Archive for October 2011

Job: Assistant professor in political geography, Syracuse University

10/31/2011 FYI No comments

A rare posi­tion open­ing in this field!

The Department of Geography, the Maxwell School, Syracuse University seeks to hire a polit­i­cal geo­g­ra­pher at the Assistant Professor rank. This is a tenure track appoint­ment. Ph.D. required at time of appointment.

We seek a polit­i­cal geo­g­ra­pher whose research and teach­ing focuses on some com­bi­na­tion of the fol­low­ing: polit­i­cal econ­omy, glob­al­iza­tion, geopol­i­tics, cit­i­zen­ship, or state the­ory. We expect to hire a scholar poised to make a sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tion to polit­i­cal geo­graphic the­ory, but whose work is strongly empir­i­cally rooted. Besides con­tribut­ing to the Department’s research and teach­ing clus­ter in Political Economy, we seek a scholar who might also con­tribute to depart­men­tal research efforts in Gender, Identity, and Citizenship; Culture, Justice, and Urban Space; or Globalization and Regional Development. Opportunities for inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research within the Maxwell School include the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs; the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Cooperation; the Campbell Public Affairs Institute; the Middle East, East Asia, and South Asia Programs; the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean; and oth­ers. The Department main­tains strong col­lab­o­ra­tive links with the other social sci­ence depart­ments and pro­grams in the Maxwell School, as well as schol­ars in African American Studies, LGBT Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Disability Studies, and involved in Syracuse University’s Africa Initiative. With its Community Geography Project and other ini­tia­tives the Department is also a leader in the University’s empha­sis on publicly-engaged schol­ar­ship; appli­ca­tions from schol­ars empha­siz­ing socially-relevant and engaged research are there­fore welcome.

The Department strongly val­ues excel­lence in teach­ing, and the suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be expected to teach both under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate courses. Faculty mem­bers nor­mally teach two courses per semester.

Ph.D. required at time of appointment.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:
For con­sid­er­a­tion, a can­di­date must com­plete an online fac­ulty appli­ca­tion at www​.sujobopps​.com and attach online the fol­low­ing: a let­ter of appli­ca­tion and Curriculum Vitae; state­ments about the applicant’s research pro­gram, teach­ing inter­ests and teach­ing phi­los­o­phy; and writ­ing sam­ples (optional). Please com­bine files, as only three files can be attached (at a max­i­mum of 2MB each file).

In addi­tion, appli­cants will be required to pro­vide the names and full email addresses of three ref­er­ences, who will then be auto­mat­i­cally con­tacted and asked to sub­mit their let­ters directly.

Syracuse University is an EO/AA employer and par­tic­u­larly encour­ages appli­ca­tions from women and minor­ity candidates.

Conference: World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts

10/29/2011 FYI No comments

IIAS Summer Programme in Asian Studies
“World Wide Asia: Asian Flows, Global Impacts”

A four-day mas­ter class fol­lowed by a two-day inter­na­tional con­fer­ence, Leiden, the Netherlands
27 August-1 September 2012

Deadline for appli­ca­tions: 16 November 2011, 9.00 am (CET)

Programme
The sec­ond IIAS Summer Programme in Asian Studies will part­ner with the Leiden Global Interactions Research Group (LGIG) at Leiden University to crit­i­cally explore Asian migra­tions as a glob­al­iz­ing force. The flows of peo­ple, goods, cap­i­tal and ideas within and from the Asian con­ti­nents have been trans­form­ing the global land­scape for cen­turies. Arguably, this influ­ence has become more rec­og­niz­able and acute in the present day.

The study of Asian mobil­i­ties can pro­vide impor­tant insights into the con­di­tions, processes and effects of glob­al­iza­tion and his­tor­i­cal global forms. In order to gain a nuanced under­stand­ing of Asia’s role in the trans­for­ma­tion of the global, the work­shop and con­fer­ence will focus on explor­ing the social, his­tor­i­cal, polit­i­cal and eco­nomic con­di­tions that give rise to par­tic­u­lar forms of Asian migra­tion and the diverse impacts they have in var­i­ous local and global are­nas. This mas­ter class seeks to cul­ti­vate Asian per­spec­tives on his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary forms of migra­tion and their impact on shap­ing global-local land­scapes, prac­tices, rela­tion­ships and struc­tures.
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CFP: Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism

10/28/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers
Two day con­fer­ence at Birkbeck, University of London
May 29th – 30th, 2012

This con­fer­ence, which is part of an ongo­ing Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, will bring together aca­d­e­mics, church lead­ers, prac­ti­tion­ers and com­mu­nity activists to explore the role that churches play in the con­struc­tion of iden­ti­ties in soci­eties where issues of race and racism are played out in the pub­lic sphere. We are par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in explor­ing the role and place of black churches in tran­si­tional polit­i­cal, reli­gious and cul­tural con­texts. We wel­come con­cep­tual, prac­ti­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal papers, indi­vid­ual case stud­ies and com­par­a­tive work explor­ing the role that churches play or could play in assist­ing social, polit­i­cal and cul­tural trans­for­ma­tion in mul­ti­cul­tural con­texts.
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The 6th Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Zurich

10/28/2011 FYI No comments

The 6th Summer Institute in Economic Geography will take place in Zurich, July 1 – 7, 2012.

Further details can be found at
http://​www​.econ​geog​.net/​z​u​r​i​c​h​2​0​1​2​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​tml

The Summer Institute is open to early-career researchers in eco­nomic geog­ra­phy, broadly defined (doc­toral stu­dents at or beyond the field­work stage; post­doc­toral researchers in uni­ver­si­ties, think tanks and research insti­tutes; and lec­tur­ers or tenure-track fac­ulty within the first three years of appointment).

Local costs will be cov­ered, and travel stipends are avail­able for some par­tic­i­pants (with pri­or­ity given to grad­u­ate stu­dents and to those trav­el­ing from out­side Western Europe or North America).

Applications must be received by January 31, 2012. Application forms and fur­ther details can be found at the Summer Institute web site.

CFP: Queering Area Studies, American Comparative Literature Association conference, Brown University

10/27/2011 FYI No comments

Interesting CFP!

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From: H-Net Announcements

Call for papers
Queering Area Studies
American Comparative Literature Association con­fer­ence
March 29-April 1, 2012
Brown University, Providence, RI

Scholars rang­ing from Rey Chow, Miyoshi, and Harootunian have pointed out how area stud­ies emer­gence as col­lab­o­ra­tor with the U.S. state con­tin­ues older European colo­nial struc­tures that nar­rate non-Western nations in devel­op­men­tal terms. In the most ambi­tious revi­sion of area stud­ies, Miyoshi and Harootunian argue that the con­se­quence of area stud­ies as the tool of Cold War man­age­ment means that Euro-America remains the cen­ter of theory-production whereas the non-West are ren­dered as pure fac­tic­ity. In The Creolization of Theory, Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih more directly argue that the recent pro­nounce­ment of the death of Theory cor­re­sponds to Theorys con­tin­ual resis­tance to con­sider the rise of eth­nic stud­ies and var­i­ous strands of anti-colonial stud­ies as real the­ory. This leads to a highly effec­tive divi­sion of labor: the the­o­rists do the­ory, while the area stud­ies experts do area. Panelists are invited to the­o­rize the pos­si­bil­ity of think­ing area stud­ies in con­ver­sa­tion with queer the­ory in an attempt to unset­tle these dis­ci­pli­nary divides. Read more

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