CFP: International Conference on Inter-Asian Connections (14 Sept; 21-24 Feb; Dubai)

Note that funding to attend the conference seems available from SSRC, so don't let the location put you off.

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce an open call for individual research paper submissions from researchers in any world region, to participate in a 4-day thematic workshop at an international conference on "Inter-Asian Connections."

To be held in Dubai, February 21-24, 2008, the conference will host concurrent workshops showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines, on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from the Middle East through Eurasia and South Asia, to East Asia.

The conference structure and schedule has been designed to enable intensive 'working group' interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern to all participants. Accordingly, there will be public keynotes, plenaries, and roundtables addressing different aspects of Inter-Asian research in addition to closed workshop sessions. The concluding day of the conference will bring all the workshops together in a public presentation and exchange of research agendas that have emerged over the course of the deliberations in Dubai.

Individual paper submissions are invited for the following workshops:

Sites of Inter-Asian Interaction

Networks of Islamic Learning across Asia: The Role of International
Centers of Islamic Learning in Building Ties and Forging New Identities

Distant Divides and Intimate Connections: Migrant Domestic Workers in
Asia

Law-in-Action in Asian Societies and Civilizations

Multiple flexibilities: nation-states, global business and precarious
labor

Neoliberal Globalization and Governmentality: State, Civil society and
the NGO Phenomena in Asia

Initiatives of Regional Integration in Asia in Comparative
Perspective: Concepts, Contents and Prospects

Border Problems: Theory, Culture, and Political Economy

Post-collective Economic Lives and Livelihoods: Studies of Economy,
Institution and Everyday Practice in Post-socialist Eurasia and Asia

Transnational Circuits: 'Muslim Women' in Asia

Inter-Referencing Asia: Urban Experiments & the Art of Being Global

Descriptions of the individual workshops, along with information on the
application process, are available at:
http://www.ssrc.org/program_areas/global/papers/.

Application materials are due on Friday, September 14, 2007. Junior and
senior scholars are encouraged to apply, whether graduate students and
faculty affiliated to colleges and universities, or researchers in NGOs
or other research organizations.

Selection decisions will be announced on October 19, 2007. Accepted
participants are required to submit a 20-25 page research paper by
January 14, 2008.

The SSRC will make every effort to subsidize the travel and
accommodation costs associated with attending the conference, and we
will issue a formal announcement about availability and levels of
financial assistance for individual participants in the coming months.
In the meantime, prospective participants are encouraged to seek out
alternative sources of funding that may be available from their home
institutions or other agencies.

For additional inquiries, please contact the SSRC at
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org.

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Shabana Shahabuddin
Social Science Research Council
International Collaboration Program
810 Seventh Avenue, 31st Floor
New York, NY 10019
intl_collaboration@ssrc.org