Thứ Ba, 3 tháng 1, 2012
Neoliberalism Panels for ASEEES, New Orleans, November 2011
Over the last two decades, neoliberalism has arguably been the dominant historical force in the former Second World. And yet within Slavic Studies, it has received only a fraction of the scholarly attention it deserves. Building upon the work of this year's summer school on neoliberalization and the crises of capital held at the Central European University (http://www.sun.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/neoliber/index-neoliber.php), at ASEEES 2012 Rosen would like to organize several panels that seek to account for some of the region's recent history through the prism of neoliberalism. A similar announcement is going to history, sociology/ anthropology, and possibly political science list-servers, hopefully making this endeavor a truly interdisciplinary one. For scholars of culture in particular, it would be interesting to examine not only neoliberalism's consequences for post-socialist cultural production (film, literature, and other arts) and social relations but also its relationship with such familiar topics as late-socialist dissidence, human rights, and others. djagalov@fas.harvard.edu
Human Rights and Police Reform in the Western Balkans, 28 January 2012, University of Roehampton, London
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLICE REFORM IN THE WESTERN BALKANS Saturday 28 January 2012, 2.00-6.30 pm Venue: Duchesne Lecture Theatre, University of Roehampton (London) The University of Roehampton Crucible Research Centre for Human Rights and the South East Europe Working Group of the British International Studies Association have the pleasure to invite you to an International Workshop on ‘Human Rights and Police Reform in the Western Balkans’. International intervention in the reconstruction of post-war and post-socialist countries has become increasingly criticised for ignoring local knowledge, experiences and perceptions. Universalist approaches and paradigms have been held responsible for unintended consequences, including the subversion of top-down reform policies. In the Western Balkans, democratic policing is an integral part of international engagement aimed at improving domestic human rights practices and the provision of security to all citizens equally. This workshop assembles interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners in order to explore the successes and failures of external interventions in domestic policing through selected country case studies. It offers new theoretical and methodological perspectives that reflect a shift away from state defined approaches and assesses (potential) outcomes for reform in the region. This workshop will be attended by representatives from eleven Western Balkan Universities who will be taking part in the first meeting of an EU-funded International ‘Tempus’ project on human rights education in the region. This three year project is led by the University of Roehampton Crucible Research Centre for Human Rights and has been developed as part of Crucible's ‘Western Balkans and Human Rights’ Research Stream. Workshop Programme 2.00 to 2.30 pm: Welcome and Introductions Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) Security from a bottom-up perspective: conceptual shifts and methodological implications 2:30 to 4.00 pm: Panel on ‘External Interventions in Domestic Policing’ Chair: Martin Shaw (University of Roehampton) Discussant: Gregory Kent (University of Roehampton) Tobias Flessenkemper (European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina) EU Approaches to Police Reform in the Countries of the Stabilisation and Association Process Gemma Collantes-Celador (City University London) The Democratisation of the Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Achievements and Shortcomings Barry J. Ryan (Keele University) Reforming Police in the Republic of Montenegro 4.00 to 4.30 pm: Coffee break/Refreshments 4:30 to 6.00 pm: Panel on ‘Police Reform in Local Contexts’ Chair: Darren O'Byrne (University of Roehampton) Discussant: Michele Lamb (University of Roehampton) Stephan Hensell (University of Hamburg) The Limits of International Police Reforms: the Case of Albania Sonja Stojanovic (Belgrade Centre for Security Policy) Police Reform in Serbia after Milosevic Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (University of Roehampton) & Isabel Stroehle (University of Munich) Police Reform and Human Rights in Kosovo 6.00 to 6:30 pm: Concluding remarks by Gemma Collantes-Celador, Denisa Kostovicova and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 6.30 to 7.30 pm: Reception Registration Details: Workshop registration from 1.30 pm on 28 January. Attendance is free of charge but pre-registration by Tuesday 24 January is essential to ensure a place. To register please contact Julia Noyce at julia.noyce@roehampton.ac.uk<mailto:julia.noyce@roehampton.ac.uk>. Details of how to reach the University of Roehampton can be found at www.roehampton.ac.uk<http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/>. _______________________________ Dr. Gemma Collantes-Celador Lecturer in International Security MA International Politics Course Director Department of International Politics City University London Tel - +44 (0)20 7040 3635 Email - Gemma.Collantes-Celador@city.ac.uk
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2012 Convention, New Orleans, 15-18 November 2011
Association for Slavic, East European,
and Eurasian Studies
(formerly the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)
2012 Convention in New Orleans, LA
The 43rd Annual Convention of the Association will be held in New Orleans, LA, from Thursday, November 15, to Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the New Orleans Marriott. The theme of the 2012 convention is "Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing" (see below for more information).
Proposal Deadline and Submission
The deadline to submit proposals for panels, roundtables and meetings is January 15, 2012.
Individual paper submissions must be received by 5PM EST on December 16, 2011.
Click here for the call for proposals and instructions (PDF).
Online Submission will be available starting November 22 (You will be required to log in to the ASEEES members site first).
Paper submission: You can submit a hard copy of your proposal:
· Panels:
Panels entail presentation of prepared papers (distributed in advance to a discussant) on a related topic or theme, followed by structured discussion of those papers. A panel must have a Chair, no more than three paper presentations, and at least one, but no more than two, Discussants.
A complete panel proposal must include all of the following:
Proposal Form A: Basic Information
Proposal Form B: Supporting Information
Proposal Form C: CV Information
· Roundtables:
Roundtables entail structured discussion of a topic/theme, without the presentation of papers. Proposals for roundtables should be submitted only when the topic clearly justifies this format. A roundtable must have a Chair and three to five other participants.
A complete roundtable proposal must include all of the following:
Proposal Form A: Basic Information
Proposal Form B: Supporting Information
Proposal Form C: CV Information
· Individual Papers:
The Program Committee will consider proposals for individual papers that are not associated with a panel. The Program Committee strongly urges all scholars to use the ASEEES website, Facebook page, and LinkedIn group, the H-Russia mailing list, and other means of networking to form a full panel rather than submit an individual paper proposal.
Do not submit an individual paper proposal for a paper that is already part of an organized panel, and do not submit a proposal if you are presenting any paper on any other proposed panel. A conference participant can present only one paper at the conference, and can appear on the program no more than twice.
For your individual paper proposal to be considered, you must complete both pages of the Individual Paper Proposal Form and submit it to the address given. All individuals submitting paper proposals must be members of ASEEES, unless outside the field of Slavic, East European, and/or Eurasian Studies or working outside the United States.
Paper proposals will be screened by the Program Committee. Proposals that are approved will be formed into panels if possible. A paper will be accepted for the conference only if it can be fit into a coherent panel, and if that panel is then approved by the Program Committee. In addition, space constraints may preclude our being able to accommodate all individual papers proposed.
Special deadline for individual paper proposal submissions: All individual paper submissions must be received by 5 p.m. US Eastern Time on December 16, 2012.
· Meeting Rooms:
Each affiliate organization may request one meeting space during the convention using this form:
Meeting Room Request Form
Rules for Convention Participants
All participants who are Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies scholars living in the U.S. must be current ASEEES members. Only foreign scholars and scholars outside the field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies do not need to join ASEEES. If you are not currently a member or have not renewed your membership for the 2012 calendar year, you must do so in order to attend the convention. (Learn more about membership in ASEEES)
All participants on panels/roundtables, members and non-members, must preregister by the deadline and pay the registration fee. See Convention Registration for more information.
If you agree to participate in the ASEEES Convention, you are agreeing to be scheduled during any of the planned sessions. We will honor specific scheduling requests only for religious reasons.
A complete panel has: one Chair; 3 papers (NO MORE than 3); and at least one discussant, with a maximum of 2.
Roundtables must have: a Chair; and minimum of 3 to maximum of 5 partipants.
A complete set of CVs must accompany all proposals.
You may organize as many panels or roundtables as you wish and you may give a paper on one panel and be the chair, or a discussant, or a participant on one other, but you cannot be chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the same panel, and you CAN NOT sign up for more than two panels/roundtables. Each participant can present only one paper during the convention.
Affiliate organizations of the ASEEES are each allowed one panel or roundtable, which must be specified on the proposal form. Each affiliate-sponsored panel/roundtable will be screened in the usual manner by the Program Committee; we will not accept unscreened proposals.
Audio Visual Equipment Request Deadline is JULY 1, 2012 for the November convention. Please note that we do not pay for powerpoint/LCD equipment - it is too expensive to rent. We will pay for up to $150 worth of equipment. If you do not book your equipment by July 1, you must contact the hotel's audio visual department to arrange for equipment rental and pay for it yourself.
2012 Convention Theme
Our theme of the 2012 convention is: "Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing"
For most of us, the value of ASEEES in our professional lives stems from its interdisciplinarity. We might also be a member of AHA or APA or AAR or AFS or APSA or APS or MLA or ASA or AAA or any number of other alphabetical permutations. But we belong to ASEEES precisely because it pulls us out of our disciplinary silos, provides us with new perspectives on shared interests, and therefore shows us our work in a wholly new light. The 2012 convention theme of "Boundary, Barrier, and Border Crossings" encourages us to confront the space between the disciplines at the same time as it allows us to contemplate the meaning of boundaries within our own areas of expertise.
Such a confrontation is particularly timely for at least two reasons. Now, as the post-communist world has entered its third decade, we need to take stock of shifting borders, both geographic and cultural. We might consider how the various areas in our Slavic, East European and Eurasian worlds interact -- or don't -- with each other. And how does "our" world fit in with other areas, whether Western Europe, East and South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and, yes, the United States. As we look at the space that has indeed been crossed, we will also notice how many boundaries remain intact, or how new barriers have grown up/been erected. Or we might think of the theme temporally as well as spatially. How have we weathered this giant step into the 21st century? What might a glance at the changing calendar open up to us about other turns of centuries, other shifts of regime, other developments of new or repackaged cultural productions? How about genre crossings? Or on a more theoretical path, how are "crossings" both like and unlike "transgressions"?"breaches"? "blendings"? "interpolations"? "interpenetrations"? Not to mention clashes and "antagonisms and irreconcilable differences"?
The second timely reason to address the issue of boundary crossing is, alas, financial: it relates to the very future of our organization and the "interdisciplinary discipline" that it represents. With resources tight and priorities elsewhere, now, more than ever, we must be prepared to articulate what makes us, and the ways in which we help understand the world, vital. I know how important it has been for me to move from a panel on religion to one on history to another on literature at an ASEEES ("formerly known as AAASS") convention. However, I need to be able to explain to others how the intellectual leap across time, space, methodology, not to mention topic enriches not only me, but my students, my readers, my colleagues, and my fellow citizens. If interdisciplinarity makes ASEEES special, how does that specialness manifest itself? This is a good time to take a look at ourselves and beyond. What about area studies in general? What does focus on the interstices and crossovers between disciplinary areas within a geographic area -- or the examination of geographic, political, economic, cultural areas within a single discipline -- bring us? Clearly a lot, or we wouldn't be members of ASEEES.
Although panel proposals need not be restricted to this topic, let us take the occasion of the 2012 ASEEES convention to focus even more sharply and to articulate even more clearly the issues surrounding and bridging barriers, boundaries, and borders of all sorts.
and Eurasian Studies
(formerly the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)
2012 Convention in New Orleans, LA
The 43rd Annual Convention of the Association will be held in New Orleans, LA, from Thursday, November 15, to Sunday, November 18, 2012 at the New Orleans Marriott. The theme of the 2012 convention is "Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing" (see below for more information).
Proposal Deadline and Submission
The deadline to submit proposals for panels, roundtables and meetings is January 15, 2012.
Individual paper submissions must be received by 5PM EST on December 16, 2011.
Click here for the call for proposals and instructions (PDF).
Online Submission will be available starting November 22 (You will be required to log in to the ASEEES members site first).
Paper submission: You can submit a hard copy of your proposal:
· Panels:
Panels entail presentation of prepared papers (distributed in advance to a discussant) on a related topic or theme, followed by structured discussion of those papers. A panel must have a Chair, no more than three paper presentations, and at least one, but no more than two, Discussants.
A complete panel proposal must include all of the following:
Proposal Form A: Basic Information Proposal Form B: Supporting Information Proposal Form C: CV Information· Roundtables:
Roundtables entail structured discussion of a topic/theme, without the presentation of papers. Proposals for roundtables should be submitted only when the topic clearly justifies this format. A roundtable must have a Chair and three to five other participants.
A complete roundtable proposal must include all of the following:
Proposal Form A: Basic Information Proposal Form B: Supporting Information Proposal Form C: CV Information· Individual Papers:
The Program Committee will consider proposals for individual papers that are not associated with a panel. The Program Committee strongly urges all scholars to use the ASEEES website, Facebook page, and LinkedIn group, the H-Russia mailing list, and other means of networking to form a full panel rather than submit an individual paper proposal.
Do not submit an individual paper proposal for a paper that is already part of an organized panel, and do not submit a proposal if you are presenting any paper on any other proposed panel. A conference participant can present only one paper at the conference, and can appear on the program no more than twice.
For your individual paper proposal to be considered, you must complete both pages of the Individual Paper Proposal Form and submit it to the address given. All individuals submitting paper proposals must be members of ASEEES, unless outside the field of Slavic, East European, and/or Eurasian Studies or working outside the United States.
Paper proposals will be screened by the Program Committee. Proposals that are approved will be formed into panels if possible. A paper will be accepted for the conference only if it can be fit into a coherent panel, and if that panel is then approved by the Program Committee. In addition, space constraints may preclude our being able to accommodate all individual papers proposed.
Special deadline for individual paper proposal submissions: All individual paper submissions must be received by 5 p.m. US Eastern Time on December 16, 2012.
· Meeting Rooms:
Each affiliate organization may request one meeting space during the convention using this form:
Meeting Room Request FormRules for Convention Participants
All participants who are Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies scholars living in the U.S. must be current ASEEES members. Only foreign scholars and scholars outside the field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies do not need to join ASEEES. If you are not currently a member or have not renewed your membership for the 2012 calendar year, you must do so in order to attend the convention. (Learn more about membership in ASEEES)
All participants on panels/roundtables, members and non-members, must preregister by the deadline and pay the registration fee. See Convention Registration for more information.
If you agree to participate in the ASEEES Convention, you are agreeing to be scheduled during any of the planned sessions. We will honor specific scheduling requests only for religious reasons.
A complete panel has: one Chair; 3 papers (NO MORE than 3); and at least one discussant, with a maximum of 2.
Roundtables must have: a Chair; and minimum of 3 to maximum of 5 partipants.
A complete set of CVs must accompany all proposals.
You may organize as many panels or roundtables as you wish and you may give a paper on one panel and be the chair, or a discussant, or a participant on one other, but you cannot be chair and discussant or chair and give a paper on the same panel, and you CAN NOT sign up for more than two panels/roundtables. Each participant can present only one paper during the convention.
Affiliate organizations of the ASEEES are each allowed one panel or roundtable, which must be specified on the proposal form. Each affiliate-sponsored panel/roundtable will be screened in the usual manner by the Program Committee; we will not accept unscreened proposals.
Audio Visual Equipment Request Deadline is JULY 1, 2012 for the November convention. Please note that we do not pay for powerpoint/LCD equipment - it is too expensive to rent. We will pay for up to $150 worth of equipment. If you do not book your equipment by July 1, you must contact the hotel's audio visual department to arrange for equipment rental and pay for it yourself.
2012 Convention Theme
Our theme of the 2012 convention is: "Boundary, Barrier and Border Crossing"
For most of us, the value of ASEEES in our professional lives stems from its interdisciplinarity. We might also be a member of AHA or APA or AAR or AFS or APSA or APS or MLA or ASA or AAA or any number of other alphabetical permutations. But we belong to ASEEES precisely because it pulls us out of our disciplinary silos, provides us with new perspectives on shared interests, and therefore shows us our work in a wholly new light. The 2012 convention theme of "Boundary, Barrier, and Border Crossings" encourages us to confront the space between the disciplines at the same time as it allows us to contemplate the meaning of boundaries within our own areas of expertise.
Such a confrontation is particularly timely for at least two reasons. Now, as the post-communist world has entered its third decade, we need to take stock of shifting borders, both geographic and cultural. We might consider how the various areas in our Slavic, East European and Eurasian worlds interact -- or don't -- with each other. And how does "our" world fit in with other areas, whether Western Europe, East and South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and, yes, the United States. As we look at the space that has indeed been crossed, we will also notice how many boundaries remain intact, or how new barriers have grown up/been erected. Or we might think of the theme temporally as well as spatially. How have we weathered this giant step into the 21st century? What might a glance at the changing calendar open up to us about other turns of centuries, other shifts of regime, other developments of new or repackaged cultural productions? How about genre crossings? Or on a more theoretical path, how are "crossings" both like and unlike "transgressions"?"breaches"? "blendings"? "interpolations"? "interpenetrations"? Not to mention clashes and "antagonisms and irreconcilable differences"?
The second timely reason to address the issue of boundary crossing is, alas, financial: it relates to the very future of our organization and the "interdisciplinary discipline" that it represents. With resources tight and priorities elsewhere, now, more than ever, we must be prepared to articulate what makes us, and the ways in which we help understand the world, vital. I know how important it has been for me to move from a panel on religion to one on history to another on literature at an ASEEES ("formerly known as AAASS") convention. However, I need to be able to explain to others how the intellectual leap across time, space, methodology, not to mention topic enriches not only me, but my students, my readers, my colleagues, and my fellow citizens. If interdisciplinarity makes ASEEES special, how does that specialness manifest itself? This is a good time to take a look at ourselves and beyond. What about area studies in general? What does focus on the interstices and crossovers between disciplinary areas within a geographic area -- or the examination of geographic, political, economic, cultural areas within a single discipline -- bring us? Clearly a lot, or we wouldn't be members of ASEEES.
Although panel proposals need not be restricted to this topic, let us take the occasion of the 2012 ASEEES convention to focus even more sharply and to articulate even more clearly the issues surrounding and bridging barriers, boundaries, and borders of all sorts.
ESEM XXVIII - Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe, 19-23 September 2012, Ljubljana
28th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM),
Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe
28th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), which will take place from 19 to 23 September 2012 in Ljubljana,
Slovenia and will be hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and the Institute of Ethnomusicology
of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2012
We will also consider including selected free papers in order to allow dissemination of important recent achievements in the field. Abstracts related to the central set of topics will have priority. We invite proposals for individual presentations, which must not exceed 20 minutes in length, panels and round tables of up to 90 minutes. We also welcome poster presentations and video projections.
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Dr Ana Hofman
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities
Novi trg 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
http://sir.zrc-sazu.si
Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe
28th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), which will take place from 19 to 23 September 2012 in Ljubljana,
Slovenia and will be hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and the Institute of Ethnomusicology
of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2012
NATIONAL PAST IN MUSIC/NATIONAL MUSICAL PAST
Music and Cultural Memory in post-1989 Europe
Music has a strong capacity to evoke, embody and narrate the past, that is, it can serve is a repository of cultural memory which is “retained either through cultural formation (text, rites or monuments) or through institutional commemoration (recitation, practice, observance) [...] and formalized through ceremony” (Assmann 1995). Commemorative ceremonies, red-letter days and other public rituals are distinguishable from other events as they “possess a characteristic of ritual re-enactment, which is central to the shaping of collective memory” (Whitehead 2009). Musical performance, as an inseparable element of public practice, represents an important element in the construction of historical past in public realm. Therefore, it is employed to narrate collective remembrance and used in the embodiments, interpretations and representations of the past.
This year’s ESEM meeting aims to approach this topic from two aspects: by exploring the ways in which current musical forms address the past events and by investigating the strategies of reshaping and renarrating the musics from the past in the dominant discourses of the present. The focus on the post-1989 national pasts is intentional: the processes of EU integration, the collapse of socialist regimes and cultural transformations in post-1989 Europe have influenced the renarrativisation of the past and the related changes in memory cultures. In this respect, music plays a significant role and is used in contemporary European memory landscapes to question, transgress and legitimize the dichotomies and hierarchies between national and transnational, ‘eastern’ and ‘western,’ public and private, collective and individual, official and unofficial.
Therefore we are interested in sonic representations of the national past: musical genres, performance settings, musicians, spectators, organizers and all actors involved in the musical event. Thus we hope to shed light on the ways that cultural memory has entered the sphere of the popular through the most conspicuous branches of (musical) ‘memory industry’ (Klein 2000:127).
Papers are invited addressing one or more of the following topics:
• music in commemorations, public rituals and celebrations in post-1989 Europe
• music, conflicting remembrance and traumatic past
• musical past in post-socialist transformations and processes of EU integration
• musical past and new media
• musical performance in the construction of historical past in public realm
• music and memory industry
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 2012.
Proposals including 300-word abstract, your full name, affiliation and contact details (as attachment) should be submitted to:
Programme committee
Slawomira Kominek (Poland), s.kominek@uw.edu.pl
Ardian Ahmedaja (Austria), Ahmedaja@mdw.ac.at
Ana Hofman (Slovenia)(chair), ahofman@zrc-sazu.si
Mojca Kovačič (Slovenia), Mojca.kovacic@zrc-sazu.si
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Dr Ana Hofman
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Department for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities
Novi trg 2
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
http://sir.zrc-sazu.si
Research on Protest, Social Movements and Democratization Processes at the DVPW Congress 2012, Tübingen 24-28 September 2012
Working Group on Social Movements (Arbeitskreis soziale Bewegungen, http://sozialebewegungen.wordpress.com/uber/) of the German Association for Political Science (Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, DVPW) is organizing three panels at the association's triennial congress next year in Tübingen (24 to 28 September 2012). We warmly invite you to send in applications by 1 March 2012 the latest to the addresses published in the CfPs in the attachment. All three panels try to take a global perspective on protest, social movements and democratization processes. Contributions by researchers on Balkan countries or from the Balkans are highly welcome.The titels of the Working Group's panels are:
"Democracy as a rallying cry. Societal mobilization and democratization processes." ("Demokratie als Schlachtruf. Zivilgesellschaftliche Mobilisierungen und Demokratisierungsprozesse.")
"Democratization of democracy. A protest wave between Stuttgart 21 and Puerta del Sol." ("Demokratisierung der Demokratie. Eine Protestwelle zwischen Stuttgart 21 und Puerta del Sol.")
"Global opposition? Post-national governance and its critics." ("Globale Opposition? Postnationale Governance und ihre KritikerInnen.")
"Democracy as a rallying cry. Societal mobilization and democratization processes." ("Demokratie als Schlachtruf. Zivilgesellschaftliche Mobilisierungen und Demokratisierungsprozesse.")
"Democratization of democracy. A protest wave between Stuttgart 21 and Puerta del Sol." ("Demokratisierung der Demokratie. Eine Protestwelle zwischen Stuttgart 21 und Puerta del Sol.")
"Global opposition? Post-national governance and its critics." ("Globale Opposition? Postnationale Governance und ihre KritikerInnen.")
Spaces and Territories in Russia and the Slavic World: Understanding, Constructing and Setting Boundaries, Université de Montreal, 17-18 May 2012
Spaces and Territories in Russia and the Slavic World: Understanding, Constructing and Setting Boundaries
Deadline: January 15, 2012
Spaces and Territories in Russia and the Slavic World: Understanding,
Constructing and Setting Boundaries
Second Annual Conference of the Quebec Network for Slavic Studies,
Université de Montreal, May 17-18, 2012
Whether they are already delineated or in the process of becoming so,
spaces can be described as representations that bear an individual or –
more typically – collective value. They are normally founded on cultural,
social, ethnic, religious, linguistic or ideological grounds. The concept
of “territories,” in contrast, can be used to designate physical, that is,
essentially geographical, realities. Quite unsurprisingly, between spaces
and territories, the conjunction is not always natural or harmonious. It
implies the confrontation of conflicting interests, self-affirming
processes, and geopolitical tensions, negociations, alliances, and
reactions of voluntary isolation.
For the second edition of the annual conference of the Quebec Network for
Slavic Studies, we invite scholars to take part in a multidisciplinary
reflection on these notions of space and territory in the context of Russia
and the Slavic world.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- The meanings assigned to particular spaces and territories
- The general or historically determined mechanisms that underlie these
concepts
- The creation, formation, mental and/or material construction of borders
- The permeability and mobility of these borders; their transgression or
sublation
- Zones of inclusion/exclusion
- Experiences of exile and expatriation
- Cultural responses to the notions of spaces and territories
- Armed presence and military strategies
- Political and ideological discourses of the soil
- Ruptures and continuities in the environment
- Artistic and literary representations
- Exploration of the notions of space and territory through text, image,
and/or sound
- Imaginary spaces and territories
- Topographies and cartographies of the Slavic world
The conference is open to scholars from Quebec and beyond. Paper proposals
in French or English (approximately 300 words) are to be submitted to
qnss.rqes@gmail.com by January 15, 2012.
Reseau quebecois d'etudes slaves / Quebec Network for Slavic Studies
Email: qnss.rqes@gmail.com
Visit the website at httphttp://rqes.wordpress.com/
Deadline: January 15, 2012
Spaces and Territories in Russia and the Slavic World: Understanding,
Constructing and Setting Boundaries
Second Annual Conference of the Quebec Network for Slavic Studies,
Université de Montreal, May 17-18, 2012
Whether they are already delineated or in the process of becoming so,
spaces can be described as representations that bear an individual or –
more typically – collective value. They are normally founded on cultural,
social, ethnic, religious, linguistic or ideological grounds. The concept
of “territories,” in contrast, can be used to designate physical, that is,
essentially geographical, realities. Quite unsurprisingly, between spaces
and territories, the conjunction is not always natural or harmonious. It
implies the confrontation of conflicting interests, self-affirming
processes, and geopolitical tensions, negociations, alliances, and
reactions of voluntary isolation.
For the second edition of the annual conference of the Quebec Network for
Slavic Studies, we invite scholars to take part in a multidisciplinary
reflection on these notions of space and territory in the context of Russia
and the Slavic world.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- The meanings assigned to particular spaces and territories
- The general or historically determined mechanisms that underlie these
concepts
- The creation, formation, mental and/or material construction of borders
- The permeability and mobility of these borders; their transgression or
sublation
- Zones of inclusion/exclusion
- Experiences of exile and expatriation
- Cultural responses to the notions of spaces and territories
- Armed presence and military strategies
- Political and ideological discourses of the soil
- Ruptures and continuities in the environment
- Artistic and literary representations
- Exploration of the notions of space and territory through text, image,
and/or sound
- Imaginary spaces and territories
- Topographies and cartographies of the Slavic world
The conference is open to scholars from Quebec and beyond. Paper proposals
in French or English (approximately 300 words) are to be submitted to
qnss.rqes@gmail.com by January 15, 2012.
Reseau quebecois d'etudes slaves / Quebec Network for Slavic Studies
Email: qnss.rqes@gmail.com
Visit the website at httphttp://rqes.wordpress.com/
6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging, Oxford, 16-19 September 2012
6th Global Conference: Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
(September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
Deadline: March 16, 2012
6th Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Sunday 16th September 2012 – Wednesday 19th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent
place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the
implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In
particular, the project will assess the context of major world
transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive
movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact of
globalisation on tensions, conflicts and on the sense of rootedness and
belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we
warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which
struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge
identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.
Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following
themes:
1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
~ Who is Self and who is Other?
~ The new value of social diversity and cultural multiplicity; breaking
with homogeneity and sameness
~ What is the place of difference and alterity, of normality and
normalisation in defining identity and membership
~ How to account for social membership and cultural identity?
~ Making sense of transformations and their effects over culture, identity
and membership
~ Othering, excluding, stygmatising
2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
~ What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
~ New migrants, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral
to central countries
~ Resurgence of the local and the diminishing importance of the national
~ Are we living post-national realities?
~ What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social
membership?
~ Models of multiculturalism and the contemporary experience of
multiculturalism(s)
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of placing the
responsibility of change on the Other
3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
~ Evaluating the promises and institutions of post-national governing
~ Institutions and organisations that do more for money than for people
~ Political battles over globalization
~ Social movements, new rebellion and alternative globalizations
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political
intentions or control
~ New forms of global exclusion
4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
~ De-centering individuals and the making of persons; thinking and acting
with others in mind and interpersonally
~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of identity formation and social
membership
~ New sources and forms of belonging; new tribalism, localism, parochialism
and communitarianism
~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion, ideologies
and religions, politics and power, nations and geography
~ Who am I if not the relation with others?
~ Non-recognition as cultural violence
5. Media and Artistic Representations
~ The role of new and old media in the construction of cultures and
identities, of nations and place
~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing and stereotyping
~ The contested space of representing culture, identity and belonging
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and impenetrable constructions
of culture
~ Living, being and belonging through art
~ Life imitating art and fiction
6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life
~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to
the sharing of cultures?
~ Cultural claims and human rights
~ Exploring multiculturalism as a plural experience: Shouldn’t we be
talking about multiculturalisms?
~ Living in a context with the cultural markers of a different context: Is
that transculturalism?
~ Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of wanting to bridge the
‘invisible’ divide of cultures
~ Symbols and significations that connect people to places other than
‘their own’
~ Culture, identity and belonging by choice
7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
~ Recognition and respect without exclusion
~ An ethics for social relations in a new millennium
~ What to do with historically old concepts like tolerance, acceptance and
hospitality?
~ Should not we all be strangers? Should not we all be foreigners?
~ Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
~ Loving the other within the self; building fluid boundaries of belonging
and being
The 2012 meeting of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging will run
alongside the forth meeting of our project on Fashion – Exploring Critical
Issues and we anticipate holding sessions in common between the two
projects. We welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing
issues of Fashion, Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging.
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should
be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e)
body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled:
Multiculturalism Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special
formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year.
All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge
receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive
a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your
proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business, Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909, Australia
Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au
Rob Fisher
Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: mcb6@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects,
which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are
innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers
may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy
volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are
not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: mcb5@inter-disciplinary.net
(September 2012: Oxford, United Kingdom)
Deadline: March 16, 2012
6th Global Conference
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Sunday 16th September 2012 – Wednesday 19th September 2012
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers:
This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the new and prominent
place that the idea of culture has for the construction of identity and the
implications of this for social membership in contemporary societies. In
particular, the project will assess the context of major world
transformations, for example, new forms of migration and the massive
movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact of
globalisation on tensions, conflicts and on the sense of rootedness and
belonging. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we
warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which
struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge
identities in rapidly changing national, social and cultural contexts.
Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following
themes:
1. Challenging Old Concepts of Self and Other
~ Who is Self and who is Other?
~ The new value of social diversity and cultural multiplicity; breaking
with homogeneity and sameness
~ What is the place of difference and alterity, of normality and
normalisation in defining identity and membership
~ How to account for social membership and cultural identity?
~ Making sense of transformations and their effects over culture, identity
and membership
~ Othering, excluding, stygmatising
2. Nations, Nationhood and Nationalisms
~ What does it mean, today, to belong to a nation?
~ New migrants, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral
to central countries
~ Resurgence of the local and the diminishing importance of the national
~ Are we living post-national realities?
~ What is the place of cultural claims in today’s forms of social
membership?
~ Models of multiculturalism and the contemporary experience of
multiculturalism(s)
~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of placing the
responsibility of change on the Other
3. Institutions, Organizations and Social Movements
~ Evaluating the promises and institutions of post-national governing
~ Institutions and organisations that do more for money than for people
~ Political battles over globalization
~ Social movements, new rebellion and alternative globalizations
~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political
intentions or control
~ New forms of global exclusion
4. Persons, Personhood and the Inter-Personal
~ De-centering individuals and the making of persons; thinking and acting
with others in mind and interpersonally
~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of identity formation and social
membership
~ New sources and forms of belonging; new tribalism, localism, parochialism
and communitarianism
~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion, ideologies
and religions, politics and power, nations and geography
~ Who am I if not the relation with others?
~ Non-recognition as cultural violence
5. Media and Artistic Representations
~ The role of new and old media in the construction of cultures and
identities, of nations and place
~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing and stereotyping
~ The contested space of representing culture, identity and belonging
~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid and impenetrable constructions
of culture
~ Living, being and belonging through art
~ Life imitating art and fiction
6. Transnational Cultural Interlacing of Contemporary Life
~ What is shared from cultures? How are cultures shared? Who has access to
the sharing of cultures?
~ Cultural claims and human rights
~ Exploring multiculturalism as a plural experience: Shouldn’t we be
talking about multiculturalisms?
~ Living in a context with the cultural markers of a different context: Is
that transculturalism?
~ Languages, idioms and new emerging forms of wanting to bridge the
‘invisible’ divide of cultures
~ Symbols and significations that connect people to places other than
‘their own’
~ Culture, identity and belonging by choice
7. New Concepts, New Forms of Inclusion
~ Recognition and respect without exclusion
~ An ethics for social relations in a new millennium
~ What to do with historically old concepts like tolerance, acceptance and
hospitality?
~ Should not we all be strangers? Should not we all be foreigners?
~ Is there any use for cosmopolitanism these days?
~ Loving the other within the self; building fluid boundaries of belonging
and being
The 2012 meeting of Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging will run
alongside the forth meeting of our project on Fashion – Exploring Critical
Issues and we anticipate holding sessions in common between the two
projects. We welcome any papers considering the problems or addressing
issues of Fashion, Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging.
Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should
be submitted by Friday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the
conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd June 2012.
300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts
may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e)
body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled:
Multiculturalism Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special
formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).
Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year.
All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge
receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive
a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your
proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an
alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business, Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909, Australia
Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au
Rob Fisher
Network Leader, Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
E-Mail: mcb6@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects,
which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of
Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are
innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this
conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers
may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy
volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/multiculturalism-conflict-and-belonging/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are
not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1993 882087
Fax: +44 (0)870 4601132
Email: mcb5@inter-disciplinary.net
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