Global Studies Association North America Annual Conferecen 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS:


"The Global Crisis and Beyond"


University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
May 7th - 9th, 2010


• Accepting 100 word abstracts on all topics that touch on globalization.

• Abstracts should be sent to Prof Jerry Harris at: gharris234@comcast.net

• Deadline for abstracts is April 21, 2010.

• The global crisis is all sided, affecting communities throughout the world. Our keynote speakers will examine different aspects and alternatives to the global meltdown including: affects on the global South; affects on and responses from women; cut-backs in education; how the media has covered the crisis; the growth of right-wing populism and fundamentalism; and alternative economics.

• Workshops will cover a broad array of topics and we accept papers covering all aspects of globalization.


For information on the conference go to the GSA web site:
http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal

Living Together: CRONEM 6th Annual Conference 2010

Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM)
University of Surrey / Roehampton University
CRONEM 6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

Joint international conference with the Runnymede Trust (http://www.runnymedetrust.org )
Living Together: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives ( 29 - 30 June 2010)
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS
(Deadline 15 February 2010)

This conference will range across different academic disciplines and explore links between academic knowledge, policy, practice and the media. The format will consist of keynote addresses, parallel paper sessions, convened symposia, a poster session and a panel debate organised by the Runnymede Trust.

Speakers already confirmed:
Benjamin R. Barber, President (CivWorld at Demos) and Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA
Constance Flanagan, Professor of Youth Civic Development, Penn State University, USA
Yvonne Galligan, Director, Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics, Queen's University Belfast
Jørgen S. Nielsen, Director, Centre for European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster, UK
Antje Wiener, Professor of Politics, University of Hamburg, Germany

Despite the recent " Obama effect" , conventional forms of political participation have declined in many countries in recent years, with growing levels of political apathy, disengagement from formal democratic processes and increasing distrust of, or lack of confidence in, political institutions. However, research suggests that issues, which might have mobilised individuals into taking political action in the past, are now being tackled in many cases via voluntary, community or charitable activities, protest movements or consumer activism instead. Hence, current trends in political participation, especially among younger people, may be indicative not of public disengagement per se but of a shift to a different kind of public activism.

Gendered perspectives on cultural, civic and political engagement, which explore the conditions governing women ' s participation, as well as perspectives which examine engagement and participation among migrant or minority groups, can be especially illuminating here. Women, migrants and minorities play vital roles in any society, contributing through their skills, labour, taxes, community participation and cultural activities. Yet, when restrictive criteria, practices or policies prevent members of these groups from participating fully in the political, civic and cultural life of the country in which they live, members of these groups often develop novel forms of engagement in order to circumvent the obstacles.

Policy can have a crucial impact on levels of participation, either by creating impediments and barriers to participation by specific groups, or by minimising these impediments. However, policy issues can be complex to tackle, with the policies which exist at different levels (e.g., at community, regional, national and supranational levels) often being incongruent with each other, and with discrepancies frequently existing between intended policy, the content of policy texts, policy implementation, and the interpretation of policy by citizens.

This conference aims to take stock of the different forms of civic, political and cultural engagement which currently exist, and investigate the factors and processes which are driving them. A special feature of the conference this year will be an event organised by the Runnymede Trust, which will consider where Britain stands 10 years after the Parekh Report (http://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects/meb/report.html) on the future of multi-ethnic Britain and 25 years after the Swann Report.

We would like to encourage the submission of papers which address the following themes:
> · Active engagement, interaction, expression and dissension at civic, political or cultural levels
> · The participation of young people, women, migrants and minorities
> · Different forms of engagement among adult national majority populations
> · The role of public policy in civic, political or cultural participation

As this is an international conference, papers reporting on contexts other than the UK are especially welcome.

For more information about the Call for Papers, abstract submission forms and registration, please visit http://www.surrey.ac.uk/Arts/CRONEM/index.htm
For any conference queries, please contact Ms Melek Muderrisgil (Melek.Muderrisgil@surrey.ac.uk)

The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies presents the GSA Conference 2010:

Global Studies and International Relations: mutual bedfellows or contesting paradigms?

Merton College, University of Oxford,
1st – 3rd September 2010

Confirmed Keynotes:

Prof. David Chandler (University of Westminster)

Prof. Martin Shaw (University of Sussex)

Prof. Sandra Halperin (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Prof. John Urry (University of Lancaster)


The nation-states, statesmen, civilizations and empires that constitute the traditional units of analysis in International Relations no longer seem to adequately capture the cascading interconnectedness and so-called fluid processes of the globalizing world. If relations between nations dominated 20th century understanding of world events, it may now be the case that Global Studies offers new sets of vocabularies, new conceptions of relationships and better ways of imagining the complexities of 21st century world social relationships.

Nevertheless nation-states still exist. They are still powerful actors and they are still a pervasive way of categorizing, quantifying and understanding human behaviour – both in the theoretical attitude of the academic and the attitude of individuals making sense of their worlds. Power politics has not disappeared with the rise of the ‘global’, nation-states still have standing armies and the relations between them still determines the living conditions of great populations. Most recently, it is states that have shored up the faltering global economy.

The 2010 GSA conference seeks to probe the relationship between these two different approaches to understanding world social relationships. Indeed, is the advent of Global Studies an extension of International Relations, on a continuum with it, or does Global Studies represent what Foucault termed a new episteme, with the implication that International Relations and Global Studies cannot speak to each other for lack of a common language? Moreover, can Global Studies challenge the dominance of International Relations in both social science departments and policymaking fields? Or will global ‘outlooks’ still depend upon visible territorial borders, the outcome of historical and territorial conflicts between states.

In sum, the Global Studies Association conference 2010 will offer a rare opportunity, and intimate setting, for scholars from both IR and those working under the umbrella of Global Studies to engage in debates concerning the very foundations of their respective disciplines, in order to address the possibility of a more mutual understanding of the world. The intention is to establish a creative and progressive forum that will benefit researchers from all relevant disciplines. To this end we invite papers that address the conference theme and can include, but not be limited to, the following areas:


*International Law.

*Risk Society and Network Society.

*Conceptions of inside and outside.

*The transformation of (state) borders.

*The empowerment of the global individual and non-state entities.

*The importance of transnational and hybrid identities.

*Changing ideas of nationalism and citizenship and ramifications for IR.

*The European Union and ideas of regionalisation.

*Global ‘terror’ and international war.

*The making of place, the imagining of life worlds.

*International and the global: continuum or epistemic break?

*Global Studies and IR: methodological issues.

*Teaching International Relations and Globalization in the university.

*Theoretical approaches: possibilities for disciplinary alignments?



Proposals for papers should take the form of a 300 word abstract and may be submitted on any aspect of the conference theme. The organisers will allocate papers to an appropriate panel.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30th April 2010. Abstracts should be submitted to:

abstracts@criticalglobalisation.com.


WWW.CRITICALGLOBALISATION.COM

Local Lives and Global Transformations

Although humans are caught up in profound globalizing processes which create shared insecurities, most people across the Global North and South demonstrate only a limited awareness of their situation and remain predominantly absorbed and diverted by the pull of their local lives. A shared global consciousness is urgently needed but thinly spread. Drawing on global theory and many case studies this book explores both the continuing local roots of globalization and the central role of micro-relationships in helping, often unintentionally, to shape – and sometimes challenge - its associated transformations.

• The book provides an in-depth exploration of the contradiction between the continuing pull of local lives in the face of sometimes threatening global transformations

• It provides both a rigorous investigation and a partial critique of recent globalization theory

• At the same time it explores an impressive range of empirical research drawn from the real, everyday experiences of people across the world

• The discussion brings sharply into focus the hitherto relatively neglected role of intimate, micro-relationships in shaping, ignoring and sometimes challenging globalizing processes.

White Spaces? Racialising White Femininities and Masculinities Conference July 9th 2009

Research Events and Seminars08 July 2009 - 09 July 2009 Start time to be announced Conference
Weetwood Hall

This Conference is an opportunity to draw and extend insights from the international and interdisciplinary field of 'white studies' (Bonnett, 1996; 2007) in organisational and policy analysis.

These new theoretical understandings of whiteness and white identities and ethnicities have been developed and debated in the US, Australia, New Zealand and more recently Europe, including the UK. These developments have taken place within disciplines such as communication and cultural studies, sociology, critical race theory, feminism, social geography, history and literary studies. They have profoundly changed conceptualisations of racialisation and gendering, that is the processes by which we are produced as raced and gendered beings.

For example these debates trouble the distinctions between 'race', racism and anti-racisms paving the way for more fluid understandings of the productiveness of power, its uneven and distributed nature. Such approaches develop forceful critiques of the work that goes into creating and maintaining racialised privileges. They also open up the possibilities for more 'positive' and unpredicatble racialisations.

The key themes and questions to be explored are:

How can we understand whiteness in organisations - as property, identity, discursive position, privilege, relations, embodied practices, emotions, imaginaries, temporalities?

What codes of whiteness are reproduced in contemporary social politics?

How do these codes configure relations with the past and future as well as the present?

What new constituencies and claims can be brought into being through concepts of whiteness, white making, white spaces, white gendering and gendered whiteness?

What is the relationship of these codes and constituencies to organisational practices and other social relations? For example those of class, gender, age and sexualities?

How does this play out in different organisational contexts?

Are there differences in public and private sector whitenesses?

How does this play out in different national contexts?

How does organisational policy and practice sustain whiteness?

What are the dangers in making whiteness an object of organisational analysis given its power to attached itself to a range of political and social agendas including 'progressive' postures?

What do these questions mean theoretically, methodologically and practically for critical organisational analysis going forward?

What does this mean for scholars working in this area?

The conference builds on the success of an earlier conference stream at the 2007 Gender Work and Organization conference. The aim is to extend and consolidate this earlier work and the debates it engendered to connect with other work in this area in order to establish an ongoing forum for future collaboration and collective work.

It aims to bring together contributors to the intial stream with a broader range of contributors from different international contexts and disparate fields, including feminist social politics, organizational sociology, public policy, management and governance. The conference also seeks to include a broader range of postgraduate students and participants outside academia with an interest in critical 'race', feminist and other cultural perspectives on organisation power.

Because the conference aims to facilitate ongoing collaborations amongst participants, its design aims to maximise debate around how these new agendas might be incorporated into organisation, management and policy studies fields and into organizational practice more broadly; and how this sort of work may be developed going forward. Thus, it uses a variety of formats for conference contributions including larger key note and plenary sessions, smaller paper sessions and facilitated dialogue and debate sessions focused around particular conference themes.

In order to maximise the number of contributions we are also welcoming proposals for poster presentations which will be displayed in the communal conference areas and will serve as points of further discussion and debate.

Our Plenary Speakers will be:

Aida Hurtado, University of California, USA, Director of Chicano/Latino Research Centre 2005-2008 And author of The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996

Gail Lewis, Reader in Identities at the Open University, UK, Director for the Identities research strand for the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) and author of 'Race', Gender, Social Welfare: Encounters in a Postcolonial Society, Polity Press, 2000
Nirmal Puwar, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, UK, member of the Feminist Review Collective and author of Purwar, N (2004) Space Invaders: race, gender and bodies out of place, Oxford: Berg

Mick Rowlinson, Professor of Organization Studies in the Centre for Business Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK, writes and researches into organizational memory.
Melissa Steyn, Director of Intercultural and Diversity Studies at the University of Cape Town, Soth Africa and author of Whiteness just isn't what it used to be: White identity in a changing South Africa (2001, State University of New York Press)

Vron Ware, Research Fellow at the Open University, UK and author of Who cares about Britishness? A global view of the national identity debate London: Arcadia Books, 2007 Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History London/New York: Verso 1992
Runnymede Trust, London, UK

Other Contributors include: Diane Grimes, Syracuse, USA Berit Gullikstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Shona Hunter, University of Leeds, UK Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton, UK Jennifer Mease, University of North Carolina, USA Patricia Parker, University of North Carolina, USA Elaine Swan, Lancaster University, UK

For further information visit:

http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/research/events/white-spaces-racialising-white-femininities-masculinities/

Development Studies Association Conference September 2009

Contemporary Crises and New Opportunities
University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus
2nd – 4th September 2009

Background to the Conference theme

The year 2009 may well be viewed in future as a ‘turning point’ in the historical evolution of the world economy. Perhaps the last such ‘turning point’ occurred in the 1970s with the demise of the original version of the Bretton Woods system. Living through what many feel are momentous events and historically significant changes there is much to preoccupy us in trying to understand three co-variant sets of crises and their implication for international development.

These 3 sets of crises comprise the organising themes of the conference, each one having its own plenary session:
Climate Change and Energy (1)
Global Economic Crisis (2)
Clashing Values and Lifestyles (3)

The interdisciplinary pursuit of development studies can lay claim to a perspective on these contemporary crises precisely because we have a long established familiarity with the interconnections between them. The forms of globalisation over the last four decades have brought these themes closer together causally. The critique of the limitations of capitalism has to involve resource scarcity, environmental mismanagement and cultural differences about wellbeing and the good life, alongside the delinquency of banks as well as market and regulatory failure.

If we are at some kind of crossroads, then this conference provides an opportunity for a wide range of disciplinary contributions to analysis and understanding. It will be exciting to participate in the exchanges between economic historians, financial analysts, climate change experts and cultural anthropologists and psychologists. The conference can contribute to national and international debates, and lay the basis for future research agendas that combine fresh thinking with prospects for innovative policy.

Parallel Sessions—‘Ground rules’
We will have 40 slots for panels/study groups (hereafter ‘panels’): 8 parallels across 5x 1.5 hour sessions.

As far as possible, we would like panels to relate to the main 3 plenary themes.
We have decided to have no more than 2 presenters per 1.5 hour panel session plus Q&A, to enable depth of presentation and discussion.

We would encourage Study Groups and individual panel convenors to bid for 2-3 sessions in their concept notes—thus having 4-6 presenters per theme across 2-3 sessions. In this way, we hope to encourage more in depth intellectual debate and knowledge progress.
2 papers per slot = 80 papers. Abstracts for this category of papers will be required to be quality reviewed by the panel leaders and one other panel member.

Candidates whose papers are accepted (at all levels) will need to prepare a presentation based on their paper to be with the Conference organisers no later than Friday 21st August 2009

Themed Panels

Those panels that have been chosen will be notified by 27th March and be given a number. Panel convenors will then need to issue their individual Calls for Papers very shortly after this.

The Conference Organisers will need to notify bursary awardees by 1st May to allow them time to organise visa applications and travel arrangements. We therefore suggest that the Call for Abstracts have a deadline no later than Monday 27th April and would welcome Convenors’ views as to which papers they would consider putting forward for either bursary (please see criteria below – and it will be up to each individual submitting to each panel to indicate that they wish to be considered for the bursary awards).

When issuing individual Calls for Abstracts under the Panels, convenors will need to use the form under Annex I and request that participants adhere to the file naming protocol of their Word documents as follows:

“DSAconf09-panelnumber-abs-yourname-papertitle”, keeping the paper title very brief.
Some prompting suggestions (grouped by plenary theme) for Themed Panel Titles might be, but not limited to:

Climate Change and Energy:
Can the Science be Disputed?
Sustaining Behaviours
Gender and Energy
Oil and Water (Wars?)
Green Keynesianism
Intergenerational Transfers
Obama’s Environmental New Deal
Economic Crisis:
Future of the Collier Thesis: adding to the billion?
What must America do?
Can the BRICS regenerate capitalism?
Is a global recession good for long term development, despite short term poverty?
A New Bretton Woods?
The answer: Marx, Polanyi or Keynes?
Moral Hazards and Market Failures
Clashing Values:
Recessions and Social Cohesion
Faith and Millenarianism
Rise of Fascism: migration and xenophobia?
The Politics of Identity
Conflict Contagion and Domino Effects?
State Society Relations: Secularism and the Ummah
Wellbeing: Relative or Universal?
Combined and Exclusionary Development: the alienation problem

Individual and Jointly Authored Papers
We recognise the above process means fewer papers than usual, with several implications:
The theme/quality hurdle for acceptance of abstracts for papers will be more selective:
Attendees often only get funded from their HEI if presenting a paper;
Early career researchers (PhD, post-Doc, or early staff) need conference opportunities;
Bursary supported attendees will need presentation outlets.

Thus, in addition to ‘themed’ panel sessions, there will be 5 or 10 ‘open’ parallels (i.e. 7.5 or 15 hours, 1 or 2 rooms, depending on demand) for up to 4 presentations per parallel session (i.e. an additional 20-40 papers). These may be ‘orphan’ papers, i.e. not panel/theme related and within each session, the presentations may not be related to each other. Abstracts for this category of papers will be quality reviewed by the conference steering group and we would attempt to place papers on similar themes together.

We would also hope to provide a Poster Exhibition facility, either in one of the ‘open’ session rooms, or alongside the publishers’ exhibition space. Therefore, colleagues who do not want to submit a standalone paper are invited to submit a poster with the same deadline for individual papers as below. Poster submissions are not eligible for bursaries and all expenses associated with printing posters will be borne by those submitting.

Information, Queries and Submissions should be directed in the first instance to:
Frances Hill
Executive Director
Development Studies Association
POB 108
Bideford
Devon EX39 6ZQ
Telephone: 01288 331360
Email: conference@devstud.org.uk

The Future of Interdisciplinary in International Relations

A conference organized by the Midlands Regional IR Network
Hosted by the Department of Political Science and International Studies
University of Birmingham, Tuesday 15th September 2009.

Call for papers:
The study of International Relations (IR) has often borrowed from, and built upon, the work produced in diverse academic disciplines. These range from philosophy to economics, sociology to criminology, geography to cultural studies, and from international law to the philosophy of science. Despite the significant debt that the development of IR as a field of study in its own right owes to interdisciplinary scholarship, debates over the future development of interdisciplinarity in IR are too often treated as a marginal concern. In addition, while many IR scholars borrow from the research insights of other disciplines, disciplinary boundaries such as the organizational structures of universities and the specialization of academic journals and publishers often inhibit rather than facilitate dialogue between scholars and students working in similar research areas.
This one-day conference aims to bring together scholars working on contemporary issues in International Relations from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds to discuss the future of interdisciplinarity in the study of International Relations.

The organizers invite potential participants to submit one of the following two types of proposals:
1. Individual conference paper proposals that directly address issues related to interdisciplinary scholarship in IR. The organizers are especially interested in papers that draw on the wide pool of relevant scholarship from outside the traditional 'IR canon', but which also seek to address the challenges involved with producing interdisciplinary scholarship that attempts to engage with an often sceptical 'mainstream' IR audience.

2. Research project proposals that will contribute to - and draw on - interdisciplinary scholarship in IR. This may include PhD research proposals, post-doctoral research proposals, or academic research grant proposals, and may be completed project designs that have already been submitted or works-in-progress. Successful proposals will be presented in a similar manner to conference papers, but with the specific aim of strengthening scholarly dialogue and knowledge exchange over interdisciplinary project design, access to funding for interdisciplinary research projects, and how to publish interdisciplinary research outputs.
Additional information:

The deadline for paper proposals and research project proposals is 1 June 2009. Successful conference applicants will be notified by e-mail by 30 June 2009. Further additional information, including the conference programme, will be published on the conference website in July 2009.
Conference organizers:
Dr. André Broome
a.broome@bham.ac.uk <mailto:a.broome@bham.ac.uk>
Dr. Nicola Smith
n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk <mailto:n.j.smith.1@bham.ac.uk>
Dr Annika Bergman-Rosamond
abr3@leicester.ac.uk <mailto:abr3@leicester.ac.uk>