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Citizenship, Democracy and Ethnocultural
Diversity
Newsletter of the Queen's Forum for
Philosophy and Public Policy
No. 29, June 2003
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Language Rights and Political
Theory
3. Upcoming Conferences
4. Recent Publications
5. Call for Papers
6. Internet Resources
7. Courses and Summer Schools
1. INTRODUCTION
The Forum for Philosophy and Public Policy
at Queen's University is
organizing a multi-year, research project
on citizenship, democracy and
minority rights in multiethnic states,
under the direction of Prof. Will
Kymlicka. As part of this project, the
Forum distributes a quarterly
newsletter updating recent developments
in the field, of which this is the
twenty-ninth issue. We hope that it will
be of interest to anyone working
in the field, whether in academia, public
service, or various
non-governmental organizations.
If you would like to be added to the mailing
list for this newsletter,
please contact us at cded@post.queensu.ca .
Back-issues of the
newsletter are posted on the Web on Will
Kymlicka's home-page:
http://www.queensu.ca/cded/newsletter.html
2. "LANGUAGE RIGHTS AND POLITICAL THEORY"
The Forum is pleased to announce the recent publication
of Language Rights
and Political Theory (Oxford University Press,
2003), edited by Will
Kymlicka and Alan Patten. This volume is one of
the results of our
research project, and is intended to provide a
state-of-the-art
examination of the relationship between linguistic
diversity, democratic
citizenship and liberal justice. The volume contains
chapters by Ruth
Rubio-Marin, David Laitin and Rob Reich, Thomas
Pogge, Stephen May,
Philippe Van Parijs, Francois Grin, Idil Boran,
Michael Blake,Jacob Levy,
Daniel
Weinstock, Denise Réaume, and a lengthy theoretical overview by the editors.
3. UPCOMING CONFERENCES
A workshop called "Paths of Integration:
Similarities and Differences in
the Settlement Process of Immigrants in
Europe, 1880-2000", organized by
the Institute for Migration Research and
Intercultural Studies (IMIS), is
being held at the University of Osnabruck,
Germany, on June 20th-21st,
2003. Coordinated by Leo Lucassen and
Jochen Oltmer, the workshop will
consider issues relevant to both North
American and European experiences
of immigration by placing these experiences
in historical context.
Conference papers and other details will
be posted on the IMIS home page:
http://www.imis.uni-osnabrueck.de/english/index.htm
(look under
"IMIS-Tagungen"). For further details,
contact the IMIS directly at:
imis@uni-osnabrueck.de
A workshop on "Identity & Self-determination",
organized by the Centre for
Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics,
University of Melbourne, & the
Division of Law, Macquarie University,
Sydney, will be held at the
University of Melbourne on August 7th-8th,
2003. Scheduled speakers for
the workshop include: Karen Knop, Geoffrey
Levey, Margaret Moore,
Aleksandar Pavkovic, Igor Primoratz, Peter
Radan, Janna Thompson, and
Daniel Weinstock. For more information,
contact: Igor Primoratz; email:
iprim@unimelb.edu.au
The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University
will host an event called
"The Color Lines Conference: Segregation
and Integration in America's
Present and Future", which will take place
at Harvard University,
Cambridge Mass., from August 30th - September
1st, 2003. The conference
will include panels on a range of important
issues such as integration in
schools, integration in health care, neighborhood
diversity and
residential segregation. For information
on panel presentations, email:
Andrew Grant-Thomas, Color Lines Conference
Director, at:
agthomas@law.harvard.edu. Forward other
questions by email to:
colorlines@law.harvard.edu. A conference
website can be found at:
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/convenings/colorlines/synopsis.php
The inaugural event of the Centre for the
Study of Citizenship at Wayne
State University will be a conference
entitled "The Many Faces of
Patriotism". The event will be held September
11th-12th, 2003, at Ferry
Hall, Wayne State University, Detroit,
USA. For further information
contact Marc Kruman, Department of History,
Wayne State University;
phone: 313-577-2593; email: aa1277@wayne.edu
Titles of presentations (and
other conference information) can be viewed
on a conference website at the
following URL: http://www.cla.wayne.edu/csc/conference2003.html
The Faculties of Law and Social Science
at the University of Western
Ontario will be hosting a major international
conference on rights,
judicial review and public policy on September
12, 2003, called
"Constitutionalism in the Charter Era".
The conference programme includes
the following speakers: Justice Antonin
Scalia (United States Supreme
Court), Mr. Justice Ian Binnie (Supreme
Court of Canada), Jeremy Waldron,
Chris Manfredi, Janet Hiebert, Tsvi Kahana
and David Dyzenhaus.
Information can be obtained from conference
organizers: Ian Brodie,
Department of Political Science, University
of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario; at tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 85164;
fax: (519) 661-3904; email:
irbrodie@uwo.ca or Grant Huscroft, tel:
(519) 661-2111 ext. 88375;
ghuscrof@uwo.ca Registration details and
other information is available at
the following web address:
http://www.law.uwo.ca/mainsite/conferences/constitutionalism.htm
"Thinking through a Collapsing World" is
a two-part conference organized
by the School of Communication, Arts and
Critical Inquiry, and Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe
University, and the Monash Centre
for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and
Society. The first part of the
event is a formal conference including
major speakers such as Chantal
Mouffe and Alfonso Lingis, and the second
part involves a series of
workshops in which participants meet face
to face with the aim of
developing new projects and practices.
The conference will take place from
September 19th-20th, 2003, at Conway Hall,
South Place Ethical Society, 25
Red Lion Square, London, UK, WC1R 4RL.
For more information, get in touch
with the conference organizers at the
following email address:
info.collapsingworld@med.monash.edu.au;
or visit the conference website
at: http://www.collapsingworld.org
The Critical Issues in Pluralism Project,
a new research project related
to Inter-Disciplinary Net, will host its
first global conference from
September 19th - 21st, 2003, at Mansfield
College, Oxford University. The
conference will explore the challenges
of pluralism in the contemporary
world, and seek to identify the political,
economic, religious and
literary limits of pluralism. Margaret
Chatterjee is keynote speaker for
the event. Further information can be
obtained by contacting Dr Rob
Fisher, c/o Learning Solutions, Priory
House, 149b Wroslyn Road Freeland,
Oxfordshire, OX29 8HR, United Kingdom;
email: rf@inter-disciplinary.net
Details are also posted on the conference
website:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/pluralism/pl03cfp.htm
The Korean National Commission for UNESCO
(KNCU) and the Gyeongju World
Culture Expo are organizing an event called
the "International Forum on
Cultural Diversity and Common Values".
The Forum will take place from
September 24th-26th, 2003, at the Hyundai
Hotel in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Themes will include globalization &
culture, localization and cultural
identity, common values and the frontiers
of culture. Correspondence
should be addressed to the Forum secretariat:
Mr. LIM Hyun-Mook, Forum
Coordinator, Korean National Commission
for UNESCO, COP Box 64, Seoul,
Korea; tel: 82-2 755 3014; fax: 82-2 755
7477; email: hmlim@unesco.or.kr
The Faculty of Education of the University
of Ottawa will be hosting a
conference entitled "Educating for Peace
and Global Awareness:
Conversations and Curriculum" on October
3 and 4, 2003. It will offer a
wide range of practical workshops and
formal presentations on aspects of
peace and global education. Topics include
conflict resolution, equitable
educational practice and approaches to
ethical citizenship. For more
information, visit the conference webstie
at
http://www.education.uottawa.ca/peaceandglobalawareness.html
or send an
email to peace@ottawa.ca.
The Centre for Values and Ethics and the
Centre for Security and Defense
Studies at Carleton University are organizing
a conference entitled
"Intervention: Then What?". Taking place
from October 3rd-6th, 2003, at
Ottawa's Carleton University, the conference
will focus on the ethical,
security and developmental issues arising
from interventions and
post-intervention situations. Plenary
speakers are scheduled for each of
three conference themes, which are: ethical
issues, security and
development, and post-intervention administration
and governance. For
further details, contact Steven Davis,
2127 Dunton Tower, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada; tel: (613)
520-6000 ext. 3824; email:
davis@connect.carleton.ca Information
is available on the WWW at:
http://www.carleton.ca/cove/conference.htm
A bilingual, interdisciplinary colloquium
entitled "Traverser Les
Frontieres De La Territorialite" will
be held at the University of Ottawa
from October 17th- 18th, 2003. The colloquium
aims to expand upon existing
analyses of territoriality by exchanging
case studies and conceptual
studies in the fields of social geography,
sociology, political studies
and ethnology. To obtain further information,
contact Helene Pellerin at
the Department of Political Science, University
of Ottawa, or email:
hpelleri@uottawa.ca A conference website
is posted at:
http://www.isanet.org/news/ottowa.html
"Interculturalism: Exploring Critical Issues"
is a multidisciplinary
research project associated with Inter-Disciplinary
Net that will explore
the meaning and implications of interculturalism
from both practical and
theoretical perspectives. To mark the
launch of this new project, a global
conference will be held October 30th -
November 1st, 2003 in Milan, Italy.
Papers on various themes related to interculturalism
and intercultural
dialogue are welcome. Abstracts should
be submitted prior to July 4th,
2003. All papers accepted for and presented
at the conference will be
published as an ISBN eBook. For more information,
contact: Dr Jones Irwin,
St Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland;
email: jones1@popmail.com; or Dr
Rob Fisher, c/o Learning Solutions, Priory
House, 149B Wroslyn Road,
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR; email:
rf@inter-disciplinary.net, or go to
the Interculturalism Project website at:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/interculturalism/interculturalism03cfp.htm
The 5th Annual Post-Graduate Conference
on Central and Eastern Europe will
take place from November 6th - 8th, 2003,
at the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, University College
London, Bloomsbury, London. The
conference theme this year will be "States,
Societies, and Individuals:
Transfiguring Perspectives and Images
of Central and Eastern Europe". For
more information, contact: SSEES Postgraduate
Conference, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, Senate
House, Malet House, London,
WC1E7HU, UK; tel: +44(0) 207 8628544;
email: conference@ssees.ac.uk or
access the conference webpage located
at:
http://www.ssees.ac.uk/pgconf.htm
A conference called "Philosophy and the
Idea of Tolerance" will take place
at American University, in Washington,
DC, as the Thirteenth Annual
McDowell Conference on Philosophy and
Social Policy. This one-day event
will be held on Friday, November 14, 2003,
from 1-6pm. A contact for the
event is: Jeffrey Reiman, Department of
Philosophy, American University;
tel: 202 885 2927; email: jreiman@american.edu
>From January 2-10 2004, an international
workshop and conference
on "Transnational Risks and Civil Society"
will take place in Berlin,
Germany. The event is part of a series
of workshops and conferences on
transnationality organized by the Irmgard
Coninx Foundation, the Social
Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and
Humboldt University, Berlin. The
keynote speaker at the conference will
be Klaus Topfer, Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Programme,
who will speak on
Transnational Risk and the Role of the
UN. Other speakers will include
Amitai Etzioni, Susan George and Francois
Ewald. Those interested in
participating in the event should submit
a C.V. and a proposal outlining
their research project by August 1st,
2003 to the conference organizers:
Ralf Muller or Dr. Sabine Berking, Irmgard
Coninx Stiftung, c/o
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin fur, Sozialforschung,
Reichpietschufer 50,
D-10785; tel: 49-30-25491411; fax: 49-30-25491684;
email:
info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de Detailed
conference information is posted
on the WWW at: http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/
The XV Inter-American Congress and the
II Iberian American Congress of
Philosophy will hold a joint congress
in Lima Peru from January 12th-16th,
2002, at the campus of the Pacificia Universidad
Catolica del Peru.
Plenary sessions will deal with the main
theme of the Congress, which is
"Toleration". Conference information is
available on the WWW at:
http://www.pucp.edu.pe/eventos/congresos/filosofia/
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity
and Nationalism will host its
14th Annual Conference April 23rd-24th,
2004, at the London School of
Economics. Themes for the two-day conference
will be: "When is the
Nation?" and "Ethnosymbolism in the Works
of Anthony Smith". The deadline
to submit paper proposals is July 1st,
2003. Summaries should be
accompanied by brief biographical information
and presenter's contact
information. Conference information can
be obtained by contacting: 2004
Conference Committee, ASEN, A214, London
School of Economics, Houghton
Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; email: asen@lse.ac.uk
A conference called "The History of Human
Rights" will be held in London,
UK, in May 2004. Hosted by the Institute
of Contemporary History and the
Weiner Library of the Leo Baeck Institute,
themes to be taken up at this
conference include natural rights and
human rights, human rights and
religious faith, ethics and human rights,
women and human rights, and
universalism vs. culturalism. Abstracts
must be submitted prior to
October, 1st 2003, and must consider issues
dealing with the history of
human rights. For submission details and
other information, contact the
conference organizers at the following
email address:
kklinger@wienerlibrary.co.uk
An international conference on "Language and the
Future of Europe:
Ideologies, Policies and Practices" will be held
July 8th-10th, 2004, at
the University of Southampton. Organized by the
Centre for Transnational
Studies, the conference will examine a number of
the policy issues and
practical problems surrounding the debate over
EU accession. Paper
proposals are due by January 31st, 2004, and these
can be submitted to
lipp@soton.ac.uk A detailed conference website
is posted at the following
URL: http://www.lang.soton.ac.uk/lipp/
4. RECENT PUBLICATIONS
(all prices in U.S. dollars).
Batt, Judy and Katharyna Wolczuk (eds)
(2002) Region, State and Identity
in Central and Eastern Europe (Frank Cass)
$26.50
Bean, Frank and Gillian Stevens (2003)
America's Newcomers: Immigration
Incorporation and the Dynamics of Diversity
(Russell Sage) $32.50
Bleich, Erik (2003) Race Politics in Britain
and France (Cambridge UP)
$23.00
Buchanan, Allen and Margaret Moore (eds)
(2003) States, Nations and
Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries
(Cambridge UP) $24.00
Cowen, Tyler (2002) Creative Destruction:
How Globalization is Changing
the World's Cultures (Princeton UP) $19.57
d'Entreves, Maurizio (2002) Democracy as
Public Deliberation: New
Perspectives (Manchester UP) $55.96
Eberle, C. (2002) Religious Conviction
in Liberal Politics (Cambridge UP)
$28.00
Fox, Jonathan (2002) Ethnoreligious Conflict
in the Late 20th Century: A
General Theory (Lexington Books) $70.00
Friedman, Marilyn (2003) Autonomy, Gender, Politics (Oxford UP) $19.95
Galeotti, Anna (2002) Toleration as Recognition (Cambridge UP) $52.85
Gibson, James and Amanda Gouws (2002) Overcoming
Intolerance in South
Africa (Cambridge UP) $55.00
Gorenburg, Dimitry P. (2003) Minority Mobilization
in the Russian
Federation (Cambridge UP) $75.00
Holzgrefe, Jeffrey and Robert Keohane (eds)
(2003) Humanitarian
Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political
Dilemmas (Cambridge UP) $25.00
Ivison, Duncan (2002) Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge UP) $24.00
Jackson, Robert (ed) (2003) International
Perspectives on Citizenship
Education and Religious Diversity (Routledge)
$90.00
Joppke, Christian and Eva Morawska (eds)
(2002) Toward Assimilation and
Citizenship: Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States
(Palgrave) $69.95
Kymlicka, Will and Alan Patten (eds) (2003)
Language Rights and Political
Theory (Oxford UP) $24.95
Madeley, John and Zsolt Enyedi (eds) (2003)
Church and State in
Contemporary Europe: The Chimera of Neutrality
(Frank Cass) $62.50
McCann, Gerard and Stephen McCloskey (eds)
(2003) From the Local to the
Global: Key Issues in Development Studies
(Pluto Press) $19.95
McDonough, Kevin and Walter Feinberg (eds)
(2003) Education and
Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic Societies:
Teaching for Cosmopolitan
Values and Collective Identities (Oxford
UP) $45.00
Nimni, Ephraim (ed) (2003) The Challenge
of Post-Zionism: Alternatives to
Fundamentalist Politics in Israel (Zed)
$25.00
Petersen, Roger (2002) Understanding Ethnic Violence (Cambridge UP) $25.00
Primoratz, Igor (ed) (2002) Patriotism (Humanity Books) $29.00
Putnam, Robert (ed) (2002) Democracies in Flux (Oxford UP) $35.00
Reynolds, A. (ed) (2002) The Architecture
of Democracy: Constitutional
Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy
(Oxford UP) $24.95
Rosaldo, Renato (ed) (2002) Cultural Citizenship
in Southeast Asia
(University of California Press) $24.95
Santoro, Emilio (2003) Autonomy, Freedom
and Rights: A Critique of Liberal
Subjectivity (Kluwer) $117.00
Schuck, Peter (2003) Diversity in America:
Keeping Government at a Safe
Distance (Harvard UP), $35.00
Smith, Rogers M. (2003) Stories of Peoplehood (Cambridge UP) $22.00
Stedman, Stephen John, et. al. (eds) (2003)
Ending Civil Wars: The
Implementation of Peace Agreements (Lynne
Rienner) $26.95
Torpey, John (ed) (2003) Politics and the
Past: On Repairing Historical
Injustices (Rowman & Littlefield)
$27.95
Vertovec, Steven, Robin Cohen and Simon
Learmount (eds) (2002) Conceiving
Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice
(Oxford UP) $29.95
Vincent, Andrew (2002) Nationalism and Particularity (Cambridge UP) $24.00
Whitehead, Laurence (2002) Democratization:
Theory and Experience (Oxford
UP) $24.95
Wolff, Stefan (ed) (2003) Disputed Territories:
The Transnational Dynamics
of Ethnic Conflict Settlement (Berghahn
Books) $55.95
Wolff, Stefan (ed) (2003) German Minorities
in Europe: Ethnic Identity and
Cultural Belonging (Berghahn Books) $47.95
Journal Special Issues and Symposia
The spring 2003 issue of the communitarian
quarterly, The Responsive
Community, includes a symposium on the
Diversity within Unity Project
(Vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 2003). In this
symposium, Rainer Baubock, David
Hollinger and Ruth Rabio Marin offer their
analyses of the DWU project,
followed with a response by Amitai Etzioni.
A table of contents for the
symposium can be viewed on the website
of The Communitarian Network at:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/rcq/rcq_vol13_is2_s2003.html
The Berkeley Electronic Press, together
with editors Robert Post, Philip
Frickey, and James Gordley, announces
the publication of a two-part
symposium on the classic Owen Fiss article,
"Groups and the Equal
Protection Clause." The symposium is part
of the Issues in Legal
Scholarship journal, which is an electronic
publication offering a forum
for discussion of seminal articles in
the field of legal scholarship. Both
parts of the symposium are available on-line
at the ILS website:
http://www.bepress.com/ils/iss2/
Proceedings from the first Citizenship
Studies Symposium, held as part of
the Citizenship Studies Media Lab (CSML),
were recently published and are
now also posted on-line. The Symposium,
which took place January 15th,
2003, at York University, included papers
by Catherine Phillips, Alex
Lefebvre, Peter Nyers, Melanie White and
others on a wide range of topics
related to citizenship, both in Canada
and abroad. The Proceedings are
available for viewing at: http://csml.calumet.yorku.ca/toc.htm
A special issue of Psychologica Belgica,
the quarterly journal of the
Belgian Psychological Society, is dedicated
to the theme of "Social
identity and Citizenship" (Vol. 43, No.1,
2003). The issue is edited by M.
Sanchez Mazas and O. Klein.
A recent issue of the Cambridge Journal
of Education, (Vol. 33, No. 1,
2003) includes several papers on citizenship
education in societies of
conflict. Articles consider countries
such as Israel, South Africa,
Croatia, Northern Ireland.
The journal Political Psychology has a
symposium on the political
psychology of nationalism in Vol. 24,
#2 (2003).
A recent issue of Perspectives on European
Politics and Society (PEPS) is
a special issue under the theme "'Europeanisation':
Regulation and
Identity in the New Europe" (Vol. 4, No.
1, 2003). The issue is edited by
Neil Winn and Erika Harris, and takes
up such topics as identities in
contemporary Europe, minority politics
and European Integration, parties
of the EU and the "legitimacy deficit"
in the emerging EU.
Volume 6, Number 1 (2003) of the journal
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
includes a series of papers in religious
pluralism and the state. Authors
include Veit Bader, Nancy Rosenblum and
Lucas Swaine.
A Special Focus issue of the Journal on
Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues
in Europe (JEMIE) takes up the important
topic of EU Enlargement and
Minority Rights (Issue 1/2003). This issue
includes articles about power
sharing in accession countries, monitoring
of minority rights, and case
studies of Latvia and Estonia. To view
Issue 1/2003, visit the JEMIE
website at: http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/specialfocus.html
Theory and Research in Education has published
a special issue on the
theory and teaching of citizenship education
(Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003).
Articles appearing in this issue focus
on the philosophy of education and
political philosophy, the role of identity
politics in pluralist
democracies, and the deliberative approach
to democratic education.
The journal Latin American Perspectives
(Vol. 30, No. 2, 2002) contains a
series of articles on citizenship from
a Latin American perspective.
Articles take up such issues as women's
citizenship, undocumented
immigrants, and the correlation between
citizenship and poverty.
The Berkeley Journal of Sociology has published
a new issue containing
articles on various topics related to
citizenship, race and ethnicity in a
global context (Vol. 46, 2002).
5. CALL FOR PAPERS
The journal "Peace Review, A Journal of
Social Justice" has issued a call
for papers on the topic of "Patriotism".
What is Patriotism in light of
post-9/11 nationalism and imperialism?
This is a question not merely for
Americans but for people around the world.
Peace Review is a quarterly,
multidisciplinary, transnational journal
of research and analysis,
focusing on the current issues and controversies
that underlie the
promotion of a more peaceful world. Our
task is to present the results of
this research and thinking in short (2500-3500
words), accessible and
substantial essays. Essays for this special
issue are due by July 15,
2003. For guidelines or to send essay
submissions by email attachment,
please contact Anne Hieber, Managing Editor,
at: hieber@usfca.edu.
Editorial correspondence, including submissions
can be sent to: Robert
Elias, eliasr@usfca.edu, Peace Review,
University of San Francisco, 2130
Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117.
Telephone: 415-422-2910 or Fax:
415-422-5671.
Federal Governance, a new journal for graduate
students and post-grads
published under the auspices of the Canadian
Network of Federalism Studies
(CNFS) and the Institute of Intergovernmental
Relations at Queen's
University, is currently accepting essays,
book notes and reviews on
topics related to federalism, multi-level
governance and associated areas
of political studies and political philosophy.
To view a call for papers,
visit the Federal Governance website at:
http://cnfs.queensu.ca/federalgovernance/
To contact the editors or submit
papers by email, use the following email
address:
federalgovernance@cnfs.queensu.ca
Papers are being accepted for Special Focus
Issue of the Journal on
Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
(JEMIE) on the topic
"Reconceptualizing Autonomy in Post-Communist
Europe". A provisional
deadline for submission is scheduled for
August 15th, 2003. Manuscripts of
between 7000-10000 words will be accepted,
and should be submitted
electronically to Graham Holliday at the
email address below. Articles
should include a preliminary abstract,
brief biographical note including
affiliation, and a list of references.
Articles and queries should be
forwarded to: holliday@ecmi.de Additional
information is available on the
WWW at: http://www.ecmi.de/jemie/submit.html
Religion, State and Society is a publication
devoted to issues of ethnic
and religious politics in Communist and
formerly communist countries
throughout the world. The focus is on
the legacy of encounters between
religion and communism. Religion, State
and Society is currently
soliciting book reviews on recent monographs
and articles of up to 7000
words. To submit manuscripts (and to obtain
editorial information),
contact the editor at the following address:
Dr. Philip Walters, Religion,
State and Society, Keston Institute, 38
St. Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1BN, UK;
email: philip.walters@keston.org website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09637494.html
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity
and Nationalism, in cooperation
with the journal "Nations and Nationalism",
has established a Prize to
encourage young scholars to publish original
research in the field of
nationalism and ethnicity. The Call for
Papers for the second year of the
competition has now been issued. The Prize
will be awarded for the best
article submitted to Nations and Nationalism,
and will be announced at
next year's annual ASEN Conference. It
will include a sum of £250 and 2
years free membership of ASEN, and may
lead to publication of the article
in the Journal. Deadline for submissions:
30 September 2003. For
information, contact: Managing Editor,
Nations and Nationalism, ASEN,
London School of Economics, Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE; or send an
email to: nations@lse.ac.uk; or check
the ASEN website at:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/asen
6. INTERNET RESOURCES
A new website called the "Political Theory
Daily Review" is a central
space on the Web for the study of philosophy
and politics. The main
purpose of the Review is to make available
news items, articles, essays,
magazine and journal items and other material
related to political theory
for those who otherwise would find it
difficult or time consuming to carry
out searches individually. Items related
to political theory are posted
daily and arranged for easy reading and
access. The address of this useful
site is: http://www.politicaltheory.info
H-MIGRATION is a new email listserv dedicated
to enhancing scholarly
understanding of the global history of
migration and the acculturation of
immigrants and their descendants. Sponsored
by H-Net, (the Humanities &
Social Sciences On-line, hosted by Michigan
State University) and by the
International Institute for Social History
in Amsterdam, H-Migration will
post information about the location of
primary sources, the use of this
material, the interpretation of research
findings, and announcements of
books, journals, conferences, new web-sites,
jobs, fellowships and calls
for papers. The home page for H-MIGRATION
is:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~migrate/.
The Centre for Citizenship Studies in Education,
a research group based in
the School of Education, University of
Leicester, has recently added its
March newsletter and annual report to
its webpage. Both documents, as well
as several other citizenship-related documents
published by the Centre,
can be viewed and downloaded at the following
WWW address:
http://www.le.ac.uk/education/centres/citizenship/
The Minority Rights Information System
(MIRIS) database now publishes a
bi-monthly newsletter containing updates
and new information about case
laws, domestic legislation and reports
stored in the MIRIS system. The aim
of the MIRIS database is to promote the
development of minority rights
standards by providing accessible information
to experts, public
officials, NGO's and minority representatives,
researchers and students
about the implementation of minority rights
worldwide. To obtain
information or to subscribe to the newsletter,
go to:
http://www.eurac.edu/miris
The Monitor is a quarterly newsletter published
by Citizenship and
Immigration Canada dedicated to up-to-date
immigration trends in Canada.
It features timely statistics on key demographic
movements as measured by
the Government of Canada. The current
issue features articles on foreign
workers, foreign students, new immigrants
and citizenship policies.
Articles and full issues can be viewed
and downloaded at the following GOC
website: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/monitor/current.html
7. COURSES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS
The Universite Libre de Bruxelles is offering
a Summer Course on "European
Union Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy"
from July 1-11, 2003. The
School was organized with the support
of the Academic Network for Legal
Studies of Immigration and Asylum in Europe.
For more information,
contact: Nicole Bosmans, Universite Libre
de Bruxelles - C.P. 137, Reseau
Odysseus Network, 50 Roosevelt Avenue,
1050 Brussels, Belgium; tel.: 0032
(0)2 650 49 96; fax. : 0032 (0)2
650 45 46. An application form can be
found on-line at: http://www.ulb.ac.be/assoc/odysseus/SUMMERFORM2003.doc
Between the 3rd and 16th of August 2003,
the Transylvanian Committee of
the Association for Community Colleges
(ACC) is offering a Community
College course on the topic of future
perspectives on
Central-Eastern-European minorities in
the context of EU enlargement. The
aim of the ACC is to stimulate a common
European debate on questions and
political problems shared by Europeans.
Further information is posted on
the WWW at: http://www.acc.eu.org/frontend/pages/SEEEMS_139.asp
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Special thanks to Michael Kocsis for research
help, and to Lise Charlebois
for help with the distribution of the
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