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Globalizing Class: Spaces, Places, and Networks of Power, NYU

03/26/2012 CFP No comments

Dissertation Workshop
Call for Papers

Globalizing Class: Spaces, Places, and Networks of Power

Institute for Public Knowledge
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
8 – 9 June 2012

Deadline for Applications: 15 April 2012

This inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dis­ser­ta­tion work­shop is con­cerned with class iden­ti­ties, for­ma­tions, genealo­gies, cul­tures, and power rela­tions in processes of glob­al­iza­tion, past and present. It seeks to glob­al­ize class in three dis­tinct, con­nected ways.

  • We seek to open up spa­tial frames for the study of class, as widely as pos­si­ble, using the term “glob­al­ize” to sig­nal immea­sur­able spa­tial pos­si­bil­i­ties and also to evoke the many con­tested mean­ings of the term “global” that are in cir­cu­la­tion today.
  • We seek to com­pli­cate and spec­ify the spa­tial fram­ing of class, so as to move beyond assump­tions of method­olog­i­cal nation­al­ism, which (mostly invis­i­bly) iden­tify class sta­tus and power with national cul­ture, soci­ety, and polit­i­cal econ­omy. How this might work in prac­tice appears when we con­sider the spa­tial fram­ing of E.P.Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class (Vintage, 1963), which cov­ers a period in his­tory when English class for­ma­tions were trav­el­ling the seas and extend­ing their reach among con­ti­nents. In a mobile spa­tial fram­ing of class, we may also find that cul­tural mean­ings of “class,” in the sense of ”classi­ness,” may require access to transna­tional com­mod­ity chains and par­tic­i­pa­tion in exten­sive class rela­tions, informed by cul­tural cap­i­tal on the move, in the guise of Orientalism, nation­al­ism, or neo-liberalism.
  • We want to ana­lyze the prac­ti­cal work of glob­al­iz­ing classes in expand­ing cap­i­tal­ism, from early days of mer­can­til­ism to the present. Trans-Atlantic, trans-Pacific, and Indian Ocean migra­tions and trans­plan­ta­tions of cap­i­tal and labor move along spe­cific net­works, from place to place, form­ing dis­tinc­tive sites of class relations,inter-connected and inter-dependent, but also imbued with their own cul­tural char­ac­ter. We can use mobile spa­tial lens to fol­low inter­laced migra­tions of cap­i­tal and labor, the trans-national for­ma­tion of mid­dle classes, and the pro­duc­tiv­ity of consumer-class cul­tures amidst the flow of val­ues and com­modi­ties, such as those that define the iconic char­ac­ter por­trayed in The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (Duke, 2008).

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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.

AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, Toronto

10/26/2011 FYI No comments

The Association for Asian Studies and the Social Science Research Council have announced plans for the first jointly orga­nized AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop, which will be held in con­junc­tion with the AAS annual con­fer­ence in Toronto in March 2012. The work­shop will be orga­nized and led by David Szanton and will fol­low the same basic model used in pre­vi­ous AAS workshops.

The work­shop title is “Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past.” Radical and con­ser­v­a­tive schol­ars, nov­el­ists and biog­ra­phers, gov­ern­ments, edu­ca­tion min­istries, and tourist agen­cies are all writ­ing and rewrit­ing national his­to­ries and nar­ra­tives. Attempts to strengthen or legit­i­mate spe­cific inter­ests have entailed the redis­cov­ery, rein­ter­pre­ta­tion and even the rein­ven­tion of val­ues and iden­ti­ties, past social forms, vic­to­ries and defeats, as well as nat­ural and human trauma. Rewriting the past and cre­at­ing her­itage are ancient and seem­ingly uni­ver­sal phe­nom­ena, rais­ing dif­fi­cult ques­tions about what we can know and the pol­i­tics of his­tor­i­cal writ­ing. Issues of rewrit­ing his­tory are not lim­ited to the con­cerns of his­to­ri­ans; they are as salient to anthro­pol­o­gists, polit­i­cal sci­en­tists, spe­cial­ists on reli­gion, cul­tural stud­ies, and oth­ers across the human­i­ties and social sci­ences. Read more

“Writing Difference” dissertation workshop, U of Copenhagen and NYU

03/30/2011 FYI No comments

Looks inter­est­ing!

Writing Difference

Dissertation Workshop
5-6th June 2011  |  New York
University of Copenhagen and New York University

In an increas­ingly glob­al­ized world said to be marked by sim­i­lar­i­ties and fluid cir­cu­la­tions, dif­fer­ence appears both as an object of desire and con­tempt. Globality sug­gests a sys­tem of signs that can be read, rec­og­nized and trans­lated across national bound­aries and cul­tural divides, and it is pre­cisely in this uni­verse of famil­iar­ity that the specter of dif­fer­ence haunts and seduces us. How to nego­ti­ate uni­ver­sal­ity with­out los­ing the spe­cific dif­fer­ence that con­sti­tutes iden­tity? This clas­sic ques­tion has gained a par­tic­u­lar urgency in a con­text where global stan­dards and scales are fre­quently deployed to enu­mer­ate, mea­sure and rank nations; polit­i­cal for­ma­tions of democ­racy, free­dom and diver­sity are deemed as uni­ver­sal ideals even though the same are seen as weak imi­ta­tions of the ‘orig­i­nal’ in the global south; mass mar­keted cul­tural sym­bols of con­sump­tion col­o­nize the remotest of loca­tions; and even the ‘exotic’ is dis­played within a global frame of aes­thet­ics. The old debates of homogeneity/heterogeneity, universality/particularity and self/other have resur­faced in the cur­rent moment in new forms and configurations.

In this dis­ser­ta­tion work­shop, we explore the notion of ‘difference’ – as iden­tity, oppo­si­tion and even resem­blance – in its mul­ti­ple mean­ings and set­tings, and the ways in which it plays out in the social-political land­scapes. Moving away from the idea of dif­fer­ence as nat­ural or essen­tial, we explore how dif­fer­ence is con­structed, man­i­fested and obscured. We will not only focus on the the­o­ret­i­cal and con­cep­tual debates on dif­fer­ence, we will pay atten­tion to the modes of writ­ing and rep­re­sen­ta­tion of dif­fer­ence in the pro­duc­tion of his­tor­i­cal, anthro­po­log­i­cal, lit­er­ary works as well as that of pop­u­lar cul­ture. How are traces of sim­i­lar­ity and dif­fer­ence woven in the trans­ac­tions between the self and the other? And how to make sense of cul­tural dif­fer­ence that is often offered as a sim­ple expla­na­tion of the Other? In other words, how is dif­fer­ence writ­ten about and how does dif­fer­ence write? These ques­tions will lead the two day work­shop where we aim to dis­cuss the modes of writ­ing dif­fer­ence – iden­tity, inequity, inequal­ity and uneven­ness within Asian soci­eties (class, race, gen­der, caste, geog­ra­phy to name a few) across tem­po­ral­i­ties and dis­ci­plines.

We invite ongo­ing projects at doc­toral level engaged with any or more of these themes. The projects will be sub­jected to com­ments and dis­cus­sions led by peers as well as the par­tic­i­pat­ing fac­ulty mem­bers and invited observers. The dis­ser­ta­tion work­shop is col­lab­o­ra­tion between Asian Dynamics Initiative, Copenhagen and Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University.

How to apply:

The prospec­tive can­di­dates should send a let­ter describ­ing their moti­va­tion for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the work­shop together with CV and a short descrip­tion of their project. Deadline 4th April 2011. The appli­ca­tions should be sent to

Prof. David Ludden ludden.​david@​gmail.​com at New York University

Dr. Ravinder Kaur rkaur@​hum.​ku.​dk at University of Copenhagen

[App] SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop, July 2011

02/21/2011 FYI No comments

I par­tic­i­pated in this work­shop in 2008, and highly rec­om­mend it.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 27, 2011

Call for Applications: 2011 SSRC Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Korea Foundation are pleased to announce the fourth annual Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop.
When: July 6 – 11, 2011
Where: Pacific Grove, CA — Asilomar Conference Center

Application Deadline: April 27, 2011

http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​k​s​dw/

MISSION
The Social Science Research Council Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop seeks to cre­ate a sus­tained net­work of advanced grad­u­ate stu­dents and fac­ulty engaged in research on Korea. The four-day work­shop pro­vides an infor­mal set­ting for par­tic­i­pants to give and receive crit­i­cal feed­back on dis­ser­ta­tions in progress.

FORMAT
Individual stu­dents will lead dis­cus­sions of their projects with men­tor fac­ulty and peers from var­i­ous dis­ci­plines to receive cre­ative and crit­i­cal input on improv­ing their field­work plans or writ­ing strate­gies. Last years men­tors were Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University), Seungsook Moon (Vassar College), and Jun Yoo (University of Hawaii at Manoa).

ELIGIBILITY

  • Only full-time advanced grad­u­ate stu­dents, regard­less of cit­i­zen­ship, who are enrolled at US or Canadian insti­tu­tions are eligible.
  • Participants may be in any social sci­ence or human­i­ties field.
  • Applicants must have an approved dis­ser­ta­tion prospec­tus but can­not have com­pleted writ­ing for final submission.
  • Special con­sid­er­a­tion will be given to stu­dents from uni­ver­si­ties that are not major Korean Studies institutions.

For the appli­ca­tion and more infor­ma­tion, please visit us on the web at http://​www​.ssrc​.org/​f​e​l​l​o​w​s​h​i​p​s​/​k​s​dw/.

Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza, 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718−517−3640
Fax: 212−377−2727
Email: korea@​ssrc.​org