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2nd Annual Duke- UNC Graduate Conference on Islamic Studies

Call for Papers--Mapping Muslim Ethics

Call for Papers Deadline:

 2, 4-5, 2005

Deadline for Proposal Submission:

1, 5, 2005

The most pressing questions in the study of Islam and Muslim societies are ethical in nature. Questions such as the validity of suicide/martyr bombings, to interest-based banking, questions of governance, gender and bioethics are widely discussed among Muslims and non-Muslims. Though such debates often occur in a legalistic idiom, these dilemmas have far-reaching implications on the attitudes and worldviews of Muslims.
In this larger perspective, we ask what is Muslim ethics? Is the phrase a neologism or does it have a historical genealogy?  Some have argued that Muslim ethics is an ensemble of Islamic law, legal theory, the science of comportment (‘ilm al-akhlaq) together with elements of theology.  In this conference we will explore this cluster of issues and how they relate to contemporary and historical formulations of Muslim ethics.
We invite paper proposals for the 2nd Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Student Islamic Studies Conference.  Organizers are particularly keen to receive proposals that address: ethical challenges in Muslim minority contexts such as America and Europe; dialogue between Muslim ethical paradigms and those of diverse intellectual traditions; historical nexus of law, ethics and the state; the relationship between secular and religious ethics; economic or financial ethics; theological ethics; gender and sexuality.
Generally we wish to explore the manner(s) in which thinkers are engaging the Islamic intellectual tradition to map ethics in historical terms and perhaps even recast ethics for contemporary contexts.  We encourage the subject to be addressed from a numb! er of perspectives: historical, theoretical, sociological, philological, anthropological, or literary.  Theoretical reflections on ethnographic and textual discussions of ethics are highly desirable.
As a hallmark of the Duke-UNC Islamic Studies Conference we will provide opportunity for interactive, deliberative, and inter-disciplinary engagement with scholarly work in progress by setting this gathering in an intimate workshop format   We expect that those invited to present papers will remain for the duration of the conference in order to engage the other participants in a true exchange of ideas. 
The conference will be held at Duke University on February 4-5, 2005. Please send a proposal not exceeding 500 words along with a CV.  A CV must be submitted for your proposal to be considered.  The deadline for the submission of proposals is January 5, 2004.  Proposals and CVs will be accepted by email or regular mail. Please send proposals and/or questions about the conference to the attention of:
M. Brett Wilson/Youshaa Patel
Duke University, John Hope Franklin Center
Center for the Study of Muslim Networks
Box 90402, 2204 Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27708-0402
(919) 668-2143
yp13@duke.edu, mbw3@duke.edu

From H-Gender-MidEast list, X-posted from H-Mediterranean:

CALL FOR PAPERS, International Conference

Location:

Portland, Oregon

Deadline:

 5, 14-15, 2005

The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa: A Cultural Reappraisal

Berber culture and the cultures of historically rooted North African minority groups (Jewish, Coptic, Turkish, Touareg, among others) are not common foci of study in higher education. These cultures also remain shadowed in public discourse and in public policy. The same cultures have existed and thrived for a long period of time under the dominance of successive colonial powers in North Africa. Unfortunately, there is still a huge misunderstanding and a knowledge-gap regarding the diversity that constitutes the richness of a large region, situated between the East and the West and between Europe and Africa.

This conference's purpose is to promote a clearer comprehension of the complexity of these North African cultures. It will situate them in space (from Egypt to the Canary Islands) and in time (from early history to the present) within the larger dynamics of successive epochs.

The conference will be free and open to the public. The opening day will include a keynote lecture by a scholar in the field, an art exhibit, a North African dinner and a musical performance by a Kabyle (Berber) band.

The organizers of this interdisciplinary Conference invite all papers related to the theme of minority cultures in North Africa. Presentations are accepted in both French and English. Topics may include (but not limited to):

Literary, Linguistic and Artistic Expression

The Minority Culture in Film and Literature

The Historical Memory of Inter-Communal Relations in North Africa

Cultural Boundaries and Hybridity in North Africa

Historiography and Ethnography

Submissions:

Please submit a 1- page abstract (French or English) by December 1, 2004 to:

Dr. Nabil Boudraa at nabil.boudraa@oregonstate.edu or via regular mail to:

Oregon State University,

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures,

210 Kidder Hall,

Corvallis, Oregon 97331

Fax: 1 (541) 737 3563

● CALL FOR PAPERS
 

Location:

Yale University, Connecticut

Submission Deadline:

 12, 31, 2004

The call for papers for the 4th Annual "Critical Islamic Reflections"
This year's theme is:
"Contemporary American Discourses on Islam: The Politics of Representation"
We invite abstracts for papers to be presented at our annual conference on Saturday, April 16, 2005
Deadline for Abstract Submission:
December 31, 2004
Throughout the 20th century and certainly in the beginnings of the new millennium, images and representations of Islam and Muslims abound in the academic and popular press. This conference aims to assess what those images are and the politics that underlie their production and dissemination. To put it simply, what is being said and why? The aim of this year's CIR conference is to explore the language, tone, assumptions, typologies, images, and ideas used to portray Islam and Muslims in American discourse, the effect that such representations induce, and the interests they serve.
We are not interested in papers that are looking to present an essential truth or document misrepresentations about Islam, but rather papers that investigate how representations of Islam arise and are used to form and sway public opinion.
This year's topic cuts across disciplinary lines relating to fields such as religious studies, history, American studies, near eastern studies, literary criticism, sociology, anthropology and political science. The conference is organized around three substantive themes. The examples provided below are not intended to be limiting, but rather illustrative of the general aims of the conference.
Please visit www.yale.edu/cir for the complete text and to download a pdf version, which includes details on how to submit, cosponsors, possible publication of proceedings, etc.
Critical Islamic Reflections Conference at Yale

New Haven, CT

yalecir@gmail.com

● SCHOLARS OF BRITISH / IRISH HISTORY? WE WANT YOUR PAPERS!!

Location:

United Kingdom

Date Submitted:

2004-11-08

History Compass (www.history-compass.com), a new online resource from Blackwell Publishing, is seeking papers on the history of Britain /Ireland, from early modern to modern periods.

History Compass combines nine survey journals (Africa, Asia, Australasia, Britain and Ireland, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America and World) with a range of reference material – all of it designed to help historians keep up to date with the latest research. Each of the nine sections is edited by at least one academic expert, who works with the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Mark Kishlansky (Harvard University), and the international Editorial Board.

Articles typically fall into at least one of the following three categories:

1.  Survey of Recent Research and Debates in the Field – What new research has been published? Can you relate that new research to your own insights? Does a new school of thought or paradigm seem to be developing?

    Example: David Northrup - When Does World History Begin? (And Why Should We Care?)
http://www.history-compass.com/Pilot/world/World_WhyArticle.htm

2.  Comparative look across sections or boundaries – How are various fields interacting? Are there related things happening in different fields? Can one area provide an insight into another when used in teaching or research?

    Example: Jack Greene - Comparing Early Modern American Worlds: Some Reflections On The Promise Of A Hemispheric Perspective
http://www.history-compass.com/Pilot/northam/NthAm_ComparingArticle.htm

3.  State of the field - Can you offer a fresh perspective on developments in your field? Perhaps there are arguments drawing attention away from the critical points? Are there new resources worthy of attention?

Example: Ian Campbell - Pacific Islands History: A One-Lifetime 'Sunset Industry'
http://www.history-compass.com/Pilot/pacific/AusPac_IslandsAbstract.htm

Articles range from 1000 words (short ‘Viewpoints’) to 10,000 (long ‘Viewpoints’), with the longer papers being peer-reviewed. We welcome finished articles, proposals and queries.

Early Modern Britain / Ireland:
Professor Malcolm Smuts
Email: Malcolm.Smuts@umb.edu
Modern Britain / Ireland:
Professor James Thompson
James.Thompson@bristol.ac.uk
General Queries:
Keren Oertly
History Compass Assistant
Keren.Oertly@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com
Email: James.Thompson@bristol.ac.uk

● Challenging Racism, (Hetero) Sexism, Classism, and Homophobia in the African Diaspora

Location:

Indiana, United States

Conference Date:

2005-04-16

Date Submitted:

2004-11-23

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Annual Herman C. Hudson Graduate Student Symposium at Indiana University, Bloomington

Challenging Racism, (Hetero) Sexism, Classism, and Homophobia in the African Diaspora

Racism, (Hetero) Sexism, Classism, and Homophobia are critical, often under-interrogated issues in the African Diaspora (understood in its most inclusive sense). We seek abstracts of papers exploring these issues from interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary perspectives to be presented at a one-day, international conference on April 16, 2005. We are interested in topics that explore questions pertaining to the cultural, economic, educational, historical, intellectual, political, and social experiences of African descent and African origin people in the U.S., and the broader African Diaspora in relation to this year’s theme.

Interested presenters should submit a one-page abstract (with academic affiliations indicated) and a one-page CV. Panel proposals should include a description of the panel’s theme, a one-page abstract of each paper, the name of the panel chair, and a one page CV from each participant.

All materials should be sent to the attention of Jennifer Heusel and Amina McIntyre no later than Thursday, January 20, 2005 via e-mail, fax, or mail:

fax: [001]1-812-855-4432)
mail: African American and African Diaspora Studies; Memorial Hall East-M18; 1021 East 3rd Street; Bloomington, IN, 47405-2201; USA
Email: aaads@indiana.edu

Masculinities in African literature and cinema (book collection; 1 June 2005)

Location:

Alberta, Canada

Call for Papers Deadline:

2005-02-01

Date Submitted:

2004-11-30

In light of the recent growth of masculinity studies across all disciplines, we are soliciting articles for an edited volume devoted to masculinities in African literature and cinema.

Possible topics include: cultural representations of manhood and the male body in African literature, cinema and popular video narratives; sexual practices and sexual identities; virility or infertility; race, ethnicity, class--and masculinities; fatherhood and male identity; male-female relationships; relationships between patriarchy and dominant masculinities; relationships between concepts of masculinity and nationalism; colonialism, westernization, and African responses to "modernity"; fatherhood and its essence in the cinematic city; women and the masculine gaze of the city; the city as an "ordering gaze"; cityscape and the distribution of sexuality, sex and the cinematic city; and the calibration of the cinematic gaze of the postcolonial city.

If you are interested, please send us an abstract (about 250 words) and a CV by 1 February 2005.

Essays should be between 6000 and 8000 words and are due 1 June 2005. E-mail submissions are welcome.

Professor Lahoucine Ouzgane
and Professor Onookome Okome
Department of English and Film Studies
Univesity of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E5
Email: louzgane@ualberta.ca

● 27th Annual Warren I. Susman Graduate History Conference, "Imagining Histories"

Location:

New Jersey, United States

Call for Papers Deadline:

2005-02-25

Date Submitted:

2004-11-30

27th Annual Warren I. Susman Graduate History Conference
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Saturday April 9, 2005
1st Call For Papers

"Imagining Histories"

The conference committee is currently accepting proposals from graduate students for individual papers as well as complete panels of 3-4 papers on any topic of historical interest and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. For all proposals, please submit two copies of a one page abstract along with a CV; for panel submissions, please include a one –page panel statement along with panelist’s CV. Submission Deadline is February 25, 2005.

Send Submissions to:
Attn: Susman Committee
Department of History
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Participants will be notified by March 7, 2005. Final Papers will be due April 1, 2005.
Inquiries: S. Sherrie Tartt (e-mail address shown below), or Kris Alexanderson, krisalexanderson@hotmail.com

Susman Committee
c/o Shanita Tartt
Department of History
Rutgers University
16 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-7905 phone
732-932-6763 fax
Email: shatartt@yahoo.com
Visit the Web site at http://history.rutgers.edu/graduate/susman.htm

Bibliography on Islam in contemporary Africa

Location:

Netherlands

Date Submitted:

2004-11-30

Dear Colleagues,

As you may know, the African Studies Centre in Leiden and the Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noire in Bordeaux have a project on Islam in Africa. As part of this project, we are preparing a bibliography on Islam in contemporary Africa that we would like to make as comprehensive as possible. On behalf of Benjamin Soares and Rene Otayek, members of the project's Scientific Committee, we would like to invite you to send us a list of all of your publications. If possible, we would also like to have abstracts that can be included along with the full citation.

Please send the list of your publications electronically to the e-mail address shown below,

Or by post to:

Paul Schrijver
African Studies Centre
P.O. Box 9555
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands
tel. + 31 71 527 3372
fax + 31 71 527 3344
Email: islaminafrica@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Visit the Web site at http://asc.leidenuniv.nl

ERAS: MONASH SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES ON-LINE JOURNAL, Seventh Edition

Location:

Australia

Call for Papers Deadline:

2005-03-31

Date Submitted:

2004-11-29

ERAS JOURNAL

MONASH SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES ON-LINE JOURNAL

Call For Papers

Seventh Edition

Eras is an on-line journal edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Papers published by Eras are accepted from the following disciplines: History, Archaeology and Ancient History, Religion and Theology and Jewish Civilisation.

Eras is a fully refereed journal, which is intended as an international forum for current or recently completed Masters and Ph.D. students to publish original research, comment and reviews in any field covered by the School's teaching and research. We are seeking papers from postgraduate students working in any of the fields listed above, along with a brief description of your current affiliation and thesis topic.

Papers of 5000 words are required by 31st March 2005. Detailed notes and editorial guidelines for individual contributors are available on the Web site listed below. It is anticipated that the seventh edition of the journal will appear in November 2005.

Look for our sixth edition on-line at the web address shown below.

The Editors
Eras Journal
School of Historical Studies
P.O.Box 11A, Monash University
Victoria, 3800
AUSTRALIA
Email: eras@arts.monash.edu.au
Visit the Web site at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras

Reconstructing Zion - Architecture and Ideology in Palestine / Israel

Location:

Israel

Conference Date:

2004-12-14 (in 10 days)

Date Submitted:

2004-11-16

"Reconstructing Zion"
Utopia and Nostalgia – Architecture and Ideology in Palestine / Israel

Neri Bloomfield WIZO Academy of Design and Education
Haganim St. 21, Haifa, Israel

December 14, 2004

Throughout the centuries the ancient history and mythology of the Land of Palestine / Israel has inspired numerous ethnic, cultural, and religious groups to attempt to reconstruct a lost paradise. Particularly in the early twentieth century, settlement activities and the production of physical and cultural space embodied a certain utopian potential that aimed at anticipating a future model society. Thus the spatial and social structures of settlements may be interpreted as the result of conflicting interpretations of history and competing perceptions of the future.

This conference traces the architectural design and symbolic meaning of settlements, as well as their influence on transformations of the Palestinian / Israeli environment. Accelerated urban development, shifting political boundaries, and the ideological appropriation of history endanger the heritage of these architectural and social experiments and call for a re-evaluation of the region's architectural history.

The conference has been organized by Dr. Anna Minta (Technical University Dresden) on behalf of the Goethe-Institute in Tel Aviv and the Neri Bloomfield WIZO Academy of Design and Education in Haifa.

PROGRAM

09:00 Welcome
David Alexander, President of Neri Bloomfield WIZO Academy
Hans-Juergen Nagel, Head of the Goethe-Institute Tel Aviv

09:15 Introduction
Anna Minta (Dresden): Conflicting utopias – The politics of constructing space and identity in the Holy Land

Jewish and Christian Perspectives / Utopias of Zion

09:45 Ita Heinze-Greenberg (Delft): Eden as model – Zionist settlement concepts
 

10:15 Yossi Ben-Artzi (Haifa): Landscape and ideology – The case of the German Colony in Haifa
 

10:45 Discussion

11:00 Coffee break

Jewish and Arab Perspectives and City Cultures
 

11:30 Haim Fireberg (Alfee Menashee): From mandate to state – Tel Aviv: town planning policy, spatial design and civic order
 

12:00 Abed Badran (Kabul): Transformation of the Israeli-Palestinian Arab village – 'Losing confidence'
 

12:30 Discussion

13:00 Lunch break

Jewish Perceptions and Strategies after 1948
14:00 Diana Dolev (Bejamina): Designing the Hebrew University as a symbol of Jewish rebirth and reconstruction

14:30 Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Haifa): The reconstruction of Jerusalem after 1967

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee break

Preservation Strategies

16:00 Nazmi Al-Ju'beh (Ramallah): Palestinian vernacular architecture – Meanings of and efforts at preservation
 

16:30 Saadia Mandl (Tel Aviv): Israeli preservation and politics

17:00 Panel Discussion: Heritage – Vision and Politics
Participants: Nazmi Al-Ju'beh, Abed Badran, Shmuel Groag, Saadia Mandl, Arie Sivan, Haim Yacobi

Dr. Anna Minta
Technical University Dresden
01062 - Dresden, Germany

Email: minta@mailbox.tu-dresden.de

Higher Education in Developing Countries: With a Focus on Muslim contexts

Location:

United Kingdom

Conference Date:

2005-02-25

Date Submitted:

2004-07-06

Aga Khan University (AKU) is organising a two-day conference on Higher Education in Developing Countries: With a Focus on Muslim Contexts. The conference will be held at The Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS.

In recent years, higher education has started to regain its importance in academic and policy discussions both in developed and developing countries, including those with substantial Muslim populations. A series of reports have been written in the last decade on the state of higher education in developing countries. A study of these reports shows that there is a broad similarity among the issues faced by higher education in these countries. With differing intensities the issues revolve around vision, mission, openness and independence, funding, human resources, governance, teaching materials and approaches and research.

Academic:
Farid Panjwani (Farid.Panjwani@aku.edu)
Registration:
Sara Macadam
sara.macadam@conf-co.net
Email: sara.macadam@conf-co.net
Visit the Web site at http://www.aku.edu/news/seminars/hedc/default.htm

Historical Journal: Call for publications

Date Submitted:

2004-11-27

The Cahiers d’Histoire, the journal of the History Department of the University of Montreal, is soliciting articles for the next issues. We are looking for articles about any topic that concerns history. Please send three one-sided, double lines spaced copies, of your manuscript to our mailing address. Papers can be submitted in English or in French and they should not exceed 25 pages (including endnotes). Each author must also join an abstract of 10-15 lines in the same language of his paper and one more in French or in English, if possible. For more details on our submission policy visit the journal’s Web site (French only) or contact the e-mail address shown below.

Mailing address:
Cahiers d’Histoire
Département d’histoire
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec) Canada
H3C 3J7
Email: guillaume_teasdale@yahoo.ca
Visit the Web site at http://www.hist.umontreal.ca/u/cahiers/index.html

Contributors needed

Location:

California, United States

Date Submitted:

2004-11-23

ABC-CLIO, publisher of history reference books, is producing a twenty-volume Encyclopedia of World History under the general editorship of A. J. Andrea, emeritus professor at The University of Vermont, and currently seeks potential contributors.

Interested scholars should e-mail the publisher at the e-mail address given below with either an attached or pasted-in one-page CV and a clear indication of areas of expertise.

Carolyn Neel
ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Drive
Goleta, CA 93117
805-968-1911, ext. 360
Email: cneel@abc-clio.com

Call for reviewers: Canadian Journal of History

Location:

Saskatchewan, Canada

Date Submitted:

2004-11-19

The _Canadian Journal of History_ seeks reviewers for books in all subfields. Reviewers need not be Canadian, but we prefer that reviewers hold the Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. For a list of available books, see the following web address.

Or contact John McCannon (e-mail address provided below), Editor, Canadian Journal of History

John McCannon
Editor, Canadian Journal of History
Department of History, University of Saskatchewan
Email: mccannon@usask.ca
Visit the Web site at http://www.usask.ca/history/cjh/e/rev/books.shtml

● Call for Books in a Series

Location:

Virginia, United States

Date Submitted:

2004-11-09

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES: NEW STUDIES IN RELIGION AND HISTORY

This series will provide a forum for scholarship at the nexus of religion and history in which the contexts and consequences of change are examined.

Monographs in this series will employ innovative methods in the study of religion. Forthcoming titles will explore pivotal historical moments, or propose alternative readings of history.

While maintaining the standards required in scholarly research, works in this series will be accessible, engaging, and suitable for use in the undergraduate classroom.

Proposals should be no more than five pages in length, and must include:

·   A three page description of your project, including a statement of your thesis and a narrative explication of the historical/geographical context of your study

·   A one page selected bibliography

·   A one page preliminary table of contents

Cathy N. Gutierrez
Department of Religion
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595

 

Lisa J. Poirier
Department of Comparative Religion
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056
Email: cgutierrez@sbc.edu

● Teaching About Women and Gender in Times of War

Location:

Illinois, United States

Date Submitted:

2004-11-04

The Journal of Women’s History is inaugurating a new special section of the journal that will be devoted to the practice of women’s history. We are interested in short individual pieces (1,000-2000 words), as well as full roundtable forums of four to five contributors (5-10,000 words total) that explore cutting edge questions in history practice – from the archive to personal narrative work, from grant-writing and publishing to teaching, from activism and community service to campus and department politics.

We are currently soliciting short papers for our first roundtable forum: "Teaching gender and women’s history in times of war."

We would like to assemble a range of perspectives from across the globe. Although we realize the importance of addressing the topic of women and war, for this forum we are interested in pieces that discuss teaching about women and gender in times of war. If you would like to contribute to this first forum or have ideas about future history practice sections (either individual or roundtable), please contact the editors at the e-mail address or contact information provided below.

Editors,
Journal of Women’s History

The University of Illinois

810 South Wright
Urbana, IL 61801
USA
Email: womenshistory@uiuc.edu

Encyclopedia of Sex, Love and Culture in the Medieval World

Location:

District of Columbia, United States

Date Submitted:

2004-11-03

Editor looking for article writers for encyclopedia of sex, love and culture in the medieval world for Greenwood Press. Articles range from 300 to 1800 words. Coverage is world-wide. Authors will be paid a small honorarium, and those contributing over 5000 worlds will receive a copy of the volume on publication. Please email with a short CV emphasizing subject expertise and writing experience.

William Burns
1840 Independence, SE
Washington, DC 20003
2025472012
Email: williamburns@erols.com

"New Imperialisms"

Location:

New York, United States

Publication Deadline:

2005-01-01 (in 28 days)

Date Submitted:

2004-10-11

Call for Papers-"New Imperialisms"
Radical History Review #95
Deadline for submissions: January 1, 2005

Radical History Review invites submissions for a forthcoming thematic issue on "New Imperialisms." A generation ago the "New Imperialism" referred to the Age of Empire between the 1870s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Reflecting the changes of recent years, the "New" in our title refers to both the question of empire in our own times and to the new critical and heuristic perspectives on imperialism, imperial encounters, and imperial identities of the past.

Among the possible ways of construing "New Imperialism" is, first, the post-Cold War, post-9/11 "New World Order" in which a single world power attempts to dictate the terms to a perceived global transnational space. Is this the age of the American empire? Second, the impact of these developments may suggest a reassessment of the impact of Lenin's analysis of imperialism and Kautsky's analysis of ultra-imperialism. Third, the almost simultaneous emergence of the "Age of Globalization" and the formation of the field of colonial/postcolonial studies may call for explanation. How can transnational or transoceanic perspectives raise new questions and how can past precedents take us beyond current paradigms of imperialism? These new approaches have prompted a rethinking of earlier theoretical paradigms, conceptual delineations, and overall assessments of imperialisms and anti-imperialisms.

We are interested in the ways, cross-disciplinary approaches of gender, transnational, and subaltern studies, discourse analyses such as Said's paradigm of Orientalism, and cultural studies influence these critical investigations. The rise of Islamist radicalism reminds us that, for better or worse, modern, secular, anti-colonial nationalism, supported by metropolitan lefts, is not (and never was) the only possible form and strategy of opposition to imperialism. Indeed, new imperialisms and their adversaries flow at least in part from unfulfilled promises and limitations of decolonization, the postcolonial nation-state, and "development" in former colonized/semi-colonized regions of the world, and in part from a variety of ongoing conflicts in the "postcolony" and the post-imperial states.

Confronting the complexity of empire in our times has revealed certain paradigmatic tensions within the field of colonial/postcolonial studies itself. How can we make anti-imperialist discourses less exclusionary?

The editors of this special thematic issue of Radical History Review invite contributions that discuss imperialism in the light of new global formations and reopen the discussion of historical empires from the perspective of race, gender and postcolonial studies. We are also interested in submissions that address the ways in which new conceptualizations of empires impact our role as scholars, teachers and students of imperialisms.

For further information and samples of previously published articles, visit the web address given below.

For additional information and submission guidelines please visit:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr /guidelin.htm

Further contact information is provided below. Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2005

Please note that all submissions must be marked, "RHR#95: The New Imperialisms," and electronically submitted to the e-mail address given below.

Radical History Review
Tamiment Library
70 Washington Square South, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Email: rhr@igc.org
Visit the Web site at http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr

"Ethnophilosophy"

Publication Deadline:

2005-06-30

Date Submitted:

2004-09-30

Call for Papers:

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein/Jürgen Hengelbrock (editors)

Re-ethnicize the Minds? Tendencies of Cultural Revival in Contemporary Philosophy

(Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi: 2005)

Contributers should send us an abstract as quickly as possible. The final versions of the papers should be ready by June 30, 2005. So far we have received papers dealing with Africa, Japan, Russia, India, Finland, Northern Siberian Peoples... We would be particularly happy to receive contributions that consider China, Iran, the Arab speaking world, or Rabbinistic philosophy.

For further particulars visit the Web site listed below.

Email: thorstenbotz@hotmail.com
Visit the Web site at http://www.freewebs.com/botzbornstein/

The MESA Bulletin

Date Submitted:

2004-09-15

The MESA Bulletin welcomes manuscripts and proposals for articles on research methodology, new archival and electronic sources, and innovations in classroom techniques and approaches to teaching in Middle East Studies.

Submissions are especially welcomed from scholars in underrepresented disciplines.

John VanderLippe
Editor
Mesa Bulletin
Department of History
State University of New York
New Paltz, NY 12561
(845) 257-2681
Email: bulletin@newpaltz.edu
Visit the Web site at http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/bulletin/welcome.htm

International Graduate Summer Seminar Interrogating the African Diaspora Summer 2005 African Diaspora Identities

Location:

Florida, United States

Summer Program Deadline:

2005-02-01

Date Submitted:

2004-11-29

This seminar will address the fundamental issues that have engaged thinkers through the periods of slavery, colonization, emancipation(s), and modernity. It will suggest and reflect upon genealogies of discourses of individual and group identities, both self-identities and interpellations. Discourses of "race" and hybridity, "material" and metaphorical realities that invoked biological and cultural legitimacy, dominated the social, economic, and legal classifications of Diaspora subjects, providing them with-or imposing upon them-frames within which to work, or against which to rebel. Diaspora subjects developed and continually adapted strategies of conditional conformity, subversion, and open confrontation, especially in societies that circulated egalitarian, enlightenment, and emancipatory principles as the foundations of the civic order. Whether as "racial," ethnic, linguistic, sexual, national, or transnational subjects, they negotiated the obstacles and opportunities to forge creative social positions that erupt in cultural productions.

Module One:

July 11-15
Deconstructing Racial Knowledge: Questioning Methodologies
Joseph Graves, Fairleigh Dickenson University

Module Two:
July 18-22
The African Diaspora: Contesting the Heteronormative
Lola Young, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture, UK

Module Three:
July 25-29
Mapping the African Diaspora: Fragmented Geographies and Positionalities
Nalini Persram, University of Dublin, Trinity College

Module Four:
August 1-5
African Diaspora: Hybridities Against Race?
Shalini Puri, University of Pittsburgh

Summer 2006: Performing African Diasporas
Check our Web site for details on the seminar’s format, deadline information, guest instructors, and for updates on seminars for Summers 2005 and 2006: www.fiu.edu/~interad

SIGNIFICANT FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR ALL THOSE ACCEPTED

African-New World Studies at Florida International University
3000 N.E. 151st Street • North Miami, Florida 33181

Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier
Florida International University
3000 NE 151 Street, AC1-162
North Miami, FL 33162
(305) 919-4567 phone
(305) 919-5896 fax
Email: interad@fiu.edu
Visit the Web site at http://www.fiu.edu/~interad/index.htm

"Gun Barrel Democracy? Perspectives on Democratization in Afghanistan and Iraq"

Location:

Michigan, United States

Symposium Date:

2004-12-14 (in 10 days)

Date Submitted:

2004-11-15

A symposium featuring Stanley N. Katz from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Gregory Fox from the Wayne State University Law School; Frederic Pearson, director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State University; and Brad Roth, professor of political science and law at Wayne State University.

December 14, 2004
3 p.m.
Alumni House
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Marc Kruman, Director, Center for the Study of Citizenship
Email: m.kruman@wayne.edu
Visit the Web site at http://www.citizenship.wayne.edu

International workshop on "Courts of Law and Legal Cultures in Past and Present Muslim Societies: A Socio-legal Perspective"

Location:

Israel

Call for Papers Date:

2004-10-31

Date Submitted:

2004-05-21

For the 11th Annual International Workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University [Sponsored by The Helene Soref Foundation]

Courts of Law and Legal Cultures in Past and Present Muslim Societies: A Socio-legal Perspective

Coordinators: Iris Agmon and Ido Shahar

In recent decades Muslim courts of law (mainly, but not exclusively, shari‘a courts) and their surviving archives have attracted much scholarly attention. Scholars have employed court records extensively as a source for historical evidence, shedding light on various aspects of Muslim societies. Yet in addition to being a prism through which a wide range of social topics may be viewed, these records are also products of intriguing social institutions worthy of study in their own merit, namely courts of law. The historical evolution of these institutions, their legal cultures and traditions, the procedures and practices maintained in them – are themselves of significant interest.

Our workshop will, therefore, explore contemporary and historical courts of law in Muslim societies from this socio-legal perspective. We will explore courts of law as prominent socio-legal institutions in Muslim societies; as a prism through which the wider economic, social and cultural contexts can be explored; and as formative social arenas, which contribute to the construction of these very contexts. Our goal is to bring together scholars from different disciplines (e.g. history, law, sociology, anthropology) studying diverse courts of law and legal cultures, in order to encourage a comparative and inter-disciplinary debates on these topics.

Themes and questions that the workshop will investigate may include:

Courts of law and social processes: What roles do courts play in the legal field and in society at large? How do they affect processes of social change and how are they affected by them? What functions do courts serve for various members and groups in society? How are court routines understood by members of the society? How are they employed by them? To what extent do courts of law constitute unique social arenas?

Courts and modernity: In what ways do modernization processes change courts of law, judicial systems, and legal cultures? How do modernization processes in the legal arena contribute to changing the society at large? Do modern and pre-modern courts constitute substantially different socio-legal arenas?

Legal pluralism: what are the interrelationships between distinct courts of law – shari‘a, civil, customary, and others – which operate within a single society, at a particular time period? How do multi-court systems affect socio-political hierarchies and power relations in their respective societies?

Legal cultures: how are legal cultures, as developed in particular courts of law, related to other social and cultural spheres? When comparing the legal cultures of different courts, what points of difference and similarity can be found?

Continuity and change in courts of law: What are the mechanisms of change, reproduction and legitimization operating in specific courts? How are the dynamics of change in courts and in society at large related to each other?

Administrative hierarchies and state control: How do local courts relate to broader legal systems? What functions do courts serve as state institutions? How are lower-ranking courts depicted by the central administrations, and how are they perceived by their own personnel?

Islamic jurisprudence and legal practice: what are the relations between normative literature and practical solutions to legal problems carved in particular courts? To what extent do recent studies on court routines, judges at work, and interrelations between judges and muftis problematize the accepted wisdom that Muslim law is jurist law?

The state of the art: what are the major concepts, themes and trends in the field of socio-legal studies? What are the implications of recent developments in this field for future agendas of research on courts and legal cultures in Muslim societies? * * *

The workshop will be held in the spring semester of the coming academic year (March-June, 2005). It will convene once every three weeks, on Tuesday afternoon, between 4.00 and 7.00 PM (tentative schedule: March 1, March 22, April 12, May 3, May 24, 2005). Two papers will be discussed on each meeting. Following this series of meetings, a two-day workshop will take place (Monday and Tuesday, June 6-7, 2005). All participants will be expected to submit in advance a working paper to be distributed among the other participants. This will enable us to dedicate the meetings to discussions on original papers rather than to lengthy presentations. Participants from abroad will be supplied with all papers presented prior to their own, so as to enable their fullest involvement in the ongoing discussion. We intend to publish selected papers from the workshop in a collection of essays on courts of law in Muslim societies.

Those interested in participating in the workshop are asked to send a one-page proposal in English by October 31, 2004. The proposal should briefly state the topic, and outline how the paper contributes to the aims of the workshop. Participants from abroad will be offered round trip airfare and lodging.

Proposals should be addressed by e-mail to: iragmon@bgu.ac.il, or by mail to: Dr. Iris Agmon, Department of Middle East Studies, Ben Gurion University, P. O. Box 563 Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Iris Agmon
Ben-Gurion University
Beer Sheva 84105
Israel
tel. 972-8-6472.546
fax 972-8-6472.952
Email: iragmon@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

● INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF EASTERN INDIA AND BANGLADESH

Location:

India

Conference Date:

2005-02-08

Date Submitted:

2004-11-27

The Relevance / Importance of the International Conference: The eastern India remained the cradle of civilisation through the centuries and bequeathed major religions to the world. The art activities of the region are as old as the days of Ashoka and Gautam Buddha but the extant remains are few and un-noticed. Some pioneering works have un-earthed Nalanda, Paharpur and Vikramshila and the major sites such as Bodhgaya have received attention but the studies and research in the aspects of Art and Architecture of Eastern India and Bangladesh, which remained one cultural entity for many thousand years, are neglected. International Centre for Studies of Bengal Arts, Dhaka has initiated regular holding of International Congress since 1995 that has started major researches in the field. Presently experts from ten countries are involved in the research activities about the art and architecture of eastern India and Bangladesh and are regularly bringing forward the hidden treasures and unknown aspects of the region.

This Sixth International Congress 2005 being held in Jharkhand would open up new areas of research in the studies of art and architecture of Eastern India. It will prove to be a great opportunity for a new state like Jharkhand to bring on the centre stage, in presence of many internationally known experts of the eastern art, its Hindu/ Buddhist heritage of the Gupta and Pala period, Islamic heritage of Sultanate period as well as archaeological heritage of the industrious activities of its tribal inhabitants. The proper research and documentation of the lesser-known but very important sites such as Chandraketugarh, Maluti, Rajmahal, Parasnath, etc. will greatly affect the tourism in the region.

Dr. Ajay Khare
Architecture Department,
Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA
Ranchi. 835215, INDIA.
Ph. +91-94313-82678
+91-651-2275093 (R)
Email: rch_khare@sancharnet.in
Visit the Web site at http://www.bitmesra.ac.in

SSEASR Conference, New Delhi, 2005

Location:

India

Conference Begins:

2005-01-27

Date Submitted:

2004-08-13

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from New Delhi!

We have the pleasure of extending to you with this E-mail the information of forthcoming International Conference on Cultural and Religious Mosaic of South and Southeast Asia: Conflict and Consensus through the Ages. This is an SSEASR Conference dealing with South and Southeast Asia under the IAHR, a Unesco affiliate.It is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from January 27 to 30, 2005.We would be pleased if you would present paper on any subject covering the scope of the Conference (as suggested in the First announcement). The information can be seen at www.sseasr.org and also at www.icvsolutions.com/iahr and the registration form can be filled in online by clicking the "registration" word. At the same time, if you find the opportunity to send the information to the scholars from your region, we would appreciate it very much.

If you have any query, please do not hesitate to enquire. Thank you for the cooperation. Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

With best wishes,
Thanking you,
Amarjiva
(Amarjiva Lochan, Dr)
Convenor, SSEASR Conference, 2005

SSEASR Secretariat
95, Vidya Vihar, Outer Ring Road, Pitampura, New Delhi 110034 INDIA
Phone/fax: 00-91-11-27028399
Email: secretariat@sseasr.org
Visit the Web site at http:// www.sseasr.org

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