Conference: Reducing complexity: transformation of capital cities (W129) EASA Nanterre, 2012‏

Just twenty years ago half of Europe hastily jumped from socialism towards capitalism. Reinforcing nationalism was one of the ways to overcome the transitional anxiety. The European version of cosmopolitan supra-national identity had and still has to compete with particular nationalist representations in the 'new' countries of a united Europe.
As most revolutions happen in capital cities, we seek for ethnographic accounts, that reveal the discrepancy between the imposition of the governmental symbolic order in the public space of capital cities, and creation of everyday lived spaces. Considering the symbolic power that capitals pose, the transformations of the public space in these cities can reveal the aspirations of the political elites in these countries. This panel will explore the responses to the post-1989 transformation of European capitals, as well as recent responses to the financial crisis, and constant threat of recession and economic downfall. We are interested both in the nation-state abuse of the idea of capital cities, and the production of appropriate political subjects. Following this, we will look at the resistance produced by ordinary citizens, artists, and other actors who exercise their right to create a public space that is an inclusive open democratic space.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1360

Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies, Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012‏

Call for Papers for the Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS)

Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, 2-4 July 2012

The SRS is an international inter-disciplinary academic organization based in North America

For information about SRS visit www.society4romanianstudies.org

The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) is a sponsoring partner

Europeanization and Globalization: Romanians in Their Region and the World

More than two decades after the fall of communism and several years after Romania’s accession

to the European Union, Romanians, whether at home, in a growing diaspora around the world, or

by virtue of international economic and cultural networks, are continuing to find themselves

integrated into increasingly interconnected European and global institutions and practices. This

gradual process of integration into international networks and interaction with foreign powers

has been underway for centuries. States that occupied the territory of contemporary Romania and

Moldova came under the influence of more powerful neighbors, and stood at the crossroads of

both warlike and peaceful migrations. At one point most Romanian boyars spoke Greek, and in

the 19th century Romanian students often studied abroad as they are again doing today. In the

1920s and 30s, ethnic and religious diversity contributed both to Europeanization and to

domestic and international tensions. Then, the Soviet model played a major role in the imposition

of communism. The proposed focus of the 2012 SRS conference encourages historical, cultural

and contemporary inquiries into the place of Romanians and Moldovans in European and global

structures, while pondering the implications of these trends for the future.

Keynote Speakers:

· Dr. Tom Gallagher, Professor of the Study of Ethnic Conflict and Peace in the

Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK

· Dr. Bogdan Murgescu, Professor in the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest,

Romania

We welcome proposals for papers, panels and round-tables coming from young and established

scholars working in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, philosophy, law,

linguistics, economics, business, religious studies, theater, literature, cinema studies, music, and

education.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

· Romania and the European Union

· “Europe’s,” Russia’s, and Romania’s roles in the Republic of Moldova

· The social, political, and ideological implications of globalization in Romania and

Moldova

· Migration and diaspora within Europe, North America, etc.

· Consequences of EU accession

· Challenges to European and global integration

· Romanian writers abroad

· Romanian literature in translation

· The global reception of Romanian cinema, literature and art

· The Romanian/Jewish avant-garde in Zurich, Paris, Berlin

· Multinational enterprises in modern Romania and Moldova

· Minority cultures in Romania and Moldova (Roma, German, Hungarian, Jewish, Russian,

Ukrainian, Gagauz et al.)

· The construction of a European memory

· Romanian and Moldovan culture in the digital age

· The Romanian language mass media system in the panoply of world media models

· Journalism and political parallelism

· New and old forms of censorship and self-censorship

· Romanians’ and Moldovans’ historical encounters with “others”

· The image of the Roma/Jew/Hungarian/German among Romanians

Paper proposals should include the title of the presentation, a brief abstract of up to 500 words, a

short c.v., and the contact information of the presenter. They should be sent in a single attached

Word or PDF document by December 1, 2011, to Matthew Ciscel at CiscelM@ccsu.edu

Proposals for 2-hour panels including 3-4 papers, one chair, and 1-2 discussants should provide a

description of the panel topic, abstracts of papers, short c.v.’s and contact information for all

participants. Panel participants should be drawn from at least two different universities. 2-hour

round-tables of 3-5 participants will also be considered. The conference languages are English

and Romanian. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by January 30,

2012.

In order to assure that the conference is accessible to scholars from across the Atlantic region and

to those from Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the conference fees will be quite modest.

For scholars from North America, the fee will be 40 USD; for those from the Eurozone and other

world regions, 40 Euros, and from Romania, Moldova, and post-Communist realms, 40

Romanian Lei. Graduate students will be exempt from this fee. SRS membership will also be

required and additional for those paying in USD and Euros, but included for those paying in Lei.

Postdoc Fellowships 2011/12 in Berlin, Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship‏

5 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/13
(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 10 January 2012)

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for 5 postdoctoral fellowships for the research project
ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP

Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research project that aspires to support research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself. The project takes as its point of departure the increasingly growing concern with the global significance of philology and the potential of philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.

The project endeavours to promote and emphasize primary textual scholarship beyond the classical humanistic canon by a critical recuperation of philology. In an age of advanced communication, intellectual specialization and unprecedented migration of knowledge and people, the discipline of philology assumes new relevance. The project draws on the recent calls for a return to philology as particularly emphasized by Sheldon Pollock and the late Edward Said.

The title “Zukunftsphilologie” is inspired by the 1872 polemic between the classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Friedrich Nietzsche on the method and meaning of classical studies. The project draws on recent calls for a return to philology as particularly emphasized by Sheldon Pollock in his essay “Future Philology?” and the late Edward Said’s essay “The Return to Philology”.

In order to promote historically-conscious philology, the project will encourage research in the following areas: the genealogy and transformations of philological practice, philology’s place in the system of knowledge (e.g. its relation to science, theology, and jurisprudence), philology and the university, and philology and empire. Zukunftsphilologie aims to examine the role mobility, calamities, expulsions, and natural catastrophes play in the dissemination and globalization of knowledge. How does the mobility of scholars, books, and manuscripts bring about scientific innovation (e.g. in tenth-century Baghdad, during the European Renaissance, or during the Ming dynasty)? What kind of knowledge systems are also displaced by these processes of reorganization? What transformations and translations accompany such mobilizations?

The project Zukunftsphilologie is associated with and located at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Zukunftsphilologie is directed by Angelika Neuwirth, Manan Ahmed and Islam Dayeh (all Freie Universitaet Berlin).

CANDIDATES

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of the major linguistic and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe (for example, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish), whose research explores linguistic practices and disciplinary entanglements in intellectual and literary history, comparative linguistics, philology, religion and the history of science. The fellowships are intended for scholars who currently reside outside Berlin and who wish to carry out their research projects in the framework of the initiative Zukunftsphilologie in Berlin. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows are given the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice, provided the topic falls within the research agenda of the project. In the overall context of the project Zukunftsphilologie, they will participate in regular working meetings of the project group as well as in lectures, conferences and summer or winter academies, organized by the project and by the Forum Transregionale Studien.

PROJECTS

Individual research projects should fall within the thematic framework of Zukunftsphilologie. Projects should have a comparative perspective, whereby the plurality of textual practices, polyphonic textuality, and the trajectories and genealogies of philological traditions since early modernity are examined.
Research projects focusing on intellectual debates, polemics, correspondences, and transregional encounters are especially welcome. In revisiting important philological debates, the goal is not to merely evaluate the argumentative worth of these debates, but to reflect on the wider cultural and political context in which these debates emerged and how they have shaped our knowledge of the past. Moreover, an examination of philological debates will shed light on marginal philological traditions and undocumented intellectual positions as well as the ways in which canonical positions were consolidated and normalized.

FELLOWSHIPS

start October 1, 2012, and will end on July 31, 2013. Shorter fellowship terms can be considered. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of € 2.250 plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided. Successful applicants will be fellows of the project Zukunftsphilologie at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Associate Members of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies. Through this association they will be integrated into the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and will have access to an academic milieu of literary and philological studies as well as to libraries and other research facilities.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

To apply, please send the following documents in English exclusively by e-mail as separate word or PDF files:

— a curriculum vitae
— a project description (no longer than five pages), stating what you will work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship
— a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter)
— a letter of recommendation from one academic faculty. It can be sent as a separate e-mail.

The application should be submitted in English and should be received by 10 January 2012, addressed to:

zukunftsphilologie@trafo-berlin.de

Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstraße 19, D-14193 Berlin / Germany

Institutional Framework

The Forum Transregionale Studien is a new research platform of the Land of Berlin designed to promote research that connects systematic and region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and interactions beyond national, cultural or regional frames. The Forum works in tandem with established institutions and networks engaged in transregional studies and is supported by an association of the directors of universities, research institutes and networks mainly based in Berlin. It supports four research projects: Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison, Global Prayers: Redemption and Liberation in the City, and Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe. The Forum Transregionale Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin.


INFORMATION

For more information on the Forum please see
— www.forum-transregionale-studien.de

For more information on Zukunftsphilologie please see
— www.zukunftsphilologie.de
— www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel/

Small Cinemas Conference, West University of Timisoara, 1-3 June 2012‏

Small Cinemas
Promotion and Reception
Timisoara, Romania, 1-3 June 2012

Organizing Institution: Center for Eastern European Film and Media Studies, West University of Timisoara, Romania, contact email: ceefms@gmail.com

Plenary Speakers: Dina Iordanova, Professor of Film Studies and Provost, St. Leonard’s College, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Janina Falkowska, Professor of Film Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

The third annual international conference, Small Cinemas, brings together scholars and professionals from around the world to discuss the regional, national and international reception and promotion of small cinemas. We are interested in papers focusing on the status and the particularities of small cinemas’ audiences, film criticism, film scholarship, governmental support, festival participation, marketing strategies, and media outlets. The conference organizers understand the notion of “small cinemas” to be fluid and plural, including both documentary and fiction, from the cinemas of small nation-states to the small “postage stamp” films of mobile devices; from the cinemas of ethnic and religious minorities to the productions of minors and so-called “minor” authors.

Presentations are invited on any aspect of the reception and promotion of small cinemas. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· The theorizing of styles, genres, new waves, and auteurship of small cinemas

· Journals, scholarly studies, collections, blogs

· Films in schools

· Stars and glamour

· Racial, ethnic, universal informed reception

· Internet, television and print media promotion

· Communal, regional, national, supra-national promotion

· Distribution, transmission, diffusion

· DVD sales and rental

· Dubbing and subtitling

· Co-productions, exports, imports

· Public and private financing

· Globalization and miniaturization

· Festivals

300-word abstracts and a short bio should be sent to Constantin Parvulescu, ceefms@gmail.com. Submission deadline: 1 February 2012.

Transforming Gender Orders - Intersections of Care, Family and Migration, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 18-20 January 2012‏

Transforming Gender Orders: Intersections of Care, Family and Migration
18-20 January 2012, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Deadline for the registration 9 January 2012
URL: www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/genderorders

This international conference takes up the controversies about the
transformation of gender relations in the course of globalization
processes. It is organized in four panels covering three main areas:
care, family, and migration. These provide the background against which
the questions of whether gender relations and orders are shifting, how
they are shifting and in what direction will be debated.

Programme

Wednesday, 18 January 2012. 18.00-20.00

Opening Keynote Lecture: Prof. Dr. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Intersections of Care, Family and Migration – transformations of gender
relations (University of Southern California)

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Panel I: Changes in the Welfare State – Changes in Care Regimes

10.00-12.00

Prof. Dr. Birgit Pfau-Effinger (University of Hamburg)
The role of migrants’ care work in different types of gender arrangement

Prof. Dr. Fiona Williams (University of Leeds)
Intersectionality and geo-politics in the analysis of migrant care and
domestic labour in Europe

Prof. Dr. Sonya Michel (Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington, D.C.)
State Compliance and Complicity? A Liberal Care Regime and
Anti-Immigration Forces in the United States

Chair: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher (CGC)
Discussant: Dr. Nicola Piper (University of Freiburg)

13.30-15.30

Prof. Dr. Sarah van Walsum (VU Amsterdam)
Exploring the dynamic between labour migration law and the labour rights
of domestic workers. A comparative perspective

Prof. Dr. Lise Widding Isaksen (University of Bergen, Norway)
Nordic Care- and Gender Regimes: Between Old Dependencies and New
“Independencies”?

Prof. Dr. Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University, London)
Caring Professions, Welfare and Immigration Regimes in Europe

Chair: Prof. Dr. Ute Sacksofsky (CGC);
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheiwe (Uni. Hildesheim)

Panel II: The Role of Women in Maintaining and Reproducing Repressive
Gender Orders

16.00-18.00
Prof. Dr. Anna C. Korteweg (University of Toronto)
Representations of Mothers in Media Reporting on Honour Killing:
Racialization and the Reinforcement of the Dominant Gender Order

Dr. Alice Szczepanikova (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
When Gender Order Comes under Strain: Chechen Refugee Women in Europe

Prof. Dr. Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller (Université Paris Ouest – Nanterre
la Défense)
Relying on Gender Order and Challenging it from Within

Chair: Prof. Dr. Uta Ruppert (CGC)
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Ilse Lenz (Ruhr University, Bochum)

18.30 Dinner reception for all Participants

Friday, 20 January 2012

Panel III: The Role of Men in the Transnational Division of Domestic Work

9.00 -11.00
Dr. Rosie Cox (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Gender identity/national identity: Narratives of home repairs and being
a ‘good Kiwi bloke’

Dr. Majella Kilkey (University of Sheffield)
Gender Orders in a Divided Europe: Towards an international division of
male domestic work

Dr. Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow and CNRS, Paris) & Dr.
Ester Gallo (University of Edinburgh)
Men of the Home - Interrogating Masculinity in the International
Division of Care

Chair: Prof. Dr. Heather Hofmeister (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess (University of Göttingen)

Panel IV: Change and Continuity in Intra-family Relations in the
Migration Process: Transnational Motherhood and the Families Left Behind

11.15-13.15

Prof. Dr. Helma Lutz & Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck (Goethe University,
Frankfurt)
The Care Curtain of Europe. The Global Care Chain Concept from a
European Perspective

Prof. Dr. Oded Stark (Universities of Klagenfurt, Bonn, Vienna and Warsaw)
Gender differentiation in care giving within the family, and migration
outcomes: a hypothesis

Dr. Bartłomiej Walczak (University of Warsaw)
Parental Roles in the Transnational Family: Transformation or Hibernation?

Chair: Prof. Dr. Susanne Opfermann (CGC)\
Discussant: Prof. Dr. Ursula Apitzsch (CGC, Frankfurt)

14.15-15.45

Dr. Cinzia Solari (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Between “Europe” and “Africa”: Building the New Ukraine on the Shoulders
of Migrant Women

Dr. Kyoko Shinozaki (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
In the Absence of Mothers: Fathers' On-Site Parenting in the Global Care
Chains and their Dependent Migration from the Philippines to Germany

Chair: Prof. Dr. Kira Kosnick (CGC)
Discussant: Dr. Dobrochna Kalwa (Jagiellonian University, Cracow)

Final remarks: 15.45-16.00

Contact and Registration
transforminggenderorders@gmail.com
www.cgc.uni-frankfurt.de/genderorders

Deadline for the registration: January 9, 2012

Conference organisers

Prof. Helma Lutz
Dr. Alice Szczepanikova
Dr. Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck
Women and Gender Studies
Goethe-Universität
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Institut für Gesellschafts- und Politikanalyse
Robert-Mayer-Str. 5
60054 Frankfurt am Main

Euroacademia International Conference, ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’, Paris, 15 - 17 March 2012‏

Call for Papers: The Euroacademia International Conference ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’

15 - 17 March 2012, Paris, France

Deadline for Panel Proposals: 15 December 2011

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 January 2012

http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/

Description:

Historically, the EU is both curious and controversial: it is hard to explain from a state-centrist view the delegation of sovereignty and the fragile agreement on the gradual extension of the EU powers together with externalizations of the decision making to a polity that can be described, as Jacques Delors expressed it, as an unidentified political object. However, in the last 60 years, the European Union absorbed increasing amounts of intellectual and political energies that attempted to singularly or complementary explain the nature of the ‘beast’ and the logic of the processes unfolded within. A large amount of theoretical assumptions, methodological choices and explanatory techniques were imported from different fields of research to constitute what gradually took the shape of the EU studies. Still today, the European Union is seen as a unique project of regional integration that is unsettled and unfinished and yet a particular scientific vocabulary takes shape and influences research and policy making. The Euroacademia conference aims to take into account the enormous creative energies invested in understanding and shaping the project of the European Union from the limited competences granted at the creation of the European Economic Community till the current formulation of the post-national understandings of its evolution.

From neo-functionalism to constructivism as IR theoretical imports to the EU seen as a political system in itself or as a post-national order, an overwhelming variety of puzzles and controversies animate the arena of the EU studies and bring partial agreements, alternative explanations, mutually exclusive proposals and unpredicted consequences regarding vital factors that shape the EU as a polity. Even the explanatory models often considered outdated prove to be resourceful in confronting determined policies, processes or institutional choices inside the EU. The innovation together with constant reevaluation, reformulation and revisiting of the past accounts seem to be the trademark of the EU studies. The plurality of approaches stands as the optimal choice in dealing with the diverse, multileveled, multitiered and multicentered reality of the European Union. Yet the advantage of plurality was also often used to blame the epistemological weaknesses and inaccuracies resulted from fragmentation and limited empirical applicability of particular trends inside European studies. The excessive conceptual imports from other fields and the limited methodological creativity were also established as skeptical positionings towards the European studies seen as a cohesive field of research and scholarship.

The Euroacademia International Conference ‘Reviewing the Trends: The European Union from a Regulatory Institution to a Post-national Cosmopolitan Order’ aims to bring openly on the floor of debate and discussion both the past and the contemporary trends in the study of the European Union trough the use of the magnifying glasses. The conference seeks to create an opportunity for evaluative accounts of essential developments within the study of the European Union. These accounts are to be understood as creative moments for articulating current concerns in the frame of disciplinary dialogue and methodological constrains or opportunities provided by the established traditions in the field of European studies. It is an opportunity for revisiting and assessing the persistent epistemological challenges in the field, the inheritances and their creative potential, the orthodoxies but also heresies.

The conference welcomes panel and paper proposals dealing with one or multiple traditions, trends and methodological choices within the arena of European studies. The panels and papers are expected to provide a critical assessment or a comprehensive valorization of one of the central or out of the mainstream approaches applied to the European Union. Papers that address new puzzles, alternative theoretical choices or methodological corrections/innovations are welcomed. Both theoretical and empirical enquiries are equally considered.

Panels:

The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following panels:

Before the European Union: The Initial Assumptions and the Historical Choices Revisited

Neo-Functionalism and the Persistence of Spill-over Effects

The EU Studies and IR Conceptual Imports: An Assessment

The Regulatory Theory and EU efficiency

Intergovernmentalism and Pursuing State Interest inside the EU

Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Methodological Virtues and Limits

Constructivism: The New Kid of IR

Addressing the European Identity: Where and How to Measure It?

The Lessons of Enlargements

EU as a Political System

EU as a Normative Power

Working Hard to Find a European Demos

Policy-making inside the EU and the Logic of the fait accompli

Cosmopolitanism and the EU as a Post-National Order

The Effects of Crises on the EU

Debating Epistemological Choices When Studying the EU

Propose a Panel:

By 15 December 2011 we welcome panel proposals. Each panel may contain a maximum of 5 speakers and a chair that will act also as a discussant. You can propose a panel by using the electronic application form available on the website of the conference.

Participant’s Profile

The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest in European Union from all parts of the world. As the nature of the conference is intended to be multidisciplinary in nature different academic backgrounds are welcomed.

Post-graduate students, doctoral candidates and young researchers are welcome to submit an abstract. Representatives of INGOs, NGOs, Think Tanks and activists willing to present their work with impact on or influenced by specific understandings of the European Union are welcomed as well to submit the abstract of their contribution.

A specific spot in the conference program will be dedicated to social networking and therefore all the participants interested in setting or developing further cooperation agendas and prospects with other participants will have time to present and/or promote their project and express calls for cooperation. A specific setting for promotional materials connected with the topic of the conference will be reserved for the use of participants. Books authored or edited by the participants can be exhibited and promoted during the whole period of the conference and can also be presented within the conference package based on prior arrangements.

Selected papers will be published in an electronic volume with ISBN after the confirmation of the authors and a double peer-review process based on an agreed publication schedule. All the papers selected for publication should be original and must not have been published elsewhere. All participants to the conference will receive a copy of the volume.

Paper Proposals

Deadline: 15 January 2012

The 300 words abstracts and the affiliation details should be submitted in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:

1) author(s), 2) affiliation, 3) email address, 4) title of abstract, 5) body of abstract 6) preferred panel

The abstract and details can be sent to application@euroacademia.eu with the name of the conference specified in the subject line or submitted directly through the On-line Application Form available at http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/  

We will acknowledge the receipt of all proposals. Abstracts will be reviewed and the participants are selected based on the proven quality of the abstract. The submitted paper for the conference proceedings is expected to be in accordance with the lines provided in the submitted abstract.

IMPORTANT DATES: If your paper was accepted a notification of acceptance will be sent to you by 20^th of January 2012. Your confirmation of attendance will be expected until 25^th of January 2012, and until the 1^st of February 2012 the payment of the participation fee through bank transfer is requested. No paper will be introduced in the program without confirmation and payment of the participant fee. By 15^th of February 2012, the full paper is to be sent according with the style standards provided to the accepted participants by organizers. All papers will be uploaded on the website as drafts available for consultation for other participants and the public.The conference will be held in English and will focus on the discussion of 5,000–6,000-words, pre-circulated papers.

Euroacademia is a non-profit organization, founded in Vienna (Austria), aiming to foster academic cooperation, networking and a platform for dissemination and valorization of academic research results, trends, and emerging themes within the area of concern for European studies, political science, critical studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, social psychology, semiotics, philosophy, sociology and wider and inclusive interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches that contribute to a better understanding of the ‘self-organizing vertigo’ (Edgar Morin) of the European realm. Euroacademia’s goal is to become a hub for academic interaction on and about Europe .

For more information visit www.euroacademia.eu

Euroacademia

Schüttelstraße 57/22

1020 Vienna, Austria

Phone:+43 699 10 555 248

Email: office@euroacademia.eu

Paris, France

Deadline for Panel Proposals: 15 December 2011

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15 January 2012

http://euroacademia.eu/conference/reviewing-the-trends-the-european-union-from-a-regulatory-institution-to-a-post-national-cosmopolitan-order/

Romanis in Europe, Passau, 3-5 September 2012‏

The UACES Collaborative research network "Romanis in Europe" (http://romanis.eu/) is calling for papers on Romani migration for the UACES Annual Conference in Passau, September 3-5 2012 (See below). Papers on all aspects of migration, interaction between host/sending communities and Romanis, as well as on (the limits of) integration of migrant Romanis are welcome. The CRN is spüecifically interested in Romani issues, but we also welcome contributions on push and pull issues involving Traveller communities. Case, country and disciplinary comparisons are particulartly welcome.