2009: June | September

2009

June 2009

Friday 5th and Saturday 6th June
Globalisation and European integration: 'the nature of the beast'

The conference invites specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology to build on their experience of applying historical materialist theories in empirical settings related to global governance and
regional integration, with an emphasis on the European Union (EU). Working papers designed to stimulate dialogue between invited speakers, Warwick research staff and postgraduate students will introduce workshops in this two-day event.

The conference aims to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange on the historical materialist frameworks used to investigate the relationship between global governance, regional integration and the national state, with special reference to the European Union. It will also seek to stimulate a constructive engagement, in one of its panels, between
historical materialist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to European integration.

The conference will showcase and challenge the most promising critical theories of regionalisation and globalisation, including neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulation and World-System approaches, with the purpose of generating useful connections and intellectual exchange. It will bring together researchers thinking about the creation and reproduction of social and political authority in a variety of settings. Truly interdisciplinary in approach, it aims to break down institutional barriers by forging interpersonal relations, and searching for commonality between fields and approaches which are traditionally considered incompatible.

The participation of eminent speakers in a conference addressing issues and phenomena which are highly relevant to the social sciences, not to mention contemporary applied socio-political practice, will attract a strong inter-disciplinary academic audience from European and American universities.

We are inviting abstracts addressing one of the conference's key themes:
Global governance, the EU and the national state:
* Sustaining or transcending international competition?
* The EU as a building-block or obstacle for global governance?
The EU and the global economy:
* The global monetary system and the single currency.
* Aid, trade and the relationship with the global South.
Social agency and European integration:
* Labour, migration and the EU: ideas, interests, and
institutions in the regulation of the social question in Europe.
* Global capital and the EU: transnational elite agency and
the European project.
Regionalisation beyond the EU:
* The EU in global perspective: comparative analyses of the
EU and other forms of regionalisation.
* Explaining regionalism and regionalisation in America,
Africa and Asia.
Engaging Critical approaches to European integration:
constructivism, post-structuralism and other alternatives.

Abstracts should:
· Be no more than 250 words for a 20 minute presentation.
· Include your name, institution, level of study,
department and paper title
· Address an interdisciplinary audience
· Be submitted by March 20th electronically to
globeuropeconferencejune2009@googlemail.com

Other deadlines:
Registration: 1 May 2009.
Submission of paper: 25 May 2009.
Registration fee (Friday and Saturday): £27 per delegate.
Includes refreshments, buffet lunch, and wine reception on Saturday.

Conference webpage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/ss/beast/
Co-organisers: Andreas Tsolakis (A.A.Tsolakis@warwick.ac.uk) and Petros Nousios
(P.Nousios@warwick.ac.uk).
This project is kindly funded by the American Study and Student Exchange Committee and the PAIS department at Warwick University.

September 2009

September, 24 - 25
S ymposium in Slavonic Studies
Free University of Brussels
 SLAV 2 follows the first young researchers’ international symposium in Slavonic Studies, which was held at University of Lille 3 on 3rd and 4th November 2008. SLAV is hosted and organised each year by a different university. In 2009 it is taking place at the Free University of Brussels on 24th and 25th September.

 In a wish of continuity SLAV sets itself the task of confronting themes and methodologies, which are being developed nowadays in the Slavonic field. It offers an intercultural, international as well as interuniversity confrontation. The subject matters of reflection are devoted to new themes (Subjets), which are studied among different european universities (Longitudes), according to specific methodological angles (Approaches) in a cross-disciplinary logic (Various).

 Plurality of themes is unified by a reflection on the methodologies which are applied. Research methods,  their overhangs, the originality of processes and scientific issues are the trumps of a paper. In concrete terms, SLAV is staggered over a period of two days, which will be chaired by an expert of the different field to be tackled : Literature, Civilization and Linguistics. The contributors are invited to present in French or in English a summary, a chapter, an aspect or perspectives of their PhD research.

 It will be the occasion to give an objective review of current concerns and scientific views which are developped in slavonic studies in Europe. This platform of knowledge is above all a platform of exchanges between future actors of european slavonic studies. Actually SLAV encourages young researchers’ mobility not only to confront their researches, but also in order to prepare future scientific collaborations. Its purpose is to be a hub to build and to establish an european network of young and senior researchers in slavonic studies.   

 The contributors are invited to present in French or in English a 250-word draft and a 100 word biographical note and send it to sflock@ulb.ac.be or to kvdborre@ulb.ac.be before the 10th March 2009.

Organizers: Sarah FLOCK, FNRS research fellower, Free University of Brussels (sflock@ulb.ac.be) and Katia VANDENBORRE, Mini Arc research fellower, Free University of Brussels (kvdborre@ulb.ac.be)

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