The Global Studies Association of North America, VP of Research, Dean of Social Sciences, and Centre for Global Studies will be sponsoring next year’s conference, “Dystopia and Global Rebellion” at University of Victoria, Vancouver Island, Canada on May 4-6, 2012.

Social crisis shakes Europe and the US, racist motivated violence shocks Norway, nuclear meltdown radiates Japan, while spreading drought and floods are billboards for global warming. It seems the future has arrived and it doesn’t look good.

Yet democratic movements spread like wildfire throughout the Middle East, youth movements come alive in the UK, France and Spain, rebellion takes to the streets in Greece, and the US working class wakes up in Wisconsin. Dystopia and global rebellion indeed. The 2012 conference theme focuses our attention on the problems and alternatives we face in our struggle for a just and better world.

Keynote speakers include William K. Carroll, Jerry Harris, Paul James, Martha McMahon, Kara Shaw, Manfred B. Steger, and Waziyatawin.

Abstracts of 100 words should be sent by March 21, 2012 to Jerry Harris at gharris234@comcast.net.

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All welcome. Admission free. No booking necessary. Followed by a reception in the Windsor Building Foyer. For more information 01784 414471.
It is well established that a multidisciplinary approach allows for the exploration of issues from a number of perspectives. Less well recognised is a more signifi can’t benefit, namely the possibility of studying things which are not recognised as issues or problems in any discipline. Political sociology is here recast as the study of liminality, and ‘cosmopolitan strangers’ and ‘invisible borders’ are not oxymorons but indicators of ‘inbetweenness’, the study of which can unlock important new research agendas .

Professor Chris Rumford
Professor of Political Sociology & Global Politics
Tuesday 8 February 2011, 6.15pm
Windsor Building Auditorium, Royal Holloway University of London

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Joint international multidisciplinary conference with VU Institute for the Study of Religion, Culture and Society (VISOR), Free University Amsterdam
Global Migration and Multiculturalism: Religion, Society, Policy and Politics
28 – 29 June 2011, University of Surrey

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 15 February 2011
In our seventh annual conference CRONEM and VISOR want to explore a number of overlapping themes arising from the relationship between global migration and cultural diversity through different disciplinary understandings of the links between religion, society, policy and politics.

Confirmed speakers:
• Thomas Blom Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology, Stanford University
• Andrew Geddes, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
• Robert Jackson, Professor of Education, University of Warwick / Professor of Religious Diversity and Education, European Wergeland Centre, Oslo
• Manuel Vásquez, Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of Florida
• Kim Knott, AHRC Programme Director: Diasporas, Migration and Identities, University of Leeds, will be also leading a discussion around the contribution to our understanding of global migration made by this trans-disciplinary research programme.

Annual Conference 2010 with the Runnymede Trust – ‘Living Together’. A number of presentations and a short video of the Runnymede Panel debate can be found here.

Podcasts containing the audio recording of the debate will be available soon.

Details about the rescheduled 2012 Conference in Manchester are available here