Calls & Invitations

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Distributed Work of War and Security: Technology, Expertise and Legitimation, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 24 and 25 September 2020 In recent years, Western states have increasingly relied on remote and automated technologies to govern emerging threats that are largely outside of conventional warzones. Simultaneously, we have seen a ‘computational turn’ […]

Dear colleagues, the following CfP on Inter-organizational Relations and World Order might be of interest to some of you. All the best, Ulrich Franke and Martin Koch   Call for Papers Inter-organizational Relations and World Order Organizers: Ulrich Franke and Martin Koch 14-15 May 2020 Bielefeld University   Inter-organizational relations are omnipresent in world society […]

Dear Friends, Dear Colleagues, I am glad to invite you, your PhD students or post-doc researchers to this 3.5 ECTS winter school organized by the University of Lausanne.   Located in a historical resort of the Swiss Alps, the GLOBE Winter School in International Relations provides a unique environment for PhD students intending to situate themselves […]

Call for Papers Eurovision Down Under: The World’s Longest-Running Song Contest Embracing Diversity 14-17 April 2020, The University of Sydney   The Eurovision Song Contest has had a growing following in Australia since national multicultural broadcaster SBS began broadcasting the contest in 1983. Its 65th anniversary in 2020 is testament to its success, both as […]

Generally speaking, we relate the concept of limit with boundary, milestone, end, goal, fixed magnitude, obstacle, restriction or repression (social, physical, psychic, legal), to some line, real or imaginary, that separates something (space, time, feelings, capabilities, strengths). The limit inserts the human being into the universe of knowledge, life, concerns the conquered or the possessed, […]

CALL FOR PAPERS The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities June 25-27, 2020 Lagos, Nigeria   PANEL PROPOSITION A Private Escape? A Critical Examination of the Relationship Between Lagos and Eko Atlantic Organisers: Elizabeth Cobbett (University of East Anglia, UK) and Lynn Schler (Ben-Gurion University, Israel) […]

Dear Colleagues,   We would like to draw your attention to our fully-funded Winter School on “Images of Europe at Times of Global Challenges” from 11-14 November 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark. Early career researchers, as well as experienced scholars, are welcome to apply.   Extended application deadline: 13 September; Please find further information here.   We are planning an […]

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce yet another fully-funded workshop on “Theorizing New Realities: EU foreign policy facing new challenges” in Aarhus, Denmark, from 11-12 November 2019. The abstract submission/application deadline is 25 September 2019. Further information is available below, here, and in the attached document. Theorizing New Realities: EU foreign policy facing new […]

Following the growth of The Global Network for Linguistic Anthropology, we announce The COMELA 2020, The Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology 2020. Purpose and Structure – Over 500 scholars globally will gather to present papers and engage in progressive discussion on the Linguistic Anthropology, Language and Society, and related fields, of The Mediterranean and Europe. The COMELA is fully Non-Profit, where all publishing with the JOMELA (its scholarly journal) is free, as the COMELA refuses to implement a pay to publish system. The COMELA sources […]

Conference “New Perspectives on Non-State Political Violence”, November 22-23, 2019, Queen’s University Belfast   The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics of Queen’s University Belfast opens a call for papers for the conference dedicated to new perspectives on non-state political violence. We welcome PhD and early-career researchers as well as experienced academics and practitioners […]