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31/05/2008 Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
The aims of this major international and multi-disciplinary conference are: To critically explore the major issues facing the MENA region with regard to the development of tourism and its relationships with heritage and culture; To draw upon ideas, cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new understandings and research capacities regarding the relationships between tourism, heritage and culture in the MENA Region and; To provide a major networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and professionals. CALL FOR PAPERS In this major conference we seek to examine the phenomenon of tourism across the Middle East and North Africa Region and its changing relationships with heritage and culture. We wish to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and thus we welcome papers from the following disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies, political science, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning. Key themes of interest to the conference include: • Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic / political economies of tourism • Tourism in the construction of places / spaces / nations• The role of archaeology in contemporary tourism • Structures / infrastructures of international tourism – building/ architecture/ design for tourism & tourists | Tourism and the role of the museum• The conservation of heritage for tourism• The practices and performances of ‘tradition’• Tourist art and art for tourists• Intangible heritage and its role in tourism• Rural and urban tourism practices. Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to Prof Mike Robinson (ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 30th September 2008. Conference Organisers: Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, and the Council for British Research in the Levant, Amman, Jordan. For further details on the conference please visit: www.tourism-culture.com or www.cbrl.org.uk 30/05/2008 Euromed Migration II: Opening Conference
29/05/2008 WOMEN AND MIGRATION: ART, POLITICS AND POLICY - An AHRC ‘Making the Connections’ Regional Network Workshop
28/05/2008 CALL FOR PAPERS - India and the Indian Diasporic Imagination
(London Metropolitan University, UK), Desi (Diasporas : Research Centre on Indian Specificities / EA 4196 Climas, Bordeaux3), the Department of History of Purdue University (USA).
Australia) | Invited Writers : Cyril Dabydeen, David Dabydeen, Romesh Gunesekera, Lakshmi Persaud, Khal Torabully The 19th century witnessed large-scale migration from India to various parts of the world. Indentured labourers were recruited to work in the Caribbean between 1838 and 1917 (particularly Guyana, Surinam and Trinidad as well as Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique), Fiji, Mauritius (as early as 1834), South Africa and a few other plantation colonies. Over one million Indians sold themselves into bondage before the system was made illegal in 1917. Other migrants from the Indian sub- continent later worked in East Africa, to work on the railways and in other industries, going to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania. The descendents of these peoples, who have gone to Europe, North America and Australia since the Second World War, now constitute a substantial and fascinatingly diverse diaspora. Representations of their notions of “Mother India” have been crucial to the shaping of identity among many of these diasporic peoples. As the stature of India as a potential world power has grown in the last ten years, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in India, which has contributed to enhanced self-esteem in these communities. Far from emphasizing the question of origin, the papers will focus on the interaction between Indians in India and those in the diaspora. If diasporic Indians have been transforming the countries they have been living in, it is legitimate to ask how India itself is being transformed by its peoples in the diaspora. The privileging of categories such as ‘non-resident Indians’ or ‘persons of Indian Origin’ by India enhances this line of enquiry. In recent years outstanding works of the creative imagination, based on these diverse communities have emerged, in conjunction with an impressive body of scholarship. Yet, no major international, multidisciplinary and bilingual conference has sought to tap into this rich reservoir of learning. This conference seeks to redress this shortcoming. This is a call for papers which explore all aspects of the Indian diasporic experience and its representations. Contributors are invited to participate in a conference that addresses the following areas: Cinema, Culture, Economics, History, Music and Dance, Photography, Religion, Sports, Women’s Studies. Literature and Comparative Literature will, of course, be prominent, and particular attention will be devoted to writers of Indian origin writing in English (one can think among others of Meena Alexander, Cyril Dabydeen, David Dabydeen, Mahadai Das, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Romesh Gunesekera, Ismith Kahn, Peter Kempadoo, Oonya Kempadoo, HS Ladoo, Jumpha Lahiri, Leelawatee Manoo-Rahming, Rohinton Mistry, Rooplall Monar, Shani Mootoo, Bharati Mukherjee, Lakshmi Persaud, Sasenarine Persaud, Vikram Seth, Ryhaan Shah, Rajkumari Singh, MG Vassanji…), or in French (Khal Torabully, Ananda Devi…). For the cinema, one can think of Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, Sandhya Suri, among others. English will be the language of the conference (except for the papers about works in French).
27/05/2008 “Refugee Voices”
26/05/2008 Journal of South Asian Studies - Special issue on food, memory, pleasure and politics
25/05/2008 Refugee Law in the Era of Globalization Emerging Issues for the Teaching of Refugee Law - A Conference Hosted by The Refugee Law Reader Call for Papers A two-day seminar on Refugee Law in the Era of Globalization will be held in Brussels on November 12-14, 2008. Globalization has introduced a wide of range of transformations that have profoundly shaped contemporary refugee law and policy. We are seeking proposals for papers that explore some of the emerging legal issues that arise from one or several aspects of changes brought about by globalization. The analysis may be national, regional, or international in focus. The conference will be hosted by The Refugee Law Reader (www.refugeelawreader.org Directory: fass fass -> Bypassing and waping: Reconfiguring Timetables for ‘Real-time’ Mobility fass -> The lessons from the anarchist experiences on urban social cohesion fass -> Lite 304 Anglophone Children’s Literature fass -> New literacies, old identities: Girls’ experiences of literacy and new technologies at home and school fass -> The involvement of communities in the development and delivery of csr policies Download 1.6 Mb. Share with your friends:
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