MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION IN THREE CONTINENTS - Conference in Miami

  INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY OF THE AMERICAS

CONFERENCE

MIGRATION AND URBANIZATION IN THREE CONTINENTS 

Co-sponsored by University of Miami School of Law

(Register for the virtual conference via Zoom here)

March 24, 25 and 28, 2022

OVERVIEW

This conference seeks to integrate the literatures on migration and urbanization by examining, in a systematic manner, how migrant flows have affected the economic, physical, social, and cultural development of cities both historically and at present. For this purpose, we have selected nine major cities as 'strategic field sites' where such interactions can be studied in detail. Three of these cities are in North America, three in Europe, and three in Latin America.  

 Scholars well versed in the interplay of urban and migration dynamics of the cities included will be presenting essays and providing detailed comments, followed by open discussions. The writers of essays have been working in coordination with the organizers since August 2021 and the progress of their research will be discussed during the conference.   

The conference will take place in the online modality. It will be free and open to the public and early registration is encouraged. To register please click on the link at the end of the program. 

 

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The conference has been scheduled based on EST (Miami local time 9:40 AM)

Time Conversions:

6:40 AM West Coast | 8:40 AM Mexico City | 11:40 AM Buenos Aires | 2:40 PM London

3:40 PM Madrid, Barcelona, Stockholm

 

Please visit https://24timezones.com for more time conversions

 

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Migration and Urbanization in Three Continents 

March 24, 25 and 28, 2022

 

March 24

 

9:40 AM – 9:50 AM Welcoming remarks: Felicia Knaul, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami

 

9:50 AM – 10:00 AM Opening remarks: Alejandro Portes, School of Law and Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami; Princeton University (Emeritus)

 

Latin América

 

Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, México City

 

10:00 AM: Moderator

 

10:10 AM - 11:10 AM: Buenos Aires

 

Presenter: Marcelo Cavarozzi, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires

 

Discussant: Emilio A. Parrado, Population Studies Center, Department of Sociology, The University of Pennsylvania

 

Q&A segment

 

11:10 AM - 12:10 PM: Sao Paulo

 

Presenter: Rosa Hassan De Ferrari, Anthony Ocepek, Rachel Travis, and Ariel C. Armony,University of Pittsburgh

 

Discussant: Bryan Roberts, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Emeritus

Q&A segment

 

12:10 PM - 1:10 PM: Lunch recess

 

1:10 PM - 2:10 PM: Mexico City

 

Presenters: Raúl Delgado-Wise, Francisco J. Caballero Anguiano and Selene Gaspar-Olvera, Programa en Estudios de Desarrollo, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

 

Discussant: Diane Davis, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University

 

Q&A segment

 

2:10 PM – 2:30 PM Panel Discussant: Rebecca Sharpless, School of Law, Director of the Immigration Clinic, University of Miami

 

2:30 PM – 3:15 PM Conversation among panel members

 

March 25

 

The United States

 

Los Angeles, Miami, New York

 

10 AM: Moderator

 

10:10 AM - 11:10 AM Los Angeles

 

Presenters: Min Zhou and Nicholas DiRago, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Discussant: Manuel Pastor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California

 

Q&A segment

 

11:10 AM to 12:10 PM Miami

 

Presenters: Carie Penabad and Adib Cure, School of Architecture, University of Miami

 

Discussant: Larry Liu, Department of Sociology, Princeton University

 

Q&A segment

 

12:10 PM – 1:10 PM Lunch recess

 

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM New York

 

Presenter: Philip Kasinitz, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

 

Discussant: Natasha N. Iskander, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University

 

Q&A segment

 

2:10 PM – 2:30 PM Panel Discussant: Alex Piquero, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami

 

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Conversation among panel members

 

 

March 28

 

Western Europe

 

Stockholm, Barcelona, London

 

10:00 AM Moderator

 

10:10 AM - 11:10 AM: Stockholm

 

Presenter: Johan Sandberg, Department of Sociology, Lund University

Discussant: Thomas Faist, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

 

11:10 AM – 12:10 PM: Barcelona

 

Presenters: Carlota Solé Puig, Sònia Parella and Clara Piqueras, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona

 

Discussant:  Lorenzo Cachón, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

 

Q&A segment

 

12:10 PM – 1:10 PM Lunch recess

 

1:10 PM – 2:10 PM: London

 

Presenters: Anthony Heath, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford and Yaojun Li, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester

 

Discussant: Nina Glick-Schiller, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Social Anthropology,University of Manchester, and University of New Hampshire (Emeritus)

 

Q&A segment

 

2:10 PM - 2:30 PM Panel discussant and conference co-organizer: Margarita Rodríguez, Department of Sociology and Criminology and Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, University of Miami

 

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Conversation among panel members

 

2:45 PM – 3:05 PM Concluding remarks: Alejandro Portes, School of Law and Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami; Princeton University (Emeritus)

 

3:05 PM Conference Closing Remarks: Julio Frenk, President, University of Miami

 

 

Register for the virtual conference via Zoom here

Early registration is encouraged

"Among the Immigrants - getting on the train at St. John's Park" by Stanley Fox, c.1850.  Image from wikimedia commons.

Associação Internacional Adam Smith: convite a participar da próxima conferência

Uma boa oportunidade para historiadores do pensamento econômico:

2021 IASS Madison Conference Registration by adamsmithsociety

Registration for the upcoming 2021 IASS Madison Conference is now available online! Our full program will be forthcoming soon. 

If you are interested in attending the conference, whether you plan on presenting a paper or not, please register for the conference at your earliest convenience.

To do so, submit the Google form available on the conference website: https://smithsociety.org/2021-international-adam-smith-society-madison-conference/ The registration fee for non-members is $25; registration is free for current IASS members. You can join the IASS here; if you indicate that you would prefer to pay the $25 fee on your registration form, you will be invoiced.

Discounted lodging arrangements for in-person participants have been made available at the Springhill Suites Madison. We are in the process of making travel arrangements to and from the conference hotel to campus.

We're looking forward to hosting our hybrid conference in Madison in October.

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Call for Papers: Occidentalism conference in Paris (10-12 June 2020)

Occidentalism conference in Paris

by Lori Maguire

The deadline for proposals to the conference, Occidentalism: The West since 1945, of June 10-12 2020 at the University of Paris 8 has been extended to 1 February. Here is the call for papers again

This conference will examine the notion of “Occidentalism”, which is defined by The Dictionary of Human Geography (5^th edition, 2009) as “The systematic construction of ‘the West’ (‘the Occident) as a bounded and unified entity.” This construction exists among those who consider themselves as “Western” and those who do not. The term is obviously envisaged as the counterpart of “Orientalism” by Edward Said (1978). The idea of the “West”, in opposition to the “East”, is an ancient one, although this conference will focus on the period since the Second World War, using a perspective that is pluricultural and interdisciplinary.

A major objective of this conference is to analyze certain key terms and their continuing pertinence. To begin with, although the definition above speaks of the “West” as a “bounded” entity, the exact boundaries are far from clear. It is often understood as comprising Western Europe and countries where a majority of the population are of Western European origin (notably the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand). However, the position of Latin America is different. How do they see the “West” and how do they see themselves in relation to this “West”?

The ambiguity of Latin America’s place may relate to the link often made between being a “Western” nation and economic development. What, for example, is the situation of countries like Japan, South Korea and Taiwan which are economically similar and share democratic values? What are the characteristics that tie them to the “West”? What makes a society perceive itself as partially or majoritarily “Western”?"

A further consideration is how “unified” an entity is the “West”?  How do individual “Western” nations perceive themselves and other “Western” nations? What is the place of the “Judeo-Christian” tradition in this definition? What is the role of immigration and diasporas? How do “non-Westerners” living in the “West” see their identity and what is their sense of belonging?   What is their attitude to “Westernization” as a global phenomenon?

To what extent is the historical East/West split being transformed into a North/South one? Is the “West” likely to remain a relevant notion?

A particularly important part of this conference is to explore how people who identify themselves as being from other cultures view the “West”. Edward Said identified the frequency of stereotypes in how “Westerners” see the “Orient”. Is the reverse also true? On what do they base their image? How do these people define the “West” and what are their attitudes to the “Westernization” of their own country? To their colonial or former colonial power? Does the situation vary according to regions or nations? In many countries, the question of “Westernization” has political, social and cultural connotations. Some régimes are seen as “pro-Western” and others as “anti-Western”. Some people are qualified as “Westernized” because of their way of life or thought. 

Finally, how can “narrations” be linked to popular representations? How do the media participate in the construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of these representations?

We would welcome submissions on all geographical regions on the following subjects, including (but not limited to):

         - Occidentalism as a counter discourse to Orientalism, including Said’s critique of “Occidentalism”

        - The imaginative geographies of non-Western cultures 

            - The populist sense of Occidentalism that arose following 9/11 and 7/7 and the privileging of the West and global Modernity as subjects in such accounts

 -  Analyses of the reflection on the West in particular genres

·   How the foreign policy elite views the West (both those who consider themselves Western and those who do not)

·   The presentation of Western elites and the lives of ordinary citizens

·    Political or social movements that span the West and the global South (for example the communist party or LGBTQ movements). How do the Western members view themselves and how do their non-Western allies see them?

·    Perceptions of race, gender, age, religion or social class

·    The reception of Western TV series, music, video games and movies in the global South, including those aimed at children

·     The impact of censorship, whether official or self-imposed

·     Commercials, public service announcements and documentaries

·     Changes in discourses and stereotypes about the West

Keynotes : 

Manuel Burga Dìaz, Emeritus professeur of history and former rector of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Peru

Alastair Bonnett, Professor of social geography at the University of Newcastle and author of the book, The Idea of the West : Culture, Politics and History

The conference will take place from 10 to 12 June 2020 at the University of Paris 8. The language of the conference will be English and French. Because of the large amount of work that has already been done in literature, notably in post-colonial studies, the conference will focus on the social sciences. Contributions are invited by specialists in history, politics, geography, visual studies, sociology and anthropology. 

Please submit an abstract of 250 to 300 words and a short CV by 1 February 2020 to  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=occ2020

Peace making after the First World War, 1919-1923 - London, 27-28 June 2019

Peace making after the First World War, 1919-1923

Thursday 27 June 2019 to Friday 28 June 2019 

Hosted by the Department of International History

Two-Day Conference, 27-28 June 2019
National Archives

To mark the centenary of the signature of the Treaty of Versailles, this two-day conference explores the peace making process after the First World War and will explore other treaties that marked the formal end of hostilities: Saint-Germain (Austria), Neuilly (Bulgaria), Trianon (Hungary), Sèvres (Ottoman Empire) and Lausanne (Turkey). Organised by the National Archives, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians, the University of Strathclyde, the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the British International History Group, the conference will include keynote lectures by Professor Michael Cox (LSE IDEAS) and Professor David Stevenson (LSE International History), and an exhibition of The National Archives’ unique collection of certified copies of all the treaties. The first day of the conference will be held at The National Archives and the second day at Lancaster House.

Professor Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at LSE. He has published extensively on international relations and international history, and is now researching on J. M. Keynes.

Professor David Stevenson is Stevenson Professor of International History at the LSE. He has published extensively on the causes, course, and consequences of the First World War.

Download the full programme.

The National Archives will tweet during the conference. Join the conversation by using #PeaceConf.

The National Archives (@UkNatArchives) are the official archive of the UK government.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians (@FCOHistorians) provides a long-term, policy-relevant perspective on international issues, and contributes to the collective knowledge and understanding of the FCO and British foreign policy.

The University of Strathclyde (@UniStrathclyde) is a 5-Star QS rated institution based in Glasgow, founded in 1796 with a rich history of teaching and innovation.

The Department of International History at LSE (@lsehistory) teaches and conducts research on the international history of Britain, Europe and the world from the early modern era up to the present day.

The British International History Group (@BIHGroup) is an academic organisation which promotes the study of International History with members worldwide.

Twitter hashtag: #PeaceConf

Programa da conferencia postado na minha página da plataforma Academia.edu: 
https://www.academia.edu/39527330/Peace_Making_after_the_First_World_War_1919-1923_Conference

Meu paper: “Brazil and the 1919 peace negotiations: a newcomer among the greats”, será divulgado oportunamente.

Smithnianos de todo o mundo, uni-vos, para um coloquio em Palermo (julho 2017)

Recebido via Associación Latinoamericana de Historia del Pensamiento Económico (http://www.alahpe.org/):

Date: 2016-12-21 17:20 GMT-05:00
Subject: FROM SCOTLAND TO THE SOUTH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. THE THOUGHT OF ADAM SMITH THROUGH EUROPE AND BEYOND
International Conference History of Economics Society and University of Palermo, Sicily (Italy) 6-7 July 2017
From: Fabrizio Simon

​​FROM SCOTLAND TO THE SOUTH OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. THE THOUGHT OF ADAM SMITH THROUGH EUROPE AND BEYOND 
International Conference History of Economics Society and University of Palermo, Sicily (Italy) 
6-7 July 2017 
CALL FOR PAPERS
Adam Smith is one of those authors who have left a significant mark on the history of ideas. His influence has not only contributed to shaping the culture but also the institutions and the policy of modern society, and this can be seen in the international spread of his thought, which rapidly reached every corner of the world.
Yet, the reception of Smithian ideas was not a unique or uniform process, equal to every country, because different regional contexts conditioned them. Smith's works entered through institutional, cultural, linguistic, religious, and political filters, which were not neutral and affected the reading, understanding and use of them.
Europe and the Mediterranean are two geographical areas – but not the only – to observe the spread of Smithian thought because of the rich pluralism characterizing their regions and nations.
Bearing this in mind, the University of Palermo – supported by the History of Economics Society (HES New Initiatives Fund) – invites proposals for papers and/or sessions along the lines listed below or on other relevant matters on the topic.

The thematic directions suggested are: 
•    Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment and the European Enlightenment: similarities, differences in methods and analysis, influences, intellectual disagreements;
• The intellectual link between Smith’s teaching and the development of a national style of economics in the various countries from the 18th to the 20th centuries;
•    The reception of Smithian thought in different religious frameworks: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish;
•    Smithian liberalism as an intellectual source of the liberal revolutionary phase that changed the political and economic face of Europe and the Mediterranean in the 19th century;
•    The works of Adam Smith: language, style, translations.

Official language: English 

The Scientific Committee: Christopher Berry (University of Glasgow) Giovanni Iamartino (University of Milan) Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University) Sandra Peart (University of Richmond) Fabrizio Simon (University of Palermo) Craig Smith (University of Glasgow)
The Organizing Committee: Fabrizio Simon Anna Li Donni Cristina Guccione

Scholars planning to participate should submit a 500-word abstract for a paper or a 1000-word abstract for a session, specifying: the title of their presentation and the conference theme, their full name and institutional affiliation, and an e-mail address for correspondence.
Please submit the abstract by e-mail.

Deadlines to remember:
Submission of abstracts: No later than 8 January 2017
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2017
Registration: No later than 30 April 2017
Sending of paper: No later than 31 May 2017

For further information on the conference (venue, registration, accommodation) see the conference website at http://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/seas/SmithConference/
Email: fabrizio.simon@unipa.it

21 December, 2016

Nuclear Policy Conference, Washington, March 2017

2017 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference

Monday, March 20, 2017 - Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Ronald Reagan International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, District of Columbia
United States

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