World congress on middle eastern studies (wocmes)
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Mobility in 2030: Future trends - analyzed online by experts? Interdisciplinary experts are currently discussing which technological and sociological trends - and their underlying psychological dimensions - are likely to determine the future of mobility for business and leisure travel. While some developments seem relatively easy to identify today, others remain nothing more than vague predictions. In view of this, the Lucerne School of Business, ITW, has launched a research project that includes an international online survey of professional opinions as one major component. The "Cities for Mobility" network, which is being coordinated by Stuttgart, supports this worldwide survey. The Lucerne of Applied Sciences, ITW, would be pleased if you would contribute to the quality of the survey results by sharing your expertise on this topic. We will gladly send you an overview of the relevant research results as a PDF file, too. The following link will take you to the online survey: www.unipark.de/uc/ITW/6c71/ You will find additional important details (e.g., on data privacy) on the start page. Thank you for your interest. We would be glad to answer any further questions you may have. Lucerne School of Business, ITW Institute, CCM Lucerne, Switzerland Dr. Johannes Klühspies Timo Ohnmacht Email: johannes.kluehspies@hslu.ch 1/4/2009
'The Kurds and Kurdistan: History, Politics and Culture' The Centre for Kurdish Studies (CKS), University of Exeter, 2nd and 3rd April 2009. This interdisciplinary conference will explore a range of thematic and methodological issues relating to The Kurds and Kurdistan, with speakers coming from institutions in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Panel topics will include Contemporary Iraq, Religiosity, Transnationalism, Language and Literature and Gender and Violence. On the website, http://huss.exeter.ac.uk/iais/all-events/conferences/kurdish-conf.php, you will find further information about the conference, including registration details. 30/3/2009 Two-day workshop: Diasporas, Migration and Media: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions November 6-7 2009 Utrecht University, Netherlands | Co-hosted by Nottingham Trent University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Studying the relationship between diasporas and the media presents several challenges and issues that are at the core of humanities, social sciences, anthropology, and cultural and media studies. In the last two decades, an increase in the number of theories and amount of empirical research in the field, with topics ranging from Diaspora, mobility, migration, ethnicity, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism, identity politics, representation, and practices of media production and consumption, have enhanced our understanding of the everyday lives of Diasporas and migrants. Through this process, the area of Diaspora, migration and media has evolved to embrace different theoretical and methodological perspectives, resulting in a plethora of work, and as a result, consolidating its position as an important area of investigation. On the other hand, any emerging canon needs to be criticized and challenged if the field is to retain its dynamism. In addition, the increasingly vocal critiques against multiculturalism give rise to defensive writing: is it time to develop more positive and forceful lines of enquiry. The aim of this workshop, then is to address the state-of-the-art in the field by inviting colleagues - academics, non-academics, researchers and PhD students - to map the diverse areas of investigation and/or present ongoing empirical and theoretical work that might offer a critique as well as point out new directions in the field. We invite abstracts that address the following themes, but would be happy to consider proposals which fall outside of them: The local/global diasporic cultural experiences / Dynamics of migration and memory / Dynamics of Representation, discourse and language / Subjectivity, emotion and identity / Diaspora, youth and media / Diasporic Audiences / Diaspora and Queer theory / Visual Cultures and Diasporas/Migrants / Music and Diasporas / Cultural Citizenship / Cultural policy and Diaspora / Web 2.0, social media and Diasporas: what are they doing for Diasporas and minorities? / The backlash against multiculturalism and/in the media / Diasporic/minority media: what is new? / Urban environments and multicultural encounters / Diasporic generations, communication and media The deadline for submissions is 16 June 2009 | Registration fee: £50 For further information please contact: olga.bailey@ntu.ac.uk | phia.smithers@ntu.ac.uk 27/3/2009 Call for Papers: International Conference on Protecting People in Conflict & Crisis?
the Challenges of a Changing World/. This conference aims to convene a broad range of academic researchers, humanitarian practitioners, policy makers and civil society representatives to review the state of policy and practice in the broad field of humanitarian protection as we look forward into a potentially turbulent 21st Century. The conference will address the following indicative themes: * Populations at risk: Surviving and responding to protection threats * Concepts of Protection * The Politics of Protection * Protection, security and the roles of military and armed actors * National and regional responsibilities to protect * Protection in Practice The conference will take place between 22nd and 24th of September 2009 and will feature a range of keynote lectures, plenary discussions and expert panel debates, paper sessions and practice updates. Those wishing to participate in the conference are invited to submit abstracts outlining their suggestions for Paper presentations, Paper sessions, Expert debates and Practice updates, and are requested to read the full Call for Papers (PDF): http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/PDFs/Conference_Protecting_People.pdf Abstracts should address the broad conference themes mentioned above. Abstracts are welcome from all of those concerned with the question of civilian protection, whether scholars or students, humanitarian practitioners or policy makers, advocates, activists or crisis-affected civilians. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long, and should be submitted by Monday 1st June 2009 to rsc-conference@qeh.ox.ac.uk. Please indicate which kind of session your abstract refers to, include keywords and indicate the name of the conference theme to which your abstract most closely applies. Please give your email the subject heading “Abstract: _Your Name_”. For general information pertaining to the conference, please contact Simon Addison: simon.addison@qeh.ox.ac.uk / +44 (0)1865 270279. 25/3/2009 Fourth Beirut Exchange, 10-24 June 2009
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/01/21/perry.lebanon.meet.hamas.cnn?iref=videosearch 23/3/2009 The Politics of Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism: from reality to imagination
2. Although there has been great emphasis upon its roots in tourism, little insight has been gained into the historical politics of relationships between sending and receiving countries. As the numbers of countries involved in this trend increases, these politics may become an increasingly important consideration in explaining the trend, for example in postcolonial contexts, which are increasing being seen as viable destinations (e.g. India, Panama, and Cyprus). Empirical and theoretical papers that examine these historical political conditions are therefore welcome. 3. The panel also invites contributions that examine individual motivations behind this form of migration, the personal politics (or lack thereof) involved in the decision to migrate and within hopes for a particular lifestyle following migration. It therefore questions whether Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism can be regarded as individualized political statements, and if so, what are these statements and what can they tell us about the people making them? 4. Finally, the terms used to explain this form of migration are highly contested within the field. The panel therefore seeks papers which question the politics, implicit or explicit, of the particular terms 'Lifestyle Migration' and 'Residential Tourism'. Who do they include and exclude, and to what ends? Michaela Benson | The Sociological Review Fellow 2008/09 | The Sociological Review, Keele University | Keele | Staffs | ST5 5BG 19/3/2009 Call for Papers: "Pastoral Sudan - Disrupted Territories"
- Disclose the current position of the pastoral group in the specific social and territorial constellation. - Reveal pastoralists location-specific responses to negotiations and manifestations of boundaries and their outcomes. - Highlight various articulations and mobilities, e.g. the movement of people, goods and information, and their territorial materialization. - Identify past and present social and territorial ruptures and reveal the conjunction of possible interventions, such as by development agencies and failing state institutions. - Assess the pastoral group's current status of livelihood security in view of natural catastrophes and man-made disasters, such as droughts, epidemics, famines and wars and their territorial impact.
Contact: Collaborative Research Center SFB 586, University of Leipzig, Email: calkins@uni-leipzig.de, Website: www.nomadsed.de 17/3/2009 Podcast: Kurdish Forced Migration in Turkey?
state. The podcast includes comments from Prof Joost Jongerden, Dr David Cuthell and Mustafa Gündogdu as well as displaced Kurds in Diyarbakir and Istanbul. Podcast: http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/kurdish-turkey/ More podcasts can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/podcasts/ 15/3/2009 Special issue of Tourist Studies dedicated to French scholars
A new issue of Tourist Studies is available online: 1 August 2008; Vol. 8, No. 2 The below Table of Contents is available online at:http://tou.sagepub.com/content/vol8/issue2/?etoc Introduction Olivier Evrard and Anne Doquet Tourist Studies 2008;8 143-153 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/8/2/143 Balinese identity as tourist attraction: From `cultural tourism' (pariwisata budaya) to `Bali erect' (ajeg Bali) Michel Picard Tourist Studies 2008;8 155-173 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/155 An interview with Jean Didier Urbain: Tourism beyond the grave: a semiology of culture Anne Doquet and Olivier Evrard Tourist Studies 2008;8 175-191 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/8/2/175 The nation state as an identifying image: Traditions and stakes in tourism policy, Touraine, France Saskia Cousin Tourist Studies 2008;8 193-209 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/193 In the tomb of Tutankhamun: Orchestrating mysteries and curiosity under guidance in the Egyptian Art Museum Emmanuel Grimaud Tourist Studies 2008;8 211-230 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/211 Enchantment and solidarity: Which dream does `fair tourism' sell? Céline Cravatte and Nadège Chabloz Tourist Studies 2008;8 231-247 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/231 Speculators and santuristas: The development of Afro-Cuban cultural tourism and the accusation of religious commercialism Kali Argyriadis Tourist Studies 2008;8 249-265 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/249 Consuming the city in passing: Guided visits and the marketing of difference in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Elisabeth Cunin and Christian Rinaudo Tourist Studies 2008;8 267-286 http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/267 13/3/2009 New issue of the journal M/C Journal 12(1) on ‘Still’
11/3/2009 Journal Southeastern Europe
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Introducing ‘African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC)’ The African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC)publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in all areas of the subject. All articles published in (AJHC) will be peer-reviewed. The following types of papers are considered for publication: + Original articles in basic and applied research. + Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website www.academicjournals.org/AJHC Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC) Open Access - One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. AJHC is fully committed Open Access Initiative by providing free access to all articles (both abstract and full PDF text) as soon as they are published. We ask you to support this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal. Invitation to Review - AJHC is seeking for qualified reviewers as members of the review board team. AJHC serves as a great resource for researchers and students across the globe. We ask you to support this initiative by joining our reviewer’s team. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, kindly send us your resume to AJHC@acadjourn.org Publication Alert - We will be glad to send you a publication alert showing the table of content with link to the various abstracts and full PDF text of articles published in each issue. Kindly send us an email if you will like to receive publication alert. Precious Ejiga | Editorial Assistant | African Journal of History and Culture (AJHC) | E-mail: AJHC@acadjourn.org www.academicjournals.org/AJHC
7/3/2009
UNESCO Migration Programme: People on the Move, Handbook of Selected Terms and Concepts People on the Move: Handbook of Selected Terms and Concepts. New publication from The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration (THP Foundation) in cooperation with UNESCO. Migration has moved high on the international agenda; it is now the focus of sensitive debates and growing media attention in a variety of contexts. An extensive terminology has evolved to cover standing and emerging issues as they also relate to the larger fields of human rights and development. Elaborated in cooperation with international experts, this handbook takes stock of the present use of some selected terms and concepts. It aims to contribute to greater precision and accuracy in language and discourse on the part of all stakeholders although it does not claim to be exhaustive or definitive. It is designed to be accessible to a general public which may not be familiar with the detailed discussions in the field of refugee and migration policy. With the publication we try to raise awareness and to facilitate a transparent debate on the delicate policy discussions concerning migration, in line with the larger missions of The Hague Process on Refugees and Migration (THP Foundation) and UNESCO. Where misrepresentations are detrimental to an adequate international dialogue, it should provide useful orientation. The Handbook remains work in progress. We welcome your comments and suggestions and hope that this initial edition will be a useful resource for you and/or your organization. Migration without Borders publication, now available in Russian. French, Spanish and Chinese to follow.? 5/3/2009
New Book: Migration Without Borders - Essays on the Free Movement of People Edited by Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire Published by Berghahn Books Oxford-New York, in association with UNESCO The book is now being translated in several languages, including Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish. 2/3/2009
The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop - coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World. Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again. Nancy Um is associate professor of art history at Binghamton University in New York. • Paperback: 272 pages 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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