Population Politics and Human Rights
An International Working Paper/Essay Competition and Workshop of the Irmgard
Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and Humboldt-University
Berlin February 15th – 20th, 2007
Workshop Participation in Berlin, February 15th – 20th
Successful applicants to the competition will be invited to Berlin to discuss their research and ideas with prominent scholars at one of Europe's leading research institutions.
New Deadline for incoming papers: September 24th, 2006
Irmgard Coninx Research Grant:
An international jury will award the Irmgard Coninx Research Grant for the best paper.
This includes a three month fellowship at Humboldt-University, one of Germany's most prestigious academic institutions.
Program Details:
As a continuation of our program on human rights, the 2007 program will focus on “Population Politics and Human Rights.”
Three planned workshops will address social, political and economic aspects of population politics today. Three evening lectures with prominent scholars and politicians will accompany the workshops.
Invited are:
Up to 45 participants in the essay/working paper competition will be invited to join an international conference and workshop in Berlin on “Population Politics and Human Rights” in February 2007.
The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover costs of travel to and accommodation in Berlin for invited participants of the competition.
The workshops will be chaired by Susan Greenhalgh (University of California Irvine), Shalini Randeria (University of Zurich), Caroline Blesdoe (Northwestern University) and Michael Bommes (University of Osnabrück)
Competition details:
The invitation extends to scholars (maximum 5 years after Ph.D.), human rights activists and journalists. The research paper/ essay should revolve around the following question:
Can political intervention to family planning and fertility behaviour be brought into harmony – at the global, national and regional levels – with human rights, including the right to reproductive health, to self-determination, to freedom of movement and residence within and across the borders of the state, to a secure existence and social protection?
We seek essays and reserach papers from the following fields and interdisciplinary research areas:
Population Politics, Demography and Human Rights
Legal and Illegal Migration and Population Politics (asylum and immigration laws and population politics)
Neonationalist Population Policies /Natalism and Repatriation vs. Immigration
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights (also in historic perspectives)
Population Politics and Economic Developments
Population Politics and the Politics of Life (access to health care, reproductive medicine as well as assisted reproductive medicine, nutrition, development opportunities (capabilities as Amatya Sen writes)
Population Crisis and its links
Regions and Countries of Interest for the Topic (but not exclusively) : China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh; Iran, the Near East; Post communist Societies (the Baltic States, Poland, Russia, Armenia, Romania); Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America; the industrialized world and its population politics
For details see the background paper, available as pdf.
Members of the jury are:
Professor Susanne Baer (Law)
Vice-President of Humboldt University
Professor Caroline Bledsoe (Anthropology)
Northwestern University, Chicago
Professor Michael Bommes (Sociology)
University Osnabrück/Institute for Migration Research and
Intercultural Studies (IMIS)
Professor Susan Greenhalgh (Anthropology)
University of California Irvine
Professor Shalini Randeria (Social Anthropology)
University of Zurich / Social Science Research Center Berlin
Professor Ingo Richter (Law)
Irmgard Coninx Foundation
For the best essay(s) the Irmgard Coninx Foundation will award to up to three workshop participants a three-month research grant in Berlin for the year 2006/2007 at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Humboldt University. The recipient will be invited to join a follow-up workshop in 2006/2007 in Berlin . The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will provide for a monthly stipend of 1000 Euros as well as accommodation. See application procedure
http://www.irmgard- coninx-stiftung. de/en/roundtable s/population_ politics. htm
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