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Port City Lives: Mobilities, Networks, Encounters

03/13/2012 CFP No comments

Port City Lives: Mobilities, Networks, Encounters
29 – 30 June 2012 | Blackburne House, Liverpool, UK
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

As vibrant and dynamic urban cen­tres, as nodes in long his­to­ries of colo­nial­ism and glob­al­i­sa­tion, and as zones of inter­ac­tion and exchange, port cities have been impor­tant sites of research in the human­i­ties and social sci­ences. This two-day con­fer­ence, orga­nized by the Centre for Port and Maritime History and to be held in the his­toric port city of Liverpool, will bring together researchers from across the social sci­ences and human­i­ties who work in and on port cities, to dis­cuss cur­rent and future research into the com­mu­ni­ties and indi­vid­u­als who have inhab­ited these com­plex social and cul­tural spaces of encounter.

Rationale

Port city research has a long his­tory across var­i­ous aca­d­e­mic dis­ci­plines. Building on this vibrant tra­di­tion, the work­shop aims to foment a crit­i­cal dis­cus­sion about the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary poten­tial of the port city as a space of encounter and a hub in mul­ti­ple, inter­sect­ing his­to­ries and geo­gra­phies. A key aim of the work­shop is to bring together par­tic­i­pants from across aca­d­e­mic dis­ci­plines, geo­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal spe­cialisms, in order to think together about how we might develop new the­o­ret­i­cal and method­olog­i­cal frame­works for study­ing port cities through atten­tion to the indi­vid­u­als, com­mu­ni­ties and net­works that inhab­ited them.

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4 positions in Theology & Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK

02/06/2012 Job No comments

Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds is cur­rently adver­tis­ing 4 aca­d­e­mic posts. Further details and infor­ma­tion about how to apply can be obtained by fol­low­ing the links below.

Chair in the Study of Religion
http://​www​.uni​ver​si​ty​ofleed​schairs​.co​.uk/​h​u​m​a​n​i​t​i​e​s​-​s​t​u​d​y​-​o​f​-​r​e​l​i​g​i​o​n​.​php

Chair in Philosophy and Religion (joint appoint­ment in the School of Humanities)
http://​www​.uni​ver​si​ty​ofleed​schairs​.co​.uk/​p​h​i​l​o​s​o​p​h​y​-​a​n​d​-​r​e​l​i​g​i​o​n​.​php

Closing Date: 23 March 2012

Senior Lecturer / Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies (2 posts / area of exper­tise open)
With a view to com­ple­ment­ing our exist­ing staff team, we par­tic­u­larly wish to encour­age appli­cants with research exper­tise in:

  • New Testament, ethics and the­ol­ogy / New Testament and society
  • reli­gion / the­ol­ogy in global / post­colo­nial con­texts (e.g. Africa, the Americas, the Middle East, South Asia, South-East Asia, China)
  • reli­gion and society
  • the inter­ac­tion of reli­gion / the­ol­ogy with pol­i­tics, ethics or science
  • the study of con­tem­po­rary Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Indian reli­gions, indige­nous religions

Job Details  > Closing Date: 3 March 2012
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Participatory Geographies Research Group Away Weekend, York, UK

02/06/2012 FYI No comments

Another non-traditional/creative/intriguing format.

Participatory Geographies Research Group Away Weekend
18 – 21 May 2012
York, UK

For 2012, we have decided to run the ever-popular away week­end, with its mix of aca­d­e­mic study, chill-out time and frisbee-ing, in a more cen­tral location.

We will be based at York Youth Hostel, which is in a quiet loca­tion with large grounds, by the river­bank, a short walk from the city cen­tre and east coast main­line train sta­tion:
http://​www​.yha​.org​.uk/​f​i​n​d​-​a​c​c​o​m​m​o​d​a​t​i​o​n​/​y​o​r​k​s​h​i​r​e​-​w​o​l​d​-​m​o​o​r​s​-​c​o​a​s​t​/​h​o​s​t​e​l​s​/​Y​o​r​k​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​a​spx

Anyone who wants to learn more about par­tic­i­pa­tory geo­gra­phies and meet oth­ers is wel­come to attend. You don’t have to know any­thing already. Please pass on this email, as we would like to encour­age new mem­bers and post­grad­u­ates to come along. A bur­sary scheme to cover the cost of accom­mo­da­tion and din­ner will be avail­able for a num­ber of post­grads and oth­ers who can’t afford to pay for the week­end.
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Lectureship in physical and human geography (two posts), University of Bristol

01/24/2012 Job No comments

This announce­ment caught my eye first because cul­tural geog­ra­phy posi­tions are so rare these days, and also because the job announce­ment itself reflects the dis­ci­pli­nary breadth of geog­ra­phy. Where else would you see “bio­geo­chem­i­cal mod­eller” and “ice sheet mod­eller” next to “con­tem­po­rary cul­tural geog­ra­phy,” all in the School of Geographical Sciences?

Lectureship in Physical and Human Geography (two posts) (ref. 16925)

School of Geographical Sciences

Description

The School of Geographical Sciences seeks to appoint excep­tional indi­vid­u­als to enhance its research and teach­ing. We are par­tic­u­larly seek­ing can­di­dates in the fol­low­ing strate­gic areas (a) Contemporary Cultural Geography, (b) Human-Environment Relations, © Ice sheet mod­el­ling, and (d) Biogeochemical Modelling. We also wel­come out­stand­ing appli­cants from any area of geo­graph­i­cal research.

These new strate­gic appoint­ments build on the huge inter­na­tional suc­cess of the School at both research and schol­ar­ship level. We are the only Geography depart­ment in the UK to be in the top cat­e­gory across every UK gov­ern­ment Research Assessment Exercise that have been under­taken since 1986. The new appoint­ments will fur­ther strengthen these activ­i­ties. We have iden­ti­fied four spe­cific areas which we would like to develop, although we also empha­sis that we will con­sider out­stand­ing appli­cants from any field.

(i) Biogeochemical mod­eller: We seek can­di­dates who extend our capa­bil­i­ties in carbon/biogeochemical mod­el­ling of the ter­res­trial or in under­stand­ing the cir­cu­la­tion of the ocean and its bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles. Interest in past, present, and future changes in bio­geo­chem­i­cal cycles would be desir­able. (ii) Ice Sheet Modeller: We seek to make an appoint­ment in the dynam­ics of ice flow. Our pref­er­ence is to strengthen exper­tise in the appli­ca­tion of numer­i­cal mod­el­ling tech­niques to glac­i­ers, ice caps and ice sheets. Complimentary areas include the appli­ca­tion of field geo­physics and satel­lite obser­va­tion to the study of ice masses and com­pu­ta­tional fluid dynam­ics. (iii) Contemporary Cultural Geography: We seek inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized aca­d­e­mics with a pref­er­ence towards can­di­dates with exper­tise in fields such as embod­i­ment, mate­ri­al­ity, mobil­i­ties, per­for­mance, cul­tural pol­i­tics and/or tech­nol­ogy. (iv) Human-Environment Relations: This post is tar­geted at a scholar with inter­na­tion­ally recog­nised aca­d­e­mic exper­tise in fields such as human-environment rela­tion­ships, polit­i­cal ecol­ogy, envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance, envi­ron­men­tal eco­nom­ics, envi­ron­men­tal behav­iour and atti­tudes, and the geo­gra­phies of risk.

It is expected that the final selec­tion process will be held on either 3 or 4 May 2012.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and to apply, visit the web­site.

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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