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17/03/2008
‘Attractions and events as catalysts for regeneration and social change’ - Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
University of Nottingham, 24th-25th September 2008
17/03/2008
London International Documentary Film Festival - Films on forced migration
Four films on the topic of forced migration: Saturday 29 March, 8.00pm Renoir Cinema "La Americana" (The American)Dir. Nicholas Bruckman/Co-Dir. John Mattiuzzi, USA/Bolivia/Mexico, 2008, Special Preview Saturday 5 April, 11.05pm Stevenson Theatre, British Museum | Next Station (Próxima Estación)Director: Estela Ilárraz, 2007, Spain, 69min, UK Première Ya OromiaDirector: Amanda Walsh, 2006, Australia, 5min, European Première | For My Children (Por Mis Hijos) Director: Aymee Cruzaleguí, Spain, 2007, 16min, World Première For more information about each film, visit the London International Documentary Film Festival web site at http://www.lidf.co.uk
17/03/2008
A new Viewpoint by the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights on the issue of detention of asylum seekers is available at: http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/Viewpoints/default_en.asp
16/03/2008
Iraqis In Cairo: Time is Running Out - New film
http://homepage.mac.com/jvanpraag/IRAQIS_IN_EGYPT/iMovieTheater11.html
The film was made over a five week period this year, produced for only a few hundred dollars with the help and expertise of a small and very dedicated group of individuals. This short documentary takes a look at the lives of six Iraqi families who have been forced to flee their homes in Iraq and are now living as refugees in Egypt.Like millions of others who have been driven out of their country since the American invasion in 2003, they are living in increasingly desperate situations with little or no rights in their country of asylum.
16/03/2008
European Council approves the ‘Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean’
The European Council has approved the principle of a Union for the Mediterranean which will include the Member States of the EU and the non-EU Mediterranean coastal states. In a statement annexed to their conclusions, the EU leaders invited the Commission ‘to present to the Council the necessary proposals for defining the modalities of what will be called "Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean" with a view to a Summit which will take place in Paris on 13 July 2008.’
According to a Council press release, this initiative should deepen the existing Euro-Mediterranean Partnership between Member States and third countries in the Mediterranean basin (the so-called Barcelona Process). The renewed partnership, it says, will be financed by the funds currently set aside in the EU budget for support to partner states in the Mediterranean.
14/03/2008
Memory, Mourning, Landscape - Call for papers
University of Glasgow, 9 June 2008
One hundred years after Freud, the debate about how memory and mourning work continues. Increasingly scholarly attention is paid to the role of place and space in memorialising - whether in commemorations of individuals or in marking mass deaths. At the same time, experts in a variety of fields are finding new significance in the different ways of "saying goodbye" (or not saying goodbye). The aim of this symposium is two-fold: to explore the links between memory, mourning and landscape, and also to investigate more
deeply these themes as separate entities. The symposium will therefore be of interest to scholars across the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, including, but not limited to: literature, ancient, medieval, and modern languages, cultural studies, history of art, history, archaeology, geography, theology, sociology, psychology, and archive studies.
Please submit abstracts by email (preferably as a word document attachment) to mml.conference@gmail.com, by 1 April 2008.
Further details: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/sesll/seminarsandconferences/conferencememorymourningandlandscape/
10/03/2008
People on the Move : The Challenges of Displacement in the 21st Century
The 2008 IRC-UK Annual Lecture by UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres
Monday 16th June at 7pm at The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore (Exhibition Road Entrance), London SW7 2AR
Tickets: Lecture £15.00 (concessions £8.00) | Lecture and post lecture reception £30 | For reservations please call the IRC-UK events line: +44 (0)20 7692 2737 (Monday to Friday 0900 – 1730) | All proceeds from the evening will go towards the IRC’s work.
08/03/2008
Uneven regional development, polarisation in cities and international circuits of migration
Small one day workshop at the London School of Economics on April 25th 2008. The workshop convened by Diane Perrons and Allan Williams will begin at 11.a.m. (room to be declared on registration). Registration is essential. Please send expression of interest to Kathy Wood Kathy.wood@durham.ac.uk
06/03/2008
Podcasts on Forced Migration Online
Forced Migration Online has launched the first of a series of podcasts recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), held in Cairo between January 6th and 10th 2008. The 11th IASFM conference was hosted by the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program of the American University in Cairo. A large proportion of those attending and giving presentations were researchers and practitioners from the global South. The FMO team made audio recordings of the conference’s plenary sessions and these will be launched gradually over the coming weeks. http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/iasfm11-plenary1/
05/03/2008
British Institute at Ankara Study Grants
Study grants are intended to support doctoral or post-doctoral research in the fields of the arts, humanities and the social sciences related to Turkey and the Black Sea littoral. Specifically, the grants are intended to support scholars in defined aspects of doctoral research which will significantly progress the research, in the completion of PhDs, or in discrete pieces of post-doctoral research.
These grants are not intended to support fieldwork within a wider project. They can be used to provide access to the outstanding Institute library, to support use of the extensive Institute archive resources, and to study in the broader academic context within Turkey. Periods of study from one to three months will be supported. An airfare (£300) and funding for basic subsistence and accommodation (£500 per month) is the expected level of funding. Accommodation at the Institute's hostel will be available and full access to the Institute's facilities will be provided. It is expected that normally the study will be based in Ankara, but specific applications based elsewhere in Turkey are not excluded.
Eligibility
1. Support is available to scholars for defined aspects of doctoral research which will significantly progress the research, the completion of PhDs, or discrete pieces of post-doctoral research.
2. The period of study must take place between April 2008 and March 2009.
3. Applicants must be postgraduate students or post-doctoral scholars based in a British university.
4. Applications are considered by the BIAA Research Committee at half-yearly intervals; the next deadline for submission is 1 April 2008.
Late applications will not be considered.
For further information please contact Siobhan McKeown: biaa@britac.ac.uk or visit the website: http://www.biaa.ac.uk/awards_details.html#study
03/03/2008
THE GLOBAL STUDIES CONFERENCE
University of Illinois, Chicago, 16-18 May 2008
The Global Studies Conference on Global Studies Journal are devoted to mapping and interpreting new trends and patterns in globalization. This journal and the conference attempt to do this from many points of view, from many locations in the world, and in a wide-angle kaleidoscopic fashion.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 13 March 2008. 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
28/02/2008
Women Travellers and Women's Travel Writing – Call for papers
The deadline for proposals for the one day seminar on Women Travellers in India has been extended to Monday 3rd March.
As part of the Maria Graham research project, the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University will be hosting three one-day seminars in 2008. These will focus on women travellers to each of the three principal regions that Maria Graham visited and wrote about: Italy, India and Latin America. The CTWS accordingly invites proposals for 20 minute papers that consider any aspect of women's travel, or women's travel writing, relating to each of these regions. The papers can approach the topic from any disciplinary angle, and can focus on any historical period.
The Women Travellers in India seminar will be held on Wednesday 30th April 2008. The extended deadline for paper proposals is Monday 3rd March 2008 || The Women Travellers in Latin America will be held in November 2008. The precise date has not yet been finalised, but will be announced shortly. To offer a paper, or for more information, please contact Dr Carl Thompson carl.thompson@ntu.ac.uk
24/02/2008
Migrations économiques, migrations politiques : une distinction à repenser ?
Vendredi 4avril 2008 | Centre universitaire Jean-François Champollion (Albi) | Maison du multimédia
Cet atelier aura pour objectif d'explorer les similitudes ou au contraire les divergences entre migrations « économiques » et migrations «politiques ». On y comparera donc des exils dus à des conflits ou à des persécutions politiques, religieuses et/ou ethniques, et d'autres situations migratoires, également porteuses de déracinement et d'exil, mais provoquées par la misère ou autres facteurs généralement considérés comme économiques. Il portera pour l'essentiel sur le cas des migrations espagnoles du XIXe et XXe siècles et en particulier des migrations pendant et après la guerre civile de 1936-1939, sans exclure pour autant les exemples d'autres flux ayant touchés le continent européen.
Direction scientifique : Laure Teulieres et Bruno Vargas | Secrétariat : Karen Chevalier. e-mail : karen.chevalier@univ-jfc.fr
23/02/2008
Mobilités, Identités, Altérités
13, 14, 15 mars 2008 à Rennes, Université Rennes 2 – Ampli L 3 (Bât. L) (Tous les ateliers se dérouleront en Amphi L3). Jeudi 13 mars 2008. Accueil 13 h 15 Séance d’ouverture
Le huitième colloque du groupe de travail « Mobilités spatiales et Fluidités sociales » (GT23) de l’Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF) se tiendra à Rennes les 13, 14 et 15 mars 2008. Ce colloque centré sur la thématique « Mobilités, identités, altérités » est envisagé comme une rencontre interdisciplinaire visant à faire dialoguer sociologues, géographes, psychologues, aménageurs, etc. ainsi que les divers acteurs territoriaux concernés dans leurs pratiques par cette thématique
Sandrine Depeau | courriel : sandrine [point] depeau (at) univ-rennes2 [point] fr
22/02/2008
Appel à contributions du numéro 4-2008 d'Articulo.ch - revue de sciences humaines (« Le Paradis sur Terre » ? Une géographie culturelle et politique du tourisme)
Fondée en 2005, Articulo.ch est une revue à comité de lecture dont le projet est d’interroger le quotidien en tant que « fait social total ». Trois numéros thématiques (Approches plurielles du quotidien ; Dimensions sociales de l’économie ; Avant-gardes et élites : agents de reproduction ou de transformation de la société ?) sont parus depuis lors.
Vous trouverez une présentation plus détaillée des objectifs de la ligne éditoriale à cette adresse (http://www.articulo.ch/index.php?cat=Manifeste) ainsi que la composition des comités scientifiques et éditoriaux qui garantissent la scientificité des articles publiés (http://articulo.ch/index.php?cat=Presentation)
21/02/2008
The Mobile City conference
27 & 28 February 2008 | NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.themobilecity.nl
20/02/2008
International Conference - Advances in Tourism Research 2008 - CALL FOR PAPERS
May 26-28, 2008 | Aveiro - Portugal
www.iask-web.org
19/02/2008
7th eTourism Futures Forum. Exploring the Information Communication Technologies Revolution and Visioning the Future for the Tourism, Travel And Hospitality Industries
Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April 2008. Location: Room DG02, Talbot Campus. International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research (ICTHR). School of Services Management, Bournemouth University.
http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/icthr/eTourismForum.pdf
8/02/2008
Immobilities: new challenges for anthropology in a globalised world (P3) - Call for papers
Young Scholars Plenary Session at The 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 26 to 30 August in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Abstract
This plenary aims to examine mobilities as an object of anthropological study in a globalised world. The plenary welcomes ethnographic case studies where mobilities and immobilities are at play.
Today's world is on the move. People, ideas, images, information, objects, symbols and capitals circulate in complex material and virtual flows around the planet.
Whether for pleasure or work, desired or forced, physical or virtual, mobility seems to have become the new condition of a globalised world (Bauman, 1994; Shéller and Urry, 2006). In such a mobile world, the capacity to move and to circulate becomes essential. Being mobile or immobile changes our perception of what is proximal and distant, it redefines boundaries, identities and, with them, our sense of belonging. The dialectics between mobilities and immobilities thus becomes an exceptional standpoint to reveal the diversity, inequalities and differences in the way we live and experience a globalised world. But, how can we gain ethnographic knowledge about this dialectic? How could ethnographic knowledge contribute to the understanding of mobilities and immobilities? And contrariwise: how does this new mobile condition affect ethnographic principles and techniques? How to define anthropological locations in this mobile world.
Information about the event and how to participate
17/02/2008
Interdisciplinary Workshop Series “Major Concepts in Tourism Research”
March to May 2008, Leeds/ UK
Much research in the field of tourism addresses at least one of the following concepts: Exchange, Memory, Representation and Experience. Although these concepts are very popular, it is not at all obvious what they actually refer to, and how we may be able to grasp them in our research.
Therefore, the PhD-students at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University are organising four workshops. Each of these workshops will extend over two days during which we will discuss intensively one of these concepts. These discussions will be based to a large extent on the contributions of the participants. Thus, we invite PhD-students from all disciplines to present short papers. PhD-students may also contribute ideas and critiques of articles, which we will distribute before the workshops. The contributions do not have to be polished conference papers but can be presentations of ideas related to the particular workshop theme. The papers will be circulated among the other participants 10 days before the respective workshop to promote lively and engaged discussion. People can also attend without presenting any formal contribution.
Furthermore, we have invited an expert on the specific topic for each workshop to give an introductory keynote and lead the discussions. On the basis of their introductions we will explore meanings and different approaches to the concepts. This constitutes a unique opportunity for PhD-students to get feedback on their reflections and work in progress by leading academics and other PhD-students, sharing and developing ideas in relation to the four themes addressed.
Cost: £20.00 for one workshop. You can also register for all four workshops for £60.00.
Please register for one single workshop or the whole series not later than 17 February 2008 by either sending an abstract of about 200 words or stating how you relate to the topic of the workshop. Please note that the date for submission of the papers and contributions for the first workshop is 29th February 2008. E-Mail: C.Mueller@leedsmet.ac.uk
Timetable of the Workshop-Series
13/14 March 2008 Workshop “Experience”. Keynote: Claudio Minca, University of London: “After the Island: the hard work of being (with) tourists”
3/4 April 2008 Workshop “Exchange”. Keynote: Keith Hart, Goldsmith College London: "On commoditization: exchange in the human economy"
17/18 April 2008 Workshop “Memory”: Keynote. Sharon MacDonald, ManchesterUniversity: “Memory, Materiality and Tourism”
8/9 May 2008 Workshop “Representation”. Keynote: David Crouch, University of Derby: “The Problems with Representation: Consumption, Space and Images”
16/02/2008
Le séminaire "Tourisme : Recherches, Institutions, Pratiques"
EHESS, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris
Saskia Cousin (IIAC-LAIOS / CITERES, anthropologue, mcf à l’Université François-Rabelais);
Bertrand Réau (CRIS / CSE, sociologue, mcf à l’Université de Lyon-I)
programme de l'année 2007-2008
1er et 3e jeudis du mois de 17 h à 19 h (salle 215, 54 bd Raspail, sauf le 15 mai en salle 015),
du 15 novembre au 19 juin.
Renseignements : saskia.cousin@univ-tours.fr
À la suite de la conférence de l’an dernier, nous poursuivrons notre exploration des recherches menées sur le tourisme. Il s’agira de confronter des enquêtes qualitatives et quantitatives, de comparer des terrains issus d’aires géographiques variées, de croiser les approches disciplinaires. Nous chercherons à identifier quelques notions interprétatives susceptibles d’aider à la compréhension des phénomènes de mobilité touristique, de leur organisation et de leurs enjeux politiques, économiques et sociaux.
Nous alternerons les travaux de chercheurs confirmés et les travaux de doctorants. Les séances seront organisées autour de la présentation de ses recherches par un intervenant, suivie d’une mise en perspective avec un discutant, et d’une discussion avec les participants.
Domaine : Anthropologie. Séminaire ouvert aux étudiants de master.
Programme de l’année 2007/2008
15/11- Michel Picard, chargé de recherche en anthropologie (Centre Asie du Sud-Est, CNRS-EHESS) : « L'identité balinaise à l'épreuve du tourisme : du 'Tourisme Culturel' (Pariwisata Budaya) à 'Bali Debout' (Ajeg Bali) »
6/12- « Nouvelles Frontières du Tourisme ? ». Présentation du numéro des Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales de décembre 2007 avec plusieurs auteurs.
20/12- Olivier Evrard, chargé de recherche en anthropologie (IRD) : « Monarques, Moines et Montagnards. Tourisme domestique, identités locales et colonialisme interne en Thaïlande. »
17/01- Maïe Gerardot , doctorante en géographie (MIT) : « L'urbanité touristifiée ».
Bertrand Réau : Présentation d’ouvrages récents sur le tourisme.
7/02- Igor Tchoukarine, doctorant en histoire (CERCEC-EHESS / CEFRES) : « Le tourisme dans le socialisme (Yougoslavie et Tchécoslovaquie) : entre contrôle et autonomie. »
Anna Kropotkine, doctorante (CERCEC-EHESS) : « La réhabilitation des monuments anciens à des fins touristiques pendant le Dégel (années cinquante -soixante) en URSS. »
21/02- Frédéric Delaive, docteur en histoire (CERHIO, Université de Rennes 2) : « Imaginaires du voyage et exotismes aux origines du canotage et de la navigation de plaisance ».
6/03- Bertrand Réau : « Eléments pour une analyse du recrutement et des pratiques de travail dans le secteur du tourisme. »
20/03- Catherine Bertho-Lavenir, professeur d’histoire contemporaine (Université de Paris III), « Le plaisir comme moteur du voyage automobile. »
3/04- Saskia Cousin : « Le tourisme à l’épreuve du politique : approches internationales. »
15/05- : Jean-Didier Urbain, professeur de linguistique (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) : « pratiques du voyage et structures narratives. » salle 015
5/06- Olivier Sirost, maître de conférence en STAPS (Université de la Méditerranée) : « Camper en France: du stéréotype des vacances populaires à la distinction à l'envers. »
19 /06- Mohamed Habib Saidi, professeur d’ethnologie (Université de Laval, Canada) : « De la dissonance touristique à la dissidence politique : l’État, le tourisme et les images dans un contexte de changement. »
16/02/2008
An arts-based seminar on the ethnography of walking - ‘Roam: a Festival of Walking’
15-17th March 2008, Loughborough University
During the weekend of the 15-16th March 2008 Loughborough University’s RADAR arts centre is hosting Roam: a Festival of Walking, which hosts the work of several artists who make walking is central to their practice (Tim Brennan, Duncan Speakman, Active Ingredient, Lottie Childs, Mark Gwynne Jones, Claire Blundell Jones) and a Walking Fair.
In conjunction with this walking festival, we are organising a one-day seminar to be held on Monday 17th March 2008, at Loughborough University. The seminar is open both to participants who have been involved in the weekend walks and to others on a one-day only basis. Invited speakers will discuss ‘the arts of walking’, and what this means for an understanding of everyday walking. Reflecting the contemporary interest in walking, across the social sciences and humanities, the seminar aims to create new connections between approaches to walking in academic and arts practice. We are interested in exploring themes that include:
* Walking as place-making: Walking has often been theorised as a form a place-making. How might such interpretations be applied to the work of artists whose practice involves walking? What might walking as art tell us about how walking can be understood as a way of participating in power relationships?
* Walking as ethnographic practice: Ethnographers and anthropological filmmakers often walk with others as part of their efforts to learn about and represent how people experience their environments. What do these academic practices share with the methodologies of artists who engage walking as part of their practice? Are there parallels between arts practice and ethnographic practice? What might ethnographers learn from artists about how walking might be engaged in processes of research and representation.
Speakers: Tim Edensor (Manchester Metropolitan University), Andrew Irving (University of Manchester), Simon Pope (Cardiff School of Art and Design) and Misha Myers (Dartington College of Art)
The seminar is organised by an interdisciplinary group whose work is based in Social Anthropology (Sarah Pink), Social Psychology (Alan Radley), Social Geography (Phil Hubbard) and Sociology/Cultural Criminology (Maggie O’Neill).
To book a place at the seminar please e-mail radar.info@lboro.ac.uk with your name and institutional affiliation. There is no charge for the event and a buffet lunch is provided. Else, we regret we cannot cover any travel or associated expenses
15/02/2008
The Secondary Migration of non-EU nationals in Europe
ippr, 30 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA
11.30am-5pm, Tuesday 22nd April 2008
While secondary migration has received attention from academics, in the UK there has been little policy debate about it. Yet significant numbers of non-EU nationals do migrate from one EU state to another and the UK appears to be a popular destination for secondary migrants. The UK's Somali, Congolese, Tamil, Nigerian and Latin American communities include significant numbers of people who have migrated from elsewhere in Europe. This seminar will examine this 'hidden' migratory movement. In particular it will: map and define who are secondary migrants; present new research on this issue, and debate the public policy implications of the secondary migration of non-EU nationals in Europe.
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