVITATION IVM : Les plans climat, un levier pour les autorités locales ? Le 28 octobre de 17h à 20h à la Fondation EDF Diversiterre, EXPERTS INVITÉS : DISCUTANT : Sur place, à 20h, visite de l'exposition « Villes rêvées, villes durables ? » Toutes les informations : http://www.ville-en-mouvement.com/cleantech/ |
16/10/2009 Migration policies should be relaxed to aid the poor Barriers to migration should be reduced to enable migrants to play apositive role in both industrialised and developing countries, says aleading DFID-funded research group. The findings, produced by theDevelopment Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty(Migration DRC), are published in a research brief launched in advanceof the Global Forum on Migration and Development 2009 and available onthe centre’s website at www.migrationdrc.org here:http://www.migrationdrc.org/publications/misc/Making_Migration_Work_for_Development.pdf The report is a summary of six years of investigation into migrationpolicy and practice. Established through funding from the UKGovernment’s Department for International Development (DFID) in 2003,the Migration DRC - a partnership of institutions in the UK, South Asia,the Middle East, West Africa and South Eastern Europe - has developed aprogramme of research, capacity-building, training and promotion ofdialogue to underpin new policy approaches to migration and development. The economic value of migration to poor countries is alreadywell-established, with migrant workers sending over $300bn to developingcountries, around four times global aid flows. However, the Centre’sfindings indicate that for migration to have its full developmentalimpact, the most beneficial policy change would be to reduce barriers tomigration, at all levels and particularly for the poorest. Yet according to the findings report, policy on migration in developingcountries remains fragmentary, and there is still a lack of consensus onwhat pro-poor migration policies should look like in poor countries. Professor Richard Black, the Centre’s Director, said: “Our researchshows that migration can be seen as part of the solution to problems ofunderdevelopment. Instead, most governments still assume that moredevelopment is the solution to problems of migration. In many cases,migration of poor people helps reduce poverty, improve educationalattainment and increase gender equality. But government policies mattera great deal in facilitating such positive change by migrants.” Key findings in the 30-page document, which includes links to coreresearch and policy briefings produced by Migration DRC, include:* Poor people are more likely to travel and work within or between poorcountries, yet they are often ignored in international debates aboutmigration;* Migration, particularly among the young, often stimulates investmentin education, either in the country of origin or destination.* Where poor people have a greater choice in terms of migrationdestinations, the net effect on inequality is more likely to be positive.* Skilled migration is largely a symptom, not a cause of underdevelopment.* Policies that support migrant communities can contribute to thedevelopment of their countries of origin; migrants do not need to returnto be effective and sustainable. The Centre’s work has included the compilation of data on migrationflows, with an emphasis on those previously least well-represented;analysis of the links between migration, globalisation and poverty andreviews of emerging migration issues and policies. Field research wasconducted in a number of countries in West Africa, South Asia, theMiddle East and South-East Europe. This work has resulted in the compilation of a number of robustdatabases and user-friendly web resources; the production of more than40 working papers and 50 refereed journal articles or book chapters; andnew conceptual approaches in areas that include, but are not limited to,the migration of children and youth; mobility of highly-skilledprofessionals; and social protection by and for migrant workers. *Notes for Editors*Richard Black (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/geography/profile10641.html) isdirector of the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisationand Poverty and a member of the academic advisory panel for the UN’sHuman Development Report.He is available for interviews, which can be arranged by emailingmigration@sussex.ac.uk To find out more about the work of the centre, visit its web page:http://www.migrationdrc.org/ Source: Forced Migration List (fmlist@QEH.OX.AC.UK) |
15/10/2009 Research Fellowship in African Studies King's College wishes to appoint, with effect from 1 October 2010, a Junior Research Fellow in African Studies. This is defined as the disciplines of humanities and social sciences as applied to the study of the African continent, including history, social anthropology, human geography, politics, literary and cultural studies, and development studies. The successful candidate will be associated with the University’s Centre of African Studies, an internationally renowned interdisciplinary research centre established in 1965 (www.african.cam.ac.uk). He/she would be expected to participate in the Centre’s activities and to contribute up to 6 hours of teaching a week to a new interdisciplinary M.Phil in African Studies which will be launched in October 2010. Further enquiries about the Centre and the M.Phil may be directed to Professor Megan Vaughan at mav26@cam.ac.uk. A Junior Research Fellowship is a faculty-level postdoctoral position that is tenable for up to 4 years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD, and must have undertaken not more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1 October 2010. The basic salary attached to the Fellowship is £19,030 to
£23,105 per annum, depending on age and academic qualification.
The basic salary can be supplemented by undertaking teaching within
the College. The additional remuneration obtained in this way would
usually lie in the range £2,000 to £4,000 per annum,
depending on the amount of teaching undertaken. http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/jrfs/african-studies.html |
13/10/2009 1st International Tourism Conference | Beyond the boundary: creating new epistemologies in tourism 8-11 December 2009 University of the West Indies, Barbados Registration is open for the 1st International Tourism Conference to be held from 8-11 December 2009 in the beautiful Caribbean island of Barbados. The conference is being organised by the University of the West Indies in association with the University of Surrey in the UK. This conference represents the first of its kind in the region which brings together academics and tourism industry practitioners from across the region and internationally to engage in original dialogues on tourism. A key feature of the conference is the industry forum titled Solutions to the Crisis: creating a new Caribbean tourism, where regional stakeholders will debate, share and brainstorm to find creative solutions on how Caribbean tourism can be re-engineered to take advantage of changes in the global economy. Mr. Hugh Riley, Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation will deliver a keynote address and other confirmed keynotes are: Professor Brian Wheeller, NHTV, Breda What do they know of tourism who only tourism know? The future lies in the present Dr. Marcella Daye, Coventry University From 'Kokomo' to 'Redemption Song': Exploring the paradox of stereotype and difference in Caribbean destination branding Please visit the conference website at http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fss/tourism_conference2009/index.html <https://outlook2003.surrey.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fss/tourism_conference2009/index.html> for more information and to register. |
12/10/2009 Conference ‘Cycling Leisure and Tourism in Portugal’ 6th November, University of Aveiro, Portugal Conference Registration is now open. The conference will be held in Portuguese (and a small part in English), but will have translation. Theres's also a call for Posters.
José Carlos Mota | Researcher | Email: jcmota@ua.pt Dep. of Social and Policy Sciences | University of Aveiro - PORTUGAL
http://turismociclavel.blogs.sapo.pt/ (Conference) |
11/10/2009 JOURNEYS AND JUSTICE: Forced migration, seeking asylum, and human rights A conference at the University of Leeds, UK Friday 29th January 2010 This conference will examine the journeys of forced migrants. It will explore these journeys through the lenses of justice and human rights. A key part of the conference will be to debate better solutions to the problems of injustice and human rights denial that so often taint the journeys of forced migrants. Its focus is mainly on the UK, but contributions from elsewhere are welcome. The conference will:• Examine the forces causing people to involuntarily leave their homes• Explore the often traumatic and chaotic routes forced migrants take in their journeys• Investigate forced migrants’ arrival experiences• Consider how forced migrants are treated and supported in the UK• Evaluate how well forced migrants are integrated• Delve into what, why and how forced migrants return to their home country• Focus on practical solutions and their policy implications Keynote speakers:Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University)Hsiao-Hung Pai (author of ‘Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain’s Hidden Army of Labour’). The conference will culminate in a 6pm ‘Question Time’ panel (free to attend) chaired by broadcaster Jenni Murray, with well-known figures such as Jeremy Seabrook (author of ‘The Refuge and the Fortress’), Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University) and Mike Kaye (Still Human Still Here coalition & Amnesty). We invite papers and other types of contributions(e.g. poetry, photography, film, art) which reflect on the below key issues. Please send your ideas (abstracts of no more than 250 words) to Louise Waite (email below) by October 30th 2009. • Causes of forced migration (whether through persecution or other forms of coercion) such as economic crisis, environmental pressure, discrimination (due to e.g. gender, race, sexuality), war and global politics• Experiences of seeking asylum• Policies and procedures such as border control, the asylum system, denial, destitution, detention and deportation• Issues of justice such as human rights and the rights of the child• Longer term issues such as settlement, integration and citizenship• Responses in civil society such as political mobilisation, activism and racialised antagonism We hope that the conference will be of interest to the following: people with personal experience of forcedmigration; people who have settled, achieved citizenship and feel integrated or excluded; people working inthis sector; volunteers; political activists; academics working in this field. For conference registration (£40 full cost, £20 reduced cost, + limited bursaries): please see registration form athttp://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/conferences/journeys-and-justice.htmlClosing date for registration is December 1st 2009. The organising committeeClive Briscoe, Amnesty International clive.briscoeai@btinternet.comProfessor
Max Farrar, Leeds Met University m.farrar@leedsmet.ac.ukPeter Richardson,
Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network peter@lassn.org.ukDr Louise
Waite, University of Leeds l.waite@leeds.ac.uk |
10/10/2009 Le séminaire "Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques" Saskia Cousin (IIAC-LAIOS / Université François-Rabelais) la prochaine séance aura lieu le Jeudi 15 octobre 2009 Saskia Cousin (IIAC) La question des images. - L’étude des images. Une série d’interventions sera consacrée aux images produites par les institutions, les touristes et les médias. Que choisit-on de représenter ? Que met-on dans le cadre, que garde-t-on « hors champs » ? Qui produit, qui contrôle les images ? Quels sont les messages véhiculés ? Quels en sont les enjeux politiques, économiques ou symboliques ? Comment les images circulent-elles ? Comment sont-elles reçues, appropriées, combattues ? - L’étude par l’image. L’anthropologie visuelle documente depuis de nombreuses années la question des rencontres entre touristes et populations des sociétés visitées. L’ambition du séminaire est notamment d’appréhender la dimension heuristique de la production visuelle pour étudier les phénomènes touristiques. Plusieurs films seront projetés et discutés en présence des réalisateurs. 15/10 : 5/11 : 19/11 : 3/12 : 17/12 : 7/01 : 21/01: 4/02 : 18/02 : 18/03 : 1/04 : 6/05 : 20/05 : 3/06 : 17/06 : |
| 7/10/2009 THE MEDITERRANEAN RENAISSANCE - LA RENAISSANCE DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE An IGU programme for the Mediterranean Human Development MRP Joint conference with Tunis-CERES (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Sociale) and MERC (Middle East Research Program Competition Tourisme méditerranéen et crise mondiale - Mediterranean tourism and global crisis 9-11 March 2010 Prepared by Maria Paradiso, Ali Toumi MRP Joint conference with Tunis-CERES (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Sociale) and MERC (Middle East Research Program Competition) entitled ‘Mediterranean Tourism and Global crisis’. Kindly find below the organization plan, registration form and call for papers for the international conference which will take place in Tunis, 9-11 March 2010. Comité scientifique - Ben Hafaiedh (Abdelwahab) Calendrier- Important dates Tourisme méditerranéen et crise mondiale Appel à communication Invitation au voyage, à l’évasion et la découverte ou simple opportunité de loisir, le tourisme mobilise chez les bénéficiaires comme chez les professionnels, des attitudes socioculturelles diverses. De par les rythmes qu’il impose, les pratiques et les comportements qu’il induit, l’interculturalité qu’il génère et qui le dynamise, le tourisme devient aujourd’hui objet d’études anthropologiques, sociologiques, géographiques, économiques qu’il serait utile de revisiter. Aussi bien par les capitaux qu’il mobilise, les emplois qu’il crée, les formes de mobilité qu’il entraine et les dividendes qu’il génère, le tourisme est, pour certaines économies méditerranéennes, un secteur d’activité vital. Il n’en demeure pas moins toutefois qu’il s’agit là également d’un secteur aussi dynamique que vulnérable. En effet, pouvant être fragilisé aussi bien par la conjoncture politique que par de simples fluctuations climatiques, le tourisme méditerranéen est aujourd’hui confronté aux effets de la crise mondiale qui, survenue brusquement, ne manquera certainement pas de le fragiliser davantage. Le risque de voir chuter les rentrées touristiques, de subir un grave accroissement des taux de chômage est une réelle menace pesant sur de nombreux pays de la Méditerranée. Le tourisme a également, sur le plan social, des effets paradoxaux. Vecteur de synergies, de symbioses et de mutations sociales, il peut avoir néanmoins des effets pervers quand il génère le rejet de l’autre ou quand il est instrumentalisé pour consolider les conservatismes. Quelles sont les chances réelles des pays méditerranéens de relever les nouveaux défis auxquels le tourisme se trouve confronté ? Comment le secteur touristique pourra-t-il éviter de sombrer sous l’effet de la crise ? Quelles ripostes va-t-on observer chez les différents acteurs concernés ? Quelles mutations socio-spatiales enregistre-t-on déjà ou risque-t-on de voir émerger ? Les formes de concurrence et de compétition entre les pays riverains de la Méditerranée sont-elles en train de changer ? Quel rôle joueront les médias et les nouvelles technologies de la communication dans la diffusion des nouveaux produits touristiques ? Voilà autant de questions que les chercheurs (Economistes, géographes, sociologues anthropologues) sont invités à traiter. Les axes d’investigation suivants peuvent être privilégiés : 1. Le tourisme sur les pourtours de la Méditerranée
: l’état des lieux (flux d’hommes et de finances,
espaces et foyers touristiques prédominants, espaces touristiques
émergeants)
Organisateurs et structure du colloque Soumissions Frais de participation Présentation des travaux Accueil, hébergement, restauration Dates à retenir Contacts Mediterranean tourism and global crisis Call for papers As an invitation to travel, escape and discover or simply as an opportunity for leisure, tourism generates among recipients and professionals various socio-cultural attitudes. Because of its rhythms, practices and behaviors, the induced interculturality that it generates, tourism has now become subject of anthropological, sociological, geographical and economic studies that it would be useful to revisit. Both by the capital it mobilizes, the jobs it creates, forms of mobility that it leads and dividends that it generates, tourism is, for some Mediterranean economies, a vital activity. Nevertheless, however it is also a sector as dynamic as vulnerable. In fact, tourism can be undermined both by political and by climatic
fluctuations. In social terms, tourism has also paradoxical effects. With vectors of synergies and symbioses of social change, it nevertheless may have perverse effects when it generates exposure to the other or when it is instrumentalized to consolidate conservatism. What are the real chances in Mediterranean countries coping with the new challenges which face tourism? How can tourism activities avoid falling due to the effects of the global crisis? What responses will be observed among the various stakeholders? What social and spatial processes are there already, and which can happen? Are forms of competition and the competition among countries bordering the Mediterranean about to change? What kind of role is reserved for the media and new communications technologies in the dissemination of new tourism products? These are questions that researchers (economists, geographers, sociologists, and anthropologists) are invited to treat. The following lines of investigation can be prioritized: 1. Mediterranean tourism: state of art (people and finance flows;
predominate spaces and Technical Information
Submissions Participation Fee Presentation of papers
Dates to remember Contacts Officers: ? Ronald F. Abler, IGU President; Antoine Bailly, Chair of IGU Commission on Applied Geography, University of Geneva (antoine.bailly@geo.unige.ch); Giuliano Bellezza, Vice President, IGU, Director of Home of Geography, University of Tuscia, Viterbo (g.bellezza@homeofgeography.org); Anne Buttimer, IGU Past President, University of Dublin, (anne.buttimer@ucd.ie);Annick Douguédroit, Former Chair of IGU Commission on Climate Change, University of Provence, Aix en Provence (Annick.Douguedroit@univ-provence.fr); Anton Gosar, Chair of IGU Commission on Political Geography University of Primorska, Koper/Capodistria (anton.gosar@guest.arnes.si); Aharon Kellerman, Vice President, IGU, (akeller@univ.haifa.ac.il); Mohamad Riad, Ain Shams University, Cairo (osprey@Link.net); Maria Sala, Former Chair of the IGU Commission on Land degradation and Desertification, University of Barcelona (msalasanjaume35@gmail.com); Theano S. Terkenli, University of the Aegean, (t.terkenli@aegean.gr);Alì Toumi, General Secretary of Association des Géographes Tunisiens, University of Tunis (alitoumi2003@yahoo.fr). |
6/10/2009 Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Network, University of Cambridge Michaelmas Term Research Seminars 2009 Theme: The Text and Beyond --Monday 12 October, 2.30pmDr Christian Lange (Divinity, University of Edinburgh) Rituals of punishment and the Muslim imaginaire: attitudes toward stateviolence in medieval Islam -- Monday 26 October, 2.30pmDr Pedram Khosronejad (Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews) To Whom It May Concern: War Material Culture and Constructing the Past inPost-war Iran -- Monday 9 November, 2.30pm Dr Ashraf Abdelhay (Asian and Middle EasternStudies, University of Cambridge) A Critical Commentary on the Discourse of Language Rights in the Naivasha Language Policy in Sudan Using Habitus as a Method -- Monday 23 November, 2.30pm Dr Cesar Merchan-Hamann (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) Medieval Hebrew and Spanish Translations of Tale Collections from the Arabic -- All are welcome. Seminars take place in CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane. For more information, please seehttp://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/385/med--middle-eastern.htm |
5/10/2009 Refugee Studies Centre - 10th annual Harrell-Bond lecture The Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford, is pleased to announce that Jan Egeland will give the 10th annual Harrell-Bond lecture. Mr Egeland wasthe United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs andEmergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006. InSeptember 2007 he was appointed Director of the Norwegian Institute ofInternational Affairs. The lecture will be entitled ‘Beyond blankets: insearch of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced’. The lecture will take place on 18 November at the University Museum ofNatural History, Parks Road, Oxford (OX1 3PW). The event will start at5pm and will be followed by a drinks reception. For more information or to reserve a seat, please contact Wouter teKloeze (wouter.tekloeze@qeh.ox.ac.uk / +44 (0)1865 281726)
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5/10/2009 Oxford Graduate Migration Research Seminar Michaelmas Term 2009 Convened by Thomas Gaff, Sahana Ghosh, Hiranthi, Jayaweera, & Stephanie J. Silverman Mondays from 13.00 to 14.00, Seminar Room, Pauling Centre,58a Banbury Road, except for 19 October and 2 November. This is an informal seminar: please feel free to bring a lunch. 12 October – Alevis in Europe: Struggling for Visibility Abroad toStruggle against Blindness at HomeBesim Can Zirh (PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, UCL) 19 October – Building the Infrastructure for the Observance of Refugee Rights in the Global SouthDr. Barbara Harrell-Bond (Founder, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford)IN 64 BANBURY ROAD with complimentary reception 26 October – From Tribe to Faction: Cultural Politics in Palestine Lisa Welze (DPhil Candidate in the Institute of Social andCultural Anthropology, Oxford) 2 November – Speaking Austrian German in Great Britain, or The ‘Sketchiness’ of the Mother Tongue Isabel Schropper (PhD Candidate, The IGRS, London) IN 64 BANBURY ROAD 9 November – Persecution during armed conflicts Vanessa Holzer (PhD Candidate, Law Faculty of Goethe University) 16 November – Religious Values and Post-Conflict Healing: An interdisciplinary study of resilient survivorsof the Khmer Rouge Gwyn Overland (Research fellow, University of Agder, Institute forReligion, Ethics, and Society) 23 November - Ties That Bind? Political economy, humanitariannorms, and immigration Aubrey Westfall (Ph.D. candidate at the University of Colorado) 30 November - Reforming Rustic Ways: Sri Lanka's Housemaid Training Programme and the Role of the State in Promoting Women'sMigration for Domestic Service Elizabeth Frantz (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anthropology atthe London School of Economics). The Migration Studies Society can be reached at migsoc@herald.ox.ac.uk |
25/9/2009 Special Issue: Love, Sexuality and Migration edited by
Russell King and Nicola Mai |
25/9/2009 Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes Call for Papers: Ad-hoc Session Proposal, ISA World Congress of Sociology 11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg Peak oil and climate change have brought to the fore the centrality of mobility to social and economic life and the urgent pressures to develop alternative mobilities. Hosting half the world’s population, cities are increasingly important actors in achieving low carbon futures and privileged sites where the moral dilemmas of modern techno-utopias are being rehearsed. In the context of transport, sustainable futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Masdar city in Abu Dhabi or Dongtan ecocity in China and present and distopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters.
We welcome contributions covering the following and related aspects of urban future mobilities: i. mobilities futures being created by current techno-social developments; ii. mobilities futures are being envisioned by relevant political actors and what possible shortcomings do they entail from a sociological perspective; iii. conflicts between ecological restrictions and social needs concerning transportation; iv. the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes; v. the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice; vi. social and cultural forms implied in visions of future mobilities. Please email your paper proposal including title, short description (200 words), your name, co-authors, email address and affiliation before 1 December 2009 to both session organisers j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk and katharina.manderscheid@unilu.ch |
27/9/2009 Curs "Política i conflictes a la Mediterrània" Dirigit per Antoni Segura amb el patrocini de l'IEMed. Barcelona, 21,22 i 23 d'octubre de 2009? Sota el patrocini de l'IEMed, el curs està dirigit per Antoni Segura, catedràtic d'Història Contemporània de la Universitat de Barcelona i coordinat per Lurdes Vidal, responsable de Món Àrab i Mediterrani de l'IEMed. Lloc Matrícula i beques L'IEMed ofereix 15 beques per fer el curs. Cal enviar nom i cognoms, dni, e-mail i telèfon a alandaburu@iemed.org. Programa Més informació: |
26/9/2009 TTRI Research Seminar -'Pilgrims to Pictures: The Italian Renaissance and the Evolution of the Grand Tour' Thursday 15th October 2009, 3pm-5pm Professor Edward Chaney. 'Pilgrims to Pictures: The Italian Renaissance
and the Evolution of the Grand Tour'. There will be an opportunity to network with refreshments after
the Seminar in the Aspire Cafe |
26/9/2009 Global Cities Now? Current Perspectives in 'Global Urban Studies' Urban Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG Annual ConferenceThursday 5th - Friday 6th November 2009, Centre for Urban Theory, Swansea University, UK. The Call for Papers is now closed, and a stimulating programme has beenproduced. There are still some places available to attend the Conference. Registration closes on Friday 9 October. This year's UGRG annual conference aims to provide a forum for researchersworking on, and contributing to debates about,the broad theme ofglobalization and the city. Contributions from across the rangeof research on cities in globalization reflect critical discussions, and bringtogether the wide variety of work being undertaken. Keynote Speakers are: Professor Peter Taylor (Loughborough) Professor Ian Gordon (LSE) Professor Andrew Leyshon (Nottingham) Professor Wendy Larner (Bristol) The cost of attending the event is: £50 waged; £25 unwaged/students.Deadline for Registration is 9 October 2009. Please note that the REGISTRATION FORM is available from the UGRG website: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk click on '2009 Event' and scroll to the bottom. (Type UGRG into a search engine if this link does not work!) |
25/9/2009 Sustainable Futures and Spatial Mobility Regimes Call for Papers: Ad-hoc Session Proposal, ISA World Congress of Sociology 11-17 July 2010 in Gothenburg Peak oil and climate change have brought to the fore the centrality of mobility to social and economic life and the urgent pressures to develop alternative mobilities. Hosting half the world’s population, cities are increasingly important actors in achieving low carbon futures and privileged sites where the moral dilemmas of modern techno-utopias are being rehearsed. In the context of transport, sustainable futures are haunted between idyllic visions of clean, just and democratised mobilities such as those projected by Masdar city in Abu Dhabi or Dongtan ecocity in China and present and distopias of splintering urbanisms, ever growing slums, large scale infrastructural collapse and climate related disasters.
We welcome contributions covering the following and related aspects of urban future mobilities: i. mobilities futures being created by current techno-social developments; ii. mobilities futures are being envisioned by relevant political actors and what possible shortcomings do they entail from a sociological perspective; iii. conflicts between ecological restrictions and social needs concerning transportation; iv. the performative role of expectations and hope in shaping urban mobility regimes; v. the connected understandings of social inequality and mobility justice; vi. social and cultural forms implied in visions of future mobilities. Please email your paper proposal including title, short description (200 words), your name, co-authors, email address and affiliation before 1 December 2009 to both session organisers j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk and katharina.manderscheid@unilu.ch |
29/9/2009 La dimension spatiale des ressources sociales : mobilité - capital d’autochtonie Journée d’études organisée par Fabrice
Ripoll, Sylvie Tissot et Jeudi 15 Octobre 2009, 9h30-17h30, Université Paris 8 (site Pouchet) 59/61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris - http://www.pouchet.cnrs.fr/plan.htm Cette journée d’études pluridisciplinaire se
propose de partir des Du côté des sociologues précisément,
malgré le programme ambitieux de A minima, il faut considérer qu’« effets de
lieu » et « effets de C’est pourquoi il nous semble intéressant d’interroger
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(capital Programme /Matinée (9h30 – 12h)/ • */Introduction/* - Susanna Magri, Directrice de recherche
en • */Classes populaires et capital d'autochtonie. Genèse
et usages • */Mobilité et ancrage dans les quartiers «
pauvres » : les /Après-midi (13h30 – 17h30)/ • */Le rapport à la mobilité des catégories
supérieures/* - Anne- • */Un capital d'autochtonie des classes supérieures
? Mobilisation • */Les AMAP et l’économie solidaire : la construction
d’un capital • */Discussion et synthèse/* - Christine Lelévrier,
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25/9/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process The CREMed - Barcelona GSE (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and the European Institute – London School of Economics will hold on July 16th and 17th 2010 a workshop on “Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process” in Barcelona. The event will highlight Microeconomics and Macroeconomics topics relating to the Mediterranean, including Social Protection, Public Sector Performance, Climate Change, Free Trade Agreement, Unemployment and Market Liberalisation, among others. The workshop call for papers is now open. Abstracts and expression of interest should be submitted before January 31st 2010. You can find detailed information on the following page: www.cremed.eu/index.php/news1. |
25/9/2009 Call for Papers - Common concerns?: Rethinking the transport/mobilities divide 2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010 Organizers: Jennie Middleton and Jon Shaw (School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth) Alongside more traditional approaches in transport geography, the ‘mobilities turn’ is now well established across the social sciences with increasing attention being paid to the mobility of people and goods, ideas and information. Yet these approaches to the study of movement have largely passed each other by, their intellectual journeys following generally different trajectories on account of being taken by different types of academic, interested in different aspects of movement and speaking different kinds of language. At the 2008 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in Boston, Massachusetts a panel came together of mobilities scholars and transport geographers who were invited to discuss these very issues and possible connections/synergies between their areas of/approaches to the study of movement. The panel discussed the following questions: to what extent are transport geography and mobility compatible?; how far do they already coincide?; how far is it desirable, practical, profitable for them to coincide?; and what are the potential ways forward in terms of theoretical and methodological development and empirical data collection?
Although it is clear that a substantial divide remains between the two approaches, the panel recognised a number of key areas of mutual interest and concern. Building on the 2008 session, we aim to explore further opportunities for ‘boundary crossing’ in order to promote a better appreciation of each other’s activities and facilitate an increased dialogue between mobilities and transport scholars. Whilst recognising that differing approaches will never be fully reconciled (or that such a thing is in fact even desirable), we invite conceptual and/or empirical/methodological contributions that provide opportunities for discussing common concerns across these fields of research. We are particularly keen for the research being presented to include reflections on its potential to engage beyond these perceived ‘boundaries’. Thematically, this session seeks to address, but are not confined to, the following topics:
- Transportation - Migration - Transnational flows of people, objects, commodities, information and capital - Travel and tourism - Infrastructure, governance and policy - Sustainable transport/mobilities - Social networks - Mobile communications and technologies - Socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of transport and movement - Everyday practices, habits and routines - Corporeal, affective and emotional topographies
Abstracts (of no more than 250 words) and expressions of interests should be sent to Jennie Middleton (jennie.middleton@plymouth.ac.uk) or Jon Shaw (jon.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk) by 18th October 2009. |
25/9/2009 Appel à communications pour la tenue du premier colloque organisé par le réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement ». Le thème de ce colloque porte sur la gestion du tourisme dans les sites du patrimoine mondial et se déroulera à Québec les 3 et 4 juin 2010. Please find in attach the Call for Papers of the first conference organized by the UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK on "Culture, Tourism, Develpment". The conference on World Heritage and Tourism will take place in Quebec City on June 3rd and 4th, 2010. E' con piacere che vi trasmetto il call for paper per la prima conferenza internazionale organizzata dalla rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" . Il tema centrale della conferenza, che avrà luogo a Quebec City il 3 e 4 giugno 2010, è il rapporto fra Patrimonio Mondiale e Turismo. Le colloque est organisé par les membres du réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement », et en particulier par la faculté des sciences de l’administration de l’Université Laval, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et le Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change du Leeds Metropolitain University. Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development; Faculty of Business Administration, Université Laval; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University. La conferenza è organizzata dai membri della rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" ed in particolare dalla facoltà di Business Administration dell'Università Laval, dall'Università Parigi 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne e dal Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change della Leeds Metropolitan University. Alessia Mariotti |
25/9/2009 Appel à communications pour la tenue du premier colloque organisé par le réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement ». Le thème de ce colloque porte sur la gestion du tourisme dans les sites du patrimoine mondial et se déroulera à Québec les 3 et 4 juin 2010. Please find in attach the Call for Papers of the first conference organized by the UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK on "Culture, Tourism, Develpment". The conference on World Heritage and Tourism will take place in Quebec City on June 3rd and 4th, 2010. E' con piacere che vi trasmetto il call for paper per la prima conferenza internazionale organizzata dalla rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" . Il tema centrale della conferenza, che avrà luogo a Quebec City il 3 e 4 giugno 2010, è il rapporto fra Patrimonio Mondiale e Turismo. Le colloque est organisé par les membres du réseau UNESCO/UNITWIN « Culture - tourisme - développement », et en particulier par la faculté des sciences de l’administration de l’Université Laval, l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne et le Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change du Leeds Metropolitain University. Conference Organisers: UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORK for Culture, Tourism and Development; Faculty of Business Administration, Université Laval; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University. La conferenza è organizzata dai membri della rete UNESCO/UNITWIN "Cultura, Turismo, Sviluppo" ed in particolare dalla facoltà di Business Administration dell'Università Laval, dall'Università Parigi 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne e dal Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change della Leeds Metropolitan University. Alessia Mariotti |
24/9/2009 Democracy Promotion and Human Rights in Europe and the Middle East. University of Birmingham and Leeds Joint Workshop Date: October 16, 2009. Beech Grove House, University of Leeds. Co-funded by UACES Lead Projects / Groups ESRC Project: Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion Efforts in the Middle East (Michelle Pace) http://www.eumena.bham.ac.uk/ ESRC Project: Law, War and the State of the American Exception (Jason Ralph) http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/law-war-state-american-exception.php Security and International Relations Research Group, POLIS, University of Leeds. http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/international-relations-security/ Rationale The purpose of the workshop is to bring together two separate but overlapping research project / networks. The workshop will be the fourth in the series convened by Michelle Pace at the University of Birmingham and benefit from an established network of researchers working in this area. It will be complemented by researchers working in the area at the University of Leeds, including Jason Ralph's project on the human rights and the war on terror during and after the Bush administration. The workshop will be the first in the series of events on the theme of Security, Development and Democracy to be hosted by the University of Leeds during the academic year 2009-2010. These events build on an established seminar series, further details of which can be found by visiting the programme's website at http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/sdd-seminar-series.php This innovative series used podcasts to reach a wider audience and with the consent of the speakers we plan to record and disseminate the proceedings in a similar way. Trained staff at Leeds will provide video recording equipment, which will enable, with the consent of the speakers, to put the proceedings on LUTube (Leeds University Tube) http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk <http://lutube.leeds.ac.uk/> Links to the proceedings will appear on the websites of the existing projects. The planned output of the workshop will be a special issue of International Journal of Human Rights, where Jason Ralph is Assistant Editor. Programme 9.45 Arrival and Coffee 10.00 to 10.05 Welcome: Jason Ralph, Reader in International Relations, University of Leeds. 10.05 to 11.20 Panel 1. Chair: Clive Jones, Professor of International Relations and Middle East Studies, Head of School, POLIS, University of Leeds. 'Between Foreign Policy and Good Governance- evaluating EU economic rights promotion in Bosnia and Turkey' Charlie Dannreuther is Lecturer in European Studies, POLIS, University of Leeds, C.Dannreuther@leeds.ac.uk 'Towards a "European" Route to Democratisation in Europe's Near Abroad? The Impact of EU, OSCE and NATO Democracy Promotion in Europe's Periphery', Neil Winn, Senior Lecturer in European Studies, University of Leeds, N.Winn@leeds.ac.uk 11.20 to 11.30 Break 11.30 to 1.00 Panel 2. Chair: Neil Winn. Discussant: Larbi Sadiki, Exeter University 'Liberal or Social Democracy? Aspect Dawning in the EU's Democracy Promotion Agenda in the Middle East'. Michelle Pace, Senior Research Fellow and RCUK Fellow, POLSIS, University of Birmingham, m.pace@bham.ac.uk 'Hamas's Media: Towards a New Political Discourse'. Wael Abdelal, Doctoral Candidate, Exeter University, wa218@exeter.ac.uk 'Drawing lines around "Europe". The practice of extraordinary rendition and what it tells us about Europe's relations with its neighbours'. Jason Ralph, Reader in International Relations, POLIS, University of Leeds, J.G.Ralph@leeds.ac.uk 1 to 2.00 Lunch 2.00 to 3.20 Panel Three. Chair: John Schwarzmantel. Discussant: Ahmed Badawi, SOAS 'State-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies: Egypt and Morocco.' Hendrik Kraetzschmar Lecturer in Comparative Politics of the. Middle East and North Africa, University of Leeds and Francesco Cavatorta Lecturer School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. 'EU Democracy Promotion in Turkey: funding NGOs, funding conflict?' Markus Ketola, Doctoral Candidate, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics, M.Ketola@lse.ac.uk 'Illegal Migration in the Southern Mediterranean: one more obstacle for political reform?' Thomas Demmelhuber, lecturer, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. thomas.demmelhuber@polwiss.phil.uni-erlangen.de 3.20 Closing Remarks: Michelle Pace 3.30 Workshop closes Abstracts Wael Abdelal, Hamas's Media: Towards a New Political Discourse Does Hamas have a double-discourse, one aimed at the Arab and Palestinian peoples and the other aimed at the West? What elements make up what I consider to be a new media-discourse towards the West by Hamas? How does this new discourse respond to the drive by the Obama Administration (and to a lesser extent the EU) to brokering peace between the Palestinians and Israelis? This paper is an attempt to give tentative answers to these questions. It explores the 'development' of the media discourse of Hamas toward the West in the context of the ongoing struggle for Palestinian statehood. Specifically, the paper focuses on the shifts in this discourse, signalling a more pragmatic or less ideological discourse vis-à-vis the West. To this end, I shall attempt to deconstruct Hamas's emerging discourse with special reference to the latest diplomatic efforts by the Obama Administration to revive the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. I shall argue that this new discourse shows elements of 'moderation', 'flexibility', and 'new public diplomacy' by Hamas in its dealing with the US and the EU. Charles Dannreuther, Between Foreign Policy and Good Governance- evaluating EU economic rights promotion in Bosnia and Turkey This paper discusses some of the challenges of foreign policy evaluation from a practitioner perspective. Evaluation is central to the effective monitoring of foreign policy activities by national governments in crowded political environments but it is also a policy tool in the promotion of good governance and democratisation agendas. The project under discussion was funded by the UK Foreign Office under its Global Opportunities Fund Reuniting Europe stream which is specifically designed to accelerate transition towards the goal of accession in neighbouring states of the EU. Both projects were designed to raise awareness of the EU's Lisbon Agenda, a broad range of economic governance issues designed to promote transparent policy making in the pursuit of competitiveness under assumptions of globalisation, and both were managed by a small UK based NGO called EPIC that was "spun out" from the LSE in 1997. One project was based in Turkey and none in Bosnia and Herzegovina and both proposed a similar "training the trainers" methodology but with dramatically different outcomes. Three issues are discussed in order to evaluate the outcomes of each programme: first the project awards framework, in the production of expectations, second the matching of capacities to project aspirations and finally the relevance of standard management norms in practical contexts. The conclusion explores the role of member state foreign policy intervention in relation to EU goals, the ability of evaluative mechanisms to negotiate the importance of local context in foreign policy administration and the importance of foreign policy evaluation in the literature on "foreign policy evaluation". Thomas Demmelhuber, Illegal Migration in the Southern Mediterranean: one more obstacle for political reform? Starting with the European Security Strategy (ESS) in 2003 and later on with the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union reiterated that security, stability, and good governance in its near neighbourhood are key policy priorities. In consideration of new kinds of security threats, such as illegal migration and various forms of terrorist acts in the Southern Mediterranean, we are witnessing an on-going externalisation of security cooperation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) with the Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC). With regards to illegal migration FRONTEX (established 2004 by Council Regulation 2007) acts as the main instrument in EU's so called »integrated border management strategy«. This border control agency aims at curbing illegal migration in cooperation with the MPCs. In other words FRONTEX is a tool to establish an exterritorial border, that is to say illegal migrants are to be intercepted prior to even reaching EU territory. However, many questions remain whether it is a further step in easing or deepening the incoherence of EU foreign policy: By externalising security cooperation, the EU contradicts its policies in the fields of democracy promotion, rule of law, and human rights which are based on the EU's self-perception as a normative power. For the last few years the EU has been increasing development aid to the partner countries in exchange for their generous cooperation in joint return missions. Libya, Morocco, and Mauritania are the most recent examples in which the EU has forgotten about its normative agenda vis-à-vis the transit countries of illegal migration in North Africa. For the sake of repatriation of illegal migrants from EU territory or intercepted migrants from various border patrol missions the EU has intensified its bilateral political and financial support. Therefore the EU bears responsibility for increasing the legitimacy and stability of authoritarianism in the region which the EU wanted to fight in the first place. The paper is based on fieldwork carried out in the Mediterranean (i.e. the MENA region). It is further supplemented by the state of the art in the EU cooperation in JHA, research on migration routes from the African continent (countries of origin and transit countries) and on recent political shifts and dynamics in the affected countries. Markus Ketola, 'EU Democracy Promotion in Turkey: funding NGOs, funding conflict?' Can EU funding for NGOs induce democratization in Turkey? By focusing on the experience of the women's movement, this paper will attempt an assessment of this question. First, by outlining the rationale for EU funding communicated through policy documents, it is shown that NGO funding is largely justified on the bases of the contribution made towards strengthening democracy. Second, by drawing on interviews with representatives of women's advocacy NGOs, the efficacy of this strategy is investigated. Whilst the contribution of women's groups to a series of legal reforms is taken as evidence of NGOs inducing democratization, the relations among women's NGOs and the rules of inclusion/exclusion within the movement do not seem to reflect this commitment to democratic ideals. These fault lines are most visible between the secular and Islamic women's NGOs, where the conflict has crystallized around the issue of the headscarf. Given the experience of the women's movement, does the EU funding framework for democratization via NGOs remain relevant given the dynamics of civil society activism of Turkey? Hendrik Kraetzschmar and Francesco Cavatorta, 'State-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies: Egypt and Morocco.' This paper is concerned with state-sponsored election violence in liberalised autocracies. Building on existing research in the field, the first section puts forward a number of propositions that may help explain the decision-making rationale of authoritarian incumbents to deploy force against strong electoral challengers. The second section of this article then examines these propositions in Egypt and Morocco. Drawing on recent parliamentary elections in the two countries, the study questions why - despite facing similar challenges from Islamist groups - the two regimes differed so markedly in their willingness to manipulate the polls by recourse to violence. Whilst the Egyptian authorities decided to abrogate all pretence of peaceful elections in favour of violent repression against the Muslim Brotherhood and its sympathisers, no such tactics were deployed by the Makhzen in Morocco. We suggest that three principal factors influenced the regimes' calculation of how to run the elections: (i) the centrality of the elected institution to authoritarian survival, (ii) the availability of alternative electioneering tools and (iii) the anticipated response of the international community. The article concludes by suggesting that in order to better understand when and how states deploy violence in election, we need to focus on a more complex set of factors rather than simply on the electoral potency of key opposition challenger or the authoritarian nature of the state. Michelle Pace, Liberal or Social Democracy? Aspect Dawning in the EU's Democracy Promotion Agenda in the Middle East This paper questions how liberal democracy has come to symbolize an ideal, or a universal set of values ready to be exported elsewhere in the world. It critically assesses the EU's almost messianic mission to promote its successful project of liberal democracy, and the ways in which the EU seeks to teach others about its meaning while refusing to aspect learn about alternative forms of political organization in different contexts. It discusses the implications of such a narrow framing of EU conceptions of liberal democracy, drawing on extensive fieldwork carried out in Palestine and Egypt in September 2007 and March 2008, respectively. The paper argues for a new framing of political transformation in the Middle East and North Africa. It concludes by employing Aletta Norval's notion of Aversive Democracy to highlight the need for recognition of crucial aspects of political change that stem from what is emerging in the Middle East. Jason Ralph, 'Drawing lines around "Europe". The practice of extraordinary rendition and what it tells us about Europe's relations with its neighbours.' The term "extraordinary rendition" has been used widely in recent years to describe the transfer of suspected terrorists by the US to foreign states in circumstances that make it more likely than not that the individual will be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. The discussion on this subject tends therefore to be linked to the question of whether torture can be justified as a means of combating terrorism. The practice of extraordinary rendition however does involve additional considerations. Any analysis of the practice must be concerned not merely with the act of torture itself, it must also take into account the ideological character of the states involved; for the normative assumption behind the act is that illiberal states can do what liberal states would prefer not to do. This is important because it highlights how liberal states view legal and moral boundaries in the post 9/11 world, and how they view their responsibilities as citizens of international society. This paper focuses on Europe's place in the geography of the extraordinary rendition programme. It is noted that terrorist suspects were moved, for example, from Sweden and Italy to Egypt, from the UK to Morocco; and while European governments may not have been complicit in all these transfers it is argued that the programme consolidates lines that separate the 'liberal' from the 'illiberal' world. By drawing lines around liberal zones of 'civilisation', and by exporting the 'dirty work' of counter-terrorism, European governments are in this respect working against any broader ojective of democratisation. Neil Winn, 'Towards a "European" Route to Democratisation in Europe's Near Abroad? The Impact of EU, OSCE and NATO Democracy Promotion in Europe's Periphery' This paper analyses the role and impact of the European Union (EU), the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in promoting democracy, human rights and good governance in Europe's Near Abroad. In this context the Near Abroad comprises illustrative cases from North Africa and the former Soviet Union. The paper begins by analysing democracy, human rights and good governance in the context of assessing the role and impact in the political and security fields of the above international organisations (IO's) in Europe's Near Abroad. The paper then goes onto evaluate whether or not the above IO's reinforce democracy, human rights and good governance in the Europe's Near Abroad. It is the argument of the paper that regional IO's engaged in democracy promotion often vie for policy space to the detriment of effective international co-operation and that this attenuates the impact of European democracy promotion programmes. |
24/9/2009 IDN KHALDUN PRIZE http://new.researchresearch.com/#main$.Data.Funding.All$preview$765232$ Middle East Economic Research Centre, TR Award amount max: Not specified |
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24/9/2009 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION - 3rd Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010, ATHENS, GREECE The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies in Athens, Greece, 31st of March 2010 and 1-3 April 2010. The conference website is: www.atiner.gr/docs/Mediterranean.htm. The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports etc. Panel organizers are encouraged to submit their proposals by inviting other scholars that do research in the area. Specific sessions will be organized along country studies for both the European and the non-European countries of the Mediterranean Basin. The registration fee is EUR250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks, and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized: a Greek night of entertainment, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands and a half-day tour around the wider area of Athens (Attica). Please submit an abstract (using email only to: atiner@atiner.gr) by October 5th, 2009 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Academic Member of ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, (gtp@atiner.gr) Director, ATINER. The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers, from all over the world, could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 100 international conferences and has published over 80 books have been published. Academically, the Institute is organized into four research divisions and nineteen research units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. |
24/9/2009 UNHCR has launched a new policy statement on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas. It can be accessed at:http://www.unhcr.org/4ab356ab6.pdf The broader issue of urban displacement with be discussed at the December 2009 meeting of the High Commissioner's Dialogue on Protection Challenges. For details, go to:http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4a12a4a26.html |
23/9/2009 Tourisme : Recherches , Institutions, Pratiques 2009/2010 Cher(e)s collègues, Voici une rapide présentation de notre séminaire 2009 / 2010, consacré cette année à la question des images, à partir de deux approches : l'étude des images, l'étude par l'image. La première séance aura lieu le 15 octobre, de 17h à 19h, à la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris. Le séminaire est ouvert à tous, sans réservation préalable, dans la limite des places disponibles. LA QUESTION DES IMAGES Des cartes postales du 19ème siècle aux videos postées par les voyageurs sur internet, les images sont omniprésentes dans l’histoire du tourisme, l’invention des lieux et la transformation des pratiques.Qu’elles soient fixes ou animées, produites par, pour ou sur les touristes, les sociétés d’accueil ou les intermédiaires, c’est donc la question des images qui sera au centre de la cinquième saison du séminaire « Tourisme : Recherches, Institutions, Pratiques ». Le Jeudi 15 octobre, la séance introductive abordera notamment la question de l'authenticité et de ses régimes. Deux approches seront plus particulièrement développées cette année. - L’étude des images. Une série d’interventions sera consacrée aux images produites par les institutions, les touristes et les médias. Que choisit-on de représenter, de raconter ? Que met-on dans le cadre, que garde-t-on « hors champs » ? Qui produit, qui contrôle les images ? Quels sont les messages véhiculés ? Quels en sont les enjeux politiques, économiques ou symboliques ? Comment les images circulent- elles ? Comment sont-elles reçues, appropriées, combattues ? - L’étude par l’image. L’anthropologie visuelle documente depuis de nombreuses années la question des rencontres entre visiteurs et visités. L’ambition du séminaire est notamment d’appréhender la dimension heuristique de la production visuelle pour étudier les phénomènes touristiques. Nadège Chabloz a rassemblé de nombreux films – des classiques du genre aux avant-premières– que nous aurons le plaisir de projeter et de discuter avec vous. 15/10 : La question des images : introductions « Tourismes : la quête de soi par la pratique des autres » : Nadege Chabloz« La question des images. Une brève introduction ». Saskia Cousin Communication "Authenticité et anthropologie du tourisme : catégorie analytique ou catégorie indigène?" Céline Cravatte, agrégée de sciences economiques et sociales, doctorante au Printemps, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines. La complexité de l’organisation de cette année - notamment la question des droits de diffusion - ne nous permet pas encore de vous diffuser le programme complet, mais cela ne saurait tarder. J'ajoute que si vous avez spécifiquement travaillé sur cette question, il reste une ou deux séances disponibles. merci dans ce cas de me contacter rapidement.Vous pouvez déjà noter que les séminaires auront lieu, comme d'habitude, les 1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h, salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, du 15 octobre au 17 juin (avec sans doute quelques échappées buissonnières supplémentaires les 5ème jeudi) : 15/10, 5/11, 19/11, 3/12, 17/12, 7/01, 21/01, 4/02, 18/02, 18/03, 1/04, 6/05, 20/05, 3/06, 17/06. Pour toute demande d'information, ou pour vous inscrire sur la liste de diffusion consacrée à l'étude critique des phénomènes touristiques: scousin@msh-paris.fr A tout bientôt, Cordialement Saskia Cousin Saskia Cousin Docteur en anthropologie sociale, MCF en sociologie à l'IUT de Tours Chercheuse au IIAC-LAIOS (EHESS/CNRS)Chercheuse associée au CITERES (Université François-Rabelais)Maison des Sciences de l'Homme54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris01 49 54 21 98 / 06 16 31 04 80scousin@msh-paris.fr |
23/9/2009 Appel à candidatures: "Les archives : matières et matérialités" Le Caire, 5-12 janvier 2010 Atelier Jeunes chercheurs, Institut d'études de l'Islam
et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (EHESS, Paris),
Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (Le Caire), Date limite de réception des candidatures : 19 octobre 2009 par poste (IISMM, 96 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris) ou par mail (iismm@ehess.fr). Pour l'argumentaire et procédure de candidature cf. Site : http://www.archimo.net |
22/9/2009 Call for Papers: Rethinking the Middle East? Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region, 1918-2010 Venue: British Academy, London, 17-19 March 2010 Sponsored by British Academy, British Institute for the Study of Iraq, European Studies Research Institute/University of Salford (Greater Manchester) Twice within the last one hundred years, Western powers have tried
to significantly alter the configuration of the Middle Eastern political
order. We therefore welcome abstracts of papers that deal with: Secondly, in order to avoid a narrow Western perspective which would treat Middle Eastern actors only as objects of the policies of Western powers, the conference will examine the policies of influential domestic Iraqi political actors and other regional powers, whose international role has been affected by the political developments in Iraq. We therefore also welcome abstracts of papers that deal with: Keynote Lectures will be delivered by: - Professor Charles Tripp (SOAS, London) Confirmed Speakers: - Dr Federica Bicchi (LSE)
A limited number of bursaries covering travel, accommodation and conference costs are available for PhD students presenting a paper. Those wishing to apply for this bursary should add one page in which they state why they are in need of financial assistance. They would also need to describe the broader research context from which their PhD originates and how attending the conference might benefit their project. |
21/9/2009 Continuity and Change: Immigrants in Spitalfields 1660-2000 Dr Anne J Kershen (Queen Mary, University of London) Finishes: 22 October 2009Time: 8:00 PM Venue: SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, London Room: TBC Type of Event: Lecture Series: The Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Annual Lecture Abstract Organised by: Centres and Programmes (REO) , Centre for Migration and Diaspora. |
20/9/2009
Call for Papers : 2010 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting Washington, D.C., April 14-18, 2010
Organizers: Jennie Middleton and Jon Shaw (School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth)
Alongside more traditional approaches in transport geography, the ‘mobilities turn’ is now well established across the social sciences with increasing attention being paid to the mobility of people and goods, ideas and information. Yet these approaches to the study of movement have largely passed each other by, their intellectual journeys following generally different trajectories on account of being taken by different types of academic, interested in different aspects of movement and speaking different kinds of language. At the 2008 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in Boston, Massachusetts a panel came together of mobilities scholars and transport geographers who were invited to discuss these very issues and possible connections/synergies between their areas of/approaches to the study of movement. The panel discussed the following questions: to what extent are transport geography and mobility compatible?; how far do they already coincide?; how far is it desirable, practical, profitable for them to coincide?; and what are the potential ways forward in terms of theoretical and methodological development and empirical data collection?
Although it is clear that a substantial divide remains between the two approaches, the panel recognised a number of key areas of mutual interest and concern. Building on the 2008 session, we aim to explore further opportunities for ‘boundary crossing’ in order to promote a better appreciation of each other’s activities and facilitate an increased dialogue between mobilities and transport scholars. Whilst recognising that differing approaches will never be fully reconciled (or that such a thing is in fact even desirable), we invite conceptual and/or empirical/methodological contributions that provide opportunities for discussing common concerns across these fields of research. We are particularly keen for the research being presented to include reflections on its potential to engage beyond these perceived ‘boundaries’. Thematically, this session seeks to address, but are not confined to, the following topics:
- Transportation - Migration - Transnational flows of people, objects, commodities, information and capital - Travel and tourism - Infrastructure, governance and policy - Social networks - Mobile communications and technologies - Socio-cultural, political and economic dimensions of transport and movement - Everyday practices, habits and routines - Corporeal, affective and emotional topographies
Abstracts (of no more than 250 words) and expressions of interests should be sent to Jennie Middleton (jennie.middleton@plymouth.ac.uk) or Jon Shaw (jon.shaw@plymouth.ac.uk) by 18th October 2009. |
19/9/2009
A review of Oroub El-Abed's book on Palestinians in Egypt has just been published by the Jordan Times. http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19968 |
17/9/2009
17-19 June 2010Nuffield College, University of Oxford This programme seeks to convene scholars from divergent disciplines for athree day conference that examines how Orientalist and colonial discoursesshape war and are shaped by war both in historical and contemporarycontexts. A selection of the papers from the conference will be collectedand submitted for review for publication as an edited volume. We interpret our theme broadly, but we ask that papers address theimplications of Orientalism, and of colonial discourse more generally, inviolent conflict. We are particularly interested in the ways in which war isboth structured by, as well as restructures, Orientalist standpoints. Thatis, we want to address not only Orientalist constructions of conflict, butalso the generative powers of war to reshape its social and politicalcontexts, including the Orientalist discourses that give rise to conflict. Applicants interested in presenting at the conference are welcome to submita prospective title and 200-word abstract by 4 December 2009. Participationin the conference will be confirmed by 30 January 2010. The programme may be able to provide partial funding for applicants selectedto present. Individuals interested in attending or discussing at theconference are also invited to contact us. However, funding will be reservedfor those presenting papers at the conference. All paper proposals can be directed to sundas.ali@nuffield.ox.ac.uk. Co-organizers: Tarak Barkawi, Cambridge University (tkb24@cam.ac.uk)Alia
Brahimi, Oxford University (alia.brahimi@politics.ox.ac.uk)Patrick
Porter, King's College (pporter.jscsc@defenceacademy.mod.uk)Keith
Stanski, Oxford University (keith.stanski@nuffield.ox.ac.uk) |
16/9/2009 Conference "CRITICAL REFLECTIONS IN MIGRATION RESEARCH: VIEWS FROM THE SOUTH AND THE EAST" Koç University, Founders Hall on 07-09 October 2009. Agenda setting in research on international migration has been almost completely in the hands of scholars and researchers in the receiving countries of the North or the West. Although research on international migration in the countries of the South and the East (namely, Eastern Europe) has been characterized by a richness of descriptive material, it is also marked by a relative lack of theoretical contributions. In other words, there seems to be a hegemonic setting in which research areas and questions are defined and formulated in the core countries, and then presented and inserted to the agendas of the peripheries. This phenomenon will be discussed particularly in the light of the recent intensification of development of migration research in selected countries of the South and the East, namely, Turkey, Morocco and Poland. The Draft Program:http://www.mirekoc.com/staticfiles/files/MiReKoc-BMU_Conference__DRAFT.doc MiReKoc Forthcoming Activities:http://www.mirekoc.com/?sid=13 |
16/9/2009 AAG 2010 Call for Papers: Contemporary geographic research on (im)migration Organizers: Patricia Ehrkamp, University of KentuckyHelga Leitner, University of Minnesota These proposed paper sessions seek to follow up on a panel discussion “Immigration through many lenses” organized by Mat Coleman and Monica Varsanyi at the 2008 AAG meeting in Boston that sought to highlight the various contributions geographers make to immigration research across disciplines. The discussion among panelists and with the audience yielded glimpses of the manifold topics, themes, and approaches geographers are currently studying or deem important for future research. Intrigued by the intensity of discussion and the breadth of geographic work that surfaced, we invite papers for a series of sessions that feature current geographic research on (im)migration. Papers in these sessions will highlight the work geographers are currently doing, and the ways that their research points to further questions and future study rather than manifestos on “what we should study.” To this end, we conceive ‘geographic research on (im)migration’ broadly to include a variety of topics and approaches that could include, but are certainly not limited to: • Race, racism, and (im)migration• Studying the “host society” and/or social relations between migrants and non-migrants• Immigrant detention, deportation, security• Immigration and law/policy (this includes policies that are not necessarily immigration policies but are relevant to immigrants’ lives)• Local politics of (im)migrant exclusion/inclusion• Immigrant activism• Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism• Social cohesion, integration, and assimilation• Transnational ties and practices• Migration and development• The geopolitics of (im)migration• Doing immigration research: methods, research design• Unbounding academic (im)migration research: Collaborating with activists, informing public discourse and policy To begin a conversation beyond the (academic) boundaries of geography, and to facilitate conversations between geographers and scholars, analysts or activists working at policy institutes or think tanks we plan to end this series of sessions with a panel discussion with a policy analyst or activist from the D.C. area. If you are interested in presenting your work in these sessions, please send your abstract to Patricia Ehrkamp (p.ehrkamp@uky.edu)and Helga Leitner (Helga.Leitner-1@umn.edu) by October 15, 2009. |
15/9/2009 Exploring Innovations and Transgressions in Tourism Mobilities/Immobilities. Call for Papers, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, April 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC. Convenors: Professor Kevin Hannam (University of Sunderland), Dr Jan Mosedale (University of Sunderland), Cody Paris (Arizona State University). Sponsored by Taylor and Francis Publishers and the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group of the AAG.
Mimi Sheller and John Urry (2004: 1) wrote in their book Tourism Mobilities: “We refer to ‘tourism mobilities’, then, not simply to state the obvious (that tourism is a form of mobility), but to highlight that many different mobilities inform tourism, shape the places where tourism is performed, and drive the making and unmaking of tourist destinations. Mobilities of people and objects, airplanes and suitcases, plants and animals, images and brands, data systems and satellites, all go into ‘doing’ tourism. … Tourism mobilities involve complex combinations of movement and stillness, realities and fantasies, play and work.” Research into tourism mobilities has, to date, primarily focused upon the impact of new technologies and modes of transport and related changing social and cultural practices as well as the creation of new ‘mobile’ places such as airports and internet cafés – with little regard for both alternative innovations and transgressions within mobilities/immobilities (Cresswell, 2006; Hannam et al., 2006). This call for papers, then, looks to examine some of the more neglected aspects of tourism mobilities, in order to understand creative and innovative as well as transgressive and abject mobile practices that are constitutive of contemporary tourism. However, we are also seeking research that examines what happens when things break down in the very ‘doing’ of tourism and both the immobilities and new innovative or transgressive mobilities that may then ensue. Hence, we would like to suggest papers that engage theoretically with the new mobilities paradigm and which examine one or more of the following themes: Tourism, Creativity & Innovations in Mobilities/immobilities Tourism, Greed & Excess in Mobilities/immobilities Tourism, Inequalities & Abjection in Mobilities/immobilities Tourism, Risk & Health in Mobilities/immobilities. Tourism, Crime & Terrorism in Mobilities/immobilities. Please note the guidelines for presenters, available at: http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm Please submit your abstract by October 16th 2009 to either kevin.hannam@sunderland.ac.uk
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14/9/2009 Assembling ‘parts of elsewhere’: Urban politics and policies on the move Call For Papers, AAG Meeting, 14-18 April, 2010, Washington DC Organizers: Eugene McCann (Geography, Simon Fraser University) and Kevin Ward (Environment and Development, University of Manchester). A great deal of urban politics and urban policy-making is characterized by actors’ engagements with places elsewhere. Indeed, for Allen and Cochrane (2007), urban regions are assemblages of ‘parts of elsewhere;’ their very constitution is only conceivable and made operational through the way that they draw together and articulate various people, processes, and forms of knowledge that exist and extend beyond the individual locality. This insight has its origins in the work of David Harvey and Doreen Massey, among others. Both have emphasized, in their own ways, how places are moments in wider processes that link them to wider geographies and histories. Yet, despite a longstanding acceptance of the relational geographies and sociologies of place and the problematic nature of the category, ‘urban,’ much remains to be done in analyzing precisely how, where, and with what consequences urban policy-making and urban politics operate in and through individual cities. Recent work on policy transfer, policies-in-motion, or policy mobilities has deepened our understanding somewhat (for example, the 2009 special issue of Geoforum on “Remaking governance, mobilizing policy,” (Peck and Theodore, eds.) and the forthcoming volume Assembling Urbanism (McCann & Ward eds., Minnesota Press)). The purpose of this session is to deepen and extend the discussion by bringing together a range of scholars whose work analyzes how urban political and policy actors (broadly defined to include those working in state institutions, in business, and in grassroots activist organizations, among others) engage with places elsewhere as they seek to shape their place. We invite papers from a variety of theoretical and methodological positions, exploring a diversity of empirical cases. Possible themes include (but are not necessarily limited to): 1. Conceptual · Political economy-derived conceptualizations of urban
neo-liberalization · Post-structural understandings of governmentality, spatiality,
subjectivity, and assemblage as applied to global-urban policy-making
and political action · Cultural theorizations of mobility in the context of urban
policy and politics 2. Methodological · Archival and documentary analysis of discourses of connection
among cities · Ethnographies of institutions, organizations, and individuals
involved in the movement of policies and in translocal ‘resistance
transfer’ · Comparative urbanism and other techniques for understanding
the geographies and histories of city to city inter-connections · Interpretations of landscapes and the parts of elsewhere
held within them · Theoretically-informed mappings and quantifications of
policy transfers and of geographies of urban policy and political
knowledge 3. Empirical · Specific cases of globally-circulating policies and best
practices and their impact on particular places · Policy tourism and the means through which actors in different
cities move between cities, learning, adapting, translating and
implementing policies · City twinning, and other formal relationships that exist
in and through which policies can be moved about · Institutional infrastructures that facilitate and channel
knowledge transfer (UN, Trade organizations, EU learning networks
etc.) · Oppositional political movements and their use of global
circuits to undermine existing policies (eg the World Social Forum)
Authors are invited to submit a 250 word abstract to both the session organizers, Kevin Ward (kevin.ward@manchester.ac.uk) & Eugene McCann (emccann@sfu.ca) by Monday 5 October. |
14/9/2009 Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary perspectives InternationalConference Oxford, 14-15 January 2010 Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre,University of Oxford The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is organizingan international conference on the theme of Romani mobilities in Europe:multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference is part of 'Mapping Romanimobilities in Europe', a two-year research project funded by the John FellOxford University Press Research Fund.The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and studentsfrom across a variety of disciplines to discuss the multiple dimensions andimpacts of Romani mobilities in Europe.We invite proposals for papers which investigate the variety and directionsof contemporary Romani mobilities into, out of and within the EU and locatethem in the broader political, social, historical and cultural context. Wewelcome in particular proposals that focus on one or more of the followingareas:- Provide historical perspectives on policy and practice aimed at governingRomani mobilities;- Interrogate, through the Roma case, the concept and practice of freedom ofmovement in the EU;- Investigate broader demographic trends or specific migratory movements ofRoma in the EU;- Explore the relationship between different legal statuses and patterns anddirections of Romani mobility;- Explore Romani politics in the enlarged EU and the process ofEuropeanisation of the Roma issue, looking in particular at internationalNGOs, Roma elite and grassroots activism;- Investigate the relationship between indigenous and long-establishedRomani communities and newly arrived Roma migrants;- Discuss continuities and discontinuities in public discourses and socialpolicies for Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in the EU;- Explore settlement and resettlement issues in the context of widespreadanti-Gypsyism;- Analyse the impacts of migration on identity and cultural production. The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature arange of plenary and panel sessions and a keynote lecture by BaronessNicholson of Winterbourne MEP. Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (max 300words) and a brief CV (max 150 words) to the conference organisers by Friday25th September 2009. A limited number of bursaries are available for presenters of papers.The bursaries will cover the registration fee and accommodation in Oxford.To apply for bursaries, applicants must accompany their abstract and CV witha one-page cover letter stating why support would be beneficial to them, andname and contact address of a referee. For full details: EMAIL: nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk WEB: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/conf_conferences_140110.html BLOG: http://romanimobilities.wordpress.com/ |
14/9/2009 Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des Droits de l'Homme Le lundi 14 septembre 2009, le Réseau Euro-Méditerranéen des Droits de l'Homme lance son Nouveau site Web… http://www.fr.euromedrights.org/ |
13/9/2009 New book on Social Networks and Migration in Wartime Afghanistan In his recent book, Senior Researcher and PRIO Director, Kristian Berg Harpviken puts forward a theoretical framework for understanding the role of social networks in situations of war, disaster and forced migration. Inspired by social network theory, developed in fields such as economic and organizational sociology, Harpviken systematically applies and advances these theories with reference to forced migration. He draws on extensive fieldwork in the Herat area of Afghanistan to analyze wartime migration and he discusses how social networks help people cope, what kind of network is most effective in various contexts and what social networks provide. For more information, please see:http://www.palgrave.com/PRODUCTS/title.aspx?pid=344093 'Kristian Berg Harpviken is among the few scholars to have met the empirical and conceptual challenges of analysing networks in conflict settings, as is amply shown in this timely and finely researched book on war and the Afghan diaspora.' - Nicholas Van Hear, The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK 'In a field saturated with macro level studies of war and peacebuilding in Afghanistan, Harpviken's stands out for giving agency to people. Afghanistan's refugees, both in exile and after return, present a compelling case for theoretical contributions to social networks, migration studies and political mobilization during wars. Few authors can claim as much experience with field work during the Taliban regime. Harpviken's first hand knowledge makes a strong case for how networks are formed and evolve in the absence of a state, for better and for worse.' - Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Sciences Po, Paris, France 'This book provides a fascinating insight into war, displacement and return in Afghanistan, drawing on detailed empirical investigation during the period of Taliban control, and since the arrival of US-led coalition forces. Its insight into how social networks are maintained and even strengthened during conflict to channel migration and return is both striking and compelling. As a major study of the world's largest refugee displacement of modern times, it should be required reading for anyone interested in refugee movements.' - Richard Black, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK 'In this systematic analysis of wartime migration, Kristian Berg Harpviken shows how the evolving structure of social networks shapes the decisions of ordinary people to leave their homes and to return. Drawing on extraordinary research in two Afghan villages, this compelling work should be read by scholars and policy-makers alike.' - Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale University and the Santa Fe Institute, USA |
12/9/2009 Le Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées (RFIEA) vous informe de la prochaine clôture de l’appel à candidatures de l’IMéRA - Institut méditerranéen de recherches avancées de Marseille (France) Date limite de candidature : 15 septembre 2009 Les candidatures sont évaluées par le conseil scientifique international de l’IMéRA suivant les critères suivants : - la qualité scientifique ou artistique du projet ; Les candidatures issues de l’espace méditerranéen sont vivement encouragées et seront privilégiées. L’IMéRA est un institut d’études avancées (IEA) destiné à accueillir en résidence des chercheurs internationaux de haut niveau, émergents et confirmés, de toutes origines disciplinaires, pour leur permettre de se rencontrer, de mener à bien des travaux qui exigent plusieurs mois de liberté sans contrainte administrative ou d’enseignement, et d’approfondir les liens avec les centres de recherche et d’enseignement supérieur de la région. Totalement interdisciplinaire, il est à la fois un lieu d’innovation intellectuelle et le moteur d’un projet collectif visant à construire l’interdisciplinarité future en mettant l’accent sur la dimension humaine des sciences. Consulter l’appel à candidatures |
12/9/2009 EU unveils strategy for maritime governance in Mediterranean The European Union has unveiled a strategy to improve maritime governance in the Mediterranean, saying this would act as an important driver for more sustainable growth in the region, while addressing common issues of concern. To read more visit: http://www.enpi-info.eu/mainmed.php?id_type=1&id=19464&lang_id=450 |
12/9/2009 International Conference: 10. Conference: "Middle East & Caucasus: Peace and Security Resolutions" Istanbul, Nov 12-13, 2009 The changes in the balance of international systems after the Cold War have raised new opportunities and risks in the Middle East and Caucasus. The region, therefore, is expected to keep its central role and vital importance in the future. For information, contact: Erdal Yawuz, President, Center for Strategic Research & Application, Yeditepe University (sam@yeditepe.edu.tr). |
12/9/2009 Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas
Panel, paper, and alternative-format presentation submissions are invited for the “Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas” conference, to be held in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on April 8-10, 2010. Open to students, scholars, and professionals, the conference is meant to build new ties amongst all those interested in the theoretical or applied study of mobilities. The study of mobilities is a young and constantly evolving interdisciplinary field. The concept of “mobility” refers to the social, political, historical, cultural, economic, geographic, communicative, and material dimensions of movement. Students and scholars of mobilities focus their attention on the intersecting movements of bodies, objects, capital, and signs across time-space, paying attention as well as to the way relations between mobility and immobility constitute new networks and patterns of social life. The multiple forms of mobility, or mobilities, are often taken to include—amongst others—subjects such as: transportation; travel and tourism; migration; transnational flows of people, objects, information, and capital; mobile communications; and social networks and meetings. While the conference is open to all themes pertinent to the study of mobilities from a social and cultural perspective—irrespective of the geographical site of empirical or theoretical attention—the main focus of the conference will be on the experience, practice, social organization, and cultural significance of forms of mobility in North, Central, and South America.
Whereas in Europe the new mobilities paradigm has taken a strong hold in academic units, professional research networks, and recognized publication outlets, the study of mobilities is still in its infancy in the Americas. In contrast, mobility is very much part of the core of the social imaginary, geo-politics, and cultural life of the Americas. Indeed, to be “on the move” is amongst the most quintessential characteristics of what it means to be a citizen of the Americas. Furthermore, the Americas are home to many, distinct mobile cultures and practices: from indigenous cultures rooted in traditional meanings of home to the historical institutionalization of colonial and postcolonial trade routes and forced relocations, from controversial experiments in free transnational trade, to the politics and experience of migration and Diaspora, from the widespread diffusion of portable communication technologies, to the mobilization of surveillance systems, and from the leisure mobilities of tourism, to the social and cultural significance of transportation and movement in daily life. For more information see here: http://tinyurl.com/l6k97s |
11/9/2009 Refugee Futures Conference 2009 10-12 September 2009, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy Topics to be covered by an eminent group of scholars, administrators and policy makers include: * the future challenges faced in the strategic management of refugee movements and settlement* protracted refugee situations and the difficulty of finding solutions* the scope for refugee resettlement* refugees, crime and security* climate change and displacement of people* refugee children: how can the international community improve outcomes?* the future of the global refugee regime. The Conference will be held at the Monash University Centre, in the elegant 18th century Palazzo Vaj, in Prato, near Florence, in the city’s historic heart. For further information please see http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/refugeefutures2009/ |
11/9/2009 €31 million for Mediterranean migratory routes under Call for Proposals on migration and asylum cooperation
http://www.enpi-info.eu/mainmed.php?id_type=1&id=19421&lang_id=450 |
11/9/2009 Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Winter Short Courses January 2010 The Center for Migration and Refugee Studies CMRS at the American University in Cairo AUC is offering the following two winter short courses on refugee law: 1. Introduction to Refugee Law (January 10-14, 2010): Course Description: The course will provide post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, lawyers and others working with refugees or interested in refugee issues with an introduction to the international legal framework which governs the protection of refugees. Through lectures, case studies and small group sessions, course participants will learn about the basic features of international refugee law including the components of the international refugee protection regime; the elements of the definition(s) of \"refugee\" contained in international instruments; the ethical and professional obligations of those representing refugees; the basic elements of the process by which refugee status is determined; and, the rights of refugees under international law. A background in law is useful but not required. The course will include a simulated refugee hearing in which course participants will be assigned roles to carry out in mock refugee status determination proceedings. 2. Advanced Refugee Law (January 17- 21, 2010): Course Description: The course will provide post-graduate students, international agency staff, NGO workers, lawyers and others working with refugees with further training on new developments and current debates regarding the international legal framework which governs the protection of refugees. Through lectures, case studies and small group sessions, course participants will discuss and debate the sources and governance of international refugee law; the minimum requirements of and best practices in refugee status determination; the nature of the \"nexus\" requirement; the nature of \"persecution\" (including the circumstances under which socio-economic disadvantage may qualify as persecution); how to distinguish between \"persecution\" and \"prosecution\"; the definition of refugee contained in the Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa; the ethical and professional dilemmas encountered in legal representation of and advocacy on behalf of refugees; and, the obligations to refugees arising from other areas of international law. The course will be taught using examples from past and current refugee policy and jurisprudence from different jurisdictions. Successful completion of an introductory course in refugee law or equivalent experience with refugee law is required. The course will include a multi-party negotiation exercise based upon a simulated refugee crisis in which course participants will be assigned the roles of affected states, UNHCR and civil society and be required to negotiate a solution. Application procedure:To apply for one or both courses, please fill in the application form http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/outreach/Pages/ShortCourses.aspx and send an updated copy of your CV to Sara Sadek: ssadek@aucegypt.eduThe deadline for receiving course applications is October 8th, 2009. Applicants accepted for the course will be notified by e-mail.Venue of the courses The courses will take place in the Falaki Building, at the downtown campus of the American University in Cairo Course fees:The tuition fee for each course is $ 500 for non-Egyptians and an equivalent to $ 150 for Egyptians. CMRS provides 5 competitive scholarships restricted to registered refugees in Cairo Participants are expected to pay a 30% of the total fees as a deposit before November 15th, 2009. More information on payment method will be provided to accepted participants.Tuition fees will cover course material and 2 coffee breaks per course day. Accommodation and any other expenses are not included. Please check the link for some nearby recommended accommodation venues in Cairo. http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/rc/cmrs/Documents/Recommendations%20for%20nearby%20hotels.pdf |
11/9/2009 Children and War: Past and Present International multidisciplinary conference to be held at the University of Salzburg, Austria, on 30 September - 2 October 2010. Organised by the University of Salzburg and the University of Wolverhampton (UK). In recent years the volume of international research on 'Children and War', carried out by academics, governmental and non-governmental organisations and institutions as well as the media, has continually increased. At the same time there has been a growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath. Research topics are as varied as the disciplines and interests involved - often acting independently of each other. Therefore it seems time to review current research and to open new perspectives for future work by bringing together scholars from various academic disciplines, practitioners in the field, representatives of governmental and non-governmental institutions and the media. All proposals which focus on any topic and theme on 'Children and War' are welcome, ranging from the experience of war, flight, displacement and resettlement, relief and rehabilitation work, gender issues, persecution, trafficking, abuse and prostitution, trauma and amnesia, the trans-generational impact of persecution, individual and collective memory, educational issues, films and documentaries, artistic and literary approaches, to remembrance and memorials, and questions of theory and methodology. Specific conference themes anticipated are:- Children as witnesses and victims of war and conflicts- Holocaust, genocides and forced labour- Child soldiers, partisans and resistance fighters- Army mascots- Deportations and displacements, refugees and asylum seekers- War crimes, trials and human rights Please send an abstract of 200-250 words, together with biographical background information of 50-100 words by 31 December 2009 to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk All proposals are subject to a review process. Conference language: English. The organising team: Wolfgang Aschauer (Salzburg), Helga Embacher (Salzburg), Darek Galasinski (Wolverhampton), Olga Kozlowska (Wolverhampton), Albert Lichtblau (Salzburg), Grazia Prontera (Salzburg), Johannes-Dieter Steinert (Wolverhampton). Fees: EUR 100 for speakers. The fee includes admission to all panels, lunches, coffees and teas. Further information and registration details will be made available early in 2010. All participants need to secure their own funding to participate in this conference. It is intended to publish a selection of conference papers. Helga Embacher (University of Salzburg) & Dieter Steinert (University of Wolverhampton) *Please send replies to: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk* |
11/9/2009 “Mothers and Daughters: A Conversation with Hanan al-Shaykh and Mariam Said”
Organized by The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Hanan al-Shaykh A Lebanese-born, London-based author who has chronicled the lives and roles of women in the Middle East in her lyrical, provocative, and often humorous fiction for the past two decades. Her latest book is The Locust and the Bird: My Mother’s Story (Pantheon Books, 2009).
Mariam Said Born and raised in Beirut, Mariam Said (widow of Edward W. Said and daughter of the educator Wadad Makdisi Cortas) is currently involved with numerous cultural organizations, such as the Barenboim-Said Foundation USA of which she is Vice-President. Said recently published her mother's autobiography A World I Loved: The story of an Arab Woman (Nation Books, 2009).
Moderator: Jonathan Wilson Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Director of the Center for the Humanities, Tufts University (CHAT).
Co-sponsored with: CHAT, Middle Eastern Studies Major, and the Department of German, Russian, Asian Languages and Literatures
Open to the Public Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 5:30PM Cabot Intercultural Center 702, Tufts University 160 Packard Avenue, Medford MA 02155
For more information, including locations, please visit: http://farescenter.tufts.edu/events/, On www.facebook.com (Search: Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies), or call (617) 627-6560 |
10/9/2009 ESRC Research Seminar Series Understanding the Migrant Experience The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience. The idea for the series has arisen from a concern to ensure that the evidence on which policy making in the areas of asylum and migration is based includes evidence about the experiences of the principle actors in the migratory process; namely asylum seekers, refugees and migrants themselves, and the families and communities of which they are a part. Full details of the seminar series are attached. We have held two seminars so far this year exploring whether there is 'a migrant experience' and the ways in which experiences of migration are shaped by gender, age, class , race and other dimensions of difference. Our next seminar is entitled 'Methodological issues in capturing and understanding experiences of migration' and will explore the advantages and disadvantages of different methodological approaches in unpicking and unpacking the migrant experience, including through the use of in-depth questionnaire surveys, oral histories and participatory research methods. Issues associated with undertaking research with migrants considered particularly 'hard-to-reach', including sex workers and undocumented children and young people will be considered. There will also be a panel discussion addressing the ethical and political issues involved in migration research. The seminar will take place at Swansea University on Wednesday 7th October 2009 from 9.30am – 5pm. Confirmed speakers include Adrian Bailey and Farai Magunha (University of Leeds), Nando Sigona (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Nira Yuval-Davies and Erene Kaptani (University of East London), Nick Mai (London Metropolitan University), Myriam Cherti (ippr) and Ilse Van Liempt (University of Sussex). Lunch will be provided and there will be plenty of time for reflection and discussion. If you would like to attend this seminar please email migration@swansea.ac.uk by 18th September. Places are limited to 45 participants. You will see from the series outline that we have a number of travel bursaries available for migrants and postgraduate researchers who would like to participate. If you would like to be considered for one of these bursaries please let us know when you respond. Best wishes Dr Heaven CrawleyDirector, Centre for Migration Policy ResearchSchool of the Environment and SocietySwansea UniversitySingleton ParkSwansea WALES, UKSA2 8PP Tel: +44 (0)1792 602409Email: h.crawley@swansea.ac.ukWebsite: www.swansea.ac.uk/cmpr |
10/9/2009 Correspondence: Travel, Writing, and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c. 1850 7-10 April 2010 An international conference hosted by the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Edinburgh (Institute of Geography and Centre for the History of the Book), in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland, is pleased to announce "Correspondence: travel, writing, and literatures of exploration, c. 1750?c.1850"--a four-day, interdisciplinary conference concerned with travel, travel writing, and the associated literatures of exploration. In bringing together scholarly perspectives from geography, book history, literary studies, and the history of science, the conference seeks to interrogate the relationship between travel, exploration, and publishing in order better to understand how knowledge acquired 'in the field' became, through a series of material and epistemic translations, knowledge on the page. Plenary speakers include Elizabeth Bohls (University of Oregon), Joyce Chaplin (Harvard University), Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University), and Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow). Proposals for papers on all aspects of travel in the period in question are welcome. Preference may be given to papers which engage with one or more of the following themes: - Travellers' inscriptive practices How, where, when, and why did travellers and explorers choose to record the details of their journeys? In what respects did the mode and style of travellers' written accounts--whether rough notes, regularised diaries and logs, thematic reports, or letters--discipline their content and reflect their intended purpose? - Travellers' credibility and the veracity of written accounts Given that travellers and explorers were only ever partial and imperfect witnesses, how did they assure themselves--and, through the published versions of their work, their audiences--of the truth? How did their accounts correspond to the things they sought to describe and understand? What were the epistemological bases to travellers' claims to truth? - The correspondence between manuscript and print What were the material and epistemic transformations which turned travellers' initial notes into completed, published narratives? Which changes and adaptations were considered necessary in making the transition from manuscript to print? How, in a pre-photographic age, were credible illustrations produced in the field, and how did they supplement and lend authority to printed texts? Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to Dr Innes
M. Keighren, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond
Street, EDINBURGH, EH8 9XP or by email to innes.keighren@ed.ac.uk
no later than 1 October 2009. The organizers hope to have a programme
of over twenty papers over the four days of the meeting (including
plenary papers). Organizers: Dr Bill Bell, Dr Innes M. Keighren,
Professor Charles W. J. Withers. |
10/9/2009 Call for Papers and expressions of interest: South African Migration to the UK: Exploring Dynamics, Identities andProspects 22-23 April, 2010 at University of Loughborough Keynote speaker: Prof Jonathon Crush (Queens University) Other provisional speakers include: Prof Terence Ranger (Oxford); JoAnn McGregor (UCL); Claire Nukui (Reading); Dominic Pasura (UCL) This two-day seminar is being co-organised by Daniel Conway (Loughborough) and Charlotte Lemanski (UCL) with financial support from Centre for the Study of International Governance (CSIG) at Loughborough University. We are now inviting the submission of abstracts for papers to be presented at the seminar. Papers should address South African migration to the UK and might include issues such as: whiteness, diaspora, space and identity. As this is a relatively under-researched area, the seminar is intended to serve as an initial space to share ideas and research findings, develop a network of researchers and identify future research agendas. Please send abstracts of 150-200 words accompanied by your title, name and institutional affiliation to Charlotte Lemanski (c.lemanski@ucl.ac.uk) by 1 December 2009. |
9/9/2009 Book launch in London Vicki Squire 'Exclusionary Politics of Asylum' Palgrave, 2009 and Umut Erel 'Migrant Women Transforming Citizenship. Life-Stories from Britain and Germany' Ashgate 2009 Monday, 21 September 2009 18.00 hrs The Open University in London (Region 1), Room 21-11 Hawley Crescent Camden Town London, NW1 8NP Programme details as follows: 18:00: Preliminary Remarks 18:10 - 18:40: Speakers: Engin Isin (Open University) David Owen (University of Southampton) Nira Yuval-Davis (University of East London) Discussion with the audience 18:40 - 19:30 Reception If you are interested in attending this book launch, please RSVP Pearl Whitney, Research Secretary, The Open University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, by 14 September 2009. Tel: 01908 652717 Email: p.a.whitney@open.ac.uk |
9/9/2009 East & West: Cross Cultural EncountersConference 11-12 September 2009 School of Art History, University of St Andrews This international conference will provide a forum for interdisciplinarydialogue between scholars and postgraduate students of Eastern and Westernculture to develop understanding of cultural exchange between Asia, Europe andAmerica. * Fee-waiver is given to Student delegates from history-related disciplines orScottish institutes. For details of programme and registration, please go to: http://www-ah.st-andrews.ac.uk/newsandevents/cross-cultural/ Contact information:crosscultural@st-andrews.ac.uk |
8/9/2009 Workshop: "Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography" London, Sept 18, 2009 Organised by: Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and SOAS. For information and detailed programme contact sarah.savant@aku.edu |
8/9/2009 Interdisciplinary Conference: "Arab Popular Culture Conference" Beirut, April 20-23, 2010 The Institute for Media Training and Research at the Lebanese American University in Beirut is holding this interdisciplinary conference. Conference organizers welcome contributions from scholars, journalists, musicians, artists, graphic designers, and all those interested in the subject. In the last 20 years, the expansion of the middle class, the exceptional growth of pan-Arab media and particularly television, and the introduction of Western forms of mass popular culture have all considerably challenged, and changed the Arab World. These developments have not been accompanied by any significant academic interest. Many Arab intellectuals continue to look at popular culture with derision while Western scholars have mostly focused their on the political repercussions of the media boom. This conference aims to focus attention on the significant developments in popular urban culture in such areas - but not exclusively - as music, cinema, sports, and fashion. We also expect that some of the papers presented will explore the relation of media, in all of its forms, to popular culture, and will examine the limits and significance of the popular in the context of the international. Those interested in participating should send panel suggestions or an abstract of less than 250 words no later than February 5, 2010. They will be notified within a week from receipt of their abstracts. Speakers should note that they will have no more than 20 minutes to present their papers. However, a full version of their paper will be made available to all participants and posted on the LAU conference website. There will be a registration fee of $100, and $60 for students. It will cover, among other things, three lunches at the university and one diner off campus.Special arrangements will be available to participants at a number of hotels near the LAU campus. More information will follow soon. All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Dr. Ramez Maluf, rzmaluf@lau.edu.lb |
7/9/2009 Conference: "Libya: Legacy of the Past, Prospects for the Future" Middle East Centre, University of Oxford, 25-27 September 2009. On 25-27 September the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College,
Oxford, will host an international conference entitled "Libya:
Legacy of the Past, Prospects for the Future." |
6/9/2009 The 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference: THE 21ST-CENTURY GULF: THE CHALLENGE OF IDENTITY 30 June-3 July 2010 |
4/9/2009 Refugee Futures Conference 2009 10-12 September 2009, Monash University Prato Centre, Italy
Topics to be covered by an eminent group of scholars, administrators and policy makers include: * the future challenges faced in the strategic management of refugee
movements and settlement The Conference will be held at the Monash University Centre, in the elegant 18th century Palazzo Vaj, in Prato, near Florence, in the city’s historic heart. For further information please see |
3/9/2009 Call for Papers | Ethnography and History Of Southwest
Asia (including 'Middle East') and North Africa. The Department of Anthropology at the LSE is pleased to announce
the seminar series on Southwest Asia (including 'Middle East') and
North Africa for 2009 - 2010. This seminar will bring together doctoral
students, research fellows and senior scholars to present their
recently completed work and work-in-progress in a forum to get feedback
and discuss new and current research in and of the region. |
1/9/2009 New Policy Report : 'Surviving in the city: a review of
UNHCR's operation for Iraqi refugees |
12/8/2009 Call for papers : 'Scales of Belonging' theme issue of
Emotion, Space and Society |
10/8/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - Romani mobilities in Europe: multidisciplinary
perspectives Oxford, 14-15 January 2010 Convened by Nando Sigona and Roger Zetter, Refugee Studies Centre, The Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) at the University of Oxford is The conference will take place on 14-15 January 2010 and will feature
a Those wishing to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract
(max EMAIL: nando.sigona@qeh.ox.ac.uk |
7/8/2009 Conference / Call for Papers - Postcolonialism & Islam
The Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS) and Culture Team of the Faculty of Education and Society at the University of Sunderland are inviting abstracts and expressions of interest for a conference to be held at the University of Sunderland, UK, from the 16th to the 17th of April 2010. Postcolonialism and Islam are two terms that frequently appear in tandem; however, the relationship between the two and the question of their compatibility has never been extensively investigated. The speed and intensity of changes characteristic of late modernity under the pressure of cultural and economic globalisation has traumatised Muslims and non- Muslims alike. Hybrid identity formations, very often provisional, are generated in the articulation of differences marked by imaginary relations to faith, nation, class, gender, sexuality and language. Postcolonialism might seem to provide a framework for approaching the experiences of not only formerly colonised subjects, but emigres, exiles and expatriates and their host societies. However, Muslim writers and intellectuals have both adopted and rejected postcolonial theory as an effective tool for analysing and accounting for the experience of Muslims in the modern world. This multidisciplinary conference will be relevant to specialists in postcolonial theory and cultural, historical, political, sociological, literary and religious studies who seek to problematise the terms themselves and their juxtaposition. It will mainly focus on these six themes: - Muslim identity and its connection to race, cultural politics,
integration Other related topic will also be considered. The intension is to publish an edited volume based on the theme of the conference to which a selection of participants will be invited to contribute. Speakers and non-speakers are all very welcome to participate. Confirmed speakers so far include: - Dr. Tahir Abbas, FRSA, currently principle analyst at Deen International - Prof. Ceri Peach, Emeritus Professorand Research Associate at the Oxford School of Geography - Prof. Patrick Williams, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent If you wish to contribute a paper please submit a proposal (300 words maximum) to one of the following no later than October 30th, 2009: Dr. Geoffrey Nash (geoff.nash@sunderland.ac.uk) Dr. Sarah Hackett (sarah.hackett-1@sunderland.ac.uk) Faculty of Education and Society
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6/8/2009 Nouvelles mobilités dans les suds / Espace populations
sociétés
La revue EPS propose un numéro sur les « nouvelles
mobilités dans les Annonce - Les mobilités dans les Sud comme révélateurs
d’évolutions - Les façons de faire et les motifs qui président
aux mobilités - Les catégories sociales et les nouvelles formes d’inégalités
au L’objectif du numéro est d’embrasser, a minima,
la diversité des Démographes, économistes, sociologues et anthropologues,
historiens * Résumés attendus pour le 15 septembre 2009 (moins
de 500 mots) Contacts des coordinateurs * jerome.lombard@ird.fr Mots-clés * mobilité, migration, transport, inégalité, espace, Sud Date limite * mercredi 15 septembre 2010 Contact * Nicole Thumerelle Langevin Url de référence * UFR de géographie de Lille I Source de l'information * Jérôme Lombard Source : Saskia Cousin saskia.cousin@orange.fr | T.R.I.P. (tourisme-recherches-institutions-pratiques |
4/8/2009 Petition of information : Urban Displacement
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2/8/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - TRAVEL AS A FORCE OF HISTORICAL CHANGE
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1/8/2009 Conference : PARIS, TOURISME et METROPOLISATION Echelles, acteurs et pratiques du tourisme d’une « destination capitale »
Lieu : le Jeudi 24 et le Vendredi 25 juin 2010, à la Sorbonne |
31/7/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - BEYOND CITIZENSHIP: FEMINISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BELONGING
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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 The aim of this conference is to encourage interdisciplinary and
We particularly welcome papers on the following themes: Pre-History Subjects Contestation Consequences Submission of Proposed Papers Conveners This conference is made possible by a grant from the John Fell-OUP Fund. * Call for Papers: |
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 We welcome submissions from researchers from any discipline who
are We are seeking paper proposals for the Michaelmas Term (Autumn
2009). To apply please send a brief abstract and your department/university |
26/7/2009 Workshop Call for Papers : Contemporary Fieldwork in the Middle East: Practices, Possibilities and Politics
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25/7/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling
CALL FOR PAPERS |
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 |
22/7/2009 Numéro spécial de la revue NAQD N°26 : Migrants / Migrance. Souffrance. El harga
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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 From Valentine's Day to Diwali, from Thanksgiving to the Day of
the Dead, cultural It is not purely as an economic event that Christmas and what one
might term its In order to address this lack of attention we invite both theoretical
and empirical * The globalization and homogenization of festivity
Papers should be no more than 8,000 words, excluding references,
and will be blind |
17/7/2009 CALL FOR PAPERS - BELONGING IN THE TRANSNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY |
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 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 |
8/7/2009 Images of Illegalized Immigration
This conference invites scholars to discuss images of illegalized
The number of ?displaced persons? is increasing, resulting in various
The goal of this conference is to deal more critically with visual
We are very delighted to have W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)
Program: Sunday, 30. August 2009 (Neues Kino: Klybeckstrasse 247, Basel) Monday, 31. August 2009 (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel,
Room 212) 9:00-9:30 am Welcome and Introduction 9:30-10:00 am Christelle Maire De Bellis: Illegal Migration and
Asylum 10:00-10:30 am Jan-Henrik Friedrichs: Guest Workers and Refugees
in 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 Images and Border (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel, Room
212), 1:30-2:00 pm Francesca Falk: Invasion, Infection, Invisibility.
An 2:00-2:30 pm Michael Andreas: Mimesis, Mimikry, Camouflage: The
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: Keynote (Kollegiengebäude University of Basel, Room 102),
6:15-8:00 pm W.J.T. Mitchell: Flying Checkpoints and Immoveable
Walls: Tuesday, 1. September 2009 (Kollegiengebäude University of
Basel, Room 212) 9:30-10:00 am Eva Kuhn: "Border" - the videographic traces 10:00-10:30 am Lambert Dousson: Bruno Serralongue at the Cité
Nationale 10:30-11:00 am Coffee Break 11:00-11:45 am Helen Schwenken and Olaf Berg: Masking, Blurring,
11:45-12:15 pm Almut Rembges: Picture Sevice ? an Interactive 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
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7/7/2009 COMPAS Annual Conference 2009
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. |
2/7/2009 Genre en mouvement : Conflits, négociations et recompositions
Colloque international, du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2009?lieu:
Université Paris Diderot |
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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