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• Ressources minières dans les Amériques

Colloque organisé par le CEMRA (EA3016,!Université Grenoble Alpes), l’ILCEA (EA613, Université Grenoble Alpes) et PACTE! (UMR5194, CNRS Université Grenoble Alpes), avec la collaboration du Centre d’Etudes Canadiennes de Grenoble.
 
Date et lieu : mercredi 11, jeudi 12 et vendredi 13 juin 2014, à Grenoble
 
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• The European Union in International Affairs IV

Brussels, 22-24 May 2014
 
The Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (IES-VUB), the Institut d’Études Européennes at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (IEE-ULB), the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and Egmont – the Royal Institute for International Relations invite papers for the fourth ‘European Union in International Affairs’ (EUIA) Conference.
 
The EUIA Conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for discussion and exchange of ideas amongst scholars engaged in understanding the role of the EU in the world. This broad theme encompasses the dynamic interplay between the EU, its member states and external partners. Debates may focus on topical issues such as the European elections and the quest for democratic accountability, the transatlantic trade and investment partnership, European responses to the instability in the wider neighbourhood, the external implications of the Eurozone crisis, and the evolution of the post-Lisbon European foreign policy system. As such, the EUIA Conference integrates ‘inside out, outside in’ perspectives covering different policy fields.
 
The EUIA Conference is open to all relevant disciplines and sub-disciplines. Through keynote addresses and policy link panels it fosters exchange between the scientific and the policy communities. Limited solidarity grants are available to cover part of the cost of participation of junior researchers from disadvantaged countries.
 
Please submit your paper abstract (300 words maximum) according to instructions on the conference website: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014
 
Deadline for paper proposals: 30 September 2013 Notification of acceptance: 17 January 2014 Submission of full papers: 9 May 2014
 
We look forward to welcoming you to the fourth EUIA Conference!
 
On behalf of the EUIA Conference organisers: IES-VUB, IEE-ULB, UNU-CRIS and Egmont
 
The EU in International Affairs Conference Secretariat Institute for European Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels (mail address)
T: +32-2-6148001
F: +32-2-6148010
E: euia2014@ies.be
W: www.ies.be/conference/euia2014

• Gender and Crises in Global Politics

The International Feminist Journal of Politics announces

 

the 3^rd Annual IFjP Conference

May 9-11, 2014

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

 

 Gender and Crises in Global Politics

 
We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining to the conference theme and sub-themes. We also welcome papers and panels that consider any other feminist IR-related questions.
 
Keynotes: Jack Halberstam (USC), others to be announced
 

Call for Papers

 
If one is to believe what newspapers, news media, and even IR’s journals suggest, the global political arena is (again) in a time of crisis. The Global Financial Crisis still reverberates and is producing the Debt Crisis. The continued violence in Syria, the tensions between Israel and Palestine, the aggression of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the risk of Iran’s proliferation and other militarily volatile situations have been characterized as crises. Environmentalists warn of ecological crisis, health scholars warn of a disease crisis, cyber-security specialists suggest a coming information crisis, and  migration experts warn of population crises. On the other hand, a range of issues are excluded from the categories of crisis.  Why, for example, is rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo not a crisis?  Taken together, these present-day presumed crises and non-crises sit beside a history of global politics that is often told as a connection of crises – wars, depressions, diseases, and natural disasters.
 
Feminist work in International Relations has addressed many of these crises, both historical and contemporary, yet there is more to be done. The thematic focus of this year’s conference is on feminist theorizing of crisis, as well as of crises. We hope papers will address some of the following questions, both theoretically and empirically:
 

• How does an event or social situation come to be constituted and represented as a crisis? What do gender and/or queer lenses tell us about what we recognize as crisis and how we read those crises?

 

• Whose suffering constitutes a crisis, and what reactions are warranted? How does crisis policy behavior allow for the omission of concerns and needs of people at the margins of global politics? What do feminist and/or queer approaches to the politics of crisis representation look like?

 

• Who/what is the subject of crisis politics? In crises, who is protected, saved, or forgotten? Whose crises demand attention? Whose are ignored?

 

• What do gender and/or queer lenses tell us about analyzing crisis in global politics? What unique methods do feminisms bring to identifying and understanding what constitutes crises?
• Are there feminist and/or queer approaches to crisis management? What challenges do crises present differently from ‘everyday politics’ as traditionally understood? What might a gendered/queer analysis of ‘means and ends’ tell us about crisis? Do gender and/or queer lenses tell us something about crisis strategy generally and/or disaggregate their analyses by types of crises?

 

• How does feminist and/or queer theorizing deal with characterizations of  ’times of crisis’? Does feminist and queer work in history, sociology, geography, and politics provide contextualization of such characterizations?

 

• What if anything does it do to look at theorizing crisis as in crisis? How do gender/queer lenses think about crises in theorizing – of crisis itself and of specific concepts in crisis located in political economy to security?

 
We invite submissions for individual papers or pre-constituted panels on any topic pertaining to the conference theme and sub-themes. We also welcome papers and panels that consider any other feminist IR-related questions.  Abstracts should be no more than 250 words.
 
Any inquiries should be addressed to the journal’s University of Florida gmail address, ifjpatuf@gmail.com.
 
Deadline for submissions: January 31, 2014.  We will, however, confirm acceptance of submissions before the deadline if we receive abstracts early. Early submission is therefore recommended.

• Geopolitics Towards Future

 

Geographical section, Faculty of Political Science – University Niccolò Cusano – Rome, Italy

International Geographical Union – Commission on Political Geography

Società Geografica Italiana

 

 

International Conference “Geopolitics Towards Future”

Rome, Italy,

Monday 2nd – Wednesday 4th

September 2013

 

First Circular – Call for Papers

 

The Faculty of Political Science of the University Niccolò Cusano – Rome, toghether with the Commission on Political Geography of the International Geographical Union, Società Geografica Italiana and Associazione Italiana di Cartografia (AIC), is organising the International Conference “Geopolitics  Towards Future”.

The Conference will be held starting September 2nd until September 4th 2013 in Rome, in the Niccolò Cusano University Campus, via don Carlo Gnocchi 3.

Preface

The main topic of the Conference is the “future”, new scenarios and new problems. The approach is mainly geopolitical, geoeconomical and interdisciplinary. The globalized world extensively investigated by experts is going through a long period of crisis. The exit of the crisis is expected and there are many ideas about how to solve it. Serious problems such as resources, the environment and geopolitical scenarios both dynamic and complex as, for example, the endless Arab winter, the islamisation of central Africa, Chinafrica, BRICS; all these need to be studied accurately. Geographers are like doctors at the sickbed of  a world: which are their new prescriptions and their diagnoses? The geographical methodology, the skills acquired throughout the long history of geographical knowledge are instruments that are usable to understand today’s world and its future?

These are the topics that will be discussed in three days of meetings, round tables and seminars. We hope to find an answer.

A selection of papers will be published.

The Conference will be structured into 3 subsequent sessions:

–       Session A

–       September 2nd: Seminar “Geopolitics Towards Future” for doctoral students of the Central European Universities Consortium and will be open to all doctoral and PHD students interested.

–       Session B

–       September 3rd: The traditional meeting of human geographers of the Adriatic region “Adriatic Forum 2013” on “Global integration and networks”. Main Topics: Integration and corridors (Round Table); energy and energy securitization; transportations; planning and cross-border relations; coast management; harbour connections; sea corridors; tourism.

–       Session C

–       September 4th: The symposium on “Global Trends in Political Geography for the 21st Century”. Main Topics: globalization and crisis (Round Table); lost wars; energy and energy securitization; energy and environment; environment; democracy and participation; unemployment; urban security; famine; migrations; integration and diversity; after the Arab spring; Islam and Africa; Chinafrica; BRICS; Middle East problems

 

Organizing Committee:

 

Prof. Maria Paola Pagnini, Prof. Anton Gosar, Prof. Milan Bufon, Prof. Michel Korinman.

 

 

Deadline

Registration form: 31st July

Abstract (max 1 page): 31st July

Final paper: 31st July

 

Registration form and abstracts must be sent to:

Organizing Committee for the International Conference “Geopolitics Towards Future”

(dr. Giuseppe Puligheddu)

Faculty of Political Science – University Niccolò Cusano

Via don Carlo Gnocchi, 3 00186 Rome

E-mail: consulentedidattico9@unicusano.it

 

All who are interested in geopolitics and geoeconomics are invited to attend the conference. It does not matter which academic discipline you belong to. Interdisciplinary approaches are much appreciated and could be topics in themselves. Certificates of attendances will be released.

Papers selected by the Organizing Committee will  be published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

 

Languages: English and French

 

Accommodation

Niccolò Cusano Campus, student residence

Bedrooms with two bunk beds

From Sunday night 1st September to Saturday night 7th September……………………….200 euro

 

Casa “Severino Fabriani”  via don Carlo Gnocchi, 70 (five walk minutes from the Campus)

12 single bedroom with breakfast……………………………………35  euro /day

12 three bedrooms with breakfast……………………………………90 euro/day

plus 2 euro 1 person/1 night as municipal tax. Children under 10 years do not pay.

 

Meal  at Niccolò Cusano Campus ……………………………………5 euro

 

The Campus can be reached by line A of the Rome Underground and bus n. 146 from Battistini Station. There is also a “Cusano” shuttle-bus every half hour from Battistini Station.

How to reach Termini Station from Leonardo Da Vinci Fiumicino Airport: please have a look at http://www.rome-airport.info/in.html , then you can take line A of the Rome Underground (Battistini direction) and bus n. 146 from Battistini Station.

How to reach Termini Station from Ciampino Airport: please have a look at http://www.terravision.eu/rome_ciampino.html , then you can take line A of the Rome Underground (Battistini direction) and bus n. 146 from Battistini Station. Otherwise you may reach Anagnina Station you can take line A of the Rome Underground (Battistini direction) and bus n. 146 from Battistini Station; for this possibility please look http://www.atral-lazio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145&Itemid=197 .

• Planning/conflict – cities and citizenship in times of crisis

International research conference: planning / conflict – cities and citizenship in times of crisis
 
Lisbon, October 9-11, 2013
 
http://www.planningconflict.ics.ul.pt/
 
The second international research conference of the AESOP Planning/Conflict thematic group is hosted by the Instituto de Ciências Sociais – Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL) in partnership with the Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CIES-IUL) and sponsored by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP).
 
This conference aims at bringing together different perspectives on conflicts around urban planned developments, with a focus on the role planning practices may play both in defining/framing and in possibly solving/reframing conflicts. This event builds on the experience of the conference “planning/conflict – critical perspectives on contentious urban developments” held at TU Berlin in October 2011.
 
The conference invites contributions focusing on (although not necessarily limited to):
 
*  the changing features of urban development policies and their impacts on local societies and communities;
*  the changing nature of urban planning practices and their influence on public opinion formation, including forms of protest and social mobilization in opposition to planned developments;
*  the effectiveness and legitimacy of established planning practices in responding to protest and social mobilization and in dealing with possibly resulting conflicts;
*  the transformative potential that may be entailed in reflexively addressing protest and social mobilization and in dealing with conflicts;
*  the potential integrative and innovative contribution of political agonism and social conflict to the democratization of urban policy and planning.
 
Abstracts (in English, max 500 words) and a brief biographic note of the author(s) (English, max 200 words) should be sent to: planningconflict@ics.ul.pt
 
Key Dates
June 15th – Deadline for the submission of abstracts.
June 30th – Notification of acceptance
September 1st – Deadline for the submission of full papers.
 
For more information visit: http://www.planningconflict.ics.ul.pt/
 
Contact the organizers at: planningconflict@ics.ul.pt

• ACME Call for New Editors

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographers

 

Call for New Editors

 

The ACME Editorial Collective would like to invite applications from those interested in being part of the Editorial Collective.  We are particularly looking for a German editor, a Spanish editor and up to two Canadian based editors (who can also be German/Spanish editors).

 

ACME has been running for eleven years and publishes papers in German, English, Spanish, Italian and French (see http://www.acme-journal.org/Home.html).  The journal’s purpose is to provide a forum for the publication of critical work about space in the social sciences ‹ including  anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, Marxist,  non-representational, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist perspectives. Analyses that are critical are understood to be part of the praxis of social and political change aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming prevalent relations, systems, and structures of exploitation, oppression, imperialism, neoliberalism, national aggression, and environmental destruction.

 

This role involves directing the shape of the journal, as well as editorial duties to see manuscripts through to publication (including deciding on reviewers, making decisions on manuscript acceptance, editing final articles).

 

In order to apply, please send a one-page covering letter and a full CV. The covering letter should outline why you would like to join the Editorial Collective and what you feel that you would contribute to this post.

 

Deadline for

applications is: September 23rd 2013. Please send your applications to Kath Browne (k.a.browne@brighton.ac.uk).

• Border Art Technology

(En Français ci-après – French follows)
 
In the frame of the antiAtlas of borders,  a call for proposals is launched for an exhibition at La compagnie in Marseille, from December 13, 2013 to March 1rst, 2014.
 
The curator and the artistic and scientific committee are looking for various proposals (artworks, net. Art, photo, video, testimonies, documentaries, video games…) expressing different ways to experience borders. Proposals from migrants, professionals and artists are welcome, in order to contribute to prepare a resolutely participatory exhibition.
 
The antiAtlas of borders is a transdisciplinary event that will take place between September, 30, 2013 and March, 1rst, 2014. Bypassing cartography, at the crossroads of research and art, it offers a new approach of the mutations of borders and on the way they are experienced by people in the 21st century. The antiAtlas is an outcome of the transdisciplinary research project led by IMéRA (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées – Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Research) on the mutations of contemporary territorial configurations (2011-2013). By bringing together artists, human scientists, hard scientists and professionals, it aims to decompartmentalize fields of knowledge.
 
The antiAtlas will relies on five different supports:
1 : an international symposium open to researchers, artists, institutional actors, and to the public at large. It will take place in Aix en Provence, from the 30th of September to the 2d of October 2013)
2 : a first art-science exhibition at the Musée des Tapisseries in Aix en Provence (from 1rst October to 3 November 2013)
3 : a second art-science exhibition at La Compagnie, a place dedicated creation and art in Marseille (from 13 December 2013 to 1srt mars 2014)
4 : an artistic and scientific web site that will complete and perpetuate the work done and presented through the research program and the two exhibitions
5 : an art science printed volume (winter 2014)
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 
The call for proposals is opened in order to select original productions for the exhibition that will take place at la Compagnie, from 13 December 2013 to 1rst March 2014. Because of its transdisciplinary nature, the antiAtlas of Borders offers multiple levels of involvement and participation. Visitors will engage with a variety of transmedia applications within a space punctuated with interactive sculptures, installations and videos. This playful exhibition will stimulate the public through the interaction with robots, drones and video games. This is an exhibition to engage with: try it yourself!
 
The curator and the artistic and scientific committee are looking for various proposals (artworks, net. Art, photo, video, testimonies, documentaries, video games …) showing different ways to experience the borders. Proposals from migrants, professionals and artists are welcome, in order to contribute to prepare a resolutely participatory exhibition.
 
Composition of the jury
 
The proposals will be selected by a scientific and artistic committee:
Isabelle ARVERS (art curator specialized in web art)
Cédric PARIZOT (Anthropologist, coordinator of the research program antiAtlas, IMéRA, IREMAM, CNRS, Aix Marseille University),
Jean CRISTOFOL (Philosopher, ESAA, Aix en Provence),
Anne-Laure AMILHAT-SZARY (Geographer, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), representing the European research program Euroborderspaces (7e PCRD)
Paul Emmanuel ODIN (Critic, ESAA, responsible for the programming of la Compagnie)
Nicola MAI (Anthropologist, London Metropolitan University, London),
Antoine VION (Sociologist, LEST, Aix Marseille University)
 
Launch date of the call for proposals: 7 May 2013
Deadline for reception of the proposals: 30 June 2013
Selection of the proposals by the committee: 31 July 2013

Send the proposals at the following address : antiatlas.contact@gmail.com
 
The antiAtlas website : www.antiatlas.net
 
Project lead:
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research (IMéRA – AMU/CNRS)
Art school of Aix-en-Provence (ESAA)
Laboratory Pacte (Université de Grenoble)
Isabelle Arvers (independant curator)
Institute for Researchand Study of the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM – AMU/CNRS)
Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology (LAMES – AMU/CNRS)
La compagnie, art creation and exhibition place in Marseille
 
Partners:
Aix-Marseille University (AMU)
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Marseille-Provence 2013 (MP 2013)
The city of Aix-en-Provence
Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (FRAC)
Network of French Institutes of Advanced Studies (RFIEA)
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH)
World Custom Organization (WCO)
 
Media partners:
Journal of Borderlands Studies
Ventilo (cultural bimonthly)
MCD ((Digital music and cultures)
Digitalarti
Mouvement
 
 
 

Dans le cadre de la manifestation L’antiAtlas des frontières, un appel à projet est lancé pour une exposition à La compagnie, lieu de création à Marseille, du 13 décembre 2013 au 1er mars 2014.
La commissaire d’exposition, le comité scientifique et artistique sont à la recherche d’œuvres diverses (net.art, photos, vidéos, témoignages, documentaires, jeux vidéo, …) qui rendent compte d’un vécu et d’une expérience directe des frontières. Elles pourront être produites par des migrants, des professionnels, des artistes ou d’autres personnes ayant eu une expérience directe des traversées de frontières.

 

L’antiAtlas des frontières est une manifestation transdisciplinaire qui se tiendra du 30 septembre 2013 au 1er mars 2014. Au croisement de la recherche et de l’art, elle dépasse la cartographie pour proposer une approche inédite des mutations des frontières et de leur vécu au XXIème siècle.

 

Aboutissement d’un projet de recherche transdisciplinaire lancé en 2011 à l’IMéRA (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées), elle réunit des artistes, chercheurs en sciences humaines, chercheurs en sciences dures et professionnels, elle a pour objectif d’opérer un décloisonnement entre les champs de la connaissance.
 

Cette manifestation s’appuiera sur 5 supports :
(1) un colloque international ouvert aux chercheurs, aux artistes, aux institutionnels, et au grand public à la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aix en Provence, du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2013
(2) une première exposition art/science au Musée des Tapisseries d’Aix en Provence du 1er octobre au 3 novembre 2013
(3) une seconde exposition art/science à La Compagnie, lieu de création à Marseille, du 13 décembre 2013 au 1er mars 2014
(4) une documentation web qui complétera les expositions et les pérennisera
(5) une édition papier prévue pour 2014.
 
APPEL A PROJET
 
L’appel à projet concerne l’exposition qui se tiendra à La compagnie à Marseille du 13 décembre 2013 au 1er mars 2014.
Transdisciplinaire, cette exposition offre plusieurs niveaux de lecture et de formes de participation. Dans un espace jalonné d’œuvres plastiques, d’installations interactives et vidéos, les visiteurs évoluent à travers un dispositif transmédia. Ils sont également confrontés à des photos et des vidéos issues d’un appel à contribution international invitant le public et les migrants à présenter leurs vécus des frontières. Ludique, l’exposition met le public en interaction avec des robots, des drones et des jeux vidéos. Une exposition à expérimenter : Try it Yourself!
La commissaire d’exposition, le comité scientifique et artistique sont à la recherche d’œuvres diverses (net.art, photos, vidéos, témoignages, documentaires, jeux vidéo, …) qui rendent compte d’un vécu et d’une expérience directe des frontières. Elles pourront être produites par des migrants, des professionnels, des artistes ou autres, qui ont eu une expérience directe des traversées de frontières. En donnant la parole à ces différents acteurs, les oeuvres qui seront retenues contribueront au montage de l’exposition résolument participative.

 
Composition du jury
 
Les œuvres seront sélectionnées par un comité scientifique et artistique composé de :
Cédric Parizot (Coordinateur du comité scientifique et artistique, Anthropologue du politique, CNRS, IMéRA), Anne-Laure AMILHAT-Szary (Géographe, Université J. Fourier, Grenoble) représentant le programme de recherche européen Euroborderspaces (7e PCRD)
Isabelle ARVERS (commissaire d’exposition spécialisée dans le web art),
Jean Cristofol (Philosophe, ESAA, Aix en Provence),
Nicola Mai (Anthropologue, London Metropolitan University, Londres),
Antoine Vion (Sociologue, LEST, Aix Marseille université)
Paul Emmanuel Odin (Critique, ESAA, programmation du lieu de création La compagnie)

 
Date de lancement de l’appel à projet : 7 mai 2013
Date limite de réception des œuvres : 30 juin 2013
Date de sélection des œuvres par le comité scientifique et artistique : 31 juillet 2013
 
Les projets sont à envoyer à l’adresse suivante : antiatlas.contact@gmail.com
 
le site de l’antiAtlas : www.antiatlas.net

 
Porteurs du projet :
Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA – AMU/CNRS)

École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (ESAA)
Laboratoire Pacte (Université de Grenoble)

Isabelle Arvers (commissaire d’exposition indépendante)
Institut de Recherche et d’Études sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM – AMU/CNRS)
Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Sociologie (LAMES – AMU/CNRS)
La compagnie, lieu de création à Marseille

 
Partenaires :
Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Marseille-Provence 2013 (MP 2013)
La ville d’Aix-en-Provence
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC)
Réseau Français des Instituts d’Études Avancées (RFIEA)
 
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH)
Organisation Mondiale des Douanes (OMD)

 

Partenaires média :
Journal of Borderlands Studies
Ventilo (journal culturel bimensuel)
MCD (Musiques et Cultures Digitales)
Digitalarti
Mouvement

• Post-Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development

Call for Abstracts
 
Post-Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development: An International Conference
 
Date: 9-11 October 2013, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Abstract Deadline: 8 June (possibly will be extended; email info@peaceconference.org)
Conference Webpage:www.peaceconference.org
 
The Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as member of the European Network of Places of Peace), Wageningen University and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands, are organizing an international conference, on the overarching theme of post-conflict, cultural heritage and regional development.
 
Conflicts sometimes lead to violent encounters that result in casualties and damage to infrastructure, housing and the environment. Often, traumatic experiences brought about by these become the subject of commemorations that contribute to places linked to them gaining material, social and/or symbolic significance, within the locality, country or even regionally. This is particularly true when residents and policymakers actively implement initiatives to embrace them as part of collective memory, pedagogy and/or as local heritage attractions for domestic and international visitors. Every year thousands, sometimes millions, of people visit places like Auschwitz, Ground Zero, Hiroshima, Choeung Ek and Gettysburg. Wageningen, marked as the City of Liberation, and the setting for this international conference, also attracts more than 100,000 visitors annually as part of national commemoration and liberation festivals in the Netherlands. These are testament to the popularity of these sites although they too can at times be plagued with criticisms and controversy, pertaining to issues like commercialization, sustainability, multiple interpretations of history and so on.
 
This conference seeks to further our understanding of the perceptions, processes and problems that are related to some of these places of former conflicts that have, over time, been transformed into key sites for memory, education and consumption, or even commodification. The multidisciplinary conference considers the social, political, economic and developmental dimensions as well as potential of such places alongside highlighting issues associated with the establishment of such heritage sites. It also explores how these sites may be developed as ‘peace institutions’ that aim to encourage the prevention of future conflicts. We welcome case studies drawn from the Netherlands as well as from other international contexts. Selected authors may be invited to contribute chapters/articles for a book or special journal issue.
 
Relevant topics may include (but not be limited to):
– Landscape, post-conflict identity and ‘difficult’ heritage;
– Post-conflict cities/heritage of conflict in postcolonial cities;
– Historical geographies and genealogies of places of war and peace;
– Social, economic and political impacts of places of war and peace;
– Interpreting conflict sights and the handling of multiple narratives;
– Educational potential of trauma sites, and related problems;
– Commodification of conflicts into heritage tourism;
– Conflict and the politics of truth and reconciliation;
– City branding issues in cities where conflict is within living memory;
– Sites of dark tourism: potentials, perspectives, and problems;
– Sites of former conflict as ‘shared’ spaces/peace institutions; etc.
 
Proposals for paper presentations/sessions on or related to any issues related to the abovementioned topics are welcome. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have queries.
 
Guidelines
Abstracts of papers, in the range of 300 to 400 words, should be sent to info@peaceconference.org. The abstract should clearly indicate the paper’s main arguments, its connection to the theme(s) of the conference, as well as briefly on the adopted methodology. Proposals for panel sessions should also include a brief description of the collective theme(s) of the papers that are to be included in the session.
 
A short biography of the speaker should also be included, containing relevant information about the author’s academic background.
 
Conference Fees:
Early bird € 225 (until September 1st)
Normal € 250 (after September 1st)
 
Please visit the website for registration details:www.peaceconference.org
Deadlines for Submissions:
Deadline for session proposals: 19 April 2013
Deadline for abstracts: 8 June 2013
Deadline for acceptance: 3 August 2013

• L’espace politique

100 years

André Siegfried  (1913) Tableau politique de la France de l’Ouest sous la Troisième République. Paris: Colin.

 

Cfp for the French political geography journal  L’espace politique   (French or English)

 

Appels à contributions thématiques

Géographie et sociologie électorales : duel ou duo ?

Deadline : 30 juin 2013

Détails : http://espacepolitique.revues.org/index2517.html

Sous la direction de Joël Gombin et de Jean Rivière

 

Electoral geography and sociology: duel or duet?

Call for Papers

Deadline : June 30^th, 2013

Details: http://espacepolitique.revues.org/index2518.html

Guest editors: Joël Gombin and Jean Rivière