CONFERENCES by IMISCOE Partners

CONFERENCES by Other Institutions

NEW!! Call for papers by CEETUM

Grasping today’s theoretical and methodological diversity in the field of ethnic relations serves no better purpose than to improve one’s personal understanding of all its complexities. To this end, graduate students and new researchers alike play a key role in both apprehending and contributing to the field’s growing body of knowledge. To facilitate this process, the Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises (CEETUM) will hold its 10th Colloquium for Students and Recent Graduates on Thursday and Friday, the 27th and 28th of March 2008, at the University of Montréal (Quebec, Canada).

We invite graduate students and recent graduates whose research examines issues in ethnic relations to participate in this international colloquium. This would be a perfect opportunity for them to present their work in front of an audience composed of peers and specialists from various disciplines. Students are invited to propose an individual presentation or to set up a thematic session composed of several (4 or 5) presentations around the same theme. Individual and thematic session propositions have to be related to one or several of the five thematic poles that orient the CEETUM’s scientific activities and about which details can be found on the CEETUM’s website:

1. Ethnicity, Place and Territory
2. Religion and Ethnicity
3. Intersectionality
4. Language and Ethnicity
5. Insertion and Discrimination
Proposals for papers or thematic sessions must be submitted no later than the 7th of December 2007 by filling out the on-line submission form on
the CEETUM website (www.ceetum.umontreal.ca). Abstracts will be reviewed by a multidisciplinary scientific committee. All authors who have submitted a proposal will be contacted by the 18th of January 2008. For further information, please contact Geneviève Audet (colloqueceetum@umontreal.ca) or call (514) 343-6111, extension 3724.

NEW!! Call for papers by EUMAP

"Across Fading Borders: The Challenges of East-West Migration in the EU"

EUMAP calls for articles about the impact and background of intra-EU mobility and migration, both in the countries of destination and the countries of origin.
Read the full Call for Papers at http://www.eumap.org/journal/announcements/cfp_oct07.pdf

Selected papers will be featured on eumap.org. Accepted authors will receive an honorarium of EUR200.

Papers should be written in English and be between 1,500-2,000 words. Papers should conform to the eumap.org editorial policy (http://www.eumap.org/journal/editpolicy).

Papers should be submitted by 19 November 2007. Please send submissions to submissions@eumap.org. Contact person: Joost van Beek.

NEW!! UACES Student Forum Postgraduate Conference – 5 November 2007 Hosted by the European Commission Representation in the UK and the UK Office of the European Parliament, London

The aim of this annual and useful event is to introduce PhD students in the area of European studies to the skills required to complete their research and develop their careers. Academics and professionals from leading UK and European institutions,

including representatives from the European Commission and European Parliament representations, will provide advice and guidance in plenary sessions and themed workshops. Sir Stephen Wall * will give one of the keynote speeches. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to network with other academics working in similar areas of research.

 For more information, on this and other UACES Activities which take place
throughout the year, please see:
a) the UACES Student Forum website: http://www.uacesstudentforum.org/
<http://www.uacesstudentforum.org/> and
b) the UACES website http://www.uaces.org

NEW!! Challenging Boundaries. Social Policy Association (SPA) Annual Conference, Edinburgh University, June 23-25, 2008 

The annual international SPA conference in the years 2008 and 2009 will be held at Edinburgh University. In 2008 it will run from Monday 23 until Wednesday 25 June. The theme of the 2008 conference is ‘Challenging Boundaries’. Papers are sought within the broad theme of the conference in the following streams: Welfare reform; Children and families; Work, economy and welfare; Governance and territorial social policy; Comparative analyses; EU social policy; International and global perspectives; Social policy in developing countries; Theoretical and methodological innovation; Health; Social work and social care; Crime and criminal justice; Migration, refugees, asylum-seekers; Welfare markets; User perspectives; Disability; Teaching and learning and Open stream. Call for abstracts: Paper proposals should be in the form of an abstract (300-400 words) sent as e-mail attachment to spa08@ed.ac.uk.

Deadline: February 1, 2008. (Decisions on acceptances will be made by February 22)
Website: http://www.social-policy.com/conferences.aspx

NEW!! Towards a basic income society. Centre for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ), University of Oxford, October 26-27, 2007.

The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable revival in both academic and policy circles of the idea that every citizen should be granted an unconditional basic income by right, without a means test or work requirement. Nevertheless, many questions remain before this idea could be turned into a workable policy. Prominent amongst these are questions about the very shape of a basic income society: what would a society in which an unconditional basic income takes a central place look like in terms of its broader policies and institutions?

Further details: http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/basicincome/
Deadline: October 18, 2007
Information: Jurgen De Wispelaere (basic.income@politics.ox.ac.uk).

NEW!! Diversities of Ageing: Discourses and Debates, ISA/RC11 Sociology of Ageing, September 5-8, 2008 in Barcelona.

Demographic ageing and its consequences for our ageing societies and the people living in them have become popular themes of policy reform, public debate, and even TV talk shows. Population ageing has indeed become a global phenomenon – almost all societies worldwide are affected by changes of their population structures, with a decreasing share of younger people and a growing proportion of older people living in them. This change has implications for our future societies: Fewer younger people mean fewer children and grandchildren, fewer family members and nurses looking after older people in need of care, fewer young workers in the workplace, they may mean fewer people paying social insurance contributions and taxes, fewer people using schools and universities, etc.

Further details: http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/rc/rc11.htm
Deadline: November 16, 2007
Information: Andreas Hoff (andreas.hoff@ageing.ox.ac.uk).

NEW!! Activation' policies on the fringes of society: a challenge for European welfare states, May 15-16, 2008 in Nuremberg.

Activation has become a prominent paradigm with regard to both labour market and social policies in Europe. Not only has it permeated political oratory in a short period of time across a wide range of European countries, but it has also become a crucial reference point for the restructuring of the modern welfare state in its legal and administrative structures, in its political programmes and social services, and even in its normative self-understanding and moral mission.

Further details: http://www.socsci.aau.dk/~rathlev/espanet/espanet2/IAB.pdf
Deadline: November 30, 2007
Information: Sabine Fromm (sabine.fromm@iab.de).

Conference “Refugees and Forced Migrants at the Crossroads: Forced Migration in a Changing World”, organized by the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) on January 6^th – 10^th 2008 in Cairo  

 The conference will examine the various locales and moments, both physically and metaphorically, which present crossroads for forced migrants and those interested in the study of their movement. Cairo, with its unique location at the crossroad of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, will provide an inviting location for dialogue and debate. We invite submissions of proposals relating to forced migration, and in particular those that touch on the following sub-themes of the conference:

1. PLACES AT THE CROSSROADS
2. PEOPLE AT THE CROSSROADS
3. POLICIES AT THE CROSSROADS
4. A FIELD AT THE CROSSROADS

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
We invite submissions of abstracts of 250 words to be presented at the conference from academics, graduate students, practitioners, policy makers, individuals working with forced migrants and forced migrants themselves. Submissions from all disciplines are welcome. We wish to encourage practice-based presentations and other non-traditional means of exploring forced migration and its study, including film screenings, installations and exhibitions.
Submissions may be of two types: (i) individual paper presentations,
(ii) proposals to organize a panel of up to four individuals on a particular theme or topic.
The submission deadline for abstracts is 30 JUNE 2007.
Further details about the conference and the online submission form can
be found on the IASFM website: www.iasfm.org. Requests for further information can be made to the following email address: iasfm11@iasfm.org.

“Migration und residentielle Mobilität: Chancen der Integration und Risiken der Segregation“, realized by MIGREMUS in November, 16th -17th 2007 in Bremen, Germany

 Submission deadline is June 15th 2007. Please send your abstracts to:
Prof. Dr. Felicitas Hillmann, Institut for Geographie (hillmann@uni-bremen.de)
Prof. Dr. Michael Windzio, Institut for Soziologie (mwindzio@uni-bremen.de)
For more information, please visit:

http://www.barkhof.uni-bremen.de/~mwindzio/migremus.html
http://www.geographie.uni-bremen.de/

“Studying ethnic minorities – methodological approaches in qualitative research”, held by the Danish National Institute of Social Research (SFI) in December 5^th – 6^th 2007 in Copenhagen

 If you wish to participate in the conference, please fill in the registration form before October 1^th 2007 together with a one-page abstract. Shortly after October the 1^th you will be informed if your application is accepted (the number of participants is limited). Papers for the conference should be submitted before November 9^th 2007. Please contact Rikke Plauborg (rip@sfi.dk) for more information.

6th MESEA Conference “Immigration, Homelands and border crossings in Europe and the Americas”, realized by Leiden University (NL) in June 25-28, 2008

Call for Papers!
Largely driven by economics, migration today is a global and globalizing phenomenon that renders, national borders obsolete and calls into question the viability of nation states and national identities. Yet, precisely because it undermines national structures, migration also has contributed to the reinvention of, the historically highly problematic concept of "homelands" and the reconstruction of increasingly, impenetrable borders. This conference, aims to focus on, the ways in which migration matters locally as well as transnationally and globally, in the realms of, politics and culture, history and sociology, economics and law, language, literature and the arts in Europe, and the Americas.

Please submit three hard copies of a 300-word abstract (including a maximum of five keywords) or full, panel proposals (including a description of the panel, chair, respondents, and individual abstracts) as well, as an electronic copy to MESEA's Program Director, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Department of English, Aristotle, University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece by November 15, 2007: (kalogera@enl.auth.gr).

Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards.
For more information: http://www.mesea.org