World Politics and Popular Culture Conference, Newcastle University‏

World Politics and Popular Culture Conference
November 19-20 2009
The Grand Hotel
Grand Parade
Tynemouth
NE30 4ER
(Organisers: Dr Matt Davies, Dr Kyle Grayson, Dr Simon Philpott, Politics, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University)

After the attacks on New York and Washington of 2001, the Bush administration declared in all earnestness a 'Global War on Terror.' The irony of the phrase coincided with the death of irony itself. And, ironically, within a couple of months of the September 11 attacks, Karl Rove was meeting with 'liberal Hollywood elites' to discuss ways in which the industry could assist prepare American and global audiences for a long war.
Rove's effort to enlist the culture industries recognised the extraordinary reach and influence of popular cultural forms. In recent decades the range of popular cultural forms has extended dramatically. In anti-globalisation protests, old forms of minstrelsy, puppetry, and street theatre were coordinated in mass demonstrations using cell phones, internet video uploads, and blogs. Indeed, in culture at large, familiar media such as literature, radio, cinema and television have been expanded into new realms made possible by the advent of digital technologies: web communities, blogging, online gaming, video games. These have become important sites at which identity and community are made and contested, where issues of representation have taken on new impetus and where the orthodox politics of the real have unravelled.
World cinema and music have become an established feature of western lifestyles and consumption patterns but more recently the formerly colonised have begun writing back to western elites and populations challenging established and seemingly settled narratives of global politics. Al Jazeera, Hamas, Hezbollah and many other groups exploit the decentred realms of electronic media to confront western governments and populations with images of their violence and embedded racism. Popular music has become increasingly diversified and produced new communities of identity, politics and protest. Food, clothing, wine, cars, travel, clubbing, gambling, magazines and fanzines all form part of lifestyle choice and are central to the politics of consumerism and fetish. Political debate often characterised by more heat than light focuses on many of these sites: health risk (food), security (hoodies, ethnic minority apparel), wine and gambling (addiction), cars and travel (environmental security and sustainability). Just as much as the emergence of global insecurities unbound by national borders - not only the threat of 'terror,' but also of financial instability, disease, or climate change - these global public spheres have undermined received conceptions of international politics.
This conference seeks to explore the limits of the popular and to interrogate the category of culture in the context of this crisis - or at least destabilizing - of the international. What do these terms of 'popular,' 'culture,' and 'international' mean both in isolation and when used in conjunction? In what ways and with what effects has popular culture become a series of sites at which political meaning is made, where political contestation takes place and where political orthodoxy is reproduced and challenged? We welcome papers on any aspect of the politics of popular culture and particularly those that critically engage with the concepts of politics, popular and culture. In addition to welcoming papers on established areas of research such as television, cinema, news media, radio, music and theatre, we also hope that researchers interested in food, drugs, gaming, gambling, sport, clothing and other apparel, clubbing, automobile cultures, public art, consumption, fear, and audience studies will extend the range of topics and forms of analysis by contributing papers to this conference.

Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by Friday March 13 2009: Sue.Tatah@ncl.ac.uk
For further information: Matt. Davies@ncl.ac.uk; K.A.Grayson@ncl.ac.uk; Simon.Philpott@ncl.ac.uk
Newcastle and Tynemouth:The conference is being held at The Grand Hotel (http://www.grandhotel-uk.com/) on the seafront at Tynemouth, about 10 miles east of Newcastle. It is easily reached by Metro, the hotel about ½ mile from Tynemouth Metro station. Tynemouth, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay offer an excellent range of restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs as well as accommodation to suit all tastes and budgets. Newcastle itself is on the east coast main line that runs between London and Edinburgh and is readily accessed by train. Its international airport is also well serviced by a range of domestic, European and other international carriers including Easyjet, Ryanair, Emirates and KLM/Air France.

Dr Simon Philpott
Senior Lecturer in International Politics
School of Geography, Politics & Sociology
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RUPh:+44 +191 2227473

The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou‏

THE MEANING OF SARKOZY
BY ALAIN BADIOU
Published 02 February 2009
“Sartre and Plato with a dash of Derrida…those are the key ingredients of Alain Badiou’s philosophical cocktail, which is shaking the foundations of Western liberal democracy.”
Times Higher Education Supplement
“A figure like Plato or Hegel walks here among us!”Slavoj Žižek
“One of the most important philosophers writing today”Joan Copjec
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Alain Badiou, France’s leading philosopher and radical commentator, assesses the politics of the French President in The Meaning of Sarkozy. This book argues that to understand Sarkozy’s significance we have to look behind his vulgarity to what he represents; a reactionary tradition in French politics, based on fear. Badiou provides a detailed reading of the election of this right-wing demagogue, whom he calls the ‘Rat Man’ at a time when the President has assumed the role of international peace-maker – despite being renowned for his aggressive domestic politics. The Meaning of Sarkozy, to be published on the first anniversary of Sarkozy’s celebrity marriage to Carla Bruni, is a trenchant and witty dissection of the French political scene, as Badiou takes on a society dominated by ‘parliamentary fetishism’, proposing a return to the idea of communism. ALAIN BADIOU teaches philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. In additional to several novels, plays and political essays, he has published a number of major philosophical works, including Theory of the Subject (1982), Being and Event (1988), Manifesto for Philosophy (1989), Conditions (1992) and Gilles Deleuze: The Clamour of Being (1997). His Ethics, Metapolitics and Polemics are also available from Verso. ------------------------------------------

Postgraduate research studentship opportunities in POLSIS‏

MPHIL/PHD RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (POLSIS)
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
www.polsis.bham.ac.uk
The University of Birmingham Department of Political Science and International Studies is offering postgraduate research studentships, starting in September 2009, for doctoral degrees in the principal research areas of the Department: Asian politics; diplomatic studies; European politics; international relations theory; international political economy; political sociology; political theory; and security studies. These studentships will be made available through the following programmes: - Departmental Award studentships: sponsored by the University of Birmingham, these provide full funding and living expenses for a period of three years. In addition, there will be opportunity to teach, for additional remuneration. The deadline for applications for Department Awards is 26 June 2009. - ESRC studentships: The Department will host a number of ESRC 1+3 studentships which provide full funding and living expenses for a year of social science training followed by three years PhD research; or +3 awards for applicants who already have a background in social science training. The deadline for applications for nomination to an ESRC studentship is 13 March 2009. Applicants who are not successful in obtaining ESRC support may be considered for a Departmental Award. In addition to these scholarships, all research students in the Department are eligible to apply for funding to attend conferences and conduct fieldwork.
Further details, including application procedure and eligibility criteria, are available at: http://www.polsis.bham.ac.uk/pg/prospectus.shtml .
Enquiries may be sent to the Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr. Edward Newman, at e.newman.1@bham.ac.uk Completed applications should be sent to Elizabeth Bradley at e.bradley@bham.ac.uk Edward NewmanSenior LecturerDirector of Postgraduate ResearchDept. of Political Science and International StudiesUniversity of BirminghamEdgbastonBirminghamUKB15 2TTT. +44 (0) 121 414 8228F. +44 (0) 121 414 3496
e.newman.1@bham.ac.uk
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FELLOWSHIPS-2009 Returning Scholars, Academic Fellowship Program, Open Society Institute‏

FELLOWSHIPS-2009
Returning Scholars, Academic Fellowship Program, Open Society Institute
The Academic Fellowship Program (AFP) announces the 2009-10 competition for the Returning Scholars Fellowship. The program offers financial, professional, and departmental development support, as well as opportunities for further professional growth as AFP alumni. Fellowships include a monthly stipend and various allowances, including departmental, professional development, and mobility funds. Fellowships begin in August or September 2009, last one academic year, and are renewable. The program, as part of a conscious strategy to combat "brain drain" in the social sciences and humanities, places Returning Scholars in departments that have been carefully selected as AFP partners. A list of current AFP partner departments can be found on our website, though the list is subject to change for the 2009/10 academic year. Potential applicants are advised to explore placement possibilities with local AFP staff before applying.
Eligibility--Pursuing higher education career in: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan or Ukraine.--Hold an internationally-competitive Master's or other postgraduate degree. An applicant holding a Master's degree will be required to pursue a doctorate, if accepted. --Required degree in one of the following fields: anthropology, area/cultural studies, economics, gender studies, history, human rights & public law, international relations, journalism/media studies, philosophy, political science, psychology, public policy/public health, social work, or sociology.--A commitment to a career in higher education in the region, and a strong drive to participate in reform efforts in the academic discipline. Application deadline: April 7, 2009.
Apply online at https://oas.soros.org/oas/ For information and application guidelines, please see the AFP web site: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/hesp/focus/afp
Open Society Institute Academic Fellowship Program
Higher Education Support Program
October 6 utca 12, H-1051
Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: afp@osi.hu
Telephone: (36-1) 235 6160; Fax: (36-1) 411 4401

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Competition Policy Studentships: 3 year PhD and 1 year Masters
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CfP Globalisation and European integration: 'the nature of the beast' - Warwick‏

Call for papers

Conference: Globalisation and European integration: 'the nature of the beast'

Friday 5th and Saturday 6th June 2009.

University of Warwick.

The conference invites specialists from the fields of politics, international relations, international political economy and sociology to build on their experience of applying historical materialist theories in empirical settings related to global governance and regional integration, with an emphasis on the European Union (EU). Working papers designed to stimulate dialogue between invited speakers, Warwick research staff and postgraduate students will introduce workshops in
this two-day event.

The conference aims to stimulate interdisciplinary exchange on the historical materialist frameworks used to investigate the relationship between global governance, regional integration and the national state, with special reference to the European Union. It will also seek to stimulate a constructive engagement, in one of its panels, between historical materialist, constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to European integration.

The conference will showcase and challenge the most promising critical theories of regionalisation and globalisation, including neo-Gramscian, Open Marxist, Regulation and World-System approaches, with the purpose of generating useful connections and intellectual exchange. It will
bring together researchers thinking about the creation and reproduction of social and political authority in a variety of settings. Truly interdisciplinary in approach, it aims to break down institutional barriers by forging interpersonal relations, and searching for commonality between fields and approaches which are traditionally considered incompatible.

The participation of eminent speakers in a conference addressing issues and phenomena which are highly relevant to the social sciences, not to mention contemporary applied socio-political practice, will attract a strong inter-disciplinary academic audience from European and American universities.

Confirmed participants

Claes Belfrage; Andreas Bieler; Hans-J FCrgen Bieling; Werner Bonefeld; Peter Burnham; Jos E9 Caballero; Alan Cafruny; Guglielmo Carchedi; Ben Clift; Jan Drahokoupil; Otto Holman; Bob Jessop; Huw Macartney; Henk Overbeek; Magnus Ryner; Vivien A. Schmidt; Stuart Shields; Kees Van Der Pijl.


We are inviting abstracts addressing one of the conference's key themes:

Global governance, the EU and the national state:

- Sustaining or transcending international competition?

- The EU as a building-block or obstacle for global governance?



The EU and the global economy:

- The global monetary system and the single currency.

- Aid, trade and the relationship with the global South.



Social agency and European integration:

- Labour, migration and the EU: ideas, interests, and institutions in
the regulation of the social question in Europe.

- Global capital and the EU: transnational elite agency and the European
project.



Regionalisation beyond the EU:

- The EU in global perspective: comparative analyses of the EU and other forms of regionalisation.

- Explaining regionalism and regionalisation in America, Africa and Asia.





Engaging Critical approaches to European integration: constructivism, post-structuralism and other alternatives.

Abstracts should:

- Be no more than 250 words for a 20 minute presentation.

- Include your name, institution, level of study, department and paper title.

- Address an interdisciplinary audience.

- Be submitted by March 15th electronically to globeuropeconferencejune2009@googlemail.com




Other deadlines:

Registration: 15 April 2009.

Submission of paper: 25 May 2009.

Registration fee (Friday and Saturday): £327 per delegate.

Includes refreshments, buffet lunch, and wine reception on Saturday.

Conference webpage: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/ss/beast/

Co-organisers: Andreas Tsolakis (A.A.Tsolakis@warwick.ac.uk ) and Petros Nousios
(P.Nousios@warwick.ac.uk ).



This project is kindly funded by the American Study and Student Exchange Committee and the PAIS department at Warwick.

cfp: ISTC conference, "Re-Visioning the Future: Modernity between Utopia and Dystopia, 5/21-23‏

Call for Papers International Social Theory Consortium

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:MARCH 20, 2009

Since the 1980s, social theorists have become increasingly reluctant to relate constructively to thefuture of western societies, modern democracy, and human civilization. Both in the social sciencesand the humanities, postmodernist critics highlighted the affinity between utopianism and forms oftotalitarianism. As a consequence, social theorists refrained from recognizing as part of theirunique responsibility efforts to refine existing and to delineate new perspectives on the future.Social Theorists began to pay focused attention to problematic patterns of thought that need to beovercome, in order to reduce the odds that the kind of socially, politically and economically inducedcatastrophes that influenced the direction of historical change during the twentieth century willrecur—both directly and indirectly, positively and negatively. Yet whether we appreciate it or not,in the context of globalization, the imminence of change has pushed itself aggressively to theforefront of social-theoretical concerns. The inevitability of change is inescapable, and its centralityto modern civilization undeniable. Concordantly, the imperative to engage in informed andcritically reflexive discourses about the kind of world we will, should, or might live in, continues toincrease rapidly. The conference will serve to facilitate interdisciplinary exchange relating to thecontinuing challenge of capturing the warped nature of modernity at the intersection of the past andthe future and of utopia and dystopia. Organizer:Harry F. Dahms (Sociology)Co-Organizers:Steven P. Dandaneau (Sociology)Allen R. Dunn (English and Religion) Papers accepted for inclusion in the program will be considered for publication inCurrent Perspectives in Social Theory (ed. Harry F. Dahms) orSoundings. An Interdisciplinary Journal (ed. Allen R. Dunn). The organizers welcome proposals on any topic in social theory, and request submission of abstracts(between 150-250 words), 5-page outlines, papers, or proposals for sessions. Papers will receivepreferred consideration.

For list of conference theme-related topics, submission deadline, andregistration fee,
see the full call below: > full call: http://web.utk.edu/~hdahms/ISTC2009/ISTC2009CallforPapers.pdf

The conference will be hosted by the University of Tennessee, in Knoxville, May 21-23 of 2009. It is the 8th annual conference of the International Social Theory Consortium. Recent meetings have taken place in Singapore, Dubrovnick, Lexington, KY, Toronto, Tampa and Sussex. The submission deadline for proposals is March 20, 2009.

ESSAY: Dan Hind on the Financial Crisis

Many explanations have been offered for the current economic crisis – regulatory failure did it, or President Carter, or sub-prime lending, or Alan Greenspan. Maybe we all did it. Dan Hind, author of The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim It, points out the problems with the stories most often offered by journalists, politicians and broadcasters. And he offers an alternative reading of the crisis that draws on the work of Richard Wolff, Graham Turner, Richard Stiglitz and others to provide the best brief account yet of what has really been going on in the global economy. It’s 10,000 words long, and it is sensitively entitled Jump! You Fuckers!

You can download it from the Verso website here: http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/h-titles/hind_d_threat_reason.shtml

2009 Millennium Annual Conference - After Liberalism?‏

CALL FOR PAPERS
After Liberalism?
The annual conference of Millennium Journal of International Studies will take place on the 17th-18th of October 2009 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The conference will focus on the role of liberalism today and in the future.
The discipline of IR has long had a strange courtship with liberalism. Indeed, it could be argued that liberalism has come in and out of intellectual fashion, largely as a response to world events. After two world wars and the Great Depression, the self-proclaimed founding fathers of IR sought to distance themselves from the unfulfilled promises of Wilsonian liberalism by taking a hard and "scientific" look at power politics. A few decades later, policymakers, practitioners and academics heralded the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of bipolarity as beckoning in a new cooperative world order. Now, twenty years since the "End of History", the liberal moment seems increasingly under threat. International and domestic norms and institutions are confronted with the War on Terror. Those who presented the International Economic Order as the road to global prosperity face one of the worst financial meltdowns in living memory. Cosmopolitan-inspired interventionism is juxtaposed with the failure to prevent and react to humanitarian crises, and democratic projects around the world have either stagnated or reversed. Finally, the (re-) emergence of distinctly illiberal great powers further questions the universality of Liberalism in the post-Cold War world.
The Millennium 2009 Conference, marking the twentieth anniversary since the end of the Cold War, presents a unique opportunity to put recent developments in international relations into theoretical perspective. If the first twenty years crisis sounded the "death toll" of liberalism, do events today once again mean a victory for realism? Is the liberal moment announced in 1989 now over? To what extent can IR "learn from history", or like Wilsonian liberalism after WWI, will the end of this liberal order bring very different outcomes and results? Finally, in light of recent scholarship integrating political philosophy and IR, what value does liberalism as an ideology, celebrating the normative primacy of the individual, have in guiding us through current international problems? This conference seeks to address the role and critiques of liberalism in IR theory and practice today. It actively encourages debate between IR's different intellectual traditions, and looks forward to discussion on all aspects of the merits or problems of liberalism in IR.
Suggested Panel Titles:
- Capital or Kapital? The 2008 Financial Crisis and the Neo-Liberal Consensus
- The First Debate Revisited: The "End of History" or "Back to the Future"?
- The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of Offensive Liberalism.
- Time to Learn Russian and Mandarin? The Rise of Illiberal Powers.
- When the Emperor had No Clothes: Re-evaluating Explanation, Forecasting and Prediction in IR Theory since 1989.
- Kant's Long (but Fading?) Shadow: Re-evaluating Liberal Theories of International Relations.
- Conflict Resolution as State-Building: Institutionalising Neoliberalism in Post-Conflict Societies.
- Emancipation and Ideology in the 21st Century: Will the "Last Man" Please Stand Up?
- Political Philosophy meets IR Theory: Liberalism versus Republicanism

A selection of the conference papers will be published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 38, no. 3.

Please submit your abstracts by the 30th of April, 2009, at millennium@lse.ac.uk

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm

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Το μάθημα ``Εφαρμογές Η/Υ στην Έρευνα των Κοινωνικών Επιστημών`` της Τρίτης 27.1.2009 (5-7μμ) θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 28.1.2009 (6-9μμ).
Το μαθημα ``Μεθοδολογία των Κοινωνικών Επιστημών`` θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τρίτη 27.1.2009 στις 5-7μμ.

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International Security Masters Scholarships
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The Gosden and Water Newton Graduate Scholarships 2009-10
Keble College, Oxford
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Master in British Studies
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PhD Funding Opportunities at Manchester‏

PhD Funding Opportunities at Manchester
Applications are invited for full-time doctoral studentships in Politics at the University of Manchester. Amongst the range of opportunities available are an ESRC Quota Award (1+3/+3) as well as at least three studentships funded by the School of Social Sciences. Detailed information about what is available and how to apply can be found at http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/postgraduate/funding/ and http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/. THE CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 1 MARCH 2009. Please also see the general information on research degrees at http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/politics/postgraduate/research/.

Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust Scholarship for a PhD in European Studies‏

Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust Scholarship for a PhD in European Studies

Every year the University of Salford offers a number of GraduateTeaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidateswishing to study for a PhD. The European Studies Research Institute isvery happy to announce that it is in a position to also advertise fora Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in Europeanstudies with the aim to provide a student from a low-incomebackground, ideally with links to the North-West of England, thechance to study for a PhD on European integration. Applications are now invited for PhD study based in the EuropeanStudies Research Institute (ESRI). The PhD scholarship is worth£12,000 per annum over three years and is open to UK/EU students. The closing dates for applications is 06 February 09 (in parallel withthe GTA deadlines below). Please apply for the Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhDscholarship in European studies using the normal application material.Those who are shortlisted for the scholarship will be asked to provideevidence on how they meet the criteria listed above. In addition,please also provide a letter to indicate in how far your applicationwould fulfil the aims of the scholarship listed above. For details on how to apply for a PhD please visit: www.esri.salford.ac.uk For any additional queries, please contact: Dr Christian Kaunert T +44 (0)161 295 4839 c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk ____________________________________________________
Graduate Teaching Assistantships 2009

Every year the University of Salford offers a number of GraduateTeaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidateswishing to study for a PhD. Applications are now invited forscholarships based in the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI)starting in October 2009. The scholarships are worth £13,290 per annumover three years and are open to UK/EU students. Subject areas include: * EU/European Politics; Middle East politics; Political Partiesand Elections; Gender; Democratisation; Political Communication * Political theory/Radical analysis/International Political Economy * Military/International/Political History * International Relations/IR Theory; Intelligence;Security/Strategic Studies; US Foreign Policy * Translation and Interpreting Studies; Theoretical andDescriptive Linguistics; European Literature and Culture Graduate Teaching Assistantships offer students the opportunity tostudy for a PhD while undertaking teaching duties in areas usuallyrelated to their PhD research. Successful candidates will work underthe direction of an academic staff member on a range of teachingactivities, up to 180 hours over the academic year (based on anaverage of six hour per week). Please note there are TWO closing dates: 1. The closing date for GTA applications is 6 February 2009. 2. ESRI will also put forward outstanding applications for externalfunding. Please note the earlier deadline for applicants wishing to beconsidered for ESRC/AHRC funding is 12th January 2009. For details on how to apply please visit: www.esri.salford.ac.uk For any additional queries, please contact: Dr Steve Ward T +44 (0)161 295 2803 s.j.ward@salford.ac.uk

Cfp postgrad conference: Shifting Boundaries of the Public and Private‏

Call for Papers: Political, Social and International Studies Post-graduate Research Conference
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 5 June 2009
Shifting Boundaries of the Public and Private

The boundaries between the public and private spheres are central to how westudy politics, society and culture, economy, political theory andinternational relations, amongst others. The public/private distinctionencapsulates the division between state/family/individual and market andbetween individual/family and state. Over the past few decades, theboundaries between these two spheres have shifted as a result ofglobalization and transformations of legal codes, social attitudes, economicand political systems, the shift from government to 'governance', as well asthe emergence of 'new actors' (for example, the EU, NGOs, internationalorganizations, multinational corporations, non-state/sub-state political andmilitary groups, amongst others). Some questions that this conference seeks to address, include, but are notlimited to: * How do we define 'public' and 'private' in today's 'globalizing'world?* How do conceptions of public and private differ over time or betweenplaces?* How does the development of religion affect both public and privatespheres?* How does new media shape the public sphere?* How legitimate are non-governmental or other 'new' actors inattempting to define public interest?* How do 'old actors' (such as political elites, trade unions,professional groups, religions) act in new ways?* How are religion and politics merging in different contexts?* What does privatization and the impact of new public managementmean for the role of government, the relationship between government andcitizens and the provision of public services?* How is the private sphere being reshaped by international andtransnational processes?* What role should state/regional/international law play in protectinginvasions of privacy whilst simultaneously protecting individuals within theprivate sphere?* How are identities constructed/managed in the context oftransformations? The conference is open to all post-graduate researchers. Send a 300-word abstract of your proposed paper, a recent CV and yourcontact details to S.El-Tarouty@uea.ac.ukby 15 February 2009. Successful applicants will be notified by the beginning of March and arerequired to submit their final papers of 8,000 words by 22 May. Possibilities for publication of presented papers will be discussed duringthe conference. Dr. Nicola PrattLecturer in Comparative Politics & International Relations Associate Editor, School of Political, Social & International Studies University of East Anglia NorwichNR4 7TJUK tel. 01603-592077

Verso books on Israel-Palestine‏

EXPLAINING THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT



FROM VERSO





RECENTLY PUBLISHED



PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS

From Zionism to Israel

ARNO MAYER

Eminent historian returns with an authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.

“In Plowshares into Swords, Arno Mayer gives a sweeping and often illuminating overview of the story of Zionism.” New Statesman

2008 – 432 pages – Hbk

£19.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 235 6



THE RETURNS OF ZIONISM

Myths, Politics and Scholarship

GABRIEL PITERBERG

Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.

“Very well-informed, and even fascinating.” New Statesman

2008 – 298 pages – Pbk

£14.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 260 8



A TIME TO SPEAK OUT

Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity

EDITED BY ANNE KARPF, BRIAN KLUG, JACQUELINE ROSE, BARBARA ROSENBAUM

Jewish voices challenge the crude polarities of the Israel/Palestine debate.

“Varied in content, highly personal, fascinating and controversial…these essays deserve to be read carefully and debated courteously.” Jewish Chronicle

2008 – 224 pages – Pbk

£9.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 229 5



WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS

A Tribute to Edward Said

EDITED BY MUGE SOKMEN AND BASAK ERTUR

Brings together some of the figures most closely associated with Said’s seminal scholarship to examine his political and intellectual legacy.

“The contributors display a critical acuity free of adulation, as Said would have appreciated.” Morning Star

2008 – 204 pages – Pbk

£16.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 246 2



BEYOND CHUTZPAH

On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

UPDATED EDITION WITH A NEW PREFACE

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

“His research is painstaking, his evidence persuasive and his conclusions devastating.” London Review of Books

2008 – 472 pages – Pbk

£9.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 149 6



IF I AM NOT FOR MYSELF

Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew

MIKE MARQUSEE

An eloquent and deeply-felt memoir exploring the author’s relationship with his Jewish identity.

“[A] manifesto for a whole generation of Jewish radical activists who refuse to be deterred by the threat of being labelled, and libelled, as self-haters.” Guardian

2008 – 307 pages – Hbk

£16.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 214 1



THE LIBERAL DEFENCE OF MURDER

RICHARD SEYMOUR

Searching examination of the influence of the “pro-war Left” on US foreign policy.

“Delves into areas that are usually politely ignored, carefully uncovering liberalism and reformism’s own shameful record of collaboration with mass murder.” New Statesman

2008 – 358 pages – Hbk

£14.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 240 0



HOLLOW LAND

Israel’s Architecture of Occupation

EYAL WEIZMAN

Groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.

“Weizman has achieved a rare amalgam of politics, aesthetics, sociology, history and theory.” Financial Times

2007 – 324 pages – Hbk

£19.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 125 0





BESTSELLERS



IMAGE AND REALITY OF THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT

2ND EDITION

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

“The most revealing study of the background of the conflict.” Noam Chomsky

“Both an impressive analysis of Zionist ideology and a searing but scholarly indictment of Israel’s treatment of the Arabs since 1948.” London Review of Books

2003 – 327 pages – Pbk

£15 – ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 442 7



THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY

Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

2ND EDITION

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

Norman Finkelstein’s iconoclastic study indicts with both vigour and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own political and financial gain.

“The most explosive book of the year.” Guardian

2002 – 286 pages – Pbk

£8.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 86984 488 5



IN SEARCH OF FATIMA

A Palestinian Story

GHADA KARMI

A frank and intimate memoir by diaspora Palestinian Ghada Karmi, detailing her experiences of displacement, nostalgia and loss.

“Ghada Karmi’s stunning memoir is remarkable…[she] has a wonderfully subtle way of showing how in thousands of different ways the political and the personal intermesh. All this she does with a skill and insight that could be a novelist’s envy.” Edward Said

2004 – 451 pages – Hbk

£10 – ISBN-13: 978 1 85984 561 5



THE ROADMAP TO NOWHERE

Israel/Palestine since 2003

TANYA REINHART

An urgent and searing exposé of the ‘peace process’ by a prominent Israeli thinker.

“Reinhart pulls no punches in her criticism of Israel’s ‘suicidal war’ over land.” Tribune

2006 – 160 pages – Pbk

£8.99 – ISBN-10: 1 84467 076 7



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VOICE OF HEZBOLLAH

The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

EDITED BY NICHOLAS NOE

Introduction by NICHOLAS BLANFORD

The first English translation of the statements of the leader of Lebanon’s “Party of God,” in a comprehensive edition.

2007 – 420 pages – Pbk

£12.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 153 3



DREAMS OF A NATION

On Palestinian Cinema

EDITED BY HAMID DABASHI

A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema.

“Dabashi has produced a valuable archive on Palestinian cinema, unlike any other.” Screen

2006 – 224 pages – Pbk

£14.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 088 8



BEING ARAB

SAMIR KASSIR

Introduction by ROBERT FISK

A clarion call from the vocal critic of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, urging Arabs to embrace their own history, to reject Western double standards and Islamism alike, and to take the future of the region in to their own hands.

“This is an unusual book of such fluent and searing honesty that I almost wanted Samir Kassir to be kinder to himself. I salute his memory.” John Pilger

2006 – 96 pages – Hbk

£10.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 099 4



THE LAST RESISTANCE

JACQUELINE ROSE

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times.

“An original, innovative survey of some of the deeper dynamics at play within Zionism … a timely commentary as Israel seems poised once again to lash out militarily as a means of resolving its difficulties.” Tribune

2007 – 237 pages – Hbk

£16.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 124 3





FORTHCOMING



THE MYTHS OF LIBERAL ZIONISM

YITZHAK LAOR

One of Israel's most independent writers demystifies the ‘peace camp’ liberals.

February 2009 – 128 pages – Hbk

£12.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 314 8



A CHILD IN PALESTINE

The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali

NAJI AL-ALI

Introduction by JOE SACCO

First collection by leading Palestinian political cartoonist, introduced by the author of Palestine.

May 2009 – 120 pages – Pbk

£9.99 – ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 365 0



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4 Doctoral Studentships at Keele‏

Four Doctoral studentships available at Keele University: The Research Institute for Law, Politics & Justice at Keele Universityencourages interdisciplinary research within its areas of existingresearch excellence. Applications are invited for 4 full-time three-year doctoral studentshipswithin any of the research priority areas covered by the ResearchInstitute represented by our four research centres - Centre for International Studies, Politics and Philosophy (CISPP):International Relations, European Parties, Environmental Politics,Biopolitics of Security, South-East Europe, Sport and Politics, andPhilosophical Research(http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/research/CISPP.htm) - Centre for Criminological Research (CCR): Crime and Criminal Justice,Policing, Punishment and Resettlement, Governance and Risk, HistoricalPerspectives on Crime and Punishment; International Perspectives on Crime,Community Justice, Third Sector in Criminal Justice.(http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/research/Crim.htm) - Centre for Law, Ethics, and Society (CLES): Gender, Sexuality, & Law;Applied Ethics and Moral Theory; Globalisation and International Law;Healthcare Law & Bioethics; Legal Education and the Legal Professions(http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/research/LES.htm) - Centre for Social, Cultural, and Postcolonial Research (SOCPOR):comparative social, cultural and postcolonial research(http://www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/SOCPOR/index.htm) * The Research Institute is also keen to consider fee waiver concessionsfor outstanding applications and is receptive to proposals that arepart/matched-funded by external bodies. These studentships will begin in September 2009 and will include fundingfor three years to cover fees for PhD registration (at UK/EU rates) and aresearch studentship stipend at the research council rate in 09/10). Unsuccessful candidates may be considered for fee waivers. Please see http://www.keele.ac.uk/gradschool/fundingkeele.htm for moreinformation. Contact for more information: Helen Farrell (Postgraduate Administrator, RI Law, Politics & Justice) Tel: +44(0)1782 733641Email: h.farrell@ilpj.keele.ac.uk Web: www.keele.ac.uk/research/lpj/ Full details of application procedures for study are on the Keele websitewww.keele.ac.uk/gradschool or contact The Graduate School for anApplication Guide and application form (Graduate School, Keele University,Staffordshire, ST5 5AZ Tel: 01782 734368, email: gradschool@keele.ac.uk Please submit applications to the Graduate School by: Friday 27 February2009. -- Dr Luis Lobo-GuerreroLecturer in International RelationsSchool of Politics, International Relations and PhilosophyChancellor's BuildingKeele UniversityKeele, ST5 5BGUnited Kingdom

CFP: International Law and Global Justice, Oxford, May 20-21‏

On the 20th and 21st of May 2009, The Global Justice Network, with the
support of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice and the Centre for
International Studies at the University of Oxford, will host a two-day
interdisciplinary workshop on 'International Law and Global Justice'.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Debates on international law and on global justice have for the most part
proceeded separately. Only very few theorists have suggested that the
project of designing principles of international/global justice is closely
related to that of designing principles of international law. Taking the
lead from this often underappreciated suggestion, in this workshop we aim to
explore the connections between international law and global justice. In
particular, we welcome papers - both legal and philosophical - discussing
the following topics:

**The relation between coercion, law and (global) justice**
An increasing number of political theorists have argued that obligations of
justice only apply within political communities by virtue of the existence
of a coercive legal system. What are the implications of this view for the
question of global justice? Can we plausibly claim that international law is
coercive in the same way in which domestic law is? If not, does this mean
that principles of justice should not apply to it?

**The effectiveness of international law as a means to realising global
justice**
If international law is one of the most powerful instruments at our disposal
to bring about a morally better world, what sort of reforms of the current
international legal system would be necessary to move closer to the goal of
global justice? Given the sui generis nature of the international legal
system, how can such reforms be most fruitfully brought about?

**Global justice, international law and state sovereignty**
Is the principle of the sovereign equality of states itself a principle of
international/global justice or a hindrance to the quest for global justice?
Would a world inhabited by states which are genuinely - as opposed to merely
formally - equally sovereign be a just world? Or does the realisation of a
just world require us to transcend the very idea of state sovereignty,
moving from a system of international law to a global legal system?

Keynote speakers
Prof. David Armstrong (University of Exeter)
Prof. Allen Buchanan (Duke University)
Prof. Terry Nardin (National University of Singapore)
Dr Amanda Perreau-Saussine (University of Cambridge)

Submission instructions
If you wish to present a paper, please email a 600 word proposal and a short
biographical note to the workshop convenors at
globaljustice@politics.ox.ac.uk by February 28th 2009.

Updated information will shortly be available on the Conference Website
http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/intlawglobaljustice/index.asp