Laurie King-Irani posted on her blog a link to this interactive map of one of Beirut’s neighborhoods.
Can we consider ‘war’ as a kind of environmental migratory force?
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Entries from July 2007
July 23, 2007
Catastrophic Space: an interactive tour of Beirut
July 20, 2007
Asia, Pacific Rim, Middle East – Global essays on ethnicity
We seek essays from multiple disciplinary perspectives for an edited volume on race and ethnicity in global perspective. This work uses a chronological topical approach to the study of race and ethnicity in history and contemporary society. We particularly seek essays on the following topics:
Color and Caste in the Indus Valley
China’s Ethnic Minorities
Religion and Ethnicity [...]
July 17, 2007
The Transnational Viewing Experience
One-day symposium ‘The Transnational Viewing Experience’ at the University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, on Friday, 7 September 2007.
The symposium is a one-day event that will give researchers the opportunity to debate how foreign television dramas have been incorporated into different national contexts and how viewers make sense of foreign product.
Further [...]
July 15, 2007
CFP: ”Celebrity Colonialism”
“Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, and Power in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures”
Call for Submissions to an Edited Collection of Academic Papers
Colonialism and postcolonialism produce their fair share of celebrities, yet the meanings, forms, and functions of celebrities within colonial and post-colonial cultures have received little scholarly attention.
Invitations are extended to scholars who wish to contribute to [...]
July 15, 2007
3rd Global Conference: Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship
3rd Global Conference
Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship Friday 16th November – Sunday 18th November 2007
Salzburg, Austria
Call for Papers
With this inter- and multi-disciplinary project we seek to explore the new developments and changes of the idea of pluralism and the implications those have for social and political processes of inclusion and citizenship in contemporary societies. The project [...]
July 13, 2007
Exiled Lit Cafe: State of Emergency
Monday 6th August 2007 at 7.30 pm
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2 (nearest tube: Covent Garden)
Soleïman Adel Guémar whose poetry book State of Emergency has just been published by Arc. Rooted in Algerian experience, it speaks of urgent concerns everywhere – oppression, resistance, state violence, traumas and private dreams. Soleiman Adel Guemar was [...]
July 10, 2007
Intersections Summer Call for Papers: Migration and Environmental Change
For two whole months, until 10 September, we invite submissions to Intersections on the topic of Migration and Environmental Change. Inspired by his efforts, we have invited François Gemenne of the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM, www.cedem.ulg.ac.be) of the University of Liège and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI, www.ceri-sciences-po.org) [...]
July 9, 2007
Children and Migration: identities, mobilities and belonging(s)
9-11th April 2008
Venue: University College Cork, Ireland
Abstracts are invited for this international and interdisciplinary conference exploring childhood and migration.
While a wealth of research exists in the broad area of migration and childhood from a variety of perspectives and disciplinary backgrounds, there are few opportunities to bring this together in an integrated forum. This conference aims [...]
July 9, 2007
New media and Global Diaspora Symposium
New Media and Global Diaspora Symposium
Date: October 5-7, 2007
Location: Roger William University, Rhode Island, USA
Abstract: The symposium, sponsored by the Global Communication Program
and the Center for Global and International Studies at Roger Williams
University in Bristol, Rhode Island, focuses primarily on the migrations
of the past 100 years and how the “living traditions” transmitted by
these communities are [...]
July 7, 2007
CFP: Conference ‘Picturing the “Other” in France and Germany, XIX and XX centuries’
29-30 November, Strasbourg
The conference is bilingual; note that proposals have to be in French or German.
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