CES: Call for Proposals! Europe's Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias

***Please circulate this to any potentially interested listservs and/or research networks. Thank you!*** The Council for European Studies (CES) invites proposal submissions for the 29th International Conference of Europeanists and CES's 50th Anniversary celebration at the University of Iceland on June 27-29, 2023. The conference theme is Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias.  Iceland is an ideal place for the CES community to gather to celebrate our 50th Anniversary. Fittingly, Iceland sits at the juncture of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, perhaps a geological metaphor for ongoing shifts and rifts in the deep structure of Europe.  We are thrilled to reunite in person again in Reykjavik where the local organizing team, led by Sigrún Ólafsdóttir (University of Iceland), and the conference program co-chairs Jason Beckfield (Harvard University), Adrian Favell (University College Cork), and Rósa Magnusdottir (University of Iceland) are working to assemble an exciting, engaging, and innovative program.

Read the Full Call for Proposals Here

We invite proposals for panels, round tables, book discussions, and individual papers on the study of Europe. We encourage proposals in the widest range of disciplines, and particularly welcome panels featuring scholars representing different disciplines, nationalities, genders, scholarly career stages, and other life experiences. Please note that priority will be given to full panel submissions. Participants may find it useful to connect with like-minded scholars through the growing number of CES Research Networks. All proposals may be submitted from September 6, 2022 to 11:59 PM EDT, October 17, 2022. Participants may present in a maximum of two paper sessions and one book panel/roundtable. Chairing, moderating, and discussant roles do not count towards this limit. Ope The Submission Portal is Now Open

All applicants, whether they are submitting individually or are invited to an organized panel, must first submit respective individual proposals in one of the following categories Single Paper - Select this category if you are submitting an individual proposal or if you are invited to join the paper panel Roundtable / Book Panelist Proposal - Select this category if you are invited to participate in a book panel or a roundtable Submit an Individual Proposal Here If you are a chair/panel organizer, please submit in the Paper Panel or Book Panel/Roundtable category. Panel proposals cannot be finalized until ALL panel participants have submitted proposal applications individually. Invited panelists should specify that their proposal is part of a panel and should provide the panel organizer’s/chair’s email. The panel organizer/chair will then receive a confirmation email with a paper proposal number for each paper submitted to her/his panel and can assemble the full proposal on the submission platform.  We know this process is a bit cumbersome, but it ensures only finalized panels make it through to the review and scheduling stages. It also keeps operating costs down so we can ensure that the conference is as affordable and accessible as possible.

Submit a Panel Proposal Here Visit the Conference FAQs for further information. Detailed information on how to submit proposals is also available on the CES website. If you have any questions, email us at: events@ces-europe.org We look forward to your paper and panel submissions, and to seeing you in Iceland. Sincerely, The CES Team

Global Scholars Program - Accepting Applicants for 2023-2024!

 

CFP: Europe's Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias

Application Period: August 26 to October 15, 2019 

Conference Details: June 22-24, 2020  |  University of Iceland  |  Reykjavik, Iceland

The ECRN invites submissions for a mini-symposium on “The Futures of Europe.”

In addition, we welcome session proposals or individual abstracts on all aspects of European culture.

Please send proposals to Randall Halle (rhalle@pitt.edu), Katrin Sieg (ks253@georgetown.edu), and Estela Schindel (Schindel@europa-uni.de).

Sessions involve a moderator and discussants, and can take three forms:

• Paper panels consist of 4-5 papers organized around a common theme with comments provided by a discussant.
• Book panels (also known as "Author Meets Critics") bring together 4-6 scholars to debate a recent publication in the field and are moderated by a chair.
• Roundtables assemble 4-6 scholars to discuss a common theme, idea, or topic with moderation provided by a chair.
• Mini-Symposia are thematic clusters of 3-5 sessions of any of the above types grouped together.

Open Call for panels, roundtables, mini-symposia

The ECRN/CES welcomes paper and session submissions on all aspects of European Culture:

e.g. Longing and Belonging to Places and Communities; Perceptions/Images/Stereotypes of Place, Nation, Group; Migration, Exile and Belonging; Empires and Imperialism; Migration, Multiculturalism, Religion, Ethnicity; Borders and Boundaries; Allegiance, Nostalgia, Mythology; New Readings of Iconic Texts; Genres and Styles: Realist, Utopian, Dystopian; Media Adaptions and Rewritings; Transnational Memories; (Post)colonial and De-colonial Critique; Eastern- and Central European Studies; Sexuality and Gender Studies; Imagology, Myth-and Folklore Criticism; Radicalism and Violence; European Avant-gardes; Cosmopolitics; Eurocentrism contestation and non-European epistemologies; Europe and the World.

ECRN Mini-Symposium

European Futures: Experiments, Agency, Cultural Practice

When is Europe? Is the European project of united in diversity a project of the future to come? Where is Europe in a history of shifting borders and changing collectivities? Is it a place or a process that imagines futures and pasts in a present? The post-war aim of a Europe without borders, central to the project of the EU, set itself against a past of chauvinistic and imperial aggressions, projecting a united Europe into the future. And yet the contemporary European project has generated its own set of mental and material divisions and exclusions. It has reactivated older histories of national and civilizational belonging and global inequalities. While fostering a mobile culture for work and leisure, it has also sharpened class and ethnic conflict. East/West and North/South divides pull European unity apart. And in spite of the ideal of a Europe without borders, the EU has also generated its own new forms of territory and boundary-making.

This CfP seeks contributions that explore the possibilities of European time and space in cultural practice, theory and analysis, both historically and contemporary.

Papers are especially welcome that attend to anxieties about European collectivity, mass migration, and collective displacement, explore assertions of national histories or inter- and trans-national alternatives, discuss experienced shifts of sovereignty and cultural belonging. We encourage critical approaches that do not take culture or identity as a given but rather ask how past and present experiences and practices shape collective perceptions, generate mythologies, produce domination, and seek to resolve conflict. How do contemporary exclusivities relate to or differ from past exclusions. How to grasp Europe in its global entanglements and what de-colonizing practices and knowledges are being mobilized and explored.

With your contributions, we hope to establish a series of panels. A concluding roundtable will explore dystopian and utopian European futures. Send proposals to rhalle@pitt.edu, ks253@georgetown.edu, andSchindel@europa-uni.de

EUROPEAN CULTURE is a new Research Network at the Council for European Studies.

For membership information, see https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/research/14-research/333-european-culture-research-network

Conference: "New Developments in the Study of EU External Action" | 05.10.2018, Bruges

Deadline: October 1, 2018 New Developments in the Study of EU External Action: { Friday, 5 October 2018 | 9:15-17:45 } This conference, organised by the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, aims to take stock of some major approaches to the study of EU external relations, discuss current trends and explore further research avenues. Professor Ian MANNERS, University of Copenhagen will open the conference with a keynote address on “What kind of power is the EU in international affairs?” Participation is free of charge. If you wish to attend, please register on the webpage below before 1 October 2018 (12:00). For Programme & registration click here

CFP: 26TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF EUROPEANISTS

Deadline: October 5, 2018

26th International Conference of Europeanists - Call for Proposals

Sovereignties in Contention:
Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
June 20-22, 2019


Sovereignty is at the crux of current developments in Europe and at the center of political debate—of which the 2016 referendum on Brexit is just one example. The claim to regain national sovereignty vis-a-vis EU policy-making is common to populist movements throughout Europe today, and it currently dominates the rhetoric of the national governments of Hungary and Poland as well. Anxieties about sovereignty are also key to understanding the demands put forward by regional entities such as Scotland, Catalonia, and Lombardy.

These fights for new forms of sovereignty – or the restoration of old ones – are surprising, even bewildering, to those who imagined that the process of European integration would render the concept of sovereignty obsolete. Yet recent developments clearly show that sovereignty again has become a crucial concept in political, social and cultural fields. It is increasingly invoked not only by regions, nations, and Europe itself, but also by minority populations, marginalized groups, and even individuals as the reason justifying their claims of self-governance, emancipation, or political empowerment.

Recent developments and the material challenges that complicate them – globalization, the digital revolution, mobility – call upon us to reflect on the motives, polities, concepts, and rhetorics of sovereignty more profoundly and, given the complexity of the challenges, to seek fresh approaches that transcend disciplinary boundaries. “Sovereignties in Contention in Europe: Nations, Regions and Citizens” aims to provide an opportunity to bridge the gap between different models for the study of sovereignty: from a governmental and institutional perspective to looking at bottom-up processes, from socio-economic and legal aspects to questions of identity, nationhood, and historical memory.

We particularly welcome proposals in these areas, including cross-thematic and interdisciplinary papers, as well as proposals in other areas relevant to contemporary Europe.
Proposals may be submitted from August 10 to October 5, 2018. Priority will be given to panel submissions. Participants will be notified of the Program Committee’s decision by December 14, 2018.

Information on how to submit proposals will be posted on the CES website and disseminated through its newsletter. To subscribe to the CES newsletter visit: http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/ For information on how to submit a proposal, please consult the Submission Help page or our newsletter.

CFP: MPSA Political Science Conference

Deadline: October 6, 2017

About MPSA: The Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) was founded in 1939 and is dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all areas of political science. MPSA also publishes the top-ranked American Journal of Political Science. 

You are invited to submit a proposal for the 76th Annual Midwest Political Science Association conference which will take place April 5-8, 2018 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL. While the association is headquartered in the Midwest, conference participants represent every state and more than sixty countries and present more than 5,000 papers in more than eighty topical sections including: 

• European Politics
• Latin American and Caribbean Politics 
• Asian Politics
• Politics of South Asia & India
• Politics of China
• African Politics
• Politics of the Middle East 
• Comparative Politics: Industrialized Countries
• Politics of Developing Countries

As one of the largest conferences in the discipline, the MPSA conference offers a multitude of research collaboration opportunities with scholars from multiple fields of study. Additionally, the conference hosts networking opportunities and professional development sessions to account for scholars at every career stage (including yours).

To get more information on the conference, create a profile, and submit a proposal, visit www.MPSAnet.org.

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