Call for Papers: CAAS - 2005 Annual Conference, 05/04
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004
From: Charles BECKER <beckerleschar@SENTOO.SN>
- Title
- Canadian Association of African Studies - 2005
Annual Conference Furthering the Globalization Debate:
Cross Regional Comparisons
- Location
- Quebec, Canada
Call for Papers Deadline: 2004-12-15
Date Submitted: 2004-09-07
CALL FOR PAPERS
Canadian Association for African Studies, in
conjunction with CAAS, CALACS, CANMES
FURTHERING THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE: CROSS REGIONAL
COMPARISONS
April 27 - May 1, 2005
Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Planning Committee
- Chris Youé
- Albert Berry
- Rodolphe DeKoninck
- Reeta Tremblay
- Tom Najem
- Steven Palmer
- Miriam Grant
- Yann Roche
- Annamaria Piccioni
- Brooke Ellis
The Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies
(CCASLS), in conjunction with the Canadian Association
of African Studies (CAAS), the Canadian Asian Studies
Association (CASA), The Canadian Association for Latin
American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), and the
Canadian Association of Middle Eastern Studies (CANMES)
is pleased to announce a call for papers for its
inaugural, multidisciplinary conference. Panel
proposals are strongly encouraged, since it will ensure
interesting and thematically coherent sessions, of
course, individual proposals are equally welcome. All
proposals should fall into the theme of the conference.
Early Submission Deadline: September 15, 2004
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2004
CONFERENCE THEME:
Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional
Comparisons
CCASLS represents several Area Studies societies
covering Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and
the Middle East. While Appadurai considers Area Studies
as "the largest institutional epistemology through
which the academy has apprehended the world in the
last fifty years", it is clear that the reluctance to
transcend regional or local boundaries, or move outside
traditional disciplines, has hampered our attempts to
elucidate the structures and processes that are often
only vaguely captured by the catch-all abstraction
called "globalization."
This CCASLS conference is an attempt: to integrate the
academy with NGOs and policy makers; to bring together
scholars from different regions and perspectives who
often "dig long and deep" in their own case study areas
while remaining oblivious to the theories and
methodologies of those asking the same research
questions in other places; to make sense of the real,
existing impacts of globalization by presenting "deep"
comparisons of places, cultures and economies; to
understand the changing structures and processes of
world history so that we may "historicize"
globalization.
We ask for papers that address the theory and
methodology of comparativism; that integrate regional
studies in a comparative context; and that help us
understand the social variables that constitute
particular regional or local studies, so that such
studies can be matched with similar research projects
from other places.
Papers must conform to the overall theme and/or the
sub-themes. Potential contributors who are unsure which
sub-theme is appropriate for their papers should
specify "Other" and leave the decision to the Program
Committee. Papers which are irrelevant to the
objectives of the conference will not be accepted. The
sub-themes are:
- Theorizing the Integration of Area Studies
- Capitalism and the New World Order
- Historicizing Globalization
- Social Inequality and Social Cohesion
- Health, Disease and Society
- Globalization and the International Division of Labour
- National and Cultural Sovereignty
- Other
For more information and details pertaining to the
conference, please visit our website (address given
below).
CCASLS SB-115
Concordia University
1455 deMaisonneuve Ouest
Montreal QC H3G 1M8
p.514-848-2280
f.514-848-4514
Email: ampiccio@alcor.concordia.ca
Visit the website at http://caas.concordia.ca
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.