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CONFERENCES
University of Connecticut
“Humanitarian
Responses to Inflicted Suffering”
October 13-15, 2006,
Organizers invite scholars from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law to submit papers that analyze humanitarian responses to narratives of suffering inflicted by states, political groups and or social, economic, or cultural forces. Panels will address apartheid, genocide, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the media and the law. Please submit a one-page abstract and current c.v. (up to 3 pages) by March 1, 2006. For more information contact:
Richard D. Brown
University of Connecticut
Humanities Institute
241 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT 06269
USA
Tel. (860) 486-3063
Fax. (860) 486-0641
E-mail: Richard.D.Brown@uconn.edu
or
Richard A. Wilson
Human Rights Institute
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2176
USA
Tel. : (860) 486-3851
Fax. :(860) 486-6332
E-mail: Richard.Wilson@uconn.edu
26th
Annual Millersville University Conference on the Holocaust
"Confronting the
Other: The Holocaust and Contemporary Issues of Racism and
Xenophobia"
April 2-3
2006, Pennsylvania, USA
Papers or
panels that are in comparative in nature, discussing research areas and debates
of the Holocaust in relation to contemporary issues, are especially welcome.
Content areas: Modern Germany, Modern Jewish History, History of the Holocaust,
Modern U.S., European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian history, Women's
Studies; International Relations. Proposal
deadline: January 15, 2006. For more information conctact:
Tanya
Kevorkian, Ph.D.
Department of History
Millersville University
Millersville, PA 17551
Tel. 717-871-2338
Fax 717-871-2485
Email:
tanya.kevorkian@millersville.edu
Center for Global
Trade and Development, Chapman University School of Law
“Are We at
War? Global Conflict and Insecurity Post-9/11”
April 6-8 2006, Orange,
California, USA
Symposium challenges participants to think anew about global conflict and local insecurities by questioning some basic premises and assumptions: Are we at war? What is war? Is it simply the absence of peace? Or might war, like peace, contemplate a more proactive approach to organize and apply society’s resources? What does war look like—and what should it look like—in an age of globalization that’s marked by fragmented power, privatized resources, and proliferating threats of terrorism and mass destruction? All papers and proposals should be submitted (along with CVs and an abstract of 1-3 pages) to global-center@chapman.edu
International Political Science Association
July 9-13 2006, Fukuoka, Japan
The Japanese Political Science Association invites you to participate at the 20th World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in Fukuoka, Japan. Join the IPSA for this stimulating meeting on the theme “Is Democracy Working?” that will be held from July 9 to 13, 2006.
American Studies Association
"Contemporary
Slavery"
October 12-15 2006, Oakland, California, USA
Please submit paper proposals for a panel on contemporary slavery at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association ("The United States from Inside and Out: Transnational American Studies"); October 12 - 15, 2006, Oakland, California.
There are 27 million slaves alive today – more than at any point in history. This panel will discuss modern slavery in relation to the "United States from Inside and Out," this year's conference theme. 140 years after the Emancipation Proclamation thousands of slaves are trafficked into the US every year and this panel examines a very different kind of transnational exchange to the more obvious "cultural exchanges" implicit in the conference theme - that of people for money, around the world. Papers might examine the rhetoric of contemporary abolition, or the ideas of freedom explored in contemporary slave narratives. They might look at the geographical, social and historical background of contemporary slavery, or seek to explain slavery’s economic and political causes. They might set slavery in the context of human rights legislation. They might lay out the role of globalization, the population explosion, organized crime, and the complicity of governments and corporations. Or they might define this new slavery: does this include prison labor, all forms of child labor, or extreme poverty and sweatshop labor? And in examining "types" of slavery, should we address the issue of child slavery differently? Or sex slavery? They might discuss the difference between enslavement out of freedom and hereditary slavery, or explore whether this new slavery is as racialized as historic American chattel slavery. Are race, caste, tribe, and religion markers of slavery today? What are the similarities and differences between today's slavery and that of nineteenth-century America? These topics or any others are welcome. The panel welcomes submissions from academics, abolitionists, human rights activists and all other social activists, community members, secondary school teachers, journalists, creative writers and artists. Please submit short proposals and a brief biographical paragraph by January 5, 2006. For more information:
Zoe
Trodd
Harvard University
History and Literature
Barker Center 122
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Email: trodd@fas.harvard.edu
Trauma
Research Net’s 3rd International Conference
"Trauma - Stigma and
Distinction. Social Ambivalences in the Face of Extreme Suffering”
September 14-17 2006, St. Moritz,
Switzerland
The Trauma Research Net invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 3rd International Conference entitled: "Trauma - Stigma and Distinction: Social Ambivalences in the Face of Extreme Suffering" (14-17 September 2006 in St. Moritz, Switzerland). Since 1995, the Hamburg Institute for Social Research has provided the basis of a network on trauma research that now reaches more than one thousand institutions and individuals. This call for papers is addressed both to professionals working with trauma victims on a practical, therapeutic level and to those researching, writing and teaching on trauma on a more theoretical level. The aim of the conference is to scrutinize social aspects of trauma discourse and of the practice of trauma therapy – their ideology, politics, and economy. Organizers seek to examine what social aspects are emphasized when we speak of trauma – individual and collective – and what aspects fade into the background. Thus, topics of interest might be:
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Social Recognition and Denial of Trauma
- Hierarchies Between and Within
Victim Groups
- Practical Work with Victim Groups and the Influence of
Prejudice and Idealization
- Hostility and Reconciliation in Conflict
Resolution after Extreme Suffering
- Validation and Subversion in
Professional Discourses on Trauma
Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2006. Proposals should include abstracts of 300-500 words. Conference organizers are looking forward to receiving proposals together with a short CV by March 31, 2006 and will acknowledge all proposals upon receipt by e-mail. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication. The language of the conference will be English.
International Conference of Labour and Social History
(ITH),
42nd Linz
Conference
“Labour and Right Wing Extremism”
September 14-17 2006
ITH was founded 1964 in
Vienna as "Internationale Tagung der Historiker der Arbeiterbewegung /
International Conference of Labour Historians." It is an umbrella organization
of research institutes and associations for social history, specialized on
labour history; membership of individuals is possible. The main activity
of ITH is organizing the annual "Linz Conferences" (named after the location of
the conferences, the "Jägermayrhof" of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour at
Linz) and the publication of the conference papers. The Linz Conferences
are gatherings of the member institutes together with experts invited to present
papers. Coordinator: Jürgen
Hofmann. For more information:
Eva Himmelstoss
ITH
Wipplingerstr. 8
A-1010 Wien
Austria
E-mail: ith@doew.at
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
“The
Challenge of Democracy in the Muslim World”
April 28-29 2006,
Washington, D.C,
USA
The seventh annual conference of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, will examine the obstacles to democracy, both domestic and international, in the Muslim world. Paper proposals are invited from prospective participants on the following seven broad topics: The state of democracy in the Muslim societies/countries; Critical evaluation of the theoretical discourse on democratization; Domestic and external challenges to democracy in the Muslim world; Prospects for democracy in the Muslim world; The challenge of anti-democratic Islamist discourses; Gender equality, the rights of minorities, and democratization in the Muslim world; Developing new and just interpretations of Islamic principles in the 21st century. The Conference Program Committee Chair is Prof. Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas. Please e-mail paper proposals (between 200-400 words), by January 1, 2006, to the Conference Coordinator, Layla Sein, at: conference@islam-democracy.org
Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
"Muslims in Europe: Between Islamophobia and Radicalism"
May 4 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
In the 1990s the term Islamophobia entered common parlance for defining the discriminations faced by Muslims in Western Europe. Even though negative European perceptions of Islam can be traced to multiple confrontations between Europe and Muslims ranging from the Crusades to colonialism, Islamophobia is a modern and secular anti-Islamic discourse and practice. It most recently has appeared in the public sphere with the integration of Muslim immigrant communities and has been intensified after 9/11. Suspicions over the radicalization of some fringes of Muslim the population is often presented as the reason for increased anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe. In this roundtable, the panelists will address the following questions: If we agree to define Islamophobia as a fear or hatred of Islam and Muslims, how do we identify its manifestations? How do we measure its influence on a) policy making of European States b) the political loyalties and religious affiliation of Muslims in Europe?
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security
Studies
“Politics &
Terrorism”
February 15-16 2006, London,
UK
This conference will
highlight the foreign and domestic motivators of terrorism and the support
structures currently available to extremists and terrorists both within the UK
and abroad, which enables them to turn such motivation into reality. It
will explore recent anti-terrorist legislative proposals such as pre-charge
detention, the use of control orders and the widening of
proscription. Furthermore, the effectiveness of UK anti-terrorism
legislation implementation will be analyzed and suggestions made to increase
efficiency and success. This conference will provide the opportunity
to assess and discuss all the key issues surrounding the political and legal
responses to terrorist activity within the UK. To register please book online or
for further information please contact Mamoona Shah, Events Manager at
mamoonas@rusi.org.
CALLS FOR PAPERS
Journal of
Radicalism
Special Issue on Radicalism and Violence - Announcing a New Journal and
A Call for Articles
The Journal for the Study of Radicalism engages in serious, scholarly exploration of the forms, representations, meanings, and historical influences of radical social movements. With sensitivity and openness to historical and cultural contexts of the term, we loosely define “radical,” as distinguished from “reformers,” to mean groups who seek revolutionary alternatives to hegemonic social and political institutions, and who use violent or non-violent means to resist authority and to bring about change. The journal is eclectic, without dogma or strict political agenda, and ranges broadly across social and political groups worldwide, whether typically defined as “left” or “right.” The editors expect contributors to come from a wide range of fields and disciplines, including ethnography, sociology, political science, literature, history, philosophy, critical media studies, literary studies, religious studies, psychology, women’s studies, and critical race studies. They especially welcome articles that reconceptualize definitions and theories of radicalism, feature underrepresented radical groups, and introduce new topics and methods of study. Submissions should be 20-30 pages in length and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Please include a one-paragraph abstract. Submissions undergo a peer-review process and should not identify the author(s) in the title page and headers. Images for possible use in an article should be at least 300 dpi, and 600 dpi is preferable. Authors are responsible for requesting and receiving permission to reprint images for scholarly use. Send proposals and articles for the inaugural issue to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by January 31, 2006. For more information contact:
Ann Larabee
Michigan State
University
235 Ernst Bessey Hall
517-355-2400
Email: jsr@msu.edu
As most other political and social forces the far right in modern societies has to take into account the prominent and ever increasing role the media play in shaping the political culture and political attitudes. From this, different approaches have been developed by far rightist activists and organisations to meet the media and to make use of it. In addition, a broad range of attempts, some more successful than others, have been started by the far right to become independent from what they call the ›system media‹ in order to be able to disseminate political messages unrestricted. On the other hand, democratic media often have problems with reporting about the far right as they either tend to hush it up, to scandalize it or to attack it in a way that might provoke feelings of solidarity. Finally, there is the complex problem that media might influence the ups and downs of far right parties by giving certain political issues too much/too less space or by addressing them in a certain way. The volume aims at presenting various approaches to this complex and multifaceted relationship between the media and the far right in contemporary European societies and to exhibit both the breadth and the depth of research and exhibition in the various disciplines concerning this issue. Following a multi-disciplinary approach contributions from media studies, sociology, political science, history, ethnography, visual sciences and rhetoric are highly welcomed. Submissions should highlight original thought and critical thinking dealing with, for example, but not limited to the following themes:
· representation
of far right party leaders and party activists in the media
· information
and communication approaches of the far right
· visual images of the far
right in the media
· far
right radio stations
· structure and development of far right media
· far
right making use of mainstream media
· the far right in documentaries and
feature films
· far rightist attacks on its critics
· methods of
agenda-setting by the far right
· media reporting on the far right between
hushing up and enhancing its status
· representatives of the far right in
political talk-shows (TV)
· the far right and tabloid media
· influence
of media reporting on the success/failure of far right parties or
politicians
Abstracts of approx. 700 words outlining the basis
idea, theoretical assumptions, methodology and the empirical material used
should be sent together with a short c.v. by e-mail to
virchow@staff.uni-marburg.de
Please send your submission as a Word file e-mail attachment with ‘Media &
the extreme right’ in the subject line. Virus-infected and unreadable files will
not be considered. Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2006
Notification of acceptance: 30 June 2006 Accepted chapters are to be
completed by 01 October 2006 The book will be published in early 2007.
Papers should not have more than 8,000 words including footnotes and references.
Also include a 200-word abstract. For more information contact:
Fabian Virchow, PhD
Centre for Conflict
Studies
University of Marburg
Ketzerbach 11
35032 Marburg/Lahn
Germany
virchow@staff.uni-marburg.de