[Discussion] Canadian Association for Near Middle Eastern Studies

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Canadian Association for Near Middle Eastern Studies (CANMES) in
conjunction with CAAS, CASA, and CALACS

FURTHERING THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE: CROSS REGIONAL COMPARISONS

April 27 - May 1, 2005

Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Planning Committee

    * Chris You=E9
    * 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.

**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 further information and details pertaining to the conference, please
visit our CCASLS 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 <mailto:ampiccio@alcor.concordia.ca>
Visit the website at http://ccasls.concordia.ca


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