Conferences and Calls for Papers

Upcoming Conferences and CFPs in chronological order • Announcement: Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize The Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association is pleased to announce the biannual competition for the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize. Latin American, Caribbean, or Borderlands history during the previous two years, 2005 and 2006. Submissions must be postmarked by June 30th 2007. • Locating "Eurasia" in Postsocialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming" Annual SOYUZ Symposium. Princeton University, New Jersey, US. April 27-29, 2007. • Entries for The encyclopedia on the history and culture of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands for Greenwood Press Entry: Border theory, by March-April. • Remapping America: Shifts in Nationality, Citizenship, and Community Interdisciplinary conference at Purdue University, Indiana, USA. April 20, 2007. The conference's theme also lends itself to ideas concerning immigration, migration, language, displacement, civil rights, and borders • American Art Histories and Transdiciplinary Practices University of Illinois, April 21, 2007. Considers the importance of artistic production beyond the borders of the United States and of hyphenated ethnic groups (African-American, Latin-American, etc.) within these borders to understanding and defining American art. • Dialogues and Borders: rethinking Latin America and the Caribbean LACS conference, New York, United States, April 27-28, 2007 (registration deadline 1 February, 2007) • British Columbia: Inner and Outer Worlds Conference April 27-29, 2007 in British Columbia, Canada. Conference Topics include; Borderlands: Relationships Across Permeable Boundaries. • International Conference in Communication and Media Studies: Communication in Peace/Conflict in Communication Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus, May 2-4, 2007. Topics include: Borders that Divide/Unite. • Special issue of the Anthropology of East Europe Review on Roma and Gadje How are individual Roma and Gadje interpellated by the dynamic and shifting boundaries that inform the dialectics of identity? What are the micro-physics of the negotiations along this border, and how do they sustain the production of difference? How are the ambiguities and indeterminacies encountered along these borders stabilized and made commensurate in acts of recognition (or rejection) of otherness? Papers should not exceed 10,000 words and must be submitted by May 15 for consideration for fall publication. • Literature for Europe: European Identities and European Literature in a Globalizing World Vadstena, 12-16 May 2007 (registration deadline 28 February 2007) - arranged by the European Science Foundation and Linköping University. • Flickering Landscapes: Cinematic Representations of the West Moab Utah, May 21-23, 2007. Submit abstracts by March 15, 2007. Intertextual exchanges played out on the literal landscape, where borders define self and other, friend and foe, and where physical location comes to stand in for myth, character, and identity. • Imperial borderlands Empire, Nation States and Regions: the historical experience of building big nations in the core areas of European regions. A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence/CultMEP workshop, 24-25 May 2007, venue to be confirmed. • Continuity and discontinuity in East – West relationships The “Gheorghe Sincai” Research Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities of the Romanian Academy, Targu Mures, Romania, 25 Mai 2007. • Young Researchers Forum ESF Humanities Spring 2007 “Disciplines and Borders: Humanities research in an age of interdisciplinarity” Granada (Spain), 24-26 May 2007. • Metamorphosis and Place Transdisciplinary Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. Istanbul, May 24-26, 2007. (registration deadline 15 December) • Beyond Manifest Domesticity: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Hemispheric Turn Elizabeth Stoddard Society, American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 24-27, 2007. Possible topics include *Women writers inhabiting/constructing the border. Particular interest in those papers that consider the Americas more broadly than conventional notions of rigid U.S. borders. CFP, Please send abstracts in the text of e-mails (no attachments please) by January 27 to Elizabeth Stockton at stockton@southwestern.edu. • Call for Panel Members: "History and Memory in the Context of Conflict and Displacement" A special session at the conference: "Identities in Transition" Mexico City, 1 - 5. June, 2007. Deadline for Abstract Submissions: March 28, 2007. Highlights the political dimension of historical reproductions, the shifting borders between official histories and popular reconstructions of the past, the interplay between remembering and forgetting especially as mediated by generation and gender, the particular significance of oral narratives and life histories in struggles over identities, territory, land and political sovereignty. • INTER: A European Cultural Studies Conference ACSIS, Norrköping, Sweden, 11-13 June 2007. CFP: individual papers (16st of February); to the chairs of the open sessions (1st of February) Among other subjects; spatial internationalisation with a focus on European borders and links in political, economic, social and cultural processes as well as in academic practice. • "Exile or Expatriate?" Graduate Student Colloquium Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain, 8 June 2007. Papers may consider exile or expatriation in literature or in their effects on the lives of writers. Papers may also explore the gulf between the two modes of traveling abroad-what are the effects on literature of an author's leaving by choice versus an unwilling expulsion. Topics might include: the changing patterns of travel amongst the remnants of empire, diasporas throughout time and across cultures, the experiences of refugees of warring nations, the experiences of colonials, Americans in Paris... etc. Please submit abstracts to Timothy Day (jinstra@gmail.com) and Susan Kenney (selizake2@hotmail.com). Deadline for proposals is 15 April 2007. • Penser la frontière, Clarification et mise à l'épreuve sociologique du concept de frontière « border zone » (Kolher, 2002), « boundary-object » (Star et Griesemer, 1989), « boundary-work » (Gieryn, 1995 ; Abbott, 1995), « trading zone » (Galison, 1997), etc. 15 juin 2007 à la Maison de la Recherche, Paris Sorbonne, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. Abstracts by 1. mars 2007. • MIGRATION MATTERS: IMMIGRATION, HOMELANDS, AND BORDER CROSSINGS IN EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS 6th MESEA CONFERENCE, 25-28 JUNE 2008. Proposals by November 15, 2007. • Life in Motion. Shifting Spaces, Transcending Times, Crossing Borders Postgraduate Conference, 28th-30th June 2007, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic (registration deadline 31 January, 2007) • ‘Celebrating Memories & Visual Cultures'" ZIFF Conference, Zanzibar July 2-4, 2007. Call for Papers: abstracts by 1st April 2007. • Toward an Africa Without Borders Conference­ 2007: From Theory to Practice International conference, Durban, South Africa July 5-8, 2007. CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1, 2007. • Home, Migration, and the City: Spatial forms and practices in a Globalising world OPEN HOUSE INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Seen as the direct result of globalisation, migration is now at the forefront of this investigation of cross-border connections The Special Issue guest editor is Dr Ayona Datta, Lecturer, London School of Economics, UK. Please submit a 1000 word abstract and a 150 word author bio by 31st July 2007 in the first instance by email to a.datta2@lse.ac.uk. • "Literary Geographies: a multidisciplinary conference", University of Nottingham, 20-22 July 2007 (submission deadline 31 December 2006) - contact Sheila.jones@nottingham.ac.uk for details. • Transcending Europe’s Borders: The EU and Its Neighbours 2.–4. August, 2007, in Berlin. Deadline for all submissions: December 1, 2006. • International Conference, Cities and Borders Border Cities, Divided Cities, Borders in Cities The University of Macau, China, 3.-5. August 2007 (Fri.-Sun.) Registration deadlines: Early-bird registration: 10.2.2007, Regular registration: 24.4.2007, Late registration: (subject to availability of places) • European migrations in historical perspective International Graduate Student Conference, August 20–22, 2007, Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany »Migrations beyond cultural borders« as an important factor of European communication processes are the main focus of the Institute of European History in 2007. The Institute invites graduate students working on a Ph.D.-thesis on European migration processes to discuss their key arguments and methodological premises with a number of renowned experts on a small-scale conference in Mainz. • The political geographies of the Mediterranean: conflicts and boundaries. Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 28th - 31st August 2007, at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG, London. The session explores emerging socio-spatialities within the increasingly transnational, instable and unsustainable nature of social, political, economic and environmental life of the region. Abstracts (of no more than 200 words) to either Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, r.ribera-fumaz@lancaster.ac.uk or to Javier Caletrío Garcerá, j.caletrio@lancaster.ac.uk by 26th of January 2007. • Rethinking Borders (nr.17) Manchester, UK, 3 - 5 September 2007 (Deadline 30 April) Including: networked or diffuse borders, securitization and rebordering, Europe's internal/external borders, role of citizens in bordering, urban borders, borderlands, 'soft' versus 'hard' borders, borders and (im)mobilities, borders and globalization. • International Conference, Travelling Cinema in Europe Luxembourg, 6-8 September 2007. Deadline: 1 February 2007. Papers may focus e.g. on the regional or local aspects and impact of travelling film shows, on long-distance and border-crossing itineraries of ‘Picture Palaces’. • Crossing German Borders 10-11 September 2007, St John's College Cambridge, UK. Abstracts by 18 May 2007. • The Dynamics of Memory in the New Europe: National Memories and the European Project Conference in mid-September 2007 (in Nottingham or Durham), Issues like - the impact of migration within the boundaries of the new Europe, and from outside Europe to inside Europe on the formation and evolution of collective memory. • ‘Regions and Regionalism in and beyond Europe’ The Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, September 17th-19th, 2007. Focuses also on borders. • CFP “Oral History - A Dialogue with our Times” 15th INTERNATIONAL ORAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, September 23 - 26, 2008, Guadalajara, Mexico. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JULY 15, 2007. -Migrations: Diasporas, international and local migratory movements, networks, borderlands, religious migration, the human capital of immigrants. • Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the North American Frontier 2007 RMMLA Conference, October 4-6 Calgary, Alberta, Canada This panel seeks papers which broaden and extend conceptions of the frontier through the examination of nineteenth-century women writers. Particular interest in papers which examine the points of interconnectivity between transnational, regionalist, and frontier narratives. Abstracts (250 words) by March 1,2007. • SYMPOSIUM CROSSING OVER: LEARNING TO NAVIGATE THE BORDERLANDS OF INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS Cleveland State University, October 5 – 7, 2007 Submit abstracts by May 15, 2007. • INTERROGATIONS OF FREEDOM: MEMORIES, MEANINGS, MIGRATIONS. The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, October 9-12, 2007. CFP March 1, 2007. • CFP: Immigration, Minorities and Multiculturalism in Democracies Public Conference, Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, Montréal. October 25 - 27, 2007. Abstracts by March 31st, 2007. The aim of the conference is to explore empirical, normative, and policy-relevant questions relating to inter-group relations in multiethnic societies, both Western and non-Western, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. • Perceptions of Space and the American Experience Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. November 7 – 9, 2007. Deadline for submission of proposals: July 15,2007. Possible themes: Spatial Boundaries/Spatial Relations and Liminal Space/Zones/Boundaries. • “Gendering Historiography” International Conference, Aby-Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany, 7- 9 November 2007 (registration deadline February 15, 2007.) • ESPACES HERITES, ESPACES ENJEUX/ INHERITED SPACE, CONTESTED SPACE 8-9-10 novembre 2007, Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Proposals by 28 april 2007. • “Borderlands and Frontiers in Africa” Leuven, Belgium 22-24 November 2007. Date for Abstracts and proposals September 1st 2007. • Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage and cultural memory. Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, 3-5 December 2007. • From Walls to Signs: Borders in Transnational Perspective MLA Discussion Group on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society. MLA Annual Convention in Chicago from December 27-30, 2007. Call for Papers: 2007-03-09. • Food, court cultures and the world since 1850. European Social Science History Conference, 2008. Lisbon (Portugal), February 27th to Saturday March 1st 2008. Deadline for abstracts is March 15th 2007. Food was (and is) used to mark borders, include or exclude people, construct identity and shape subtle, refined differences between groups, subgroups, and individuals. • The Novel and its Borders The Centre for The Novel, University of Aberdeen, 8-10 July 2008. Held conferences • Seventeenth Annual Pacific Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference. Students, Teachers, and Activists Working Together. Borders and Battlefields: Feminist Action Across Boundaries April 13, 2007, California State University, Los Angeles The constructions of borders, battlegrounds, and boundaries (with particular attention to gender, sexuality, race, class, and nation), their connections with local and global power structures, and alternative visions and avenues to change. Proposal Deadline: February 19, 2007. • “How our World is Changing: Economic, Environmental, Cultural and Political Dimensions of International Migration.” International Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, April 13-14, 2007. • The Mediterranean Edition: COMMUNICATION IN THE SERVICE OF PEACE Call for Papers: April 15th 2007. Communication, Diaspora and Border Crossing. • Call for proposals: "Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora" The RHR is currently seeking submissions for an issue exploring reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora. Proposals by March 15, 2007. • Ex-centric Narratives, Identity and Multivocality in Anglo-American Cultures Graduate Student International Conference, March 15-18, 2007 Department of American Literature and Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The conference address the concepts of de-centrism and ex-centrism within a globalized context where borders between the canonical and the other are being contested. (registration deadline November 30, 2006) • Bridging National Borders in North America Part II: Spring Symposium. Conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. March 24, 2007. • History Across the Disciplines Graduate Student Conference Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 9th to 11th, 2007. Theme: "Region, Nation and Empire Through the Ages." Issues concerning organization, that continually define the physical and ideological boundaries of regions, nations, and empires. • Call for Papers, "Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Citizenship" Issue of Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context, United States, submission deadline 2007-03-02. • Séminaire annuel; LA NOTION DE FRONTIERE EN SCIENCES COGNITIVES et LA VIE D'UNE FRONTIERE : TRANSGRESSIONS ET RESEAUX MALTAIS Part of the program "Les mots de la frontière" "The words of the border" at the University of Nice. 16/2 and 23/2 2007. • "Rethinking Boundaries: Transformations in Methods and Approaches to Atlantic History" Glucksman Ireland House, New York University. February 9 and 10, 2007. • Building Bridges. A Labour Studies Conference, University of Windsor February 2-3, 2007. • Assessing Boundaries: Approaching Art from the Edge History of Art Conference, Friday January 19th, 2007. The Graduate History of Art Student Association, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (registration deadline 15 December 2006) • Rencontres interdisciplinaires sur les systèmes complexes naturels et artificiels Catastrophes, discontinuités, ruptures, limites, frontières (borders) Comment les analyser ? Comment les anticiper ? (How to analyse them? How to anticipate them?) Rochebrune, France 21-27 Janvier 2007. • Boundaries in Cultural Analysis symposium launching posthumous publication of Inge Boer's uncertain territories: Boundaries in Cultural Analysis, opening by Mieke Bal and Patricia Spyer, Amsterdam, 1 December 2006 • "Barents, grenser og barrierer", Arts Council Norway conference, MS Finnmarken & Kirkenes, 13-15 October 2006 • Dialoge über Grenzen 4. Konstanzer Europa-kolloquium (for young researchers), 12-14 October 2006 (registration deadline 15 August)