october 2010
Content:
- Multikulturell Dialog: Dilemmaer, Paradokser, Konflikter
- Eurosphere’s mid-term International Conference
- SOS: Samtaler om Samtiden
- New Website: Forum of concerned citizens of Europe
- New journal: Diversities
- Conferences and seminars
- New Publications
- Other
MULTIKULTURELL DIALOG: DILEMMAER, PARADOKSER, KONFLIKTER
Lanseringsseminar for Randi Gressgårds nye bok Multicultural Dialogue: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts (Berghahn Books, 2010).
Tid: Fredag 22.okt. kl. 12.00-16.00.
Sted: Det Akademiske Kvarter (Maos Lille Røde, 2. etasje), Olav Kyrres gate 49-53, Bergen.
Panel: Mette Andersson, Anne Britt Flemmen, Randi Gressgård (bokens forfatter), Yngve Lithman og Joron Pihl.
Les om boken
Read about the book
EUROSPHERE’s MID-TERM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“The Publics of Europe and the European Public Sphere: Tracing the Architects and Trespassers of Borders and Boundaries in Europe”.
Date: 11-12 November 2010
Venue: Hotel Bloom, Brussels.
Registration: 20 October.
SOS: SAMTALER OM SAMTIDEN
IKM og Culcom arrangerer 4 samtalekvelder om dagens og fremtidens flerkulturelle samfunn.
“Ungdom og generasjonskonflikter”
Tid: Torsdag 28. oktober 2010, 18.00-20.00.
Sted: Om; Interkulturelt Museum (Tøyenbekken 5, Oslo).
NEW WEBSITE: FORUM OF CONCERNED CITIZENS OF EUROPE
The Forum of Concerned Citizens consists of scholars, artists and other citizens concerned about the prevailing racism and deteriorating attitudes against migrants, refugees and minorities in Europe, about the increasingly illiberal and exclusionary politics of fear, about rightwing extremist parties whose rhetoric is affecting also mainstream and government parties and about the general deterioriation of democratic and humanitarian values in Europe.
NEW JOURNAL: DIVERSITIES
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Current Issue: Turks Abroad: Settlers, Citizens, Transnationals, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2009.
Upcoming Issues:
– Depicting Diversities
– Female Migration Outcomes: Human Rights Perspectives
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
* EMOTIONS AND BELONGING AMONG PENTECOSTAL CHRISTIAN MIGRANTS
Call for papers to panel. Submission deadline: 25 October 2010.
10th International SIEF Congress.
Date: 17-21 April 2011.
Venue: Lisbon.
* ISLAM IN THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF PLACES
Call for papers to panel. Submission deadline: 25 October 2010.
10th International SIEF Congress.
Date: 17-21 April 2011.
Venue: Lisbon.
* JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE UNDER THE BOLSHEVIK RULE IN THE USSR
Seminars in European Politics.
Guest lecturer: Alexander Ivanov (Interdepartmental Centre for Jewish Studies, the European University in St Petersburg).
Date: 27 October, 14:15-16:00.
Venue: U.Phils House, 1st Floor, Auditorium (Prof. Kaysersgt.1), Bergen.
Read Ivanov’s recent publication “Facing east: the World ORT Union and the Jewish refugee problem in Europe, 1933-38”
* THE ARCHIVE AND JEWISH MIGRATION: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 31 October 2010.
Date: 11-13 April 2011.
Venue: University of Cape Town.
* FORGING THE NATION: PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL IN THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF NATIONS
21st Annual Conference, The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN).
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 1 November 2010.
Date: 5-7 April 2011.
Venue: London School of Economics and Political Science.
* TRADING HUMAN RIGHTS FOR SECURITY? THE EXPLOITATION OF MIGRANTS IN MEXICO’S WAR ON DRUGS
Rafto-symposium 2010.
Registration required. The seminar is free and includes lunch.
Date: Friday 5 November, 09.30-16.00.
Venue: Grand Selskapslokaler, Bergen.
More information and registration
* ORTHODOXY AND MIGRATION. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHURCHES AND THE INTEGRATION OF ORTHODOX POPULATIONS IN THE WEST
Registration by 20 November.
Date: 3 December 2010.
Venue: Institut de sociologie (MAPS), Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
* ACCEPT Pluralism launch event
EU funded research project: “ACCEPT: Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe”
Date: Friday 26 November, 12.15-16.30.
Venue: Bristol Institute of Public Affairs.
* TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION, MISSIONIZATION, AND REFUGEE MIGRANTS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 30 November 2010.
Date: 14-15 June 2011.
Venue: Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.
* MIGRATION: ECONOMIC CHANGE, SOCIAL CHALLENGE
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 15 December 2010.
Organised by NORFACE Research Programme on Migration and Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
Date: 6-9 April 2011.
Venue: University College London.
* GLOBAL MIGRATION AND MULTICULTURALISM: RELIGION, SOCIETY, POLICY AND POLITICS
CRONEM 7th annual Conference.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 15 February 2011.
Date: 28-29 June 2011.
Venue: Free University Amsterdam.
* MULTICULTURALISM IN A GLOBALISED SOCIETY: EUROPEAN MUSLIMS, IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP
Date: 24 February 2011.
Venue: Park Campus, University of Northampton, UK.
New PUBLICATIONS
Abebe, D.S. (2010): “Public Health Challenges of Immigrants in Norway: A Research Review”. NAKMI report 2/2010. Oslo: Norwegian Center for Minority Health Research.
Allen, Chris (2010): Islamophobia. Ashgate Publishing.
Annaniassen, Erling & Inger-Hege Kristiansen (2010): “Eldre innvandrere og organisasjoner”. NOVA Rapport 13/10. Oslo: NOVA.
Boase, Robert (ed.) (2010): Islam and Global Dialogue: Religious Pluralism and the Pursuit of Peace. Ashgate Publishing.
van Bruinessen, Martin and Stefano Allievi (2010): Producing Islamic Knowledge: Transmission and dissemination in Western Europe. Islamic Studies Series. Routledge.
Engebrigtsen, A. I. og Lidén, H. (2010): “Å finne sin plass som minoritet – Rombefolkningen i Norge i dag”. I Bonevie Lund, A. & Bolme Moen, B. (red.): Nasjonale minoriteter i det flerkulturelle Norge. Trondheim: Tapir akademiske forlag, s. 199-215.
Hoehne, Markus V., Dereje Feyissa, Mahdi Abdile, Clara Schmitz-Pranghe (2010): “Differentiating the diaspora: reflections on diasporic engagement ‘for peace’ in the Horn of Africa”. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Working Paper no. 124.
Ingebretsen, Reidun (2010): “Omsorg for eldre innvandrere. Samlede prosjekterfaringer”. NOVA Rapport 15/10. Oslo: NOVA.
Ingebretsen, Reidun (2010): “Erfaringer med omsorgstjenester for eldre innvandrere”. NOVA Rapport 11/10. Oslo: NOVA.
Kokkali, Ifigeneia (2010): Migrants albanais en Grèce: De la dissimulation identitaire à l’invisibilité territoriale. Editions universitaires europeennes.
Nathan, Ganesh (2010): Social Freedom in a Multicultural State: Towards a Theory of Intercultural Justice. Palgrave Macmillan.
Sollund, R. (2010): “Au pairordningen i Norge: Rolleforståelse og praksis blant au pairer og vertsfamilier”. Sosiologi i dag, 40 (1/2):78-99.
Touzenis, Kristina (2010): “Trafficking in Human Beings: Human Rights and Transnational Criminal Law, Developments in Law and Practices”. UNESCO’s Migration Studies Series No. 3, edited by Paul de Guchteneire and Antoine Pécoud.
Zapata-Barrero, Richard (ed.) (2010): Shaping the Normative Contours of the European Union: a Migration-Border Framework.
OTHER
* FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO ARTICLES ON MIGRATION
Between 1 October and 31 November 2010, ASEF grants free online access to the
whole content of the Asia-Europe Journal.
Read the journal
* PUBLIC HEALTH AND VULNERABLE GROUPS
The Asia Europe Journal.
Call for papers. Submission deadline: 31 October 2010.
ASEF invites contributions on the topic of “Public Health and Vulnerable Groups”, particularly focusing on the areas of public health and gender, migration and ageing populations.
* BERLIN GRADUATE SCHOOL MUSLIM CULTURES AND SOCIETIES
Call for applications for Doctoral Programme.
Submission deadline: 15 December 2010.
* AFRICAN DIASPORA IN BRAZIL: REMAPPING THE BLACK ATLANTIC
Special edition of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal (Routledge).
Guest editors: Fassil Demissie and Silvia Lorenso.
Call for article proposals. Submission deadline: 30 December 2010.