Dear all,
have a look at the last online issue of Anthropology of Food, on the topic "Migration, food practices and social relations: when continuity is not reproduction and discontinuity is not rupture", edited by Jean-Pierre Hassoun and F.Xavier Medina and myself Chantal Crenn.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Conference_The Others in Europe and Beyond_Brussels 28-29 April 2011
Interdisciplinary International Conference
Migration, Ethnicisation and the Challenge of Diversity: The“Others” in Europe and Beyond
Université Libre de Bruxelles, 28-29 April 2011
In contemporary Europe, the social tensions and political debates produced by immigration are increasingly linked to issues of belonging and identity. The representation of the foreigner is no longer solely defined by his or her place on the labour market or in the social hierarchy. In light of EU enlargement and due to immigration flows, European societies are increasingly questioning their “cultural and ethnic identity”. As a consequence, boundaries between “insiders” and “outsiders” are being redefined. The “others” in Europe are no longer merely those who do not have state citizenship of one of the member states of the Union. In the new European migration context, “otherness” increasingly refers to ethno-cultural minority groups, regardless of their EU citizenship status.
This conference aims to address the construction of identity classifications underlying new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are to be found in contemporary Europe, and beyond. Its scope covers practices of categorization and of resistance, both by majority and minority groups. Anthropologists, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists and law scholars will meet to discuss the categorization of identity groups through legal and social norms, public policies, institutional practices, social interactions and representations, as well as actors’ mobilizations.
For all details click here.
London Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference (31 Aug.-2 Sept 2011)_Call for Paper for session on "Returning Migration"
(Re-)Imagining ‘Return Migration’: Language, concepts and contexts
London 31 August-2 September 2011
Session organisers: Anastasia Christou (Sussex) and Madeleine Hatfield (RHUL and RGS-IBG).
Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.
Return migration has increasingly become the subject of research that seeks to go beyond previously taken-for-granted assertions of such mobilities as straight forward due to the assumed familiarity of the destination. This research has addressed the experience of moving to somewhere one has lived before or to where one is thought to belong under a number of sub-headings including not just return migration but repatriation, reflux or cyclical migration, diasporic or ancestral return and homecomings. It has studied migrants returning after a short time and after generations; as children, adults and households; together and apart; from higher to lower and lower to higher income countries; painfully, hopefully and forcefully.
This growing body of research, then, also has the potential to allow us to (re-)imagine and (re-)think what ‘return migration’ is or could be; and to (re-)consider how the words we use are not just terminology but active constructs that affect the ways in which return migration is experienced, understood and imagined. We therefore invite researchers of return migration in different contextual and disciplinary settings to showcase their research and present on the conceptualisation, application and documentation of return migration as broadly defined.
Please submit proposed paper abstracts (c. 250 words) for consideration of inclusion in the session to organisers Anastasia Christou (A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk) and Madeleine Hatfield (madeleine.e.hatfield@gmail.com) by 4 February 2011.
For more general information about the Conference call for paper click here
London 31 August-2 September 2011
Session organisers: Anastasia Christou (Sussex) and Madeleine Hatfield (RHUL and RGS-IBG).
Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG.
Return migration has increasingly become the subject of research that seeks to go beyond previously taken-for-granted assertions of such mobilities as straight forward due to the assumed familiarity of the destination. This research has addressed the experience of moving to somewhere one has lived before or to where one is thought to belong under a number of sub-headings including not just return migration but repatriation, reflux or cyclical migration, diasporic or ancestral return and homecomings. It has studied migrants returning after a short time and after generations; as children, adults and households; together and apart; from higher to lower and lower to higher income countries; painfully, hopefully and forcefully.
This growing body of research, then, also has the potential to allow us to (re-)imagine and (re-)think what ‘return migration’ is or could be; and to (re-)consider how the words we use are not just terminology but active constructs that affect the ways in which return migration is experienced, understood and imagined. We therefore invite researchers of return migration in different contextual and disciplinary settings to showcase their research and present on the conceptualisation, application and documentation of return migration as broadly defined.
Please submit proposed paper abstracts (c. 250 words) for consideration of inclusion in the session to organisers Anastasia Christou (A.Christou@sussex.ac.uk) and Madeleine Hatfield (madeleine.e.hatfield@gmail.com) by 4 February 2011.
For more general information about the Conference call for paper click here
CRONEM 7th Annual Conference_Call for Paper
Global Migration and Multiculturalism: Religion, Society, Policy and Politics
28 - 29 June 2011, University of Surrey
Deadline for Call for Paper: 15 February 2011
Find all information here
Summer School on Black Europe_Amsterdam 12-30 June 2011
Dear all
The National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its
Legacy (NiNsee) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam are pleased to announce the fourth annual Summer School on Black Europe entitled:
Black Europe: Exploring Dimensions of Citizenship, Race and Ethnic Relations.
June 12th-30th 2011, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The Summer School on Black Europe emerged out of dialogue and concern of various scholars working in the field of race and ethnic relations in Europe. The program is now in its fourth year and is currently located at the National Institute for the study of Dutch slavery and its legacy (NiNsee).
To find all information click here
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Migration week at UCL_6-9 APRIL 2011
A large interdisciplinary conference on migration will take place at UCL from 6th - 9th April 2011.
This academic conference will be embedded in a week long event - "UCL Migration Week", organised by CReAM and UCL Grand Challenges Programme. This week will feature a series of events related to migration, such as Exhibitions, Lectures, Discussions and Film screenings. In addition there will be a Policy Podium, where high level practitioners, politicians and policy media representatives will discuss migration related issues.
More details about the Programme will be posted later.
The call for paper is now closed.
This academic conference will be embedded in a week long event - "UCL Migration Week", organised by CReAM and UCL Grand Challenges Programme. This week will feature a series of events related to migration, such as Exhibitions, Lectures, Discussions and Film screenings. In addition there will be a Policy Podium, where high level practitioners, politicians and policy media representatives will discuss migration related issues.
More details about the Programme will be posted later.
The call for paper is now closed.
New Approaches to Italian Multilingual Fiction_ 21 January 2011
A very interesting and promising workshop on the topic "Multilingual Writing" has been organized in Leeds by Gigliola Sulis. The workshop will take place the 21st of January 2011.
If you want to know more about the programme you can click here
If you want to know more about the programme you can click here
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