CfP: MANCEPT Workshops on Wellbeing and Public Policy, Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory - Ninth Annual Conference
Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester
5th - 7th September 2012

Workshop on Well-being and Public Policy: Call for Abstracts

David Cameron, in a recent speech on introducing national measures of well-being to inform public policy, claimed that the UK government is aiming to measure the progress of the nation, "not just by how our economy is growing, but by how our lives are improving; not just by our standard of living, but by our quality of life." In short, the UK government is looking to measure the nation's well-being in order to "help make a better life for people." Other governments and international organizations are also increasingly focusing upon well-being as a policy goal. This workshop will focus on whether, and how, public policy can and should be informed, in some way, by considerations of the public's well-being. There will be up to 12 speakers in total, who will be invited to give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a discussion. Potential areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

The role of well-being in public policy
The limits of political utilitarianism
Paternalism and well-being
The implications of different theories of well-being for public policy
The interaction between different measures of well-being and public policy

If you are interested to present during this workshop, please send to one or both of us an abstract of no more than 500 words with your full name and institutional affiliation before May 15th.

Convenors:
Sam Wren-Lewis (University of Leeds): samwrenlewis@ gmail.com
Tim Taylor (visiting research fellow, University of Leeds): phltet@leeds.ac.uk

Further details about the conference available at
http://manceptworkshops2012.wordpress.com/

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CfP: Intl Conf. "Sociology and Social Work: Theory and Practice", Oslo, Norway

Call for abstracts
International conference
Sociology and Social Work: Theory and Practice

Oslo, Norway
May, 30-31 2012
The second conference on Sociology and Social Work will be held in Oslo, Norway, May 30 and 31, 2012. The location will be Oslo University College in the center of Oslo, Norway. The first conference on Sociology and Social work was in Lisbon, May 2011.

Sociology and social work are two disciplines concerned with social problems, social structure and how individuals respond to and live within cultural and structural constraints. Delinquency, inequality, deviation and social exclusion as well as childhood, family and care are other examples of themes addressed by both disciplines. Both sociology and social work deal with the relationship between theory and practice. Theory and practice are often understood as being
mutually exclusive. If one deals with theory, it might be interpreted as one cannot at the same time work practically. On the other hand, when we act in practical work, the theoretical background is often overlooked. We say: “This is theory “and the sentence: “that is not
practice” does not even have to be added. Contrary to this dichotomized view, the expression: “…there is nothing as practical as a good theory” from Kurt Lewin, 1944, shows the intertwined positions between the two. This expression has entered our everyday language but without really making a difference in how we in our professional and everyday lives understand the relationships between the two concepts. The concepts interact and are related in many different ways. To place them as two separated areas easily leads to an oversimplification.

How do theory and practice interplay within the disciplines of social work and sociology? Social work is often viewed as a practical profession without a theoretical basis for action. And sociology is in the same one dimensional way understood as just a theoretical discipline. The question to be asked is how theory and practice interrelate in different ways.

We invite scholars from different backgrounds to submit both qualitative and quantitative contributions. The abstracts may focus on theoretical, empirical or methodological aspects.

Submission of proposals:
Submissions for this conference are now invited. Abstracts (maximum 350 words) should be sent by email to Aurelie.Picot@hioa.no and/or Hege.nedberg@ hioa.no no later than the March, 1 2012.

Important dates:
March 1 2012: Deadline for submitting abstracts to organizers
March 15 2012: Notification of abstracts acceptance
April 1 2012: Deadline for payment for participation
May 1 2012: Deadline for sending full paper

Conference fee:
2000 NOK (ca $ 323) for participation without conference dinner
2500 NOK (ca $ 403) for participation including conference dinner
1800 NOK (ca $ 290) for student participation
The payment will be in NOK.

If you have any questions, please contact the organizing committee:
Irene.Levin@ hioa.no
Hege.Nedberg@ hioa.no
Aurelie.Picot@ hioa.no

Local organizers:
Professor, PhD Irene Levin
PhD candidate, Aurelie Picot
Research advisor, Hege Nedberg

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Call for Abstracts: International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2012

DEADLINE DECEMBER 1st

27th – 30th June 2012
Auckland, New Zealand

5th Biennial Conference hosted by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

Conference Themes:

The 5th Biennial Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga conference will highlight indigeneity and the multidisciplinary approach used for indigenous development. Presentations and papers will address all aspects of the following themes central to the realisation of indigenous development:
· Optimising Indigenous Economic Wellbeing – addressing issues, needs and opportunities arising in Māori and indigenous communities leading to increased economic independence and self-determination.

· Healthy and Thriving Indigenous Families – addressing issues, needs and opportunities arising in indigenous families leading to health, successful and thriving indigenous families.

· Enhancing Indigenous Distinctiveness – understanding the distinctive contributions that indigenous communities – people, knowledge, assets, resources – do and may yet make to the world at large. Yielding opportunities for development that may not be sourced from any other community or population.

All presentations will be 20 mins, plus 5 mins for questions, and are expected to address one or more of the following outcomes:

· Indigenous Knowledge Creation – the development of indigenous approaches to and methodologies of knowledge creation, exploring indigenous worldviews and understanding the contribution of these approaches to world knowledge. Exploring indigenous worldviews and epistemologies and the relationship between indigenous knowledge and other knowledge (such as science).

· Building Excellent Indigenous Research Capability – what is the nature of the indigenous research capability’? How is this achieved? How can we harness new technologies? What do we mean by excellence in indigenous research capability? Do any current models exist? What models exist in the histories of indigenous communities?

· Research and Indigenous Transformation – what is the ‘bridge’ between indigenous development research and positive change in our communities? How can we ensure that the outcomes and benefits of our research do get into the hands who can make change in our communities? How is positive change achieved through our research?

More information on the themes and outcomes can be found on our website:
www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz

Important Dates
Abstracts Submission close: 1st December 2011
Registrations Open: January 2012 (tbc)
Notification and Draft Programme Released: 10th March 2012 (tbc)
Earlybird registration deadline: April 2012 (tbc)

Please submit your Abstract (max 200 words) by completing the Abstract Submission Form. All information and documents can be found on the conference website: www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz.

All Abstracts will be assessed by the Conference Abstract Committee, guided by the Conference Advisory Panel. There is potential for a limited number of panel presentations, please contact us as soon as possible if you are interested in convening a panel. There will be a published, reviewed conference proceedings and all accepted authors will be invited to submit their full paper to the conference proceedings.

Conference Advisory Panel

Chair: Professor Charles Royal
Professor Mason Durie
Professor Harald Gaski
Dr Rawinia Higgins
Dr Daniel Hikuroa
Professor Margaret Maaka
Professor Margaret Mutu
Professor Martin Nakata
Distinguished Professor Graham Smith
Convener: Dr Helen Ross

Keynote Speakers and special events are currently being finalised. The latest information can be found on our conference website: www.indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz

Contact for abstract, panel and paper queries: proceedings@indigenousdevelopment2012.ac.nz

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Conference call: IHEPI 2010

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION & ABSTRACTS
ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION - from JANUARY 2010 on http://www.ihepi.net/

Dear Madam / Sir,
After successful IHEPI conference in 2009, we are glad to invite companies, academics, researchers, policy makers for IHEPI2010. Recognizing the importance of the simultaneous communication between the diverse participants in the generation and use of knowledge and innovation, the organizers of the Event intend to provide an occasion for the exchange of ideas for those involved either in the production or in the application of intellectual and professional capacities required for knowledge-based societies and economies.

The IHEPI 2010 will be especially dedicated to:
1. Strategies towards accelerating of innovation and more competitive technologies. The presentation to open discussion on this issue will be given by dr Gerard de
Nazelle, the first director of EIT.
2. Founding for education, science and innovation. Marja Makarow, CEO of European Science Foundation (ESF) and the first woman ever as CEO in ESF, will present the best practice example.
3. Innovative regions, innovative local government management.
4. Entrepreneurial education: experiences, models, the best examples and research results;
5. Mobility of academics, researchers and students;
6. Communication between knowledge based economy actors;
7. Communication and dissemination of information about experiences from undertaking projects on education, partnership and innovation;
8. Education of engineers : challenges, opportunities, traps;
9. IT for education;
10. Knowledge village : innovative solution for innovative educational institution;
11. R&D in business organizations and higher education institutions;
12. Curriculum development in higher education and LLL programmes;
13. Innovation and education after the global crises;

IHEPI is addressed to POLICY makers, RECTORS, ACADEMICS, colleagues of CARRIER CENTRES, RESEARCHERS, MANAGERS, Knowledge and Innovation Centers (KiCs).

IHEPI will give an opportunity for:
- Presentations oral/poster/ virtual
- Discussions
- High Quality Conference Publication with ISBN
- Networking
- Interesting social programme.

Important notes:

ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION: - from JANUARY 2010 on http://www.ihepi.net/

Deadlines

Abstract submission: 31-Mar-2010

Acceptance notification: 15-April-2010

Final Paper submission: 1-June-2010

For more information:
http://www.ihepi.net/
ihepi@ihepi. net

We look forward to seeing you in Budapest on 6- 8 September during IHEPI 2010!

Yours sincerely,

Organizers of IHEPI2010

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CfP: "Identities, gender and in-equalities", Trieste, Italy

Call for abstracts for the International Symposium
"Identities, gender and in-equalities"
January 5th, 2010
Trieste, Italy

The “International Research Center for Intercultural Studies” (C.I.R.S.I.) promotes an International symposium on "Identities, gender and in-equalities" in order to extend and deepen the debate on gender and migration launched by the first issue of the Quarterly Journal “Temperanter” which will be presented on that occasion
(“Temperanter” , n. 1, January-March 2010: “Women and Equal Opportunities: a Challenge for Everyone”).

Segregation and exclusion of non-dominant ethnic, linguistic, sexual, religious, etc. groups, have been consolidated through time by the instauration of a discriminatory system based on the imposition of false and subordinating representations. A wider interest on these topics has determined an important progress at the theoretical and
philosophical level, although rarely followed by effective policies and practices.

The following topics can be presented through the most appropriate scientific approach (sociological, literary, psychological, juridical, historical, trans-disciplinary, comparative, etc.):
- relationship between theories and practices on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- innovative theories on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- innovative applications of consolidated theories on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- case study on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- relationship between theories and practices on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- innovative theories on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- innovative applications of consolidated theories on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- case study on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation

Languages of the symposium: Italian, English and French. The selected papers will be published.

Calendar:
- Deadline to submit abstracts to the address : November 30th 2009 (max. 1.500 spaces with a short biographical note)
- Notification of the acceptance of abstracts: December 7th 2009
- Deadline for the registration to the symposium: December 21st 2009
- International Symposium: January 5th 2010
- Deadline to submit the full paper to be published: February 28th 2010

Scientific coordinator of the Symposium: Lorenzo Dugulin

International Research Center
for Intercultural Studies
C.I.R.S.I.
C.F. 90118200329
V.le R. Sanzio 17
34128 Trieste, Italy
tel.: +39 3343994638
e.mail: cirsi@cirsi. net
website: www.cirsi.net
Iscr. n. 1092 Registro Generale
Organizzazioni di Volontariato
Regione Autonoma F.V.G.

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Call for abstracts International Symposium "Identities, gender an in-equalities", Trieste, Italy

Call for abstracts for the International Symposium
"Identities, gender and in-equalities"
January 5th, 2010
Trieste, Italy


The “International Research Center for Intercultural Studies” (C.I.R.S.I.) promotes an International symposium on "Identities, gender and in-equalities" in order to extend and deepen the debate on gender and migration launched by the first issue of the Quarterly Journal “Temperanter” which will be presented on that occasion (“Temperanter”, n. 1, January-March 2010: “Women and Equal Opportunities: a Challenge for Everyone”).

Segregation and exclusion of non-dominant ethnic, linguistic, sexual, religious, etc. groups, have been consolidated through time by the instauration of a discriminatory system based on the imposition of false and subordinating representations. A wider interest on these topics has determined an important progress at the theoretical and philosophical level, although rarely followed by effective policies and practices. The following topics can be presented through the most appropriate scientific approach (sociological, literary, psychological, juridical, historical, trans-disciplinary, comparative, etc.):

- relationship between theories and practices on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- innovative theories on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- innovative applications of consolidated theories on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- case study on gender, gender and migration, trans-gender, gender and linguistic, religious, etc. minorities
- relationship between theories and practices on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- innovative theories on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- innovative applications of consolidated theories on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation
- case study on gender and social exclusion, work and social/political participation

Languages of the symposium: Italian, English and French.
The selected papers will be published.

Calendar:
- Deadline to submit abstracts to the address : November 30th 2009 (max. 1.500 spaces with a short biographical note)
- Notification of the acceptance of abstracts: December 7th 2009
- Deadline for the registration to the symposium: December 21st 2009
- International Symposium: January 5th 2010
- Deadline to submit the full paper to be published: February 28th 2010

Scientific coordinator of the Symposium: Lorenzo Dugulin

International Research Center
for Intercultural Studies
C.I.R.S.I.
C.F. 90118200329
V.le R. Sanzio 17
34128 Trieste, Italy
tel.: +39 3343994638
e.mail: cirsi@cirsi. net
website: www.cirsi.net
Iscr. n. 1092 Registro Generale
Organizzazioni di Volontariato
Regione Autonoma F.V.G.


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Call For Abstracts: Global Health and Innovation Summit at Yale

Global Health & Innovation Summit
The World's Leading Idea Incubator For Global Health Innovation

A Conference Presented Annually by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate):http://www.unitefor sight.org/ conference

Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.unitefor sight.org/ conference The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15, and the final abstract deadline is September 20.

"A Meeting of Minds," --CNN

200 Speakers in April 2010 , Including Keynote Addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.

The Global Health & Innovation Summit convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The Summit challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.

Keynote Speakers

"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers

Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital

Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something

Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation

Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund

Billy Shore, JD, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength

Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation

Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners

Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause

Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:

Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye Center

Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS

Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide

Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University

Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health

Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project

Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab

Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships

Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International

Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation

Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors

Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health

Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)

Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health

Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA

Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health

Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH

Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University

David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children

Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons

Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation

Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region

Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University

Majid Sadigh, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis

Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development

David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo

Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative


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CfP: Transnational Feminism(s) Publication

Call for abstracts:

Transnational Feminisms: Revisioning Politics and Practice beyond Borders Inanna Publications, March 2010

The publication, 'Transnational Feminisms: Revisioning Politics and Practice beyond Borders', is designed as a graduate students' initiative, where researchers, writers and students of women/gender and multidisciplinary studies from diverse localities are invited to exchange views and thoughts on the question of how we enrich and transform our feminist theorizations and methods that go beyond West-centric paradigm.The purpose of this journal is to contribute to York University’s 50th anniversary and history of commitment to international and interdisciplinary nature of academic community building, by creating dialogues among feminist scholars from diverse cultural and social backgrounds. We aim to create a space for dialogue about the links and tensions between transnational feminist theory and analysis, research, political change and social justice work.

How and why have feminists taken up the ‘transnational’?

Transnational feminist analysis has developed through continuous attempts to articulate a feminist framework that addresses, rather than harmonizes, women’s positionalities within ‘uneven, often unequal, and complex’ relationships. These relationships are produced and continuously transformed by multiple links between patriarchies, colonialisms, racisms, and other forms of domination (Grewal and Kaplan, 2000). Transnational feminists have attempted to dismantle conventional state-centric approaches to globalization, to question and subvert borders (of space, identity, discipline), and to problematise uncritical feminist multiculturalism and internationalism which fails to engage with the historical relationship of feminism to nationalism, imperialism, and racism. Crucial methodological and epistemic interventions by transnational feminists challenge how academics and activists understand the politics of representation, of advocacy, identity and self-reflection, embodiment, positivism, Marxism and post-structuralism. We aim to gather those who use transnational feminist frameworks, to share research-in- progress, projects, hopes, strategies and dilemmas, and to open space for dialogue about how we are engaging with this theory and what sort of work we want to practice/produce.

Multiple Questions and Lines of Critique:

Why has transnational feminism not been taken up in meaningful ways in academia? Does this question assume that the meaning and breadth of what constitutes transnational feminist theorization and methodology have crystallized/ stabilized? Has transnational feminism been a space of interrogating various feminisms (liberal, Marxist/ socialist, etc)? Or, how is the space of transnational feminist philosophy and praxis something more? What are the divides and tensions between philosophy and praxis in transnational feminism? How are we actually addressing the academic/activist divide? How are we attempting to challenge the reproduction of ‘the native informant’ (Trinh, 1989; Spivak 1999), the problematic adoption of ‘politics of location’ (Kaplan, 1994), the human rights ‘saviour’ narrative (Alexander, 2005), the ‘terrorist’ (Puar, 2004)? How and where are our bodies moving? What kinds of borders are we crossing or not crossing? What does it mean to think and act intersectionally, materially, post-colonially? How do we work with queer theory? What is possible in the context of rapidly neoliberalising universities, labour structures, politics? How does the “commodification of knowledge” fit into both the need for and critique of transnational feminism? How does whiteness work in transnational feminism? How does a decolonization framework work within transnational feminism? How do Indigenous perspectives in transnational
feminism necessitate the rethinking of “nation”? Can we begin to imagine transnational feminism without centering “nation”? What kinds of communities can we build (or is there the possibility of a ‘we’)? And what does this mean for the theory, methodologies, agency, and possibilities for social transformation within transnational feminism(s)?

Potential areas for submission:

-Feminist methods, ethics, and research in a transnational framework: How do we do it? What is at stake?
-Re-examining the ‘West,’ racism and coloniality in feminist studies
-Movements and flows of bodies, ideas, and desires
-Queering the transnational/ transnational approaches to sexuality
-Transnational cultural production and popular culture
-Representations, truth, hybridity: thinking transnationally in film, novels,
memoir, testimony
-‘Whiteness’ in a transnational context
-Language, translation and speaking (out/with/against/ for/about) : questions of
knowledge production, sharing, appropriation, advocacy
-Negotiations with human rights paradigms, sovereignty, gender-mainstreamin g
-Gaza, Eelam: transnational feminist approaches to violence, colonization and occupation
-Media representations of conflict, spectacle, trauma
-War, diaspora and activism: home, land, “security” and “war zones”
-Modes and processes of political economies in multiple ‘sites’; i.e., gender and social reproduction in (post)Socialist / (post)communist states, transitional justice frameworks
-Transnational feminism in/and women’s studies: questions, problematics and
possibilities in disciplinary boundaries
Please also feel free to submit abstracts outside these themes.

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be between 250-300 words. Please also include a brief bio (100 words) along with your name, contact address, and institutional affiliation. Please send your complete abstract to transfem@yorku. ca, by July 30, 2009. We might be able to consider late submissions, but priority will be given to those who meet the deadline.
The committee will contact you by mid-September 2009. Please feel free to contact the conference organizing committee at transfem@yorku. ca should you have any questions.
2009 Transnational Feminist Publication Organizing Committee
Graduate Programme in Women’s Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada


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CfP: Beyond East and West, Conference on Media Transformation after the Fall of Communism

25-27 June 2009
Central European University, Budapest

An International Conference, organized by the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at Central European University (CEU) and the COST A30 Action "East of West: Setting a New Central Eastern European Media Research Agenda", in cooperation with the International Communication Association (ICA).

Deadline for abstracts and panel proposals: 15 November 2008
Please submit abstracts to: beyondeastandwest@ ceu.hu
Conference website: www.beyondeastandwe st.net

Since 1989, a new media landscape has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe, with new ownership patterns, forms of media organization, journalistic practices, relationships between politics and the media, regulation processes and modalities of media use. A new system has been established, predominantly designed according to Western models and with heavy influence by Western players.

Twenty years later, it is time to re-examine these changes. What went right, what went wrong, and what can we learn from this? Were Western media models and concepts appropriate for the post-1989 social, political, economic and cultural realities of Central/Eastern Europe? What are the future trajectories of media development in the region? And how do they compare to those in other regions undergoing systemic
transformation - from Latin America to China and the Middle East?

The conference "Beyond East and West" will trace post-1989 development and look towards the future. To build research for communication in transition, conference participants will explore the necessary building-blocks for a research agenda.

Speakers include Miklos Haraszti, Slavko Splichal, Karol Jakubowicz,
Colin Sparks, Monroe Price, Miklos Sükösd, Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Alina
Mungiu-Pippidi, Nick Jankowski, Beata Klimkiewicz, Peter Molnar, Peter
Gross, John Downey, Inka Salovaara-Moring, Andrew Calabrese.

Core conference themes:
-> Central Eastern European Media Systems 20 Years On
-> Media Policy and Democratic Legitimacy
-> New Media Developments
-> Popular Culture: Media Uses, Media Literacy, Socialism(s) and Nostalgia
-> Political Communication between Commercialization and Political Influence
-> Samizdat, Alternative and Community Media
-> Global Communications, Development and Transition
-> Reviewing International Media Assistance Programs

For more information on speakers, themes and program go to
http://www.beyondea standwest. net/

Contact:
Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS)
Central European University (CEU)
Email: cmcs@ceu.hu
Website: http://cmcs. ceu.hu
Phone: +36 1 237 3000 ext 2607
Postal address: Nador u 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary

COST A30 "East of West": http://www.costa30. eu/
International Communication Association: http://www.icahdq. org/
Conference website: http://www.beyondea standwest. net/


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CfA: Tourism, Heritage & Cultural Change in the MENA Region

Dear List member

Just a reminder that there is still time to submit an abstract for the forthcoming conference:

Traditions and Transformations:

Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region

In April (4-7) 2009, the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change in partnership with the Council for British Research in the Levant (the CBRL is an overseas Institute of the British Academy) will hold a major international conference to explore the changing relationships between tourism, culture and heritage across the Middle East and North Africa Region. Delegates from across the Middle East and the North Africa
Region, together with scholars from the rest of the world will assemble to discuss the critical relationships between tourism, heritage and culture.

The Conference is being hosted by the Greater Municipality of Amman in Jordan and will be held in the King Hussein Cultural Centre in the heart of the vibrant downtown area of Jordan's Capital City. We are delighted that the patron of the Conference will be Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya Bint Al Hassan.

The aims of this inter-disciplinary conference are: To critically explore the major issues facing the MENA region with regard to the development of tourism and its relationships with heritage and culture; To draw upon ideas, cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new understandings and research capacities regarding the relationships between tourism, heritage and culture in the MENA Region and; To provide a major networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and professionals.

The conference will feature over 150 international academics, policy makers and practitioners and will feature keynote addresses from Dr Taleb Rifai, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, Professor Nezar Alsayyad, Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at University California Berkeley, and Dr Seteney Shami, Programme Director of the Middle East and the North
Africa region at the Social Science Research Council.

The conference seeks to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and welcomes papers from all disciplines. Key themes of interest to the conference include:

* Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic / political economies of tourism;

* Tourism in the construction of places / spaces / nations;

* The role of archaeology in contemporary tourism;

* Structures / infrastructures of International tourism - building/architectu re/ design for tourism & tourists;

* Tourism and the role of the museum;

* The conservation of heritage for tourism;

* The practices and performances of 'tradition';

* Tourist art and art for tourists;

* Intangible heritage and its role in tourism;

* Rural and urban tourism practices.

Members of the Conference Scientific Committee include: Dr Khaled Adham, (United Arab Emirates University), Dr Rami Daher (German Jordanian University), Professor Bill Finlayson (Council for British Research in the Levant), Dr Habib Saidi (University of Laval) and Dr Lina Tahan (Leeds Metropolitan University).

If you wish to submit a 300 word abstract as an electronic file (including title and full contact details) please do so no later than 17th October 2008 to ctcc@leedsmet. ac.uk

To participate in this conference or to learn more please contact:
ctcc@leedsmet. ac.uk or visit www.tourism- culture.com or www.cbrl.org

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13th Int'l Symposium on Malay / Indonesian Linguistics

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Malay (mly) Indonesian (ind)

Language Family(ies): Malayic

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2009

Meeting Description:

ISMIL is an annual conference that brings together linguists working on all aspects of Malay-Indonesian and other Malayic languages.

First Call for Abstracts

The Thirteenth International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics

6-7 June 2009
Senggigi, Lombok, Indonesia

http://www.eva. mpg.de/~gil/ ismil

Papers presented at ISMIL are concerned with the Malay/Indonesian language in
any of its varieties. In addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa Melayu
and Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with non-canonical
isolects such as regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian, contact varieties,
and other closely related Malayic languages. Papers may be in any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Presentations at ISMIL are delivered in English.

Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited to submit a one-page abstract (single-spaced, 12-point font) in both .pdf and .doc formats to Uri Tadmor at the following address:

uri AT cbn.net.id

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 February 2009

Notification will be made in March 2009

Special Notice: ISMIL 13 will be held immediately following the Second International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ 2), which will take place at the same venue on 4-5 June 2009. For information on ISLOJ 2, see http://lingweb. eva.mpg.de/ jakarta/isloj2. php .

Co-sponsors:
Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Pusat Kajian Bahasa dan Budaya, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware

Co-organizers:
Peter Cole, University of Delaware
Thomas J. Conners, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Further information: http://www.eva. mpg.de/~gil/ ismil

Inquiries: uri AT cbn.net.id


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