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4/02/2009 Conference: Frontiers: Space, Separation and Contact in the Middle East. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference 2009
conference is for all those conducting research relating to any field within Middle Eastern Studies. http://www.dur.ac.uk/brismes/call%20for%20papers%202009.pdf 4/02/2009 Call for Papers. "Refugees: Lives Pushed to the Margins?"
practitioners, NGOs). 2) Sites of liminality and change (state; regional; local, trans-national; familiar; individual) 3) Conversations in issue-areas (development; human rights; migration; security; post-conflict) 4) Sites of experience (gender; flight; re-settlement; camps; exclusion)
4/02/2009 Postdoctoral Conference on the Balkans
Nations and Nationalism, Conflict and Peace, Geo-Politics, Regional Development Religiosity, Ethnicity, Identity, Social Policy, Genocide Studies, Post-Socialist Transformation, Europeanization, Family and Community Life Intercultural Communication, Ethno-linguistics, English as a Lingua Franca, English-Only Europe, The EU and Language, Language Testing, Language Teaching Media Representation in the Balkans, Media Interaction and Globalization, Media Governance, Media Commercialization, War Reporting Archiving of War Crimes, Media Freedom, Media Corruption ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sara Hannam, Senior Lecturer, Director English Language Support Unit, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, City Liberal Studies, Affiliated Institution of the University of Sheffield Tsimiski 13, 54624, Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: + 30 2310 224186 ext: 119 Fax: + 30 2310 287564 email: hannam@city.academic.gr website: http://www.city.academic.gr
Leader: Research Track - Governance, Politics and Society, Coordinator: Culture and Politics Research Group, South East European Research Centre, SEERC Mitropoleous 17, 54624, Thessaloniki, Greece. Website: http://www.seerc.org
3/02/2009 Invitation to Participate in the Online EWIC SCHOLARS DATABASE
31/01/2009 Second "Beirut Exchange" for undergraduate and masters level students from around the world, Beirut, January 4-18, 2009
Academic - Participants will attend a series of lectures and colloquia led by leading academics and public intellectuals. Topics will include: International law in theory and practice in the Middle East; The United Nations as peacekeeper and mediator; Engaging political Islam; Pax Syriana in Lebanon; Asymmetrical conflict: the July 2006 Lebanon war; The Dubai model and its impact on the Middle East. Language - Participants will have the option of attending 30 hours of Arabic language instruction at the Saifi Institute for Arabic Language in Beirut. Modules for both colloquial and formal Arabic will be available at different levels. Dialogue with Leaders - Participants will have the opportunity to meet, listen and engage social, political and economic leaders from across the spectrum in Lebanon - with a particular (though not exclusive) emphasis on exposure to leading Islamist and opposition currents. Scheduled Speakers: *Omar Bakri, Iqra Islamic Trust for Research and Islamic Studies, *Bilal Baroudi, As-Salam Mosque Tripoli, *Nicholas Blanford, Times of London, *Richard Chambers, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, *Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, *Robert Fisk, The Independent, *Timur Goksel, American University of Beirut , *Judith Palmer Harik, Matn University, *Nadim Houry, Human Rights Watch, *Karim Makdisi, American University of Beirut, *Michael Miller, European Commission, *Ibrahim Mussawi, Al-Intiqad, *Nir Rosen, Journalist , *Osama Safa, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, *Paul Salem, Carnegie Middle East Center, *Milos Struger, UNIFIL, *Rami Khouri, American University of Beirut, *Additional speakers TBA Costs: $2,000 (Tuition); $1,500 (Estimated accommodation and airfare from the European Union. Please note that only breakfast is provided as a part of the accommodation fee). All academic and language programming will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hamra, Beirut. Tuition is 90% refundable, should the situation in Lebanon warrant a cancellation. (Airline tickets and accommodation should be purchased with travel insurance.) Apply before November 15, 2008: To request a downloadable application or financial aid information, please email info@mideastwire.com. About the Organizations:Mideastwire.com is a Beirut-based media monitoring company that translates the Arabic and Persian language press into English. The Saifi Institute for Arabic Language offers intensive Introductory and Intermediate courses designed to deepen the learning experience for students. The curriculum emphasizes the instruction of Modern Standard Arabic (Fous7a) while also giving students the colloquial tools they need to take the most away from their time in Beirut. 29/01/2009 Applications are invited for a 15-day orientation course on Forced Migration
preceded by a two and a half month long programme of distance education. The course is intended for younger academics, refugee activists and others working in the field of human rights and humanitarian assistance for victims of forced displacement. The curriculum deals with themes of nationalism, ethnicity, partition, and partition-refugees, national regimes and the international regime of protection, issues relating to regional patterns of forced migration in South Asia, internal displacement, the gendered nature of forced migration and protection framework, resource politics, climate change and environmental degradation, and several other themes related to the forced displacement of people. The course puts emphasis on experiences of displacement, creative writings on refugee life, critical legal and policy analysis, and analysis of relevant notions such as vulnerability, care, risk, protection, return, and settlement. The course also includes fieldwork and various assignments. Last date of application reaching CRG is 31 May 2009. To download the application form and to get details of the course please visit: http://www.mcrg.ac.in/wc.htm For any further inquiry, contact: forcedmigrationdesk@mcrg.ac.in 28/01/2009 New Book: Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter?
Palgrave Macmillan 2008 Announcement made by the American University in Cairo Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Program Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or even so-called \'development\', are conditions which characterize the lives of millions of people across the globe. While the international community has largely been concerned with refugees crossing borders to flee persecution, violence, impoverishment and brutal regimes, less attention has been paid to internally displaced populations. This book problematises both policies and rights frameworks in processes of displacement, while bridging the divide that exists between refugee and development induced displacement studies. This edited volume is the outcome of a collaborative research on forced migration and rights undertaken by five research centers including CMRS. The collaborative research was coordinated by the Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalization and Poverty (DRC) at Sussex University (http://www.migrationdrc.org/). The edited volume can be accessed and ordered by clicking the below link: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=279069 Source: Forced Migration list & Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of Interna tional Development, University of Oxford.
1/02/2009 New book: Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space
Terkenli, Theano S.; d'Hauteserre, Anne-Marie (Eds.) 2006, IX, 245 p., Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4095-5 This book seeks to contribute to theoretical advances, analytical approaches and applied studies in the broader inter-disciplinary field of contemporary landscape transformation research. The purpose of the book is to tie together various perspectives, insights and constructions pertaining to contemporary landscapes and landscape representations from different theoretical and methodological positions as well as from diverse geographical and historical contexts in order to elucidate and illustrate processes of cultural transformation inscribed in space. The unifying theme, as well as the main goal and prospective contribution of this book, then, lies in the exploration of these developing forces and characteristics of the new cultural economy of space in the contemporary landscape(s). The primary objective of bringing together in this book geographical perspectives from various subdisciplinary fields is to examine and discuss ways in which the complexities of this newly-emerging cultural economy of space are applied on various sorts of landscapes, i.e. urban and rural landscapes, landscapes of everyday life, landscapes of tourism and recreation, postcolonial and hybrid landscapes, landscapes of economic production, landscapes of the street and of public life, "national landscapes" and so on. The overarching question, thus, is: how do these processes work in different geographical contexts and contribute to place and landscape creation? Our intention is to create a space for the development of landscape discourse(s) that accommodate(s) both theory and empirical findings as well as methodological issues and practical applications pertaining to the contemporary landscape(s), by examining trends, structures, technologies and practices defining and articulating this new cultural economy of space. Another goal is to identify and facilitate innovative debate and engagment between geography and other sciences researching landscape(s). It is hoped that this endeavor will generate many more questions and areas of inquiry pointing to new directions currently developing in the study of landscape(s) than the questions on the basis of which this task was undertaken here in the first place.
27/01/2009 New book: Migrating to America: Transnational Social Networks and regional Identity among Turkish Migrants. Dicarlo, L. 2008 (IB Tauris, London)
stripped the Black Sea region of its artisans and merchants, weakening the economy and resulting in a trend of migration from this area. Through extensive field research DiCarlo reveals the kinship between Greeks and Turks originally from the Black Sea region. She argues current transnational chain migration is led by regional identity over ethnicity. This strong regional bond leads Turkish migrants from the Black Sea region to follow Greek Black Sea migrants across the Atlantic to America, rather than their Turkish compatriots to Europe. Lisa DiCarlo is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Babson College,Massachusetts. 200 pages 216 x 134mm March 2008 Hardback £52.50 978 1 84511 656 0 Tauris Academic Studies International Library of Migration Studies, Vol. 1
27 /01/2009 New journal: Migrations & Identities: a journal of people and ideas in motion
Liverpool University Press. The title represents a programme: We aim to interrogate notions of 'identity' while asking how the fact of mobility and displacement does shape understandings of self and the wider world, among both migrants and 'host' societies. By the same token, we seek to understand how ideas and concepts are transformed as they 'migrate' from one place and culture to another. These issues have been, and continue to be, addressed under a number of rubrics and through a number of approaches in the humanities and social sciences. In acknowledgement of this, migrations & identities is multi- and interdisciplinary in its conception and management. It also aims to cover the widest possible range of places, periods and methods, subject only to a shared curiosity and enthusiasm about the possibilities of working at the interface between the investigation of the material conditions of migration processes and the study of ideas and subjectivities. In particular, we hope that scholars working in many fields will find in migrations & identities a forum for discussion of the methods appropriate to a project of linking observable experience and mentalities in different times and places, and that among the topics of discussion will be the real challenges involved in conversing across disciplinary boundaries. We invite manuscripts from scholars representing all disciplines and methodologies which can contribute to this discussion. These might include case studies based on empirical research which are framed by and reflect on the methodological and theoretical issues set out above, essays which focus on questions of theory and methodology, or review articles. The journal will be published twice a year. Volume 1 Issue 1 2008 now available Introduction The Editors Investigating Language and Identity in Cross-Language Narratives Bogusia Temple Greek Identity and the Settler Community in Hellenistic Bactria and Arachosia Rachel Mairs
Zealand Revisit their Pasts Rosalind McClean
of Facilitating New Membership Stanley A. Renshon Volume 1 Issue 2 forthcoming... Highlights to include: Emotional Attachment ... to What? A Comment on Renshon Harald Bauder Representations of Diasporic Unbelonging: Surrealism in the Work of Biyi Bandele-Thomas & Yinka Shonibare Jen Westmoreland Bouchard
Lucille Ngan Find out more about the journal at: http://migrationsandidentities.lupjournals.org/ Alternatively visit http://www.migrationsandidentities.org/default.aspx?content=Subscriptions to subscribe
Journals Executive, Liverpool University Press clare.hooper@liverpool.ac.uk http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk 26/01/2009 8th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) Collingwood College, Durham University, UK, 10-13 July 2009 The conference aims to explore the impact of travellers in, to, and from the Near East and Egypt from earliest times until the middle of the twentieth century. Contributions are welcomed from a wide range of disciplines, and it is envisaged that the conference will cover many fascinating themes, including but not limited to the following: Travellers' Experiences: caravanserai, hotels and encampments; travel by rail in the Near East; travel guides routes and seaways; dahabiyyah and other boats | Travellers in Specific Periods: Classical; Mediaeval; 18h century; early twentieth century | Travellers in Specific Locations: in the Ottoman Balkans and Greece; in Egypt and around the Red Sea; on the rivers of Mesopotamia; through 'Kurdistan'; to the Arabian Peninsula; in deserts; in specific towns in the region; on Grand Tour to Constantinople; Smyrna; Arab travellers en route to and from Europe; guidebooks before 1880 | Travellers' Observations of: topography - archaeology - popular culture-- scientific topics (natural history, science, medicine etc.) - languages, literature and dialects | Travel and Religion: Pilgrimage and Pilgrims - Travellers' understanding of Islam - Experience of the Hajj; Missionary travellers - Travels of Biblical Scholars/Historians - monasteries, monks and hermits. Contributions can be presented either as papers, which will not exceed 25-minutes duration. The language of the conference will be English. Expressions of interest and inquiries can be directed to Mrs Janet C.M. Starkey (address below). Abstracts for consideration should be submitted to Janet Starkey by 28 February 2009. Programme details and booking forms will be available on the ASTENE website early in 2009. Please send titles, abstracts, ideas for panels to Mrs Janet C.M. Starkey, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham DH1 3JT, UK. Tel: +44 (0)191 334 1414; Fax: +44 (0)191 334 3421; Email: j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk 25/01/2009 Mobility and Creativity: Narrative, Representation & Performance 3rd-4th July Department of English, University of Surrey, UK Keynote Speakers include: Prof. John Urry, Lancaster University Mobilities has increasingly become central to the analysis of social relations in contemporary society where it often appears that 'all the world is on the move,' from the movement of diasporas, tourists, migrants and refugees. While the emergence of this new 'mobility paradigm' (Sheller and Urry, 2006; Urry 2002, 2007) originated within the social sciences, this conference focuses on how such a 'mobility turn' has been narrated, represented and performed within the arts and humanities. The two-day international conference aims to explore creative responses to these diverse mobilities in literature, art, film, and theatre for example. How have these complex mobilities been negotiated and critiqued through creative practice? Is creativity dependent upon mobility? The conference aims to explore themes such as: Narratives of movement (How are mobilities narrated? Do different mobilities demand different forms of narrative?) | Moving narratives (How are narratives moved from one medium to another? What is the role of translation for mobilities? Is adaptation a form of mobility? How do texts move us/fail to move us as readers?) | Experiences of movement and dislocation (How have writers, artists, photographers, film-makers, etc. responded to such experience of mobility? How does their creative practice relate to the work of the academy?) We invite papers from a wide-range of disciplines, including: Travel writing | Intercultural narratives | Translation studies | Gender studies | Cultural Geography | Postcolonial Studies | Film Studies Papers are invited from colleagues with an interest in any of these or other related areas. Proposals should be submitted to the conference email address by Friday 30th January 2009 (mobilities@surrey.ac.uk Conference Organisers: Dr. Sarah Gibson and Dr. Churnjeet Mahn. Email: mobilities@surrey.ac.uk Webpage: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/english/conferences/mobilities/index.htm 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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