Global Studies Association

Global Studies Association North America Annual Conferecen 2010

2010-03-10T15:52:00.002Z

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

2010-02-08T15:26:00.004Z

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:

2010-02-03T17:15:00.002Z

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

2009-12-16T16:16:00.003Z

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

2009-03-11T11:19:00.002Z

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

2009-03-05T11:20:00.002Z

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 Global Food Crisis Conference August 2009

2009-03-04T22:33:00.001Z

13 August 2009 - 15 August 2009
Location
Zacatecas, Mexico
Speaker(s)
Susan George, Walden Bello

The Critical Development Studies (CDS) network Announces an international conference, Inviting participation and submission of a paper on any conference subthemeOrganised by the The Critical Development Studies (CDS) network the conference is hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and co-sponsored by the Journal of Agrarian Change (JAC), the Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (CJDS), Globalizations, the Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), Routledge and Fernwood Books. Editors of these journals will be in attendance. Institutional and programmatic support is also provided by the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Food First.The aim of the conference is to review the latest research on the complex dynamics of diverse developments related to an incipient global food crisis. The world economy is beset with a number of critical problems that are assuming—or in the near future might be expected to reach—such proportions so as to not only threaten the livelihoods and development prospects of communities and societies all across the world but the very foundation of the global food productionsystem. There are diverse dimensions of this looming crisis. They include systemic financial crisis, which threatens to deepen into a broader economic and production crisis, and, an underlying ecological crisis that not only threatens the survival and development prospects of communities and societies across the world, but puts at further risk the efforts of the world’s poor tochange the system that keeps them in poverty. The conference will focus on one particular dimension of this global crisis, namely developments that are undermining or threaten the ability of the poor to meet their fundamental need for food and water—i.e., what we can conceive of as a global food crisis. Dimensions of this crisis – subthemes of the conference – include:- The new economic model--The policy and institutional framework of ‘pro-growth’ neoliberal policies designed to adjust local and national economies and societies to the requirements of the world order of neoliberal globalization.- The crisis of over-production / consumption, and its impact on the global food production system.- The policy and structural dynamics of international trade, and the workings of market forces and the nation state in these dynamics as regards food production and distribution.- Dynamics of the global food production and the ascension of China and India in the global economy.- Financialization of global production and its impact on the food production system and the price of food.- Land and food: Questions of land, economies of scale and the social organization of food production.- Via Campesina and the viability of small-scale ‘peasant’ agriculture and sustainable rural livelihoods.- Out of the crisis: Internationalizing the politics of resistance and alternative development, at local, national, regional and global scales.Keynote conference speakers will include:

Susan George— author of more than a dozen books, including her famous exposé and treatise on world hunger, How the Other Half Dies. She is Chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice and who are active in civil society in their own countries. Between 1999 and mid-2006 she served as Vice-President of ATTAC France.

‘Alas, food and hunger have returned to the top of the international agenda and, yet again, the same tired old technological solutions are proposed. The new twist may be that speculation on food prices has recently replaced speculation on subprime mortgages in the fast-moving capital markets, but essentially everything remains the same, particularly the injustice. As far as capitalism is concerned, food is a commodity like any other. It is not because everyone on earth needs it every day that agribusiness and traders' behaviour will change—quite the contrary. Corporate profits in this sector have skyrocketed since 2007, proving once more that there's nothing like a good crisis for boosting business. Too bad for the millions of people dying for want of land to produce their own food or of money to buy it.’ (Susan George)

Walden Bello President of Freedom of Debt Coalition, Senior researcher with the Focus on the Global South (Bangkok), recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (a.k.a Alternative Nobel Prize) and the Suh Sang Don Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Global Justice, board member of the International Forum onGlobalization and diverse academic journals such as Review of International Political Economy; and academic activist in the cause of global justice.

Submission of abstracts and proposals: The conference organizers invite submissions from scholars engaged in International Development Studies as well as research and study in related fields. Participation and submissions of papers for conference presentation (with possible publication in one of the sponsoring journals) from graduate and postgraduate students are particularly welcome and encouraged.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2009.Actual papers due June 15, 2009.Please send proposals, with a title and brief abstract, to:critdev@gmail.com (Subject: Global Food Crisis)

The Future of Interdisciplinary in International Relations

2009-02-23T14:29:00.000Z

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>

European Consortium for Political Research

2009-02-16T09:45:00.000Z

5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam 10 - 12 September, 2009
The 5th ECPR General Conference will be held at Potsdam Universität from 10-12 September 2009. The Academic Convenors for the conference are Professor Luciano Bardi (ECPR Executive Committee) and Professor Martin Bull (ECPR Academic Director). The main academic programme will be organised in the format of sections and panels, with each Section Chair organising a variety of panels in a different field. The programme is intended to be very broad, with over 50 accepted sections. Further information will be continually added to this website, so check back regularly!

WELCOME WORDS FROM THE LOCAL ORGANISER
Dear Colleague,
I am delighted to be able to welcome you to the ECPR General Conference 2009, which will be held at the University of Potsdam on 10-12 September 2009. The University was founded in 1991, partially on the grounds of research institutions established during Socialist rule. With approximately 16,000 students enrolled in the University’s five faculties, including about 1,300 foreign students from more than 85 countries, the University of Potsdam is the largest research institution in a city that prides itself on having the highest density of academic and scientific facilities in Germany. The campus site at Griebnitzsee, where the General Conference 2009 will be held, has just been transformed by the addition of a new building, in which most of our events will be held. The Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, which acts as our host, focuses on public policy and public management (broadly understood). It offers BA degrees in political science and public administration, sociology and economics as well as a range of postgraduate degrees, including a Master of Public Management, a Master of Global Public Policy, a Master of European Governance and Administration (offered in cooperation with ENA and Sorbonne in Paris and Humboldt-University in Berlin), and an Executive Master of Public Management with the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Potsdam -- a brief look at history

Beyond offering the comforts of a generously refurbished campus, the conference location at Potsdam also serves as a stark reminder of the turbulent history that is the backdrop of modern-day European politics. Throughout modern times, the city and region of Potsdam have served as the stage for some of Europe’s defining movements and moments. In 1685, the Edict of Potsdam ended religious discrimination and triggered an influx of immigrants to the city, most notably of French Huguenots. During the reign of Frederick the Great, the city and, most of all, the Prussian monarch’s summer residence Sanssouci became almost synonymous with European enlightenment. Voltaire joined Frederick’s court, where French was the official language, and stayed at Sanssouci for extended periods.
But Potsdam also played its role during dark moments of German’s more recent history. In 1933, the city hosted the meeting during which Germany’s ailing President Hindenburg shook hands with the newly elected Chancellor Hitler. The ‘Day of Potsdam’ came to symbolise the tragic miscalculation of Germany’s old elites and the rise of the national-socialist movement to power, as the Weimar Republic collapsed. Less than ten years later, a mansion at Lake Wannsee just outside Potsdam hosted the notorious meeting of Nazi officials charged with organising the deportation and extermination of European Jews.
After the Second World War, the allied forces chose Cecilia Court Palace as the site of the ‘Potsdam Conference’ to negotiate the terms of German occupation and Europe’s post-WWII order. The Cold War that soon split the continent saw some of its most secretive moments played out in Potsdam. As recently as during the mid-1980s, Glienicke Bridge, separating the East from the West, was used to exchange captured spies and political prisoners. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in recognition of its architectural and landscape treasures, Potsdam was declared UNESCO world heritage site in 1990.
We hope you will enjoy your stay at the University of Potsdam and also find the time to experience some of the unique sites this city and region have to offer.

visit:
http://www.ecprnet.eu/ecpr/potsdam/default.asp

Postcolonial Translocations Conference 21 - 24 of May 2009

2009-02-15T17:41:00.000Z

For further information visit:
http://www.gnel2009.de/

Glocal Imaginarieswriting/ Migration / Place

2009-01-13T09:51:00.000Z

07 - 09 September 2009

Lancaster University & the Whitworth Gallery, Manchester

Call for Papers

With an interest in both the material and the imaginative (re)configuration of location, mobility and migration in cities across the world, this conference invites papers from colleagues working in all disciplines/media including the creative arts. Plenary speakers include:

Mieke Bal, Roger Bromley, Shirley Chew, David L. Eng, Gayatri Gopinath, Ranjana Khanna, Susheila Nasta, James Procter, John Thieme, John Urry, Robert J.C. Young, Ruth Wodak
Conference 'streams' include:

The Glocal City; Queer G/localities (Jackie Stacey); G/local Mobilities (Allison Hui); G/local Diasporas (Lindsey Moore); G/local Economies (Sondra Cuban); Discourses of the G/local (Bethan Benwell); Moving Stories: Rewriting Space and Place; (Shirley Chew); Virtual Diasporas (Graham Miekle), Migration and Diaspora (Maggie O'Neill), the Black Atlantic (Alan Rice) and Gendering Diasporas.

Papers are invited from colleagues with an interest in any of these areas but we are also happy to consider proposals which fall outside of them. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes and, in most cases, will be presented as part of a panel of three.

In addition, we are willing to consider proposals from colleagues who would like to present their work collectively and / or constitute their own 'three paper' panel.

We also welcome papers and presentations from creative writers / arts' practitioners for the 'Moving Stories' stream (to be led by Professor Shirley Chew, editor of Moving Worlds ) but advise that these should include a reflective element; readings and performances per se will be incorporated into the conference programme outwith the parallel sessions.

We expect the conference to deliver several publication outputs, both in the form of journal 'special issues' and a book of 'conference proceedings'.

Abstracts - of no more than 300 words - should be submitted by 16 January 2009 to our conference administrator, Mrs Jo McVicker, Room 190, County College, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YD mailto:j.mcvicker@lancaster.ac.uk. They should include full contact details and, where appropriate, an indication of the stream they would like to be considered for. We hope to be in a position to let prospective delegates know whether their paper has been accepted before the Easter vacation.

In the meantime, please consult the website for further updates on the conference. Registration details will also be posted in due course.

3rd International Conference on Sociology

2009-01-09T08:34:00.000Z

11-14 MAY 2009
ATHENS, GREECE

The Sociology Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will hold its 2nd International Conference on Sociology in Athens, Greece, 11-14 May 2009. The conference website is www.atiner.gr/docs/Sociology.htm

The registration fee is 250 euro, covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a half-day tour to archaeological sites will be organized.

Papers (in English only) from all areas of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Social Work are welcome. Selected (reviewed) papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings. If you think that you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words, via email only (atiner@atiner.gr), before January 12th, 2009 to: Dr. Gregory A. Katsas, Head, Sociology Research Unit, ATINER and Associate Professor, The American College of Greece-Deree College, Greece. If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate 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, more than 100 international conferences were organized and more than 80 books have been published. The Institute is organized into four research divisions and 19 research units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and undertakes various small- and large-scale research projects.

Second Global Studies Conference

2009-01-06T08:37:00.000Z

Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
30 May to 1 June 2009
http://www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

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.

Plenary speakers include:
*Georges Corm, Saint Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
*Lena Jayyusi, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
*Habibiul Haque Khondker, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
*Vibodh Parthasarathi, Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, New Delhi, India
*Mouin Rabbani, International Crisis Group, Amman, Jordan
*George Ritzer, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

In addition, 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 fully refereed 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 fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

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 11 January 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 Dubai in 2009.

Yours Sincerely,

Jan Nederveen Pieterse
University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
For the Advisory Board, Global Studies Conference and Global Studies

Beyond NGOs: Civil and Uncivil Society in the 21st Century

2008-12-23T16:31:00.000Z

Goodenough College, London, UK
February 26-27, 2009
Abstracts: November 8, 2008

This international conference will be a joint cooperation between the LSE Centre for Civil Society and the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence under the 6th EU Framework Programme.

Taking as its point of departure recent debates on “uncivil” society, political society or the dark side of associational life, the conference will invite research abstracts which address themes that go beyond the equation: civil society = NGOs. The aim of the conference is to investigate the role of organizations and movements that fall outside conventional civil society analysis and to develop new perspectives on issues of transnationality, migration and citizenship in and beyond Europe.

Research is invited on instances of “actually existing” civil societies - on religious movements and faith-based organizations, migrant networks, as well as on dimensions of “uncivil” society—vigilante groups, criminal networks, gangs, trafficker networks, mafias, and border-crossing systems of kinship and patronage.

Proposals are also sought on NGOs working with already established social organisations and social movements in instances of advocacy, welfare provision and humanitarian relief. From a theoretical perspective a key concern is to explore those analytical categories which challenge existing paradigms of civil society research. The meaning of religion, violence, migration, kinship, ethnicity and new configurations of identity politics in relation to civil society theory are all themes which should be explored and investigated within the thematic framework of the conference.

There are three key strands to the conference. The first strand will explore the role of civil society organizations beyond the NGO sector. These would include churches, mosques, religious movements, migrant networks, criminal groups and gangs. This research strand will raise issues around the diversity of social and political society both in European and in developing country contexts.
The second strand will explore the engagement of governments with social organizations outside the formal NGO sector. A key focus will be on changing European government policies towards the funding and management of civil, social and religious groups. Included in this strand would be the growing interest in working with faith-based organisations, diasporas, transnational advocacy networks as well as the work and international connections of Christian and Islamic organisations.

The third strand will examine civil society theory in the light of recent challenges, which have seen notions of civil society as European or Western impositions, and criticised their deployment within European and World Bank policies. Questions of what is civil and uncivil, or what is political society versus civil society open up new social science perspectives on the value of civil society as an analytical device and possible different understandings and applications of it.

CINEFOGO members will be expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs. Non-CINEFOGO paper-givers can apply for travel funds of up to Euros 1,000. Non-CINEFOGO paper-givers should indicate upon submission of their abstract whether they wish to apply for a travel grant.
If you wish to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract of 300 words + CV by 8th November 2008 to Maria Schlegel at the Centre for Civil Society at ccs@lse.ac.uk. Your abstract should indicate clearly the strand into which it falls. You will be informed by December 5th as to whether your abstract has been accepted. Conference papers should be 6,000-7,000 words in length and would need to be submitted in full by January 31st 2009.

Globalization and Human Rights in the Developing World

2008-12-20T13:06:00.000Z

Asia Association for Global Studies (AAGS) 2009 Conference
Sat. March 21 to Sun. March 22, 2009, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

This conference will gather together scholars and others interested in the impact of globalization on human rights. On December 10, 1948, the United Nations issued the now famous Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global expression of the rights which all human beings are entitled. Containing 30 articles, the UDHR declared that all people, regardless of nationality or background, have the right to freedom, equality, and overall wellbeing. Six decades have now passed since the Declaration was first made. To what extent has globalization hindered or made possible the realization of the objectives stated in 1948? This is the main question this conference will discuss in detail, focusing on and comparing the experiences of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Conference organizers invite paper proposals on the following themes as they relate to globalization and human rights in the above three world regions (though other themes will be considered):

transnational corporations
social movements
global governance
democracy
labour
health and well being
education
poverty and wealth
refugees, displaced persons
indigenous peoples
food issues

Proposals should be between 150 to 200 words and include the paper's title and the author's name, affiliation, and contact information. A bio of 100 to 125 words describing the author's background, accomplishments and research interests should also accompany the proposal. Both proposals and bios should be written using the templates provided at: http://asia-globalstudies.org/templates Applications should then be submitted as email attachments to conferenceproposals@asia-globalstudies.org Documents not using the templates or following the specified format will not be accepted. Please note that we can offer no travel support or funding to participants. Thus, please only submit a proposal if you are certain you will have your own financial means to attend the conference. The deadline for proposals is December 14, 2008. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application by January 1, 2009.

Integration, Globalization and Racialization: Theories and Perspectives on Immigration

2008-12-19T17:16:00.000Z

The Sixth Annual Social Theory ForumUniversity of Massachusetts, Boston, USA April 8-9, 2009

Abstracts: January 15, 2009

The conference will explore the relationship between immigration and the changing cultural, political, and social landscape of the global North. The conference organizers seek papers that use thick descriptions and rigorous analyses of the dynamics of immigration, especially to re-examine some of the guiding assumptions and core propositions of modern social theory.We seek papers that relate to any of the following themes.

Immigration enforcement, national security and the debate over civil liberties/ human rights (before or after 9/11)
Re-theorizing immigrant integration and cultural pluralism
Becoming Awhite@, Ablack@Y AAmerican@Yor not?
The politics of racial/cultural assimilation and identity construction among immigrant populations
Refugees, stateless peoples and the dynamics of marginality on the global stage
Analyses of the legal discourse on immigrant/human rights and its consequences for paradigms of national sovereignty
The impact of immigrant incarceration and deportation on immigrant communities
Transnational migrant communities and ethnic diasporas
The new immigration and the transformation of citizenship
The racialization of new immigrant populations
Patterns in social inequality/stratification that revolve around differences in legal status between immigrants, temporary workers, unauthorized migrants and citizens
Immigration and new social movements
Theorizing the nation, the border, and the meaning of Asecurity@
Immigration and the social construction of gender, race, class and sexuality
Immigration policy and strategies of governance: neoliberalism, popular nationalism and other variations
The discursive construction of immigration as a Asocial problem@
Immigrant labor markets and the global economy: centers and peripheries

The conference will feature both invited and submitted papers and presentations, as well as audiovisual materials. Please send a one-page abstract or proposals as email attachment (MS Word Format) to Jorge.Capetillo@umb.edu or Glenn.Jacobs@umb.edu by January 15, 2009. Upon selection and notification of approval by the organizing committee, submitters must send completed presentation paper manuscripts (around 12-15 pages, preferably double-spaced in Times 12 typeface) by March 15, 2008.

Whose Cosmopolitanism Launch Festival, March 2009

2008-12-17T09:13:00.000Z

The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at the
University of Manchester will be holding its launch festival, Whose
Cosmopolitanism, from 2-6 March 2009.

This cultural and academic festival includes:

Debating Cosmopolitan Cultures: Common Places/Imagined Politics, with
Prof David Harvey (City University of New York)
Prof Tariq Ramadan (St Antony?s College, Oxford)
Prof Jacqueline Rose (University of London)
Tuesday 3 March, Manchester Town Hall, 2-5pm

The Right to the City: Belonging and Exclusion, with
Don Flynn (Migrants? Rights Network)
Irene Khan (Amnesty International)
Sir Richard Leese (Manchester City Council)
Alex Poots (Manchester International Festival)
Katya Sander (Danish Academy of Art)
Gary Younge (The Guardian)
Tuesday 3 March, Manchester Town Hall, 6.30-8.30pm

There will also be:
Writers' night with Jackie Kay and Joe Pemberton (with The Centre for
New Writing)
Preview Screening of Jia Zhangke's 24 City/Ershisi chengji (2008)
Present Pasts: Ruinous Recollections of Manchester Art Exhibition
'If you read this, I'll give it to you', Katya Sander
Workshops with David Harvey, Tariq Ramadan and Jacqueline Rose.

Please see attached the poster for more information. Although these
events are free, you need to register through the following website:
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/aboutus/launch/

Dr. Darien Jane Rozentals
Research Coordinator
Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC)
Level 2, Arthur Lewis Building
The University of Manchester
+44 (0) 7853 915 424

Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration

2008-12-16T13:16:00.000Z

Call for papers

A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference

Manchester, 26-28th August 2009

Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme

To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and an abstract (max. 250 words) to
Nissa.Finney@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 23rd January 2009.

Session organisers: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester), Gemma Catney (University of Manchester), John Stillwell (University
of Leeds)

Session description

In Britain and other European countries, recent years have seen a shift in ethnic integration policy from multiculturalism to community cohesion. With this shift has come a renewed emphasis on place and residential mixing. This session explores two themes
of these debates. The first theme is patterns of settlement of immigrants and their subsequent migrations that are changing sub-national ethnic geographies. What factors and processes influence these patterns of settlement and migrations? Do they differ between ethnic/migrant groups? What are their implications for ethnic integration, residentially and otherwise? The second theme of the session is the meaning of ethnic residential mixing. Is residential mixing associated with greater integration in other spheres? What are the causal connections between the residential composition of areas and structural and social integration in these locales and beyond?

The session is sponsored by the ESRC’s Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme. It aims to showcase research being undertaken within the Ethnicity stream of this programme and to present a forum for dialogue between UPTAP
researchers, other researchers in the UK and overseas, and policy makers. Speakers are welcome from outside the UPTAP programme, and UPTAP will cover conference costs for all speakers.

Particular topics of the session may include:

Settlement and secondary migration of recent immigrants (e.g. EU Accession immigrants, dispersed asylum seekers/refugees)
Internal migration patterns of ethnic groups: reinforcing or reducing residential segregation?
Housing and migration experiences of immigrant/ethnic groups
Differences in migration experiences for immigrant/ethnic groups for different life stage, social classes, family contexts
Motivations for migration and characteristics of migrants
Mapping and monitoring migration of minority groups
The significance of ethnic residential mixing for health, employment, experience of crime, relationships, social mobility.

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars

http://www.uptap.net/index.html

Nissa Finney
Research Fellow

CCSR, School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester, Kantorovich Building, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13
9PL

0161 275 4738

http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/nf.htm

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND International relations

2008-12-16T13:10:00.000Z

Call for papers

*African Journal of Political Science and International Relations
(AJPSIR)*is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. AJPSIR
publishes
rigorous theoretical reasoning and advanced empirical research in all areas
of the subjects. We welcome articles or proposals from all perspectives and
on all subjects pertaining to Africa, Africa's relationship to the world,
public policy, international relations, comparative politics, political
methodology, political theory, political history and culture, global
political economy, strategy and environment. The journal will also address
developments within the discipline. Each issue will normally contain a
mixture of peer-reviewed research articles, reviews or essays using a
variety of methodologies and approaches.

Manuscripts must be sent as e-mail attachment to
ajpsir@academicjournals.org or
ajpsir.acadjourn@gmail.com. AJPSIR editorial board makes an objective and
quick decision on each manuscript and informs the corresponding author
within four weeks of submission. If accepted, the article is published
online in the next issue.

AJPSIR is an open access journal and all articles published are available
online without restriction to scientific researchers in the public and
private sectors, government agencies, educators and the general public. The
journal also provides a medium for documentation and archiving of research
articles. AJPSIR papers are exposed to the widest possible readership.

Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript
within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally
be published in the next available issue.

Please visit
http://www.academicjournals.org/AJPSIR/contents/2008cont/November.htm to
view our current issue.

GSA 2009 North American Conference

2008-12-09T17:30:00.000Z

Globalization and the Struggle for Peace and Human Rights
Co-Sponsored by the Peace Studies Program

Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton
May 8-10, 2009

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Ginette Apollon
Farshad Araghi
Steve Bronner
Micheline Ishay

Submit a 100-word abstract by March 10, 2009 to Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net.

All topics will be considered.

Further information at:

http://www.net4dem.org/mayglobal/

2009 Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association

2008-12-09T16:54:00.000Z

Challenging globalization: new perspectives, alternative visions, emerging agendas

The Conference will be hosted by the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics

Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surry, TW20 0EX, Uk

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 April 2009

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

* Faisal Devji (New School, New York)

* Stuart Elden (University of Durham)

* Jonathan Friedman (Lund University)

* Robert Holton (Trinity College, Dublin)

* Ronnie D. Lipschutz (University of California, Santa Cruz)

* Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)

Key themes:

* alternative/multiple modernities and globalization

* anti-globalization: bottom-up challenges?

* the rise of the global non-West

* teaching globalization: challenging students

* global fragments/fragmented globalizations

* the challenge of Transnational Studies

* my global self: globalization and subjectivity

* the limits of globalization theory

*one world/multiple worlds

* globalization in one country

* the challenge of cosmopolitanism

* rethinking global/local relations

* towards a more critical global studies

Find further information at:

http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/gsa-annual-conference-2-4-sept/