An international symposium on Religion and Migration will be held at the Institute of African Studies, Rabat (Morocco), on 25-27 November 2010.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers and scholars from across the disciplines of the social and human sciences interested in religion-migration dynamics. Scholars in all fields of scholarship are invited to submit abstracts focusing on theoretical, empirical or comparative studies of the religion-migration interface. Themes to be considered may include, but are not restricted to:
- Philosophical and spiritual dimensions of migration
- Migration in the history of religions
- The role played by religious institutions in migration
- Religion, territoriality and trans-locality
- Religious diasporas and multicultural societies
- The religious market and the marketing of religion
- Religion and discourses on migration
Migrations, both voluntary and involuntary, have marked every era of human history and migration continues to fashion the contemporary world.
Studies over the past several decades have highlighted the extent to which migration is having a fundamental impact on societies, cultures and economies of both emitting and receiving countries. In the host countries of the developed world national politics and public debate are increasingly preoccupied with issues such as identity, minority rights, security, social integration, cultural diversity and religion in the public sphere, issues which are construed as being linked to immigration. What is more, research on migration has helped formulate some key concepts and theories in the fields of the social and human
sciences. Among these we can list: globalization, trans-nationalism, post-modernity, post-coloniality, diasporas, hybridity, cosmopolitanism and autochthony.
No less than other domains of social interaction, religion has been affected by migration. Historically, 'organized' religions spread through diverse migratory movements: proselytizing missions, mystical peregrinations, study journeys, pilgrimage, trade, but also conquest and exile. In today's world of mass travel and cheap instantaneous communication, even religions which were historically circumscribed within narrow geographical perimeters are being practiced in countries very distant in space and culture from their original hearths. Shiite mosques in Australia, temples to Shiva and Krishna in Dubai, Vietnamese Buddhist temples in Canada, Evangelical churches in Morocco, Sikh gurudwaras in Brazil, Santeria churches in the USA, Mormon temples in Ghana, Naqshbandiya khanqas in England; all of the world's religions now effectively share the same streets.
Until now, the study of migration and research on religious dynamics have developed separately. It is time therefore to ask how these phenomena are interconnected. It is with this aim that two of the Institute of African Studies' research groups: Religious Dynamics in Africa; (ERDRA), and Planning and Development of Desert Regions (GRADLED), are organizing the symposium. By proposing the theme of Religion and Migration for this conference we hope to focus attention on the religious and spiritual dimensions of migration and, at the same time, assess the role that migration plays in the (re)configuration of religions across Africa and globally. Morocco is an ideal venue for a debate on this interconnectedness given its situation at the crossroads
of continents, seas and civilizations, and its status at once as an emitting country, a receiving country and a "country of transit" for migrants.
The languages of the conference will be English, French and Arabic.
Abstract for presentation proposals (300 words), along with a brief CV, must be submitted electronically to religionmigration@gmail.com by April 15, 2010. Conference participants will be notified by April 30, 2010.
Final drafts of presentations will be due October 15, 2010.
For more information, leave a message at the above email or contact:
Fatima Harrak, felharraq@yahoo.com
Dr Fatima Harrak
Institute of African Studies
Mohamed V University
Allal al-Fassi Avenue
PB 8968 Madinat al-Irfane, Rabat-Agdal
Morocco
tel: (+212) 537 77 12 72
Email: felharraq@yahoo.com
mercoledì 31 marzo 2010
martedì 30 marzo 2010
New master: religion-economics-politics
New interdisciplinary MA course.
The Joint Degree MA “Religion – Economics – Politics” is a joint endeavor of four leading Swisss Universities: Basel, Lausanne, Luzern, and Zurich. Students holding a first degree either in religious studies, economics, or political science are invited to register for our next course in autumn 2010 until April 30, 2010. Good German language capacities are required. For more details contact Dr. Simona Chaudhry-Ferraro: simona.chaudhry@unilu.ch .
The Joint Degree MA “Religion – Economics – Politics” is a joint endeavor of four leading Swisss Universities: Basel, Lausanne, Luzern, and Zurich. Students holding a first degree either in religious studies, economics, or political science are invited to register for our next course in autumn 2010 until April 30, 2010. Good German language capacities are required. For more details contact Dr. Simona Chaudhry-Ferraro: simona.chaudhry@unilu.ch .
CFP: Religion and global development
Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) to be held in Montreal from March 16 to 19 2011.
CFP: The Global Development Section (GDS) would welcome any panel or paper proposals on the following or related themes:
Religion(s) and Development
Religion(s), Conflict and Security
Religion(s) and Global Governance
Religion(s) and International Political Theory
Secularism in International Relations
(for more information, follow this link)
CFP: The Global Development Section (GDS) would welcome any panel or paper proposals on the following or related themes:
Religion(s) and Development
Religion(s), Conflict and Security
Religion(s) and Global Governance
Religion(s) and International Political Theory
Secularism in International Relations
(for more information, follow this link)
CFP: Twenty Years After : Secularization and Desecularization in Central And Eastern Europe
Twenty Years After : Secularization and Desecularization in Central And Eastern Europe
16–19 December 2010 • Brno • Czech Republic
(see the website here)
Important dates
Start of the registration 23 Mar 2010
Panel proposal submission deadline 30 June 2010
Registration deadline 30 June 2010
Abstract submission deadline 30 June 2010
Deadline for advance payments 30 Sept 2010
Conference begins 16 Dec 2010
Conference ends 19 Dec 2010
16–19 December 2010 • Brno • Czech Republic
(see the website here)
Important dates
Start of the registration 23 Mar 2010
Panel proposal submission deadline 30 June 2010
Registration deadline 30 June 2010
Abstract submission deadline 30 June 2010
Deadline for advance payments 30 Sept 2010
Conference begins 16 Dec 2010
Conference ends 19 Dec 2010
Book: Challenging identities. Muslim women in Australia
The Islamic Studies Series, published by Melbourne University Publishing in conjunction with the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies (NCEIS) offers a welcome opportunity for Australia-based scholars to bring their research activity to the attention of the national and international academic community.
NCEIS is please to announce the latest publication in the Islamic Studies Series.
CHALLENGING IDENTITIES
Muslim Women in Australia
by Shahram Akbarzadeh
‘A book such as this is long overdue and deserves to be widely read.’
Hanifa Deen, author of Caravanserai and Broken Bangles
CHALLENGING IDENTITIES PROVIDES VALUABLE FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS FROM THE LIVES OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA.
Muslim women in Australia are at the forefront of a culture war, and not necessarily by choice. As visible representatives of Islam, veiled women face discrimination and abuse, and carry the stigma of a culture frequently deemed unacceptable and inferior. Despite these adverse conditions, Muslim women have demonstrated a remarkable resilience by maintaining their presence in the public domain and by continuing to make a positive contribution to Australia.
The experiences of Muslim women in Australia show that this group cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible ‘Australian values’ and ‘Islamic values’, and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.
Associate Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh researches Islam in diaspora and the politics of the Middle East at the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. His recent publications include US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (with Kylie Baxter, 2008), Islam and Human Rights (with Benjamin MacQueen, 2008), Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Diaspora and Radicalism in the West (with Fethi Mansouri, 2007) and Islam and Globalization (2006).
NCEIS is please to announce the latest publication in the Islamic Studies Series.
CHALLENGING IDENTITIES
Muslim Women in Australia
by Shahram Akbarzadeh
‘A book such as this is long overdue and deserves to be widely read.’
Hanifa Deen, author of Caravanserai and Broken Bangles
CHALLENGING IDENTITIES PROVIDES VALUABLE FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS FROM THE LIVES OF MUSLIM WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA.
Muslim women in Australia are at the forefront of a culture war, and not necessarily by choice. As visible representatives of Islam, veiled women face discrimination and abuse, and carry the stigma of a culture frequently deemed unacceptable and inferior. Despite these adverse conditions, Muslim women have demonstrated a remarkable resilience by maintaining their presence in the public domain and by continuing to make a positive contribution to Australia.
The experiences of Muslim women in Australia show that this group cannot be typecast as a sisterhood of oppressed females. Challenging Identities questions the assumption of incompatible ‘Australian values’ and ‘Islamic values’, and provides valuable first-person accounts from the lives of Muslim women in Australia.
Associate Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh researches Islam in diaspora and the politics of the Middle East at the National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne. His recent publications include US Foreign Policy in the Middle East (with Kylie Baxter, 2008), Islam and Human Rights (with Benjamin MacQueen, 2008), Islam and Political Violence: Muslim Diaspora and Radicalism in the West (with Fethi Mansouri, 2007) and Islam and Globalization (2006).
Book: Enseigner les faits religioux en classe de Français
Enseigner les faits religieux en classe de français, sous la direction d' Anne-Raymonde de Beaudrap vient de paraître.
Read more following this link.
Read more following this link.
martedì 23 marzo 2010
CFP: "Tourism and Seductions of Difference"
Session CFP: Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference
Special session for the Conference, "Tourism and Seductions of Difference"
1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference
Lisbon, Portugal - 10-12 Sept 2010
Session Premise
Pilgrimage is perhaps the most emotional, most seductive of touristic interactions; it is known to generate intense feelings of ecstasy and transcendence, self-inflicted suffering and penitential pain. Drawing on Eliade and van Gennep, Victor and Edith Turner considered pilgrimage in terms of structuralist binaries, as predicated on difference: Pilgrimage, they argued, is a movement from profane to sacred; from periphery to center (or vice-versa); from quotidianity to liminality.
Complicating their notions of difference is V. Turner's assertion that pilgrimage, by its very nature, creates communitas, a sensation of human commonality that transcends the daily differences inherent in social structure. However, critics of this assessment, particularly Eade and Sallnow, argue that difference is actually intensified during pilgrimage, as various individuals and communities utilize pilgrimage for asserting social status claims, for generating economic profit at
others' expense, or for political purposes. Pilgrimage sites, too, employ a variety of symbols to differentiate "true" pilgrims from secular travelers; the most well-known, of course, is the "passport" carried by Caministas on the way to Santiago de Compostela, which entitle them to nearly free lodging along the way, special blessings upon arrival, and an official certificate to take back home.
Pilgrimage research has also contributed to complexifying the academic study of tourism. Graburn and others have utilized the Turners' binaries to productively analyze the "secular ritual" of touristic encounters.
Analyzing different cultures' conceptualization of pilgrimage as "contemplation while viewing," Di Giovine has linked Turner/Graburn, and Urry's famous "tourist gaze"-itself predicated on difference, on separating out the picturesque from the mundane. Yet as Crick pointed out long ago, while pilgrimage is a time-honored topic of scientific investigation, there remains a general apprehension in academia to fully engage in tourism research.
This special session is envisioned to both complement and call into question common ways of thinking about the conference theme-tourism and the seductions of difference-by exploring, unpacking, and critically rethinking the established analytical premises concerning the intersections of pilgrimage and tourism, the relationship between seductive emotions and pilgrimage, and the contested binaries commonly employed to analyze pilgrimage as a ritual structure.
Suggested Themes
In addition to the themes suggested in the conference's general CFP, suggested subject matter for this panel include, but are not limited to:
* Phenomenologies of tourism and pilgrimage: similarities, differences, methodological intersections; secular pilgrimages/religious tourism
* Communitas, social structure, and difference
* Sacred vs. profane geographies, practices, discourses in pilgrimage sites
* "Profanity" and illicit activities at sacred sites
* Emotion, devotion, and seduction in pilgrimage
* Suffering, salvation, penance in pilgrimage discourses and practice
* Cross-cultural / comparative pilgrimage practices
* Political economy of pilgrimage sites, site management, revitalization/development, heritage designations
* Reconceptualizing pilgrimage: new theories and methods for the study of pilgrimage
Publication Possibilities
As with all accepted conference papers, there will likely be several publication possibilities, in addition to conference proceedings.
Furthermore, it is hoped that this special session can provide the core of a possible edited volume based on the conference theme, "seductions of difference."
Additional Information
Interested parties should send a150-word abstract by 31 March 2010 to the session director, Michael A. Di Giovine (digiovim@uchicago.edu).
(PLEASE NOTE this differs from the general conference deadline). Late abstracts may be accepted.
Conference CFP: "Tourism and Seductions of Difference"
Please find below a CFP for TOURISM AND SEDUCTIONS OF DIFFERENCE, an international conference jointly organised by the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU), the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University, and the Centre for Anthropological Research in Portugal (CRIA).
The conference will take place at the New University of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 September 2010. The deadline to submit abstractsis 20 March 2010. In addition to the general CFP, a number of special interest panels are being proposed as part of the event (with a different deadline; see below). Please find updated information about the conference at www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk.
As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, the aim of this Conference is to bring together social scientists studying tourism and related social phenomena from different disciplinary perspectives. The focus on 'seductions of difference' tackles one of the central ontological premises of tourism, the relations to 'Others' - people, spaces, times, objects - and the way in which these enable the
constitution and maintenance of Selves. Tourists travel to, and through, spaces 'different' from those they inhabit most of the time. They voluntarily expose their bodies to different environments, ingest different foods, live in a different temporality, and meet different people. Many authors have studied how such differences are socially construed, how people, temporalities and places are experienced and brought into being through the perceptive realms of the journey, but
also through the political agendas of stakeholders acting within the field of tourism planning and cultural policy. The cultural history of tourism indicates that tourists are 'drawn in' by certain types of places - forests, mountains, rivers, churches and religious shrines, stately homes and palaces, ancient monuments, ruins, waterfalls, seashores, countrysides, islands, cities, etc. Some psychologists, for
instance, have observed how some places - such as Florence, Jerusalem, or Paris - trigger quasi-Stendhalian epiphanies among certain tourists who often do not seem to share more than a common nationality. Who, or what are they seduced by? What constitutes this arousal? How do tourists learn what to be seduced by? How is the tourist experience and the temptation to travel culturally framed? What can these attractions tell us about the moral order of tourism and modern culture? How are forms of local, ethnic, gender and national self being worked and shaped in the
contact zones of tourism? How are tourist attractions assembled to entice tourists? Seduction is no isolated act but always has some form of consequence and usually demands compensation. In the same vein, touristic consumption is not free, and in different senses implies forms of expected reciprocity. What are the moral obligations of those who lure tourists to a symbolic death by singing a siren song? How are tourists resuscitated, and how do they buy their freedom? What are the
threats and consequences of seducing tourists? What happens when tourists seduce? How does tourism seduce all sorts of people and who rejects seduction? What kinds of society result from tourism?
CONFERENCE THEMES
Along with studies on methodological issues in tourism research, we welcome papers that address issues related to the theme of theconference. Indicative topics of interest include:
- Seduction as ontological work: maintaining identity, socialising time and space, others
- Formations of seduction: social assemblages, contact cultures, attractions
- Fields of seduction: gender, houses, heritages, nations, territories,classes
- Mediums of seduction: texts, bodies, arts, architectures, foods andnatures
- Techniques of seduction: performance, flirtation, enticement, friendship, magic, concealment
- Emotions of seduction: temptations, transgressions, ingestions, emancipations
- Threats of seduction: spoliation, contamination, exclusion, death, degradation
- Politics of seduction: hospitality, containment, kinship, power
- Moralities of seduction: values, reciprocity, obligations, co-habitation
- Consequences of seduction: mobilities, cosmopolitanisms, world society
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS
To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract including title and full contact details to tourismcontactculture@gmail.com. The Call for Papers for this event will initially be open until 20 March 2010. Late abstracts may be considered. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the academic committee.
CFP FOR SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS
There is also an option to submit papers to SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS organised as part of the conference. These panels work as double or triple sessions (6 or 9 papers) and are fully integrated to the general conference programme. While thematically connected to the overall conference theme, these panels aim to deepen a particular theoretical or thematic aspect, or explore new ideas or hypothesis. The organisation of these special interest panels is semi-autonomous; each has its own panel director(s) and most have launched their own call for papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts (150 words + full contact details of authors - directly sent to the panel directors) to these special interest panels may be after the deadline for the general call for papers. More details and information at our website.
List of Special Interest Panels:
1. Slumming: Tourism and the Seductive Marginal (Panel directed by Fabian Frenzel, Bristol, and Ko Koens, LeedsMet, UK)
2. Seductions of History: Visitors' Motives and Experiences in Historical Destinations (Panel directed by Luis Silva, CRIA / FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
3. Seducing Bodies (Panel directed by Valerio Simoni, CRIA-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)
4. Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Panel directed By Michael A. Di Giovine, Dept of Anthropology, University of Chicago, discussant Regina Bendix, Univ Goettingen, Germany)
5. Borders, Unfamiliarity and (Im)mobilities (Panel directed by Bas Spierings, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University)
6. Seducing Wilderness (Panel directed by Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)
7. Cartographies of Seduction: Tourism, Objects and Places (Panel directed by Filipa Fernandes, ISCSP - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
8. Seductions of Ugliness (Panel directed by Tamas Regi, CTCC, Leeds Met, UK and David Picard, CRIA-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal).
PROCEEDINGS
Fully revised papers accepted at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (ISBN referred electronic format with international distribution). We are also exploring opportunities to publish an edited book and special issues of peer reviewed academic journals based on a selection of papers (developed into full articles). More info on this shall be available shortly after the event.
CONTACT
Carina Amaral and David Picard
Conference email: tourismcontactculture@gmail.com
Website: tourismcontactculture.org.uk
Address:
CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom
Special session for the Conference, "Tourism and Seductions of Difference"
1st Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network Conference
Lisbon, Portugal - 10-12 Sept 2010
Session Premise
Pilgrimage is perhaps the most emotional, most seductive of touristic interactions; it is known to generate intense feelings of ecstasy and transcendence, self-inflicted suffering and penitential pain. Drawing on Eliade and van Gennep, Victor and Edith Turner considered pilgrimage in terms of structuralist binaries, as predicated on difference: Pilgrimage, they argued, is a movement from profane to sacred; from periphery to center (or vice-versa); from quotidianity to liminality.
Complicating their notions of difference is V. Turner's assertion that pilgrimage, by its very nature, creates communitas, a sensation of human commonality that transcends the daily differences inherent in social structure. However, critics of this assessment, particularly Eade and Sallnow, argue that difference is actually intensified during pilgrimage, as various individuals and communities utilize pilgrimage for asserting social status claims, for generating economic profit at
others' expense, or for political purposes. Pilgrimage sites, too, employ a variety of symbols to differentiate "true" pilgrims from secular travelers; the most well-known, of course, is the "passport" carried by Caministas on the way to Santiago de Compostela, which entitle them to nearly free lodging along the way, special blessings upon arrival, and an official certificate to take back home.
Pilgrimage research has also contributed to complexifying the academic study of tourism. Graburn and others have utilized the Turners' binaries to productively analyze the "secular ritual" of touristic encounters.
Analyzing different cultures' conceptualization of pilgrimage as "contemplation while viewing," Di Giovine has linked Turner/Graburn, and Urry's famous "tourist gaze"-itself predicated on difference, on separating out the picturesque from the mundane. Yet as Crick pointed out long ago, while pilgrimage is a time-honored topic of scientific investigation, there remains a general apprehension in academia to fully engage in tourism research.
This special session is envisioned to both complement and call into question common ways of thinking about the conference theme-tourism and the seductions of difference-by exploring, unpacking, and critically rethinking the established analytical premises concerning the intersections of pilgrimage and tourism, the relationship between seductive emotions and pilgrimage, and the contested binaries commonly employed to analyze pilgrimage as a ritual structure.
Suggested Themes
In addition to the themes suggested in the conference's general CFP, suggested subject matter for this panel include, but are not limited to:
* Phenomenologies of tourism and pilgrimage: similarities, differences, methodological intersections; secular pilgrimages/religious tourism
* Communitas, social structure, and difference
* Sacred vs. profane geographies, practices, discourses in pilgrimage sites
* "Profanity" and illicit activities at sacred sites
* Emotion, devotion, and seduction in pilgrimage
* Suffering, salvation, penance in pilgrimage discourses and practice
* Cross-cultural / comparative pilgrimage practices
* Political economy of pilgrimage sites, site management, revitalization/development, heritage designations
* Reconceptualizing pilgrimage: new theories and methods for the study of pilgrimage
Publication Possibilities
As with all accepted conference papers, there will likely be several publication possibilities, in addition to conference proceedings.
Furthermore, it is hoped that this special session can provide the core of a possible edited volume based on the conference theme, "seductions of difference."
Additional Information
Interested parties should send a150-word abstract by 31 March 2010 to the session director, Michael A. Di Giovine (digiovim@uchicago.edu).
(PLEASE NOTE this differs from the general conference deadline). Late abstracts may be accepted.
Conference CFP: "Tourism and Seductions of Difference"
Please find below a CFP for TOURISM AND SEDUCTIONS OF DIFFERENCE, an international conference jointly organised by the Tourism-Contact-Culture Research Network (TOCOCU), the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University, and the Centre for Anthropological Research in Portugal (CRIA).
The conference will take place at the New University of Lisbon, in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-12 September 2010. The deadline to submit abstractsis 20 March 2010. In addition to the general CFP, a number of special interest panels are being proposed as part of the event (with a different deadline; see below). Please find updated information about the conference at www.tourismcontactculture.org.uk.
As tourism research spreads into the social sciences, the aim of this Conference is to bring together social scientists studying tourism and related social phenomena from different disciplinary perspectives. The focus on 'seductions of difference' tackles one of the central ontological premises of tourism, the relations to 'Others' - people, spaces, times, objects - and the way in which these enable the
constitution and maintenance of Selves. Tourists travel to, and through, spaces 'different' from those they inhabit most of the time. They voluntarily expose their bodies to different environments, ingest different foods, live in a different temporality, and meet different people. Many authors have studied how such differences are socially construed, how people, temporalities and places are experienced and brought into being through the perceptive realms of the journey, but
also through the political agendas of stakeholders acting within the field of tourism planning and cultural policy. The cultural history of tourism indicates that tourists are 'drawn in' by certain types of places - forests, mountains, rivers, churches and religious shrines, stately homes and palaces, ancient monuments, ruins, waterfalls, seashores, countrysides, islands, cities, etc. Some psychologists, for
instance, have observed how some places - such as Florence, Jerusalem, or Paris - trigger quasi-Stendhalian epiphanies among certain tourists who often do not seem to share more than a common nationality. Who, or what are they seduced by? What constitutes this arousal? How do tourists learn what to be seduced by? How is the tourist experience and the temptation to travel culturally framed? What can these attractions tell us about the moral order of tourism and modern culture? How are forms of local, ethnic, gender and national self being worked and shaped in the
contact zones of tourism? How are tourist attractions assembled to entice tourists? Seduction is no isolated act but always has some form of consequence and usually demands compensation. In the same vein, touristic consumption is not free, and in different senses implies forms of expected reciprocity. What are the moral obligations of those who lure tourists to a symbolic death by singing a siren song? How are tourists resuscitated, and how do they buy their freedom? What are the
threats and consequences of seducing tourists? What happens when tourists seduce? How does tourism seduce all sorts of people and who rejects seduction? What kinds of society result from tourism?
CONFERENCE THEMES
Along with studies on methodological issues in tourism research, we welcome papers that address issues related to the theme of theconference. Indicative topics of interest include:
- Seduction as ontological work: maintaining identity, socialising time and space, others
- Formations of seduction: social assemblages, contact cultures, attractions
- Fields of seduction: gender, houses, heritages, nations, territories,classes
- Mediums of seduction: texts, bodies, arts, architectures, foods andnatures
- Techniques of seduction: performance, flirtation, enticement, friendship, magic, concealment
- Emotions of seduction: temptations, transgressions, ingestions, emancipations
- Threats of seduction: spoliation, contamination, exclusion, death, degradation
- Politics of seduction: hospitality, containment, kinship, power
- Moralities of seduction: values, reciprocity, obligations, co-habitation
- Consequences of seduction: mobilities, cosmopolitanisms, world society
GENERAL CALL FOR PAPERS
To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract including title and full contact details to tourismcontactculture@gmail.com. The Call for Papers for this event will initially be open until 20 March 2010. Late abstracts may be considered. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the academic committee.
CFP FOR SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS
There is also an option to submit papers to SPECIAL INTEREST PANELS organised as part of the conference. These panels work as double or triple sessions (6 or 9 papers) and are fully integrated to the general conference programme. While thematically connected to the overall conference theme, these panels aim to deepen a particular theoretical or thematic aspect, or explore new ideas or hypothesis. The organisation of these special interest panels is semi-autonomous; each has its own panel director(s) and most have launched their own call for papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts (150 words + full contact details of authors - directly sent to the panel directors) to these special interest panels may be after the deadline for the general call for papers. More details and information at our website.
List of Special Interest Panels:
1. Slumming: Tourism and the Seductive Marginal (Panel directed by Fabian Frenzel, Bristol, and Ko Koens, LeedsMet, UK)
2. Seductions of History: Visitors' Motives and Experiences in Historical Destinations (Panel directed by Luis Silva, CRIA / FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
3. Seducing Bodies (Panel directed by Valerio Simoni, CRIA-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)
4. Rethinking Pilgrimage, Seduction and Difference (Panel directed By Michael A. Di Giovine, Dept of Anthropology, University of Chicago, discussant Regina Bendix, Univ Goettingen, Germany)
5. Borders, Unfamiliarity and (Im)mobilities (Panel directed by Bas Spierings, Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University)
6. Seducing Wilderness (Panel directed by Dennis Zuev, CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal)
7. Cartographies of Seduction: Tourism, Objects and Places (Panel directed by Filipa Fernandes, ISCSP - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
8. Seductions of Ugliness (Panel directed by Tamas Regi, CTCC, Leeds Met, UK and David Picard, CRIA-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal).
PROCEEDINGS
Fully revised papers accepted at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (ISBN referred electronic format with international distribution). We are also exploring opportunities to publish an edited book and special issues of peer reviewed academic journals based on a selection of papers (developed into full articles). More info on this shall be available shortly after the event.
CONTACT
Carina Amaral and David Picard
Conference email: tourismcontactculture@gmail.com
Website: tourismcontactculture.org.uk
Address:
CRIA/FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa Lisbon, Portugal
CTCC, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom
Islam in Latin America
The Middle East Studies Center (MESC) of the School of International and Public Affairs at FIU is organizing a one day conference on Islam in Latin America on March 26th. A group of leading scholars from Latin America will join FIU scholars to discuss the presence of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, their impact on and integration into Latin American society, and their historical and contemporary ties to the Middle East and the larger Muslim world. This event is co-sponsored by
the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) and the Applied Research Center (ARC).
MESC has invited distinguished and leading scholars from Latin America and the U.S. whose research centers on Islam and Muslim communities in Latin America. This group includes Dr. Camila Pastor from the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) in Mexico; Dr. Paulo Hilu Pinto from Universidade Federal Fluminese in Brazil; Dr. Luis Mesa del Monte from El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City; and Dr. Jonathan Friedlander from UCLA. In addition, this respected group will be joined by FIU scholars whose research focuses on Islam and its historical and contemporary impact on global society. This group will include Dr. Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Director of MESC and associate professor in FIU's Department of Politics and International Relations; Dr. Maria Mar Logrono, assistant professor in FIU's Department of History; and others from the Departments of Religious Studies and Politics and International Relations.
The conference will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in the MARC Pavilion on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. This event is free and open to the public. For more info please visit: http://mesc.fiu.edu
the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) and the Applied Research Center (ARC).
MESC has invited distinguished and leading scholars from Latin America and the U.S. whose research centers on Islam and Muslim communities in Latin America. This group includes Dr. Camila Pastor from the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) in Mexico; Dr. Paulo Hilu Pinto from Universidade Federal Fluminese in Brazil; Dr. Luis Mesa del Monte from El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City; and Dr. Jonathan Friedlander from UCLA. In addition, this respected group will be joined by FIU scholars whose research focuses on Islam and its historical and contemporary impact on global society. This group will include Dr. Mohiaddin Mesbahi, Director of MESC and associate professor in FIU's Department of Politics and International Relations; Dr. Maria Mar Logrono, assistant professor in FIU's Department of History; and others from the Departments of Religious Studies and Politics and International Relations.
The conference will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. in the MARC Pavilion on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. This event is free and open to the public. For more info please visit: http://mesc.fiu.edu
sabato 20 marzo 2010
Religion in public life, Summer school
IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics 2010
Religion in Public Life
Cortona, Italy
July 4-17, 2010
Call for Applications
Deadline: March 25, 2010
Program
The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute's research focus on "Religion & Secularism". It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic.
For complete details please visit http://www.iwm.at/summerschool.
Seminar 1 Religion and Multiple Modernities
Seminar 2 Religion and Democracy
Seminar 3 The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
Seminar 4 God in Contemporary Debates
Evening discussions with Italian public figures (including the former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato) will complete the program.
Faculty
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Program 'Globalization, Religion and the Secular', Berkley Center, Georgetown University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago.
Nilüfer Göle, Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Professor of Systemic Theology and Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of South Asian Politics and Intellectual History, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Marcin Krol, Professor of the History of Ideas and Philosophy, Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University.
Krzysztof Michalski, Professor of Philosophy, University of Boston and Warsaw University, Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Charles Taylor, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal; Permanent Fellow, IWM, Vienna.
Organization
Each of the seminars will meet Monday through Friday. Participants are required to enroll in three seminars. They will be conducted in English, thus excellent command of this language is absolutely required.
There is no tuition for the Summer School; course materials, room and full board will be provided (accommodation in double rooms, single rooms are available for an extra charge). Participants are responsible to cover travel costs to and from Cortona and all other incidental expenses.
Application
The application must be submitted in English and include
· the application form (please download)
· a curriculum vitae and
· a letter of motivation discussing at least one of the four seminar topics (max. 5 pages)
Please submit your application by e-mail to summerschool@iwm.at
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
1090 Wien, Austria; Spittelauer Lände 3
T: +43-1-31358-0, F: +43-1-31358-30
Deadline for application is March 25, 2010!
Applicants will be notified by the end of April.
The Summer School is organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne)
Mag. Marie-Thérèse Porzer
Assistant to the Rector/Event Management
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Institute for Human Sciences
Spittelauer Lände 3
A-1090 Wien
T: +43/1/ 313 58 - 203
F: +43/1/ 313 58 - 30
www.iwm.at
Religion in Public Life
Cortona, Italy
July 4-17, 2010
Call for Applications
Deadline: March 25, 2010
Program
The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute's research focus on "Religion & Secularism". It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic.
For complete details please visit http://www.iwm.at/summerschool.
Seminar 1 Religion and Multiple Modernities
Seminar 2 Religion and Democracy
Seminar 3 The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
Seminar 4 God in Contemporary Debates
Evening discussions with Italian public figures (including the former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato) will complete the program.
Faculty
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Program 'Globalization, Religion and the Secular', Berkley Center, Georgetown University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago.
Nilüfer Göle, Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Professor of Systemic Theology and Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of South Asian Politics and Intellectual History, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Marcin Krol, Professor of the History of Ideas and Philosophy, Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University.
Krzysztof Michalski, Professor of Philosophy, University of Boston and Warsaw University, Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Charles Taylor, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal; Permanent Fellow, IWM, Vienna.
Organization
Each of the seminars will meet Monday through Friday. Participants are required to enroll in three seminars. They will be conducted in English, thus excellent command of this language is absolutely required.
There is no tuition for the Summer School; course materials, room and full board will be provided (accommodation in double rooms, single rooms are available for an extra charge). Participants are responsible to cover travel costs to and from Cortona and all other incidental expenses.
Application
The application must be submitted in English and include
· the application form (please download)
· a curriculum vitae and
· a letter of motivation discussing at least one of the four seminar topics (max. 5 pages)
Please submit your application by e-mail to summerschool@iwm.at
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
1090 Wien, Austria; Spittelauer Lände 3
T: +43-1-31358-0, F: +43-1-31358-30
Deadline for application is March 25, 2010!
Applicants will be notified by the end of April.
The Summer School is organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne)
Mag. Marie-Thérèse Porzer
Assistant to the Rector/Event Management
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Institute for Human Sciences
Spittelauer Lände 3
A-1090 Wien
T: +43/1/ 313 58 - 203
F: +43/1/ 313 58 - 30
www.iwm.at
CFP: Austrialian Sociological Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2010
6-9 December 2010
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
SOCIAL CAUSES, PRIVATE LIVES
The 2010 TASA conference is dedicated to the reassertion of sociology as an engaged, critical discipline. Individual responsibility has become the dominant economic and political program, and for many an internalised fact of life. Sociology needs to vigorously reassert its core tasks: to contextualise private lives in the social conditions and cultural temper of the times; and so to confidently take a critical position vis-à-vis economic, political and cultural processes in its own social environment and various domains.
Submissions are invited around the following themes, groups and keywords:
* Applied Sociology
* Crime and Governance
* Critical Disability Studies
* Culture
* Sociology of Economic Life
* Environment and Society
* Families, relationships and gender
* Health
* Indigenous
* Media
* Migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
* Mobilities
* Science, technology and knowledge
* Teaching Sociology
* Work and Labour Studies
* Social Stratification
* Sociology of Youth
* Sociology of Education
Authors can submit for the following presentation types:
* Refereed Papers
* General/WIP Papers
* Conference Workshops
* Poster Presentation
For more information visit the Conference website:
http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/tasa-conference/index.htm
For enquiries contact:
Dr Selvaraj Velayutham (Raj)
Conference Convenor
Department of Sociology
Macquarie University
Tel: 02-9850 4426
Email: Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au
The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2010
6-9 December 2010
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia
SOCIAL CAUSES, PRIVATE LIVES
The 2010 TASA conference is dedicated to the reassertion of sociology as an engaged, critical discipline. Individual responsibility has become the dominant economic and political program, and for many an internalised fact of life. Sociology needs to vigorously reassert its core tasks: to contextualise private lives in the social conditions and cultural temper of the times; and so to confidently take a critical position vis-à-vis economic, political and cultural processes in its own social environment and various domains.
Submissions are invited around the following themes, groups and keywords:
* Applied Sociology
* Crime and Governance
* Critical Disability Studies
* Culture
* Sociology of Economic Life
* Environment and Society
* Families, relationships and gender
* Health
* Indigenous
* Media
* Migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
* Mobilities
* Science, technology and knowledge
* Teaching Sociology
* Work and Labour Studies
* Social Stratification
* Sociology of Youth
* Sociology of Education
Authors can submit for the following presentation types:
* Refereed Papers
* General/WIP Papers
* Conference Workshops
* Poster Presentation
For more information visit the Conference website:
http://www.soc.mq.edu.au/tasa-conference/index.htm
For enquiries contact:
Dr Selvaraj Velayutham (Raj)
Conference Convenor
Department of Sociology
Macquarie University
Tel: 02-9850 4426
Email: Selvaraj.velayutham@mq.edu.au
Three assistant professor recruiting
We are recruiting three Assistant Professors in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. The deadline of applications is April 10th, 2010.
A brief description of the profiles we are looking for:
1. one has to be specialized in social inequality in a broad sense, and will be a member of the AISSR research group “Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation”
2. One has to be specialized in the sociology of (medical) care and welfare and will become a member of the new AISSR research program “Dynamics of Citizenship and Culture”;
3. the third one has to be specialized in cultural sociology and will become a member of one of these research programs (see the website of the AISSR for information on these research programs)
Please send in your applications to SocaSecretariaat-fmg@uva.nl
See this website for more information:
http://www.fmg.uva.nl/werken_bij_de_fmg/vacatures.cfm/B6BC5303-C7B1-48D6-A741A034105E5A12
Best wishes,
Herman van de Werfhorst
Prof.dr. Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (www.AMCIS.eu)
A brief description of the profiles we are looking for:
1. one has to be specialized in social inequality in a broad sense, and will be a member of the AISSR research group “Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation”
2. One has to be specialized in the sociology of (medical) care and welfare and will become a member of the new AISSR research program “Dynamics of Citizenship and Culture”;
3. the third one has to be specialized in cultural sociology and will become a member of one of these research programs (see the website of the AISSR for information on these research programs)
Please send in your applications to SocaSecretariaat-fmg@uva.nl
See this website for more information:
http://www.fmg.uva.nl/werken_bij_de_fmg/vacatures.cfm/B6BC5303-C7B1-48D6-A741A034105E5A12
Best wishes,
Herman van de Werfhorst
Prof.dr. Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (www.AMCIS.eu)
giovedì 18 marzo 2010
New Book on Muslims in Europe
The Open Society Institute announces the publication of a major new report on the level and nature of integration of Muslims in 11 cities across Western Europe.
Muslims in Europe is a comparative analysis of research undertaken by the At Home in Europe Project, a recently established initiative of the Open Society Institute. The project works to advance and promote sustainable social inclusion of minority and marginalised groups in Western Europe. Through its research and engagement with policymakers and communities, the At Home in Europe project is studying issues which
explore the political, social, and economic participation of Muslims and other marginalized groups at the local level.
Muslims in Europe points out common trends and offers recommendations aimed at local, national and European level policy makers. While not representative of the situation of all Muslims in these cities, the report captures a snapshot of the specific and common experiences of Muslim communities in select neighborhoods in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Leicester, London, Marseille, Paris,
Rotterdam and Stockholm.
Monitoring and Advocacy : Responding to Contemporary Urban Challenges
Whether citizens or migrants, native born or newly-arrived, Muslims are a growing and varied population that presents Europe with one of its greatest challenges, namely how to ensure equal rights and opportunities for all in a climate of rapidly expanding diversity.
Based on existing academic and policy literature, face to face in-depth interviews with Muslim and non-Muslim residents in the 11 comparable cities, focus groups and a number of expert interviews in each city, the report documents daily experiences of residents and their interaction with their city, neighbours, local government and others – it outlines how some cities engage with and consult its Muslim and minority residents.
Muslims in Europe forms part of a 12 reports series on Muslims in EU Cities. Individual city reports will be published from April 2010 and include recommendations to local and national policymakers, civil society and communities.
The findings from Muslims in Europe include the following:
· The OSI research challenges the myth of segregation and alienation and
reveals a much more positive picture of integration at the local
level.
· Among Muslims surveyed in the 11 cities, 61% have a strong sense of belonging to the country and 72% a strong sense of belonging to the city
· The needs and experiences of Muslims and non-Muslims are largely the same. Across all 11 cities surveyed, daily concerns centre around the need for better quality of education, improved housing, cleaner streets, and tackling antisocial behaviour and crime
· Over 70 per cent of all eligible Muslims surveyed in the 11 cities voted in local and national elections
· 50% of all Muslim respondents who identify themselves with the country where they live believe that they are not seen as belonging to that country by wider society
· 50% of Muslim respondents compared to 9% of non-Muslims reported experiencing religious discrimination at some point over the last 12 months
Some of the recommendations include:
· EU statistical agencies and projects should collect accurate data on minorities to support evidence-based policies to facilitate integration and combat discrimination
· Local policy makers should develop municipal campaigns that emphasise a common and inclusive city identity as an effective way to increase cohesion and belonging. Amsterdam, Antwerp and Copenhagen are three cities which have initiated such campaigns with success
· City officials must strive to maintain neighbourhoods that are ethnically and religiously mixed, and ensure that discrimination is not a barrier for Muslims and other minorities when choosing where to live
To receive a copy of the report, please write to Csilla Toth cstoth@osi.hu
For further information about the At Home in Europe Project and upcoming city reports and advocacy projects, please visit
www.soros.org/initiatives/home or contact Csilla Toth cstoth@osi.hu
Muslims in Europe is a comparative analysis of research undertaken by the At Home in Europe Project, a recently established initiative of the Open Society Institute. The project works to advance and promote sustainable social inclusion of minority and marginalised groups in Western Europe. Through its research and engagement with policymakers and communities, the At Home in Europe project is studying issues which
explore the political, social, and economic participation of Muslims and other marginalized groups at the local level.
Muslims in Europe points out common trends and offers recommendations aimed at local, national and European level policy makers. While not representative of the situation of all Muslims in these cities, the report captures a snapshot of the specific and common experiences of Muslim communities in select neighborhoods in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Leicester, London, Marseille, Paris,
Rotterdam and Stockholm.
Monitoring and Advocacy : Responding to Contemporary Urban Challenges
Whether citizens or migrants, native born or newly-arrived, Muslims are a growing and varied population that presents Europe with one of its greatest challenges, namely how to ensure equal rights and opportunities for all in a climate of rapidly expanding diversity.
Based on existing academic and policy literature, face to face in-depth interviews with Muslim and non-Muslim residents in the 11 comparable cities, focus groups and a number of expert interviews in each city, the report documents daily experiences of residents and their interaction with their city, neighbours, local government and others – it outlines how some cities engage with and consult its Muslim and minority residents.
Muslims in Europe forms part of a 12 reports series on Muslims in EU Cities. Individual city reports will be published from April 2010 and include recommendations to local and national policymakers, civil society and communities.
The findings from Muslims in Europe include the following:
· The OSI research challenges the myth of segregation and alienation and
reveals a much more positive picture of integration at the local
level.
· Among Muslims surveyed in the 11 cities, 61% have a strong sense of belonging to the country and 72% a strong sense of belonging to the city
· The needs and experiences of Muslims and non-Muslims are largely the same. Across all 11 cities surveyed, daily concerns centre around the need for better quality of education, improved housing, cleaner streets, and tackling antisocial behaviour and crime
· Over 70 per cent of all eligible Muslims surveyed in the 11 cities voted in local and national elections
· 50% of all Muslim respondents who identify themselves with the country where they live believe that they are not seen as belonging to that country by wider society
· 50% of Muslim respondents compared to 9% of non-Muslims reported experiencing religious discrimination at some point over the last 12 months
Some of the recommendations include:
· EU statistical agencies and projects should collect accurate data on minorities to support evidence-based policies to facilitate integration and combat discrimination
· Local policy makers should develop municipal campaigns that emphasise a common and inclusive city identity as an effective way to increase cohesion and belonging. Amsterdam, Antwerp and Copenhagen are three cities which have initiated such campaigns with success
· City officials must strive to maintain neighbourhoods that are ethnically and religiously mixed, and ensure that discrimination is not a barrier for Muslims and other minorities when choosing where to live
To receive a copy of the report, please write to Csilla Toth cstoth@osi.hu
For further information about the At Home in Europe Project and upcoming city reports and advocacy projects, please visit
www.soros.org/initiatives/home or contact Csilla Toth cstoth@osi.hu
CFP: Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres
Association Française de Sociologie
RT3 « Normes, déviances et réactions sociales »
en partenariat avec le
RT 21 « Mouvements sociaux »
Appel à communication pour le colloque
« Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres »
Les 26 et 27 octobre 2010 à l’Institut du Développement Social (Rouen)
La mutation des formes de régulation sociale et économique, l’intensification des rapports de domination, le développement de logiques sécuritaires et la raréfaction des espaces de conflit institutionnalisés libèrent l’expression de phénomènes de violences polymorphes et complexifient les processus du contrôle social. Dans ce contexte, la compréhension des transformations de la régulation sociale des désordres nécessite l’articulation des analyses relatives aux normes et aux déviances avec celles visant à penser la réorganisation du contrôle social et les modes d’engagement des acteurs chargés de réagir aux désordres, à la délinquance et aux violences, aussi bien dans le champ pénal (police, justice) que dans le monde du travail social, de l’école, des sports collectifs, etc. Le RT 3 « Normes, déviances et réactions sociales » en partenariat avec le RT 21 « Mouvements sociaux » de l’Association Française de Sociologie ont donc souhaité organiser un colloque intitulé « Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres », qui se tiendra à Rouen les 26 et 27 octobre 2010.
Sur fond de mutations socio-économiques profondes, alors que l’insécurité civile n’est plus tant perçue comme la contrepartie des libertés offertes par la vie urbaine mais bien plus comme un risque pour la collectivité, la question du contrôle social des déviances se pose avec acuité. Face à la montée des préoccupations sécuritaires, dans un contexte de transformation de l’action publique en général, les politiques de prévention des désordres et de lutte contre la délinquance constituent des enjeux majeurs tant au plan national qu’au niveau local.
A travers cette journée d’étude, il s’agit de soulever la question de la police des villes au sens large, de se pencher sur l’ensemble des réponses apportées par les pouvoirs publics et les autres acteurs professionnels et sociaux pour assurer le bon ordre, éviter les débordements et pacifier les territoires. Les communications proposées porteront sur les formes actuelles de régulation des désordres, quelles que soient les sphères d’action concernées.
A l’échelle des zones urbaines, périurbaines ou rurales, il convient notamment d’identifier les espaces et les publics visés, les lieux qui, peu ou prou, font l’objet d’un mode de policing. On pense à l’évidence à la rue, aux espaces publics, mais aussi aux transports en commun, aux établissements scolaires, aux centres commerciaux, aux stades, aux lieux de sorties nocturnes ou encore aux parties communes de l’habitat collectif, voire même à la sphère privée, celle du foyer familial, considérant par exemple que les mesures d’aide à la parentalité sont désormais conçues comme un levier spécifique des plans de prévention de la délinquance.
Il s’agit aussi de rendre compte du redéploiement des dispositifs de contrôle social et de la pluralité des acteurs mobilisés, d’analyser la redistribution des rôles et le renouvellement des formes de gouvernance en matière de gestion des désordres. Cela renvoie à la reconfiguration des relations entre l’Etat et les collectivités territoriales, à la redéfinition des frontières entre le secteur public et le secteur privé, au repositionnement des institutions répressives traditionnelles et à l’émergence de nouveaux segments professionnels dans le champ de la prévention de la délinquance. Assurément, les systèmes locaux de sécurité s’hybrident et se complexifient.
Face à cette extension du policing à toutes les sphères de la vie sociale, il convient aussi de caractériser les modes de subjectivation qui en procèdent, voire les nouvelles formes de résistance et d’action collective qu’elle suscite, c’est-à-dire dans quelle mesure elle affecte les capacités d’agir des individus, habitants ou usagers des espaces et des lieux publics, au-delà des déviances et des réactions qu’elle génère. En effet, on peut se demander comment cette extension du policing est encore compatible avec des dispositifs de contrôle social supposant l’autonomie des acteurs et des formes de « coproduction de sécurité » par la société civile. On pense notamment au développement exponentiel de la « vidéoprotection », qui se surajoute à des dispositifs de prévention situationnelle ou de sécurité urbaine passive déjà étoffés, tout en étant l’instrument de formes de plus en plus répressives de contrôle social. Et on songe aussi au « community policing » tel qu’il a été mis en oeuvre dans l’univers anglo-saxon, et dont on peut se demander s’il implique encore bien la community. Ce nouveau policing cherche-t-il seulement à contrôler les déviances, ou aussi à contenir la capacité même des communautés et des réseaux sociaux à produire de nouvelles formes de contrôle social ?
Parallèlement, il importe donc de discuter des orientations et des significations des politiques mises en oeuvre, de s’interroger sur leur portée et leurs limites en regard des objectifs poursuivis et des modèles d’action promus, par exemple en matière de prévention (sociale, situationnelle), de police (de proximité, d’intervention) ou de justice (punitive, restauratrice, réhabilitative). Comment ces différents référentiels s’actualisent-ils et s’articulent-ils en pratique ? Il s’agit d’apporter un éclairage sociologique sur les doctrines professionnelles, les logiques d’intervention, les modes opératoires, les technologies utilisées, et d’apprécier leurs impacts dans les divers champs d’action considérés.
Cet appel à communication, volontairement large et transversal, ne privilégie aucun axe de réflexion en particulier. Les thèmes des sessions de la journée d’étude seront définis sur la base des propositions de communication retenues.
Comité d’organisation :
Manuel Boucher (LERS-IDS/CADIS-EHESS – responsable du RT 3) ;
Nicolas Hourcade (Ecole centrale de Lyon/CADIS-EHESS – membre du bureau du RT 3) ;
Virginie Malochet (CESDIP – membre du bureau du RT 3) ;
Mohamed Belqasmi (LERS-IDS) ;
Geoffrey Pleyers (FNRS-Université de Louvain – co-responsable du RT 21);
Alexandre Piettre (CSPRP-Université Paris VII – membre du bureau du RT 21).
Comité scientifique :
Evelyne Baillergeau (Université d’Amsterdam, Pays-Bas) ;
Claudio Bolzman (Haute Ecole du Travail Social de Suisse Occidentale) ;
Véronique Bordes (CREFI-T/Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail) ;
Lena Dominelli (Université de Durham, Grande-Bretagne) ;
Jacques Donzelot (Université Paris X - Nanterre) ;
Maryse Esterle-Hédibel (CESDIP/IUFM du Nord Pas de Calais) ;
Walter Greco (Université de Calabre, Italie) ;
Didier Lapeyronnie (Université Paris IV - La Sorbonne) ;
Eric Marlière (LERS-IDS) ;
Gérard Moussu (IRTS Aquitaine) ;
Laurent Mucchielli (CNRS/CESDIP) ;
Philippe Robert (CNRS/CESDIP) ;
Alain Vulbeau (Université Paris X - Nanterre) ;
Michel Wieviorka (CADIS/FMSH).
- 1 – Les propositions de communication devront indiquer : nom, prénom, adresse électronique et institution d'attache du ou des auteur(s). Elles n’excéderont pas 1500 signes (espaces compris), être rédigés en français ou en anglais et devront parvenir au plus tard le 30 mai 2010, sous format Word, à lers@ids.fr
- 2 - Les avis du comité de sélection seront transmis aux auteurs fin juin 2010. Les textes intégraux des propositions retenues ne devront pas excéder 35 000 signes (espaces compris, notes et bibliographies incluses) et devront être transmis au plus tard le 30 septembre 2010.
- 3 - A la suite du colloque, les meilleurs articles sélectionnés par le comité scientifique feront l’objet d’une publication.
RT3 « Normes, déviances et réactions sociales »
en partenariat avec le
RT 21 « Mouvements sociaux »
Appel à communication pour le colloque
« Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres »
Les 26 et 27 octobre 2010 à l’Institut du Développement Social (Rouen)
La mutation des formes de régulation sociale et économique, l’intensification des rapports de domination, le développement de logiques sécuritaires et la raréfaction des espaces de conflit institutionnalisés libèrent l’expression de phénomènes de violences polymorphes et complexifient les processus du contrôle social. Dans ce contexte, la compréhension des transformations de la régulation sociale des désordres nécessite l’articulation des analyses relatives aux normes et aux déviances avec celles visant à penser la réorganisation du contrôle social et les modes d’engagement des acteurs chargés de réagir aux désordres, à la délinquance et aux violences, aussi bien dans le champ pénal (police, justice) que dans le monde du travail social, de l’école, des sports collectifs, etc. Le RT 3 « Normes, déviances et réactions sociales » en partenariat avec le RT 21 « Mouvements sociaux » de l’Association Française de Sociologie ont donc souhaité organiser un colloque intitulé « Regards croisés sur la régulation sociale des désordres », qui se tiendra à Rouen les 26 et 27 octobre 2010.
Sur fond de mutations socio-économiques profondes, alors que l’insécurité civile n’est plus tant perçue comme la contrepartie des libertés offertes par la vie urbaine mais bien plus comme un risque pour la collectivité, la question du contrôle social des déviances se pose avec acuité. Face à la montée des préoccupations sécuritaires, dans un contexte de transformation de l’action publique en général, les politiques de prévention des désordres et de lutte contre la délinquance constituent des enjeux majeurs tant au plan national qu’au niveau local.
A travers cette journée d’étude, il s’agit de soulever la question de la police des villes au sens large, de se pencher sur l’ensemble des réponses apportées par les pouvoirs publics et les autres acteurs professionnels et sociaux pour assurer le bon ordre, éviter les débordements et pacifier les territoires. Les communications proposées porteront sur les formes actuelles de régulation des désordres, quelles que soient les sphères d’action concernées.
A l’échelle des zones urbaines, périurbaines ou rurales, il convient notamment d’identifier les espaces et les publics visés, les lieux qui, peu ou prou, font l’objet d’un mode de policing. On pense à l’évidence à la rue, aux espaces publics, mais aussi aux transports en commun, aux établissements scolaires, aux centres commerciaux, aux stades, aux lieux de sorties nocturnes ou encore aux parties communes de l’habitat collectif, voire même à la sphère privée, celle du foyer familial, considérant par exemple que les mesures d’aide à la parentalité sont désormais conçues comme un levier spécifique des plans de prévention de la délinquance.
Il s’agit aussi de rendre compte du redéploiement des dispositifs de contrôle social et de la pluralité des acteurs mobilisés, d’analyser la redistribution des rôles et le renouvellement des formes de gouvernance en matière de gestion des désordres. Cela renvoie à la reconfiguration des relations entre l’Etat et les collectivités territoriales, à la redéfinition des frontières entre le secteur public et le secteur privé, au repositionnement des institutions répressives traditionnelles et à l’émergence de nouveaux segments professionnels dans le champ de la prévention de la délinquance. Assurément, les systèmes locaux de sécurité s’hybrident et se complexifient.
Face à cette extension du policing à toutes les sphères de la vie sociale, il convient aussi de caractériser les modes de subjectivation qui en procèdent, voire les nouvelles formes de résistance et d’action collective qu’elle suscite, c’est-à-dire dans quelle mesure elle affecte les capacités d’agir des individus, habitants ou usagers des espaces et des lieux publics, au-delà des déviances et des réactions qu’elle génère. En effet, on peut se demander comment cette extension du policing est encore compatible avec des dispositifs de contrôle social supposant l’autonomie des acteurs et des formes de « coproduction de sécurité » par la société civile. On pense notamment au développement exponentiel de la « vidéoprotection », qui se surajoute à des dispositifs de prévention situationnelle ou de sécurité urbaine passive déjà étoffés, tout en étant l’instrument de formes de plus en plus répressives de contrôle social. Et on songe aussi au « community policing » tel qu’il a été mis en oeuvre dans l’univers anglo-saxon, et dont on peut se demander s’il implique encore bien la community. Ce nouveau policing cherche-t-il seulement à contrôler les déviances, ou aussi à contenir la capacité même des communautés et des réseaux sociaux à produire de nouvelles formes de contrôle social ?
Parallèlement, il importe donc de discuter des orientations et des significations des politiques mises en oeuvre, de s’interroger sur leur portée et leurs limites en regard des objectifs poursuivis et des modèles d’action promus, par exemple en matière de prévention (sociale, situationnelle), de police (de proximité, d’intervention) ou de justice (punitive, restauratrice, réhabilitative). Comment ces différents référentiels s’actualisent-ils et s’articulent-ils en pratique ? Il s’agit d’apporter un éclairage sociologique sur les doctrines professionnelles, les logiques d’intervention, les modes opératoires, les technologies utilisées, et d’apprécier leurs impacts dans les divers champs d’action considérés.
Cet appel à communication, volontairement large et transversal, ne privilégie aucun axe de réflexion en particulier. Les thèmes des sessions de la journée d’étude seront définis sur la base des propositions de communication retenues.
Comité d’organisation :
Manuel Boucher (LERS-IDS/CADIS-EHESS – responsable du RT 3) ;
Nicolas Hourcade (Ecole centrale de Lyon/CADIS-EHESS – membre du bureau du RT 3) ;
Virginie Malochet (CESDIP – membre du bureau du RT 3) ;
Mohamed Belqasmi (LERS-IDS) ;
Geoffrey Pleyers (FNRS-Université de Louvain – co-responsable du RT 21);
Alexandre Piettre (CSPRP-Université Paris VII – membre du bureau du RT 21).
Comité scientifique :
Evelyne Baillergeau (Université d’Amsterdam, Pays-Bas) ;
Claudio Bolzman (Haute Ecole du Travail Social de Suisse Occidentale) ;
Véronique Bordes (CREFI-T/Université Toulouse 2 Le Mirail) ;
Lena Dominelli (Université de Durham, Grande-Bretagne) ;
Jacques Donzelot (Université Paris X - Nanterre) ;
Maryse Esterle-Hédibel (CESDIP/IUFM du Nord Pas de Calais) ;
Walter Greco (Université de Calabre, Italie) ;
Didier Lapeyronnie (Université Paris IV - La Sorbonne) ;
Eric Marlière (LERS-IDS) ;
Gérard Moussu (IRTS Aquitaine) ;
Laurent Mucchielli (CNRS/CESDIP) ;
Philippe Robert (CNRS/CESDIP) ;
Alain Vulbeau (Université Paris X - Nanterre) ;
Michel Wieviorka (CADIS/FMSH).
- 1 – Les propositions de communication devront indiquer : nom, prénom, adresse électronique et institution d'attache du ou des auteur(s). Elles n’excéderont pas 1500 signes (espaces compris), être rédigés en français ou en anglais et devront parvenir au plus tard le 30 mai 2010, sous format Word, à lers@ids.fr
- 2 - Les avis du comité de sélection seront transmis aux auteurs fin juin 2010. Les textes intégraux des propositions retenues ne devront pas excéder 35 000 signes (espaces compris, notes et bibliographies incluses) et devront être transmis au plus tard le 30 septembre 2010.
- 3 - A la suite du colloque, les meilleurs articles sélectionnés par le comité scientifique feront l’objet d’une publication.
Postdoc fellowship
POSITION : Research Fellow SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT : School of History and Anthropology, Queens University Belfast.
REFERENCE: 10/101288 CLOSING DATE : 4.00pm, Monday 12 April 2010. SALARY : £29,853 per annum. ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW DATE : Friday 7 May 2010. CONTRACT DURATION : Two years.
JOB PURPOSE : To be an active member of the HERA-funded Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM) research project/team assisting in the planning and delivery of research on Hindu religious imagery in India and Britain, so that the overall research objectives of the project are met.
The candidate needs to have relevant research experience in the study of Hindu imagery/religion , and knowledge of anthropological methods.
Please find below the link to the job advertisement/details on the QUB jobs page.
REFERENCE: 10/101288 CLOSING DATE : 4.00pm, Monday 12 April 2010. SALARY : £29,853 per annum. ANTICIPATED INTERVIEW DATE : Friday 7 May 2010. CONTRACT DURATION : Two years.
JOB PURPOSE : To be an active member of the HERA-funded Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM) research project/team assisting in the planning and delivery of research on Hindu religious imagery in India and Britain, so that the overall research objectives of the project are met.
The candidate needs to have relevant research experience in the study of Hindu imagery/religion , and knowledge of anthropological methods.
Please find below the link to the job advertisement/details on the QUB jobs page.
mercoledì 17 marzo 2010
Forum on Religion: next seminars
6 MAY
'Bosnian Muslims in New England: identity maintenance and integration patterns'
-- Kristen Lucken, Department of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston University
This discussion explores the integration patterns and processes of identity maintenance of Bosnian Muslims who were resettled in New England following the 1992-1995 Balkans conflict. After experiencing forced migration, Bosnian Muslims rebuild pre-war identities, re-construct community life, and integrate within a new host setting. This discussion focuses on two Bosnian communities in New England and explores the reasons why one community remains largely secular and multi-cultural, while the other is witnessing increased religious behavior and a reconstructed meaning of Bosnian national identity. The discussion also addresses the challenges of being a European Muslim in the United States following the events of September 11, 2001.
AND
'Exploring identity in the British educational landscape: a glimpse into the aspirations and participation of parents with a Muslim background'
-- Malik Ajani, Royal Holloway, University of London
How do parents of a Muslim background describe their identity? Are the needs of Muslim parents who have children in the English primary and secondary schools homogeneous in character? My case study of London examined the desires of Muslim parents in relation to their children's education: what are their hopes and dreams, what things are empowering them and what do they perceive to be barriers to their participation? The case study reveals that the aspirations of these parents include certain priorities, which is missing much of literature of the assumed needs of Muslim parents.
3 JUNE
'Home-grown terror, anti-Muslimism and the politics of fear: the rise of the far-right in today's Britain'
-- Christopher Allen, Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
Even before the summer disturbances in the northern mill towns in 2001 and the subsequent impact of 9/11, British far-right groups had begun to campaign against Muslims and the religion of Islam. After 9/11, and bolstered by the atrocities of 7/7, various ‘terror plots’ and other Muslim/ Islam-perceived issues, these same groups have employed increasingly more explicit campaigns to gain unprecedented electoral success. With the British National Party having secured victories in the European Parliament, the Greater London Assembly and various local councils across England, and with the English Defence League routinely marching across a range of different towns and cities against the ‘Islamification’ of Britain, the far-right’s anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic rhetoric can no longer be dismissed. This paper seeks to explore the issues raised by the rise and recent political success of the far-right by contextualising it within the wider discursive landscape. Drawing upon theories of Islamophobia, cultural racism, and the politics of fear, this paper will consider the extent to which the messages and meanings of the far-right have found resonance and relevance across a much wider constituency in today’s Britain.
AND
'Religion, Securitization and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: The Case of Greece'
-- Georgios Karyotis and Stratos Patrikios, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde
The social construction of security is typically associated with political elites presenting an issue as an existential threat. In societal issues however, other actors such as religious elites may also be involved in the process of 'securitisation'. This paper aims to fill
a lacuna in securitisation theory by incorporating in a single analytical framework both political and religious actors and evaluating how their potentially antagonistic discourses influence public attitudes towards migrants. Using Greece as a case study, it first documents a divergence in the two actors' rhetoric through discourse analysis, and then proceeds to measure the relative impact of their discourses on public immigration attitudes, employing structural equation modelling of European Social Survey data. Findings demonstrate that exposure to the securitising religious discourse through church attendance immunises citizens from the softening effect of the political message and reveal the continuing relevance of the Church in settings where ethnicity and religion overlap.
The seminars are free and open to the public; no reservation required. They will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE
'Bosnian Muslims in New England: identity maintenance and integration patterns'
-- Kristen Lucken, Department of Religious and Theological Studies, Boston University
This discussion explores the integration patterns and processes of identity maintenance of Bosnian Muslims who were resettled in New England following the 1992-1995 Balkans conflict. After experiencing forced migration, Bosnian Muslims rebuild pre-war identities, re-construct community life, and integrate within a new host setting. This discussion focuses on two Bosnian communities in New England and explores the reasons why one community remains largely secular and multi-cultural, while the other is witnessing increased religious behavior and a reconstructed meaning of Bosnian national identity. The discussion also addresses the challenges of being a European Muslim in the United States following the events of September 11, 2001.
AND
'Exploring identity in the British educational landscape: a glimpse into the aspirations and participation of parents with a Muslim background'
-- Malik Ajani, Royal Holloway, University of London
How do parents of a Muslim background describe their identity? Are the needs of Muslim parents who have children in the English primary and secondary schools homogeneous in character? My case study of London examined the desires of Muslim parents in relation to their children's education: what are their hopes and dreams, what things are empowering them and what do they perceive to be barriers to their participation? The case study reveals that the aspirations of these parents include certain priorities, which is missing much of literature of the assumed needs of Muslim parents.
3 JUNE
'Home-grown terror, anti-Muslimism and the politics of fear: the rise of the far-right in today's Britain'
-- Christopher Allen, Institute of Applied Social Studies, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
Even before the summer disturbances in the northern mill towns in 2001 and the subsequent impact of 9/11, British far-right groups had begun to campaign against Muslims and the religion of Islam. After 9/11, and bolstered by the atrocities of 7/7, various ‘terror plots’ and other Muslim/ Islam-perceived issues, these same groups have employed increasingly more explicit campaigns to gain unprecedented electoral success. With the British National Party having secured victories in the European Parliament, the Greater London Assembly and various local councils across England, and with the English Defence League routinely marching across a range of different towns and cities against the ‘Islamification’ of Britain, the far-right’s anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic rhetoric can no longer be dismissed. This paper seeks to explore the issues raised by the rise and recent political success of the far-right by contextualising it within the wider discursive landscape. Drawing upon theories of Islamophobia, cultural racism, and the politics of fear, this paper will consider the extent to which the messages and meanings of the far-right have found resonance and relevance across a much wider constituency in today’s Britain.
AND
'Religion, Securitization and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: The Case of Greece'
-- Georgios Karyotis and Stratos Patrikios, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde
The social construction of security is typically associated with political elites presenting an issue as an existential threat. In societal issues however, other actors such as religious elites may also be involved in the process of 'securitisation'. This paper aims to fill
a lacuna in securitisation theory by incorporating in a single analytical framework both political and religious actors and evaluating how their potentially antagonistic discourses influence public attitudes towards migrants. Using Greece as a case study, it first documents a divergence in the two actors' rhetoric through discourse analysis, and then proceeds to measure the relative impact of their discourses on public immigration attitudes, employing structural equation modelling of European Social Survey data. Findings demonstrate that exposure to the securitising religious discourse through church attendance immunises citizens from the softening effect of the political message and reveal the continuing relevance of the Church in settings where ethnicity and religion overlap.
The seminars are free and open to the public; no reservation required. They will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE
IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics 2010
IWM International Summer School in Philosophy and Politics 2010
Religion in Public Life
Cortona, Italy
July 4-17, 2010
Call for Applications
Deadline: March 25, 2010
Program
The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute’s research focus on “Religion & Secularism”. It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic. For complete details please visit http://www.iwm.at/summerschool.
Seminar 1 Religion and Multiple Modernities
Seminar 2 Religion and Democracy
Seminar 3 The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
Seminar 4 God in Contemporary Debates
Evening discussions with Italian public figures (including the former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato) will complete the program.
Faculty
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Program ‘Globalization, Religion and the Secular’, Berkley Center, Georgetown University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago.
Nilüfer Göle, Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Professor of Systemic Theology and Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of South Asian Politics and Intellectual History, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Marcin Krol, Professor of the History of Ideas and Philosophy, Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University.
Krzysztof Michalski, Professor of Philosophy, University of Boston and Warsaw University, Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Charles Taylor, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal; Permanent Fellow, IWM, Vienna.
Organization
Each of the seminars will meet Monday through Friday. Participants are required to enroll in three seminars. They will be conducted in English, thus excellent command of this language is absolutely required.
There is no tuition for the Summer School; course materials, room and full board will be provided (accommodation in double rooms, single rooms are available for an extra charge). Participants are responsible to cover travel costs to and from Cortona and all other incidental expenses.
Application
The application must be submitted in English and include
· the application form (please download)
· a curriculum vitae and
· a letter of motivation discussing at least one of the four seminar topics (max. 5 pages)
Please submit your application by e-mail to
summerschool@iwm.at
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
1090 Wien, Austria; Spittelauer Lände 3
T: +43-1-31358-0, F: +43-1-31358-30
Deadline for application is March 25, 2010!
Applicants will be notified by the end of April.
The Summer School is organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne
Religion in Public Life
Cortona, Italy
July 4-17, 2010
Call for Applications
Deadline: March 25, 2010
Program
The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute’s research focus on “Religion & Secularism”. It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic. For complete details please visit http://www.iwm.at/summerschool.
Seminar 1 Religion and Multiple Modernities
Seminar 2 Religion and Democracy
Seminar 3 The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
Seminar 4 God in Contemporary Debates
Evening discussions with Italian public figures (including the former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato) will complete the program.
Faculty
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Head of the Program ‘Globalization, Religion and the Secular’, Berkley Center, Georgetown University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago.
Nilüfer Göle, Director of Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS), Paris.
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Professor of Systemic Theology and Ethics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of South Asian Politics and Intellectual History, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University.
Marcin Krol, Professor of the History of Ideas and Philosophy, Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Warsaw University.
Krzysztof Michalski, Professor of Philosophy, University of Boston and Warsaw University, Rector, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna.
Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University.
Charles Taylor, Professor emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal; Permanent Fellow, IWM, Vienna.
Organization
Each of the seminars will meet Monday through Friday. Participants are required to enroll in three seminars. They will be conducted in English, thus excellent command of this language is absolutely required.
There is no tuition for the Summer School; course materials, room and full board will be provided (accommodation in double rooms, single rooms are available for an extra charge). Participants are responsible to cover travel costs to and from Cortona and all other incidental expenses.
Application
The application must be submitted in English and include
· the application form (please download)
· a curriculum vitae and
· a letter of motivation discussing at least one of the four seminar topics (max. 5 pages)
Please submit your application by e-mail to
summerschool@iwm.at
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM)
1090 Wien, Austria; Spittelauer Lände 3
T: +43-1-31358-0, F: +43-1-31358-30
Deadline for application is March 25, 2010!
Applicants will be notified by the end of April.
The Summer School is organized by the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) and generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne
Post-doc CUNY
THE GRADUATE CENTER of
The City University of New York
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, 2010-2011
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D.-granting institution of CUNY, announces postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011 in three new interdisciplinary Committees in the following areas of inquiry: Science Studies, The Study of Religion, The Study of Globalization and Social Change. Positions will begin on September 1, 2010 and will be renewable for a second year.
The Graduate Center is devoted to advancing original research and training graduate students in over 30 fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in one of the disciplines in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Candidates who have received the Ph.D. in 2007 at the earliest, or who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application deadline of April 12, 2010 are eligible.
The successful candidates will be housed in one of the Graduate Center’s three new Committees and will be expected to pursue their own research related to one of the above fields; to teach one doctoral seminar in an area of their expertise in the fall; and to convene and lead one research seminar in the spring. Fellows will also be expected to participate more generally in the administration and programming of theCommittee of their appointment.
To apply, please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, one sample publication or dissertation chapter, and the names and contact information for at least three references to: Postdoctoral Search Committee, Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The positions will remain open until filled. Review of applications will begin on April 12, 2010. Salary: $55,000/a plus benefits and a small research/travel allowance.
An Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction/IRCA/
Americans with Disabilities Act Employe
The City University of New York
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, 2010-2011
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D.-granting institution of CUNY, announces postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011 in three new interdisciplinary Committees in the following areas of inquiry: Science Studies, The Study of Religion, The Study of Globalization and Social Change. Positions will begin on September 1, 2010 and will be renewable for a second year.
The Graduate Center is devoted to advancing original research and training graduate students in over 30 fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in one of the disciplines in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Candidates who have received the Ph.D. in 2007 at the earliest, or who have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. by the application deadline of April 12, 2010 are eligible.
The successful candidates will be housed in one of the Graduate Center’s three new Committees and will be expected to pursue their own research related to one of the above fields; to teach one doctoral seminar in an area of their expertise in the fall; and to convene and lead one research seminar in the spring. Fellows will also be expected to participate more generally in the administration and programming of theCommittee of their appointment.
To apply, please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, one sample publication or dissertation chapter, and the names and contact information for at least three references to: Postdoctoral Search Committee, Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The positions will remain open until filled. Review of applications will begin on April 12, 2010. Salary: $55,000/a plus benefits and a small research/travel allowance.
An Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction/IRCA/
Americans with Disabilities Act Employe
International conference "Contesting Religious Identities"
International conference "Contesting Religious Identities"
Utrecht University, October 13th-15th, 2010
Organized by the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (INTEGON) of the Department of Religious Studies and Theology of Utrecht University.
Conference Abstract:
In the Western world, religion has come strongly to the fore again. It is back on the public stages of 'secular' society, influencing political and social discourses by raising questions about identity, power, rationality, law and safety. Its 'return' however is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, shifting cultural and political frameworks (re-)shape, (re)invent and appropriate religious identities. On the other hand these identities enhance and re-inform cultural and political frameworks. How to understand these different roles religions play? How to understand the ambiguous return of religion on the stages of Western society?
To explore these questions, the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (INTEGON) of Utrecht University organizes the international conference 'Contesting Religious Identities'. The aim of the conference is to build on interdisciplinary insights to analyze the historical and cultural production of religious identities. The organizing committee has chosen three foci:
1. Bodies, Gestures & Rituals,
2. Media, Images & Texts, and
3. Territories, Movements & Diasporas.
Keynote Speakers:
Main Theme:
- Prof. Nilüfer Göle (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris),
- Prof. Joerg Rieger (Southern Methodist University, Dallas)
Bodies, Gestures & Rituals:
- Prof. Tina Pippin (Agnes Scott College)
Media, Images & Texts
- Prof. dr. Jolyon Mitchell (Edinburgh University)
Territories, Movements & Diasporas
- Prof. Claudia Camp (Texas University),
- Prof. Patrick Eisenlohr (Utrecht University)
Deadline for proposing relevant papers: 30 March 2010
Utrecht University, October 13th-15th, 2010
Organized by the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (INTEGON) of the Department of Religious Studies and Theology of Utrecht University.
Conference Abstract:
In the Western world, religion has come strongly to the fore again. It is back on the public stages of 'secular' society, influencing political and social discourses by raising questions about identity, power, rationality, law and safety. Its 'return' however is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, shifting cultural and political frameworks (re-)shape, (re)invent and appropriate religious identities. On the other hand these identities enhance and re-inform cultural and political frameworks. How to understand these different roles religions play? How to understand the ambiguous return of religion on the stages of Western society?
To explore these questions, the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (INTEGON) of Utrecht University organizes the international conference 'Contesting Religious Identities'. The aim of the conference is to build on interdisciplinary insights to analyze the historical and cultural production of religious identities. The organizing committee has chosen three foci:
1. Bodies, Gestures & Rituals,
2. Media, Images & Texts, and
3. Territories, Movements & Diasporas.
Keynote Speakers:
Main Theme:
- Prof. Nilüfer Göle (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris),
- Prof. Joerg Rieger (Southern Methodist University, Dallas)
Bodies, Gestures & Rituals:
- Prof. Tina Pippin (Agnes Scott College)
Media, Images & Texts
- Prof. dr. Jolyon Mitchell (Edinburgh University)
Territories, Movements & Diasporas
- Prof. Claudia Camp (Texas University),
- Prof. Patrick Eisenlohr (Utrecht University)
Deadline for proposing relevant papers: 30 March 2010
Lectureship in Anthropology of Religion
Lectureship in Anthropology of Religion (0.7 FTE)
King's College London - Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Fixed Term Contract until 30th September 2012
The Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London, invites applications for a fixed term two year Lecturership in the Social Anthropology of Religion, beginning 1 October 2010. Candidates should be trained in general anthropological theory and method, and specifically in the Anthropology of contemporary Muslim societies or the Muslim diaspora, and must have demonstrated ability to teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The successful candidate will contribute to the BA programme in Religion in the Contemporary World and will also teach the anthropological sections of two core modules in the MA in Religion in Contemporary Society as well as one optional module in religion and politics in Muslim societies.
More info at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAU340/lectureship-in-anthropology-of-religion-07-fte/
King's College London - Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Fixed Term Contract until 30th September 2012
The Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London, invites applications for a fixed term two year Lecturership in the Social Anthropology of Religion, beginning 1 October 2010. Candidates should be trained in general anthropological theory and method, and specifically in the Anthropology of contemporary Muslim societies or the Muslim diaspora, and must have demonstrated ability to teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The successful candidate will contribute to the BA programme in Religion in the Contemporary World and will also teach the anthropological sections of two core modules in the MA in Religion in Contemporary Society as well as one optional module in religion and politics in Muslim societies.
More info at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAU340/lectureship-in-anthropology-of-religion-07-fte/
CFP: Religion in China
Call for papers
The 7th Annual Conference of the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China
Theme: “The Present and Future of Religion in China”
Dates: July 26-27, 2010
Place: Renmin University of China, Beijing
We invite proposals for presentation (abstract) in the social scientific study of religion, such as
- Empirical studies of religion in Chinese societies or among the Chinese diasporas;
-Religious regulations and the rule of law in Chinese societies and/or other societies;
-New developments in academic research on religion;
-Other topics of your choice in the social scientific study of religion.
Papers and presentations may be either in Chinese or in English.
Important dates:
April 30: deadline for submitting abstracts.
May 30: notification of acceptance for presentation.
June 20: due date of the full paper.
To propose a paper presentation, please send your abstract and a short bio-sketch to: crcs@purdue.edu. The abstract should be about 250 English words, and the short bio (or short vita) should include information of full name, title, affiliation, position, research interests and major publications, email address, telephone number(s), and postal address.
Scholars living outside mainland China: each scholar pays a conference fee of US$100 or RMB680 (in cash) upon registration on site. This fee covers conference materials and some meals. If your paper is accepted for presentation, we will assist you in making hotel reservation at Beijing Yanshan Hotel (http://www.yanshanhotel.com/en/hotel-info.html ), which is across the main gate of Renmin University of China. The conference rates start from RMB400 (approximately US$59) per night.
The Seventh Annual Conference is sponsored by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University (USA)
and the Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theories at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
For inquiry, please contact: Dr. Lily Szeto, email: crcs@purdue.edu, phone: +1-765-494-5801.
The 7th Annual Conference of the Social Scientific Study of Religion in China
Theme: “The Present and Future of Religion in China”
Dates: July 26-27, 2010
Place: Renmin University of China, Beijing
We invite proposals for presentation (abstract) in the social scientific study of religion, such as
- Empirical studies of religion in Chinese societies or among the Chinese diasporas;
-Religious regulations and the rule of law in Chinese societies and/or other societies;
-New developments in academic research on religion;
-Other topics of your choice in the social scientific study of religion.
Papers and presentations may be either in Chinese or in English.
Important dates:
April 30: deadline for submitting abstracts.
May 30: notification of acceptance for presentation.
June 20: due date of the full paper.
To propose a paper presentation, please send your abstract and a short bio-sketch to: crcs@purdue.edu. The abstract should be about 250 English words, and the short bio (or short vita) should include information of full name, title, affiliation, position, research interests and major publications, email address, telephone number(s), and postal address.
Scholars living outside mainland China: each scholar pays a conference fee of US$100 or RMB680 (in cash) upon registration on site. This fee covers conference materials and some meals. If your paper is accepted for presentation, we will assist you in making hotel reservation at Beijing Yanshan Hotel (http://www.yanshanhotel.com/en/hotel-info.html ), which is across the main gate of Renmin University of China. The conference rates start from RMB400 (approximately US$59) per night.
The Seventh Annual Conference is sponsored by the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University (USA)
and the Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theories at Renmin University of China in Beijing.
For inquiry, please contact: Dr. Lily Szeto, email: crcs@purdue.edu, phone: +1-765-494-5801.
domenica 14 marzo 2010
Book: Sociology of religion for generations X and Y
Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y
Adam Possamai
Readers and students from generations X and Y are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the internet, and are more practical than theoretical. This book on the sociology of religion straddles the intersection between consumer culture, cyber-culture and popular culture, and focuses on the need of these generations.
This book makes specific relevance to generations X and Y from the very first page.
To draw the reader into a topic, each chapter begins with a case study from popular culture or the internet. This narrative device is a key approach to bringing readers and students to the heart of the problem. Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y explores sociological concepts such as secularisation and the multiple modernisation thesis, re-enchantment, the ‘McDonaldisation’ of society and the easternisation of the west, while addressing contemporary phenomenon within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups, both online and offline. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism.
While covering classical works in the field, Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y uses the writing of cutting edge theorists to understand where religion and spirituality are coming from, where they are right now, and where they might be going. It also highlights the practical relevance of this sub-discipline to readers and students by exploring what
sociologists of religion do outside of the academy.
Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament (2005), In Search of New Age Spiritualities (2005) and Perles Noires (2005), a collection of short stories in French. He is a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions and was the 2002-2007 co-editor of the Australian Religion Studies Review.
Adam Possamai
Readers and students from generations X and Y are involved in consumer culture, get part of their knowledge through popular culture and/or the internet, and are more practical than theoretical. This book on the sociology of religion straddles the intersection between consumer culture, cyber-culture and popular culture, and focuses on the need of these generations.
This book makes specific relevance to generations X and Y from the very first page.
To draw the reader into a topic, each chapter begins with a case study from popular culture or the internet. This narrative device is a key approach to bringing readers and students to the heart of the problem. Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y explores sociological concepts such as secularisation and the multiple modernisation thesis, re-enchantment, the ‘McDonaldisation’ of society and the easternisation of the west, while addressing contemporary phenomenon within, for example, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, New Age, Scientology, and Witchcraft groups, both online and offline. It also addresses new religious phenomena such as the mixing of religion and popular culture on the internet as found in new groups such as Jediism and Matrixism.
While covering classical works in the field, Sociology of Religion for Generations X and Y uses the writing of cutting edge theorists to understand where religion and spirituality are coming from, where they are right now, and where they might be going. It also highlights the practical relevance of this sub-discipline to readers and students by exploring what
sociologists of religion do outside of the academy.
Adam Possamai is Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Religion and Popular Culture: A Hyper-Real Testament (2005), In Search of New Age Spiritualities (2005) and Perles Noires (2005), a collection of short stories in French. He is a former President of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions and was the 2002-2007 co-editor of the Australian Religion Studies Review.
Ethnopolitics 9(1) Special Issue: Ethnicity and Religion
Ethnopolitics 9(1) Special Issue: Ethnicity and Religion
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g918416597~db=all
Ethnicity and Religion: Redefining the Research Agenda
Joseph Ruane; Jennifer Todd
The Situational Importance of Ethnicity and Religion in Ghana
Arnim Langer
Legible Pluralism: The Politics of Ethnic and Religious Identification in Malaysia
Graham K. Brown
The Push and Pull between Religion and Ethnicity: The Case of Loyalists in Northern Ireland
Claire Mitchell
Religious and Ethnonational Identification and Political Violence
Robert D. Lowe; Orla T. Muldoon
Symbolic Complexity and Political Division: The Changing Role of Religion in Northern Ireland
Jennifer Todd
Ethnoreligious Change in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study of How Religious Havens Can Have Ethnic Significance
Gladys Ganiel
Ethnicity, Religion and Peoplehood: Protestants in France and in Ireland
Joseph Ruane
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g918416597~db=all
Ethnicity and Religion: Redefining the Research Agenda
Joseph Ruane; Jennifer Todd
The Situational Importance of Ethnicity and Religion in Ghana
Arnim Langer
Legible Pluralism: The Politics of Ethnic and Religious Identification in Malaysia
Graham K. Brown
The Push and Pull between Religion and Ethnicity: The Case of Loyalists in Northern Ireland
Claire Mitchell
Religious and Ethnonational Identification and Political Violence
Robert D. Lowe; Orla T. Muldoon
Symbolic Complexity and Political Division: The Changing Role of Religion in Northern Ireland
Jennifer Todd
Ethnoreligious Change in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe: A Comparative Study of How Religious Havens Can Have Ethnic Significance
Gladys Ganiel
Ethnicity, Religion and Peoplehood: Protestants in France and in Ireland
Joseph Ruane
sabato 13 marzo 2010
Conference "Muslims and political participation in Europe"
Conference "Muslims and political participation in Europe", Copenhagen, 21-22 April 2010
This conference is being organised jointly by:
- the EurIslam network, based at the University of Strasbourg
- Centre for European Islamic Thought (CEIT), at the University of Copenhagen
The conference will focus on the following overlapping and interlocking dimensions (these are not to be understood as exclusive of related themes):
1. The processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics: Voting patterns and representation in local and national assemblies; the place of Islam as an identifying factor - do candidates highlight or marginalize their 'Muslimness' (and what is 'Muslim' in this context?); the relationship between Muslim and ethnic identities in the political processes.
2. Internal Muslim debates about political participation in Europe: Attitudes of Muslims to the democratic processes; views for and against political participation in non-Muslim society; who can/should represent Muslims, or are there other priorities?
3. Public discourses about Muslim participation; political participation as a method or consequence of integration; state policies regarding Muslim political participation; relationship between participation and citizenship; is Muslim participation welcomed or contingent on privatizing the faith?
For a full programme and registration form see
http://islam.ku.dk/english/politicalparticipation/
This conference is being organised jointly by:
- the EurIslam network, based at the University of Strasbourg
- Centre for European Islamic Thought (CEIT), at the University of Copenhagen
The conference will focus on the following overlapping and interlocking dimensions (these are not to be understood as exclusive of related themes):
1. The processes and realities of Muslim participation in local and national politics: Voting patterns and representation in local and national assemblies; the place of Islam as an identifying factor - do candidates highlight or marginalize their 'Muslimness' (and what is 'Muslim' in this context?); the relationship between Muslim and ethnic identities in the political processes.
2. Internal Muslim debates about political participation in Europe: Attitudes of Muslims to the democratic processes; views for and against political participation in non-Muslim society; who can/should represent Muslims, or are there other priorities?
3. Public discourses about Muslim participation; political participation as a method or consequence of integration; state policies regarding Muslim political participation; relationship between participation and citizenship; is Muslim participation welcomed or contingent on privatizing the faith?
For a full programme and registration form see
http://islam.ku.dk/english/politicalparticipation/
Seminario: Law and religion
LAW AND RELIGION SCHOLARS NETWORK (LARSN) CONFERENCE AND MEETING
Tuesday 11th May 2010
Venue: The Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cathays Park, Cardiff,
CF10 3AX
Program: http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/clr/networks/lrsn.html
Centre for Law and Religion
The Law School
Cardiff University
http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/clr
Tuesday 11th May 2010
Venue: The Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cathays Park, Cardiff,
CF10 3AX
Program: http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/clr/networks/lrsn.html
Centre for Law and Religion
The Law School
Cardiff University
http://www.law.cf.ac.uk/clr
CFP: Religions on the Internet - Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses
Call for Papers: "Religions on the Internet - Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses"
Special issue of "Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet", due for publication in October 2010
We herewith invite scholars from Religious, Cultural, Social, Media Studies and other related disciplines to hand in proposals for possible articles which deal with questions of the aesthtics and sensual dimensions of religions and rituals on the Internet.
When we look on the various representations of religious groups and individuals on personal homepages, in weblogs, in virtual worlds or the like and when we follow their communications on religious topics online, the visual and auditive aspects of the medium seem to play a major role.
Using pictures, videos, icons, as well as music and other sounds, the internet users can design a multisensual virtual environment which might implicate its own notion of 'aesthetics'. This might be the case in e.g. a virtual Church environment which is embedded in an area with plashy waterfalls and bird sound instead of organ music or for religious groups in social networks who link to home-made Youtube videos, online games and other homepages. But we also must not forget the connection to these sensual dimensions that refer to and rely on the (offline) bodies of religious practitioners. Religions and rituals on the Internet might most probably provoke emotional or other physical reactions.
Furthermore, in transfer processes between the offline and online realm there might be a redefinition of what seems to be an 'appropriate' design for religious settings.
As the aesthetic and sensual dimensions of religions and rituals on the internet are so far a mostly neglected area of research, we call upon theoretical and methodical reflection as well as on empiric studies referring to these topics. We are looking forward to receive the title and a short abstract (max. 250 words) of the planned article until 31st of March 2010.
Further important dates and deadlines are:
April 15th: Notification on the acceptance of your proposal by the editors
August 31st: Submission deadline for full article
September 15th: Deadline for comments, requests of revisions by the editors (if necessary)
September 31st: Submission deadline for revised articles
November, 1st: Publication of the Online Journal
Please send your abstract to the following Email-addresses:
Simone.Heidbrink@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Nadja.Miczek@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Special issue of "Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet", due for publication in October 2010
We herewith invite scholars from Religious, Cultural, Social, Media Studies and other related disciplines to hand in proposals for possible articles which deal with questions of the aesthtics and sensual dimensions of religions and rituals on the Internet.
When we look on the various representations of religious groups and individuals on personal homepages, in weblogs, in virtual worlds or the like and when we follow their communications on religious topics online, the visual and auditive aspects of the medium seem to play a major role.
Using pictures, videos, icons, as well as music and other sounds, the internet users can design a multisensual virtual environment which might implicate its own notion of 'aesthetics'. This might be the case in e.g. a virtual Church environment which is embedded in an area with plashy waterfalls and bird sound instead of organ music or for religious groups in social networks who link to home-made Youtube videos, online games and other homepages. But we also must not forget the connection to these sensual dimensions that refer to and rely on the (offline) bodies of religious practitioners. Religions and rituals on the Internet might most probably provoke emotional or other physical reactions.
Furthermore, in transfer processes between the offline and online realm there might be a redefinition of what seems to be an 'appropriate' design for religious settings.
As the aesthetic and sensual dimensions of religions and rituals on the internet are so far a mostly neglected area of research, we call upon theoretical and methodical reflection as well as on empiric studies referring to these topics. We are looking forward to receive the title and a short abstract (max. 250 words) of the planned article until 31st of March 2010.
Further important dates and deadlines are:
April 15th: Notification on the acceptance of your proposal by the editors
August 31st: Submission deadline for full article
September 15th: Deadline for comments, requests of revisions by the editors (if necessary)
September 31st: Submission deadline for revised articles
November, 1st: Publication of the Online Journal
Please send your abstract to the following Email-addresses:
Simone.Heidbrink@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
Nadja.Miczek@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de
CFP: Afican Churches in Europe - mediating imagination
'African Churches' in Europe Mediating Imaginations
International Conference at the Université libre de Bruxelles
8-10 December 2010, Brussels
'African Churches' have been present in Europe for some decades now, but their developments have taken a new dimension with the intensification of African migrations to Europe in the 80s and 90s. Beyond their doctrinal and institutional diversity and divergences, these churches have in common to be carried by African populations who all too often remain stigmatized and marginalized at the social, political and juridical levels. Simultaneously however, they now do compete in an explicit way with historical mission churches, and attract an important proportion of Africans installed in Europe. Depending on the perspective, these churches can alternatively be viewed as a globalized and particularly dynamic contribution to the edification of contemporary Christianities, or as the refuge of ethno-religious communalisms not entirely compatible with European public spaces.
However, 'African Churches' in Europe are today at the very heart of transformations of both the imaginations of Europe in the African worlds, and the imaginations of Africa in Europe. They are simultaneously new faces of Africa installed in the heart of European cities and banlieues that question the Western contemporary ways of (dis)connecting religion and the public sphere, as well as places of significant reinterpretations of European secular values and practices.
As key sites in reshaping European representations of Africa, as well as in remaking African paradigms of Europe, these churches play a crucial role of mediation in the relations between the two continents.
Taking this mediating position of 'African Churches' as a point of departure and a general guiding thread, the conference will be organized around four research axes:
[a] Debated identities: The entanglement of religious, racial and ethno-national identities in African assemblies in Europe has already generated a series of scholarly debates in the last decade. What forms of (dis)connections between religious and ethno-national affiliations are at work in African Churches of Europe today? What roles do religious identities play in the lives of African Christians in Europe? What room should we make for these religious identities in the sociological or anthropological apprehension of populations of African origin in Europe?
[b] Networks and circulations of religious actors: African Churches in Europe are regularly part of different forms of transnational networks where ethno-national identities are combined with religious affiliations. What are the logics of circulation of African ecclesial elites in Europe? How are transnational relations between pastors and between Churches made and unmade? What forms of transnational organization are at work in religious networks, and along which lines do concerns for centralization differ between Churches?
[c] Relations to the public sphere: African Churches are often viewed from the angle of abuse and incivility. However, African assemblies are also regularly engaged in public activities aiming at a better public or political recognition, while simultaneously being able to take distance towards European secular political authorities. What are the different dimensions of the relation to the public sphere in these Churches? Reciprocally, what spaces are carved out in European countries for African Churches?
[d] Gender(s) issues: Relations between gender and religious identities have been an important topic of research in social sciences for decades now. In European African Churches, how do questions of masculinity and femininity arise, and in what terms? Are gender relations in these Churches vowed to reproduce the forms of "masculine domination" at work in African societies more broadly? What types of feminine religious power are observable in these assemblies?
From the diverse issues of identity, networks and circulations of religious actors, relations to the public sphere, and gender,
contributions to the conference will seek to show how African Christian worlds of Europe are now situated at the very heart of dynamics of reconfiguration of African imaginations of Europe, but also of European imaginations of Africa.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Rijk Van Dijk (ASC, Leiden) and André Mary (CNRS/EHESS, Paris).
The conference will be organised in four half-day thematic sessions, along the directions of the call for papers. There will be no parallel sessions. Conference participants whose proposals are accepted will be expected to submit papers for pre-circulation for November 1st. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited volume.
The deadline for the submission of proposals (in English or French) is Friday 30 April. One page abstracts should be sent as attached files in word, open office or pdf format to both Maïté Maskens (mmaskens@ulb.ac.be) and Joël Noret (jnoret@ulb.ac.be).
International Conference at the Université libre de Bruxelles
8-10 December 2010, Brussels
'African Churches' have been present in Europe for some decades now, but their developments have taken a new dimension with the intensification of African migrations to Europe in the 80s and 90s. Beyond their doctrinal and institutional diversity and divergences, these churches have in common to be carried by African populations who all too often remain stigmatized and marginalized at the social, political and juridical levels. Simultaneously however, they now do compete in an explicit way with historical mission churches, and attract an important proportion of Africans installed in Europe. Depending on the perspective, these churches can alternatively be viewed as a globalized and particularly dynamic contribution to the edification of contemporary Christianities, or as the refuge of ethno-religious communalisms not entirely compatible with European public spaces.
However, 'African Churches' in Europe are today at the very heart of transformations of both the imaginations of Europe in the African worlds, and the imaginations of Africa in Europe. They are simultaneously new faces of Africa installed in the heart of European cities and banlieues that question the Western contemporary ways of (dis)connecting religion and the public sphere, as well as places of significant reinterpretations of European secular values and practices.
As key sites in reshaping European representations of Africa, as well as in remaking African paradigms of Europe, these churches play a crucial role of mediation in the relations between the two continents.
Taking this mediating position of 'African Churches' as a point of departure and a general guiding thread, the conference will be organized around four research axes:
[a] Debated identities: The entanglement of religious, racial and ethno-national identities in African assemblies in Europe has already generated a series of scholarly debates in the last decade. What forms of (dis)connections between religious and ethno-national affiliations are at work in African Churches of Europe today? What roles do religious identities play in the lives of African Christians in Europe? What room should we make for these religious identities in the sociological or anthropological apprehension of populations of African origin in Europe?
[b] Networks and circulations of religious actors: African Churches in Europe are regularly part of different forms of transnational networks where ethno-national identities are combined with religious affiliations. What are the logics of circulation of African ecclesial elites in Europe? How are transnational relations between pastors and between Churches made and unmade? What forms of transnational organization are at work in religious networks, and along which lines do concerns for centralization differ between Churches?
[c] Relations to the public sphere: African Churches are often viewed from the angle of abuse and incivility. However, African assemblies are also regularly engaged in public activities aiming at a better public or political recognition, while simultaneously being able to take distance towards European secular political authorities. What are the different dimensions of the relation to the public sphere in these Churches? Reciprocally, what spaces are carved out in European countries for African Churches?
[d] Gender(s) issues: Relations between gender and religious identities have been an important topic of research in social sciences for decades now. In European African Churches, how do questions of masculinity and femininity arise, and in what terms? Are gender relations in these Churches vowed to reproduce the forms of "masculine domination" at work in African societies more broadly? What types of feminine religious power are observable in these assemblies?
From the diverse issues of identity, networks and circulations of religious actors, relations to the public sphere, and gender,
contributions to the conference will seek to show how African Christian worlds of Europe are now situated at the very heart of dynamics of reconfiguration of African imaginations of Europe, but also of European imaginations of Africa.
Keynote addresses will be delivered by Rijk Van Dijk (ASC, Leiden) and André Mary (CNRS/EHESS, Paris).
The conference will be organised in four half-day thematic sessions, along the directions of the call for papers. There will be no parallel sessions. Conference participants whose proposals are accepted will be expected to submit papers for pre-circulation for November 1st. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited volume.
The deadline for the submission of proposals (in English or French) is Friday 30 April. One page abstracts should be sent as attached files in word, open office or pdf format to both Maïté Maskens (mmaskens@ulb.ac.be) and Joël Noret (jnoret@ulb.ac.be).
Book: UN ISLAM, DES ISLAMS ?
UN ISLAM, DES ISLAMS ?
Roxanne D. MARCOTTE
29 euros - 304 pages
Intellectuel(le)s musulmans et musulmanes s’affairent tous aujourd’hui à repenser l’islam. Ils relisent, analysent, critiquent et déconstruisent la tradition religieuse, ses textes sacrés et sa loi, chacun et chacune à sa manière. Tous aspirent à l’avènement d’« islams » dans lesquels ils puissent se reconnaître en ce début du XXIe siècle où l’islam est aux prises avec de nombreux défis: la remise en question de l’autorité religieuse, de la place de la loi islamique et du rôle des femmes. Par conséquent, l’islam d’aujourd’hui ne se conjugue qu’au pluriel, ce que démontre une incursion dans les domaines de l’interprétation au sein des traditions, tant shiite et sunnite, d’exégèse coranique, de jurisprudence islamique (loi islamique) et de féminisme islamique.
L’ouvrage saura intéresser les spécialistes des religions, d’études islamiques, du Moyen-Orient contemporain, d’études exégétiques et de féminisme, tout comme ceux qui s’intéressent à la question, plus générale, de l’interprétation en islam.
Roxanne D. Marcotte est professeure à l’Université du Queensland où elle enseigne l’arabe, les études islamiques et la religion comparée. Pendant plusieurs années, elle a étudié et a séjourné à Tunis, Amman, Beyrouth, Le Caire, Téhéran, Istanbul, et Damas.
Roxanne D. MARCOTTE
29 euros - 304 pages
Intellectuel(le)s musulmans et musulmanes s’affairent tous aujourd’hui à repenser l’islam. Ils relisent, analysent, critiquent et déconstruisent la tradition religieuse, ses textes sacrés et sa loi, chacun et chacune à sa manière. Tous aspirent à l’avènement d’« islams » dans lesquels ils puissent se reconnaître en ce début du XXIe siècle où l’islam est aux prises avec de nombreux défis: la remise en question de l’autorité religieuse, de la place de la loi islamique et du rôle des femmes. Par conséquent, l’islam d’aujourd’hui ne se conjugue qu’au pluriel, ce que démontre une incursion dans les domaines de l’interprétation au sein des traditions, tant shiite et sunnite, d’exégèse coranique, de jurisprudence islamique (loi islamique) et de féminisme islamique.
L’ouvrage saura intéresser les spécialistes des religions, d’études islamiques, du Moyen-Orient contemporain, d’études exégétiques et de féminisme, tout comme ceux qui s’intéressent à la question, plus générale, de l’interprétation en islam.
Roxanne D. Marcotte est professeure à l’Université du Queensland où elle enseigne l’arabe, les études islamiques et la religion comparée. Pendant plusieurs années, elle a étudié et a séjourné à Tunis, Amman, Beyrouth, Le Caire, Téhéran, Istanbul, et Damas.
CFP: Australian association for the study of religion
AASR CONFERENCE 2010 - CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2010 Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) conference committee invites papers in the following areas:
* Inter-Religious Dialogue
* Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism
* Religion and education
* Religion and politics
* Religion and Health
* New and emerging religions
* Religion and human rights
* Other areas related to the study of religion
Abstract of 200 words should be submitted to p.blundell@griffith.edu.au
Closing date for Abstract submissions : 1 May 2010
All abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Program Committee Once the refereeing process is complete, speakers will be notified of acceptance of papers by 14 May 2010.
The Conference is being held at the Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University, from 2nd to 4th July, 2010.
Convenors: Professor Peta Goldburg & Dr Patricia Blundell (p.blundell@griffith.edu.au)
The 2010 Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) conference committee invites papers in the following areas:
* Inter-Religious Dialogue
* Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism or Buddhism
* Religion and education
* Religion and politics
* Religion and Health
* New and emerging religions
* Religion and human rights
* Other areas related to the study of religion
Abstract of 200 words should be submitted to p.blundell@griffith.edu.au
Closing date for Abstract submissions : 1 May 2010
All abstracts will be reviewed by the Conference Program Committee Once the refereeing process is complete, speakers will be notified of acceptance of papers by 14 May 2010.
The Conference is being held at the Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University, from 2nd to 4th July, 2010.
Convenors: Professor Peta Goldburg & Dr Patricia Blundell (p.blundell@griffith.edu.au)
Seminario: Cults and Crime
Please find below the details of Inform's upcoming Seminar:
INFORM Seminar XLIV: CULTS AND CRIME
London School of Economics, Saturday 24 April 2010
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm
To register: post cheque to Inform, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. (Inform@lse.ac.uk; 020 7955 7654).
Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 7 April 2010 cost £38 each (£18 students/unwaged). NB. Tickets booked after 7 April 2010 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
Provisional Programme:
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform) "Be it a Crime if I Believe?"
10.35 - 11.00: Annie Yang (A Falun Gong practitioner) "The Persecution of Falun Gong in China: A Personal Experience of 'Re-Education'"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Jack Kreindler (Former member, World of Yaad) From Harmless to Grievous Bodily Harm
11.50 - 12.15: Ian Toon (Metropolitan Police) "Nrms, a police perspective"
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: François Bellanger (Lawyer, Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and President of the Swiss Information Center on Beliefs) "Cults and crime from a legal perspective"
14.15 - 14.40: Michael Langone (Executive Director, International Cultic Studies Association, USA) "Cultic crimes in North America Part 1"
14.40 - 15.05: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada) "Cultic crimes in North America Part 2"
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Henri de Cordes (President, Information & Advice Center on Harmful Sectarian Organizations, Belgium) "The 74 corpses of the Solar Temple Order : Sacrifice, Suicide or Crime?"
15.55 - 16.20: Jean La Fontaine (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Honorary Research Fellow, Inform) "Ritual murder?"
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
INFORM Seminar XLIV: CULTS AND CRIME
London School of Economics, Saturday 24 April 2010
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm
To register: post cheque to Inform, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. (Inform@lse.ac.uk; 020 7955 7654).
Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 7 April 2010 cost £38 each (£18 students/unwaged). NB. Tickets booked after 7 April 2010 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
Provisional Programme:
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform) "Be it a Crime if I Believe?"
10.35 - 11.00: Annie Yang (A Falun Gong practitioner) "The Persecution of Falun Gong in China: A Personal Experience of 'Re-Education'"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Jack Kreindler (Former member, World of Yaad) From Harmless to Grievous Bodily Harm
11.50 - 12.15: Ian Toon (Metropolitan Police) "Nrms, a police perspective"
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: François Bellanger (Lawyer, Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and President of the Swiss Information Center on Beliefs) "Cults and crime from a legal perspective"
14.15 - 14.40: Michael Langone (Executive Director, International Cultic Studies Association, USA) "Cultic crimes in North America Part 1"
14.40 - 15.05: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada) "Cultic crimes in North America Part 2"
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Henri de Cordes (President, Information & Advice Center on Harmful Sectarian Organizations, Belgium) "The 74 corpses of the Solar Temple Order : Sacrifice, Suicide or Crime?"
15.55 - 16.20: Jean La Fontaine (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Honorary Research Fellow, Inform) "Ritual murder?"
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
Articoli - Muslims in Europe
Insight Turkey has several articles in their recent edition dedicated to Muslims in Europe.
http://www.insightturkey.com/
Articles
Individualization and Institutionalization of Islam in Europe in the Age of Securitization [Abstract] [Full text]
Ayhan Kaya, pp. 47-63
The Turkish Minority in German Politics: Trends, Diversification of Representation, and Policy Implications [Abstract]
Sener Aktürk, pp. 65-80
Force of Islam: Muslim Temporal Spacing in the German Diaspora [Abstract]
Tilman Lanz, pp. 81-102
Identity and Integration among Turkish Sunni Muslims in Britain [Abstract]
Sevgi Çilingir, pp. 103-122
‘Ethnicity within Ethnicity’ among the Turkish-Speaking Immigrants in London [Abstract]
Tayfun Atay, pp. 123-138
Role of Turkish Islamic Organizations in Belgium: The Strategies of Diyanet and Milli Görüs [Abstract]
Zeynep Yanasmayan, pp. 139-161
Turks in Denmark: Patterns of Incorporation and Collective Organizing Processes [Abstract]
Martin Bak Jørgensen, pp. 163-183
What is Driving the European Debate about Turkey? [Abstract]
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, pp. 185-203
AK Party’s Foreign Policy: Is Turkey Turning Away from the West? [Abstract]
Kiliç Bugra Kanat, pp. 205-225
http://www.insightturkey.com/
Articles
Individualization and Institutionalization of Islam in Europe in the Age of Securitization [Abstract] [Full text]
Ayhan Kaya, pp. 47-63
The Turkish Minority in German Politics: Trends, Diversification of Representation, and Policy Implications [Abstract]
Sener Aktürk, pp. 65-80
Force of Islam: Muslim Temporal Spacing in the German Diaspora [Abstract]
Tilman Lanz, pp. 81-102
Identity and Integration among Turkish Sunni Muslims in Britain [Abstract]
Sevgi Çilingir, pp. 103-122
‘Ethnicity within Ethnicity’ among the Turkish-Speaking Immigrants in London [Abstract]
Tayfun Atay, pp. 123-138
Role of Turkish Islamic Organizations in Belgium: The Strategies of Diyanet and Milli Görüs [Abstract]
Zeynep Yanasmayan, pp. 139-161
Turks in Denmark: Patterns of Incorporation and Collective Organizing Processes [Abstract]
Martin Bak Jørgensen, pp. 163-183
What is Driving the European Debate about Turkey? [Abstract]
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, pp. 185-203
AK Party’s Foreign Policy: Is Turkey Turning Away from the West? [Abstract]
Kiliç Bugra Kanat, pp. 205-225
Book (in German)
Alexander DeJuan: INNERSTAATLICHE GEWALTKONFLIKTE UNTER DEM BANNER DER RELIGION.
Die Rolle politischer und religiöser Eliten. Baden-Baden: Nomos
(ergänzende Informationen unter http://www.nomos- shop.de/productv iew.aspx? product=12254).
Erster Band der Nomos-Reihe RELIGION - KONFLIKT - FRIEDEN erschienen ist (herausgegeben
von Markus Weingardt).
Der zweite Band: Mayssoun Zein Al Din: RELIGION ALS POLITISCHER FAKTOR? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der
Frage des politischen Konfessionalismus in Libanon: Baden-Baden: Nomos
(ergänzende Informationen unter http://www.nomos- shop.de/productv iew.aspx? product=12251).
Die Rolle politischer und religiöser Eliten. Baden-Baden: Nomos
(ergänzende Informationen unter http://www.nomos- shop.de/productv iew.aspx? product=12254).
Erster Band der Nomos-Reihe RELIGION - KONFLIKT - FRIEDEN erschienen ist (herausgegeben
von Markus Weingardt).
Der zweite Band: Mayssoun Zein Al Din: RELIGION ALS POLITISCHER FAKTOR? Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der
Frage des politischen Konfessionalismus in Libanon: Baden-Baden: Nomos
(ergänzende Informationen unter http://www.nomos- shop.de/productv iew.aspx? product=12251).
Seminario internazionale: Vers une Anthropologie Politique de la Mondialisation
La Revue internationale des sciences sociales (UNESCO) et le Centre de l'Université de Chicago à Paris
Colloque International
Vers une Anthropologie Politique de la Mondialisation
Le 11-12 Mars
Centre de l'Université de Chicago à Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
01.53.94.78.80
Organisé par S. Romi Mukherjee
Ce colloque tente de mettre en œuvre une approche polyvalente pour traiter de ce phénomène subjectif, spatial, politique et social qu’on appelle communément (et ces dénominations elles-mêmes sont problématiques) la mondialisation, le néo-libéralisme ou l’hyper-modernité. En prenant en compte la transversalité de ces catégories, nous nous attacherons à développer une théorie critique qui interroge leurs expressions les plus marquantes: Empire et désordre, violence et irrationalisme, identité et citoyenneté, croyance/foi, subjectivité, construction et déconstruction des frontières, et, finalement, les divers récits qui mettent notre époque sous le signe d’une imminente apocalypse. Nous examinerons comment l’idée même de l’homme en tant qu’animal social et politique est mise en question par de nouveaux modes d’interaction, de production et de reproduction mondialisées et comment la liquidation des paradigmes politiques et philosophique classiques crée un nouveau cadre de réflexion.
http://centerinparis.uchicago.edu/about/contact.shtml
Merci d'’adresser vos questions à S. Romi Mukherjee : s.mukherjee@unesco.org
March 11 (English)
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00 9:30
Welcome
Michael Dietler, Academic Director of the University of Chicago, Center in Paris
Introduction: The Political Anthropology of the Global New Antinomies, New Contradictions
S. Romi Mukherjee, UNESCO/The University of Chicago/Sciences-Po
9:30 - 10:15
A Legal Anthropology of the Global : The Ken Wiwa Case, Gene Dye, The University of Chicago
10:15 - 11:00
The Invention of World and Intangible Heritage, Sophia Labadi, UNESCO
11:00 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 12:00
Memory, Material Culture, and Globalization, Michael Dietler, The University of Chicago
12:00 12:45
Performing autonomy: Diaspora identity and minority politics among Algerian Berbers in France
Gabrielle Maas, University of Oxford/Sciences-Po/CNRS (CEVIPOF)
12:45 13:30
Indigenous Citizenship and Nature Conservation in Lowland Bolivia and Peru: An Ambivalent Interpretation of the “Citizenship From Below” Hypothesis
Mark Hufty and Patrick Botazzi, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
13:30 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00
The Anthropology of the Nation-State
John Crowley, UNESCO
15:00 - 15:45
Anthropologies of Neo-liberalism: Law, Subjects, "Frictions"
Michel Spanò, EHESS/ University of Rome La Sapienza
15:45 - 16:30
Perplexity among the Poor: Patterns of Political Attitudes towards the Growing Complexity of the World
Murielle Bégue, ERIS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS/ENS/EHESS)
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee
16:45 - 17:30
New Miserable Forms: Abjection and Global Processes
S. Romi Mukherjee, UNESCO/The University of Chicago/Sciences-Po
17:30 18:15
Globalities of Climate Change: Aesthetics, Climate models and Hidden Cosmologies
Kathyrn Yusoff, University of Exeter
18:15 - 18:45
Round Table on “Globalization and Climate Change”
(Discussants TBA)
18:45 - 17:30 Reception
Le 12 Mars (français)
8 :30 - 9 :00 Café
9 :00 - 10 : 35
L’anthropologie politique de la globalisation : Champ et portée contemporains
Monique Selim et Bernard Hours, l’Institut de recherche pour le développement
10 :35 - 11 :10
L'approche anthropologique du mouvement international des peuples autochtones
Irène Bellier, CNRS-EHESS/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (IIAC-LAIOS)
11 :10 - 11 :45
La transnationalisation des mouvements autochtones et l’apparition de nouvelles élites indigènes
Sabine Kradolfer, Université autonome de Barcelone/ Université de Lausanne
11 :45 - 12 :00 Café
12 :00 - 12 :35
Islam mondialisé et fin du monde : La tarîqa Naqachbandiyya-Haqqaniyya entre pouvoir local et influence globale
Mouloud Haddad, EHESS (CHSIM/IISMM)
12:35 - 13:10
Le rôle des médias dans le déracinement du religieux : le cas de jeunes femmes tunisiennes nouvellement voilées
Bochra Kammarti, EHESS (CADIS)
12 :45 - 13 :20
Pierre Clastres et les luttes Yanomami contemporaines : lectures critiques
Jean Tible, Université de Campinas, Brésil/ EHESS
13:20 - 14 :00 Lunch
14 :00 - 14 :35
Mémoire collective et gestion du passé : la mémoire de la guerre civile, dans l'’après guerre, au Liban
Elsa Abou Assi. Université de Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris I (IRD-IEDES)
14 :35 - 15 :10
Les modalités d’accès à une ressource minière mondialement convoitée Une étude de cas au Burkina Faso
Quentin Megret, l’Université Lumière Lyon 2 (CREA)
15 :10 - 15 :45
Le vigilantisme à l’heure de la globalisation : Les Milices Nord-américaine à la frontière mexicano-américaine
Martin Lamotte, EHESS (IRS-CEAF)
15 :45 - 16 :20
Les « pueblos originarios » de Milpa Alta (Mexico) et le processus national de reconnaissance de la diversité: Anthropologie de l’Etat mexicain dans un contexte de globalisation des idéologies.
Paula López Caballero, CERI-Sciences-Po
16 :20 -16 :35 Café
16 :35 - 17 :10
Le cosmopolitisme comme horizon politique d’une petite ville mondiale : pratiques et représentations de la citoyenneté à Bruxelles
Louise Carlier, Institut de Sociologie Université Libre de Bruxelles
17:10 - 17 :45
Transplantation d'organes, commune humanité et mondialisation
Philippe Steiner, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV (CESS)
17 :45 - 18 :20
Le néo-pentecôtisme en Amérique latine. Contribution à une anthropologie politique de la mondialisation
Patrick Michel et Jesus Garcia-Ruiz, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS-EHESS-ENS) ; CNRS (CEIFR-EHESS)
18 :20 18 :35 :
Discours de clôture
Chifa Tekaya, UNESCO
18 :35 19 :45 : Cocktail de clôture
Colloque International
Vers une Anthropologie Politique de la Mondialisation
Le 11-12 Mars
Centre de l'Université de Chicago à Paris, 6 rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
01.53.94.78.80
Organisé par S. Romi Mukherjee
Ce colloque tente de mettre en œuvre une approche polyvalente pour traiter de ce phénomène subjectif, spatial, politique et social qu’on appelle communément (et ces dénominations elles-mêmes sont problématiques) la mondialisation, le néo-libéralisme ou l’hyper-modernité. En prenant en compte la transversalité de ces catégories, nous nous attacherons à développer une théorie critique qui interroge leurs expressions les plus marquantes: Empire et désordre, violence et irrationalisme, identité et citoyenneté, croyance/foi, subjectivité, construction et déconstruction des frontières, et, finalement, les divers récits qui mettent notre époque sous le signe d’une imminente apocalypse. Nous examinerons comment l’idée même de l’homme en tant qu’animal social et politique est mise en question par de nouveaux modes d’interaction, de production et de reproduction mondialisées et comment la liquidation des paradigmes politiques et philosophique classiques crée un nouveau cadre de réflexion.
http://centerinparis.uchicago.edu/about/contact.shtml
Merci d'’adresser vos questions à S. Romi Mukherjee : s.mukherjee@unesco.org
March 11 (English)
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00 9:30
Welcome
Michael Dietler, Academic Director of the University of Chicago, Center in Paris
Introduction: The Political Anthropology of the Global New Antinomies, New Contradictions
S. Romi Mukherjee, UNESCO/The University of Chicago/Sciences-Po
9:30 - 10:15
A Legal Anthropology of the Global : The Ken Wiwa Case, Gene Dye, The University of Chicago
10:15 - 11:00
The Invention of World and Intangible Heritage, Sophia Labadi, UNESCO
11:00 11:15 Coffee
11:15 - 12:00
Memory, Material Culture, and Globalization, Michael Dietler, The University of Chicago
12:00 12:45
Performing autonomy: Diaspora identity and minority politics among Algerian Berbers in France
Gabrielle Maas, University of Oxford/Sciences-Po/CNRS (CEVIPOF)
12:45 13:30
Indigenous Citizenship and Nature Conservation in Lowland Bolivia and Peru: An Ambivalent Interpretation of the “Citizenship From Below” Hypothesis
Mark Hufty and Patrick Botazzi, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
13:30 - 14:15 Lunch
14:15 - 15:00
The Anthropology of the Nation-State
John Crowley, UNESCO
15:00 - 15:45
Anthropologies of Neo-liberalism: Law, Subjects, "Frictions"
Michel Spanò, EHESS/ University of Rome La Sapienza
15:45 - 16:30
Perplexity among the Poor: Patterns of Political Attitudes towards the Growing Complexity of the World
Murielle Bégue, ERIS-Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS/ENS/EHESS)
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee
16:45 - 17:30
New Miserable Forms: Abjection and Global Processes
S. Romi Mukherjee, UNESCO/The University of Chicago/Sciences-Po
17:30 18:15
Globalities of Climate Change: Aesthetics, Climate models and Hidden Cosmologies
Kathyrn Yusoff, University of Exeter
18:15 - 18:45
Round Table on “Globalization and Climate Change”
(Discussants TBA)
18:45 - 17:30 Reception
Le 12 Mars (français)
8 :30 - 9 :00 Café
9 :00 - 10 : 35
L’anthropologie politique de la globalisation : Champ et portée contemporains
Monique Selim et Bernard Hours, l’Institut de recherche pour le développement
10 :35 - 11 :10
L'approche anthropologique du mouvement international des peuples autochtones
Irène Bellier, CNRS-EHESS/Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (IIAC-LAIOS)
11 :10 - 11 :45
La transnationalisation des mouvements autochtones et l’apparition de nouvelles élites indigènes
Sabine Kradolfer, Université autonome de Barcelone/ Université de Lausanne
11 :45 - 12 :00 Café
12 :00 - 12 :35
Islam mondialisé et fin du monde : La tarîqa Naqachbandiyya-Haqqaniyya entre pouvoir local et influence globale
Mouloud Haddad, EHESS (CHSIM/IISMM)
12:35 - 13:10
Le rôle des médias dans le déracinement du religieux : le cas de jeunes femmes tunisiennes nouvellement voilées
Bochra Kammarti, EHESS (CADIS)
12 :45 - 13 :20
Pierre Clastres et les luttes Yanomami contemporaines : lectures critiques
Jean Tible, Université de Campinas, Brésil/ EHESS
13:20 - 14 :00 Lunch
14 :00 - 14 :35
Mémoire collective et gestion du passé : la mémoire de la guerre civile, dans l'’après guerre, au Liban
Elsa Abou Assi. Université de Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris I (IRD-IEDES)
14 :35 - 15 :10
Les modalités d’accès à une ressource minière mondialement convoitée Une étude de cas au Burkina Faso
Quentin Megret, l’Université Lumière Lyon 2 (CREA)
15 :10 - 15 :45
Le vigilantisme à l’heure de la globalisation : Les Milices Nord-américaine à la frontière mexicano-américaine
Martin Lamotte, EHESS (IRS-CEAF)
15 :45 - 16 :20
Les « pueblos originarios » de Milpa Alta (Mexico) et le processus national de reconnaissance de la diversité: Anthropologie de l’Etat mexicain dans un contexte de globalisation des idéologies.
Paula López Caballero, CERI-Sciences-Po
16 :20 -16 :35 Café
16 :35 - 17 :10
Le cosmopolitisme comme horizon politique d’une petite ville mondiale : pratiques et représentations de la citoyenneté à Bruxelles
Louise Carlier, Institut de Sociologie Université Libre de Bruxelles
17:10 - 17 :45
Transplantation d'organes, commune humanité et mondialisation
Philippe Steiner, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV (CESS)
17 :45 - 18 :20
Le néo-pentecôtisme en Amérique latine. Contribution à une anthropologie politique de la mondialisation
Patrick Michel et Jesus Garcia-Ruiz, Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS-EHESS-ENS) ; CNRS (CEIFR-EHESS)
18 :20 18 :35 :
Discours de clôture
Chifa Tekaya, UNESCO
18 :35 19 :45 : Cocktail de clôture
l'Humanisme dans la culture arabo-musulmane
L'Association Française Des Arabisants a le plaisir de vous inviter au colloque qu'elle organise le 27 mars prochain autour de l'Humanisme dans la culture arabo-musulmane avec le soutien du centre de langues de l'IMA.
Programme
9h30 : Allocution de Benoît Deslandes, président de l’AFDA.
9h45 : Table ronde en hommage à Daniel Reig :
Intervenants :
Nada Tomiche (professeur émérite des universités),
Sophie Tardy (inspectrice régionale d’arabe),
André Miquel (professeur au Collège de France et administrateur général honoraire),
Bruno Halff (ancien inspecteur général d’arabe),
Miloud Gharrafi (maître de conférences).
Deuxième table ronde
11h. Yahya Cheikh (Lycée Romain-Rolland, Goussainville ; IEP, Paris) : L’Homme et les valeurs humaines dans la pensée arabo-musulmane : Une réflexion sur les traités philosophico-politiques.
11h 25. Aziz Hilal (Lycée Victor Hugo, Poitiers) : Que signifie « s’exclure de l’humanité » ? Farabi et l’essence humaine.
11h 50. Pierre-Louis Reymond (Lycée G. Clémenceau, Nantes) : Regards sur l’humanisme de Tawhîdî
Modérateur : Najeh Jegham (Université de Nantes)
12h15. Débat.
12h30. Déjeuner.
Troisième table ronde
14h00. Naoum Abi-Rached (Université de Strasbourg) : Chakib Khoury, le roman libanais contemporain entre humanisme et schizophrénie.
14h 25. Laurence Denooz (Université de Nancy) : Les valeurs humanistes dans le théâtre arabophone contemporain.
Modérateur : Mathias Hoorelbeke (professeur agrégé d’arabe)
14h 50. Débat.
Quatrième table ronde
15h 05. Edgar Weber (Université de Strasbourg) : L’humanisme maçonnique a-t-il joué un rôle dans l’humanisme arabe ?
15h30. Michel Levallois (préfet honoraire, historien et président de la Société des études saint-simoniennes.) : Le saint-simonien musulman Ismaÿl Urbain (1812-1884), précurseur et apôtre d’un humanisme franco-musulman.
Modérateur : Floréal Sanagustin (Université Lyon 2 et ENS)
15h55. Débat.
16h10. Pause
Cinquième table ronde
16h 25. Haoues Seniguer (université Lyon 2) : L’humanisme arabo-musulman dans l’œuvre de l’Algérien Malek Bennabi : jalons pour une compréhension critique de la civilisation islamique.
16h50. Paul Balta (journaliste et écrivain) : L’islamisme et l’Occident freinent-ils l’émergence d’un humanisme arabo-islamique aujourd’hui ?
Modérateur : François Clément (université de Nantes)
17h15. Débat.
18h00. Clôture de la journée.
Journée d’étude le 27 mars 2010 à l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, organisée par l’Association Française des Arabisants avec le soutien du centre de langue de l’IMA.
Programme
9h30 : Allocution de Benoît Deslandes, président de l’AFDA.
9h45 : Table ronde en hommage à Daniel Reig :
Intervenants :
Nada Tomiche (professeur émérite des universités),
Sophie Tardy (inspectrice régionale d’arabe),
André Miquel (professeur au Collège de France et administrateur général honoraire),
Bruno Halff (ancien inspecteur général d’arabe),
Miloud Gharrafi (maître de conférences).
Deuxième table ronde
11h. Yahya Cheikh (Lycée Romain-Rolland, Goussainville ; IEP, Paris) : L’Homme et les valeurs humaines dans la pensée arabo-musulmane : Une réflexion sur les traités philosophico-politiques.
11h 25. Aziz Hilal (Lycée Victor Hugo, Poitiers) : Que signifie « s’exclure de l’humanité » ? Farabi et l’essence humaine.
11h 50. Pierre-Louis Reymond (Lycée G. Clémenceau, Nantes) : Regards sur l’humanisme de Tawhîdî
Modérateur : Najeh Jegham (Université de Nantes)
12h15. Débat.
12h30. Déjeuner.
Troisième table ronde
14h00. Naoum Abi-Rached (Université de Strasbourg) : Chakib Khoury, le roman libanais contemporain entre humanisme et schizophrénie.
14h 25. Laurence Denooz (Université de Nancy) : Les valeurs humanistes dans le théâtre arabophone contemporain.
Modérateur : Mathias Hoorelbeke (professeur agrégé d’arabe)
14h 50. Débat.
Quatrième table ronde
15h 05. Edgar Weber (Université de Strasbourg) : L’humanisme maçonnique a-t-il joué un rôle dans l’humanisme arabe ?
15h30. Michel Levallois (préfet honoraire, historien et président de la Société des études saint-simoniennes.) : Le saint-simonien musulman Ismaÿl Urbain (1812-1884), précurseur et apôtre d’un humanisme franco-musulman.
Modérateur : Floréal Sanagustin (Université Lyon 2 et ENS)
15h55. Débat.
16h10. Pause
Cinquième table ronde
16h 25. Haoues Seniguer (université Lyon 2) : L’humanisme arabo-musulman dans l’œuvre de l’Algérien Malek Bennabi : jalons pour une compréhension critique de la civilisation islamique.
16h50. Paul Balta (journaliste et écrivain) : L’islamisme et l’Occident freinent-ils l’émergence d’un humanisme arabo-islamique aujourd’hui ?
Modérateur : François Clément (université de Nantes)
17h15. Débat.
18h00. Clôture de la journée.
Journée d’étude le 27 mars 2010 à l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, organisée par l’Association Française des Arabisants avec le soutien du centre de langue de l’IMA.
Clifford Geertz prizein the anthropology of religion
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion--a section of the American Anthropological Association--announces the 2010 juried competition for the
CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZE IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
The Geertz Prize seeks to encourage excellence in the anthropology of religion by recognizing an outstanding recent book in the field. The prize is named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion. In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative
scholarship, the integration of theory with ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.
Eligibility
Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book's author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2008 or later.
The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November, 2010.
Submission Guidelines
To submit a book for consideration, please send six (6) copies to the following address by April 5, 2010:
Beth A. Conklin
Chair, Geertz Prize Committee
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
124 Garland Hall
Nashville, TN 37235-6050
CLIFFORD GEERTZ PRIZE IN THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION
The Geertz Prize seeks to encourage excellence in the anthropology of religion by recognizing an outstanding recent book in the field. The prize is named in honor of the late Professor Clifford Geertz, in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to the anthropological study of religion. In awarding the Prize, the Society hopes to foster innovative
scholarship, the integration of theory with ethnography, and the connection of the anthropology of religion to the larger world.
Eligibility
Any single-authored or co-authored book focusing on the anthropology of religion, broadly defined, is eligible for the Prize. Edited volumes, textbooks, and reference works are not eligible, nor are works in which religion is a secondary subject. The book's author need not be an anthropologist by profession, but the work should draw on and respond to research and theory within the anthropology of religion. Books must have a publication date of 2008 or later.
The prize will be awarded at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November, 2010.
Submission Guidelines
To submit a book for consideration, please send six (6) copies to the following address by April 5, 2010:
Beth A. Conklin
Chair, Geertz Prize Committee
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
124 Garland Hall
Nashville, TN 37235-6050
CFP: Totalitarian movements and Political Religions
Totalitarian Movements & Political Religions (TMPR) is a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly by Routledge. We are currently accepting research articles and book reviews in the following areas of interest:
- The historic and ongoing interaction between religion and politics.
- The impact of religious radicalism on public policy, political attitudes and decision-making.
- Secular but 'totalising' movements, such as Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Ba'athism.
- Conflicts between illiberal ideologies (both religious and secular) and their opponents.
- Publicly enforced (ir)religion and dissent.
- The contemporary politics of religious revivalism, in Europe, North America, and the Muslim World.
- The politics of memory and memorialization as pertains to political religions and totalitarian ideologies.
Book reviews must be under 1,000 words, thematic review articles up to 3,000 words, and research papers up to 8,000 words.
For publication in the next issue, please submit book reviews by 10 April 2010. Research articles are subject to peer review and are typically published within six months.
Please send articles to: editor-tmpr@intr.keele.ac.uk
Please send reviews to: reviews-tmpr@intr.keele.ac.uk
Further details about the journal are available online:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14690764.asp
- The historic and ongoing interaction between religion and politics.
- The impact of religious radicalism on public policy, political attitudes and decision-making.
- Secular but 'totalising' movements, such as Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism, Maoism, and Ba'athism.
- Conflicts between illiberal ideologies (both religious and secular) and their opponents.
- Publicly enforced (ir)religion and dissent.
- The contemporary politics of religious revivalism, in Europe, North America, and the Muslim World.
- The politics of memory and memorialization as pertains to political religions and totalitarian ideologies.
Book reviews must be under 1,000 words, thematic review articles up to 3,000 words, and research papers up to 8,000 words.
For publication in the next issue, please submit book reviews by 10 April 2010. Research articles are subject to peer review and are typically published within six months.
Please send articles to: editor-tmpr@intr.keele.ac.uk
Please send reviews to: reviews-tmpr@intr.keele.ac.uk
Further details about the journal are available online:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14690764.asp
International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World
International Conference - Formation of Normative Orders in the Islamic World
7. -9. May 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main
Campus Westend, Casino 1.801
Participants please register until April 26th with full name and address at: Islamic-world@normativeorders.net
http://www.normativeorders.net/de/component/content/article/346
The Conference:
In his last large collection of poems, which he entitled the "West-Eastern Divan", Johann Wolfgang Goethe, after whom our university is named, wrote the following lines:
Wer sich selbst und andere kennt, Wird auch hier erkennen: Orient und Okzident Sind nicht mehr zu trennen.
Those who know themselves and others Will realize here, too, That the Orient and the Occident Have become inseparable.
As researchers who are part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", we regard Goethe's approach as an incentive to look into our shared history and present, as well as into the development of normative orders in the Islamic world, in an interdisciplinary group of scholars - both Muslim and non-Muslim - from various countries of the Orient and Occident.
Programme:
Friday, 7.05.2010
15.00 registration
16.00 welcome addresses
Panel I: Entangled histories. From Averroes to Sayyed Qutb
17.00 Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University)
"Persecution and Norm, A comparative analysis between Averroes and Sayyed Qutb"
18.00 Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Reason and religion. The relationship among two competing normative concepts"
Saturday, 8.05.2010
Panel II: Shaping Islam in the West
10.00 Peter Scholz (Free University of Berlin)
"Characteristics of the Legal Framework for a European Islam"
11.00 Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University of Berlin)
"Gendered Islam under state surveillance"
Panel III: Reform Islam: Liberal and feminist approaches
14.00 Siti Musdah Mulia (Islamic University Jakarta)
"Reform Islam in Indonesia"
15.00 Susanne Schröter (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Islamic Feminism - a transnational movement"
16.00 Margot Badran (Georgetown University)
"Reformist women in early 20th century Egypt and lessons for the present"
Sunday, 9.05.2010
Panel IV: Islam, politics and the modern nation
10.00 Farish A. Noor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Political Contestation in Malaysia's Ethnic Setting: The Debate over the use of 'Allah' by Christians"
11.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zürich)
"Islamic family law and international legal norms in the Arab world"
12.00 Farid Esack (University of Johannesburg)
7. -9. May 2010
Goethe-University Frankfurt / Main
Campus Westend, Casino 1.801
Participants please register until April 26th with full name and address at: Islamic-world@normativeorders.net
http://www.normativeorders.net/de/component/content/article/346
The Conference:
In his last large collection of poems, which he entitled the "West-Eastern Divan", Johann Wolfgang Goethe, after whom our university is named, wrote the following lines:
Wer sich selbst und andere kennt, Wird auch hier erkennen: Orient und Okzident Sind nicht mehr zu trennen.
Those who know themselves and others Will realize here, too, That the Orient and the Occident Have become inseparable.
As researchers who are part of the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", we regard Goethe's approach as an incentive to look into our shared history and present, as well as into the development of normative orders in the Islamic world, in an interdisciplinary group of scholars - both Muslim and non-Muslim - from various countries of the Orient and Occident.
Programme:
Friday, 7.05.2010
15.00 registration
16.00 welcome addresses
Panel I: Entangled histories. From Averroes to Sayyed Qutb
17.00 Hassan Hanafi (Cairo University)
"Persecution and Norm, A comparative analysis between Averroes and Sayyed Qutb"
18.00 Matthias Lutz-Bachmann (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Reason and religion. The relationship among two competing normative concepts"
Saturday, 8.05.2010
Panel II: Shaping Islam in the West
10.00 Peter Scholz (Free University of Berlin)
"Characteristics of the Legal Framework for a European Islam"
11.00 Schirin Amir-Moazami (Free University of Berlin)
"Gendered Islam under state surveillance"
Panel III: Reform Islam: Liberal and feminist approaches
14.00 Siti Musdah Mulia (Islamic University Jakarta)
"Reform Islam in Indonesia"
15.00 Susanne Schröter (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
"Islamic Feminism - a transnational movement"
16.00 Margot Badran (Georgetown University)
"Reformist women in early 20th century Egypt and lessons for the present"
Sunday, 9.05.2010
Panel IV: Islam, politics and the modern nation
10.00 Farish A. Noor (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
"Political Contestation in Malaysia's Ethnic Setting: The Debate over the use of 'Allah' by Christians"
11.00 Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zürich)
"Islamic family law and international legal norms in the Arab world"
12.00 Farid Esack (University of Johannesburg)
domenica 7 marzo 2010
seminario: Paure del “diverso”. L’Europa e i Diritti Fondamentali (15-16 marzo, Università Bicocca, Milano)
Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca, Facoltà di Sociologia e Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
in collaborazione con
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Lunedì 15 e Martedì 16 Marzo 2010 Edificio U12 – Auditorium, Via Vizzola 5, 20126 Milano
Paure del “diverso”. L’Europa e i Diritti Fondamentali
Conferenza Internazionale In occasione della Settimana contro il Razzismo
“È vietata qualsiasi forma di discriminazione fondata, in particolare, sul sesso, la razza, il colore della pelle o l'origine etnica o sociale, le caratteristiche genetiche, la lingua, la religione o le convinzioni personali, le opinioni politiche o di qualsiasi altra natura, l'appartenenza ad una minoranza nazionale, il patrimonio, la nascita, gli handicap, l'età o le tendenze sessuali” (Carta dei Diritti Fondamentali dell’Unione Europea, art. 21).
La paura viene considerata come un sentimento connaturato nell’essere umano. Dichiarazioni universali e istituzioni servirebbero alla protezione e alla tutela di individui contro violenze e abusi perpetrate da altri esseri umani. La paura nei confronti dell’”altro”, si trasforma però spesso nella discriminazione verso il “diverso”.
Nel suo processo di costituzione politica, l’Unione Europea ha cercato di fondare la propria identità istituzionale e culturale sull’idea di un‘Europa rispettosa delle diversità ed insieme unita nel difenderle. Corrisponde tale immagine alla realtà dei fatti?
Nel presentare in Italia per la prima volta in ambito accademico l’Agenzia dell’Unione Europea per i Diritti Fondamentali (Fundamental Rights Agency - FRA), la conferenza si propone l’obiettivo di analizzare la natura e le cause della paura nei confronti del “diverso” in un’età globalizzata, in cui i problemi diventano sempre più comuni, tanto da dover essere affrontati responsabilmente insieme.
Lunedì, 15 Marzo 2010
1. L’Unione Europea: rispetto dei diritti e delle diversità La European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Ore 10.00 – 13.00
Saluti di benvenuto
Marcello Fontanesi, Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Enzo Mingione, Preside della Facoltà di Sociologia
Giovanni Chiodi, Preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Introduce: Marina Calloni (Vice-rappresentante per l’Italia al Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; membro del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Morten Kjaerum (Direttore della FRA, Vienna): Il ruolo della FRA nell’Unione Europea
Valentino Simonetti (Presidente del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; National Liaison Officer per la FRA in Italia; Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma): La FRA, gli organismi internazionali di monitoraggio dei diritti umani e le istituzioni italiane
Elena Paciotti (Rappresentante per l’Italia presso il Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; Fondazione Basso-Issoco, Roma): La FRA nella costituzione di un’Europa dei diritti
2. Tutela dei i Diritti, Società Civile e Ricerca
Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Giulio Enea Vigevani (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Elisabetta Lamarque (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca): I FRA Legal Experts
Udo Enwereuzor (Responsabile RAXEN; Cospe, Firenze): I FRA experts on RAacism, XEnophobia and related intolerances
Barbara Terenzi (Componente FRA Cooperation with Civil Society; Comitato per la Promozione e Protezione dei Diritti Umani, Roma): La Fundamental Rights Platform
Sandro Calvani (Direttore dell’United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, UNICRI,Torino): Il continuum tra diritti e sicurezza
4. Chi ha paura degli omo- e trans-sessuali?
Ore 16.00 – 17.00
Introduce: Laura Balbo (Università di Padova; International Association for the Study of Racism, Barcellona)
Matteo Bonini Baraldi (FRA, Vienna): Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU Member States. Presentazione del Report FRA 2009
Ore 17.00 – 18.30
Introduce: Giorgio Grossi (Direttore del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Enrico Vanni (Regista, Milano): “O sei uomo o sei donna... chiaro?”. Proiezione e discussione del docu-film
Martedì, 16 Marzo 2010
5. Diversità e Uguaglianze
Ore 9.45 – 10.30
Introduce: Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Valentina Anzoise, Andrea Kunkl, Stefano Marras, Cristiano Mutti, Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura, vigilanza e rappresentazioni dell'Altro. Analisi sociologiche e visuali
6. Discriminazione e immigrazione
Ore 10.30 – 12.00
Introduce: Carmen Leccardi (Delegata rettorale per le problematiche di genere e le Pari
Opportunità, Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Massimiliano Monnanni (Direttore dell’Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali - UNAR, Roma): Strategie dell’UNAR nella lotta alle discriminazioni
Marco Buemi (esperto, Roma): Progetti nazionali contro ogni discriminazione
Tiziana Vettor (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Stranieri di fronte al diritto
7. Insicurezza, sicurezza
Ore 12.00 – 13.30
Introduce: Bruno Nascimbene (Componente FRALEX Università di Milano)
Tullio Scovazzi (Università di Milano-Bicocca): La paura del terrorista
Paolo Bonetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Sicurezza, immigrazione, terrorismo: le sfide per le democrazie costituzionali
Khalid Chaouki (Associazione Minareti, Roma): Dalla paura al dialogo
8. Liberarsi dalla paura?
Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Tanja Sekuli? (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Elena Pulcini (Università di Firenze): Paura dell’altro. Paura per il mondo
Salvatore Natoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Fenomenologie della paura
Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College, N.Y.): Paura e terrore
9. Curarsi della/ dalla paura?
Ore 16.00 – 17.30
Introduce: Adolfo Ceretti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Roberto Cornelli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Politica e paura
Tommaso Vitale (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura urbana
Virginio Colmegna (Casa della Carità, Milano): Sofferenza
Ore 17.30 – 18.00
Conclusioni e chiusura della conferenza
Organizzazione
Comitato promotore: Marina Calloni, Elisabetta Lamarque, Giulio Vigevani
Segreteria organizzativa: Irene Ottonello, Annalisa Stefani
Segreteria tecnica: Centro di Ricerca Visuale
Comunicazione: Ufficio Stampa - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Tel. 02-6448 6076; E-mail: ufficio.stampa@unimib.it
Per informazioni: irene.ottonello@unimib.it
La conferenza è organizzata:
- nell’ambito delle attività del progetto PRIN Immaginari politici dell’Occidente. L’Unione Europea come spazio delle opportunità o come fortezza?
- col sostegno del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale e del Dipartimento Giuridico delle Istituzioni Nazionali ed Europee
- grazie alla casa editrice UTET
- per aver messo a disposizione alcune immagini tratte dall’opera Diritti Umani e in collaborazione con la rivista Reset
Tutte/i sono invitate/i a partecipare
in collaborazione con
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Lunedì 15 e Martedì 16 Marzo 2010 Edificio U12 – Auditorium, Via Vizzola 5, 20126 Milano
Paure del “diverso”. L’Europa e i Diritti Fondamentali
Conferenza Internazionale In occasione della Settimana contro il Razzismo
“È vietata qualsiasi forma di discriminazione fondata, in particolare, sul sesso, la razza, il colore della pelle o l'origine etnica o sociale, le caratteristiche genetiche, la lingua, la religione o le convinzioni personali, le opinioni politiche o di qualsiasi altra natura, l'appartenenza ad una minoranza nazionale, il patrimonio, la nascita, gli handicap, l'età o le tendenze sessuali” (Carta dei Diritti Fondamentali dell’Unione Europea, art. 21).
La paura viene considerata come un sentimento connaturato nell’essere umano. Dichiarazioni universali e istituzioni servirebbero alla protezione e alla tutela di individui contro violenze e abusi perpetrate da altri esseri umani. La paura nei confronti dell’”altro”, si trasforma però spesso nella discriminazione verso il “diverso”.
Nel suo processo di costituzione politica, l’Unione Europea ha cercato di fondare la propria identità istituzionale e culturale sull’idea di un‘Europa rispettosa delle diversità ed insieme unita nel difenderle. Corrisponde tale immagine alla realtà dei fatti?
Nel presentare in Italia per la prima volta in ambito accademico l’Agenzia dell’Unione Europea per i Diritti Fondamentali (Fundamental Rights Agency - FRA), la conferenza si propone l’obiettivo di analizzare la natura e le cause della paura nei confronti del “diverso” in un’età globalizzata, in cui i problemi diventano sempre più comuni, tanto da dover essere affrontati responsabilmente insieme.
Lunedì, 15 Marzo 2010
1. L’Unione Europea: rispetto dei diritti e delle diversità La European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Ore 10.00 – 13.00
Saluti di benvenuto
Marcello Fontanesi, Rettore dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Enzo Mingione, Preside della Facoltà di Sociologia
Giovanni Chiodi, Preside della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Introduce: Marina Calloni (Vice-rappresentante per l’Italia al Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; membro del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Morten Kjaerum (Direttore della FRA, Vienna): Il ruolo della FRA nell’Unione Europea
Valentino Simonetti (Presidente del Comitato Interministeriale dei Diritti Umani; National Liaison Officer per la FRA in Italia; Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma): La FRA, gli organismi internazionali di monitoraggio dei diritti umani e le istituzioni italiane
Elena Paciotti (Rappresentante per l’Italia presso il Consiglio di Amministrazione della FRA; Fondazione Basso-Issoco, Roma): La FRA nella costituzione di un’Europa dei diritti
2. Tutela dei i Diritti, Società Civile e Ricerca
Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Giulio Enea Vigevani (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Elisabetta Lamarque (Componente FRALEX; Università di Milano-Bicocca): I FRA Legal Experts
Udo Enwereuzor (Responsabile RAXEN; Cospe, Firenze): I FRA experts on RAacism, XEnophobia and related intolerances
Barbara Terenzi (Componente FRA Cooperation with Civil Society; Comitato per la Promozione e Protezione dei Diritti Umani, Roma): La Fundamental Rights Platform
Sandro Calvani (Direttore dell’United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, UNICRI,Torino): Il continuum tra diritti e sicurezza
4. Chi ha paura degli omo- e trans-sessuali?
Ore 16.00 – 17.00
Introduce: Laura Balbo (Università di Padova; International Association for the Study of Racism, Barcellona)
Matteo Bonini Baraldi (FRA, Vienna): Homophobia and Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the EU Member States. Presentazione del Report FRA 2009
Ore 17.00 – 18.30
Introduce: Giorgio Grossi (Direttore del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Enrico Vanni (Regista, Milano): “O sei uomo o sei donna... chiaro?”. Proiezione e discussione del docu-film
Martedì, 16 Marzo 2010
5. Diversità e Uguaglianze
Ore 9.45 – 10.30
Introduce: Elena dell’Agnese (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Valentina Anzoise, Andrea Kunkl, Stefano Marras, Cristiano Mutti, Giorgia Serughetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura, vigilanza e rappresentazioni dell'Altro. Analisi sociologiche e visuali
6. Discriminazione e immigrazione
Ore 10.30 – 12.00
Introduce: Carmen Leccardi (Delegata rettorale per le problematiche di genere e le Pari
Opportunità, Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Massimiliano Monnanni (Direttore dell’Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali - UNAR, Roma): Strategie dell’UNAR nella lotta alle discriminazioni
Marco Buemi (esperto, Roma): Progetti nazionali contro ogni discriminazione
Tiziana Vettor (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Stranieri di fronte al diritto
7. Insicurezza, sicurezza
Ore 12.00 – 13.30
Introduce: Bruno Nascimbene (Componente FRALEX Università di Milano)
Tullio Scovazzi (Università di Milano-Bicocca): La paura del terrorista
Paolo Bonetti (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Sicurezza, immigrazione, terrorismo: le sfide per le democrazie costituzionali
Khalid Chaouki (Associazione Minareti, Roma): Dalla paura al dialogo
8. Liberarsi dalla paura?
Ore 14.30 – 16.00
Introduce: Tanja Sekuli? (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Elena Pulcini (Università di Firenze): Paura dell’altro. Paura per il mondo
Salvatore Natoli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Fenomenologie della paura
Giovanna Borradori (Vassar College, N.Y.): Paura e terrore
9. Curarsi della/ dalla paura?
Ore 16.00 – 17.30
Introduce: Adolfo Ceretti (Università di Milano-Bicocca)
Roberto Cornelli (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Politica e paura
Tommaso Vitale (Università di Milano-Bicocca): Paura urbana
Virginio Colmegna (Casa della Carità, Milano): Sofferenza
Ore 17.30 – 18.00
Conclusioni e chiusura della conferenza
Organizzazione
Comitato promotore: Marina Calloni, Elisabetta Lamarque, Giulio Vigevani
Segreteria organizzativa: Irene Ottonello, Annalisa Stefani
Segreteria tecnica: Centro di Ricerca Visuale
Comunicazione: Ufficio Stampa - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Tel. 02-6448 6076; E-mail: ufficio.stampa@unimib.it
Per informazioni: irene.ottonello@unimib.it
La conferenza è organizzata:
- nell’ambito delle attività del progetto PRIN Immaginari politici dell’Occidente. L’Unione Europea come spazio delle opportunità o come fortezza?
- col sostegno del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale e del Dipartimento Giuridico delle Istituzioni Nazionali ed Europee
- grazie alla casa editrice UTET
- per aver messo a disposizione alcune immagini tratte dall’opera Diritti Umani e in collaborazione con la rivista Reset
Tutte/i sono invitate/i a partecipare
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