Archive: Calls

• CPG sessions in the IGC Beijing 2016

The International Geographical Congress (IGC) will be held in Beijing on August 21-25, 2016 following the IGU-CPG preconference in Guangzhou (which will be announced later through this list). We cordially invite your papers.

 

The list of the CPG sessions for the IGC can be downloaded at:

http://www.lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp/user/yamataka/CPG_sessions.pdf

 

The deadline of abstract submission is February 15th. The instruction for abstract submission can also be downloaded at:

http://www.lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp/user/yamataka/Instruction.pdf

 

For more information about the IGC, please look at:

http://www.igc2016.org/dct/page/1

and see the second circular of the IGC2016

 

 

If you have any questions, please ask CPG co-chairs listed below. We look forward to seeing you in China.

 

Best regards,

Virginie Mamadouh

V.D.Mamadouh@uva.nl

Takashi Yamazaki

yamataka@lit.osaka-cu.ac.jp

• 15th ‘Lodz’ International Political Geography Conference

The Department of Political Geography and Regional Studies, University of Lodz is organising the 15^th ‘Lodz’ International Political Geography Conference that will be held on September 14–16, 2016.

 

The subject of the conference is: Borderland of nations, nations of borderland.

 

please find here all details and registration form

• CFP Borders, Walls, Violence – Montreal

Call for Papers

 

 

Borders, Walls and Violence : Costs and Alternatives to Border Fencing  
International conference organized by the Raoul Dandurand Chair at the University of Quebec at Montreal 

 
To be held in June 1-3, 2016
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 
 

More border walls and border fences are being built every year all across the world. Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia are among the latest to announce yet another border fence. Twenty-five years ago it was believed that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reconfiguration of international relations would open an age of globalization in which States would become obsolete, ushering in a world without borders. In the wake of 9/11, however, borders came back in light, new borders were created and new border walls erected. In the wake of the Arab Spring, came even more border barriers and walls, symbols that were thought to have disappeared with the collapse of the bipolar international system. Today, they reinforce borderlines the world over, transforming both soft and semi-permeable borders alike into sealed, exclusionary hard borders. Walls are symbols of identity reaffirmation, markers of State sovereignty, instruments of dissociation, locus of a growing violence.

 

Fields: Political Science, Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, Economics, Art, Design, Biology, Environmental studies, Area Studies, Gender studies, Zoology, Medical studies (this list is intended to be suggestive rather than inclusive).
Organizers/Scientific Committee: Élisabeth Vallet (Raoul-Dandurand Chair UQAM – Canada), Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary (Geography, Université Joseph Fourier – France), Reece Jones (Geography, University of Hawaii – USA), Kenneth D. Madsen (Geography, The Ohio State University – USA), Said Saddiki (Law, Al-Ain University of Science and Technology – UAE)

 

 

Students are especially encouraged to submit a proposal.

 

Conference Theme:

 

This conference seeks to understand border walls as a global trend in International Relations. As a growing number of walls are being built along international borders and as migrants and inhabitants of those borderlands are experimenting more and more violence, we seek to understand the local perspectives and views on border fences and replace it in a multiscalar perspectives in order to see if there are viable alternatives to fences and security approaches. How much do they cost (both monetary and socially) ? How well do they work ? How do they affect borderlands? How are security discourses shaping the landscape to build border walls ?

 

 

Theoretical Context

 

In a globalized world in which interdependence is viewed as a necessity and the norm, border walls appear to be things of the past, obsolete manifestations of the institution of State. Nevertheless, walls have been spreading steadily since the end of the Cold War. And the boom in wall-building after the attack on the World Trade Center actually has its roots, at least attitudinally, in the pre-9/11 period, for the walls derive not from a specific fear of terrorism but rather from the global insecurity bred by globalization. Paradoxically, in a security-conscious world, globalization has led not to the elimination of borders but rather to the recomposition of territory and the erection of new “ramparts”. The wall has become a solution to the quest for security of the State, the boundaries of which never truly disappeared, a solution sublimated through an increasingly security-centric discourse in the wake of 9/11, and further fueled by post-Arab Spring events.

 

Themes

 

Participants are encouraged to critically examine the role of border walls in security discourses and in the framing of the local political and sociological landscape to consider some of the following themes:

 
Theme 1. Impacts of border walls
Theme 2. Legal aspects of border walls 

 

Theme 3. Costs and economies of border walls

 

Theme 4. Violence of border walls

 

Theme 5. Alternatives to border walls
Deadline for abstract submission: October 5, 2015 
(for both panel sessions and poster sessions)

Please note that papers may be considered for both panel sessions AND poster sessions.
Proposal: please include the following information (300 words)
·        Name of authors/contributors
·         Institutional affiliations, titles
·        Contact: telephone, fax, email, mailing address
·        Title of the paper
·        Abstract: Subject, empirical frame, analytical approach, theme (approx. 300 words)
Languages: Proposals can be submitted in French, English and Spanish. However the conference will be held in English and French.
Conference Dates and Deadlines:

• Oct.31, 2015 : deadline for submitting abstracts and proposals
• Dec.2015 : proposals selection and notification sent to presenters
• March 31, 2015 : submission of papers to discussants
• June 1-3, 2016 : Conference to be held in Montreal.

 

Send your proposals via email in Word format to Élisabeth Vallet at UQAM: BordersandWalls@gmail.com 

 

 

• CFP Contemporary crisis and changes – Reims

English follows French:

 

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS
 
Crises et mutations contemporaines

Approches géoéconomiques et géopolitiques
 

Colloque international – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)

26 et 27 mai 2016, Reims (France)
 
Sous la direction de François Bost et Stéphane Rosière

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, EA 2076 Habiter

Sous le patronage des commissions « Industrie et emploi » et « Géographie politique et géopolitique » du Comité National Français de Géographie (CNFG)

et de la commission de géographie politique de l’IGU-UGI.

 

Le laboratoire Habiter (EA 2076) organise les 26 et 27 mai 2016 à l’Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) un colloque international intitulé “Crises et mutations contemporaines – Approches géoéconomiques et géopolitiques”  dirigé par François Bost et Stéphane Rosière.”

 

Depuis plusieurs années, le monde est entré dans une période de forte instabilité. Sur le plan économique, ce mouvement, initié par la « crise des subprimes » apparue en 2007 aux États-Unis, s’est ensuite étendu à l’ensemble de la planète dans tous les domaines d’activité générant baisse de la croissance et chômage. Le monde actuel est par ailleurs marqué par un accroissement des conflictualités, notamment au Moyen-Orient, ou en Ukraine qui remet en cause les frontières. Cette conflictualité alimente des mouvements migratoires eux-mêmes porteurs de tensions. L’objectif du colloque « Crises et mutations contemporaines » est d’interroger ces bouleversements au travers d’une double lecture  géoéconomique et géopolitique. L’accent sera ainsi mis sur trois axes principaux, en portant une attention à toutes les échelles (du local au mondial), et en considérant tous les types d’acteurs.

1. Depuis 2007-2008, le monde est-il confronté à une « crise » ou connaît-il une « mutation » largement inédite, annonciatrice de bouleversements majeurs et en chaîne ? À cet égard, il s’agira de déterminer quelles sont les expressions les plus pertinentes de cette crise et / ou de ces dynamiques qui esquissent un autre monde.

2. La « fermeture » (repli sur soi, formes plus ou moins larvées de protectionnisme, logiques de blocs concurrents, construction de barrières aux frontières, etc.) paraît être une des manifestations de la situation actuelle. S’agit-il d’une nouvelle logique mondiale dominante ? Dans quelle mesure la fermeture, toujours relative, renvoie-t-elle à la notion d’asymétrie et est-elle créatrice de déséquilibres ?

3. Quel lien est-il possible d’établir entre les registres économiques et géopolitiques dans l’évolution contemporaine du monde ? Quelle imbrication entre ces deux registres ? Le paradigme de la fin du territoire – et de la fin de la géopolitique – souvent associé à la mondialisation et au libéralisme reste-t-il pertinent ? La situation contemporaine ne remet-elle pas en cause nos représentations les plus courantes de la mondialisation ?

 

Les modalités pratiques (propositions de contributions, participation) sont disponibles sur le site du laboratoire Habiter. Pour télécharger le pdf, veuillez cliquer ici.

 

CALL FOR PROPOSITIONS
 
Contemporary crisis and changes

Geoeconomical and geopolitical approaches
 
International Conference – University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)

26 and 27 May 2016

Reims (France)
 
Conference organized by François Bost and Stéphane Rosière

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, EA 2076 Habiter

With the support of the Commissions « Industrie et emploi » and « Géographie politique et géopolitique » of the Comité National Français de Géographie (CNFG)

and of the Commission on Political Geography of the IGU-UGI

 

For several years, the world seems to have entered a period of high instability. Economically, the “subprime mortgage crisis” appeared in 2007 in the USA, then spread planet wide in all areas of activity, leading to lower growth and unemployment. In geopolitical terms, tension spots have also multiplied (Middle East, Ukraine) and challenge the borders, generating strong migratory waves. This process, by itself, carries conflicts. The aim of the conference “Contemporary Crisis and changes” is to question these contemporary upheavals through both a geo-economic and a geopolitical reading. The emphasis will be put on three main themes, at all scales (from local to global) and considering any type of actors.

1. Since 2007-2008, is the World facing a “crisis” or si it experiencing a very unprecedented “change”, heralding major and chain upheavals? In this regard, it will be the occasion to debate and chose the most relevant words to describe this crisis and/or these changes shaping another World.

2. The “closure” (isolationism, more or less latent forms of protectionism, competing logics of blocks, building of border barriers, etc.) seems to be one of the manifestations of the current situation. Is it one of the new dominant world logics? In which way do these “closure” processes, always relative, refer to an asymmetrical concept and create imbalances?

3. What links can be established between the economic and geopolitical fields as part of contemporary world change? What about the overlap between these two fields? Is the paradigm of the “end of territory” (and so of geopolitics), often associated with globalisation and liberalism, still relevant? Is the current situation challenging the most common mental representations of globalisation?

 

For more details (paper proposals, participation), you may refer to the website of « Habiter ». The full pdf can be dowloaded there.

• ABS 2016 Annual Conference

ABS 2016 Annual Conference Call for Papers has been published and is now available at the ABS website.

La convocatoria para la conferencia 2016 de ABS ha sido publicada y es disponible a través del sitio web de la asociación.

 

ABS 2016 Annual Conference / the WSSA 58th Annual Conference
April 13-16, 2016, Reno, Nevada, USA

To be organized at Grand Sierra Resort & Casino, 2500 E. 2nd St, Reno, NV, 89595, USA    
 
 
Call for Papers    –     Convocatoria

 

Please remember to pay your annual ABS membership fee and your WSSA conference registration in order to attend the conference

Debido a que las reuniones anuales de la ABS tienen lugar en colaboración con la conferencia anual de la Western Social Science Association, por favor recuerden pagar su cuota anual de afiliación a la ABS y su cuota de inscripción WSSA cada enero.

• Click here to pay your annual ABS membership fee
• Click here for the WSSA online registration

 

Please note, submit proposals directly to the program chair and coordinator: Dr. Patricia Barraza, mbarraza@uacj.mx (not through the newly introduced online submission system at WSSA website)

 

To make a reservation at the Grand Sierra Resort & Casino online, at the special rate, please go to  Hotel Reservation 

• ABS program chair and coordinator: Dr. Patricia Barraza (mbarraza@uacj.mx)
• ABS Head of Organization: Dr. Jussi Laine (absexec@uef.fi)
• WSSA General Program Director: Dr. Michèle Companion ( mcompani@uccs.edu)            

• Black Europe Summer School Program 2015

Application deadline extended: April 2, 2015

Black Europe Summer School Program 2015

June 22 – July 3, 2015

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Now in its 8th year, the overall goal of this intensive two-week course is to examine the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora in Europe. We will focus on the historical and colonial legacies of European countries to discuss the origins of BlackEurope and investigate the impact of these legacies on policies and legislation today.

 

This course addresses the dimensions of race and ethnic relations that are unique to Europe; examining the ways in which conceptions of the “other” are institutionalized and reproduced; the rise of xenophobia in various EU countries; issues such as global racisms, everyday racism, and epistemic racism; the legal definitions and discourse surrounding the conceptualized “other”; and examining the ways in which each country has dealt with issues of race and national identity. Issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality are central analytics, and scholars from the social sciences and humanities and NGOs working against racism and xenophobia in Europe are encouraged to apply.

 

Applications due April 2, 2015.

 

Visit our website for more information.

http://www.dialogoglobal.com/amsterdam/

 

Visit us on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Europe-Summer-School/162238897215547

 

Email anytime with further inquiries:

blackeurope@dialogoglobal.com

• Ph.D. Summer School: The ENP under Pressure

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Application deadline: 10 March 2015

 

Two weeks Ph.D. Summer School, 23 June-5 July 2015

 

“The ENP under Pressure: The EU and the Eastern and the Southern Neighbourhoods”

 

https://www.coleurope.eu/news/call-participation-european-neighbourhood-policy-phd-summer-school-23-june-5-july-2015

 

 

Week 1: 23 June-28 June 2015, College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw, Poland),

Week 2: 29 June – 5 July 2015, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)  & Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Israel & Palestine)

 

Place & date

 

Following the success of previous ENP Ph.D. Summer Schools, held at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe, and the EUROPE IN THE WORLD Ph.D. summer schools, which have been taking place yearly since 2010 at the University of Roskilde (Denmark), the University of Crete in Rethymno (Greece), and the Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) respectively, the European Neighborhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin campus, in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS; Jerusalem Office and Ramallah Office), is organizing the third Ph.D. Summer School on “The ENP under Pressure: The EU and the Eastern and the Southern Neighbourhoods”, from 23 June to 5 July 2015 at the College of Europe, Natolin campus (Warsaw) , at BGU (Beer Sheva) and at KAS (Jerusalem and Ramallah) .

 

Organization

The event is sponsored by the ENP Chair of the College of Europe, Natolin campus (http://www.coleurope.eu/page-ref/european-neighbourhood-policy-chair) the BGU (http://www.europebgu.com) and the KAS offices in Jerusalem and Ramallah (http://www.kas.de/israel/en/; http://www.kas.de/palaestinensische-gebiete/en/), in collaboration with the ECPR (www.ecpr.eu), the ECPR-SGEU (http://sgeu-ecpr.org/), and the TEPSA (http://www.tepsa.eu/).

 

Subject of the summer school

The Ph.D. Summer School will concentrate on the dynamics between the European Union (EU) and its eastern and southern neighborhoods, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a special focus on the revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) framework, which is currently undergoing yet another review process. It will analyze the evolution and implications of the ENP, the social and political transformations in the neighboring countries, issues related to conflict and territorial occupation, and discuss how the most recent developments in the ENP countries, as well as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, influence EU policies and politics.

Purpose

The purpose of this summer school is to bring together and train a group of Ph.D. students in theoretical, empirical and research-strategic issues on the subject matter, as well as encourage the exchange of their expertise. Additionally, the aim is to support the participants in furthering their research projects. The Ph.D. Summer School invites political science applicants who specialize in various sub-disciplines, including EU Integration Studies, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Public Administration.

Structure and content details

The first week, to be held on the Natolin campus of the College of Europe, will focus exclusively on the eastern dimension of the ENP, while the second week, to be held at BGU in Beer Sheva and at KAS Jerusalem and Ramallah, will focus on the southern dimension of the ENP and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Invited academics and relevant practitioners will give lectures in the mornings. Participants will present their own work in the afternoons. The topics presented during the morning sessions include, among others:

• The Evolution of the ENP – Problems and Pitfalls
• Research designs in the study of European integration, EU foreign policy and the ENP
• What kind of power? Role concepts, the ENP and ‘Normative Power Europe’
• The EU and state-building in the southern neighbourhood
• External Perceptions of the ENP and the EU as an international actor
• The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy and the ENP
• The ENP and Democracy Promotion
• A new generation of association agreements with the eastern neighbours of the EU
• The EU, the ENP and the Arab Spring
• The ENP and European external energy policy
• The ENP and the Eastern Partnership – The case of Ukraine
• The ENP and the Union for the Mediterranean
• The EU, the ENP and conflicts in the neighbourhood
• The EU, the ENP and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• The role of civil societies in conflicts in the neighbourhood
• The role of the European Parliament, the EEAS and other EU institutions in the ENP
• …..and more!

The school offers scholarly support on issues relating to the individual projects. In this respect, Ph.D. students are expected to circulate their paper before each presentation, and each presentation will be assigned to a discussant/lecturer that is supposed to prepare a number of specific comments. All of the students’ presentations will be followed by substantive discussions about how to improve their research theoretically/conceptually/methodologically and with regards to the case studies and the evidence used.

Fees

In order to enable successful candidates to travel to Natolin and Beer Sheva, the participation fee is waived. The ENP Chair and the CSEPS provide 20 successful applicants with a grant covering accommodation and full board during their stay in Poland, Israel and Palestine. Also, the CSEPS and KAS award the four best applications with a limited travel grant from Warsaw to Tel Aviv. All other participants have to cover the costs of their travel themselves.

Applications

A maximum of 20 Ph.D. students may participate. Participants should most preferably be at least one year into their studies.

To apply, please send in one PDF file:

• A cover letter describing your motivation to participate
• A brief outline of your Ph.D. project (2-3 pages maximum)
• Your CV (2-3 pages maximum)

by 10 March 2015 to Ms. Maja Olszewska at maja.olszewska@coleurope.eu. All applicants will be informed about the results of the selection by 31March 2015 at the latest.

• IGC 2016, Beijing

• IGU Moskow: EXTENDED DEADLINE

Extended deadlines

• Fifth EUGEO Congress CFP

The fifth EUGEO Congress will take place in Budapest, Hungary on 30 August – 2 September 2015, at Eötvös Loránd University
 
Please consider, inter alia, the following sessions:

 

• P07 Challenging borders: a critical perspective on the relation between state, territory, citizenship and identity
• P50 The (ir)relevance of b/ordering: border (re)enforcement and border disputes in the European Union 

 

All sessions: http://eugeo2015.com/sessions 

 

Important Dates

1 December 2014 – Early registration begins
31 January 2015 – Deadline for submitting abstracts
1 March 2015 – Notification about the results of the abstract review
20 March 2015 – Publication of the provisional conference program
15 May 2015 – Deadline for early registration fee payment
30 June 2015 – Deadline for regular fee payment
30 August – 2 September 2015 – EUGEO 2015 Congress in Budapest