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Günter
Grass and Salman Rushdie: Comparative Perspectives
Deadline: September 15, 2008
Conference Date: February 26-March 1, 2008
Boston, MA
Günter Grass and Salman Rushdie: Comparative Perspectives
seeks critical comparative perspectives on Günter Grass
and Salman Rushdie. Prominent figures on the international
stage of public intellectuals and storytellers of history,
both authors deal with major events in twentieth century history
that continue to shape political and social policies and the
cultural and religious national landscapes of their country
of origin.
How does their work—repeatedly marked by a historical
caesura—represent world history and the universal vis-à-vis
individual experience and the particular? What narrative techniques
do they employ to construct the anti/-hero’s subjectivity,
identity and consciousness? How are such techniques linked
to narratives of national identity and history? How are time
and space constructed and consequently what functions do movement
and travel have? What literary traditions and innovations
inform their work on cultural, territorial and linguistic
displacement, as well as on genocide, forced migration, partition
and war?
Themes
might include but are not limited to:
MIGRATION • EXILE • NATION AND NATIONALISM •
NARRATIVE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY • MEMORY • NARRATIVE
MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS • METAPHOR • FICTIONALITY
• TIME AND SPACE • HEIMAT AND HOMELANDS
Send 1-page
abstracts to Maria Grewe, Columbia University, msg52@columbia.edu
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2008
Please
include with your abstract on a separate page: Name and affiliation,
email address, postal address, telephone number, A/V requirements
(if any).
The complete Call for Papers for the 2009 Convention will
be posted in June: www.nemla.org. Interested participants
may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA panel; however
panelists can only present one paper. Convention participants
may present a paper at a panel or seminar and also present
at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.
Maria Grewe
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Columbia University
319 Hamilton Hall, MC 2812
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Email:
msg52@columbia.edu
Posted:
May 28, 2008.
Britain
and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives
Deadline: September 30, 2008
Conference Date: April 17-19, 2009
United Kingdom
Proposals for 20-minute papers on ‘Britain and the Muslim
World: Historical Perspectives' are invited for presentation
at a multi-disciplinary and international conference to be
held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the
University of Exeter, UK, 17-19 April 2009.
A collaboration between IAIS and SOAS, this conference aims
to explore the historical impact of cross cultural encounters
between the Muslim World and Britain by bringing together
writers, established scholars, younger researchers, public
intellectuals and members of the media to present and discuss
cutting edge research on the question of how past relations
have brought us to our current situation, and to propose directions
for necessary further consideration and research. At present,
scholarly knowledge of the multiple encounters between Britain
and the Muslim World is dispersed among specialized academic
disciplines and so largely unavailable to the media and general
public. A key aim of the conference is to assemble specialists
from all academic fields-history, international relations,
finance, law, economics, politics, sociology, anthropology,
migration and diaspora studies, gender studies, art history
and design, music, and comparative literatures-and to bring
them into dialogue while exploring ways of making their combined
knowledge more generally available than it is at present in
order to develop a deeper public understanding of the long
cultural interaction between Islam and Britain.
Titles
and abstracts of no more than 250 words please, by the end
of September 2008 marked ‘BMW Proposal' to:
bmw@ex.ac.uk
Organisers:
Gerald MacLean, Nadje Al-Ali, Robert Gleave Sponsored by the
British Academy, with research partners The British Museum
Gerald
MacLean, FRAS, FRHistS
Professor of English
University of Exeter
Queen's Building
EX4 4QH
Email:
bmw@ex.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/conferences/britain-and-the-muslim-world.html
Posted:
July 8, 2008.
The Transformation of the International System in the 1970s
Deadline: October 15, 2008
Conference Date: February 27-28, 2009
Bologna, Italy
The 1970s are widely recognized by historians as a crucial
period of change and transformation. Several processes interacted
to produce radical changes impervious to modern recipes and
categories: the crisis of territoriality; the rejection of
Keynesian fiscal policies and economic models; the gradual
transition to a post-industrial age; the contestation, and
delegitimization, of traditional sources of power and authority;
the crisis of the bipolar international structure and its
growing inability to contain and discipline a complex and
pluralistic world.
The papers
will cover the theme of the impact that these transformations
had and still have on the international system, from either
structural or agency standpoints. The conference will deal
with the impact of such transformations on the international
system, on its structure as well as on the relations among
its members. The conference will consist of three panels (with
3/4 presentations each) and a final roundtable. The sessions
will deal with the following general issues:
•
the impact of the transformation of the international system
on Europe and on the relationship within the two blocs;
• the new role of the global South, in light of the
last wave of decolonization and the emergence of new Cold
War battlegrounds;
• the theoretical reflection on the nature of the international
system and its main changes;
The participation
to the panels is limited to junior scholars working on new
and original researches (i.e.: participants must be 40 years
and younger or have received their doctoral degree within
the past seven years).
Each paper
will be commented by a senior scholar. Draft papers will have
to be submitted at least one month before the date of the
conference.
Procedure:
Proposals must be sent via e-mail to Ms. Paola Malattia (paola.malattia@unibo.it,
e-mail subject “1970s Conference”). The deadline
for proposals is October 15th, 2008. Proposals must include
a title, a one-page outline and a two-page cv. Proposals and
papers can be in Italian and in English.
Following
the acceptance of the proposals (end of October), participants
will receive editorial guidelines.
The conveners
will cover travel expenses and accommodation in Bologna for
two nights.
The languages
of the conference will be Italian and English. Simultaneous
translation will be provided.
The peer-review
Italian journal of contemporary History “Ricerche di
Storia Politica” (http://www.arsp.it) will consider
the possibility to publish a selection of the papers presented
at the conference. The organizers intend to successively publish
a collection of the papers as an edited volume, in Italian
and in English.
Ms. Paola Malattia
Dipartimento Politica, Istituzioni, Storia
Università di Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45
40125 Bologna
Italy
Email: paola.malattia@unibo.it
Posted: August 21, 2008
Air
Power and the Environment: The Ecological Implications of
Modern Air Warfare
Deadline:
Novermber 1, 2008
Conference Date: August 26-27, 2008
United Kingdom
Environmental responsibility already lies at the forefront
of our western world perspective and is constantly growing
in importance. Ecological activism, which used to be a fringe
movement, has now become mainstream. In 2007 Al Gore and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace
Prize (and an Oscar!) for their efforts to raise environmental
awareness. Greenpeace, which uses "non-violent, creative
confrontation to expose global environmental problems,"
alone has no fewer than 220,000 members in the UK and 2.8
million worldwide. Ecologists, environmentalists, activists,
lobbyists and of course strategists are already turning their
attention to ecological aspects of modern warfare, including
land mines, cluster ordnance, erosion and soil damage, air
pollution, deforestation, nuclear testing and proliferation,
oil spillage and fires, DU contamination, the disposal of
ordnance, and so forth. It seems likely that such concerns
will also become increasingly mainstream.
As a consequence,
governments and their armed forces will doubtless be paying
more attention to the serious ecological ramifications of
conflict. Some already are. The Global Strategic Trends paper
published by the MoD’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine
Centre (DCDC) illustrates the importance now being placed
on these matters by cutting-edge British strategists.
Balancing
strategic and operational needs with both military and environmental
ethics is certainly not impossible, and responsible armed
forces, including the Royal Air Force, are already thinking
deeply about how best to balance what superficially seem to
be (but actually are not) competing imperatives.
This innovative
conference – the first on this topic in the United Kingdom
– will touch on several broader security themes and
topics but will focus especially on the concepts and practices
of modern air power and their environmental implications.
The organisers
intend the conference – to be held at the historic and
prestigious Royal Air Force College – to attract practitioners,
policy-makers, academics and also university students (for
whom attendance will be free upon presentation of a student
id card), and for it therefore to wrestle analytically with
big air power-related themes and topics at the heart of current
strategy and security debates.
The conference proceedings will be published subsequently
in book form by the Royal Air Force Centre for Air Power Studies.
Some potential
topics:
•
Climate change and security
• Strategies to prevent, mitigate, and redress war's
environmental consequences
• Warfare and environmental law
• The historical targeting of oil and industrial infrastructure
• Contemporary targeting strategies for oil and industrial
infrastructure
• Environmentally harmful / acceptable ordnance
• Decommissioning and disposal of ordnance
• Aviation fuel management
• Air forces and carbon emissions
• Air forces and alternative fuel sources
• Air forces and resource / waste management
• Real versus synthetic training
Prospective presenters should normally expect 30 minutes per
presentation, plus 10 minutes of discussion time.
Abstracts
(of no more than 350 words) should be posted or emailed to:
Miss Victoria
Allen,
Personal Assistant to the Dean of the Royal Air Force College,
Cranwell, Sleaford,
Lincolnshire NG34 8HB,
United Kingdom
Email: vallen-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk
Abstracts
must be received by 1 November 2008.
All prospective
contributors will be notified in late November.
Queries
of an academic nature should be directed to:
Dr Joel
Hayward,
Dean of the Royal Air Force College
(and Conference Convenor), at:
Email:
jhayward-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk
Tel.: +44 (0)1400 268020
We are
particularly keen to ensure that graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows and junior faculty are able to play an active role
in the conference.
In addition
to making attendance entirely free to all currently enrolled
university students we may be able to provide limited financial
support (beyond purely transport and accommodation) to any
students whose papers have been accepted for presentation.
Dr Joel Hayward
Dean of the Royal Air Force College
Cranwell
Lincolnshire NG34 8HB
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 (0)1400 266334
DFTS 95751 6334
Fax +44 (0)1400 266265
Email:
jhayward-kcl@cranwell.raf.mod.uk
Visit the website at http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk
Posted:
May 28, 2008
Russia
& Modern World: Problems of Political Development
Deadeline: March 10, 2009
Conference Date: April 16-18, 2009
Institute of Business & Politics, Moscow, Russia
There is suggested to discuss the following issues in the
framework of conference:
- Civil Society and Law State: Problems of Establishment -
Problems of Dialogue of the Federal Power and Regional Elite:
Experience and Prospects - Modern Russia: World Policy Challenges
- Economic Aspects of Political Development of Russia - Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS): Problems and Prospects of Interaction
- Confessional Nature of International Relations and Domestic
Policy - Modern Elites: Identification Problems - Image of
Russia in the Design of European and Oriental Identities -
Religion in the System of Political Culture of Russia: History
and Modern Trends - Cultural Aspects of the Globalization
- Literature of the XX – XXI Centuries in Social-Political
Aspects - Models of University Education in the Modern World
- Representation of the Modern Russian in Domestic and Foreign
Mass Media
Conference
languages: Russian, English
The abstracts
(300 words) should be submitted with the registration form
to the Organizing Ñommittee by e-mail: ibp-polit@list.ru.
Deadline for the abstracts: 1st December 2008. The Organizing
Ñommittee shall reserve the right to select papers.
The confirmations about the inclusion in the Program of IV
International Interuniversity Scientific Conference will be
sent during January 2009. After receiving the confirmation
it’ll be possible to submit the full paper by e-mail
ibp-polit@list.ru. Scientific paper submissions will be accepted
till 10th March 2009.
REGISTRATION
FORM
1. Surname
2.Name 3. Academic degree 4. Academic rank 5. Title of report
(speech) 6. Position 7. Place of permanent job 8. Telephone
(office) 9. E-mail 10. Telephone (home) 11. Address (home)
12. Technical means required for address
Please
address for more information by e-mail: ibp-polit@list.ru
or on the phone: (495) 912-06-46 (ext. 157) Organizing Ñommittee
Institute of Business & Politics,
109004,Moscow, B.Kommunisticheskaja, 13
(495)912-06-46 (ext.157)
Email: ibp-polit@list.ru
Posted:
July 8, 2008
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