I attach call for papers for two conferences.
One on: The end of nation state? A challenge for Europe's regions.
and one on: Strangers and citizens: challenges for European
governance, identity, citizenship.
Both conferences will be held at the University of Dundee,
Scotland, UK.
Please distribute to anyone who may be interested in your
institution.
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University of Dundee
Conference on
THE END OF THE NATION STATE? A CHALLENGE FOR
EUROPE'S REGIONS
Conference Organisers: Dr. Gabriella Lazaridis
and Dr. Alex Wright, Department of Politics,
University of Dundee, DUNDEE, DD1 4HN, UK
Tel: +44 1382 344205; +44 1382 344594
Fax: +44 1382 344675
Email: [log in to unmask];
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Conference will take place at the University
of Dundee on 28-30 September 2001
The focus of this conference will be on European
unification with the rising importance of the
EU as a supra-national entity and the
emergence of 'fragmentation' within Europe.
Some of Europe's nation states have already
disintegrated as a result of ethnic
tensions/cleavages and the re- affirmation of
old and new national identities. These
processes are challenging the unity of states
such as the UK, Spain, Italy, Belgium and the
Balkans. Will the EU increasingly supplant its
member states, will they gradually wither away
and if so how might the EU's regions and
stateless nations respond to such a re-
configuration of power in Europe? If the regions
become pre-eminent, what is to become of the
nation-states?
The conference will consider how changes in
European societies and polities have resulted in
re-evaluation of social, political and
cultural allegiances which in turn cultivates
new identities and new forms of citizenship.
This will be examined in the light of the
emergence of the 'regionalisation' of Europe.
Papers are invited within the following areas:
* Nationalism: why does it retain its
significance when the nation-state seems to be
in decline?
* Ethnicity, migration, racisms
* New forces of integration and new forms of
exclusion
* European identity and identities in
transformation
* European citizenship in transformation
* Regionalism: the response to the EU and the
member states - variegated multi-level
governance?
* Regionalism from the grass roots up:
governance and informal mobilisation
* New constellations of regions, mini/midi-
states and stateless nations
* Ethnic cleavages and conflict
Organisation - Details on accommodation and cost
will be circulated to those interested at a
later date. We expect to edit a book of a
selection of papers presented at this
Conference.
Proposals for papers
Proposals for papers, with one page abstract,
should be sent by 1st April 2001 to both Dr.
Lazaridis and to Dr. Wrignt.
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University of Dundee
Conference on
STRANGERS AND CITIZENS:
CHALLENGES FOR EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE, IDENTITY,
CITIZENSHIP
Conference Organisers: Dr. Gabriella Lazaridis
Department of Politics, University of Dundee,
DUNDEE DD1 4HN, UK. Tel: +44 1382 344205; +44
1382 344594 Fax: +44 1382 344675, Email:
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Prof. Allan Williams, Department of Geography,
University of Exeter, Amory Building,
Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK. Tel: +44 1392 263337; Fax:
+44 1392 263342
Email: [log in to unmask]
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Conference will take place at the University
of Dundee on 17-19 March 2001
The tearing down of the Berlin Wall was a
catalyst for ending the Cold War division of
Europe and ushering in visions of a pan-Europe.
In the following decade, new forms of
mobility have constituted one of the main
channels of adjustment to economic and social
realities, at the same time as the ending of
Cold Warcertainties have generated reconfigured
refugee and asylum issues. The national states
and supra- national institutions of Western
Europe were therefore presented with massive
challenges at the same time as they grappled
with the evolution of new forms of mobility
and consumption-led migration within the
European Union, and its western satellites.
These unfolded against the continuing
redefinition of relations with the non-
European world, especially the southern
Mediterranean countries but also Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union. These
complex and shifting forms of population
movement questioned established notions of
identity and citizenship, and created
challenges for different scales of governance.
Against this background, the symposium aims to
explore a number of related questions:
* What are the new forms of mobility in Europe,
originating both beyond and within the
continent, which represent adjustments to
economic needs, political crises and new forms
of consumption?
* How are these new movements redefining old,
and creating new forms of identity, both amongs
the movers and older established migrant
communities?
* What are the responses of national and supra-
national institutions to the citizenship
challenges constituted by these new forms of
mobility?
* What are the possibilities and contradictions
inherent in the notion of European citizenship
when faced with the realities of national
state interests and the complexity of the new
mobility?
* How will the prospective multi-speed
enlargement of the European Union generate new
forms of mobility and migration both within its
boundaries and with the European non-European
states that lie beyond these? And does this
have implications for the operationalisation,
or the viability, of 'Fortress Europe'?
Keynote speakers: Robin Cohen (to be confirmed),
Alan Findlay, Andrew Geddes,
Russell King, Dora Kostakopoulou,
John Solomos, Tony Warnes
Organisation - Details on accommodation and cost
will be circulated to those interested at a
later date. Selected papers will be published
in a themed issue of an international journal
and a book may also be produced from the
conference papers.
Proposals for papers
Proposals for papers, with one page abstract,
should be sent by 1st November 2000 Dr.
Gabriella Lazaridis,
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