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CASA Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies "Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons" Marriott Château Champlain
The Canadian Council of Area Studies and Learned Societies (CCASLS) is pleased to announce their first ever joint Area Studies conference ecompassing all of their four regional associations, along with the support of the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID). This will be a two-tier conferenence, with forums designed to highlight current acedemic contributions in African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies, along with a special venue for cross-area research that is thematically relative. The theme for the conference is "Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons". Scholars and students are invited to submit papers that are condusive to either a regional area, or a cross-regional theme. CCASLS will not only be hosting the aforementioned conference, but they will also be celebrating their 10 Year Anniversary. In 1995, CCASLS was created as an umbrella organization to help different Area Studies Association come together and function as a whole, while they work towards their common goal of expanding the knowledge base of Area Studies in Canada. CASA, the Canadian Asian Studies Association will be continuing the celebration of their 25th Year Anniversary; CAAS, the Canadian Association of African Studies will be celebrating their 35th Year Anniversary, and CANMES, the Canadian Council for Middle Eastern Studies Association will be commencing their first year as a recognized Association in Canada. A Gala Banquet will be held to commemorate these acheivments. More details to come.
CALL FOR PAPERS Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies (CCASLS) (CAAS, CASA, CALACS, CANMES) FURTHERING THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE: CROSS REGIONAL COMPARISONS April 27 – May 1, 2005 Marriott Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Planning Committee Chris Youé, Albert Berry, Rodolphe DeKoninck, Reeta Tremblay, Tom Najem, 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), the Canadian Association of Middle Eastern Studies (CANMES), with the support of the Canadian Association for Studies in International Development (CASID) 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: February 1 2005 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:
Proposals for full panels are greatly appreciated; individual paper proposals will be accommodated as space and logistics permit. Sessions will be ninety minutes in length; therefore, panels should consist of four 15-minute presentations, plus a chair and/or a discussant. Panel Proposal Format (Please provide all of the following information)
Single Paper Proposal Format
AV EQUIPMENT Please check the appropriate boxes for all specific audio visual equipment requirements on the submission form. *Please note that we can not support late requests or lap tops. All submissions, panel or individual,must be received no later than February 1 2005 . Please ensure all files are saved as RTF (rich text format), Word, or WordPerfect files if submitted as attachments. Please forward your submission to the CCASLS conference program Committee at one of the following; bellis@alcor.concordia.ca WORKING LANGUAGES
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETED PAPERS Completed papers should be available for distribution to discussants by March 1, 2005. CCASLS MEMBERSHIP AND CONFERENCE REGISTRATION All participants, except invited special guests, must be members of at least one of the four area studies Associations in good Standing at the time of paper submission. Membership fees and application forms can be found on each association web site; http://canadianasianstudies.concordia.ca http://canmes.concordia.ca ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACCEPTED PROPOSALS The list of accepted proposals will be posted sometime in February 2005, under conference at the Canadian Council for Area Studies Learned Societies website; http//:ccasls.concordia.ca. CONFERENCE FEES AND REGISTRATION (all taxes included)
FINANCIAL AID Students from outside Montreal wishing to participate in the conference can benefit from partial financial assistance. Please refer to FORM D for all rules pertaining to partial student funding. ACCOMODATIONS The Conference will be taking place in its entirety at the Montreal Chateau Champlain Hotel. A limited block of rooms have been reserved for conference participants at a special rate until March1, 2005. Please make your reservations as soon as possible (please see below). BOOK FAIR There will be a cross regional book fair planned for the duration of the conference on the ground floor of the hotel. BOXED LUNCHES CCASLS will be hosting a variety of lunch time guest speakers. Boxes lunches will be provided for a nominal fee to those who wish to participate. More information to come.
CCASLS is composed of four Area Studies Associations. Please follow the link below for more information if you are not currently a member. If you are interested in participating and would like to see what else has been proposed up to this point, please follow the link below. We aim to update this on a weekly basis to keep all participants as informed as possible. CURRENT SUBMISSIONS (Wordperfect)
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