Societies without Borders? New Perspectives in Transnational Studies

Societies without Borders? New Perspectives in Transnational Studies

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Center for Reserach on the English Speaking World, University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle
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Location
Paris
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France
From - Until
17.09.2015 - 18.09.2015
Deadline
15.12.2014
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Cohen, James

The Center for Research on the English-Speaking World (CREW) of the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle, will be hosting, on September 17-18, 2015, an international colloquium to bring together scholars from a broad range of academic fields who have innovated in transnational approaches or in one way or another put them to fruitful and creative use.

The purpose of this gathering will be to pursue discussions about the directions new research is taking or could take, in terms of theory, methodology or choice of objects. The following areas will be privileged, although proposals falling outside these fields will also be considered if they promise to open new pathways in transnational studies more generally.

- social history, including colonial/imperial history, transnational social movements in colonial and post-colonial contexts;

- migrations studies, includinghistory, geopolitics and political economy,sociology/ethnography, as well as the cultural dimension and the politics of migrant transnationalism;

- sociology of international/transnational relations involving various categories of state and non-state actors, such as non-profit organizations, multinational firms, financial actors etc.; dynamics and stakes of regional and cross-regional models of economic integration;

- sociology of transnational mobilizations and social movements of all sorts, including labor movements, women’s movements, ecology and global justice movements;

- media and communications studies, including history/sociology/political economy of communications and the media; media theory in its transnational dimension;

- epistemic communities and the transnational circulation of ideas;

- public policy studies in their international/transnational and comparative dimension; the circulation of ideas, theories, and models of public policy. Models of citizenship: multiculturalisms, republicanisms, anti-racism and anti-discrimination policies.

Keynote speakers confirmed:
- Nina Glick Schiller, emeritus professor of social anthropology, University of Manchester (U.K.), member of the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures;
- Robert O’Brien, professor political science, McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and associate editor of Global Labour Journal.

Submission: Proposals should fit on one page and include some bibliographical references. Authors are asked to include in their e-mail message a short autobiography and summary of their works.

The publication of selected papers in an edited volume is envisioned.

Submit proposals to James Cohen: james.cohen@univ-paris3.fr ; Yann Béliard: yann.beliard@univ-paris3.fr ;Jean-Baptiste Velut : jean-baptiste.velut@univ-paris3.fr and Evelyne Payen-Variéras : evelyne.payen@univ-paris3.fr

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Institut du monde anglophone
5 rue de l'Ecole de médecine
75006 Paris, France

James Cohen
james.cohen@univ-paris3.fr


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14.11.2014
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