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CFP: Spaces of (Dis)location, University of Glasgow

01/26/2012 CFP No comments

This CFP con­tains a novel for­mat called Pecha Kucha, which I had to look up. This for­mat wouldn’t be suit­able for every aca­d­e­mic research, obvi­ously, but it’s an inter­est­ing approach to keep­ing pre­sen­ta­tions con­cise and fast-paced.

The College of Arts, University of Glasgow, is excited to announce Spaces of (Dis)location, a two-day mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary post­grad­u­ate con­fer­ence tak­ing place on 24th – 25th May 2012.

As national and cul­tural bound­aries are blurred in our increas­ingly global soci­ety, the ideas of space and loca­tion — whether phys­i­cal or meta­phys­i­cal, real or imag­i­nary — are evolv­ing. This notion pro­vides the stim­u­lus for a con­fer­ence that we hope will inspire cre­ativ­ity and debate across many sub­jects in the arts and humanities.

A major aim of this con­fer­ence is to fos­ter net­works and con­nec­tions across dif­fer­ent insti­tu­tions and sub­jects. It is also our inten­tion to pub­lish an edited vol­ume with arti­cles from this con­fer­ence through the University of Glasgow’s inter­na­tional post­grad­u­ate research jour­nal eSharp.

Possible top­ics may include, but are not lim­ited to:

  • Ideas of space: phys­i­cal and imaginary
  • Spatial dichotomies (urban/rural, public/private)
  • Globalization
  • Localism
  • Cultural and nat­ural spaces
  • Adaptation (lit­er­ary, lin­guis­tic, cin­e­matic, etc.)
  • Cultural dias­pora
  • Immigration
  • Spaces of performance
  • The space of the body

We wel­come sub­mis­sions of abstracts for papers in the clas­sic 20-minute for­mat, but are also keen to accept dif­fer­ent pre­sen­ta­tion for­mats. There will be a poster ses­sion and a Pecha Kucha ses­sion on each day of the con­fer­ence and we would wel­come your sub­mis­sions in these for­mats too.

A Pecha Kucha pre­sen­ta­tion con­sists of 20 slides, each shown for exactly 20 sec­onds, so the entire pre­sen­ta­tion will there­fore last 6 min­utes and 40 sec­onds. It is an engag­ing and chal­leng­ing for­mat for researchers at every stage of their career, but pro­vides a par­tic­u­larly cre­ative for­mat for those just start­ing their research to receive feed­back on their project design and ini­tial find­ings.
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CFP: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

01/20/2012 FYI No comments

Call for Papers: Creating Publics, Creating Democracies

That there is a rela­tion­ship between pub­lic­ness and democ­racy has often been taken for granted. However, at this time of wide­spread insta­bil­ity, polit­i­cal upheaval and exper­i­men­ta­tion, when publics are increas­ingly being called upon to act, it is some­times in the name of democ­racy, but not always. By explor­ing how ideas and prac­tices of pub­lic­ness and democ­racy are being con­sti­tuted, enacted, related and recon­fig­ured in dif­fer­ent set­tings, this work­shop aims to inves­ti­gate the modes of pub­lic action and democ­racy being invoked, imag­ined and strug­gled over around the world. We wel­come paper pro­pos­als from a diver­sity of approaches, par­tic­u­larly research and works in progress that help us to col­lec­tively consider:

  • How issues become mat­ters of pub­lic con­cern and how, where and when pub­lic prac­tices inter­sect with forms of democ­racy, or other forms of politics?
  • How actors (indi­vid­u­als, groups, insti­tu­tions, net­works, mate­ri­als, devices) become pub­lic and whether forms of demo­c­ra­tic pol­i­tics emerge as a result?
  • How pub­lic spaces are assem­bled and how they become spaces of demo­c­ra­tic or other forms of politics?
  • How rela­tions between modes of pub­lic action and forms of demo­c­ra­tic pol­i­tics are being medi­ated and how method­olog­i­cally such rela­tions can be traced, mapped, analysed, the­o­rised and bet­ter understood?

Building on the suc­cess of the July 2011 inter­dis­ci­pli­nary work­shop, Creating Publics, we seek work­ing papers from fields includ­ing (but not lim­ited to): anthro­pol­ogy, pol­i­tics and pub­lic pol­icy, cul­tural stud­ies, envi­ron­men­tal stud­ies, soci­ol­ogy, sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy stud­ies, infor­ma­tion stud­ies, geog­ra­phy, plan­ning and media stud­ies. We hope that through engag­ing with empir­i­cal and/or con­cep­tual works together, this work­shop will serve as an open­ing for con­ver­sa­tions about the cre­ation of publics and democ­ra­cies.
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CFP: International conference on religious travel and tourism, Cyprus

11/15/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers:
International Conference on Religious Travel and Tourism in a Globalising World
27 – 28 April 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus

The University of Nicosia, the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Tourism (EMAT), and the Cyprus Tourism Organization (CTO), wel­come the sub­mis­sion of papers for an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence, with the title:

Guiding the Pilgrim: Religious Travel and Tourism in a Globalising World

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
John Eade, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Roehampton and Visiting Professor at the Migration Research Unit, University College London
Simon Coleman, Chancellor Jackman Chaired Professor, Dept. and Centre for the Study of Religion (Cross-Appointment, Dept. of Anthropology)

Conference Theme:
With more and more peo­ple being on the move in today‚s world, guid­ing them to and around places has become a key issue. There has devel­oped a vast writ­ten and oral lit­er­a­ture designed to help peo­ple to their des­ti­na­tion and enjoy their time there. This lit­er­a­ture ranges from brochures, adver­tise­ments, travel and audio guides, site sig­nage and inter­pre­ta­tion, and descrip­tions of local­i­ties in the media to travel writ­ing and travel blog­ging. Many of those trav­el­ling are inter­ested in reli­gious sites with the result that reli­gion is a now key con­trib­u­tor to travel and tourism around the world. Religious tourism or, per­haps more appro­pri­ately, reli­gious pil­grim­age flour­ishes around the world, despite the declin­ing num­bers of those involved in insti­tu­tional reli­gion in Europe at least. However, pil­grim­age is not just about insti­tu­tional reli­gion — it includes spir­i­tual travel and sec­u­lar pil­grim­age. Spiritual travel involves those who are engaged in new forms of spir­i­tu­al­ity such as New Age‚ beliefs and prac­tices. Secular pil­grims include those who are find­ing mean­ing through dif­fer­ent types of tourism such as cul­tural, her­itage and nature tourism.
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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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CFP: Association of Asian American Studies conference in Washington, DC 2012

09/13/2011 FYI No comments

CALL FOR PAPERS
East of California Section-Sponsored Panels for the AAAS Conference in Washington, DC (April 11 – 15, 2012)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Based on the con­fer­ence theme, “Expanding the Political: Power, Poetics, Practices,” the East-of-California Section seeks to spon­sor the fol­low­ing three pan­els at the 2012 AAAS Conference in Washington, DC. We invite fac­ulty, grad­u­ate stu­dents and com­mu­nity mem­bers who are involved in Asian American pol­i­tics and art to sub­mit pro­pos­als to one of these pan­els by email­ing a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV to Mark Chiang (mchiang0​0​@​gmail.​com) and Eric Hung (msumeric@​gmail.​com) by September 20, 2011.

PANEL: Asian Americans and Conservative Politics East of California
Asian American vot­ers have become increas­ingly “Democratic-leaning” in fed­eral elec­tions over the past two decades. Simultaneously, a num­ber of Asian Americans have become highly vis­i­ble in con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­tics. Not only have Dinesh D’Souza and Elaine Chao served in the Reagan and sec­ond Bush admin­is­tra­tions, Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley have become gov­er­nors of Louisiana and South Carolina. Additionally, Michelle Malkin has become a promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive pun­dit on Fox News.

This panel seeks papers that address the rise of Asian Americans in con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­tics — the Republican Party, neolib­eral and lib­er­tar­ian orga­ni­za­tions, the Tea Party — east of California. What led to this rise? What are its impli­ca­tions for Asian American iden­tity and Asian American Studies? What impacts have these fig­ures made on the Conservative move­ment? What roles has reli­gion played in this trend? Is it an inevitable result of increased assimilation?

PANEL: Asian American Political Art
This panel seeks papers that address the rela­tion­ship between art (broadly defined), pol­i­tics and Asian America. We are par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in stud­ies of visual art, film, dance, music and lit­er­a­ture that engage with the for­mal polit­i­cal sys­tem or the polit­i­cal process. Potential top­ics include:

  • method­olog­i­cal issues raised by polit­i­cal art
  • art as a tool of polit­i­cal legit­i­ma­tion or resistance
  • pro­pa­gan­dis­tic works about Asian America or Asian immigration
  • art’s impact on the terms of debate and polit­i­cal actions
  • the role of com­mu­nity in the cre­ation and use of polit­i­cal art

PANEL: Questions of State
What role does the state play in Asian American pol­i­tics, cul­ture and com­mu­nity? We seek papers that address any aspect of the state, from his­tor­i­cal stud­ies of Asian American actors in the polit­i­cal sys­tem or state appa­ra­tus (gov­ern­ment employ­ees, politi­cians, lob­by­ists and oth­ers), to the­o­ret­i­cal reflec­tions on the con­tem­po­rary trans­for­ma­tions of the state and its impact on ide­o­log­i­cal strug­gles over polit­i­cal hege­mony, to inves­ti­ga­tions of the state’s place in the global econ­omy and how that shapes Asian American sub­jects or com­mu­ni­ties. What kinds of power still oper­ate through the state and where are Asian Americans located in rela­tion to that power? Is the state still an essen­tial site of polit­i­cal or cul­tural strug­gles, or is it becom­ing increas­ingly mar­ginal to transna­tional move­ments or organizations?

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